Missing properties

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Pete.


What Mike said, in that maybe I do not understand your question. A control might, for example, belong to one or more groups, and a different control might belong to yet another group.


But there is only one card that they all reside on, and only one stack that they, er, reside in. But if there is indeed only one of each, then the "owner" is just that, the card and the stack.


Craig



-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Sent: Sat, Dec 6, 2014 11:17 pm
Subject: Re: Missing properties


Seems like "this card" would be useful, or, you could just get the long
name of the object which contains a small to big list of owning objects
starting with the object itself.

On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> Every now and again, I wonder why certain properties are not available in
> LC.  The ones that puzzles me the most are the owning card and owning stack
> of an object.
>
> Maybe it's just the kind of tools I write but I frequently need to get that
> information.
>
> I have written a couple of handlers to get that information but it just
> seems like there should be a property that does it for you, maybe
> "ownerStack" and "ownerCard".
>
> I've tried a couple of different ways of getting that information and
> curious how other people do it.  I'm sure there are a lot of people who
> have written the same handlers!
>
> I have a recursive function that traverses up the chain of owner properties
> until it gets to a card or stack, and another one that parses the long name
> of a control to get the information.  I think I prefer the recursive
> function
>
> Pete
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