RE: object=object

[Andy Dent <dent at oofile dot com dot au>]

Joseph Claeys wrote
> I'm not sure I understand your last comment (probably related to my
> misunderstanding of style).  I figured it was the same as saying
> editfield1.text=editfield1.text.
I think the styledtext apparent "property" on EditField is a pair of 
accessor functions. There was a recent fix to cope with people 
assigning it back to itself (which suggests it isn't just a plain 
property) and I suspect you're just being a bit too clever for the 
functions behind the scenes.
One useful bit of advice for RB in general - if you're having 
something weird happen with "properties" of the framework classes, 
copy to a local variable, get that working as you want then copy back.
It also makes life easier for the debugger - you can be assured when 
you've got a local variable there that it is a real variable with a 
lifespan to the end of the method. If you are trying to display the 
result of something that's a "property" generated by an accessor 
function then the debugger has to hang onto a temporary, unnamed 
variable and I think that's a bit fragile.
Yes, there are a lot of "I think"'s in the above :-)

Andy
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