Hmmm... not sure but this works fine for me.
on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo
breakpoint
put the id of me into theID
put the short name of control id theID
end mouseUp
I get the short name of the button in the message box. Seems like something
else is not compiling there.
Bob
On Mar 25, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> I have a function that returns information about a control which takes the
> control's short ID as a parameter. This has been working fine for a long time
> but has suddenly started to throw a run time error for one specific control.
>
> The statement "put the short name of control ID pid into myControlName" where
> id is the parameter containing the ID returns the error "No such Object near
> "1076" (1076 is the control ID in pid).
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> I can clearly see in the application browser and Inspector dialog that there
> is a button with ID 1076 in a substack of the main stack. If I use the
> message box to execute "put the short name of control ID 1076", I get the
> same error. But if I execute "put the short name of control ID 1076 of stack
> <mysubstackname>", I get the correct result.
>
> According to the dictionary, the ID of a control is unique within a main
> stack so I can't figure out why this doesn't work without qualifying the ID
> with the substack name. I tried putting an "answer information" right before
> the offending line to display the defaultStack in case something strange was
> happening to the defaultStack property but it is set to the correct stack
> name.
>
> Any ideas?
>
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> Pete Haworth
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