Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast?

On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 04:14 PM, John Lodge wrote: Thanks everyone for your help. The handler finally works! Great! Glad you got it working (sorry for the bloopers). Final version below ... with my commentary. Just for your edification: Good on you. Creating code and adding commen

Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast?

repeat END InsertMembers - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 10:00 AM Subject: Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast? > swap the string func

Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast?

On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 12:26 AM, John Lodge wrote: "Script Error. Wrong type mTextMember=new(#text,"Internal") "Internal" Could you suggest why this is so? I forgot to add the 'castLib' specifier, as was pointed out by another respondent. The perils of doing this stuff OTTOMH! :\ -

Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast?

On Friday, December 6, 2002, at 03:31 AM, John Lodge wrote: "Script error: Object expected mTextMember.text="This is member number" && nmem.string()" My bad. Remove the parens from string: mTextMember.text="This is member number" && nmem.string -- WthmO [To remove yourself from this list,

Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast?

swap the string function around as below. the string function which turns a variable into a string is a standalone function and should not have been part of the object nMem: on InsertMembers repeat with nMem = 1 to 5 mTextMember = new ( #text, castlib("Internal" ))

Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast?

> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of John Lodge > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts > text memebers in the cast? > > > Warren > Thank you for this

RE: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast?

this is so? I'm using the internal cast. John - Original Message - From: "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:14 PM Subject: Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the

RE: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast?

this is so? I'm using the internal cast. John - Original Message - From: "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:14 PM Subject: Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast? > On

Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast?

-- From: "mike m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:22 PM Subject: Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast? > > hi, i am new too, but practise makes progress eh! > to make a handle

Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast?

Message - From: "Howdy-Tzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:14 PM Subject: Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast? > On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 02:35 PM, John Lodge wrote: &g

Re: New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast?

On Wednesday, December 4, 2002, at 02:35 PM, John Lodge wrote: Yesterday, for example, I wanted to write a handler which would insert text into the first five members of the cast. Could I do it? Not a chance! This can probably be most easily accomplished with a repeat loop, something that uses

New learner: how do write a handler that inserts text memebers in the cast?

Dear group I'm just starting to learn Lingo (don't have a programming background) and having worked my way through umpteen pages on the subject, I want now to create some handlers of my own as an exercise to see how well I understand the language. So far I have to admit ... I'm not doing very well.