> Jacque wrote:
> And then there's "this me", which still tickles me.
"This me" could be a quote from that Scottish author's tale The Strange Case of
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. ;)
Jim Lambert
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I don’t know what my wife is complaining about.
It IS all about me!
> On 8 Oct 2021, at 4:37 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
> wrote:
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> For the sake of clarity, in retrospect it may have been better to use This
> Me, That Me, The Other Me, and perhaps Not Me. :-)
>
> Bob S
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>
>> On Oc
For the sake of clarity, in retrospect it may have been better to use This Me,
That Me, The Other Me, and perhaps Not Me. :-)
Bob S
> On Oct 8, 2021, at 08:28 , J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> And then there's "this me", which still tickles me.
>
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Even better, use the long id of me to precicely identify the object. There are
occassions where the stack you think is the topstack, isn't.
Bob S
> On Oct 8, 2021, at 04:16 , David V Glasgow via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Ah! (light comes on). Thanks Sean. So ‘me’ is actually more specific
And then there's "this me", which still tickles me.
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On October 8, 2021 9:51:34 AM "Sean Cole \(Pi\) via use-livecode"
wrote:
'me' is also useful in behaviors as it refers, not to the behav
Hi David,
It seems confusing and I see how. Me and This are really useful and
powerful keywords. And that is the point in this example. 'The rect of me'
uses it as a keyword referring to itself. It knows then not to look any
further and applies it to itself. But once you add 'the long name of' the
Ah! (light comes on). Thanks Sean. So ‘me’ is actually more specific than it
would seem! I avoided ‘me' because it returns the short name of an object (of
which there are several), and went for the long name of me because it is
unique.
Just to be clear, what you are saying is that when LC
The message path looks for the first instance it finds with a given name.
As your script is within the group itself, it would be easier (lazier ;) )
to reference to each group as 'me'
eg
lock screen for visual effect in rect (the rect of me)
rather than 'the rect of the long name of me'
Sean
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Being essentially a lazy and a sloppy programmer, I made a group which
contained a script that caused the group to do what I wanted. Then I copied it
again and again, and grouped the resultant groups. Rather than adapting the
script to be located on the card I just left several identical scri
