Hi David,

MC 2.5's help stack says that "when you set an object's property from within a setprop handler, setprop messages are not sent." Is this true?

Here's my handler:

setProp beenChanged whether
  put the short date  into fld 3
###set the beenChanged of this stack to whether -- (without this, the setProp handler intercepts the calling command, and the property is not set)
pass setprop ## ;-)
end setProp

When some other handler commands "set the beenChanged of this stack to true", my setProp handler gets called. But when I watch the message watcher, it appears that the second line of my setProp handler is recursively calling the setProp handler, and I get a "recursion limit reached" error.

I realize that I could easily avoid resorting to a setProp handler at all, but I was tempted by the ease with which I thought it would allow me to add some behavior I had not thought of when I first wrote a lot of handlers that "set the beenChanged of this stack." Having come this far, I would like to understand how to use setProp properly.

See above, simply "pass"ing the "setprop" will finally SET THIS PROP :-)

Hope this helps.

Many thanks.

David Epstein

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