No it is not consistent, but some of the syntax was baked into Metacard
long ago, often in response to some specific customer asking for a way
to do some specific thing. Remember, Metacard was effectively a product
of a single person.
For LiveCode to change it now would break far fr too many existing stacks
On 7/4/2019 6:03 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote:
Hi friends,
this is on my mind for a very long time.
put the name of img 1 -> image "xyz"
put the short name of img 1 -> xyz
However:
set the short name of img 1 to "xyz2" -> compilation error, see below...
We have to:
set the name of img 1 to "xyz2"
This does not seem logical at all to me!?
Can someone please explain in a comprehensible (sic!) way why this is so? :-)
BTW:
Looks like the dictionary is wrong here (or am I missing something obvious?)
Entry about name:
...
set the [{ long | abbreviated | short }] name of object to string
...
?
I tried:
set the long name of btn 1 to "hello sailor!"
set the abbreviated name of btn 1 to "hello sailor!"
set the short name of btn 1 to "hello sailor!"
And got "Compilation error: can't set this property..." in all three cases.
Thanks a lot in advance!
Best
Klaus
--
Klaus Major
https://www.major-k.de
kl...@major-k.de
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