Property profiles

[Sarah Reichelt]

Thanks Mark, I took your advice and did it myself. It was easy enough
so I won't bother about profiles.

Cheers,
Sarah


On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Mark Schonewille
<m.schonewille at economy-x-talk.com> wrote:
> Hi Sarah,
>
> Just like you, I tried to use profiles, before they were broken for 2 years.
> They seem to be fixed now, but profiles are too confusing for me.
>
> Modifiying a property of an object causes the property profiles of that
> object to change to make sure that the object stays unchanged for each
> alternative profile. If you set the textFont of an object to bold in one
> profile, the other property profiles of that object are explicitly set to
> plain. I also remember having problems trying to make the changes in the
> profiles stick. This makes working with profiles very cumbersome. You never
> know what the changes in the other profiles will be, when you make a change
> in one of them.
>
> Usually, I only need to change the font of controls, depending on platform.
> It is easy enough to do this by script. Colour adjustments for example, too,
> are easily made by script. You don't need to include a heavy profiles
> library for that. I expect you'll leave out a few bugs by using your own
> scripts instead of the profiles library. Just like the geometry manager, I
> consider the property profiles library one of the components that we'd
> better not use.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Mark Schonewille
>
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> Op 27 mrt 2010, om 05:50 heeft Sarah Reichelt het volgende geschreven:
>
>> Has anyone ever actually used profiles?
>>
>> I haven't but I thought that I had a good use for them this time, so I
>> tried to set them up.
>> When I go to the profiles section of the inspector, I see a Master
>> profile listed in bold.
>> I created another 2 two profiles, planning to delete the Master later
>> & switch between my two,
>> So far so good, although when I made a profile in the Stack inspector,
>> I expected to see it appear in the other objects inspectors too, so
>> it's a bit of a bore if i have to create my profiles for every single
>> object in my stack.
>>
>> But then I went to add a property to one of my profiles.It appeared to
>> work, but when I clicked on another profile, then back on my new one,
>> the property had gone.
>> This happened whether I had entered a value or not.
>>
>> So are profiles broken? Or am I misunderstanding how to set them up?
>>
>> TIA,
>> Sarah
>
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