Widget Properties

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2015-10-11 02:18, Monte Goulding wrote:
> Yes this is an odd one which I’ve queried before. You can now use
> export widget to array to get the widget defined properties as they
> will be saved. I don’t think this includes the base object properties
> like visible, rect, disabled etc though. This is one of the things I
> need to investigate if I ever have time to get lcVCS working on LC 8…

Well I added a minimal 'export widget to array' command precisely for 
use by lcVCS (as well as the 'is really a <Type>' operators).

As it stands it returns a standard array structure which encodes the 
internal state required by a widget to reconstruct it's portion of 
things. The eventual aim is that the command will work on any object to 
return its internal structure in a similar way.

The 'parent' properties aren't currently there because none of the 
engine object classes (apart from Widget) currently implement an 
appropriate 'export to array' mechanism; and I figured it would be easy 
enough for you to leverage existing lcVCS code to fetch the small set of 
base properties that also need to be saved.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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