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[Klaus]

Hi jwtea,

Hello Klaus , thanks for your help! Now my group got each and special unique name.

great!

But i still can't get this to work after typing the code provided by Craig. Any idea why??

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on mouseUp
put word 2 of the short name of the target into tNumber
put field "uniqueNumberField" && tNumber into field "holding field"
end mouseUp

So far you only renamed your GROUPS but not the object inside of it, right?

You should check "the short name of the owner of the target".
If it begins with "userbox" then extract word 2 of it and you have the number you want.

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on mouseUp
   put the short name of the owner of the target into tGoup
   if word 1 of tGroup = "userbox" then
     put word 2 of tGroup into THE_DESIRED_NUMBER
     ## now do whatever you have to do with THE_DESIRED_NUMBER :-)
   end if
end mouseUp

Hope I understood you correctly!


Best

Klaus

[jacque]

I think in this case it would be cleaner to just set a custom property on each group and retrieve that as needed. That way the names of the controls don't matter. But maybe custom properties aren't the easiest to understand for new users.

[jmburnod]

maybe custom properties aren't the easiest to understand for new users.

yes and discover custom properties in same time.
Jean-Marc

[jacque]

Well, just in case the OP wants a challenge, the handler could do this:

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...
 if tArray["users"][myID1]["email"] is not empty then
    ## copy group "usersbox"
    ## paste group
    clone group "usersbox"
    set the cNum of IT to myVar
    move it to myPosition1 , myPosition2 in timing second
...

And then whenever the number is required:

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put the cNum of the owner of the target into tNum -- and do whatever you need with the tNum variable

[jwtea]

Hello Klaus, thanks for your time

You should check "the short name of the owner of the target".
If it begins with "userbox" then extract word 2 of it and you have the number you want.

After typing your code, the function can't seem to work ~ ~
There is no value display in my field.

What i want is if i click on any of the group , one of the value inside the group will be display into my field.

[jmburnod]

Hi
What do you get when you insert this line in your script

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Answer the short name of the owner of the target

Best regards
Jean-Marc

[jwtea]

Hello all!

Thanks for all your responsive help! What i did, i just took all of the solution provided to me and modify some of the code to make the desired outcome i want!!

Very grateful for the Livecode Community