Find out where a command is triggered from

[mrcoollion]

Hello LC friends,

I might have a bit of a challenge on my hands I hope someone can help me with.

I have moved many commands to SubStacks to have less code in cards that became slow during typing code.
In those stacks, there are

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Put into fld "xyz" of grp "ABC"

statements. Group; ABC is a shared group with behave like background to true .
Because I moved this code to a substack it cannot find field fld "xyz" of grp "ABC" anymore.
I would like to find out from where the command in which this statement is housed is called from so I can use this for refering to the correct card and stack.
Is this possible? Is there a statement I can use to find out where the command was called from?

Kind regards,

Paul

[Klaus]

Dag Paul,

GROUPS are counted (and looked for) realtive to the current card, BACKGROUNDS relative to the stack.
So make sure all of your groups have unique names, then you can:

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...
put "whatever" into fld "xyz" of BG "ABC"
## BG = abbreviation for background, you guessed :-)
...

without any error.

Best

Klaus

[Klaus]

GROUPS are counted (and looked for) realtive to the current card, BACKGROUNDS

Here an example to make this a bit clearer:

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put the num of groups
## Will return the number of groups on the current card

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put the number of backgrounds
## Will return the number of all groups in the current stack, 
## no matter if these groups have "backgroundbehavior" set or not!

[mrcoollion]

Thanks for the hint Klaus.

I solved it with the following code.

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   put the mainstack of this stack into tMainStack
   put "123" into fld "xyx" of grp "ABC" of stack tMainStack // BotMessages

This seems to work.
Thanks for taking the time

[Klaus]

I highly recommend to also add the CARD descriptor to be on the safe side!
I guess your mainstack only has one card, right?

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put the mainstack of this stack into tMainStack
put "123" into fld "xyx" of grp "ABC" of CD 1 of stack tMainStack // BotMessages

[rkriesel]

...
I would like to find out from where the command in which this statement is housed is called from so I can use this for refering to the correct card and stack.
Is this possible? Is there a statement I can use to find out where the command was called from?
...

Hi, Paul.
Yes: see "executionContexts" in the dictionary.
-- Dick

[mrcoollion]

Thanks,

Great suggestion. Although it is text one can get the button and card id and the stack from which the request for the command has originated from.

Thanks again Dick and Klaus.

[SparkOut]

It also depends on your stack structure and calling methodology but you might find "the target" provides useful information.

[PaulDaMacMan]

You might also use the long form of 'owner' property of objects.

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 put the long owner of me  

put into the message box yields path to the revMenuBar stack.

[mrcoollion]

Thanks all !
For learning me some new LC stuff.
Used the below statements to get the information i was looking for.

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   put the mainstack of this stack into tMainStackName
   put the id of recent card into tRecentCardID
   put the first line of the recentNames of stack tMainStackName into tRecentCardName

Thanks again and have a LC great day.

Paul