How to find the name of the recent card?

[Monte Goulding]

Looking at your report I'm not really sure if the bug is in the recent card or the current card. If preOpenCard is before the card is open then there's a good argument that it's the latter...

Of course either may be an anomaly that may be difficult to do anything about.

Cheers

Monte

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> On 2 Jul 2016, at 6:34 PM, David Bovill <david at viral.academy> wrote:
> 
> In a preOpenCard handler I cannot find the name of the recent card - the
> card that you "came from". As far as i can tell this is a very basic bug
> that goes back to at least version 7.
> 
> Does anyone have a work around The only thing i can think of is to do my
> own logging in an openCard or closeCard handler. is there a sane reason why
> preOpenCard is not reporting the value correctly or another way to get the
> value of the recent card?
> 
> 
> I filed this as a bug - http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17939
> 
>> On 1 July 2016 at 19:39, David Bovill <david at viral.academy> wrote:
>> 
>> on preOpenCard
>>>    put the short name of recent card
>>>    pass preOpenCard
>>> end preOpenCard
>> 
>> 
>> Why is the recent card when specified in a preOpenCard handler the name of
>> the current card, while it is the recent card if the same script is called:
>> 
>> on openCard
>>>    put the short name of recent card
>>>    pass openCard
>>> end openCard
>> 
>> Given that preOpenCard is called before actually displaying the card and
>> the openCard handler being called this seems wrong. Is this behavior
>> present in older versions of LC - or is this a bug?
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