What's wrong with Globals?

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Jacque,

That was more or less my intention. BTW, I haven't heard the word  
GROK in ages. Somewhat similar origin timeframe to that of the word  
GOOGLE or Robbie the Robot, if I'm not mistaken.

Joe Wilkins

On Apr 2, 2007, at 3:51 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> 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. :)
>
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
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