The editBackground property is global, you're either in it or not. So just setting editBackground to false will pop you out of it, and won't do anything if it's already false. Given the use case, that's probably enough.

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On September 18, 2018 11:13:33 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode <[email protected]> wrote:

Now that I think about it a little more, I could figure it out as long as
there is a control in the group...

local tID, tGroup
put the id of control 1 into tID
stop editing
put the long id of the owner of control id tID into tGroup

later on, should be able to...

start editing tGroup

At least it works in the message box.

Brian

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:26 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode <
[email protected]> wrote:

hmmm.... i'm sure there is some way to find out .... the engine has to know
which group is being edited...just have to find the engine property
....could be an undocumented one.  Isn't there a stack that lists engine
properties?  haven't seen it in years but I think I recall something like
that.

maybe someone will know offhand.

On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:16 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I ran into this with ScriptTracker. I just disable the mode there. I
> looked at how to preserve and restore the setting, but didn’t find it at
> the time. I could tell if the mode was enabled, but not which background
> was being edited to restore afterwards.
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
> On Sep 18, 2018, 9:30 PM -0500, Tom Glod via use-livecode <
> [email protected]>, wrote:
> > I don't think there is a msg but
> >
> > the editbg of stack "Mystack" = true when in editing mode.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:18 PM doc hawk via use-livecode <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > When choosing "edit group" from the toolbar (or otherwise), is there
an
> > > "editGroup" or similar message sent that I can intercept?
> > >
> > > In particular, I want to set a flag that my auto-save routines can
> catch,
> > > as saving while in edit group knocks that mod out, sometimes with
> oddball
> > > effects.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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