Icons and scope

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Thu Sep 11 11:32:00 EDT 2003


> I tried using 'owner' but i could not use the returned reference.
> 
> Basically, how do you read the data from a field on another 
> card with only 
> the field's ID number?

Get the "long id" of the field and us it. "owner" returns effectively
the "name" of the owner of the object, and "long owner" returns the
"long name". Personally, I'd use "long id"... is is always unique.

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ 





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