What version? Its working for me in 9 dp11 by using either dispatch or send to the group.
In the group: command doit pbtn set the hilitedbutton of me to pbtn end doit And from the message box.. send ("doit" && 2) to group 1 or dispatch "doit" to group 1 with 3 On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:23 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I learned something today. > > I was trying by script to set the hilite of a radio button in a group on > another card. > > My script is in the group “Language Choice” which is called by openStack. > I’m thinking that “me” would operate on the group: > > set the hilitedButton of me to tNum > > Didn’t work, even though the script received the message and completed. > The radio buttons were unchanged. I modified it to this, which worked: > > set the hilitedButton of group "Language Choice" of card > "Settings" to tNum > > > I can only think that, a group, even though it is on a single card and > does not have its backgroundBehavior set to true, must be referred to > explicitly by the name of the group and the name of the card is resides in. > Or maybe it’s because the individual buttons didn't have sharedHilite set > to true. > > Peter Bogdanoff > ArtsInteractive > > > _______________________________________________ > 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