Performance speed of widgets (was: how to create a Custom Control)

2016-05-04 Thread sanke
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016, Richard Gaskin wrote: I think Kevin said best back in August in a discussion of when to choose LCS and LCB: (snip) Previously our primary choices were between LiveCode Script and a lower level language such as C. Now we have a third choice, an intermedi

Re: how to create a Custom Control

2016-04-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Ali wrote... >> put the keys of (the properties of the templatefield) That works…tks ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.

Re: how to create a Custom Control

2016-04-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ali Lloyd wrote: > On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:21 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: >> > Hmmm I could have sworn this worked years ago: >> > >> > put the keys of templatefield >> > >> > But it doesn’t today… how to you see all the props for the >> > template? >> >> Plea

Re: how to create a Custom Control

2016-04-28 Thread Ali Lloyd
I suspect put the keys of (the properties of the templatefield) is what you want. On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:21 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: > Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > > Hmmm I could have sworn this worked years ago: > > > > put the keys of templatefield > > > > But it doesn’t today…

Re: how to create a Custom Control

2016-04-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > Hmmm I could have sworn this worked years ago: > > put the keys of templatefield > > But it doesn’t today… how to you see all the props for the template? Please try it in v8.0rc1 and if it fails submit your recipe in a bug report. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: how to create a Custom Control

2016-04-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Kevin: “Use them [widgets] only when really needed” Ok that makes good sense that as a strategy On 4/27/16, 10:41 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin" wrote: >They're >easy enough to make in LC Script that the benefit of doing so is a >non-brainer. For ad hoc gadgets, like an

Re: how to create a Custom Control

2016-04-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > I’m still trying to wrap my head around the use cases where a widget > will be clearly superior architecture. Widgets are a great choice when you're making a GUI element you expect to share with other developers for use across a wide range of applications.

Re: how to create a Custom Control

2016-04-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
On 4/27/16, 5:38 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin" wrote: >A custom control is just a group of other controls put together to >provide something, well, custom. I would like to take this one step further if that does not overstep the scope of this thread: How easy or hard, is

Re: how to create a Custom Control

2016-04-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Todd Fabacher wrote: > I have a simple question. Sorry for my ignorance, but how does one > create a Custom Control from a group? It seems to be just a group, > but somehome there is a way to set the group to be a Custom Control. > Is a "Custom Control" a defined stack in the Plugins folder? A c

how to create a Custom Control

2016-04-26 Thread Todd Fabacher
I have a simple question. Sorry for my ignorance, but how does one create a Custom Control from a group? It seems to be just a group, but somehome there is a way to set the group to be a Custom Control. Is a "Custom Control" a defined stack in the Plugins folder? Thanks for the help. --Todd _