Group/Ungroup by script

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Feb 17 22:10:23 EST 2011


On 2/17/11 7:59 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> I have a need to add a specific control to an existing group.  The following works but I'm curious if there's a better/easier way?
>
> select group "Test"
> put "group " into mycommand
> repeat for each line myId in the selectedObjects
>   	 put myID&&  "AND " after mycommand
> end repeat
> put the long ID of button "Button" after myCommand
> do myCommand

Try:
   copy control 1 to grp x

Substitute a control reference for "control 1".

If you don't need the original control after it's been copied to the 
group, delete it.

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Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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