Ah, okay -- I have somewhat the same issue in Navigator. Wouldn't group id <id> of stack "<stack name>"
always work? On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 2:40 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > > If a card containing a certain shared group has not been visited, then > > the > > > group must be referenced using background instead of group. For this > > > reason, I use “bkgnd” to identify any shared group. > > > > Not sure what you mean by this? I created a stack with a background/group > > id 1011. The group is placed on card 4 of the stack. Restart LC and > re-open > > the stack, and this puts true: > > > > put there is a group id 1011 of stack "untitled 1" > > > > No card containing the group had been visited. This is on a Mac, LC 8.x > > > > gc > > > > > I did not phrase that well (and had the details wrong). What actually > happens is that the returned long ID of objects in shared groups changes > depending on whether a card containing that group has been visited. If a > card has been visited, then "group id x of card id y" is returned. If not, > then "bkgnd id x" is returned. Probably not an issue for most, but if > looking to generate long IDs that are always the same for a given object > then it is. > _______________________________________________ > 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