Grouping controls within a group

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Bjornke.

I'm nervous about putting a group into and out of edit mode by script
having had some bad experiences with it in the past. Seems like it puts the
stack into a weird and wonderful state where the controls outside of the
edited group no longer exist and any reference to a control that includes
the group name fails. Any script runtime errors stand a chance of
corrupting the stack.

However, your suggestion to lock the screen sounds like it would take care
of my concerns and I'd only be in group edit mode for a few milliseconds so
I'll give this a whirl.  It is less code than the other solutions and I
like that.

Pete
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On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 6:06 AM, Björnke von Gierke <bvg at mac.com> wrote:

> You can also use the "start / stop editing" command while locking the
> screen. Basic testing shows it that just messing with
> relayerGroupedControls doesn't help... Could be nice if that'd be possible.
> Until then, the following works:
>
> on mouseUp
>    lock screen
>    start editing group 1
>    group button 1 and button 2
>    stop editing
> end mouseUp
>
> On 27.02.2014, at 00:58, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a need to group controls within an existing group into a subgroup
> by
> > script, but I get a runtime error when trying to do that - in 6.5.2 the
> > message is "Object cannot be grouped".
> >
> > Any ideas on how to do that?  The only way I can think of is to ungroup
> the
> > main group, group the selected controls to form the subgroup, then group
> > the subgroup and the rest of the controls to reinstate the main group,
> but
> > that's pretty scary!
> >
> >
> > Pete
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