Object Reference in Variable?

[Richard Gaskin]

Eric Chatonet wrote:

> As I said in a previous post, it seems that you *must* require or set  
> a property.
> In your example you don't get or set a property.

Correct:  in the first example from my earlier post, that's true.

But in the post you quoted we seem to be on the same page:

>> It seems the "get" and "set" commands for properties are the  
>> unambiguous ones, and attempting to use chunk expressions with  
>> other commands (such as "delete") cause them to operate on the  
>> string which is the object reference, rather than the contents of  
>> the referenced object.
>>
>> So you could write instead:
>>
>>   get the text of tField
>>   delete line 2 of it
>>   set the text of tField to it


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