What's wrong with Globals?

[J. Landman Gay]

Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
> CPs do tend to
> involve writing a lot more code, and I have to learn something that I've 
> not used before; hence probably subject to some errors in usage on my 
> part - typos and otherwise.

Custom properties aren't any different than built-in properties, really. 
They don't take any more code, and you don't have to learn anything new. 
You probably use properties all the time without even thinking about it:

   put the name of btn 1 into var
   set the name of btn 1 to var

CPs are just the same:

   put the myprop of btn 1 into var
   set the myprop of btn 1 to var

They're identical. The only difference is that you can define an 
unlimited number of properties; you aren't confined to the finite set 
the engine provides.

Forget about custom property sets for now, and ignore the array 
notation; just the above is very useful all by itself. After you've done 
some playing around with the above, dividing CPs into sets will fall 
into place naturally with very little mental adjustment.

I think this is a tricky concept to grok when first moving from HC, 
because HC has neither custom properties nor arrays. New HC converts 
might be better served by deleting all references to arrays in list 
posts until they've experimented with the basic constructs first. :)

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