On 13/4/00 5:58 pm, Leston Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been looking at the readme file that comes with 2.3, specifically the
> new features and abilities to use and manipulate arrays.
>
> Can someone elaborate on these statements?
>
> (1) You can get and set an array including all of the important properties
> set on an object with the "properties" property.
>
> How do you do this? When I ask for the "properties" of the stack, I get
> empty. Am I interpreting this correctly?
You need to place them into an array:
put the properties of this stack into tMyArray
Or:
put the customProperties of this stack into tMyOtherArray
> (2) You can also now pass a variable name where a standard or custom property
> name would normally go in an expression.
>
> Does this mean that you could say something like:
>
> local propName
> local propVal
> put "myCustomProp" into propName
> put the propName of myObject into propVal
>
> rather than using the "do" command, as in
>
> do "put the"&&&"of my Object into propVal"
Yes.
Regards,
Kevin
> ???
>
> TIA
>
> Leston Drake
> LetterPress Software, Inc.
> http://www.lpsoftware.com
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