On 16/01/2013 08:21, Kay C Lan wrote:
Interestingly if you:
put "z" into fld "Field" of group "group" of card "card"
no warning it just goes into the first field you named "Field" in the
first group you named "group" of the first card you named "card".
I wouldn't be surprised if someone on this List hasn't used such a
quirk to some mind blowing advantage.
It's even worse (IMHO) than that.
create a field "F"
put it inside group "G"
create another field "F"
Then you have two fields called F, and their long names are
field "F' of group "G" of card "whatever" of stack "something"
and
field "F' of card "whatever" of stack "something"
i.e. different long names.
Then
put "some text" into field "F" of this card
it puts the text into the lowest-layer-numbered field "F", regardless of
whether its long name matches or not.
This means that if you use someone's custom control, and it happens to
contain a control which has the same name as a control you create
locally, then you have (apparently) no way to reliably access your own
control by name - any such reference will match the lowest-layered one
with the same name.
Am I missing something ? It seems like this would be a serious
impediment to reliable custom controls.
Do we need to convert everything to use IDs rather than names ?
-- Alex.
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