On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, David Cramer wrote:

> What is the correct scripting syntax for referring to the objects in a group?
> 
> In a current situation, I have a group of buttons in a stack menu 
> panel. If one of the buttons is hilited when the user presses the 
> escape key, that button is still hilited the next time the menu 
> opens. So I'd like to say something like:
> 
>      set the hilite of all the buttons in grp "mButtons" to false
> 
> But this doesn't seem to work, although it seems to me I read of 
> something like this earlier this year. If not, I can loop through the 
> objects, but even then I can't find the syntax in the reference 
> stacks. What am I missing?

You could loop over all the buttons and set their hilites to false,
but the easy way to do this is:
set the hilitedButtonName of grp "mButtons" to empty
  Scott

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