reference card in script by field value

[CAsba]

Hi,
I have a template card that script copies to become a new customer account card. The name of the new card is the customer code. I want to run a button on the new card from another card. I have tried

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send mouseup to btn "new" of cd fld "newcode" of this card

but it doesn't work.
I guess I could do it another way, but I think it would involve more mouse clicks and I want to keep it as user-friendly as possible.
Any ideas how to amend my code to facilitate the send mouseup message to a button on a newly created card whose name is not known (yet) by the system, except as the contents of the field 'newcode'.

[Klaus]

Hi CAsba,

always use quotes around the message(s) to send:

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send "mouseup" to ...

Put the content of the field into a variable first:

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...
put fld "newcode" into tTargetCard
send "mouseup" to btn "new" of cd tTargetCard
## No needd for "...of this cd" since LC always presumes that you mean the current card if nothing else is specified.
...

Best

Klaus

[CAsba]

Hi Klaus, Thanks for that.
Actually, I found another way,

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go to cd "CustomerAccountTemplate"
   clone this card
   set the name of cd "CustomerAccountTemplate" OF STACK "casba accounts - demo" to fld "newcode" of cd "enter new customer"
   send "mouseup" to btn "button1" 

and buuton1 - on the newly created card - does the business!

[Klaus]

OK, I had no idea what you wanted to achieve, good you got it working.

Useful hint:
You can directly assign a new name to the cloned object with:

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clone this cd AS "new card name here"

[CAsba]

Hi Klaus,
That's VERY useful. Many thanks !

[jacque]

When an object is created its id is placed in the "it" variable. So you could also do this :

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clone card x
set the name of it to <whatever>

Edit: Klaus' way is shorter.

[Klaus]

Je suis plus "lazy" que toi!

[CAsba]

Many thanks, Jacque