Richard: Hmm…. Thought I tried that. But, I tried it again and it worked. Thanks for the info. put the short name of the owner of me into tGroup —works fine. Best, Bill
> On Aug 14, 2015, at 5:28 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> > wrote: > > 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 > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
