Fascinating, Captain. Putting the long id of group 1 of me resolves to the
buttons long id. It is indeed ignoring “group 1 of”.
Bob S
> On Jun 28, 2015, at 08:59 , Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote:
>
> Mike Bonner wrote:
>
> > Make a stack, put a button on it. In the script of the button put
> > "set the width of group 1 of me to random(the width of this card)
> >
> > Apply, and click the button. The button width changes despite being
> > directed at a group that doesn't exist.
> >
> > Is this expected behavior, or should I report it as a bug? It
> > behaves the same no matter what figmentary object you reference
> > before "of me". Apparently of me trumps all? Tested in 6.6.2 and 7.0.5
>
> Technically this may be a bug, because the statement can't logically resolve
> (groups can't be members of buttons), so one could argue that it should
> refuse to compile rather than try to guess at what you might have meant.
>
> I think what's happening there is that you've found a specific case of nested
> object references that confuses the engine to the point that it ignores the
> part that doesn't make sense ("group 1 of") and just uses the part that does
> ("me").
>
> Moving the script to the card level produces the expected result.
>
> Maybe it's worth filing a bug report on, but maybe that might have
> unanticipated side-effects on other forgiving things the interpreter does, so
> it may be tricky to resolve; I haven't read that part of the code base so I
> can't say.
>
> All I can recommend in the here-and-now is that if you find yourself writing
> object references that you know don't make sense and produce unexpected
> results, don't do that. :)
>
> --
> Richard Gaskin
> Fourth World Systems
> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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