Mark Wieder wrote:
> On 4/6/22 16:39, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> > ...there has never been any intention of supporting the properties
>> > for widgets as far as I’m aware...
>>
>> If the company wants widgets to be seen as first-class citizens, a
>> little more conformity with existing object syntax would go a long
>> way to making that happen.
>
>
> Adding to that is the incoming LCS widget architecture, so I'm not
> putting deep learning time into something I'll just have to unlearn
> when the next wave hits.
Succinctly put.
Back when Ben was fleshing out the "before" and "after" messaging
options, and the object-local mirror of the selectGroupedControls
property for groups, and other such things that have made the DataGrid
such a joy to work with, I had high hopes that this effort to
encapsulate compound objects durably would continue.
I'm very excited by the choice to return to that effort. LCB is a fine
language, and I'm as envious of its indexed arrays as I am mystified why
they haven't found their way into LCS. But it's so easy to make
compound objects in LCS I haven't been able to justify the time to learn
a similar-but-incompatible language.
So soon we will have three classes of objects: engine-native, widgets,
and whatever the LCS-based widgets are called.
It would be great to have a single robust, uniform serialization for
their attributes.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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