How can a button not have properties?

[Ali Lloyd]

Indeed, or you can force evaluation to an array using brackets.

put the keys of (the properties of btn "File" of grp "mcp_menu" of  cd 1 of
stack "old_cp")

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:09 PM Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Actually, a property isn't an array. You have to put the properties
> property into a variable to make it an array.
>
> Mark Schonewille
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> Op 10/23/2015 om 23:07 schreef Dr. Hawkins:
> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The properties property is an array so a simple put will not display
> >> anything.
> >>
> > Yes, but
> >
> > put the keys of the properties  of btn "File" of grp "mcp_menu" of  cd 1
> of
> > stack "old_cp"
> >
> >
> >
> > also comes up empty.
> >
> > I found this when setting the properties of one button to that of
> another;
> > a line of code that got used for a year or so on every single version
> > change.  It bombs out of the script with only an error in the message
> box.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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