widget properties

[Richard Gaskin]

Monte wrote:

 > I think probably the VCS use-case is a non-issue right now.

Agreed.


 >> If we have export for all object types, there's no
 >> reason (other than backwards compatibility) that the properties
 >> property couldn't return the value of every single gettable property
 >> of an object type.
 >
 > Yes there is. If we include all the different forms of text for
 > example (htmlText, text, rtfText, styledText) then we have to have
 > even more complicated precedence rules than we currently do when
 > setting.

FWIW, if it keeps things simpler I wouldn't change anything at all in 
"the properties" beyond adding the export info for widgets.

Below I've copied the list of keys from getting "the properties" of a 
field. Neither rtfText nor even text are there, because both are 
permutations of the one form that covers what's needed to reproduce 
field contents, htmlText.

Apparently a fair bit of thought went into "the properties".  Unless 
there's a show-stopping need to alter it, I'd leave it as-is, add the 
widget info, and move on to other tasks.

If something more complete or somehow different is needed in the future, 
the future would be a good time to address it. :)  That is, maintain 
what we have, and take your time thinking through a new form of this 
sort of array representation of an object as that need becomes defined. 
As much as I appreciate the interest in this, my own needs are modest, 
and I know that you folks have quite a queue filled with other things.


altId
autoHilite
autoTab
backColor
backPattern
behavior
blendLevel
borderColor
borderPattern
borderWidth
bottomColor
bottomPattern
cantSelect
colorOverlay
cursorMovement
disabled
dontSearch
dontWrap
dropShadow
firstIndent
fixedLineHeight
focusColor
focusPattern
foreColor
forePattern
hGrid
hiliteColor
hilitedLines
hilitePattern
hScroll
hScrollbar
htmlText
id
ink
innerGlow
innerShadow
layer
layerMode
listBehavior
lockLoc
lockText
margins
multipleHilites
name
noncontiguousHilites
opaque
outerGlow
rect
scrollbarWidth
shadow
shadowColor
shadowOffset
shadowPattern
sharedText
showBorder
showFocusBorder
showLines
style
tabStops
textAlign
textDirection
textFont
textHeight
textSize
textStyle
threeD
threeDHilite
toggleHilites
toolTip
topColor
topPattern
traversalOn
vGrid
visible
vScroll
vScrollbar

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