Does a Control Exist?

[Ray]

Really?  When I do this...

on mouseUp
    put "test 1" into fld "Cats"                -- this field does not exist
    put "test 2" into fld "Dogs"               -- this field does exist
end mouseUp

the script editor window pops up on the first line alerting me with an 
error.  It never progresses to the second line.  I haven't tried this in 
a standalone but I'm pretty sure the script will stop all the same just 
as soon as it encounters the first line.

Nonetheless, I'm not all that sure I'm in favor of changing things. The 
idea just occurred to me so I decided to see what other devs on the list 
think about it as long as it's a relatively low traffic Sunday.

Ray

On 11/24/2013 12:27 PM, Richmond wrote:
> On 24.11.2013 18:58, Ray wrote:
>> Yeah, I know there are various ways of checking whether the control 
>> exists or not before proceeding.  I just wondered whether anybody 
>> else thought it might be nice not to have to do that since it does 
>> halt the script if the control doesn't exist.
>>
>>> Well, surely the trick is to do something like this:
>>>
>>> if exists(fld "My Field") then
>>>     put fld "My Field" into myVar
>>> end if
>>>
>>> Easy-Peasy-Lemon-Squeezy!
>>>
>>> Richmond.
>>>
>
> I must be missing something . . .
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "halt the script".
>
> Certainly, if fld "My Field" does not exist the script won't put 
> anything into myVar, after all, it's
> not meant to.
>
> I just tried something else, in an attempt to understand what you 
> meant by "halt the script";
>
> I set up a stack with one fld "cheese" and a one btn "Button" 
> containing this script:
>
> on mouseUp
>    if exists(fld "dogs") then
>       put "yap" into fld "dogs"
>    end if
>    if exists(fld "cheese") then
>       put "zip" into fld "cheese"
>       end if
> end mouseUp
>
> Now, as fld "dogs" does not exist, "yap" appears nowhere, but "zip" 
> does end up in fld "cheese";
>
> so the fact that fld "dogs" does not exists does not stop the rest of 
> the script from doing what it should.
>
> Richmond.
>
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