formattedtext and formattedrect in a substack

[Michael Doub]

I think I found the answer to my question.... set the defaultstack

put the short name of this stack into temp
go invisible stack "B"
set the defaultstack to temp
put "Hello world" into fld 1 of cd 1 of stack "B"  -- works as expected
put the formattedrect of line 1 of fld 1 of cd 1  of stack "B" & cr 
after msg
answer the hilite of btn 1

This seems to work.   Is it the correct solution to this problem?

-= Mike



On 2/11/16 4:04 PM, Michael Doub wrote:
> I recently discovered an interesting bug: 
> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16881
>
> formattedrec and formattedtext do not work properly it their target is 
> in a stack that has not been opened.
> So if you have a main stack A with a checkbox on the cd 1 and stack B 
> is a substack of stack A with fld 1 on its first card. Execute the 
> following code in the stack script of stack A:
>
> open a fresh copy of livecode, and open stack A
> execute the following:
> put "Hello world" into fld 1 of cd 1 of stack "B"  - works as expected
> get the formattedrect of line 1 of fld 1 of cd 1 of stack "B" - fails 
> and returns 0,0,0,0 <======
> answer the hilite of btn 1
>
> As long a stack B has not been opened you will get bad results.
>
> Now open substack B and close it.
> execute the following again...
> put "Hello world" into fld 1 of cd 1 of stack "B"  - works as expected
> get the formattedrect of line 1 of fld 1 of cd 1 of stack "B" - 
> returns 58,42,114,56
> answer the hilite of btn 1
>
> So now open a fresh copy and livecode and open stack A
> now execute the followng:
>
> go invisible to stack "B"
> put "Hello world" into fld 1 of cd 1 of stack "B"  - works as expected
> get the formattedrect of line 1 of fld 1 of cd 1 of stack "B" - fails 
> and returns 58,42,114,56
> answer the hilite of btn 1 <==== gets a runtime error here because 
> there is no bnt 1 on cd 1 of stack "B"
>
> So, how do you get the context set back to stack A?
>
> Regards,
>   Mike
>
>