palette question

[Richard Gaskin]

Rich Lague wrote:
> If I run the following script from a button that is on the stack I'm  
> working with it works. However, if I try to run it from a button on a  
> palette it does not work. The stack I'm trying to work on is the  
> topstack, right under the palette.
> 
> Why?
> ---------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> on mouseUp
>   set the name of this card to the selectedText
>   put the selectedText into field "resultFld"
> end mouseUp

Since the script is in the palette, "this card" refers to the card in 
the palette.  You can shift the focus to the topstack using the 
defaultStack, which governs how relative object references are 
interepreted by default:

on mouseUp
   set the defaultStack to the topStack
   set the name of this cd to the selectedText
   put the selectedText into fld "resultFld"
end mouseUp


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