Add field content to a script

Ken Ray kray at sonsothunder.com
Sun Jul 6 15:25:46 EDT 2008


On 7/6/08 1:21 PM, "RevList" <RevList at CreaTECHSol.com> wrote:

> I have a field called ItemPath on a card that displays the path to a
> particular card or control in another stack
> 
> For example in one instance, the field is displaying.
> button id 1016 of card id 1002 of stack "/Users/slynch/Desktop/Sample
> Stack.rev"
> 
> Now I want to be able to display the script of that item in another field.
> 
> Essentially, I want to do is create the following script and use the
> literal information in my ItemPath field as part of my script
> 
> Put the script of button id 1016 of card id 1002 of stack
> "/Users/slynch/Desktop/Sample Stack.rev" into fld "Script"
> 
> How can I do that?

Assuming that the field (I'll call it "ObjectRef" for this example) contains
a long identifier to an object and not a short name, you can do this:

put fld "ObjectRef" into tObj
put the script of tObj into fld "Script"

Ken Ray
Sons of Thunder Software, Inc.
Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/






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