Hmm. Ok. My mistake. Seems to work.. is stack B a substack of stack A? If not, that might be the issue.. If stack b is a mainstack, then the request can't go up the message path to stack a, which then makes my previous point applicable.
On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 3:59 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote: > The "of stack b" part, delineates where the pseudo property resides. Since > there is no getprop nSL of stack b, you get nothing back. Better off to > create a function that takes an object reference as a parameter, and make > sure its in the message path so you can hit it from anywhere. > > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 3:46 PM, David Epstein <dfepst...@comcast.net> > wrote: > >> The script of stack “A” has a getProp handler to report the number of >> lines in an object’s script: >> >> getProp nSL >> return the number of lines in the script of the target >> end nSL >> >> With stack A frontmost, I type in the message box “the nSL of this stack” >> or “the nSL of stack’A’”, and I get the expected result. But with stack A >> still frontmost, if I type in the message box “the nSL of stack ‘B’” I get >> an empty result (not even a “0”). >> >> What am I missing? >> >> Thanks very much. >> >> David Epstein >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
