You can put the name of the property into a local var and use that (unless I misunderstood the problem).
Ali's suggestion is however the very pragmatic one - there are always going to be cases where var names might conflict with other things 'in context' and require disambiguation. (Although even that doesn't work in some cases - consider 'tExt' - when you have case insensitivity and no need to explicitly declare variables). Of course, if you'd like to file a bug report / enhancement about being able to do 'the "mycustompropname" of ... - then that is probably the 'future' much better solution :) Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Aug 2017, at 21:56, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> >> answer the tMyVar of this cd >> > > This is an area that is awkward in live code. > > The use of unquoted literals for this is inconsistent with most of live > code (but quoting would be inconsistent with the built in properties, so . > . .) > > I have "loops" like > > repeat for each word someProp in "theOnlyPropInTheList" > > set the someProp of someControl to myVal > > end repeat > > > If you have a variable whose name is the same as the property, there does > does not seem to be a good solution. > -- > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > (702) 508-8462 > _______________________________________________ > 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