Calvin Waterbury wrote:
I don't mean to be picky, but neither "checkbox" nor "check box" is in
the dictionary. If I missed something, please tell me?
By default the IDE is set to what an occasionally-rude person like
myself might call "Lie Mode", in which the names it displays in the
Property Inspectors aren't the actual "English-like" tokens used in the
language itself, but presumably some more-English-like-than-English-like
label that attempts to be more descriptive.
My personal problem with that is that I find it slows rather than
smooths the experience of getting started with the tool, since using the
GUI is a much smaller part of the experience than coding, and for coding
you need to know the actual token.
As Phil noted that's a button style, so you can turn it up in the
Dictionary entry for "style".
Two tips to shorten the distance between "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?" and
"Ah, I get it" going forward:
1. In LC's Preferences window, at the top of the first pane is an option
labeled "Property labels are:" with the default setting of "Description
of option". If you change that to "Name of LiveTalk property" you'll
pick up the language just a little faster, since the GUI will then
reflect the tokens you'll be using in your scripts.
2. Those coming from a background in VB, ToolBook, or a good many other
IDEs are accustomed to finding a property sheet tool, which lists all of
the properties for a selected object and allows a means of editing them.
The Property Inspector does a fine job of providing convenient ways to
edit a subset of these, but for learning the language it can be very
helpful to see a list of all of them.
Got you covered there:
4W Props is a simple property sheet tool for LiveCode, available through
the Stacks section in RevNet - in the IDE see:
Development->Plugins->GoRevNet
HTH -
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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