How do I Create a Custom Property

[Björnke von Gierke]

On Mittwoch, Apr 21, 2004, at 14:13 Europe/Zurich, David Burgun wrote:

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>> The customKeys is a list of items, delimited by lineendings. So if 
>> you want to append something you would do it like this:
>>
>> put the customKeys of this stack into myCustomKeys
>> put return & "myNewCustomProp" after myCustomKeys
>> set the customKeys of this stacj to myCustomKeys
>
> Thanks a lot, what is the item delimiter for this list? Is it always 
> the same an all lists? I typed in "list" and "array" in the 
> Transscript Dictionary, but there is nothing there that tell me 
> anything, even though when looking at commands (like "customKeys") it 
> mentions things like "propertylist". Just wish they would give a 
> definition of the parameters in commands etc.

from the "CustomKeys" dictionary page:
"The customKeys of an object is a list of that object's custom property 
names, one per line."

How is that not descriptive? Also "propertylist" is just another way 
for saying: "that linedelimited list you get or set in relation to 
customKeys."