On 4/17/20 6:53 PM, Phil Davis via use-livecode wrote:
I feel your pain! I switched to using "of me" or "of the owner of me"
whenever possible which works very well in many/most cases, but
sometimes it just isn't enough.
"the mainstack of this stack" always work as well.
Almost always.
Don't
I’ve also discovered the childControlIDs and the childControlNames. These list
the direct children of a group. The controlNames and controlIDs list EVERY
object on a card whether grouped or not.
The latter becomes especially handy of you preface your object names with some
kind of type
I feel your pain! I switched to using "of me" or "of the owner of me"
whenever possible which works very well in many/most cases, but
sometimes it just isn't enough.
Phil Davis
On 4/17/20 6:41 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
I just spent 2 hours purging the detestable “this stack”
I just spent 2 hours purging the detestable “this stack” from my entire list of
projects. If you use substacks, if you hide and show stacks, this stack simply
unreliable. Instead put this at the head of every script that needs to know
what the parent stack is:
put getParentStack(the long id of
