yeah it is Bob.....its one of the reasons why livecode is so flexible and such a joy to work with.
On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 12:00 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 < > [email protected]> 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 > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
