In response to the various posts. My need is to get the names of all the properties of any given object, not necessarily the values. As far as I know, the only way to do that is to get the properties of the object and then get the keys of the result.
So yes, an extension to the propertynames as suggested would be a great idea. For the reasons above, I would suggest that the propertynames be capable of returning all properties, even those that are derived, read only, or synonyms, perhaps by use of various keywords. Meanwhile, this change just broke a critical part of my code, is not backward compatible, and there is no way for me to work around it other than go to a considerable amount of effort to maintain my own list of properties per object which I don't consider to be a reasonable alternative. By contrast, without this change, all that is needed to determine if a property is set or not is a simple "if empty" test. I contributed to the discussion on the engine forum, as Monte is suggesting, but the change went ahead anyway, perhaps because I didn't explain myself clearly enough. I see no reason why these issues shouldn't be discussed here rather than the engine forum; this list has far more visibility than the engine forum and it's critical that as many people as possible are aware of what changes are being suggested. Much as I appreciate the time and effort that people are willing to put in to making engine changes in this new open source era, I strongly believe this change should be removed, modified so that the properties can be made to behave as they did prior to 6.1, or put on hold until the proposed change to the propertynames can be implemented. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > --------------------------- > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
