Hi Mark,
And thanks. I kind of suspected that was probably the case, but we all
like to save keystrokes when we can; particularly when there are a lot
of them. Incidentally, the pointer tooltips plug-in 2.0 that Chipp
recently released provides the field names as I had designed them "1",
"2", etc. and no where does anything lead one to suspect that Rev is
parsing these names as "layer" numbers. Though I can, obviously,
accept things as they are, in my opinion Rev is dead wrong. Must be
some backward compatibility issue with MetaCard; but not liking the
prospect of changing the names for a whole bunch of fields; guess I'll
just add an "x" in front of each one.
Joe Wilkins
On Oct 7, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Hi Joe,
Are you using "1", "2" etc. as field names? That's wrong. Revolution
parses these names as numbers, regardless of the quotes. You must
add some characters to make sure that Revolution parses the name as
a string, e.g. "Val 1", "Val 2", etc.
You can refer to these fields in a repeat loop or other script like
this:
repeat with x = 3 to 7
add fld ("Val" && x) to myTotal
end repeat
-- do something with myTotal here
I think that saying "I shouldn't have to" is a little inappropriate
in this particular case, even though it might apply to many other
workarounds.
--
Best regards,
Mark Schonewille
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