Hi Tom, I guess you could check the owner of the group within your repeat loop and ignore any whose owner is not "Main Group".
Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:12 PM, Thomas McGrath III <mcgra...@mac.com> wrote: > I always seem to get messed up when working with groups. > > I have a group with groups in it and subgroups in those groups like this: > > MainGroup > Index1 > SubGroup1 > SubGroup2 > Index2 > SubGroup1 > SubGroup2 > Index3 > SubGroup1 > SubGroup2 > Index4 > SubGroup1 > SubGroup2 > Index5 > SubGroup1 > SubGroup2 > > I am trying to get the number of groups in group "MainGroup" but I am > getting all sub groups as well. > > put the number of groups of group "MainGroup" into tGroups > > gives me 15 groups instead of 5 like I would like. > > > What I would like to do is delete group "Index3" and then rename the the > rest so that they are in order again. > I was planning on using a repeat loop on the number of groups: > > repeat with x = 1 to the number of groups of group "MainGroup" > set the name of group x of group "MainGroup" to ("Index" & x) > end repeat > > Then when I want to add a group I can just clone the first group and > rename it. I would like to name it 1 + the number of groups like: > > clone group "Index1" of group "MainGroup" > set the name of it to ("Index" & (the number of groups of group > "MainGroup" + 1)) > > > The problem is that because some of the groups have groups in them I am > not getting the right number back from using "the number of". > > Help?! > > Tom > > -- Tom McGrath III > http://lazyriver.on-rev.com > mcgra...@mac.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
