A nasty experience with "the currentcard"

[Geoff Canyon]

Thanks, I figured that out. It was only annoying because I was working on a
stack named with a "rev" prefix, so no error messages were being thrown.

On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 1:44 AM, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:

> Try "current card" instead.
>
>    go to current card of stack "x"
>    put the customProperties["myData"] of current card of stack "x" into
>    tMyPropsA
>    etc.
>
> It works.
>
> Phil Davis
>
>
>
> On 2/20/15 9:36 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
>
>> It seems currentcard is undocumented. I don't even know where I came up
>> with it. But it works in general:
>>
>>      put the long id of  the currentcard of the topstack
>>
>> works fine in the message box. It also works in the script of a button --
>> generally. As it turns out, the above will give an error *if* the button
>> is
>> in a palette stack, but not if it's in a toplevel stack. (at least in
>> 6.7.1
>> on a mac) I can't really call it a bug since "currentcard" isn't in the
>> dictionary. But it just cost me two hours of my life, so this my primitive
>> yawp of frustration.
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