Challenge: how to set the text of a field

[David Bovill]

No joy with the owner - it's a fundamental issue of a reference to the
field / group / target - the owner and all references I know of return the
value associated with the current card not the value of the actual card the
target is on. I view this (and always have as a quite serious bug) - I'm
just checking if anyone knows a way around this (I've never found one). It
only really becomes an issue when you are developing re-useable components
with behaviors - and want to give other authors a good syntax to be able to
interact with them.

For these purposes I've been using a real pig of a handler - and I find I
use it very often:

put the card_Object of the target into cardObject

as far as I know there is no way of finding out the card a control is on
(if it is not the current card) without parsing the long id of the target
and well this is both a pain and slow, and sometimes gives an error - ie
when you get ruggedIDs returned - which lack the card part - and well
sometimes will not convert back to the long id reliably.

No fixes out there?

On 29 March 2013 19:42, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:

> On 3/29/13 2:30 PM, David Bovill wrote:
>
>  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?
>>
>
> Does it have to be a background group? If you make it a shared card group
> then you can get "the owner of me", which will be the card.
>
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