Accessing properties in sub stack fields

[Peter Haworth]

I think this is an example of LC not always dereferening things as
expected, especially when custom properties are involved.

I've had similar issues in the past and in fact have just had another one
where the following results in a runtime error:

put the cMyProp of (line 1 of the recentCards) into tVar

The following works around the error:

get line 1 of the recentCards
put the cMyProp of it into tVar

As to why the name of the focusedObject and the focusedObject return
references to two different objects, I think you should enter a QCC report.


Pete
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On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 6:39 PM, John <john at onechip.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    I was hoping that someone could explain what is going on.  I have a
> main stack with multiple sub stacks all of which use the main stack’s menu
> bar.  In the menubar group I have a mouseDown handler to update the menus
> before they are shown.  The sub stacks have fields which may, or may not,
> have a property “noType” with a value of “true”.
>
>    In the mouseDown handler in the menuBar group, the following does not
> work:
>
> put the noType of the focusedObject && the focusedObject into msg
>
> I can see that the focusedObject is correct even though the value of the
> property is not shown.  If I place this into the mouseDown handler I get
> the expected result:
>
> put line 1 of the openStacks into theTopStack
> put the selectedField into theSelectedField
> put word 2 of theSelectedField into theSelectedFieldNumber
> put the noType of field theSelectedFieldNumber of stack theTopStack into
> msg
>
>
>   Why does the first one line scrip not work and the longer four line
> script work?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> John
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