Mysteries of Me

[Bob Sneidar]

It's not a bug, it's a limitation (probably the wrong word) of the parser. As has been talked about in the past, messing with the parser is one of the least desirable things the devs have to do, and from what I have gleaned, they avoid it if at all possible. The parser is really where all the LC magic is. Currently the spells are working quite nicely. You don't want to mess with the magic. :-)

Bob S


> On Oct 30, 2018, at 10:56 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hmm, is that a bug?  Should we report it? I think so.
> 
> 
> 
> On 10/30/18 5:54 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
>> Ah yes I've encountered this. What I do is I have 2 functions: getParentCard() and getParentStack(). pass the long id of any object on a card and they return the long id of the card, or the long filename of the stack respectively. Then you can use go tParentCard and that will compile. Your issue is in fact, why I wrote these functions! They are very simple as you can see:
>> 
>> function getParentCard pObjectID
>>   put offset("card id", pObjectID) into tStartChar
>>   put char tStartChar to -1 of pObjectID into tCardID
>>   return tCardID
>> end getParentCard
>> 
>> function getParentStack pObjectID
>>   put offset("stack ", pObjectID) into tStartChar
>>   put char tStartChar to -1 of pObjectID into tParentStack
>>   return tParentStack
>> end getParentStack
>> 
>> Bob S
>> 
>> 
>>> On Oct 29, 2018, at 17:15 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> @tom  go card and go to card same thing.
>>> 
>>> @ bob
>>> 
>>> That's what I understand (as you have described it)
>>> 
>>> -- The behavior is set in the properties of a stack.
>>> -- the SE suggestions "knows" this and on typing
>>>     go card...[List of cards in current stack appears... choose one)
>>> 
>>> # you get:
>>> 
>>> go card "my-audio-library" of me  #as we would expect
>>> 
>>> # but it gives an error; will not compile. You have to be explicit:
>>> 
>>> go card "my-audio-library" of this stack
>>> 
>>> # then it compiles
>>> 
>>> -- re: backscript
>>> 
>>> function isThisTrue() then
>>>   go card "my-audio-library" of me  # as per SE suggestions
>>>  # generates an error
>>> end isThisTrue
>>> 
>>> # isThisTrue , is part of a back script. It won't compile
>>> # I wondered it that was causing a reference change
>>> # because this works
>>> 
>>> function isThisTrue() then
>>>   go card "my-audio-library" of this stack
>>> end isThisTrue
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