Grouping with lists in a script

[miscdas at boxfrog.com]

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> I had the understanding that the "list"-option of the group command was
> an option to automate the tedious process to concatenate manually  a
> huge number of crontols in the script editor. 
> 
> This is what the Metatalk Reference says: 
> 
> "Syntax: "group <c>" 
> 
> where "<c> stands for a list, explained by an if-statement: 
> 
> "If a list of controls  is supplied, those controls will be added to
> the new group." 
> 
> If "list" here would just mean the concatenated sequence of controls
> names or numbers in a script - explicitly written down one after the
> other -, this extra option would be meaningless. 
> 
> I tried to put the contatenated sequence of control names into a
> variable "fieldlist" by means of a repeat loop.
> Then, "group fieldlist" - both with an "and"-sequence as you suggested
> and a vertical order of controls as lines - only produced errors. 
> 
> The question remains, is there a special structure for the "list"-option
> or is the information of the MetaTalk Reference merely tautological,
> i.e. repeating in a fuzzy way what already had been stated? 
> 
> If the latter is the case then the sentence: 
> 
> "If a list of controls  is supplied, those controls will be added to
> the new group." 
> 
> would indeed be superfluous and misleading. 
> 
> Thanks and regards, 
> 
> Wilhelm
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I think the entry for this in the MetaTalk Reference needs to be updated to 
clarify the very issue you raised. Intuitvely, when I encounter the term 
"list", I think of a group of "items" that have a common delimiter, enabling 
me to "buld" a list in a rather simple manner. My first go-'round with this 
was to try to prepare a string comprising the list of controls, trying 
different delimiters. Of course, that totally didn't work. I finally settled 
on the concatenation method demonstrated in the docs. (But I still don't 
like it.)
miscdas