Challenge: how to set the text of a field

[David Bovill]

OK - let's be more descriptive - this card and the current card won't work.
Let's picture an application - say it's a keynote style presentation stack
- and we are creating background groups that a user can place in the
presentation. Say the presentation has 10 cards and all of them happen to
use the shared background group "Title and Text".

Now as an author of these background groups I want to give them nice easy
custom properties - so that anyone can script them easily - one of these
properties is "title_Text" - as most groups have a title. I want end users
to be able to do things like:

put the title_Text of group 1 of card 2 into secondTitle
>

or if I want a user want to create and index with a script:

repeat with cardNum = 1 to the number of cards
> put the title_Text of group 1 of card cardNum & CR after myIndex
> end repeat
>

So how can I write a handler to retrun the text of a background group on a
card other than the current card? The only way I know of is to do some ugly
manual parsing of the long id of the target, and so extract the card id and
construct a reference that way - very ugly and in other contexts error
prone. What we need is something equivalent to:

put the card of the target
put the number of the card of the target

Any other way of doing this simple task?


On 29 March 2013 19:17, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 3/29/13 1:44 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
>> David Bovill <david at ...> writes:
>>
>>
>>> That is the issue - there is no "easy" way of finding out the value of
>>> <integer> from within the behavior. There is a way - but it is both
>>> unreliable and very ugly. Wandering if anyone has a simple reliable
>>> technique I've missed?
>>>
>>
>> the currentcard of this stack
>>
>>
> Or even just "this card". That assumes the card whose data he wants really
> *is* the current card though. I'm not clear about that.
>
>
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