Dear list my hair lays around my ankles:
 in essence how do I use a variable name to refer to an individual list??
 I Declare a bunch of property lists thus:

set obstacle3=[:]

setaprop obstacle3,#Lname,"3g"

setaprop obstacle3,#lstat,"good"

setaprop obstacle3,#Ltime,40

setaprop obstacle3,#badh,367

setaprop obstacle3,#badv,145

setaprop obstacle3,#goodh,571

setaprop obstacle3,#goodv,181

they are obstacle 1 to obstacle 23

at another point in the movie, I need to test the lstat variable of each
list and act accordingly in positing the corresponding sprite on the screen
(obstacle 1 and obstacle 2 are not processes,there is an offset of 6 between
the sprite number and the obstacle number).

repeat with i= 3 to 26

objstatus=""

droppername="obstacle"&string (i)



objstatus= getaprop(droppername,#lstat)

if objstatus="good" then

sprite(i+6).locv=droppername.goodv

sprite(i+6).loch=droppername.goodh

else

sprite(i+6).locv=droppername.badv

sprite(i+6).loch=droppername.badh

end if

end repeat

Director throws a blue fit each time a try to use the variable dropper name
to refer to a list name.



I am at my wits end,which shows how few there are of those :)

best wishes from wobbly in Eastbourne E. Sussex






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