Finding owner of a button

[kaveh1000]

I have two buttons in a group. My script in one of the buttons says:

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on mouseup
   if the owner of the target is group "mine" then answer "yes"
end mouseup

But I get the following error when I click:

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button "Button": execution error at line 2 (Chunk: source is not a container), char 1

Any ideas pls?

[SparkOut]

If you "put the owner of the target" you will see that it returns the string literal:

group "mine"

When it comes to your comparison, the string literal needs to be quoted. So you would need to check thus:

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if the owner of the target is "group" && quote & "mine" & quote then answer "yes"

You could make this neater by putting "the owner" into a variable and parsing with maybe "contains" or some such, but your problem is the comparison against the "owner of the target" that returns a string literal which contains quotes, so you need to work around that in some way.

[kaveh1000]

Thank you so much @SparkOut. That gave me the hint, so the following now works:

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on mouseup
   put the owner of the target into the_owner
   delete char 1 to offset(quote, the_owner) of the_owner
   delete char -1 of the_owner
   if the short name of the owner of the target is the_owner then
         answer "yes"
   end if
end mouseup

I tried using replacetext() but I can't escape the quote mark!

[bogs]

Escaping the quote marks is this part of the code from above -

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 quote & "mine" & quote 

As far as I could see, it should work out flawlessly?

[jmburnod]

Hi All,
why not use the short name of the owner ?

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   if  the short name of the owner of the target = "mine" then answer "yes" 

works for me
Is there something i dont understand ?
Best regards
Jean-Marc

[kaveh1000]

Thanks Jean-Marc. So obvious in hindsight! Thank you. I am not as clever as I thought.

[jmburnod]

I am not as clever as I thought

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