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Re: Select Group
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 11:32 am
by Klaus
Hi jwtea,
jwtea wrote: Fri May 04, 2018 11:24 amHello Klaus , thanks for your help! Now my group got each and special unique name.
great!
jwtea wrote: Fri May 04, 2018 11:24 am
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
Re: Select Group
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 6:25 pm
by 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.
Re: Select Group
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 6:48 pm
by jmburnod
maybe custom properties aren't the easiest to understand for new users.
yes and discover custom properties in same time.
Jean-Marc
Re: Select Group
Posted: Fri May 04, 2018 8:51 pm
by 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
Re: Select Group
Posted: Mon May 07, 2018 2:33 am
by jwtea
Hello Klaus, thanks for your time
Klaus wrote: Fri May 04, 2018 11:32 am
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.
Re: Select Group
Posted: Mon May 07, 2018 10:26 am
by 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
Re: Select Group
Posted: Tue May 08, 2018 1:47 am
by 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