Hmm, is that a bug? Should we report it? I think so.
On 10/30/18 5:54 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
> Ah yes I've encountered this. What I do is I have 2 functions:
> getParentCard() and getParentStack(). pass the long id of any object on a
> card and they return the long id of the card, or the long filename of the
> stack respectively. Then you can use go tParentCard and that will compile.
> Your issue is in fact, why I wrote these functions! They are very simple as
> you can see:
>
> function getParentCard pObjectID
> put offset("card id", pObjectID) into tStartChar
> put char tStartChar to -1 of pObjectID into tCardID
> return tCardID
> end getParentCard
>
> function getParentStack pObjectID
> put offset("stack ", pObjectID) into tStartChar
> put char tStartChar to -1 of pObjectID into tParentStack
> return tParentStack
> end getParentStack
>
> Bob S
>
>
>> On Oct 29, 2018, at 17:15 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> @tom go card and go to card same thing.
>>
>> @ bob
>>
>> That's what I understand (as you have described it)
>>
>> -- The behavior is set in the properties of a stack.
>> -- the SE suggestions "knows" this and on typing
>> go card...[List of cards in current stack appears... choose one)
>>
>> # you get:
>>
>> go card "my-audio-library" of me #as we would expect
>>
>> # but it gives an error; will not compile. You have to be explicit:
>>
>> go card "my-audio-library" of this stack
>>
>> # then it compiles
>>
>> -- re: backscript
>>
>> function isThisTrue() then
>> go card "my-audio-library" of me # as per SE suggestions
>> # generates an error
>> end isThisTrue
>>
>> # isThisTrue , is part of a back script. It won't compile
>> # I wondered it that was causing a reference change
>> # because this works
>>
>> function isThisTrue() then
>> go card "my-audio-library" of this stack
>> end isThisTrue
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