Hi all.
I think I just came up with a way to get information from another stack that
otherwise would be invisible to the stack I am working on. In this case I
wanted a property of a card field on a card in a stack that was not the one I
was working with. Further, I wanted to be able to change the card field, the
card and even the stack on the fly without having to make those stacks aware of
the controlling stack.
I knew the short name of the field. I needed the long ID of that field. The
trouble is, the object belonged to a group that I did NOT know. Also, the
global had not been declared in the target stack, and since I wanted this stack
to work with any stack I used it on, I didn't want to have to make every one of
those stacks aware of the global to use it.
I did this in a menu of card fields on the target card:
global gWhichField, gWhichCard, gWhichStack
--> all handlers
on menuPick pChosen
put pChosen into theField
send "global gWhichField;put the long id of " & theField & " of " &
gWhichCard & " into gWhichField" to gWhichStack
end menuPick
This updated the global gWhichField in the current stack without having to know
the ID of the group it belonged to. Notice in the send command I actually sent
two commands, the global declaration and the actual command. The dictionary
does not mention that you can do this. I am not sure anyone ever thought of
trying. I don't think it will work with dispatch, as the key to this working is
that send temporarily makes the target stack the defaultStack. I suppose you
could apply this same technique of sending multiple commands to solve some
other sticky problems.
It is quite possible that I drank too much coffee and am solving the problem
some long, convoluted and completely unnecessary way, so feel free to chide me
if I have.
Bob
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