Property profiles

[Mark Schonewille]

Hi Sarah,

Just like you, I tried to use profiles, before they were broken for 2  
years. They seem to be fixed now, but profiles are too confusing for me.

Modifiying a property of an object causes the property profiles of  
that object to change to make sure that the object stays unchanged for  
each alternative profile. If you set the textFont of an object to bold  
in one profile, the other property profiles of that object are  
explicitly set to plain. I also remember having problems trying to  
make the changes in the profiles stick. This makes working with  
profiles very cumbersome. You never know what the changes in the other  
profiles will be, when you make a change in one of them.

Usually, I only need to change the font of controls, depending on  
platform. It is easy enough to do this by script. Colour adjustments  
for example, too, are easily made by script. You don't need to include  
a heavy profiles library for that. I expect you'll leave out a few  
bugs by using your own scripts instead of the profiles library. Just  
like the geometry manager, I consider the property profiles library  
one of the components that we'd better not use.

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Op 27 mrt 2010, om 05:50 heeft Sarah Reichelt het volgende geschreven:

> Has anyone ever actually used profiles?
>
> I haven't but I thought that I had a good use for them this time, so I
> tried to set them up.
> When I go to the profiles section of the inspector, I see a Master
> profile listed in bold.
> I created another 2 two profiles, planning to delete the Master later
> & switch between my two,
> So far so good, although when I made a profile in the Stack inspector,
> I expected to see it appear in the other objects inspectors too, so
> it's a bit of a bore if i have to create my profiles for every single
> object in my stack.
>
> But then I went to add a property to one of my profiles.It appeared to
> work, but when I clicked on another profile, then back on my new one,
> the property had gone.
> This happened whether I had entered a value or not.
>
> So are profiles broken? Or am I misunderstanding how to set them up?
>
> TIA,
> Sarah