At 2:51 PM -0800 1/22/2002, Michael J. Lew wrote: >When I am scripting I often need to know simple things like "How do I >script the color of the label of a button?" and find it awkward to >find the answer in the dictionary for lack of prior knowledge of the >relevant property name. ...OK that's an easy one, "textColor" is an >obvious guess and it takes me to foregroundColor in the docs and the >problem is solved. But I have had many occasions when I have had to >guess many different possible property names before finding the right >one.
>and it is great! I use it frequently. Could it be built into the docs >so that I could choose, for example, buttons from a list of object >types and then be presented with the list of standard properties that >then link to their dictionary entries? This is coming in 1.1.1 (although it may or may not be in b2.) It will be in the "Transcript Dictionary" page in the main docs window, and you'll be able to filter the list of terms to show e.g. only button properties, or only messages, or only messages sent to cards, or... You might also find the "How to" section handy for this sort of query. It needs beefing up with more answers, although "How to change the color of text" is in there in 1.1. >On a closely related note I saw Michael Fisher's post that >properties() doesn't return ALL of the properties: "You can get most >but not all of the properties of an object using the >properties array". Why not all of the properties? What type of >properties are left out? > >-- >Michael J. Lew > >Senior Lecturer >Department of Pharmacology >The University of Melbourne >Parkville 3010 >Victoria >Australia > >Phone +613 8344 8304 > >** >New email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >** >_______________________________________________ >improve-revolution mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/improve-revolution -- Jeanne A. E. DeVoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.runrev.com/ Runtime Revolution Limited - Power to the Developer! _______________________________________________ improve-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/improve-revolution
