[TAO] value() to obtain pointer functionality

[Peter Haworth]

See the example I posted in response  to Richard's question.

Pete
lcSQL Software
On Aug 2, 2014 6:18 PM, "Kay C Lan" <lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 3, 2014 at 8:00 AM, Richard Gaskin
> <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> >> set the (<any expression here>) of button "xyz" to 10
>
> I looked at this again and thought maybe the problem you're having is
> because you're setting numbers and I'm generally using true and false,
> although I'm sure I've set text and numbers on many many occassions,
> but I just did a quick check by changing true and false to 1 and 0 and
> it still works fine:
>
> on menuPick pItemName
>   if (the cScriptRunning of me is 0) then
>     set the cScriptRunning of me to 1
>
>     --do all you need to do here
>
>   set the cScriptRunning of me to 0
>   end if
> end menuPick
>
> set the cScriptRunning of btn "Choices" to 1
> set the menuHistory of btn "Choices" to 26
> set the cScriptRunning of btn "Choices" to 0
>
> There must be something about your set up that is causing this because
> the examples in the User Guide include:
>
> set the loc of button "OK" to 32,104 --page 207
> set the myCustomProperty of button 1 to false --page 223
> set the customKeys of button "My Button" to it --page 227
> set the customPropertySet of button 3 to "Spanish" --page 228
> set the myCustomProp of button 1 to true --page 230
>
> So when you say <any expression here> do you mean any, as in custom
> properties and inbuilt properties, or is it specifically with custom
> properties and does it make a difference if the values is a number,
> text or Boolean?
>
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