Peter Haworth wrote: > Missing out the ones that can be derived from others seems reasonable > and I've found a property named colors that fits that bill in terms > of fore/background colors/patterns etc, and that the decorations > property will contain "system" if systemWindow is true (or vice versa > I guess). Still mystified by textAlign though.
It can sometimes help maintain one's sanity to know the backstory for something as seemingly bizarre as the current state of the properties function:
It was originally added back in the MetaCard days at Kevin's request, so the first RunRev IDE could easily reproduce objects with syntax as simple as "set the properties of <obj> to the properties of <obj>".
After Raney added that for them, RunRev has since acquired the code base and, somewhat ironically, no longer depend on this property as they once did.
So the properties you'll see supported tend to be older ones, and redundant ones like backgroundColor, also covered by the colors, aren't bothered with because they aren't needed for the original purpose of the function.
All that said, as long as it's there is can be very helpful, but only if they make an effort to maintain it whenver they add new properties - there's a request in the bug DB to bring it current:
<http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2732> -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web ____________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.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
