Eureka! It's late, I'm tired and grouchy and I can't figure out a way to do this!

[Trevor DeVore]

On Apr 7, 2006, at 8:24 AM, David Bovill wrote:

> David Burgun wrote:
>> if the long owner of group myIndex of theOwnerLongName =  
>> theOwnerLongName then
>
> Without looking at the code - a couple of comments):
>
>    I don't use the owner - due to some inconsistancy I can no  
> longer remember which was only fixed by using:
>
>    put the long id of groupMyIndex into myOwner
>    delete word 1 to 4 of myIndex
>
>    This may or may not have been fixed abd i have not tired the  
> long owner...

I *think* you only run into problems with the owner when dealing with  
objects that aren't on the defaultStack.  When you try to use the  
owner in libraries that are referring to objects in other stacks  
there seem to be problems.  Jerry Daniels pointed this out to me as I  
was having problems with the owner returning wrong information with  
some libs.  I always assumed that the owner was just looking at the  
long id of the target and extracting the information from it.   
Apparently it doesn't.  So now I use delete or word 5 to -1 with my  
libs and I have been happy ever since.


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Trevor DeVore
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