Error : Object cannot be grouped

[CAsba]

Hi,
I'm working on the title of ask and answer presentations. It will show 'CAsba', at the begining of the line, and the business name at the end of the line.
To do this I have two fields, identical properties except length and text left on one and text right on the other.
The code:

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on mouseup
   put "CAsba" into field compnamex3 of cd "business departments"
   if there is group "compnamex15" of cd "business departments" then
   ungroup group "compnamex15"      
   end if
   group field "compnamex3" of cd "business departments" and field "compnamex4" of cd "business departments"
   set the name of it to "compnamex15" of cd "business departments"
   put group "compnamex15" of cd "business departments" into field "fieldboxtitle" of cd template1
   end mouseup

The field 'fieldboxtitle' would then be added to the ask/answer code line.
I get the error message at the 5th line. Beats me..

[richmond62]

Nothing that I can see, I'm afraid:
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[richmond62]

Oh, wait a minute . . .

How do you expect to put a group into a text field?

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put group "compnamex15" of cd "business departments" into field "fieldboxtitle" of cd template1

That just does not make sense at all.

[Klaus]

Is the button with that "mouseup" script on card "business departments"?
What is in group "compnamex15"?
Why do you UNGROUP it first?

And what Richmond said!

[stam]

As others have said, the code you posted doesn't make much sense.
Rather than code, can you post what you're trying to achieve? (with as much detail as possible as it's often the case that what is being asked can be perceived quite something when detail is lacking...). Then people can try to help...
S.

[dunbarx]

CAsba.

There is, however, something to learn here. Fields are containers and contain only text. You cannot put an object into a field.

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put group 1 into fld 1

Because only a container (a reserved LC name) can go into a container.

But you can put the contents of an object into a field:

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on mouseUp
  put "XYZ" into btn 1
  put btn 1 into fld 1
end mouseUp

Because a button is a container. This goes way back to HC.

Craig

[mwieder]

Based on your original post

I'm working on the title of ask and answer presentations. It will show 'CAsba', at the begining of the line, and the business name at the end of the line.

I think what you want is more like

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on mouseUp
put field "compnamex3" of cd "business departments" && field "compnamex4" of cd "business departments" into field "fieldboxtitle" of cd template1
end mouseUp

[CAsba]

Thank you guys, I didn't know that groups can't be put into fields. I appreciate your responses very much.

[dunbarx]

CAsba.

I didn't know that groups can't be put into fields.

Assume for a moment you could. What would that look like? Could you put a card or stack into a field? A banana?

Craig

[mwieder]

Craig- if you think of a group not as a group of controls but as a group of texts contained in the aggregated controls then it does make sense.

[dunbarx]

Mark.

Hmmm. I suppose one could think of a group as anything at all. But in instructing a new user I wanted to make a clear distinction between the nature of a source container and the nature of a destination container. And what a container is and needs to be in the first place.

Hence the banana.

Craig

[jacque]

I can see how it would be confusing because if you say "put fld 1" you get the text of the field. You don't have to specify "the text of fld 1". It's a shortcut that goes back to HC. So why couldn't you say "put grp 1" and get the text?

We take a lot for granted when things become habitual.

[dunbarx]

Jacque.

So why couldn't you say "put grp 1" and get the text?

Because group 1 might consist of two images, a scrollbar and a line graphic?

Craig

[jacque]

If the syntax were consistent we'd probably get the binary representation.

[dunbarx]

I have rarely had consistent syntax. In fact, I rarely have syntax at all.

Craig