I think "undesirable" is a good way to put it. I am working round it but, as usual, it's not quite as simple as it might seem :-(
Here's another little oddity. The Inspector palette for an object happily lets me add a property to customkeys with spaces in its name, or any other special character for that matter. Problem is, there's no way to get the value of such a property by referencing it with "the <propname> of ...." Putting the name in such a statement with no quotes around it gets a compile error and putting quotes around it gets a runtime error. Only way you can do it is put the customproperties of the object into a variable, then reference the resulting array with the property name as a key. On the other hand, you can add a property with special chars to a named custom property set and access it quite happily with, for example, the dgProps["row template"]. Pretty inconsistent, wouldn't you say? Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net>wrote: > Peter Haworth <pete@...> writes: > > > Bug? > > Well, I think it's undesirable and there are several "fixed" bugs in the > database (8186, 8501, etc.) dealing with this situation. It's not quite a > bug because it's documented behavior. > > There are reserved keywords for built-in things that you can't override > (groups don't have a "style" property), although there's a movement afoot > to > allow this to happen (and you chimed in on the discussion several times now > on the forum). Stay tuned. Meanwhile, you can say > > get the dgProps["style"] of group "Datagrid 1" > > to get what you want. > > -- > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
