Alterable Value and Alterable String conflict

[Patrick]

Its simple,

Create an active object
Name an Alterable Value "test"
Name an Alterable String "test"

Now try to get either the value or the string using the expression editor and it wil generate an error.

[DavidN]

Well... don't name them identically, then! :P

Actually, just putting "test" into the expression editor works fine for me after setting them both up. How exactly were you getting the value/string?

[Flava]

He has a point though - both strings and values are retrieved as:

Name("Active")

Only problem I see is that it can't be fixed, because if they did fix it then people's current MMF2 applications wouldn't work properly.

So I think you'll probably have to just put up with it.

[Sphax]

It's strange that function to retrieve an alterable string don't have the $ like "test$("activ")"...

I think this bug could be corrected without compatibility problem.

[Patrick]

Exactly. That is what i was thinking.

[Joshtek]

I'm fairly sure the $ could be added without any compatibility problems as expressions are not stored as plaintext, but as a code. This means that when you open the expression editor it converts the code to the text, and the reverse happens when you leave the expression editor.