Yes indeed, it references the datagrid on the currentCard! If there is no such object on the current card, then even if there is one on another card that is not the currentCard, it throws an error, as you would expect!
That is actually quite cool. Bob S > On Jun 7, 2018, at 08:54 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Hi all. > > I just noticed by accident I can use something like this and it works: > > dispatch populateRecord to group cDGName of stack cSubStack > > cDGName is "dgDevices" and cSubstack is "Devices". Notice the absence of a > card reference! Apparently, even though the owner of the datagrid group is > the card it's on, this doesn't matter to the parser! I wonder what would > happen if I had another card with a datagrid with the same name on it, if it > would reference that datagrid if it was the currentCard of that stack, or if > it would reference the first datagrid in the stack with that name? I think > I'll give it a try! > > Bob S _______________________________________________ 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
