On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, David Bovill wrote:
> Yes.
Please try 2.3.2 beta 2, now available for Win32, MacOS, and Linux in:
ftp://ftp.metacard.com/MetaCard/2.3.2/
The "owner" property now returns the long id, so anyone using that
feature will probably want to take this release for a spin to make
sure that it's backward compatible.
Regards,
Scott
> > From: Phil Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 14:00:35 -0700
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Feature request 14312: groupReferences property
> >
> >
> >
> > David Bovill wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > So this new thing would allow shorter references to objects within
> > a group when more than one group exists, similar to the way "the
> > defaultStack" allows shorter references to objects within a stack
> > when you have multiple stacks open. So it kind of sharpens the
> > focus of the reference, or more specifically defines their
> > context. Correct?
> >
> >
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
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