Change Field Property in All Fields of a Stack

René Micout rene.micout at numericable.com
Wed Jun 16 03:15:00 EDT 2010


YES, thank you Richard !
I don't understand all that but (after experimentation > I keep your post preciously) I think I can bring improvement in my sripts...
René

Le 16 juin 2010 à 01:52, Steven Axtell a écrit :

> Richard,
> 
> Thanks for the information.  I appreciate it much.  
> Steve Axtell
> 
> 
> 
>> Steven Axtell wrote:
>> > Is there a command that will allow a field property (textfont,
>> > for example) to be changed in all of the fields of a stack at
>> > the same time?
>> Most visual attributes (textFont, textStyle, textSize, backgroundColor, foregroundColor, and others) are inherited using roughly the same chain as the message path: control, background (if present), card, stack, home.
>> If you set the desired properties to empty in the controls themselves, you can set them at the stack level and those controls will take on those appearances.
>> Tip:  to find the property settings for a control you can of course just get it from the control, e.g.:
>>  get the textFont of fld 1
>> But if you've set the property to empty and want to know what value is being inherited by it, you can use the "effective" keyword:
>>  get the effective textFont of fld 1
>> That will return the value of the property nearest the control which has a non-empty value, or the engine's default if nothing in the message path has been set.
>> For example, if your field's textFont is set to empty and your card has a textFont of "Lucida Grande", then using "the effective textFont" will return "Lucida Grande".  If the card's textFont is empty but the stack's textFont is "Ariel", it will return "Ariel".  If you later set the textFont of the control to "Trebuchet", it will return "Trebuchet" regardless of the value of any subsequent objects in the chain.
>> HTH -
>> --
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World
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