Do widgets support introspection?

[Mark Waddingham]

On 2018-01-10 18:34, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
> Dunno. It's a mystery to me. I'm just working off Ali's comments in
> the PR. Can you guarantee then that widgets must always be distributed
> with a manifest.xml file? Or equivalent?
> 
> https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/commit/397deb26d7c0f93d4461bb36e292f8bafd5b0a5c
> 
> http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=30264

I can't guarantee there will be a separate file in the future 
necessarily, nor something human-readable (the manifest.xml is actually 
generated mechanically from the data in the compiled module file and 
combined with the metadata statements in the source file).

However, as has been highlighted here, we do need to add a nice, simple, 
stable API which returns an array describing a control's public API to 
the IDE library. There is an API which does it in a form suitable for 
the property inspector, but that's not quite as succinct.

So I can guarantee we will add a function 'ideDescribeControl' or some 
such which would return an array listing the controls properties with 
full type information and associated metadata so plugins don't have to 
rely on fettling with internal details.

Warmest Regards,

Mark.

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