Effective Filename

[Peter Haworth]

Thanks Kalus.  I kind of knew about that b ut never had occasion to use it.
 For some reason or other, I didn't make the connection as far as substacks
inheriting their main stack's filename.
Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Klaus on-rev <klaus at major.on-rev.com>wrote:

> Hi Pete,
>
> Am 30.05.2012 um 20:38 schrieb Peter Haworth:
>
> > Thanks Klaus and Mark.  For now, I only need this for the main stack but
> > good to know the difference for the future.
>
> same applies to all properties of objects!
> Some props are inherited from the parent object and return EMPTY when
> queried.
>
> Example:
> You have set the TEXTFONT of a field, so all words and characters in that
> field inherit this property.
>
> answer the textfont of fld 1 -> will give you the font name that you set
> the field to
> answer the textfont of CHAR 1 of fld 1 -> will give EMPTY because the
> first character does not have a textfont property of his own!
>
> But:
> answer the EFFECTIVE textfont of CHAR 1 of fld 1 -> will give you the font
> name fo the field.
> etc...
>
> Get the picture?
>
> > Pete
> > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>
> Best
>
> Klaus
>
> --
> Klaus Major
> http://www.major-k.de
> klaus at major.on-rev.com
>
>
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