For the very first time in a pretty long career as a LiveCode coder, I'm trying 
to make sense of DataGrids, which I see were a heroic effort to extend LiveCode 
- with a very sophisticated implementation and literally hundreds of pages of 
documentation. AFAIK it was done by Trevor deVore - I am deeply impressed, even 
as I stumble.

I am trying to implement some spreadsheet-like behaviour and have fallen more 
or less at the first fence during the lesson on Page 94 "How do I get Aggregate 
Values for Columns?".

I can make the example work if I follow it exactly. It depends on a getProp 
handler the first line of which is:

 getprop uSumOfColumn [pColumn]

I would like to multiply two columns using this as a starting point, so I would 
like to refer to two columns in my getProp handler. However when I look up 
getProp in the LC documentation, I don't see that getProp can take any 
parameters at all, certainly not an array reference, so my attempt to extend 
this structure with a line like

getProp usMultipleOfColumns [pColumn1] [ pColumn2]

can't be compiled - putting a comma in between the parameters (if that's what 
they are) doesn't help. As you see I have no idea what I'm doing. My question 
is, how does the syntax of the original getProp handler work? How is the bit in 
square brackets allowed, and why isn't it featured in the LC documentation? If 
I did want to provide a getProp handler with the names of two different 
columns, how would I do it? I do realise there are much more pedestrian ways of 
achieving what I want, but it seems important to understand the mechanism shown 
in the DataGrid docs.

Ignorantly

Graham

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