"Can't set property" returned upon trying to set the hScroll, vScroll of a group from card script

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/11/12 4:10 PM, Jessica McBeck wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> Figured out the problem. It turns out that livecode is rather picky about
> the syntax surrounding setting hscroll and vscroll. I got the code working
> by something along the lines of:
>
> put the vScroll of group "ScrollingGroup" into v
> put y into v
> set the vScroll of group "ScrollingGroup" to v

Your original should have worked. The fix above resolves to the same 
values so I'm thinking something else was wrong, but without seeing the 
whole script it's hard to say. I've never had to resort to the above 
workaround though.

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