How do I use customProperties

[Jeanne A. E. DeVoto]

At 2:13 PM -0800 2/11/03, Graham Samuel wrote:
>I finally answered my own question - one uses a global property, the
>customKeys, which gives a list of the custom properties of an object.
>Who would have guessed that properties are keys, eh? OK, I could have
>found it in the 'See Also' of the Transcript dictionary entry for
>'customProperties' but the name 'keys' put me off researching it. And
>anyway the info is very fragmented in the docs.
>
>I am beginning to think that we (well, I) need a lot more short,
>concentrated essays explaining pretty well everything on specific
>topics - for example "all about custom properties"

Graham, have you read the "About properties, custom properties, and
property sets" topic in the documentation? I think it might answer some of
your questions in this area.

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