The templateField Keyword

[Dan Shafer]

Gregory.....

Yep and you'll find that creating one or more libraries of scripts that you
can use with "start using" will be another great productivity gain in Rev.


On 3/13/06, Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca> wrote:
>
> Thanks once again, Dan, Dave, and Jacqueline.  I think I get it.
> When all is said and done, it seems that for development it's easier
> and faster to create a little stack of fields and other things with
> the features I want and simply copy and paste them into the project
> I'm working on.
>
>         Gregory
>
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2006, at 4:48 AM, Dave Cragg wrote:
>
> > On 13 Mar 2006, at 00:03, Gregory Lypny wrote:
> >>
> >>      What you say below is not how I expect templateField to work based
> >> on its description.  I thought that setting the templateField was a
> >> one-time thing and that it remained in effect until it was reset.
> >> Your handler based on the createField message would seem to make
> >> templateField unnecessary because you're changing the style of
> >> newly created fields using a script after they've been created,
> >> whereas the point of templateField is to set those properties
> >> before.  Am I misunderstanding what you've intended?
> >
> >
> > I think Dan's reply clears it up. There's no need to reset the
> > templateField, although I learned it was a "good idea" back when I
> > started with Metacard, and so have followed that advice like a good
> > boy. ;-) I think the idea is that by immediately resetting the
> > templatexxxxx, you don't leave any surprises around for the next time
> > you create an object. But if you're solely in charge of what gets
> > created, then I guess it doesn't matter.
> >
> > The main point I wanted to make was that you should use "create
> > field" in your own script to get a field that follows the template
> > settings you have made. I don't think you can rely on the tool
> > palette in the IDE to respect the settings you have made. I say this
> > without knowing how the tool palette creates objects; I was just
> > assuming it was likely to set the templateField itself before doing
> > so. I also wasn't sure what the palette does after it has created an
> > object, but Dan's reply suggests it sets back to the state it was in
> > before.
>
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