Yes.
> From: Phil Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 14:00:35 -0700
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Feature request 14312: groupReferences property
>
>
>
> David Bovill wrote:
>>
>> As part of my campaign to make distributable components out of Metacard
>> groups... I find myself dissatisfied with the way that Metacard looks for an
>> object by name.
>>
>> I am at the moment writing for every single object reference that I script
>> something like:
>>
>> put "hello" into fld "Text" of the owner of me
>>
>> The reason for this is just in case there is another field named text in the
>> environment. Now this is beginning to annoy me as it is long winded. I would
>> prefer "fld Text" to refer first to a field named text within the current
>> group, and then anything in groups within any groups in that group, and not
>> to something outside of the current group unless I explicitly say so.
>
> So this new thing would allow shorter references to objects within
> a group when more than one group exists, similar to the way "the
> defaultStack" allows shorter references to objects within a stack
> when you have multiple stacks open. So it kind of sharpens the
> focus of the reference, or more specifically defines their
> context. Correct?
>
>
>>
>> Now as this would clearly cause too many compatibility problems, how about a
>> little change so that I can set an object property (stack or group), so that
>> when "groupReferences is true" all references to controls are within the
>> current group (ie the owner)? This should apply to numbers as well as names.
>>
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