On Jun 17, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Simon Lord wrote: > In flash there was the notion of asking for the name of _parent to get > the ID or name of the container movieClip. I have a scenario where I > would like to poll a button within a group to tell me which group it's > in. > > The long way would be to get the long name of target, filter it for a > string, get the first name in quotes to the right of it etc etc. > > But I'm hoping there is something quicker. > > Ex: > > on mouseDown > put the short name of parent > end mouseDown
Hi Simon, We have a tool to do that; it's just a difference in terminology: put the owner of <object> This will return the name of the group if it's a grouped control, or the name of the card if it's not a grouped control. HTH Devin Devin Asay Humanities Technology and Research Support Center Brigham Young University _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution