Does a Control Exist?

[Peter Haworth]

I feel like that's more a problem with custom property creation than a
problem with errors on objects that don't exist.  The custom property issue
has been discussed a few times on the list and Alex Tweedly has a neat
little stack that helps with the issue. Sure wish there was an engine/IDE
solution to it though.

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>


On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 8:31 AM, Ray <ray at linkit.com> wrote:

> After loosely following the item delimiter thread last week a similar idea
> came to me today which might be an interesting discussion.
>
> It's often time consuming to type spell out...
>    if there is a field "My Field" then put field "My Field" into myVar
>
> If I don't first check to see if the control exists [and it doesn't] I get
> an error and the script stops execution.
>
> I don't have to do this with a custom property.  That is if the script
> is...
>    put the NewProperty of this card into myVar
> and said property doesn't exist, I simply end up with nothing in myVar,
> but it doesn't cause an error and the script continues.
>
> Does anybody think it would be worth it to have a way to stop errors from
> being produced when referring to non-existent controls?
>
> Ray Horsley
> LinkIt! Software
>
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