Missing properties

[Scott Rossi]

I haven’t been following this thread closely but the goal is to get the id and/or name of the card on which a controls sits, yes?
If so, wouldn’t the following 2 functions work?

# pObj is a long id control reference

function cardOwnerID pObj
   set the wholeMatches to true
   return char offset("card id",pObj) to -1 of pObj
end cardOwnerID

function cardOwnerName pObj
   return short name of cardOwnerID(pObj)
end cardOwnerName

Admittedly, the cardOwnerID function could fail if a control was located within a nested group that was explicitly named “card id” but. . .

Regards,

Scott Rossi 
Creative Director 
Tactile Media, UX/UI Design 

On Dec 8, 2014, at 10:54 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> If the object in question is inside a group, you'd have to recurse your
>> way out, or you could use:
>> 
>>    put word -5 to -1 of the long id of btn 1
>> 
>> or if you prefer:
>> 
>>    put word -5 to -1 of the long name of btn 1
>> 
>> (the second would use the name of the card) for just the stack use:
>> 
>>    put word -2 to -1 of the long id of btn 1
>> 
> 
> I wasn't thinking about substacks (durhh). I also didn't account for the
> different number of words in a card name if the card has a name vs. just an
> id. So if you want a reference to the containing stack (meaning the
> substack if there is one) then you'd need:
> 
> function owningStack pID
>  if word -5 of pID is "stack" then return word -5 to -1 of pID else return
> word -2 to -1 of pID
> end owningStack
> 
> For the card id:
> 
> function owningCardID pID
>  if word -5 of pID is "stack" then return word -9 to -1 of pID else return
> word -6 to -1 of pID
> end owningCardID
> 
> And for the card name:
> 
> function owningCardName pID
>   if word -5 of pID is "stack" then put -8 into S else put -5 into S
>   if word S of pID is "id" then return word S-1 to -1 of pID else return
> word S to -1 of pID
> end owningCardName
> _______________________________________________
> use-livecode mailing list
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode