controlNames deprecated??

[panagiotis merakos]

Hi Jacque,

Control names within a group can be obtained by:

"the childControlNames of group myGroup"

Best,
Panos
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On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 7:21 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 7/28/17 12:52 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> I can get the controlnames of a card, but at first blush the list does
>> not include button names. However it*does*  list a great many numbers of 4
>> digits. So I tried looking up controlNames in the dictionary and there is
>> no entry for it, at least not by using the find function.
>>
>
>
> I just tested this and it looks like the controlNames of a card only
> return the names of controls whose parent is the card. Controls within a
> group are listed by ID. I'm not sure if this is correct or not, I can see
> the logic, but it would seem if the parent has to be the card then controls
> within a group shouldn't be in the list at all.
>
> My test card used a background group; it might be different for a card
> group.
>
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