At 11:06 AM -0500 6/12/02, you wrote: >At 10:39 -0500 06/12/2002, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Ok so I've got a few nested proplists where the property is spelled wrong. >>I can get the property via gAreas[1].getPropAt(1), but there's no >>setPropat? > >That's correct. It's a lack that I've felt a few times myself. To >work around it you basically have to rebuild the list with corrected >prop values. > >If you wanted to I suppose you could convert the list to a string, >then correct the spelling of the flooey term, then pass the list >through a value filter again. I don't know if that would be faster >or not but it might be the way I'd go about doing it.
at least an order of magnitude slower. please repeat after me ... "text conversion of lists is a very, very slow operation" Don't do it unless you really have to. There are several Xtras whose primary purpose is to avoid the sludge inherent in this operation. -Buzz > >BTW could you update your address book for this list? Your note went >to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;) > >-- > > Warren Ockrassa | http://www.nightwares.com/ > Director help | Free files | Sample chapters | Freelance | Consulting > Author | Director 8.5 Shockwave Studio: A Beginner's Guide > Published by Osborne/McGraw-Hill > http://shop.osborne.com/cgi-bin/osborne/0072195622.html >[To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go >to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the >list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email >[EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with >programming Lingo. Thanks!] [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]). Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]
