htmlText oddity

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Mon Nov 5 17:01:26 EST 2012


Thanks for the clarification Mark.
Pete

Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>



On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Mark Schonewille <
m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>
> Sorry for the confusion. There are a few forms that you can't use, but
> apparently there are also several ways that you can't use. I was wrong
> saying that you can _only_ use long id's. The forms that I can't get to
> work are:
>
> button "Text"
> button 2 of cd 1
> button "Some Button" of cd id 1002
>
> but it seems that as long as you include a reference to the stack, it will
> work fine. If you set a reference by script and it doesn't work, you get an
> execution error, but if you try this in the property inspector, you don't
> see any warning at all and might be left thinking that the property
> inspector doesn't work correctly or that you selected the wrong control
> before setting the property, while in reality you had the reference wrong.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
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> On 5 nov 2012, at 21:45, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
> > Hi Mark,
> > Is this really true (the part about long IDs not the part of buttons
> only)?
> >
> > I have been using behaviors in the general form  - button ID 1234 of
> stack
> > "xyz" - for quite a long time now and they seem to work fine.  Am I
> setting
> > myself up for trouble down the line?
> >
> > Pete
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> >
>
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