Grouped Controls(Objects)
I have a group to which I add objects. create field in group “myGroup” put the id of the last fld into tID I then have a property of the group where I store the id called uObjectList Then at some point I delete all the objects in uObjectList to clear out the group. Is there a simpler way to do this? Is it possible to get a list of objects contained in a group? Thanks Terry ___ 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
Re: Grouped Controls(Objects)
Hi Terry, Why don't you simply delete the group and create a new one? If you want to have a list of controls of a group, card or stack, you can use a repeat loop in a getProp handler: getProp allControls repeat with x = 1 to the number of controls of the target put the long id of control x of the target cr after myList end repeat return char 1 to -2 of myList end allControls -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other colour spaces. http://www.color-converter.com Buy my new book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 3/8/2014 13:14, Terence Heaford wrote: I have a group to which I add objects. create field in group “myGroup” put the id of the last fld into tID I then have a property of the group where I store the id called uObjectList Then at some point I delete all the objects in uObjectList to clear out the group. Is there a simpler way to do this? Is it possible to get a list of objects contained in a group? Thanks Terry ___ 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
RE: Grouped Controls(Objects)
Hi Terry! From 6.1 there are four new properties you can use for tasks like yours: controlIDs reports the short IDs of all the controls of a card or group. (undocumented) controlNames reports the short names of all the controls of a card or group. (undocumented) childControlIDs reports the short IDs of all the direct children of a card or group. childControlNames reports the short names of all the direct children of a card or group. Requires a minimum of code to do what you want and does it fast: on mouseUp repeat for each line tID in the controlIDs of grp myGroup delete control id tID end repeat end mouseUp We must thank the guys in the deep and dark mines of the C++ mountain for contributing things like this! Best regards Mats -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Terence Heaford Sent: den 8 mars 2014 13:15 To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Grouped Controls(Objects) I have a group to which I add objects. create field in group myGroup put the id of the last fld into tID I then have a property of the group where I store the id called uObjectList Then at some point I delete all the objects in uObjectList to clear out the group. Is there a simpler way to do this? Is it possible to get a list of objects contained in a group? Thanks Terry ___ 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
Re: Grouped Controls(Objects)
Thanks Mark, The group is actually a group that contains the methods for drawing bar, line and pie charts and has 750 lines of script. The objects I create in the group are lines, fields, rectangles etc. that are created to make up the charts. I currently have a property that contains a list of the objects that I work through when deleting the charts. I was hoping that a LC group had a property that returned a list of objects contained in the group. I will try your script though. Thanks Terry On 8 Mar 2014, at 12:23, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Why don't you simply delete the group and create a new one? If you want to have a list of controls of a group, card or stack, you can use a repeat loop in a getProp handler: getProp allControls repeat with x = 1 to the number of controls of the target put the long id of control x of the target cr after myList end repeat return char 1 to -2 of myList end allControls ___ 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
Re: Grouped Controls(Objects)
Sorry Mats, I did not read you reply as closely as I should. Now realise that “childControlNames” is the documented version of “controlNames” etc. Thanks again Terry On 8 Mar 2014, at 13:08, Mats Wilstrand mats.wilstr...@tapirsoft.com wrote: From 6.1 there are four new properties you can use for tasks like yours: controlIDs reports the short IDs of all the controls of a card or group. (undocumented) controlNames reports the short names of all the controls of a card or group. (undocumented) childControlIDs reports the short IDs of all the direct children of a card or group. childControlNames reports the short names of all the direct children of a card or group. ___ 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
