[ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

[Richard Gaskin]

Monte Goulding wrote:

 > Richard wrote:
 >> Any chance we can have the scriptTextFont and scriptTextSize global
 >> properties reinstated as the mechanism for that?
 >>
 >> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11596
 >
 > After reading the report I’m not really sure if they are deprecated
 > or not…

They worked in the MC IDE, and IIRC in the Revolution IDE for a while as 
well.

Maybe what happened is that during the major Script Editor overhaul 
someone who wasn't familiar with the long history of those HyperTalk 
properties replaced them with scripted alternatives.

I like Panos' suggestion:

 > Could we probably set them on startup?
 >
 > put revIDEGetPreference("cScriptEditor,editor,font") into scriptTextFont
 > put revIDEGetPreference("cScriptEditor,editor,fontSize") into 
scriptTextSize

You'll also want to use those properties for any getters as well, given 
that they are global and perhaps settable by third-party plugins.

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