Thanks, I figured that out. It was only annoying because I was working on a stack named with a "rev" prefix, so no error messages were being thrown.
On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Phil Davis <rev...@pdslabs.net> wrote: > Try "current card" instead. > > go to current card of stack "x" > put the customProperties["myData"] of current card of stack "x" into > tMyPropsA > etc. > > It works. > > Phil Davis > > > > On 2/20/15 9:36 PM, 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. >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >> > -- > Phil Davis > > > _______________________________________________ > 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