6.1

[Monte Goulding]

Where are these lists coming from?

colors and patterns are now individual properties... you also can't have both a foreColor and a forePattern etc so it returns the one you have if you have one...

Also as I said before if properties aren't set then it doesn't return them.

On 13/06/2013, at 9:54 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> OK, well the wording of the release notes implies that some properties that
> were previously returned are no longer there, at least by my reading.  I
> know some properties that were missing have been included in 6.1 and that's
> great.
> 
> I did a quick test to compare the properties returned by 6.1 and 5.5 for a
> stack, card, field and button.
> 
> The following properties have been added for those objects in 6.1:
> 
> STACK
> fullscreen
> editMenus
> systemWindow
> shadowOffset
> 
> CARD
> shadowOffset
> 
> FIELD
> None
> 
> BUTTON
> None
> 
> I can't say for sure but I'm pretty sure there are still missing properties
> 
> 
> The following properties are returned in 5.5 but NOT in 6.1
> 
> STACK
> menubar
> linkHiliteColor
> patterns
> colors
> linkVisitedColor
> title
> linkColor
> textStyle
> underlineLinks
> password
> scroll
> behavior
> textSize
> textFont
> 
> CARD
> rect
> patterns
> defaultButton
> colors
> textStyle
> behavior
> textSize
> textFont
> 
> FIELD
> None
> 
> BUTTON
> None
> 
> I'm hoping my test script is flawed because that seems like a mess if it's
> true. Busy checking now.
> 
> 
> 
> Pete
> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 1:27 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>wrote:
> 
>> On 6/12/13 3:03 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
>> 
>> It sounds like "the properties" doesn't return all the properties it used
>>> to return, only those needed to recreate it.  That's great for those who
>>> want to recreate an object by maybe not so great for folks who want to use
>>> it for other purposes.
>>> 
>> 
>> It's the other way around, the properties used to omit some of the new
>> ones like graphic effects. They've been added in.
>> 
>> It never did list redundant ones though (an explanation is in the docs.)
>> For example, width and height are omitted because they can be obtained from
>> the rect.
>> 
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