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Hi to everybody 
I was scripting this morning, and (after a forum search) I was wondering why GetProperty/GetPropertyText functions have to be called according to the type of location related.

I mean: every type of object-game share the same property schema, so... since we have GetLocationName and GetLocationType, why can't we have GetLocationProperty instead of:

Code: ags

type = GetLocationType(mouse.x, mouse.y)
if (type == eLocationHotspot) {
  Hotspot* h Hotspot.GetAtScreenXY(x,  y);
  h.GetPropertyText("Desc",  buf);
} else if (type == eLocationObject) {
  Object* o = ...

And (curiosity) why properties are read-only at runtime?