strange nested groups behaviour

[john at debraneys.com]

Hi JB,

Could you then use:

put the owner of the owner of (the long name of me)?
That would not be ambiguous because it is the long object path to the source of the message

Regards

John

>Subject: Re: strange nested groups behaviour
>
>well, I just found the explanation. "the owner of me" returns
>"group date" (for instance), and since each of my groups "search"
>contains the same kind of objects with the same names, Rev
>checks some lookup table for a group "date" and the first one it finds
>is group "date" in group "search1"...
>
>I've been deeply into xml lately and I thought that "the owner of me"
>would return some kind of unique object identifier... next time I'll
>think twice before coding blindly...
>
>Best,
>JB
>
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I'm facing a strange behaviour regarding nested groups.
>>
>> I have a substack that contains 12 groups named "search1" to
>> "search12". Each group contains various objects (exactly the
>> same kind of objects in the same order with the same names),
>> among which is a group "date" that contains 3 fields named
>> "day", "month" and "year".
>>
>> Here the strange behaviour : if I put in grp "date" of any grp
>> "search" the script line :
>> put the owner of me
>> it always returns the right group name ("search1", "search2" etc)
>>
>> BUT when I put the following script line in each field of groups
>> "date"
>> put the owner of the owner of me
>> it always returns group "search1" !!!!!!!!
>>
>> Any idea of what's happening ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> JB
>>
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