Custom property sets

[Ron]

Thanks Yves and Ken,

I didn't communicate very well, so let me make sure I understood your
suggestions. I am not having trouble referencing btnnames[btn1], but in
referencing another customproperty, called 'prefs', that is not a part of
either the english or japanese sets. 'prefs' is a customproperty of just one
substack. That substack also needs access to the main english or japanese
sets. 

You have confirmed that I need to explicitly call the stack to use the
customproperties. I was hoping for a default name of 'me' if no stack was
made explicit. eg 'put the prefs into myvar' would call the customprop prefs
or that I could call keys from the sets without explicit reference. My
mistake.

Thanks
Ron

> From: yves COPPE <yvescoppe at skynet.be>
> Reply-To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 10:11:54 +0200
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Custom property sets
> 
>> Greetings
>> 
>> I have two custompropertysets which I set on startup:
>> english
>> japanese
>> 
>> Each set has the same 3 keys but the keys have different content based on
>> the language:
>> 
>> btnnames
>> errors
>> fldcontents
>> 
>> The contents of btnnames is like this:
>> 
>> btn1,this is a btn
>> btn2, this is another btn
>> etc
>> 
>> I split it to make an array and reference the items using:
>> 
>> set the label of btn1 to btnnames[btn1]
>> 
>> This sets the name to the appropriate language throughout the substacks.
>> However, I have run into a problem referencing other customproperties. If I
>> make a customproperty in a substack, say 'prefs', and try to call it, it is
>> not available. Presumably because the custompropertyset of the main stack
>> does not contain this customproperty?
>> 
>> Is there a way to call customproperties in the substack without creating
>> another set, then setting the custompropertyset to the new set, referencing
>> the property, then resetting the set to 'english'?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Ron
>> 
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> 
> 
> 
> You have to refer to the stack :
> set the label of btn1 to btnnames[btn1] of this stack -- or of stack
> "YourstackName"
> 
> or something like :
> put  the short name of this stack <or whatever you want> into MYstackName
> set the label of btn1 to btnnames[btn1] of stack MYstackName
> 
> or you can also try :
> set the customPropertySet of stack MYstackName to btnnames
> --your script
> ...
> ...
> ...
> --and then you reset with
> set the customPropertySet of stack MYstackName to empty
> 
> hope this helps
> -- 
> Greetings.
> 
> Yves COPPE