Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners • Properties and properties

I have been messing around with fields, and discovered that the fields that are delivered from the Tools palette are derived from Tab_delimited files stored way, way down in the merry file structure of LiveCode:

Contents/Tools/Toolset/resources/supporting_files/property-definitions

they contain a vast list of properties:

name
styledText
text
tooltip
disabled
visible
sharedText
dontWrap
lockText
opaque
traversalOn
showFocusBorder
autoTab
threeD
showBorder
borderWidth
hScrollbar
vScrollbar
scrollbarWidth
autoHilite
listBehavior
multipleHilites
nonContiguousHilites
toggleHilites
firstIndent
dontSearch
layerMode
behavior
basicTableObject
cellEdit
maxColumnCount
cellFormat
showLines
hGrid
vGrid
tabStops
foregroundColor
foregroundPattern
backgroundColor
backgroundPattern
hiliteColor
hilitePattern
borderColor
borderPattern
topColor
topPattern
bottomColor
bottomPattern
shadowColor
shadowPattern
focusColor
focusPattern
customProperties
blendLevel
ink
textFont
textSize
textStyle
textAlign
fixedLineHeight
textHeight
margins
lockLoc
width::revIDESetRectProperty
height::revIDESetRectProperty
dropShadow
innerShadow
outerGlow
innerGlow
colorOverlay

my emphasis

the properties that I have highlighted in orange are not listed in the Dictionary, and on changing them, do not seem to change a field in any observable fashion.

HOW can I work out what properties DO have an effect on an object, and what ones DON'T?

I am a bit fussed that there seem to be many, many areas inwith LiveCode (= community version) I cannot find documentation.

Statistics: Posted by richmond62 — Tue Nov 26, 2024 1:55 pm

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