Sometimes I'm baffled.

[Alex Tweedly]

Ralf Bitter wrote:
> Alex,
>
> how about this:
>
> do "set the visible of" && param(i) && "to false"
>
OK, I see that works - but I still can't understand why
    set the visible of param(i) to false
should not work.

In your other email, you said
> Once again: Use the do command, because the statement
> "set the visible of param(i) to false" consists partly of a return 
> value of a function.
what's wrong with "... consisting partly of a return value of a 
function..." ?

If I change the script to create a function of my own, e.g.
>
> local sTheCtl
>
> on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo
>     put the target into tCtl
>     put tCtl into sTheCtl
>     flash tCtl
> end mouseUp
>
> on flash
>     local i, p1
>     repeat with i=1 to paramcount()
>         -- set the visible of param(i) to false
>         put param(i) into p1
>         -- set the visible of p1 to false
>         set the visible of myFunc() to false
>         wait for 1000 milliseconds with messages
>         set the visible of p1 to true
>     end repeat
> end flash
>
> function myFunc
>     return sTheCtl
> end myFunc
then the statement
   set the visible of myFunc() to false
works just fine. So I don't think that "consisting of a return value" is 
the complete explanation of the problem.

Thanks (also to Thomas - but indeed I didn't want to ever look at 
param(0) ...)
-- Alex.


> Ralf
>
> On 27.01.2009, at 23:41, alex wrote:
>
>> [Oops - originally I sent this from the wrong email address, so it is 
>> being held for approval. Here it is from the proper place - apologies 
>> in advance if it finishes up as a duplicate]
>>
>> I don't understand why this doesn't work - has anyone got a spare 
>> clue they can lend me :-) ?
>>
>> A simple stack, with one button, whose script is :
>>>
>>> on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo
>>>    put the target into tCtl
>>>    flash tCtl
>>> end mouseUp
>>>
>>> on flash
>>>    local i, p1
>>>    repeat with i=1 to paramcount()
>>>        set the visible of param(i) to false
>>>        wait for 1000 milliseconds with messages
>>>        set the visible of param(i) to true
>>>    end repeat
>>> end flash
>> This gives me
>>> Runtime error    22:13:11
>>> Error 77:    Chunk: can't find object
>>> Hint :    Object: can't set object property
>>> Error at    char 25 of line 11 in handler mouseUp
>>> Code:    25
>> But if I change
>>>        set the visible of param(i) to false
>> to
>>> put param(i) into p1
>>> set the visible of p1 to false
>> (and make the same change later to "set the visible of p1 to true")
>> then it works properly. Why should this work and the former version 
>> not work ?
>>
>> Thanks
>> -- Alex.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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