editGroup message?

[Tom Glod]

nice workaround.

On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 12:11 AM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Now that I think about it a little more, I could figure it out as long as
> there is a control in the group...
>
> local tID, tGroup
> put the id of control 1 into tID
> stop editing
> put the long id of the owner of control id tID into tGroup
>
> later on, should be able to...
>
> start editing tGroup
>
> At least it works in the message box.
>
> Brian
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 10:26 PM Tom Glod via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > hmmm.... i'm sure there is some way to find out .... the engine has to
> know
> > which group is being edited...just have to find the engine property
> > ....could be an undocumented one.  Isn't there a stack that lists engine
> > properties?  haven't seen it in years but I think I recall something like
> > that.
> >
> > maybe someone will know offhand.
> >
> > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:16 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I ran into this with ScriptTracker. I just disable the mode there. I
> > > looked at how to preserve and restore the setting, but didn’t find it
> at
> > > the time. I could tell if the mode was enabled, but not which
> background
> > > was being edited to restore afterwards.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Brian
> > > On Sep 18, 2018, 9:30 PM -0500, Tom Glod via use-livecode <
> > > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> > > > I don't think there is a msg but
> > > >
> > > > the editbg of stack "Mystack" = true when in editing mode.
> > > >
> > > > On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:18 PM doc hawk via use-livecode <
> > > > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > When choosing "edit group" from the toolbar (or otherwise), is
> there
> > an
> > > > > "editGroup" or similar message sent that I can intercept?
> > > > >
> > > > > In particular, I want to set a flag that my auto-save routines can
> > > catch,
> > > > > as saving while in edit group knocks that mod out, sometimes with
> > > oddball
> > > > > effects.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
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