Yup, it's Richmond, 2-3 years behind the times :) Well, to be honest, I've never really had the need of custom properties before.
Reading the EXCELLENT RevolutionUsersGuide.pdf (and, by EXCELLENT, I mean far better in many respects than the online Documentation) I find that whether a property is inherited or not depends on mysterious decisions taken 'on high', err, well, Edinburgh; or, decisions taken along time ago by the oft-reviled Scott Rossi in MetaCard days. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I know that heritable properties can be over-ridden; What is unclear to me is if properties that are not normally inherited can be set to be inherited. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Now, I have started to learn about custom properties, not through any real need for them, as all I need for the goofy content delivery programs for my school I already know, but for intellectual stimulus (a bit short of that teaching kids EFL). So, I set up a stack with a card called 'WUN' and a button called 'CusProp'; and typed this into the Message box: set the porkNbeans of btn "CusProp" to 547 all very straightforward; and when I open the properties editor I can see the custom property 'porkNbeans' quite clearly. Decided to be clever and typed this into the Message box: set the custardTart of card "WUN" to 99 same as the button: worked like a charm. The made a field. and put this in the button 'CusProp': on mouseUp put "the porkNbeans of btn" && quote & "CusProp" & quote && "is" && the porkNbeans of me into line 1 of fld "Props" put "the custardTart of btn" && quote & "CusProp" & quote && "is" && the custardTart of me into line 2 of fld "Props" put " " into line 3 of fld "Props" put "the custardTart of card" && quote & "WUN" & quote && "is" && the custardTart of card "WUN" into line 4 of fld "Props" end mouseUp and found that 'custardTart' of btn 'CusProp' is empty (meaning it does not have a custom property 'custardTart') so learnt that custom properties are not inherited (or, at least not 'custardTart'). -------------------------------------------------------------------- Is it possible to set up custom properties so that they can be inherited? -------------------------------------------------------------------- sincerely, Richmond Mathewson. ____________________________________________________________ A Thorn in the flesh is better than a failed Systems Development Life Cycle. ____________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ 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
