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How to check "if the target is a button" ?
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:00 pm
by sritcp
Is there a way to check the type of object that was clicked on?
I see that "is" and "is among" works only with number, words, etc.
Regards,
Sri
Re: How to check "if the target is a button" ?
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:36 pm
by [-hh]
Re: How to check "if the target is a button" ?
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 8:40 pm
by sritcp
Of course, Hermann!
I'd used "the short name of the target" in my script, so "button" was not available to me! (forehead-slap)
Thanks!
Sri
Re: How to check "if the target is a button" ?
Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 9:38 pm
by bogs
And of course there are lots of variations, like
etc.
Re: How to check "if the target is a button" ?
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:01 pm
by dunbarx
Academic at this point, but just to close your original idea:
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answer word 1 of the long name of the target
Craig
Re: How to check "if the target is a button" ?
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 2:16 pm
by richmond62
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stuck this in the cardScript:
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on mouseUp
put word 1 of the target
end mouseUp
Re: How to check "if the target is a button" ?
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 6:43 pm
by FourthWorld
Anyone know offhand whether both "the target" and "the name of the object" are affected by background buttons or card fields when the stack's hcAddressing property is set to true?
Sure, it's an edge case, and since that property was really only useful for HC ports it probably hasn't mattered in more than a decade. But for the sake of thoroughness it may be good to know.
Re: How to check "if the target is a button" ?
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 7:51 pm
by dunbarx
Never played with this before but a couple of things:
1- Cmd-D will not duplicate an object if the hcAdressing is "true"
2- Not a surprise, but one cannot group objects if "true". I did not know that hcAdressing limited a stack in the same way a HC stack would be. There must be many other similar restrictions...
3- As to the target and the name of, say, a backGround button, (that is, a button which is a child of a bg group) if hcAdressing is false:
if true:
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bkgnd button "Button"
bkgnd button "Button"
Craig
Re: How to check "if the target is a button" ?
Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 8:14 pm
by FourthWorld
Thanks, Craig.
So if we were to write a function taking hcAddressing into account, it might be something like this (off the cuff, test before using):
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function ObjectType pObj
-- Check if valid object reference:
if there is not a pObj then return empty
-- Get stack name:
put the long id of pObj into tStack
put offset(" of stack ", pObj) into tOffset
delete char 1 to (tOffset+3) of tStack
-- Return value according to hcAddressing:
if the hcAddressing of stack tStack is true then
return word 2 of the name of pObj
else
return word 1 of the name of pObj
end if
end ObjectType