[Beginner] Put the label of btn "btnA"

[Shawn Blc]

Excellent.  Got it.  Thanks guys.

 *put* the fld "lblDate" & " " & the label of btn "btnA" into fld "fldTitle"

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Shawn Blc <shawnlivecode at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks everyone. I'll try and update.
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh yep.  No label for fields. (unless you create a label property for it
>> of
>> course)  so putting the label of the field will put empty.  Probably what
>> you want is the text of the field. or just "put field "lbldate"
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:19 PM, Shawn Blc wrote:
>> >
>> > >  *put* the label of btn "btnA" and the label of fld "lblDate" into fld
>> > > "fldTitle"
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > When I use the above, I get false.
>> >
>> > Buttons have labels, but fields don't. More properly, "label" is a
>> > property of buttons, but not of fields, so the label of fld "lblDate"
>> will
>> > return empty. Then you use the binary operator "and" which requires
>> boolean
>> > arguments. The engine will get the label of the button (a string of some
>> > kind) which evaluates to neither true nor false when treated as a
>> boolean,
>> > and empty, which evaluates to neither true nor false when treated as a
>> > boolean, and the result of <indeterminate> and <indeterminate>  is
>> false.
>> > If you want to concatenate two strings, you should use the "&" operator:
>> >   put "one thing " & "and another thing" into fld "fldTitle"
>> >       will give you
>> >   one thing and another thing
>> > And if you use "&&" then the space will be entered for you:
>> >   put "one thing" && "and another thing" into fld "fldTitle"
>> >       will give you
>> >   one thing and another thing
>> >
>> > -- Peter
>> >
>> > Peter M. Brigham
>> > pmbrig at gmail.com
>> > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>> >
>> >
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