Jaques, apologies for replying to what I thought you wrote instead of
what you actually wrote :)
I've just tried something similar to what you describe, and you're
right! I never knew this - I guess this is because the property
inspector is simply another stack that does it's stuff in it's own
script rather than some behind-behand-the-scenes engine function. I
think I'd agree that it's not necessarily desirable - I wonder if
it's worth calling it a bug?
Best,
Mark
On 23 Dec 2008, at 23:18, Jacques Hausser wrote:
Thank you Mark,
I didn't speak about setprop (it's perfectly logic, even if not
compulsory, that a setprop would modify a property) , but about a
getprop, which, in this case, doesn't change the CP - I tried
that: a CP consisting of a basic sentence in a first line, say
"xxxx is living in yyyy - right or false ?", a second line with a
list of species names sparated by comma and a third line with a
list of biotops separated by comma. The getprop takes randomly an
item in the second line to replace xxxx and an item in the third
line to replace yyyy. And when you look at the property in the
inspector you read at the first line something (different each
time) like
"Microtus agrestis is living in marshy meadows - right or false ?".
That's exactly what I want when running the stack, but I would like
to see "xxxx is living in yyyy - right or false ?" in the inspector
- that is the real content of the CP (the "pure" CP ;o))
My example is perfectly stupid, because it would be far simpler to
drop the getprop and to put it's statements into the function but
well, it's only an example, and it works... the button's back
script is:
function DisplayQuestion
return the question of me
end displayquestion
getprop the question
put line 1 of the question of me into laquestion
put item (random(30)) of line 2 of the question of me into word
1 of laquestion
put item (random(21)) of line 3 of the question of me into word
5 of laquestion
return laquestion
end the question
and anywhere in the stack:
put DisplayQuestion() into fld "SuchAndSuch"
I was just amazed to discover it was possible to use CPs and
getprop in a backscript... after all, the command is not "Insert
button "truc" into back" but "Insert the script of button "truc"
into back"...
Jacques
Le 23 déc. 2008 à 20:51, Mark Smith a écrit :
Jaques, you're right - the script can still refer to 'me'. I use
buttons as libraries quite often, and the fact that a button's CPs
are available can be very useful.
I don't tend to use getProp and setProp handlers in those 'button'
libraries much - you'd still have to refer to the button's name or
ID, and I generally just want a libraries commands and function
available.
I'm not sure what you'd expect a setProp handler to do other than
modify a property, so I don't think I understand what you mean by
a 'pure' custom property...
Best,
Mark
On 23 Dec 2008, at 17:45, Jacques Hausser wrote:
Hello everybody
I just discovered accidentally that when a button's script is
inserted as a backscript, it doesn't go there alone, but takes
with it its custom properties, getprop and tutti quanti.
That could be very useful... Has somebody some experience with
this feature ?
(I discovered also that the inspector doesn't display the "pure"
custom property, but the property as modified by the getprop...
that is perhaps not so good).
Happy Christmas (or any other solstice-linked celebration) to you.
Jacques
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