[Beginner] Put the label of btn "btnA"

[Mike Bonner]

Wow, my english is getting worse daily. Hope the previous is grokable.

On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com> wrote:

> Couple notes..
>  put the fld "lblDate" & " " & the label of btn "btnA" into fld "fldTitle"
>
> It apparently doesn't matter in the above, but the word "The" is kinda the
> designates a property. the field "blahbla" apparently works, but field is
> an object not a property, so be careful of that.
> And then, you could simplify things by using the double ampersand method
> since it inserts a space for you.
>
>  put fld "lblDate" && the label of btn "btnA" into fld "fldTitle" will
> putput the same as above because the && inserts a space.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Shawn Blc <shawnlivecode at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Excellent.  Got it.  Thanks guys.
>>
>>  *put* the fld "lblDate" & " " & the label of btn "btnA" into fld
>> "fldTitle"
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 5:12 PM, Shawn Blc <shawnlivecode at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Thanks everyone. I'll try and update.
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> Oh yep.  No label for fields. (unless you create a label property for
>> it
>> >> of
>> >> course)  so putting the label of the field will put empty.  Probably
>> what
>> >> you want is the text of the field. or just "put field "lbldate"
>> >>
>> >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 3:43 PM, Peter M. Brigham <pmbrig at gmail.com>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > On Jan 10, 2015, at 5:19 PM, Shawn Blc wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > >  *put* the label of btn "btnA" and the label of fld "lblDate" into
>> fld
>> >> > > "fldTitle"
>> >> > >
>> >> > >
>> >> > > When I use the above, I get false.
>> >> >
>> >> > Buttons have labels, but fields don't. More properly, "label" is a
>> >> > property of buttons, but not of fields, so the label of fld "lblDate"
>> >> will
>> >> > return empty. Then you use the binary operator "and" which requires
>> >> boolean
>> >> > arguments. The engine will get the label of the button (a string of
>> some
>> >> > kind) which evaluates to neither true nor false when treated as a
>> >> boolean,
>> >> > and empty, which evaluates to neither true nor false when treated as
>> a
>> >> > boolean, and the result of <indeterminate> and <indeterminate>  is
>> >> false.
>> >> > If you want to concatenate two strings, you should use the "&"
>> operator:
>> >> >   put "one thing " & "and another thing" into fld "fldTitle"
>> >> >       will give you
>> >> >   one thing and another thing
>> >> > And if you use "&&" then the space will be entered for you:
>> >> >   put "one thing" && "and another thing" into fld "fldTitle"
>> >> >       will give you
>> >> >   one thing and another thing
>> >> >
>> >> > -- Peter
>> >> >
>> >> > Peter M. Brigham
>> >> > pmbrig at gmail.com
>> >> > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig
>> >> >
>> >> >
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