Brad, You could use:
do "put the short name of " & the selectedbutton of cd family 1 & " into myVar" But you're right, you should switch to the radioBehavior of a group (once Rev allows you to select these). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2002 11:03 PM Subject: name of the selectedButton doesn't work > This works in HyperCard, but not in Revolution: > > put the short name of the selectedButton of family 1 into myVar > > Here's the error message: > Error description: Chunk: can't find object > > > The script below will work around the problem, but such an awkward > script shouldn't have to be created to get the name of the selected > button in a radio button group. > > put the selectedButton of cd family 1 into buttonDescriptor > do "put the short name of " & buttonDescriptor & " into myVar" > > > > I looked into the alternative way of handling this, namely grouping > the buttons and setting the group's radiobehavior to true, but ran > into a roadblock. Revolution won't allow me to group any objects in > my imported HyperCard stack. All the menu items for handling grouping > are grayed out. (This doesn't happen for a newly created stack -- > does this mean my imported stack is corrupt?) > _______________________________________________ > improve-revolution mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/improve-revolution > _______________________________________________ improve-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/improve-revolution
