No Check Box in the Dictionary??

[Richard Gaskin]

Calvin Waterbury wrote:

> I don't mean to be picky, but neither "checkbox" nor "check box" is in
> the dictionary.  If I missed something, please tell me?

By default the IDE is set to what an occasionally-rude person like 
myself might call "Lie Mode", in which the names it displays in the 
Property Inspectors aren't the actual "English-like" tokens used in the 
language itself, but presumably some more-English-like-than-English-like 
label that attempts to be more descriptive.

My personal problem with that is that I find it slows rather than 
smooths the experience of getting started with the tool, since using the 
GUI is a much smaller part of the experience than coding, and for coding 
you need to know the actual token.

As Phil noted that's a button style, so you can turn it up in the 
Dictionary entry for "style".


Two tips to shorten the distance between "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?" and 
"Ah, I get it" going forward:

1. In LC's Preferences window, at the top of the first pane is an option 
labeled "Property labels are:" with the default setting of "Description 
of option".  If you change that to "Name of LiveTalk property" you'll 
pick up the language just a little faster, since the GUI will then 
reflect the tokens you'll be using in your scripts.

2. Those coming from a background in VB, ToolBook, or a good many other 
IDEs are accustomed to finding a property sheet tool, which lists all of 
the properties for a selected object and allows a means of editing them. 
  The Property Inspector does a fine job of providing convenient ways to 
edit a subset of these, but for learning the language it can be very 
helpful to see a list of all of them.

Got you covered there:

4W Props is a simple property sheet tool for LiveCode, available through 
the Stacks section in RevNet - in the IDE see:

   Development->Plugins->GoRevNet

HTH -

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