Geoff Canyon wrote: > It seems currentcard is undocumented. I don't even know where I > came up with it. But it works in general: > > put the long id of the currentcard of the topstack > > works fine in the message box. It also works in the script of > a button -- generally. As it turns out, the above will give an > error *if* the button is in a palette stack, but not if it's > in a toplevel stack. (at least in 6.7.1 on a mac) I can't really > call it a bug since "currentcard" isn't in the dictionary. But > it just cost me two hours of my life, so this my primitive > yawp of frustration.
I didn't know about "currentCard" so I just tried it - made a two stacks, the first opens the second as a palette, and the second has the statement shown above in a button's mouseUp handler. Works as expected.
Also works with "this card". LC 6.7.2, Ubuntu 14.04 If "currentCard" is undocumented what prompted you to try it? Does it work with "this card"? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web ____________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.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