Fields Have Labels

[Mike Bonner]

Oh cool, thanks! Though, honestly I still wonder if the property doesn't
exist as a built in, but the handling of setting a thing called "label" is
earlier in the message path (in the engine somewhere), so the setprop you
define is never seen, being caught earlier by the engine.  (since the
setprop can't designate an associated object, the engine wouldn't know to
ignore it? )

Interesting, the only setting of label that fails (so far) is setting the
label of a card, so I guess that would be one that truly doesn't have the
built in property. Ignore the above! Thanks for the information, I
appreciate it.



On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 10:28 AM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:

> If you: set the label of fld "testField" to "XYZ"
>
>
> and have, in the card script, say
>
>
> setProp label
> answer random(999)
> end label
>
>
> The control structure does not fire.
>
>
> If you:  set the ZZTOP of fld "testField" to "XYZ"
>
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> and have:
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> setProp ZZTOP
> answer random(999)
> end ZZTOP
>
>
> It does. So the "label" property of a field is not a custom property, it
> is a built-in property. It is just not settable in the inspector, nor
> viewable, as has been said, like, say, button labels are.
>
>
> Craig Newman
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Sun, Jan 11, 2015 11:33 am
> Subject: Re: Fields Have Labels
>
>
> IF you set the label of the field, you're not setting a built in property,
> you're creating a property named label.
>
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Roger Guay <irog at mac.com> wrote:
>
> > Ya but you can’t set the showName of a field to true, so what good is the
> > label?
> >
> >
> > > On Jan 11, 2015, at 8:49 AM, Bob Cole <bobcole at earthlink.net> wrote:
> > >
> > > put the label of field 1
> >
> >
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