For any that are part of the main product, a PR to add that feature would not be very difficult. If I get some time I will take a look. I do agree that a distinct label would be a good idea for native control widgets.
Thanks, Brian On Apr 28, 2020, 8:23 AM -0400, Graham Samuel via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>, wrote: > I’m still trying to use the ‘mobile native’ style of widget. Previously I’ve > objected to the idea of an object that displays its name and has no label or > alias. My objection was mostly that names that the user sees often have > spaces in them (“Stop Now” or whatever), whereas names with spaces in them > are dangerous to refer to in scripts because it’s so easy to put two in > instead of one, and is either illegal or deprecated in almost all computer > languages. > > Today I came across an even more annoying aspect of this, when I added a > facility to my app to change the language of the display. So a button in > English displaying “Cancel” gets changed to “Annuler”. So if I need to refer > to the button in script, the simplest way is to use its ID and not its name. > The ID is a fine thing, but it doesn’t make for readable code! > > Seriously, is there any chance of these widgets being improved by somebody? > They just need more properties really. > > Graham > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
