Re: grouping objects by script problem

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Ron,

Commands like "select" and "group" can't interprete a string variable  
as a reference. They need to be followed by a true reference to  
objects. The solution is to use the "do" command:

on makeGroup
  repeat with x = 1 to 4
    create graphic ("New Object" && x)
    put "graphic" && quote & x & quote & return after grouplist
  end repeat
  replace return with " and " in grouplist
  delete last word of grouplist
  do "group" && grouplist
end makeGroup

Best regards,

Mark Schonewille

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Op 23-okt-2007, om 11:09 heeft ron barber het volgende geschreven:

Hi,

I have been trying to group a set of controls and graphic objects
after creating them via script but can't seem to find out what I'm
doing wrong.
Here's the relevant part of the script:

repeat
--do some other stuff here--
     create graphic tname
     put "graphic"&&quote&tname&quote & return after grouplist
    end repeat
replace return with " and " in grouplist
 delete last word of grouplist
 select grouplist
 group

the error I get is a problem with the "object expression" at the
select statement

grouplist looks like this:
graphic "g1" and graphic "g2" and graphic "g3" and graphic "g4"

when I manually enter the above text after the select or group command
it works - but it doesn't seem to like the variable?

how do I group a bunch of controls etc on a stack that is created  
on the fly?

Thanks
Ron


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