One of the conventions used in this document, and in the scripting object model, is that of named properties.
Many of the objects in the object model have "regular" properties, or "object" properties. These are properties that are accessed in script by referencing the object directly. For example
Application.Version
In this case Version is an object property for the Application object.
Because many of the objects directly represent internal data structures within Personal Stock Streamer, and some objects, such as Ticker, have a large number of data properties such as Price, Change, High, Low, we created these data properties as "named properties" and added the methods GetProperty and SetProperty to those objects. Therefore to get the price of a ticker, assuming you have a valid ticker object in the variable t, you would write
price = t.GetProperty("Price")
Similarly, to set the price of a ticker:
t.SetProperty("Price", 123.45)
This is a convenient notation because named properties can easily be added to these objects through plug-ins or in future versions of the software without changing the object's interface.