Dumb Newbie Questions -- 1 of N

[Joe Lewis Wilkins]

Richmond,

I may be all wet, but it seems to me that this custom Property thing  
is just Rev's way of saying you are able to provide a pointer/handle  
to some address in memory where all of the stuff you've put into it  
may be accessed, and do so rather easily. I said I didn't like the  
name, but that's not going to change, so??? I agree that the word  
"property" provides a totally different mindset.

Joe Wilkins

On May 1, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:

> Maybe I'm having conceptual problems, but a custom
> property looks awfully like another container (such as a
> variable or a field) rather than a property as such.
>
> I realise that a custom property can be used as a data-source
> more rapidly than a field because it doesn't come with all
> the 'trappings' of an object. However, what is not clear to me
> is whether I can access data stored in the custom property
> of an object from a script in another, rather like the way I can
> access data stored in a field on a different card to the one
> I am 'calling' from.
>
> Peter Alcibiades wrote:
>> It would be nice to hear from Judy again.  Did any of these  
>> explanations
>> help?  And did you try using a custom property, and did it work?
>>
>> Peter