Display Box: Level?

hogi

Is the a command to get the level/depth (?) of a Display Box, i.e. the number ot parents to get to the top parent?

jthi

Based on the scripting index the purpose of << Get Display Path isn't to provide you with a full path but rather "robust" expression (robust path).

XPath or recursive function might be be fairly easy to implement (no idea if this will always work, some platforms in JMP can be quite complicated and some elements might not be captured)

Names Default To Here(1);

nw = New Window("test", // 6
	Panel Box("1", // 5
		Panel Box("2", // 4
			Panel Box("3", // 3
				H List Box( // 2
					Spacer Box(100),
					Text Box("4"),
					V List Box( // 1
						Text Box("5"), 
						Spacer Box(Size(100, 100)), 
						tb = Text Box("6") // 0
					)
				)
			)
		)
	)
);

get_parents = function({elem, idx = 0}, 
	next_elem = elem << parent;
	If(Is Empty(next_elem),
		return(idx);
	);
	idx++;
	show(next_elem << class name);
	get_parents(next_elem, idx);
);

show(get_parents(tb)); // has also the headbox
parent_count = N Items(nw << XPath("//TextBox[text() = '6']/ancestor::*"));