interesting custom property behavior...

[Chipp Walters]

This is one, in all the years of programming Rev and LC, I didn't know
about.

This weekend, when I was talking about the altButton droptool at LiveCode
TV, I mentioned all the properties can be explicitly set outside of the
object inspector. For instance to change the width of the object, you can
just set it's 'altWidth' property-- and I proceeded to show by going into
the LC inspector palette, find the altWidth custom property, and change it.
But, nothing happened. I tried again. Nothing happened. I tried with a
different custom property. Even though the property value was set, nothing
happened.

Later I found out I could enter in msg: "set the altWidth of the selObj to
25" and it worked just fine. And the other custom properties worked
similarly.

It turns out when you set a custom prop from within a LC custom property
inspector, it doesn't pass the setProp message. I'm sure this design is on
purpose, but I wonder why?

-- 
Chipp Walters
CEO, Shafer Walters Group, Inc.