Re: The properties property

2012-11-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: Thanks for the history behind this Richard. Hope it was helpful. I've found that any tool with a long history behind it will have some anomalies related to its storied past, and while it won't make them go away it helps us keep our sanity in dealing with them. :) I

Re: The properties property

2012-11-21 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks for the history behind this Richard. I also tried using the templatexxx objects as a source of all properties but it appears that they are basically empty until you set their properties. Or perhaps I was using the wrong syntax. I tried "put the templateStack into tArray" and "put the keys

Re: The properties property

2012-11-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: > Missing out the ones that can be derived from others seems reasonable > and I've found a property named colors that fits that bill in terms > of fore/background colors/patterns etc, and that the decorations > property will contain "system" if systemWindow is true (or vice v

Re: The properties property

2012-11-20 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Jacque, Missing out the ones that can be derived from others seems reasonable and I've found a property named colors that fits that bill in terms of fore/background colors/patterns etc, and that the decorations property will contain "system" if systemWindow is true (or vice versa I guess). Stil

Re: The properties property

2012-11-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/20/12 3:11 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I think I've seen posts in the past mentioning that getting the properties of an object doesn't return all of them but I didn't realise until today just how many are missing. I've only been working with getting the properties of a stack but here's just a