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

[Björnke von Gierke]

word 8 of the long id is not reckless, it's just not going to work every time, because of substacks, and such. for example this is a valid long id for a stack:
stack "/Drive/Folder/Stack. rev"
and this too, if it's an unsaved substack:
stack "Untitled 2" of stack "Untitled 1"

There's also "the owner" which does what you want... as long as you never use any groups :)

Incidentally, can't you set the stack to a parameter in the button? that's what i'd do:

on mouseUp
  put the name of this stack into myCurrentStack
  doThing myCurrentStack
end mouseUp

On 24.07.2012, at 17:33, 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?
> 
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