Yikes! I just mentioned that in crossed mail. I didn’t realize people really used that.
I’m open to other ideas. Even playing with the highlight property before introducing checkbox scripts. But eyes glaze over at this: if the highlight of button “Include tractor” then … I do functions early, so maybe a function would help. Or get to custom properties early . Dar On May 3, 2014, at 2:12 PM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > On 5/3/14, 2:23 PM, Dar Scott wrote: >> The text property is special in that it can be used as the value of the >> object. Most notably we can do this: >> >> put “All is good.” into field “Status” >> >> We don’t have to write this: >> >> set the text of field “Status” to “All is good.” >> >> So, I was thinking something like this: >> >> if button “Quiet” is not “checked” the… >> if button “option 4” is not “selected” then… > > One problem is that buttons already have a text property, and some people use > it to store things. Combo and option buttons use it for their content lists, > but you can put whatever you want into any button. This works fine in a push > button or any other type: > > put "I am a storage container" into button 1 > put btn 1 <-- "I am a storage container" > > Back in the HC days, that was one of the few storage options we had. It's far > less common in LC because we have custom properties, but the text option is > still there. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
