William Prothero wrote:
> “the long name of me” is a complete reference to an object, which
> contains the group name. What I was trying to do is get the name of
> the group that the button is in. I can parse it from the long name of
> me, but thought it would pull it out of “me”.
>
> Anyway, what do I know? If I’m wrong to expect this, then I won’t
> report it as a bug (of course).
LiveCode does so many things for us so well that it's easy to
overestimate its intelligence.
When you write:
put the short name of grp me into tGroup
...what it sees is:
put the short name of grp (me) into tGroup
...which becomes evaluated as:
put the short name of grp (button id 1033 of group id 1035 of card
id 1011 of stack "Some/Path/To/Stackfile.livecode") into tGroup
..which causes the engine to have a minor breakdown trying to figure
that out. :)
It would be nice if we could write:
put the short name of my grp into tGroup
While we don't currently have "my <parentType>" (however cool that might
be) we do have a more generic form, the owner:
put the short name of the owner of me into tGroup
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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