Richard Thanks for these tips!
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com > wrote: > 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 - > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com > Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com > LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- http://www.bluewatermaritime.com _______________________________________________ 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
