When me is not me

[Brian Milby]

I think I know what is going on.  If you add a couple of put statements to
that script you will find that "me" by itself doesn't include the card or
stack.  So "put me" would give something like [group "Language Choice"]
which isn't specific enough from another card.  This works:

local tID
put the long id of me into tID
set the hilitedButton of tID to tNum

But it can be simpler:

set the hilitedButton of the long id of me to tNum

I didn't do it from an openStack script, but from the message box while on
another card.

Thanks,
Brian

On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 8:10 PM Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Yes, it works great if you are on the card, not if you are somewhere else.
>
>
> > On Mar 9, 2018, at 6:03 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > Nevermind. Another card. DOH
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> What version?  Its working for me in 9 dp11 by using either dispatch or
> >> send to the group.
> >>
> >> In the group:
> >> command doit pbtn
> >>   set the hilitedbutton of me to pbtn
> >> end doit
> >>
> >> And from the message box..
> >>
> >> send ("doit" && 2) to group 1
> >> or
> >> dispatch "doit" to group 1 with 3
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:23 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <
> >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> I learned something today.
> >>>
> >>> I was trying by script to set the hilite of a radio button in a group
> on
> >>> another card.
> >>>
> >>> My script is in the group “Language Choice” which is called by
> openStack.
> >>> I’m thinking that “me” would operate on the group:
> >>>
> >>>        set the hilitedButton of me to tNum
> >>>
> >>> Didn’t work, even though the script received the message and completed.
> >>> The radio buttons were unchanged. I modified it to this, which worked:
> >>>
> >>>        set the hilitedButton of group "Language Choice" of card
> >>> "Settings" to tNum
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> I can only think that, a group, even though it is on a single card and
> >>> does not have its backgroundBehavior set to true, must be referred to
> >>> explicitly by the name of the group and the name of the card is
> resides in.
> >>> Or maybe it’s because the individual buttons didn't have sharedHilite
> set
> >>> to true.
> >>>
> >>> Peter Bogdanoff
> >>> ArtsInteractive
> >>>
> >>>
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