Can you do attribute referencing with colon notation for objects within slides?

[David McFarlane]

Adam,

Wow!  I believe you really uncovered an oversight in E-Prime (I stop 
short of calling it a "bug" because a bug would be a behavior that 
fails to follow the design, whereas I suspect here that the makers of 
E-Prime simply failed to include this feature in their design).  I 
tried this in EP2 (EP2.0.8.22) and got exactly the same error.  More 
specifically, colon syntax works just fine for a Text sub-object in a 
Slide; a SoundOut sub-object produces the compile-time error that you 
described; and with an Image sub-object you get the error "Unable to 
load image" as soon as you apply the change in the Properties dialog 
-- in this case it acts as if adding the colon makes the E-Prime GUI 
no longer recognize the square brackets as introducing an attribute 
reference.  (I did not try a Movie sub-object in EP2.)  I do not know 
what would happen if you tried to work around this by using inline 
script to do the colon syntax references with the sub-objects, I will 
leave that as an exercise for the reader.

I did a search for "colon" on the PST Knowledge Base and did not find 
any report about this, so I suspect PST does not yet know about this 
problem.  I may submit this myself to PST Web Support, but you should 
not wait for me and you should submit this yourself.  Good job in 
finding and reporting this problem.

Hats off,
-- David McFarlane, Professional Faultfinder


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