Widget properties

[Tweedly]

That post from Ali says they are not available; it doesn’t say they should be not available.

I’d say they should be -  Ali’s workaround is good for the IDE only.

So no reason not to submit as a bug/request, and get a proper determination from LCLtd.

Alex

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> On 6 Apr 2022, at 13:37, matthias rebbe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> That is not available according to this post from Ali Lloyd
> 
> https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?t=27183#p141945 <https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?t=27183#p141945>
> 
> 
>> Am 06.04.2022 um 14:03 schrieb Neville Smythe via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>:
>> 
>> Is it not a bug that
>> 
>>    the properties of widget “foo”
>> 
>> returns empty (for all values of foo)?
>> 
>> No rect, no visible, no disabled etc, even though these clearly are settable and functional properties of the widget.
>> 
>> You can
>> 
>>   export widget “foo” to array “bar”
>> 
>> but that gives the intrinsic properties of the widget not the usual object properties. Oh and don’t forget the reserved word “array” in the above line, that causes an IDE crash (bug 23655 <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23655> confirmed)
>> 
>> Neville
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