How do I Create a Custom Property, part 324

[David Burgun]

>>Is it always the same an all lists?
>
>>Also from reading:
>>
>>>>>put return & "myNewCustomProp" after myCustomKeys
>
>>Does it say anywhere that the last entry doesn't have/need a return 
>>character?
>>The natural way of expecting a list to be formatted would be to 
>>have a terminator
>>at the end of each line. If there is only one line, is there a 
>>return at the beginning
>>of the line? at the end? none at all?
>
>What about:
>...
>if myCustomKeys = empty then
>   put "myNewCustomProp" after myCustomKeys
>else
>    put return & "myNewCustomProp" after myCustomKeys
>end if
>...

Yes, I can see this, but you then need to know the "details" of how 
the "lines" are organized and since I cannot find any menton of this 
is in the Transcript dictionary, it just causes confusion and wastes 
time especially for a newbie who is not sure if it's their code that 
is causing the problems. That is what one big thing I find missing in 
RR, it doens't really say anywhere what is *supposed* to happen, so 
if a problem arrises you are not sure if it's your code or some 
"feature" of RR!

But anyway, surely it would be MUCH better to have each item finish 
with a return, that way you would never have to worry about the 
"empty" test.

>A "list" is just a number of LINES sepearated by CR!
>There is NO CR before the first line of a list.
>If there is a CR with NO characters after it, you have an EMPTY line.
>So there is NO CR after the last line of a list.
>
>Again, "list" is also pretty much selfexplainig ;-)
>
>Simply imagine a field!
>
>>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".
>
>This is no keyword, so you won't find it in the docs...
>It just means "a list of properties"...
>
>Hope that helps...
>
>>Just wish they would give a definition of the parameters in commands etc.
>
>I wish there was peace on earth ;-)

Well haveing definitions of parameters in the dictionary would be one 
step towards that, at least in my corner of the world!!!

All the Best
Dave