Thank you to all that replied to my question--my learned and esteemed colleagues!
I got an education, and got the job done! Thanks again, Peter Bogdanoff UCLA On Jul 25, 2015, at 11:49 AM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> wrote: > On 7/25/2015 9:22 AM, Sri wrote: >> The parenthesis placements are key in such references as they change the >> order of command processing. >> >> For example: >> 1. Create a button "Test1" of width 82 (say) >> 2. Create a field "Field1" of width 168 (say) containing the text: /button >> "Test1"/ >> 3. Type into message box >> put the width of field "Field1" >> Answer: 168 >> 4. Type into message box >> put the width of (field "Field1") >> Answer: 82 > > This is working as expected. When you "get" a field, it is the same as > getting the text of the field. In this case, the text is a reference to a > button and because of the parentheses, the engine resolves that as a > reference to the button control. > > It is equivalent to: > > get the text of fld "Field1" --> "button "test1" > put the width of it --> 82 > > -- > 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
