When me is not me

[Ali Lloyd]

It certainly sounds like it to me...

On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 at 17:05, Brian Milby <brian at milby7.com> wrote:

> Ali, he was doing the former. So could this actually be a bug?
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 6:17 AM Ali Lloyd via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
>> In theory that shouldn't be the problem - `the <property> of me` should
>> short-circuit to directly evaluating the property of the object with the
>> behavior, rather than evaluating `me` as a name first. This is why `put
>> the
>> long id of me into tID` also works.
>>
>> Peter, in your original script are you doing
>>  set the hilitedButton of me to tNum
>> directly, or
>> local tMe
>> put me into tMe
>> set the hilitedButton of tMe to tNum
>> ?
>>
>> The latter will have the 'not on the current card' problem, whereas the
>> former should (in theory) not.
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 2:41 AM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> > I think I know what is going on.  If you add a couple of put statements
>> to
>> > that script you will find that "me" by itself doesn't include the card
>> or
>> > stack.  So "put me" would give something like [group "Language Choice"]
>> > which isn't specific enough from another card.  This works:
>> >
>> > local tID
>> > put the long id of me into tID
>> > set the hilitedButton of tID to tNum
>> >
>> > But it can be simpler:
>> >
>> > set the hilitedButton of the long id of me to tNum
>> >
>> > I didn't do it from an openStack script, but from the message box while
>> on
>> > another card.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Brian
>> >
>> > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 8:10 PM Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <
>> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > > Yes, it works great if you are on the card, not if you are somewhere
>> > else.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > > On Mar 9, 2018, at 6:03 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode <
>> > > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > > Nevermind. Another card. DOH
>> > > >
>> > > > On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:59 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> > > >
>> > > >> What version?  Its working for me in 9 dp11 by using either
>> dispatch
>> > or
>> > > >> send to the group.
>> > > >>
>> > > >> In the group:
>> > > >> command doit pbtn
>> > > >>   set the hilitedbutton of me to pbtn
>> > > >> end doit
>> > > >>
>> > > >> And from the message box..
>> > > >>
>> > > >> send ("doit" && 2) to group 1
>> > > >> or
>> > > >> dispatch "doit" to group 1 with 3
>> > > >>
>> > > >>
>> > > >> On Fri, Mar 9, 2018 at 6:23 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode <
>> > > >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> > > >>
>> > > >>> I learned something today.
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> I was trying by script to set the hilite of a radio button in a
>> group
>> > > on
>> > > >>> another card.
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> My script is in the group “Language Choice” which is called by
>> > > openStack.
>> > > >>> I’m thinking that “me” would operate on the group:
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>>        set the hilitedButton of me to tNum
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> Didn’t work, even though the script received the message and
>> > completed.
>> > > >>> The radio buttons were unchanged. I modified it to this, which
>> > worked:
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>>        set the hilitedButton of group "Language Choice" of card
>> > > >>> "Settings" to tNum
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> I can only think that, a group, even though it is on a single card
>> > and
>> > > >>> does not have its backgroundBehavior set to true, must be
>> referred to
>> > > >>> explicitly by the name of the group and the name of the card is
>> > > resides in.
>> > > >>> Or maybe it’s because the individual buttons didn't have
>> sharedHilite
>> > > set
>> > > >>> to true.
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>> Peter Bogdanoff
>> > > >>> ArtsInteractive
>> > > >>>
>> > > >>>
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