You didn't misunderstand, that is (almost) exactly what I'm suggesting (once we had import/export for all objects), although I think the way set works should probably be tweaked so that we *don't* do any manual fettling - we just document that setting certain groups of properties via the properties is undefined behavior. If you want to set *all* the properties of an object to the same as another, don't do it like that, use export/import instead.
Essentially my point of view is that a properties property should return all properties. Otherwise it can't really work with widgets. The manual fettling for the order of properties to set isn't really compatible with the fact that widget authors can define properties in innumerable ways that we don't know in advance, unless we force widget authors to provide the equivalent of the engine's s_preprocess_props. I just realised though that you can't set if it's a function, so it would have to be a property, and then you couldn't include the properties property :-( On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 3:20 AM Monte Goulding via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > I must have misunderstood. I thought you were proposing adding all > gettable properties to the properties and not changing the way set works > (i.e. iterating all elements and setting them one at a time). > > Cheers > > Monte > _______________________________________________ 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
