Control properties not included in the Property Inspector

Mark Wieder ahsoftware at sonic.net
Mon Nov 6 18:27:13 EST 2017


On 11/06/2017 02:12 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote:

> Not all properties are in the properties array. The properties array is only read/write properties and not that duplicate info from other properties. For example it only includes htmlText not rtfText, text & styledText.
> 
> You may want to refer here for inspiration:
> 
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/blob/develop/Toolset/resources/supporting_files/property_definitions/propertyInfo.txt <https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/blob/develop/Toolset/resources/supporting_files/property_definitions/propertyInfo.txt>

Wow. That's unreadable.

But aside from that
<rant>
I've never liked the idea of hiding things from users.
Ideally you might want to show groups of properties contextually, but 
the idea that there are properties that exist but you can't get to them 
just does.not.seem.right.
</rant

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  Mark Wieder
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