Strange behaviour of set the loc/set the rec (was 2.0 beta Bug?)

[tkuypers at pandora.be]

Jan, 

That indeed was the problem... After it is placed, the long ID of the group
vMyGroup still refers to the old one...

Tnx, didn't think of that...

Ton

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> From: Jan Schenkel <janschenkel at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 03:28:50 -0700 (PDT)
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of set the loc/set the rec (was 2.0 beta Bug?)
> 
> --- "tkuypers at pandora.be" <tkuypers at pandora.be> wrote:
>> I posted this already yesterday, but I hope somebody
>> can confirm they have
>> the same problem, or (hopefully) give me a
>> solution...
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Stack 1 has got a group named ?MyGroup?
>> This group has got 1 custom property: pNewLoc
>> 
>> Stack 2 has got a button with the script:
>> 
>> On mouseUp
>>     Put ?MyGroupName? into vMyGroup
>>     Copy group vMyGroup of stack ?Stack1? to stack
>> ?Stack2?
>>     Close stack ?Stack1?
>>     put the pNewLoc of group vMyGroup into vLoc
>>     set the loc of group vMyGroup to vLoc
>> End mouseUp
>> 
>> The group is placed in stack 2 and stack 1 is
>> closed, no errors, but the
>> position of the group remains unchanged...
>> 
>> When I enter the "set the loc..." command from the
>> messagebox it works fine
>> When I enter the "set the loc..." command from a
>> separate button it works
>> fine as well
>> 
>> Same problem goes for setting the rect...
>> 
>> Any ideas, anybody?
>> I guess this should work, but strangely enough is
>> doesn't...
>> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> Ton Kuypers
>> 
> 
> Hi Ton,
> 
> My best guess is that the defaultStack or topStack
> aren't in order yet, so the engine is not quite sure
> which group you're referring to -- if you're unlucky,
> it might even think you're still talking about the
> original one.
> 
> You could try this approach instead :
> put the long ID of group "MyGroupName" \
>     into vMyGroup
> go stack "Stack 2"
> clone vMyGroup
> -- after clone, 'it' points to the new group
> set the loc of group it to the pNewLoc \
>     of group it
> 
> Hope this helped,
> 
> Jan Schenkel.
> 
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> Rochefoucauld)
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