Getting a list of groups on a card

[Peter Haworth]

That's basically what I'm doing, just checking there wasn't some other property or perhaps a syntax like "the groupNames of group "xyz", but seems not.

Pete Haworth

On Feb 26, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:

> I put this in a button and it seemed to do pretty well. Is there any reason
> to NOT do this with try/catch and toss the error?
> 
> *on mouseUp*
> *   put 1 into i*
> *   repeat until tDone*
> *      wait 100 milliseconds with messages*
> *      try *
> *         put the long id of group i & return after tGroups*
> *         add 1 to i*
> *      catch tErr*
> *-- ignore tErr*
> *         put true into tDone*
> *      end try*
> *   end repeat*
> *   put tGroups*
> *end mouseUp*
> 
> On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 12:33 PM, J. Landman Gay
> <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> 
>> On 2/25/11 8:50 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>> 
>>> The groupnames and groupids properties of a card only report the top
>>> level groups.  Other than iterating through all the controls on a
>>> card, is there a way to get a list of the gorup names and/or IDs that
>>> are in the top level groups?
>>> 
>> 
>> I don't think so. The closest I could get was:
>> 
>> put the number of groups of group 1
>> 
>> That gives a number, and you could iterate through those to get names.
>> 
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
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