Thanks Mark, I took your advice and did it myself. It was easy enough so I won't bother about profiles.
Cheers, Sarah On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Mark Schonewille <m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > Just like you, I tried to use profiles, before they were broken for 2 years. > They seem to be fixed now, but profiles are too confusing for me. > > Modifiying a property of an object causes the property profiles of that > object to change to make sure that the object stays unchanged for each > alternative profile. If you set the textFont of an object to bold in one > profile, the other property profiles of that object are explicitly set to > plain. I also remember having problems trying to make the changes in the > profiles stick. This makes working with profiles very cumbersome. You never > know what the changes in the other profiles will be, when you make a change > in one of them. > > Usually, I only need to change the font of controls, depending on platform. > It is easy enough to do this by script. Colour adjustments for example, too, > are easily made by script. You don't need to include a heavy profiles > library for that. I expect you'll leave out a few bugs by using your own > scripts instead of the profiles library. Just like the geometry manager, I > consider the property profiles library one of the components that we'd > better not use. > > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering > Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com > Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer > > Economy-x-Talk is always looking for new software development projects. Feel > free to contact me for a quote. > > Op 27 mrt 2010, om 05:50 heeft Sarah Reichelt het volgende geschreven: > >> Has anyone ever actually used profiles? >> >> I haven't but I thought that I had a good use for them this time, so I >> tried to set them up. >> When I go to the profiles section of the inspector, I see a Master >> profile listed in bold. >> I created another 2 two profiles, planning to delete the Master later >> & switch between my two, >> So far so good, although when I made a profile in the Stack inspector, >> I expected to see it appear in the other objects inspectors too, so >> it's a bit of a bore if i have to create my profiles for every single >> object in my stack. >> >> But then I went to add a property to one of my profiles.It appeared to >> work, but when I clicked on another profile, then back on my new one, >> the property had gone. >> This happened whether I had entered a value or not. >> >> So are profiles broken? Or am I misunderstanding how to set them up? >> >> TIA, >> Sarah > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution