David Bovill
Sat, 23 Sep 2000 17:59:50 -0700
As part of my campaign to make distributable components out of Metacard groups... I find myself dissatisfied with the way that Metacard looks for an object by name. I am at the moment writing for every single object reference that I script something like: put "hello" into fld "Text" of the owner of me The reason for this is just in case there is another field named text in the environment. Now this is beginning to annoy me as it is long winded. I would prefer "fld Text" to refer first to a field named text within the current group, and then anything in groups within any groups in that group, and not to something outside of the current group unless I explicitly say so. Now as this would clearly cause too many compatibility problems, how about a little change so that I can set an object property (stack or group), so that when "groupReferences is true" all references to controls are within the current group (ie the owner)? This should apply to numbers as well as names. Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/metacard%40lists.best.com/ Info: http://www.xworlds.com/metacard/mailinglist.htm Please send bug reports to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, not this list.