Determining stack of object nested in groups

[Trevor DeVore]

On Aug 28, 2004, at 3:54 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Trevor DeVore wrote:
>
>> I can think of two ways to get the stack an object belongs to based 
>> on the long id of the object:
>> 1) Parse the string and extract the "stack myStack" part.
>> 2) loop that keeps getting the owner until the owner is a stack.
>> I couldn't find a built in property for this.  Is there one or is 
>> option 1 the best way to do this?
>
> I think so, perhaps something like:
>
>   if ("stack "&quote&"MyStack"&quote) is in \
>     the long name of the target then....

Good to know.  I just put together a regular expression to extract an 
unknown stack:

get matchText(long id of myObject, "(stack "&quote&".*"&quote&")$", 
tTargeStack)

This will put:

stack "Owner stack name"

into tTargetStack.


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Trevor DeVore
Blue Mango Multimedia
trevor at mangomultimedia.com