customKeys and recalling the data in a key

[mrcoollion]

It has been a while that i have been on this forum, so hello to you all LiveCoder's .
I do come here for the following reason.

I thought it was a good idea to save fixed data within a menupick button using customKeys. However i cannot seem to get it working .
The code does not give me errors but also i do not get anything in field "TextField" . The target field "TextField" is made empty but no text that is kept in customKeys .

So here is the simple code for test. What do i do wrong ?

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on menuPick itemPicked
   switch itemPicked
      case "1st Text"
         put the customKeys["1st Text"] of me into fld "TextField"
         break
   end switch
end menuPick

Regards,

Paul

[Klaus]

Dag Paul,

to retrieve a CP with a name with more than one word, you need to use a variable to do so!
This works:

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on menuPick itemPicked
   switch itemPicked
      case "1st Text"
         get "1st text"
         put the IT of me into fld "TextField"
         break
   end switch
end menuPick

Groetjes
Klaus

[mrcoollion]

Never would have thought of this.

Dankjewel (Thank you) Klaus.

[mrcoollion]

Sorry Klaus, still does not work.

[dunbarx]

I also cannot get the alternate form to give anything but empty. That alternate form is given as an example , but not listed in the property syntax, which is simply

put the customKeys of me into fld "TextField"

Craig

[Klaus]

Works here with a menu button, see screenshot.
I used the same example as Paul:

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on menuPick itemPicked
   switch itemPicked
      case "1st Text"
         get "1st text"
         put the IT of me
         break
   end switch
end menuPick

?

[mrcoollion]

I got it working.Added the following two menu items to a pulldown button
No clue why i did not get it working before. I added a new button and a new target field "TestTekst" and added the menu items below to the button .
1st Text
2nd Text

With the below code it worked

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on menuPick itemPicked
   switch itemPicked
      case "1st Text"
         get "1st text"
         put the IT of me into fld "TestTekst"
         break
      case "2nd Text"
         get "2nd Text"
         put the IT of me into fld "TestTekst"
         break
   end switch
end menuPick

Bedankt Klaus voor je hulp.

[bn]

I was intrigued by this thread because I am always a bit confused by addressing the custom properties.
@Paul
You could simplify the script of button to:

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on menuPick itemPicked
      put the itemPicked of me into field "testTekst"
end menuPick

Your first attempt did not work because you were addressing the "customKeys" in array fashion. CustomKeys is a list of the keys of the customProperties. CustomKeys is not an array.

If you would want to address the arrary you could do:

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on menuPick itemPicked
   put the customProperties  of me into tCustomA
   put tCustomA[itemPicked] into field "testTekst"
end menuPick

Kind regards
Bernd

[Klaus]

I got it working.Added the following two menu items to a pulldown button
No clue why i did not get it working before. I added a new button and a new target field "TestTekst" and added the menu items below to the button .
1st Text
2nd Text
With the below code it worked

Code: Select all

on menuPick itemPicked
   switch itemPicked
      case "1st Text"
         get "1st text"
         put the IT of me into fld "TestTekst"
         break
      case "2nd Text"
         get "2nd Text"
         put the IT of me into fld "TestTekst"
         break
   end switch
end menuPick

Bedankt Klaus voor je hulp.

Graag gedaan!