curiosities in object reference

[David Bovill]

You need to force the type of fRef to be a string.

LiveCode assumes a string that lukes like a long id is a reference to a
control. It's duck-typing.

This is useful in many circumstances.

To get round it you don't need "do", but you need to assemble the reference
as a string - and do mess around a bit.

Try deleting the first word if fRef, then manipulating it, then adding the
first word back?
On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 at 06:58, Kay C Lan <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> Maybe this will help:
>
> put the long id of fld "text" into fRef
> put word 3 of fRef into fFldID
> put word 7 of fRef into fCdID
> put word -1 of fRef into fStackName
> replace quote with empty in fStackName
> put "deux" into word 2 of fld id fFldID of card id fCdID of stack
> fStackName
>
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 4:20 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > So I have a field, let's say field "text", with the contents "one two
> > three four".
> >
> > if I do this:
> >    put the long id of fld "text" into fRef
> >    put "deux" into word 2 of fRef
> >
> > it puts "deux" into word 2 of "field id 1022 of stack…" and doesn't
> > resolve fRef as a field reference.
> >
> > But if I do:
> >    put the text of fRef into tText
> >
> > it *does* resolve fRef as a field reference, as I would expect. It
> appears
> > that the engine only resolves these references when the context/syntax
> > indicates that it should expect an object reference, and not otherwise.
> >
> > Is there any way I can put "deux" into word 2 of the field without
> jumping
> > through hoops, like
> >    put "deux" into newWord
> >    do "put newWord into word two of" && fRef
> > ??
> >
> > I don't want to do:
> >    put the text of fRef into tText
> >    put "deux" into word 2 of tText
> >    set the text of fRef to tText
> > because the field may contain formatted text that I want to preserve.
> >
> > ideas? or am I stuck with hoops?
> >
> > -- Peter
> >
> > Peter M. Brigham
> > pmbrig at gmail.com
> > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
> >
> >
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