can't get behavior to work

[Bob Sneidar]

You cannot set a behavior to a field. It has to be a button. I asked about this when behaviors first were introduced. Trevor gave me some answer as to why, but I forget what it was now. <coughsenilecough>

Bob


On Jul 19, 2012, at 5:20 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:

> I've been trying all day to get behavior, to work, and can't
> 
>  set the behavior of grp "grp_cmbIncome" of card "meansTestIncome" to
> the long id of fld "ctr_calcPop" of cd 1 of stack "mcp"
> 
> produces an execution error at line n/a (parentScript: bad object)
> near "field id 2081 of cd id . . .
> 
> 
> It only mentions the error the first time the script in preOpenStack
> runs; otherwise it just jumps to the end of that handler with no
> message.
> I
> If I change it to refer to a field in the same stack, same problem.
> If I remove "the long id" to refer direxctly to the field,
> it executes, but the handlers of that field are never reached, anyway.
> 
> Am I doing something wrong?
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