Change Field Property in All Fields of a Stack

Steven Axtell saxtell at neb.rr.com
Tue Jun 15 19:49:47 EDT 2010


Craig,

Thanks for the scripting ideas.  They were very helpful.

Steve Axtell


> Do you need to do this on a regular basis? If so, you can put the code I
> just sent into the stack script, but change it:
>
> on changeAllFields tProperty,tValue
>   repeat with y = 1 to the number of cds
>     repeat with x = 1 to the number of fields of cd y
>       set the tProperty of fld x of cd y to tValue
>     end repeat
>   end repeat
> end changeAllFields
>
> Now you can call this from a button, say, with:
>
> on mouseUp
>    changeAllFields yourProperty,yourValue
> end mouseUp
>
> Make sure that the properties and their values are sympatico. You would 
> not
> want to set the textSize of your fields to "italic". (Do you know about
> "try" control structures?)
>
> Craig Newman





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