curious behavior...

[Chipp Walters]

I'm trying to programatically set the numberFormat property.

on mouseUp
   repeat 4 times
     put "#" after t
   end repeat
   put "set the numberFormat to " &quote& t &quote into tDo
   do tDo
   put 5+1
end mouseUp

puts just "6" in the msg

now if I try:

on mouseUp
   set the numberFormat to "####"
   put 5+1
end mouseUp

It puts the expected "0006"

Any ideas why??