determine the current card of another stack

[Martin Koob]

Is there a way to determine the current card of another stack?

current card returns the name of the current card of the current stack.

If you have two stacks open, the main stack and a substack can you determine from the main stack what the current card of the substack is?

I know this does not work

the current card of stack "my substack"

Martin

[bn]

Hi Martin,

try

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put the name of the current card of  stack "mySubStack"

will put the name of the current card of your substack into the message box

Kind regards

Bernd

[Klaus]

Hi Martin,

you can also set "the defaultstack" (maybe not so helpful in this example, but anyway):
...
set the defaultstack to "name of other stack, which is currently not the topstack"
put the name of THIS cd into tCardName
set the defaultstack to "THIS STACK"
## now continue to work on in THIS stack...
...
You get the picture


Best

Klaus

[Martin Koob]

Thanks Bernd and Klaus.

Setting the defaultStack is something I did not realize you could do. Interesting.

Martin

[jacque]

Try currentCard (one word. )

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get the currentCard of stack "other stack" 

[Martin Koob]

Thanks Jacque.

That works too.

Oddly, I couldn't find currentCard in the dictionary. Then I found someone had posted a documentation bug

http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14651

I also found that someone had problem with using currentCard in some situations.

http://www.runrev.com/pipermail/use-liv ... 11584.html


Martin

[FourthWorld]

Try currentCard (one word. )]

I'm so used to camelCase portmonteaus in xTalks that I often find myself typing "the detailedFiles". There's probably a rule that would allow us to anticipate when a function is a single- or double-word expression, but it's probably a bit linguistically Chomsky for me to grasp. My simple mind just wishes it would be one way or the other.