Thanks everyone. I'll try and update. On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@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 <pmb...@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 > > pmb...@gmail.com > > http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > use-livecode mailing list > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > > subscription preferences: > > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode