Bob, doesn't the templateButton, templateField, etc., do this for you?
Or do you want to have multiple custom templates? If so, it seems that you could use a custom property, with all the object properties important to you loaded there, and every time you create a new object, just set all those props and their values to that list. Craig Newman -----Original Message----- From: Bob Sneidar <b...@twft.com> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Sent: Mon, Jun 27, 2011 2:59 pm Subject: Re: ANN: PowerTools Oooh... it would be cool if I could set some default properties for other objects like a field or a button, and every time I create that object, the saved properties will be applied. Kind of like Style Sheets only applied to objects! I would pay GOOD MONEY for that! Something like right-click a tool for the first time, and the properties palette shows up only with no properties set yet, so that you could change only a couple things like font and size, and all other properties would be derived from the standard template when you created a new object. Ultimately perhaps even save multiple settings. This would dramatically help form generation. I suspect your first release does not do this, but perhaps in the future? I created a "field dropper" stack which polled an SQL database and allowed me to pick a column and "drop" it onto a card, but all the field properties were hard coded, so that I would maintain a constant look and feel for my forms. Your tools palette seems to be a better methodology. I will have to look into it. Bob On Jun 24, 2011, at 9:13 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Why bother? The tools palette has grown long in the tooth. The only > change to it over the last ten years has been the addition of the > datagrid. I always wanted to add my own controls to the tools palette > but never could (I think Ken Ray has done something along this line as > well <g>). And the graphics tools needed an update. For instance, each > graphic and paint tool now remembers its settings - you can have > different colors or patterns or gradients settings for each tool. _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
