Storing text as a custom property

[reelstuff]

I was looking over a custom properties stack used to store values, I wanted to store text as a custom property, then populate a field with that text.

I tried several different approaches to this and somehow I have missed something, I used the message watcher, to see if the engine was getting the message and it appears to update but I think that I am not referencing the custom property in the right way,

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on mouseUp
   put the customProperties["emotional1"] of me into myCustomvalue
   put myCustomvalue into fld "actionFld1"
   end mouseUp

Any suggestions or thought are greatly appreciated.

[magice]

try this instead:

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on mouseUp
       put the emotional1 of me into myCustomvalue
       put myCustomvalue into fld "actionFld1"
       end mouseUp

of course this is assuming that you have created the custom property "emotional1" for the button being pushed, and that it has a value in place.

[Simon]

Or simply:

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on mouseUp
   put the emotional1 of me into fld "actionFld1"
end mouseUp

Simon

[reelstuff]

Super, it works, I see what I did wrong now, thanks for the help, )

[sturgis]

Keep your first effort in mind, it will be useful if you decide to dig into custom property sets. Not really necessary for what you're doing at the moment though.