Group command syntax

[Mike Bonner]

If you want to avoid the "do" you can just build the list

put the name of button "a" & " and " & the name of button "b" into
tReferences

group tReferences

Though if you know that you're going to group button "a" and button "b"
doing group button "a" and button "b" is the better way, so I'm assuming
you are looping through stuff.

Maybe something like this..

repeat block goes here
clone whatever
put the long id of the last object & " and " after tmyList
end repeat
delete the last word of myList -- remove the extraneous and
group tMyList


The same method works for selecting...

select tMyList





On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Paul Hibbert <lc at pbh.on-rev.com> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> The dictionary states…
>
> Parameters:
>    The objectList is a list of object references, separated by the word
> "and".
>
> I'm not saying it's the correct way, but if you need to build the group
> command via script, this does work…
>
>    put "group" && the name of button "a" && "and" && the name of button
> "b" into xx
>    do xx
>
> HTH
>
> Paul
>
>
> On 2013-04-19, at 3:04 PM, Michael Doub wrote:
>
> > I feel a bit foolish asking this but I can not figure out the syntax for
> the group command.
> >
> > I am trying to clone a bunch of objects, align them property and then
> group them so I can build a scrolling group.
> >
> > group button "a" and button "b"   -- works fine
> >
> >   put the name of button "a" && return && the name of button "b"into xx
> >   group xx  --- does not work
> >
> > the dictionary says    group [objectList]
> >
> > what is the syntax for an objectList?
> >
> > -= Mike
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