Display of groups in Control Browser

Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com
Wed Dec 15 11:17:38 EST 2004


>  >If it's an engine bug, it's of interest to the keepers of the engine.
>>Once we can pin down which line(s) in MC's Control Browser are at play
>>we should be able to provide exactly what the need to do to address it.
>>Moreoever, if it's truly an engine bug there's more at stake than just
>>the MC IDE -- any script that uses a similar method to derive a list of
>>controls will be similarly affected.
>
>I ran into this one when working on one of my new creations. It seems that
>something other than an integer is placed into the variable using "the
>number of layers". Try this one:
>
>create a new stack with button:
>
>on mouseUp
>   -- test 1
>   put the number of layers of this cd into test
>   put "Test 1"&cr&test&cr
>   subtract 1 from item -1 of test
>   put test&cr after msg
>   -- test 2
>   put the value of the number of layers of this cd into test
>   put "Test 2"&cr&test&cr after msg
>   subtract 1 from item -1 of test
>   put test after msg
>end mouseUp
>
>you should see:
>Test 1
>1
>1
>Test 2
>1
>0
>
>Odd hey! I've added this to the bug report.
>
>Cheers
>
>Monte


Monte, excellent sleuthing! Have you tried chartonum on all chars returned?

Robert


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