new trick, for me

2011-03-04 Thread Peter Brigham MD
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

Re: new trick, for me

2011-03-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
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

Re: new trick, for me

2011-03-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
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

Re: new trick, for me

2011-03-04 Thread Peter Brigham MD
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

Re: new trick, for me

2011-03-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
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

Re: new trick, for me

2011-03-04 Thread Peter Brigham MD
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