Referencing a control name

[J. Landman Gay]

On 7/25/2015 9:22 AM, Sri wrote:
> The parenthesis placements are key in such references as they change the
> order of command processing.
>
> For example:
> 1. Create a button "Test1" of width 82 (say)
> 2. Create a field "Field1" of width 168 (say) containing the text: /button
> "Test1"/
> 3. Type into message box
> put the width of field "Field1"
> Answer: 168
> 4. Type into message box
> put the width of (field "Field1")
> Answer: 82

This is working as expected. When you "get" a field, it is the same as 
getting the text of the field. In this case, the text is a reference to 
a button and because of the parentheses, the engine resolves that as a 
reference to the button control.

It is equivalent to:

get the text of fld "Field1" --> "button "test1"
put the width of it --> 82

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