Widget Properties

[Peter Haworth]

You have my vote to go ahead with that and thanks for proposing it.

Pete
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On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 11:44 PM, Monte Goulding <
monte at sweattechnologies.com> wrote:

>
> > On 11 Oct 2015, at 5:26 pm, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:
> >
> > On 10/10/2015 11:11 PM, Monte Goulding wrote:
> >
> >> No I haven’t reported it. I got the impression from the discussion that
> it was never intended to support the properties so it wouldn’t happen. I’m
> about to propose (on the engine forum) a refactor of the properties
> property (which I’ll do if they want me to) that will essentially make the
> properties property self maintaining rather than the current situation
> which means the list of properties for an object type needs to be
> maintained manually. This wasn’t possible before the refactor and there’s
> still a few issues like identifying which synonym of a property is the one
> to use in the properties array and which properties should be in the array.
> The end result will mean the properties of a widget will be kind + the
> standard properties for a control + the standard properties for an object.
> >
> > Oh, please do. I hate that manual updating thing.
>
> Here’s what I’m thinking:
>
> http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=25563 <
> http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=25563>
>
> If I get the go ahead there’s going to be bucket loads trivial changes and
> stuff like identifying which token is a synonym and which is the official
> token. Things like rect and rectangle are curly because just about nobody
> uses rectangle yet obviously rect is the synonym and has been used in the
> properties property for as long as it has existed...
>
> Cheers
>
> Monte
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