when sent a message, the target can't find itself!

Kay C Lan lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com
Sat Aug 4 23:32:39 EDT 2012


On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 10:46 AM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The real usefulness of the long name of a control (or card, or stack) is
> that it is in itself a complete object reference. So:
>
> put the long name of fle "xxx" into tFldRef
> put "Let's put something in to field xxx" into tFldRef
>
> puts "Let's put something in to field xxx" into the field.
>
> Not on my system, if I did the above

tFldRef will now equal Let's put something in to field xxx

tFldRef is a variable, when you put something into a variable the variable
contents change.

Or am I missing something?



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