finding the name of the target's stack in a script

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Tue Jul 24 11:52:45 EDT 2012


Dr. Hawkins wrote:
> I have a handler that needs to handle an event differently depending
> upon which substack the button calling it is on.
>
> I don't see a direct way of referencing the calling stack.
>
> There is the topStack() function, which would *seem* to necessarily
> return the relevant stack, but something makes me nervous about that.
>
> And then there is choosing word 8 of the long name of the object, but
> that seems downright reckless . . .
>
> Is tehre a "clean" way to do this?

Parsing the executionContexts may help, but if the button must be 
manually clicked it may be simpler to use the mouseStack function.

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