Ways to get the IDs of two already scripted buttons?

[Mark Wieder]

Kresten-

Sunday, January 1, 2012, 3:55:07 PM, you wrote:

> I cannot imagine that something like this should be impossible in livecode

This seems like a prime candidate for a frontscript. The simplest way
might be to use a global variable (warning - untested):

global gSelectedID
put empty into gSelectedID
insert the script of button "xyzzy" into front
answer ...
remove the script of button "xyzzy" from front
if abc is not empty then ...

in button "xyzzy"'s script:

on mouseUp
  global gSelectedID
  put the id of the target into gSelectedID
  if "Answer" is not in the long name of the target then
    -- *don't pass mouseUp
  else
    -- allow mouseUp events in the Answer dialog buttons
    pass mouseUp
  end if
end mouseUp

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net