On 1/10/2015 12:20 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
I need the formattedHeight and similar properties which only work on
currently open cards. The processing, however, should be in the background
and invisible to the user.
I used to use
push card
open invisible card this of stack that
pop card
But now that I've gone to palettes instead of groups for controls, the
recently closed palette pops up instead of the initial card/
What is the best way to get that card accessible without changing my stack
order?
Is the stack in RAM? You can get any property of anything if the stack
is in memory and you provide a full reference:
get the formattedheight of fld x of cd y of stack z
It doesn't even have to be the current card of that stack. If the stack
is not in RAM you don't need to specifically open it, you can do the
same thing by refering to the stack by its file path:
get the formattedheight of fld x of cd y of stack
"volume/folder/stack.livecode"
When you refer to a stack that way, it is placed in RAM but is not
officially "opened" per se, there are no messages sent to it, and it is
not in the message hierarchy.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay | [email protected]
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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