A nasty experience with "the currentcard"

[J. Landman Gay]

It was in one of the release notes many versions ago. I actually used it in a project once. You can set the currentcard of another stack without having to "go" there, which is handy for some situations. 

On February 21, 2015 1:59:08 AM CST, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com> wrote:
>I don't remember -- it could just be that I was going for "current
>card"
>and forgot the space. The script editor colors "currentcard" the same
>as
>terms like long id, while it colors "current card" like keywords like
>"stack"
>
>For me, LC 6.7.1 on a Mac (most recent OS):
>
>toplevel:
>
>   put the long id of the current card of the topstack -- works
>   put the long id of the currentcard of the topstack -- works
>
>palette:
>
>   put the long id of the current card of the topstack -- works
>   put the long id of the currentcard of the topstack -- error:
>
>button "Button": execution error at line n/a (Chunk: can't find card),
>char
>1
>
>And of course I was working on Navigator, stack name revNavigator, so
>no
>error messages were thrown. It would be nice if there were a simple way
>to
>change the name of a stack, and all the behaviors that reference
>buttons in
>that stack.
>
>On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 1:39 AM, Richard Gaskin
><ambassador at fourthworld.com>
>wrote:
>
>> Geoff Canyon wrote:
>>
>> > It seems currentcard is undocumented. I don't even know where I
>> > came up with it. But it works in general:
>> >
>> >     put the long id of  the currentcard of the topstack
>> >
>> > works fine in the message box. It also works in the script of
>> > a button -- generally. As it turns out, the above will give an
>> > error *if* the button is in a palette stack, but not if it's
>> > in a toplevel stack. (at least in 6.7.1 on a mac) I can't really
>> > call it a bug since "currentcard" isn't in the dictionary. But
>> > it just cost me two hours of my life, so this my primitive
>> > yawp of frustration.
>>
>> I didn't know about "currentCard" so I just tried it - made a two
>stacks,
>> the first opens the second as a palette, and the second has the
>statement
>> shown above in a button's mouseUp handler.  Works as expected.
>>
>> Also works with "this card".
>>
>> LC 6.7.2, Ubuntu 14.04
>>
>> If "currentCard" is undocumented what prompted you to try it?
>>
>> Does it work with "this card"?
>>
>> --
>>  Richard Gaskin
>>  Fourth World Systems
>>  Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web
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