Text formatting for a slider

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Tue Mar 20 13:55:41 EDT 2012


On 03/19/2012 11:57 PM, Jim Hurley wrote:
> Pete,
>
> Yes, my feeling exactly. It looks like there was a conscious effort to omit the foregroundColor  for the slider (and scollbar as well). I was worried that it was to be deprecated.
>
> (I wasn't concerned about ALL the properties being in the Inspector. It is odd, however, that there is a place for the foreGroundColor property, an icon but no defining text, but no way to access it. I suspect RR got distracted while implementing the slider Inspector.)
>
> You might want to check out Richard's 4wProps (under the Development/Plugins menu). Easy access to all the properties.
>
> Occasionally I have found (legendary) Renaldi's SmartProperties invalueable. It allows one to compare side by side the properties to two objects. It is valuable in finding out why two, apparently identical, controls behave or look different.
>
> Jim Hurley
>
>

It would be wonderful if Livecode, instead of making judgement calls 
about what properties
You or I might like to have access to for any particular object, made it 
so that the preferences palette
would have all its possibilities enabled all the time.




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