Thanks Robert,Dick,Dar,Richard,, --empty item at end of list in case
I forgot anyone ;-)
That is the answer I need. In my button or field script I can just put:
on mouseUp --this was actually called by another button and not
actually clicked on by me
DoMyFieldScript --couldn't be simpler
end mouseUp
Then in the card I put:
on DoMyFieldScript
put the long name of the target into myCompletePath
put (token 1 to 5 of the long name of the target"e into
myNameAndGroup
put the id of the target into myID --many ways to use this reference
put (token 1 to 5 of the long name of fld id myID)"e into
myNameAndGroup
put the short name of fld id myID into myName
etc.,etc.,etc...
end DoMyFieldScript
This is such a basic concept for consolidating multiple object
scripts that need to refer to the calling object --and it turns out
to be simple. It seems like a whole scripting tutorial could be
devoted to all the theme and variations on this target etc. concept.
A simple example of each variation along with how and why it should
be used would be a great reference. I am sure there are many more
tricks like this than I am aware of yet.
Dennis
On Jun 8, 2005, at 7:13 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote:
On Jun 8, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Dick Kriesel wrote:
You can find the name of the group that contains the target in
"the long
name of the target."
Hmm, I just created two groups named differently, each with a
button of the same name. Each button called same a handler on the
card with:
get the short name of the owner of the target
This returned a different, and correct, group name depending which
button I clicked.
Isn't this what the original poster wanted?
Similarly
get the id of the target
returns the proper, and unique, id of the button clicked. So while
the target itself returns incomplete description to uniquely
identify an object, it can still be used to get unique
identification as far as I can see.
Robert
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