Re: can't put into field by id?

2014-11-14 Thread Mike Bonner
the long id of fld (word 1 of myVar) into theFld put gizmo into theFld -Original Message- From: Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 6:54 pm Subject: can't put into field by id? With a sequence like, put

can't put into field by id?

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
With a sequence like, put the long id of fld (word 1 of myVar) into theFld put gizmo into theFld I end up with gizmo in the variable theFld, rather than the field it references. Am I doing something wrong, or does this just not work for fields (7.0-RC2) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702)

Re: can't put into field by id?

2014-11-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dr. Hawkins wrote: With a sequence like, put the long id of fld (word 1 of myVar) into theFld put gizmo into theFld I end up with gizmo in the variable theFld, rather than the field it references. Am I doing something wrong, or does this just not work for fields (7.0-RC2) I believe that's

Re: can't put into field by id?

2014-11-13 Thread Scott Rossi
By saying this: put gizmo into theFld You're telling LiveCode to put gizmo into the theFld variable, not into the field you referenced earlier. This is standard behavior. Do this: set the text of theFld to gizmo Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On Nov 13,

Re: can't put into field by id?

2014-11-13 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: You could rewrite the code so that the variable portion contains only the short name, e.g.: put gizmo into field theFld in 7.0 RC21, this yiuelds, button scr_output: execution error at line 5814 (Chunk:

Re: can't put into field by id?

2014-11-13 Thread dunbarx
into theFld -Original Message- From: Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Thu, Nov 13, 2014 6:54 pm Subject: can't put into field by id? With a sequence like, put the long id of fld (word 1 of myVar) into theFld put gizmo into theFld