Text formatting for a slider

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Mon Mar 19 18:34:03 EDT 2012


JIm, I'm a fan of Mr. Rinaldi as well - he supplied the first serial xcmds
for hypercard back in 89 -
however I can't get Smartproperties to work these days - have you used it
lately?

sqb

On 19 March 2012 14:57, Jim Hurley <jhurley0305 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Pete,
>
> Yes, my feeling exactly. It looks like there was a conscious effort to
> omit the foregroundColor  for the slider (and scollbar as well). I was
> worried that it was to be deprecated.
>
> (I wasn't concerned about ALL the properties being in the Inspector. It is
> odd, however, that there is a place for the foreGroundColor property, an
> icon but no defining text, but no way to access it. I suspect RR got
> distracted while implementing the slider Inspector.)
>
> You might want to check out Richard's 4wProps (under the
> Development/Plugins menu). Easy access to all the properties.
>
> Occasionally I have found (legendary) Renaldi's SmartProperties
> invalueable. It allows one to compare side by side the properties to two
> objects. It is valuable in finding out why two, apparently identical,
> controls behave or look different.
>
> Jim Hurley
>
> > Message: 24
> > Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:42:46 -0700
> > From: Pete <pete at mollysrevenge.com>
> > To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> > Subject: Re: Text formatting for a slider
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> >
> > Yeah, but that displays all possible properties of any object.  The
> > "properties" property of an object gets you an array of properties for a
> > specific object.  Still a long list mind you, and not a complete list
> > either according to the dictionary.
> >
> > I think you're probably right that it would make the inspector windows
> very
> > unwieldy to include all properties.  The problem is that by leaving some
> of
> > them out, arbitrarily, it gives the impression that they aren't
> available,
> > especially to new users.  I remember when I first started using LC and
> > wanted to set the behavior of an option menu button - there's no
> inspector
> > window behavior field so I just assumed it wasn't possible for some
> reason
> > and went down a different, much more complicated path.
> >
> > Seems like it would have been trivial to include one more option in the
> > inspector option menu for "All Properties" or something similar.  I ended
> > up writing my own plugin to show all the properties of a selected object
> > and allow me to change any of them.
> >
> > Pete
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com
> >wrote:
> >
> >> On 03/19/2012 06:05 PM, Jim Hurley wrote:
> >>
> >>> I have a slider in which the showValue is set to true.
> >>>
> >>> Unfortunately, the card background is gray and the black slider value
> is
> >>> very difficult to read.
> >>>
> >>> The inspector for the slider does not display an option for the
> >>> foreground color. Why not?
> >>>
> >>> Using 4W Properties (thank you RIchard) the foreground color is listed
> as
> >>> an option (and can be changed there, or from the msg box.)
> >>>
> >>> Why this omission in the Inspector? (LC version 4 AND 5.)
> >>>
> >>
> >> Almost all object have a vast number of options that one can fiddle
> around
> >> with; the Props Inspector only
> >> displays a subset of them; why? I don't know, but I can hazard a guess:
> >>
> >> a Props Inspector that displayed ALL the props of each object might be
> so
> >> unwieldy as to be virtually unusable.
> >>
> >> "Just for fun" . . .
> >>
> >> Set up a new stack with a scrollingListField field called "PROPPS"
> >>
> >> and try this in the MessageBox:
> >>
> >> put the propertyNames into fld "PROPPS"
> >>
> >> and "blow your mind" . . .   :)
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Jim
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