Re: show vs visible

2005-12-04 Thread Klaus Major
Hi Mark, Preston- Saturday, December 3, 2005, 5:25:04 PM, you wrote: Hide and show are verbs (commands) visible is a property with boolean value: If the visible of myObject is false then... or If not the visible of myObject then... I don't know if you could say this with just hide

RE: show vs visible

2005-12-04 Thread Marty Billingsley
Preston Shea [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I get out of my depth pretty easily, so your observation may be going over my head: But there is a way of setting the property (hide and show) without actually referring to the property visible. So why can't we find out the state of the property

Re: show vs visible

2005-12-04 Thread James Spencer
On Dec 4, 2005, at 8:35 AM, Marty Billingsley wrote: Just asking if Transcript, which has been made English-like in the first instance (the setting of the property by using the verb hide) can be extended to be English-like in the second instance (accessing the state of the property by using

show vs visible

2005-12-03 Thread Preston Shea
Marty - I get out of my depth pretty easily, so your observation may be going over my head: But there is a way of setting the property (hide and show) without actually referring to the property visible. So why can't we find out the state of the property without knowing explicitly about it,

Re: show vs visible

2005-12-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Preston- Saturday, December 3, 2005, 5:25:04 PM, you wrote: Hide and show are verbs (commands) visible is a property with boolean value: If the visible of myObject is false then... or If not the visible of myObject then... I don't know if you could say this with just hide ROTFL. To be