Retrieve List of Array Properties?

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sun Feb 19 05:14:44 EST 2006


Trevor DeVore wrote:
> On Feb 18, 2006, at 5:50 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> 
>> Scott Rossi wrote:
>>> Recently, Dave Cragg wrote:
>>>> One further way...
>>>>
>>>>  get the customKeys["specialData"] of field 1
>>> *THIS* is what I had in my mind of how it should work, but couldn't 
>>> get the
>>> syntax right.  Thanks very much Dave.
>>
>> Whoa.  Never seen that before.
>>
>> I have mixed feelings about the syntax, wondering whether () might be 
>> more appropriate than [] in that context.
>>
>> Has this been in the docs all these years and I've somehow missed it?
> 
> I have not seen this documented but Jerry and I stumbled across this in 
> the Revolution property inspector the other day while playing with 
> custom props.  It is a handy thing to be aware of when working with 
> custom props.

Absolutely.  Seems too useful to leave out of the docs.

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