Duplicate Control IDs

Pete pete at mollysrevenge.com
Mon Oct 24 14:52:32 EDT 2011


Bob,
I'm doing this by script and copying the whole group, not individual
controls.

Here's a more precise definition.

Stack1 has a group "SourceGroup" containing two field controls
"SourceField1" and "SourceField2".

Stack2 has a group "DestGroup" with a couple of miscellaneous controls in
it.

I need to copy SourceGroup from Stack1 into DestGroup in Stack2, which I do
with:

copy group "SourceGroup of stack "Stack 1" to group "DestGroup" of stack
"Stack2"

After that I see SourceGroup as a member of DestGroup in Stack 2 but
controls SourceField1 and SourceField2 of group SourceGroup of group
DestGroup of Stack2 both have an ID of zero.

I have not tried setting up a test stack to see if this always happens, but
it happens consistently in my application's stack.

Pete
Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>




On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobs at twft.com> wrote:

> Hi Pete. I tried to duplicate this and cannot. I created 2 stacks. In stack
> one I had field1 and field2. In stack 2 I had field3 and field4. I grouped
> the fields in the second stack, copied the 2 fields in the first stack,
> selected the grouped fields in the second stack, clicked Edit Group, and
> then pasted the two fields. The result is, the pasted fields were properly
> assigned unique ID's different than the first two fields, which is what you
> would expect.
>
> Bob
>
>
> On Oct 24, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Pete wrote:
>
> > It definitely took me by surprise!  I plan to submit to QCC but thought I
> > would check if anyone else had come across this at all.
> > Pete
> > Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD <pmbrig at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On Oct 24, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Pete wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have run into a weird situation that ends up with duplicate control
> IDs
> >> on
> >>> a card which I thought couldn't happen.
> >>>
> >>> The scenario is that I copy a group containing two field controls from
> >> one
> >>> stack to a group in another stack.  After copying, the two field
> controls
> >>> both have an ID of zero!  Needless to say, this plays havoc with
> anything
> >> I
> >>> do that tries to access the fields.
> >>>
> >>> I have worked around the problem by creating a new group, then copying
> >> the
> >>> two fields individually from the source group to the new one and that
> >> works
> >>> fine.
> >>>
> >>> Anyone ever come across this before?
> >>
> >> I've never seen this. Sounds like a bug, and a serious one at that.
> Control
> >> IDs should be completely robust and behave as advertised in all cases.
> >> Whatever you are doing seems to have exposed a crack in how the IDE (or
> is
> >> it the engine?) assigns IDs. You should report this to the QCC and flag
> it
> >> as urgent, in my opinion. I'd hate to have to start wondering about the
> >> stability of object IDs.
> >>
> >> -- Peter
> >>
> >> Peter M. Brigham
> >> pmbrig at gmail.com
> >> http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
> >>
> >>
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