Kay,
I gave it a try but it didn’t work. Digging in a bit deeper it gets a bit
more mysterious. It appears as if “the name of the focusedObject” and "the
focusedObject" refer to different objects. I expanded what goes to the message
box by using the following:
put ">" & the noType of (the name of the focusedObject) & "<" & return &
return & the name of the focusedObject & return & return & the focusedObject
into msg
I get this in the message box:
><
card "Main"
field id 1012 of group id 1003 of card id 1002 of stack "Ohm's Law Solver" of
stack "/Users/john/Documents/iPhone_Collection/LiveCode 2.0/EE Tool Kit 2.0/EE
Tool Kit.livecode”
This is weird in that the main stack has a card named “main" which is not
related to the field returned as the last item in the put statement. If I
modify (and simplify) this a bit to:
put the long name of the focusedObject & return & return & the focusedObject
into msg
I get this in the message box:
card "Main" of stack "/Users/john/Documents/iPhone_Collection/LiveCode 2.0/EE
Tool Kit 2.0/EE Tool Kit.livecode"
field id 1012 of group id 1003 of card id 1002 of stack "Ohm's Law Solver" of
stack "/Users/john/Documents/iPhone_Collection/LiveCode 2.0/EE Tool Kit 2.0/EE
Tool Kit.livecode”
I can’t think of a reason why the “the name of the focusedObject” and "the
focusedObject" refer to different objects.
Thanks,
John
On Oct 8, 2014, at 7:40 PM, Kay C Lan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Try:
>
> put the noType of (the name of the focusedObject) && the focusedObject
> into msg
>
> The reference returned by fucusedObject is not in the format that is used
> for the syntax of a custom property. You need to shorten it by referring to
> just 'the name'.
>
> HTH
>
> On Thu, Oct 9, 2014 at 9:39 AM, John <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I was hoping that someone could explain what is going on. I have a
>> main stack with multiple sub stacks all of which use the main stack’s menu
>> bar. In the menubar group I have a mouseDown handler to update the menus
>> before they are shown. The sub stacks have fields which may, or may not,
>> have a property “noType” with a value of “true”.
>>
>> In the mouseDown handler in the menuBar group, the following does not
>> work:
>>
>> put the noType of the focusedObject && the focusedObject into msg
>>
>> I can see that the focusedObject is correct even though the value of the
>> property is not shown. If I place this into the mouseDown handler I get
>> the expected result:
>>
>> put line 1 of the openStacks into theTopStack
>> put the selectedField into theSelectedField
>> put word 2 of theSelectedField into theSelectedFieldNumber
>> put the noType of field theSelectedFieldNumber of stack theTopStack into
>> msg
>>
>>
>> Why does the first one line scrip not work and the longer four line
>> script work?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> John
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