widget properties

[Ali Lloyd]

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>
> > 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.
>
> No there isn't, because if you aren't using it to completely import an
object (i.e. set the properties of obj1 to the properties of obj2) it's
your lookout what properties you include in the array to set - so just
don't include all the forms of text.