[TAO] value() to obtain pointer functionality

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Aug 2 20:00:29 EDT 2014


Peter Haworth wrote:

 > Here's the one that catches me every time:
 >
 > set the (<any expression here>) of button "xyz" to 10
 >
 > That results in a compile error "token is not a property".  Tried it
 > using "value" too but same error.  The only way round this I've found
 > is to use "do" but why can't the compiler handle this?

That looks like pretty much the syntax we all use every day to set 
property values.

Can you gives us an example that doesn't work?

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