How can a button not have properties?

[Ali Lloyd]

I wonder if this is something we can fix. At the moment "the keys" is
hard-coded to allow the drag/clipboard data properties as source arrays.

There's probably a parsing ambiguity involved in having an object property
source that is not currently obvious to me.

On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:15 PM Ali Lloyd <ali.lloyd at livecode.com> wrote:

> Indeed, or you can force evaluation to an array using brackets.
>
> put the keys of (the properties of btn "File" of grp "mcp_menu" of  cd 1 of
> stack "old_cp")
>
> On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 10:09 PM Mark Schonewille <
> m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Actually, a property isn't an array. You have to put the properties
>> property into a variable to make it an array.
>>
>> Mark Schonewille
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>> Op 10/23/2015 om 23:07 schreef Dr. Hawkins:
>> > On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 1:53 PM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> The properties property is an array so a simple put will not display
>> >> anything.
>> >>
>> > Yes, but
>> >
>> > put the keys of the properties  of btn "File" of grp "mcp_menu" of  cd
>> 1 of
>> > stack "old_cp"
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > also comes up empty.
>> >
>> > I found this when setting the properties of one button to that of
>> another;
>> > a line of code that got used for a year or so on every single version
>> > change.  It bombs out of the script with only an error in the message
>> box.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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