Wow, that should abeen "selectedobjects" returns long ids. English. One day I hope its my first language.
On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > It seems that tList can't be long ids, or long names (as far as I can > tell), but selectedobjects field "field" and button "button" will > probably work, but there's an easier way. > > Save the list of selectedObjects however you currently do it, just exactly > as it shows up from the selectedobjects (since it sounds like you are > wanting to be able to group the objects later using code) > > Once that is done, to group them is easy. > > lock screen > repeat for each line tLine in myData > set the selected of tLine to true > end repeat > -- after this, all the objects you chose should be selected so then.. > group -- since they're selected, it bypasses the need to feed it a > properly formatted list > unlock screen > > You might want to deselect the group that is created after the grouping > since it will be selected with handles showing, but I think you can > set the selected of the last group to false > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2014 at 3:56 PM, Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> wrote: > >> Getting a run time error on command "group tList". I'm constructing tList >> from the selectedObjects by replace return with " and " and making sure >> there isn't a trailing " and " at the end. >> >> The runtime error includes the contents of tList which look correct to me >> - >> "<long id of field 1> and <long id of field 2>". >> >> I can get round it by putting "group " at the start of tList then "do >> tList" but why doesn't this work? >> >> Pete >> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> >> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and >> SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your >> subscription preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> > > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode