referring to a script's object

[monki]

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on mouseEnter
   put long ID of this field into tfieldID
   put tfieldID into positonFld
end mouseEnter

This code fails with a " field "txtPreviewFld": execution error at line 2 (Chunk: no such object), char 16 " error.

Any idea what the problem could be? Does "this" only work with cards and stacks?

[jmburnod]

Hi Monki,

Use "the target" instead "this fld" and it work

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on mouseEnter
   put long ID of the target into tfieldID
   put tfieldID into positonFld
end mouseEnter

Best regards

Jean-Marc

[sturgis]

If you have a script in an object itself (rather than in a card or stack) you can use the "me" keyword also.

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on mouseEnter
put the long id of me into tFieldID
put tFieldID into positionFld
end mouseEnter

Of course there are more useful examples of "me" like having a button set its own label, or a field setting its own contents or whatever.

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set the label of me to "myNewLable"

Hi Monki,

Use "the target" instead "this fld" and it work

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on mouseEnter
   put long ID of the target into tfieldID
   put tfieldID into positonFld
end mouseEnter

Best regards

Jean-Marc

[monki]

Thanks for the help guys.

"me" worked sturgis. I though thought I tried that word, but I must have worded something wrong.

I thought that the "me" keyword was originally part of hyperTalk and searched for it in the livecode dictionary, but the search didn't turned up anything. So after reading your post, I manually scrolled the dictionary list and found it that way.

Oh well.

Thanks for the help

[jmburnod]

Hi,

It seem the target is better than me

for a btn:
put me = cd id 1002
put the long id of me = card id 1002 of stack...
put the backgroundcolor of me = empty

Best regards

Jean-Marc