It looks like you're missing the parentheses in the function name. Try:
put value("getValue()",group "myGroup" of card "myCard") into tVal
Regards,
Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design
On 2/22/16, 5:08 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of William Prothero"
<[email protected] on behalf of
[email protected]> wrote:
>Folks:
>Sorry for the duplicate posting. But, the topic on my prev one was not
>descriptive and I need this to work.
>
>I think I¹ve found a bug when trying to call a function and get a return
>value out of the message path.
>
>I make a stack with a group containing 2 buttons, and a 3rd button to
>call the function>
>
>Script of calling button
>on mouseUp
> breakpoint
> put value("getValue",group "myGroup" of card "myCard") into tVal
>end mouseUp
>
>Script of group named ³myGroup²
>function getValue
> return "This is my value"
>end getValue
>
>When I click the calling button, I get ³getValue² returned. The actual
>return value of the function is not returned.
>
>I¹ve tested this in 7.1.2-r3 and 8.0.0 DP15.
>I¹m using Mac OSX, El Capitan.
>
>Is it a bug?
>
>Bill
>
>
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