New 6.1.1 Properties

[Ralph DiMola]

Monte,

For mobile.....I have a scrolling group full of stuff (Images, text fields
doing font sizing ...) that is dynamically built and slides in after the
rest of card is displayed. So I lock the screen for effects, build the group
and then unlock it and it slides in. Would lockUpdates help the performance
in this case?
It doesn't sound like it will based on your description, but I just had to
ask......

Thanks

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdimola at evergreeninfo.net

-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Monte Goulding
Sent: Friday, September 13, 2013 4:23 PM
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: New 6.1.1 Properties


On 14/09/2013, at 3:17 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> 6.1.1 has three properties returned by the propertynames that are not 
> in the dictionary nor mentioned in the release notes:
> 
> controlids
> controlnames
> lockupdates
> 
> Anyone know what these are?

Good catch Pete

These were contributed by me before the docs were in the repo and I assumed
(obviously wrongly) that someone who had access was doing them.

lockUpdates is a group property which disables resetting the group (rect,
scrollbars etc) when you do something to a child control like move it. You
want to use this to optimise performance if your changing lots of properties
on children and only need the group to refresh at the end.  It's a session
only property (not saved).

controlIDs and controlNames are like childControlIDs and childControlNames
however they parse all the children recursively rather than just direct
descendants.

I guess I'd better add documenting these to my todo list unless someone else
feels like having a go?

Cheers

--
Monte Goulding

M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an external
for that!





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