"New Table Object" (sort of) Problem

[Devin Asay]

On Apr 3, 2007, at 12:02 PM, Len Morgan wrote:

> Well, I'm getting close!  Between locking the size and position and  
> setting vScroll to true, I can now create a variable length table  
> that will scroll if it get too large.
>
> Next Problem:
>
> How do I remove the groups when I do the next query?  Can I get a  
> list of the groups that are within another group?  Something like:
>
> repeat with g in (the groups in group "resultsGroup"
> remove group g
> end repeat
>
> I realize that the repeat command isn't "legal" but I think you get  
> the idea.  I KNOW I've seen a command that will give you the list  
> of fields in a group (although I can't seem to find that either)  
> but I want a list of groups that are contained within another group.

You can check the number of controls in a group. Since the name of  
the control contains the type of object it is you could do something  
like this:

repeat with i = the number of controls in group "resultsGroup" down to 1
   if the name of control i of group "resultsGroup" contains "group"  
then
     remove control i of group "resultsGroup"
   end if
end repeat

I would start at the top and increment downward, since removing  
controls from the group will throw off the count if you count upward.

HTH

Devin


Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University