It probably would help but I am referencing the object in other places, for instance I am getting the tablename of group tGridLongName and that fails as well.
As I posted the workaround is to reference it by group <shortname> of <long owner reference> Bob S > On Apr 11, 2018, at 09:51 , Mike Bonner via use-livecode > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not sure if this will be userful, but would placing the following script in > your stack (or frontscript I guess) work easier? > > command amIHere pName > try > dispatch "imHere" to group pName of the current card > catch tError > return false > end try > end amIHere > > command imHere > return true > end imHere > > Might be cheating using try this way, but I think it should work pretty > well. > > If the dispatch fails due to object (or in this case, background) not found > error, you get false, if the dispatch is handled you get true. _______________________________________________ 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
