No Check Box in the Dictionary??

[william humphrey]

Richard

Thanks for these tips!

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com
> wrote:

> Calvin Waterbury wrote:
>
>  I don't mean to be picky, but neither "checkbox" nor "check box" is in
>> the dictionary.  If I missed something, please tell me?
>>
>
> By default the IDE is set to what an occasionally-rude person like myself
> might call "Lie Mode", in which the names it displays in the Property
> Inspectors aren't the actual "English-like" tokens used in the language
> itself, but presumably some more-English-like-than-English-like label that
> attempts to be more descriptive.
>
> My personal problem with that is that I find it slows rather than smooths
> the experience of getting started with the tool, since using the GUI is a
> much smaller part of the experience than coding, and for coding you need to
> know the actual token.
>
> As Phil noted that's a button style, so you can turn it up in the
> Dictionary entry for "style".
>
>
> Two tips to shorten the distance between "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?" and "Ah,
> I get it" going forward:
>
> 1. In LC's Preferences window, at the top of the first pane is an option
> labeled "Property labels are:" with the default setting of "Description of
> option".  If you change that to "Name of LiveTalk property" you'll pick up
> the language just a little faster, since the GUI will then reflect the
> tokens you'll be using in your scripts.
>
> 2. Those coming from a background in VB, ToolBook, or a good many other
> IDEs are accustomed to finding a property sheet tool, which lists all of the
> properties for a selected object and allows a means of editing them.  The
> Property Inspector does a fine job of providing convenient ways to edit a
> subset of these, but for learning the language it can be very helpful to see
> a list of all of them.
>
> Got you covered there:
>
> 4W Props is a simple property sheet tool for LiveCode, available through
> the Stacks section in RevNet - in the IDE see:
>
>  Development->Plugins->GoRevNet
>
> HTH -
>
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