Thanks Scott, that's a possibility, the stack in question is not the "front-most" one for sure. However, shouldn't the defaultStack property (which is set to the correct substack) taken care of that? Or is there some other property I can use to qualify the ID? Since this is a general purpose handler that could be called from anywhere in my app, I can't hard code a stack name in it
Thanks, Pete Haworth On Mar 25, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > The only thing I could guess is your substack is not the top stack. I don't > believe LC has ever known to automatically look in substacks for the > existence of controls. LC can have multiple stacks open simultaneously, and > can have controls of the same ID in different stacks, so unless the stack > with your desired control is front-most, or you use a full stack path, LC > won't know where your control is. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > > Recently, Peter Haworth wrote: > >> I have a function that returns information about a control which takes the >> control's short ID as a parameter. This has been working fine for a long time >> but has suddenly started to throw a run time error for one specific control. >> >> The statement "put the short name of control ID pid into myControlName" where >> id is the parameter containing the ID returns the error "No such Object near >> "1076" (1076 is the control ID in pid). >> >> I can clearly see in the application browser and Inspector dialog that there >> is a button with ID 1076 in a substack of the main stack. If I use the >> message box to execute "put the short name of control ID 1076", I get the >> same >> error. But if I execute "put the short name of control ID 1076 of stack >> <mysubstackname>", I get the correct result. >> >> According to the dictionary, the ID of a control is unique within a main >> stack >> so I can't figure out why this doesn't work without qualifying the ID with >> the >> substack name. I tried putting an "answer information" right before the >> offending line to display the defaultStack in case something strange was >> happening to the defaultStack property but it is set to the correct stack >> name. >> >> Any ideas? >> >> >> Pete Haworth > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
