Possible bug in LC6.7 - maybe one for Mark Schonewille?

[Peter Haworth]

I missed it but apparently there's something in the 7.0 release notes about
it.  It's a new property of the player control.

Pete
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On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:

> Thanks Pete - so Mark will certainly have to modify his button stuff.
> Meanwhile I guess I can cheat by changing ‘status’ to ‘status1’ throughout
> the code for these objects.
>
> It will be interesting to find out what RunRev is using this word for -
> kind of sounds like it should be reserved, doesn’t it?
>
> Graham
>
> > On 31 Oct 2014, at 00:44, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Graham,
> > Late to this one but there is indeed a new property named "status" which
> is
> > why your script now fails.  Unfortunately, can't tell what it's used for
> > since there's no dictionary entry for it.  About to file a bug report for
> > that.
> >
> > Pete
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> > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 6:26 AM, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> >> In a desktop app (Mac and Windows - currently testing the Mac version)
> I’m
> >> using a button (actually a group acting as a button) designed by Mark
> >> Schonewille which does nice things with shading. This has been working
> for
> >> a long time, ever since it was announced by Mark. Now in LC 6.7, I get a
> >> compile error in a setProp handler in the group (in fact in several
> groups
> >> with the same script). Part of a case statement looks like this
> >>
> >> …
> >>        lock messages
> >>         set the status["disabled"] of me to not theBool
> >>         set the status["hilite"] of me to false
> >>         unlock messages
> >> …
> >>
> >> The IDE reports
> >>
> >>> compiling at 2:58:22 PM
> >>> Type  Expression: bad factor
> >>> Object        ClearAllGroup
> >>> Line  set the status["disabled"] of me to not theBool
> >>> Hint  [
> >>
> >> There is no hint. As it would seem to be a syntax failure, maybe some
> new
> >> reserved word is getting in the way - but this is just a guess.
> >>
> >> I have not yet been able to isolate this to confirm and then report it
> as
> >> a bug. Mark, if you're around, do you understand what's happening? I
> quite
> >> understand if you haven't got time to look at it, but I thought I'd ask
> >> before trying to go deeper into the issue.
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >>
> >>
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