Grouping question

Marty Knapp martyknappster at gmail.com
Thu Mar 21 17:01:57 EDT 2013


Hey Pete,
Why not create an image in the group you want, then use the "put URL" 
method:

create image in group "GroupName" of stack "StackName"
put it into tImageID --long id of image
put URL (binfile:" & tPathToImage) into image tImageID of group 
"GroupName" of stack "StackName"


Marty Knapp
> I want to use the import command in a script to import an image from a file
> of the user's choice.  The catch is that I want the resulting image to end
> up in a group and, unlike the create command, the import command doesn't
> have a way to specify a group.
>
> In the past when I've run into this, I get the ids of the group's controls,
> ungroup the group, add the id of the new image to the list of group
> controls, then group them, or copy the control into the group and delete
> the original control.
>
> Both those methods seem somewhat clumsy so I'm wondering if there's a more
> elegant way to do this.
>
> Pete
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