LC 8 Property Inspector

[Richmond]

On 08/10/15 12:14, Ali Lloyd wrote:
> So that this does not get lost in the Project Browser / App Browser thread,
> I've split it off into a separate topic:
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2015 at 8:04 PM Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> While I'm on a roll, I could also point out that I cannot see any
>> obvious advantages in the complete
>> remake of the Preference Palette in LiveCode 8.
>
> There may not be many immediately obvious advantages to the new property
> inspector, but there are two extraordinarily significant related ones:
>
> 1) Widget properties would not work with the old inspector. You would
> perhaps have to create individual stacks for each widget and have its card
> copied to the inspector. This is really not practical or viable in the long
> term.
>
> The new inspector just requires a few lines of metadata in the widget file
> specifying what type of editor to use for a given property. Everything else
> happens automatically.
>
> 2) The new inspector is *really* flexible for the classic objects. Have a
> look at this fix for bug 16118 (no way to change a scrollbar's tooltip in
> the property inspector):
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/pull/562/files
>
>
> We'd like to make it as good and useful as possible. If the worst you can
> say is you can't see any advantages, then I think the non-obvious ones
> above make it well worth it ;-) Otherwise it would be great to hear
> constructive criticism and suggestions for improvement.
>
> Ali
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>

While your points #1 and #2 are true, I'm sure, that does not explain 
why the RunRev team decided
their had to be a complete overhaul in what the thing looked like . . .

Richmond.