To describe the other aspect of this, you can only use a variable containing a long id as a reference to the underlying object if you reference properties of the object. Hence why
put the long id of fld "test" into tID set the left of tID to 47 set the vis of tID to true set the dontwrap of tiD to false set the htmlText of tID to "something" set the text of tID to "something else" all work, but put "some text" into tID will just change the contents of the variable. I have vague memories of some exceptions to this, but it was a long time ago, so maybe I'm wrong, or LC has addressed the issues. gc On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote: > Try: set the text of tlongid to "my email" > > Otherwise, you're just putting a value into your tlongid variable, the > same way you did with the long id of the field. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX/UI Design > > > On Oct 29, 2015, at 5:02 PM, Earthednet-wp <proth...@earthednet.org> > wrote: > > > > Folks, > > > > I tried > > Put the long id of field "email" into tlongid > > Put "my email" into tlongid > > > > This does not work. > > > > It works if I copy the long id and paste the second line in the message > box. > > Seems this should work. > > > > Bill > > > > William Prothero > > http://es.earthednet.org > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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