> On 26 Aug 2016, at 7:40 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote:
> 
> Monte Goulding wrote:
> 
> >> On 26 Aug 2016, at 7:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >>
> >> You'll also want to use those properties for any getters as well,
> >> given that they are global and perhaps settable by third-party
> >> plugins.
> >
> > Here’s where the problems settle in. By using revIDESetPreference
> > anything that has subscribed to the preference change will get a
> > message. If someone sets that property then they won’t...
> 
> In the current implementation that's true, hence my request.
> 
> On the other hand, no one else seems to mind that those global properties are 
> not being used, so if it's easier to ditch the props and use the scripted 
> function it won't be the end of the world.
> 
> But if you do that, please add entries for the alternate functions, and 
> include links in the Dict entries for scriptTextFont and scriptTextSize so 
> anyone looking for those will know where to go.

Yes indeed… there’s *lots* of undocumented APIs in the IDE. At the moment as we 
go we are adding lcdoc comments to public APIs. At some point we will have done 
that enough to parse IDE libraries and generate an IDE dictionary. It is, 
however, a long row to hoe.

Cheers

Monte
_______________________________________________
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

Reply via email to