Thanks, Jim. Yes, I have confirmed in the inspector that the property exists, and as I mentioned, the correct data is retrieved in the Message Box, but not in the stack script.
The variable jDate is composed of the letter "j" and the seconds for the date. I delete the "j" when I want to convert the seconds back to a long date for the dialog. Otherwise, it's not a date and the conversion would fail. -- Paul On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Jim Ault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First, use the stack inspector to confirm that your property is indeed the > value you think it is. > > Do this by opening the stack inspector, then choose the "custom > properties" > drop down. Now inspect the values: > > set the jDate of this stack to "99/88/77" > > then > put the jDate of this stack into tJournal > > By the way, why would you be doing.... > > delete char 1 of jDate -- j > > convert jDate to long date > > answer "Sorry, there's no journal for" && jDate &"." > > since jDate is the name of the custom property and contains no data > itself, > and why would you want to delete char 1 of jDate? > > Hope this helps > > Jim Ault > Las Vegas > > > On 3/1/08 9:32 PM, "Paul Foraker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm building a stack that is a data entry app for a daily journal. Once > the > > day's entries have been posted (emailed to myself), I want to store them > in > > the stack. I came up with a scheme of prepending "j" to the seconds > > representing the day and using that as the name of a custom property. No > > problem storing that. When I retrieve it in a script, however, it's > always > > empty. > > > > on unpackTheData jDate -- in seconds > > put "j" before jDate > > put empty into tJournal > > put the jDate of this stack into tJournal > > -- do "put the" && jDate && "of this stack into" && tJournal -- didn't > > work > > put the jDate of this stack into tJournal > > if tJournal is empty then > > delete char 1 of jDate -- j > > convert jDate to long date > > answer "Sorry, there's no journal for" && jDate &"." > > exit to top > > end if > > -- ... > > end unpackTheData > > > > I'm passing the seconds for a date I know exists, and I can execute code > > similar to the above in the Message Box and it works fine. In the > script, > > however, tJournal is always empty. > > > > I thought maybe it was a data-typing error, but this works in the > Message > > Box: > > > > put empty into tJournal > > put "2/29/08" into jdate > > convert jDate to seconds > > put "j" before jDate > > put the jdate of this stack into tJournal > > put tJournal > > > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
