David- Sunday, January 9, 2011, 1:51:15 AM, you wrote:
> On the first card try "put the good_Text of fld 1 of cd 2", which works as > expected, but "put the bad_Text of fld 1 of cd 2" returns empty! It gets > even more complicated if you try to get "the properties of fld 1 of cd 2" - > where the "long id" trick no longer works. Good one. I tried various combinations of the above, even with behaviors, and got tood results, but I hadn't tried cross-card invocations. Looks like the expression parser is failing. Interestingly, this *does* work: getprop bad_Text return the text of (the long id of the target) end bad_Text -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net _______________________________________________ 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