new trick, for me
Just discovered a trick I didn't know about. This is in the IDE, BTW. I needed to have the first card of one of my stacks as the current card, while I do something from another stack (a utility stack). If I go card 1 of stack stackName then the stack stackName comes to the front, but I want to keep the utility stack as the topstack, so even following this by go back or some such looks messy on screen. Instead, I can do this: set the currentcard of stack stackName to \ the short name of card 1 of stack stackName and it all happens in the background. Probably others knew about this, but I didn't, so I'm posting it for those like me for whom it is a new trick. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ 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: new trick, for me
I wonder if that triggers an openCard event? Bob On Mar 4, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: Just discovered a trick I didn't know about. This is in the IDE, BTW. I needed to have the first card of one of my stacks as the current card, while I do something from another stack (a utility stack). If I go card 1 of stack stackName then the stack stackName comes to the front, but I want to keep the utility stack as the topstack, so even following this by go back or some such looks messy on screen. Instead, I can do this: set the currentcard of stack stackName to \ the short name of card 1 of stack stackName and it all happens in the background. Probably others knew about this, but I didn't, so I'm posting it for those like me for whom it is a new trick. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ 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: new trick, for me
On 3/4/11 12:38 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I wonder if that triggers an openCard event? No. I don't think it triggers any messages. Bob On Mar 4, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: Just discovered a trick I didn't know about. This is in the IDE, BTW. I needed to have the first card of one of my stacks as the current card, while I do something from another stack (a utility stack). If I go card 1 of stackstackName then the stackstackName comes to the front, but I want to keep the utility stack as the topstack, so even following this by go back or some such looks messy on screen. Instead, I can do this: set the currentcard of stackstackName to \ the short name of card 1 of stackstackName and it all happens in the background. Probably others knew about this, but I didn't, so I'm posting it for those like me for whom it is a new trick. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ 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: new trick, for me
It appears not to trigger openCard. FYI, the reason that I needed to do this is that I am trying to do something with long id's and found what seems to be a bug in how the engine handles this. If I do this while on the first card of the stack: put the long id of control 76 of card 1 of stack myStack I get something like this: field id 1051 of group id 1045 of group id 1004 of card id 2276 of stack PDdata of stack stackPath But if I move to any other card of the stack, and execute the same command, I get: field id 1051 of group id 1045 of group id 1004 of card id 2675 of stack PDdata of stack stackPath Note that the card id number in the long id is different, depending on which card is current -- despite that fact that I asked specifically for the long id of control 76 of ***card 1*** both times. I know that occasionally executing commands via msg box give anomalous results, but that appears not to be a factor here. So I need to be on the same card of the stack every time I fetch long id's for controls of that stack, or else my handlers won't work properly. Bug, or what? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Mar 4, 2011, at 1:48 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/4/11 12:38 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I wonder if that triggers an openCard event? No. I don't think it triggers any messages. Bob On Mar 4, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: Just discovered a trick I didn't know about. This is in the IDE, BTW. I needed to have the first card of one of my stacks as the current card, while I do something from another stack (a utility stack). If I go card 1 of stackstackName then the stackstackName comes to the front, but I want to keep the utility stack as the topstack, so even following this by go back or some such looks messy on screen. Instead, I can do this: set the currentcard of stackstackName to \ the short name of card 1 of stackstackName and it all happens in the background. Probably others knew about this, but I didn't, so I'm posting it for those like me for whom it is a new trick. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ 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: new trick, for me
Is the field a part of a background group? A background group belongs to a stack, not to a card. (I might be wrong but I doubt it ;-) Also try: send put the long id of control 76 to card 1 of stack myStack get the result What does that produce? Bob On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: It appears not to trigger openCard. FYI, the reason that I needed to do this is that I am trying to do something with long id's and found what seems to be a bug in how the engine handles this. If I do this while on the first card of the stack: put the long id of control 76 of card 1 of stack myStack I get something like this: field id 1051 of group id 1045 of group id 1004 of card id 2276 of stack PDdata of stack stackPath But if I move to any other card of the stack, and execute the same command, I get: field id 1051 of group id 1045 of group id 1004 of card id 2675 of stack PDdata of stack stackPath Note that the card id number in the long id is different, depending on which card is current -- despite that fact that I asked specifically for the long id of control 76 of ***card 1*** both times. I know that occasionally executing commands via msg box give anomalous results, but that appears not to be a factor here. So I need to be on the same card of the stack every time I fetch long id's for controls of that stack, or else my handlers won't work properly. Bug, or what? -- Peter ___ 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: new trick, for me
On Mar 4, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Is the field a part of a background group? A background group belongs to a stack, not to a card. (I might be wrong but I doubt it ;-) belongs to is what sense? The owner of the background group is the card. Can you say what you mean operationally? Also try: send put the long id of control 76 to card 1 of stack myStack get the result What does that produce? the result is empty executing just the first line gives (for some reason) just the short name of the control. I'm not even going to try to decipher that anomaly. On Mar 4, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: It appears not to trigger openCard. FYI, the reason that I needed to do this is that I am trying to do something with long id's and found what seems to be a bug in how the engine handles this. If I do this while on the first card of the stack: put the long id of control 76 of card 1 of stack myStack I get something like this: field id 1051 of group id 1045 of group id 1004 of card id 2276 of stack PDdata of stack stackPath But if I move to any other card of the stack, and execute the same command, I get: field id 1051 of group id 1045 of group id 1004 of card id 2675 of stack PDdata of stack stackPath Note that the card id number in the long id is different, depending on which card is current -- despite that fact that I asked specifically for the long id of control 76 of ***card 1*** both times. I know that occasionally executing commands via msg box give anomalous results, but that appears not to be a factor here. So I need to be on the same card of the stack every time I fetch long id's for controls of that stack, or else my handlers won't work properly. Bug, or what? This still strikes me as a bug. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ 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
