Dumb Newbie Questions -- 3 of N

[Richmond Mathewson]

Mind you . . .

The only real reason I can see for using a custom property as opposed
to an 'on the fly' variable is that a custom property is non-volatile.

The only real reason I can see for using a custom property as opposed
to a field is that everything moves just that much faster.

So, until I feel the need to write a stack/standalone that churns its way
through buckets of indigestable data at high speed I shall probably go
on in my own reactionary fashion with off-screen fields.

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If one wishes to view a property as a container containing a value, as
well as viewing objects as containers then the container metaphor is
still valid, although, like anything else, is probably not endlessly
extensible. Once pushed to its reductio ad absurdam (which may be
nearer than we all realise) its weaknesses will show up.

Russian dolls, Russian dolls, Russian dolls . . . [ matrioshki ]

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Ugh, back the paracetamol and the ginger tea. However, a dose of
influenza does have the saving grace that it gives one bags of time for
the sort of introspective thinking these sort of discussions require.  :)

Judy Perry wrote:
> Aha!
>
> Now THAT's something I could find useful! (celebrating little aha 
> moment). Thank you!
>
> :-D
>
> Judy
>
> On Sat, 2 May 2009, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>
>> Let's try something simple. Suppose you have a card with lots of 
>> buttons that the user can move around; maybe your script uses the 
>> "grab" command to let them drag the butons. Now you want a way to 
>> reset the card to its native state that puts all the buttons back to 
>> their original positions.
>>
>> Buttons have a "loc" property, but that only stores the current 
>> position of the button at this moment, and the engine will update 
>> that value every time the button moves. There isn't any native 
>> property that tells you where the button started from, but we can 
>> make a custom property that does that.
>
>
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