[ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

[Monte Goulding]

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 7:40 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> Monte Goulding wrote:
> 
> >> On 26 Aug 2016, at 7:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > Here’s where the problems settle in. By using revIDESetPreference
> > anything that has subscribed to the preference change will get a
> > message. If someone sets that property then they won’t...
> 
> In the current implementation that's true, hence my request.
> 
> On the other hand, no one else seems to mind that those global properties are not being used, so if it's easier to ditch the props and use the scripted function it won't be the end of the world.
> 
> But if you do that, please add entries for the alternate functions, and include links in the Dict entries for scriptTextFont and scriptTextSize so anyone looking for those will know where to go.

Yes indeed… there’s *lots* of undocumented APIs in the IDE. At the moment as we go we are adding lcdoc comments to public APIs. At some point we will have done that enough to parse IDE libraries and generate an IDE dictionary. It is, however, a long row to hoe.

Cheers

Monte