customKeys and how to address them

[Barry Levine]

Devin,

Thanks for the assistance. I'm reproducing the few script lines that I found
demonstrate the basic concept (in case there are others here who are as
bamboozled as I was):

get line 2 of the customKeys of fld 1
put "answer the "& it &" of fld 1" into thePhrase
do thePhrase

That gets me the contents of the property. Apparently you have to use some
indirection to get the -contents- of the custom property; why this is the
case is beyond me. I'm a Hypercard kind of guy so I expect it all to be
totally transparent. (*grin*)

Again, thanks very much.

Regards,
Barry

On 7/8/04 6:33 PM, Devin Asay allegedly flung into the void:

> From: Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Custom property & selection of text
> 
> On Jul 8, 2004, at 3:36 PM, Barry Levine wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
>> ...but the scripting of this escapes me. I've looked at:
>> 
>> get the customproperties["customKeys"] of field 1
>> answer it
>> 
>> ...but this returns nothing.
>> 
> The property you want is the customKeys. You'll have to do it like this
> (untested, but this is the gist):
> 
> repeat with i = 1 to number of lines in the customeKeys of fld 1
>    get line i of the customKeys of fld 1
>    put "select" && it && "of fld 1" into cmd
>    do cmd
>    wait 2 seconds
> end repeat
>