VERY IMPORTANT!
The printed manuals: 'Using Director' & 'Lingo Dictionary' didn't
change between d8.0 & d8.5.
The electronic Help got a ton of corrections and so is more definitive.
-Buzz
At 6:30 PM -0400 6/17/01, Colin Holgate wrote:
>>put sprite(1).member.line[1] --text member
>>--This is Line 1.
>>put "XX" after sprite(1).member.line[1]
>>Script Error: Wrong Type
>>
>>(In other words, the example in the article about "put... after" on
>>p. 403 of Lingo Dictionary produces an error when used with my text
>>member.)
>
>Are you sure that's what the help says? The online help doesn't, but
>you could be left thinking that your line should work. The help says
>that you can put after member.line[n], but you're trying to put
>after sprite(x).member.line[n], which is two references away. The
>put may be trying to evaluate something to do with the sprite.
>
>You can do what you want by making the reference clear, like this:
>
>put "XX" after (sprite(1).member).line[1]
>
>
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