Controls in a stack

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Kay and Phil.

I've gone back to using the original handler since obviously getting the
controls of a stack isn't reliable.  I feel like missing random controls in
multi card stacks is a bug, but my opinion on what is a bug and what isn't
seems to differ from others on this list so what do you think?  I doubt
there's any chance of it being fixed but I don;t think that's a reason to
not report it.

Phil, thanks for the array tip - turns out I am using an array although not
for the reason you mentioned.  Sometimes you just get lucky I guess!  Not
sure how to deal with the backgrounds that aren't on any cards.  I have
rarely used backgrounds but out of interest, does the IDE Application
Browser show these unplaced backgrounds?


Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 9:48 PM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:

> Another twist in the pursuit of truth:
> Backgrounds not placed on any card are included in "the number of
> backgrounds in this stack" but nowhere else. (Neither are their controls)
> You have to place them onto a card to count their controls.
>
> You could cycle through all the cards and do this:
>     put the name of control x of this cd into tControlArray[ the short id
> of control x of this cd ]
>
> When you're done, the array structure itself will have eliminated
> duplicate references. tControlArray contains all control names keyed by
> their unique IDs. Except for those pesky 0 ID controls. And the controls in
> any unplaced BGs.
>
> Phil Davis
>
>
>
> On 1/21/13 9:14 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:29 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Looking at the controls that are missed, they are almost all from stacks
>>> that contain multiple cards, seemingly randomly missing a few from each
>>> card.  There are also a handful that have an id of zero which I didn't
>>> think was possible but that's another topic.
>>>
>> Quick test:
>>
>> 1) New Main Stack
>> 2) Add a button,
>> 3) Add a new card
>> 4) Add a button
>> 5) Go back to cd 1 and group the single btn and turn it into a background
>> 6) Add a Card (this should come with the  bkgnd btn)
>> 7) Add to this a normal btn.
>>
>> So you should have a 3 card stack with 1 card that has a bkgnd btn on
>> it, a 2nd card with a bkgnd btn + a normal btn, and a 3rd card with
>> just a normal btn.
>>
>> Total number of controls for the stack is 4 (a group for the bkgnd, a
>> btn in the bkgnd group, and two normal btns.
>>
>> In the msg box if I enter:
>>
>> put the number of controls of stack "test"
>>
>> the answer I get back is always the number of controls of the current
>> front most card of the stack, I can not get 4 as the answer.
>>
>> So if I happen to be on the card with only the normal btn, then the
>> answer is 1, the answer you want is 4, and if I loop through the cards
>> the answer I get is 6.
>>
>> As you've already figured, the problem is associated with multi-card
>> stacks, from what I can tell 'the number of controls of this stack'
>> will never give the correct answer for a multi-card stack, and if you
>> loop through all the cards you'll end up duplicating the process for
>> any background controls.
>>
>> HTH
>>
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