Field of Card of Stack

[Jim Ault]

On 12/8/07 6:40 AM, "Shari" <shari at gypsyware.com> wrote:

> Nothing earthshattering, just something I've wondered about.
> 
> If you have a stack with one card, far as I can tell both of the
> following work, but shouldn't the second one fail?
> 
> get fld "Seaweed" of cd "Aquaplants" of stack "Waterbabies"
> get fld "Seaweed" of stack "Waterbabies"
> 
> If no card is specified, what exactly does it do?   Is it an
> "undocumented feature" that it catches your error in forgetting to
> specify a card?
> 
> Just something I've wondered about every time I caught a piece of
> code where I'd forgotten to specify a card, and the code still worked.

get fld "Seaweed" of cd "Aquaplants" of stack "Waterbabies"
get fld "Seaweed" of stack "Waterbabies" --curr card
get fld "Seaweed"  --curr card of curr stack

get the cpSpecies of this stack
--assumes current property set

get the plantData[cpSpecies] of this stack
-- specifies which property set

get the cpSpecies of button "Water Lilly" of card "Tasmania" of stack
"Australian Locales"
--assumes the current property set of button "Water Lilly"

get the plantData[cpSpecies] of button "Water Lilly" of card "Tasmania" of
stack "Australian Locales"
-- specifies which property set at the exact data storage location

get the foodData[cpNutrients] of button "Water Lilly" of card "Tasmania" of
stack "Australian Locales"
-- specifies which property set at the exact data storage location

Hope this helps

Jim Ault
Las Vegas