the short name of the owner of me On Fri, Apr 1, 2016, 8:09 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> wrote:
> Assume we have a small group duplicated on the card 10-20 times. > > each group contains three objects named > > portal-link-background > portal-link-label > portal-link-thumbnail > > The above is grouped... acts as a template; and is programatically > duplicated X number of times > > Each of the resulting groups is assigned a unique name > > home > surprises > learn > practice > audio > visuals > > etc. > > Now I want to set a behavior that will return the name of the group on > mouse up. > > the target won't work, because the mouse up is trapped by the field, > background or image in the group so the group itself is never the target. > > I realize I can test for the long id of the target, then extract the name > of the group from that. > > field id 1348 of group id 1346 of group id 1354 of card id 1082 of stack > "/Users/Brahmanathaswami/Documents/App Development/SivaSiva App/App > Source/SivaSiva.livecode" > put the long idea of the target into tTargetID > > go to card (the short name of group (word 7 of tTargetID) > > I always prefer not parsing this kind of string for hard values, as things > can change... > > But this is the only method I can think of. Is there a better way? > Obviously we dont' want to be putting "pass mouseup" into all the child > elements of the group, as that breaks the whole point of using a behavior. > > BR > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
