I have an id number, call it unDna, for entries in my database. When elements are displayed or manipulated, either the card or the group I've placed has unDna set as a custom property.
The handlers for close field check for a unDna of the field or the owner of a field. This backfires, though, if the field is in a subgroup, or a subsubgroup, etc. I'm trying to think of a clean way to handle this; to this point, I've used "the unDna of the owner of me" I could recursively climb ownership, looking for a unDna that has been set--but not being set indicates that it's a different type of data. Or I could, on creation, cycle through groups and set unDna for all the fields, or all the groups, but that sounds ugly and prone to error. I suppose that what I'm really looking for is "the effective unDna of me", but there does't seem a language provision to implement that. ideas? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ 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