Property problem

[DunbarX at aol.com]

I don't know, Jacque. There are about sixty-odd properties in a new button, 
and almost all have values: rects, hilites, borderWidths, etc. None have 
been set by anyone, and many cannot have been inherited from the card (which 
would be its owner) and which are not properties of a card anyway. It was 
just those three, all basic text properties.

Virgin fields have these three text properties (again, textSize, textFont, 
textStyle) at the getgo. Not buttons.

But most telling is that the three properties are gettable when just one is 
set. In the property inspector, all three are blank initially, though there 
certainly is a value for each; they just are not listed. Setting one 
(textSize, say) still shows blank for, say, textFont. Yet all of them are gettable 
right afterwards.

It is really screwing up a task I am trying to work out. I need to get 
these properties, and I cannot assume that my target buttons will have been 
massaged. My workaround is to check whether the properties are   blank, and if 
so, set them to what I assume are the default, at creation, values. I guess 
this will be OK.

Thanks,

Craig



In a message dated 5/27/09 6:31:29 PM, jacque at hyperactivesw.com writes:


> What I don't understand is why you got a value when asking by button
> name. The properties should be empty no matter what type of object
> reference you use.
> 




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