Property Inspector bug for keys with commas in the key name

Curry Kenworthy curry at pair.com
Mon Nov 6 07:33:37 EST 2023


Mark, re Inspector and custom property names with commas:

 > I agree its an annoyance - and is something which is resolvable

1. Great news! Because that code/data reality is hard to avoid:

- EVERY shipping LC app's stack has cRevStandaloneSettings ...
- If the IDE or app has build glitches, we need to check props -
- Right now, even VIEWING them with Inspector can CORRUPT data.

Likewise, you confirmed commas work with set[prop] and indirect syntax.
Thus, users do it - just like LC Ltd does; goose/gander - important fix.

2. Here's a set of 3 other Custom Property editor Scroll/Selection Bugs:

https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24391

Hat-trick to make the Inspector succeed at custom property editing -
Just need to fix the scrolling glitches and lost selections.

3. And YES to your proposal, thanks:

 > an obvious syntactic extension would be allowing
 > quoting of the property keyword: the "foo,bar,baz" of me.

Here's a "get" Request and "set" Bug report for reliably quoting custom 
property names:

https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24392

See the "Quoted Name Test" button for thorough code and results.

Best wishes,

Curry Kenworthy

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