Creating a customkey from a variable

Paul Dupuis paul at researchware.com
Wed Apr 27 13:10:15 EDT 2011


Why not use a two-dimensional array, as in:

on mouseUp
put "Math" into testname
put "Jane" into student
put "A+" into score
set the testresults[testname][student] of this stack to score
end mouseUp

On 4/27/2011 12:29 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote:
> I forgot to show that the score and student can be a variables...
>
>
>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Glen Bojsza<gbojsza at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Hopefully someone is still looking at the list while the conference is
>> going on...
>>
>> I want to create a customkey from a variable.
>>
>> on mouseup
>> put "Math" into testname
>> set the testname[student] of this stack to score
>> end mouseup
>>
>> this doesn't create the customkey or properties for me but if I don't use a
>> variable it will work?
>>
>> on mouseup
>> set the Math[student] of this stack to score
>> end mouseup
>>
>> I really would like to use a variable so I can automatically create the
>> customkeys on the fly.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Glen
>>
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