Re: show vs visible

2005-12-04 Thread James Spencer
On Dec 4, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Marty Billingsley wrote: Just asking if Transcript, which has been made English-like in the first instance (the setting of the property by using the verb "hide") can be extended to be English-like in the second instance (accessing the state of the property by using t

RE: show vs visible

2005-12-04 Thread Marty Billingsley
"Preston Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I get out of my depth pretty easily, so your observation may be going over > my head: > > "But there is a way of setting the property (hide and show) without > actually referring to the property "visible". So why can't we > find out the state of the p

Re: show vs visible

2005-12-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mark, Preston- Saturday, December 3, 2005, 5:25:04 PM, you wrote: Hide and show are verbs (commands) visible is a property with boolean value: "If the visible of myObject is false then..." or "If not the visible of myObject then..." I don't know if you could say this with just "hide"

Re: show vs visible

2005-12-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Preston- Saturday, December 3, 2005, 5:25:04 PM, you wrote: > Hide and show are verbs (commands) visible is a property with boolean value: > "If the visible of myObject is false then..." or "If not the visible of > myObject then..." > I don't know if you could say this with just "hide" ROTFL. To