The "last" group

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Scott, that works great.

FWIW, I think I figured out why this happens.  I believe "last" in this
context refers to the group with the highest layer number.  When I create
the outer group, all the groups within it have to be relayered to have a
higher layer number than the outer group, qed.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:

> One workaround is to set the name of the templateGroup before creating a
> new group.  This allows you to refer to the group by a custom name after it
> is created, since "last" may not always be last.
>
> Regards,
>
> Scott Rossi
> Creative Director
> Tactile Media, UX Design
>
> On Apr 13, 2013, at 1:15 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> > I think I ran into this a couple of years back but don't remember what
> the
> > workaround is.
> >
> > In some cases,, "the last group" does not return a reference to the last
> > group created.  I'm not sure of all the circumstances that cause this but
> > here's my situation.
> >
> > My script creates several groups, let's call them grp1, grp2,grp3, and
> > after creating them, uses a group command to group all those groups into
> > one outer group.  After the group command, I "set the name of the last
> > group to "grpA".  The group that gets renamed is not the outer group but
> > grp3.
> >
> > The group command, unlike just about any other command that creates an
> > object does not return an ID in "it" so I have to use "the last group"
> > construct, as recommended in the dictionary actually.
> >
> > I guess I will have to search through the groups and find the one with
> the
> > highest ID to identify the outer group but before I do that, any ideas
> > about how else to do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> >
> > Pete
> > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
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