While "property" might not be the best name, I can't think of a name
better suited, since custom properties are persistent across
sessions, proprietary to an object, and the syntax is consistent with
other object properties... the height, the width, the visible, the
cpWhatEver of button x. It seems pretty simple and straightforward.
What isn't intuitive is that a custom property can contain a stack,
for example. Cool, but not intuitive. I mostly use them to keep
variable contents or states alive across sessions.
Mark
On May 1, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote:
Richmond,
I may be all wet, but it seems to me that this custom Property thing
is just Rev's way of saying you are able to provide a pointer/handle
to some address in memory where all of the stuff you've put into it
may be accessed, and do so rather easily. I said I didn't like the
name, but that's not going to change, so??? I agree that the word
"property" provides a totally different mindset.
Joe Wilkins
On May 1, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
Maybe I'm having conceptual problems, but a custom
property looks awfully like another container (such as a
variable or a field) rather than a property as such.
I realise that a custom property can be used as a data-source
more rapidly than a field because it doesn't come with all
the 'trappings' of an object. However, what is not clear to me
is whether I can access data stored in the custom property
of an object from a script in another, rather like the way I can
access data stored in a field on a different card to the one
I am 'calling' from.
Peter Alcibiades wrote:
It would be nice to hear from Judy again. Did any of these
explanations
help? And did you try using a custom property, and did it work?
Peter
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