Hi Bill,
If you can send me a list of words and connected issues that you would
like to be able to search for in the index, I'll consider adding them in
the book I'm currently writing or in any future publications.
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On 8/15/2015 21:15, William Prothero wrote:
Richard:
This is an example of how difficult it can be to find docs on an operation that
isn’t commonly used and that doesn’t have “obvious” syntax. Even the livecode
books by Mark Schonewill and Colin don’t allow for finding this kind of
information, especially in the index. If the contents of these books wer
electronically searchable, that might help a lot, because there is a lot of
information buried in the text that isn’t quickly find-able.
Perhaps if there was a dictionary based, not on livecode commands, but on
operations that the user wants to perform, with great search, it would be
helpful.
Then again, this list is a great source of this kind of info too.
Best,
Bill
On Aug 15, 2015, at 9:34 AM, William Prothero <proth...@earthednet.org> wrote:
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
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