Control ID problem

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Scott, that's a possibility, the stack in question is not the "front-most" one for sure.  However, shouldn't the defaultStack property (which is set to the correct substack) taken care of that?  Or is there some other property I can use to qualify the ID?  Since this is a general purpose handler that could be called from anywhere in my app, I can't hard code a stack name in it

Thanks,
Pete Haworth

On Mar 25, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

> The only thing I could guess is your substack is not the top stack.  I don't
> believe LC has ever known to automatically look in substacks for the
> existence of controls.  LC can have multiple stacks open simultaneously, and
> can have controls of the same ID in different stacks, so unless the stack
> with your desired control is front-most, or you use a full stack path, LC
> won't know where your control is.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
> 
> 
> 
> Recently, Peter Haworth wrote:
> 
>> I have a function that returns information about a control which takes the
>> control's short ID as a parameter. This has been working fine for a long time
>> but has suddenly started to throw a run time error for one specific control.
>> 
>> The statement "put the short name of control ID pid into myControlName" where
>> id is the parameter containing the ID returns the error "No such Object near
>> "1076" (1076 is the control ID in pid).
>> 
>> I can clearly see in the application browser and Inspector dialog that there
>> is a button with ID 1076 in a substack of the main stack.  If I use the
>> message box to execute "put the short name of control ID 1076", I get the same
>> error.  But if I execute "put the short name of control ID 1076 of stack
>> <mysubstackname>", I get the correct result.
>> 
>> According to the dictionary, the ID of a control is unique within a main stack
>> so I can't figure out why this doesn't work without qualifying the ID with the
>> substack name.  I tried putting an "answer information" right before the
>> offending line to display the defaultStack in case something strange was
>> happening to the defaultStack property but it is set to the correct stack
>> name.
>> 
>> Any ideas?
>> 
>> 
>> Pete Haworth
> 
> 
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