How to keep track of grouped objects?

[Eric]

Is there any way I can tell what - if any - named group(s) a particular object/control is a member of?

Or, to use an alternative approach, is there any way I can list the member objects of a particular group?

[Dixie]

Hi Eric...

You can try this...

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   repeat with count = 1 to the number of controls of group 1
      put the long name of control count of group 1 & cr after theList
   end repeat
   
   put theList

be well

Dixie

[Klaus]

Hi Eric,

you could use a repeat loop like this to get a list of all elements of a group:

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...
repeat with i = 1 to the num of controls of grp "Your named group here"
   put the name of control i of grp "Your named group here" & CR after tGroupList
end repeat
delete char -1 of tGroupList
## Get rid of trailing CR
...

This will give you a list like this, the first "word" is the TYPE of control, the second "word" = the short name of that element in quotes:
field "Name of field"
button "my button"
etc...

Hope that helps


Best

Klaus

[Curry]

also see: owner

[Mark]

Hi Eric,

You might like the scripts.

put the objects of grp x
get the objects of stack y

Best,

Mark

[Eric]

Thanks, guys.

All great solutions.

I think "the owner of" was the most ideal for my purposes.
That said, it didn't work perfectly with my nested groups. Strangely, the top group was acknowledged by just one of its two subgroups, and ignored by the other (which instead identified the current card as its owner) - perhaps because the top group is set as a background?


put the objects of grp "Background" produced an odd result.
It didn't trigger any error - but always returned empty!

[Mark]

Eric,

You need to copy those scripts from the website into your mainstack/library stack/backscript.

Mark

[Curry]

You're welcome! Owner is pretty handy and you can also get the owner of the owner of, etc.

[Eric]

Oh, I see.

Got it.

Thanks, Mark.