Thanks for the explanation Monte. I vaguely remember something about controlIDs and controlNames but didn't recognise lockUpdates..
If I could figure out how to submit the documentation, I might be willing to do it for you. Mark Wieder sent me a link to the docs tool a while back but so far I've had no success in figuring out how to use it. Pete lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Monte Goulding <[email protected] > wrote: > > On 14/09/2013, at 3:17 AM, Peter Haworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 6.1.1 has three properties returned by the propertynames that are not in > > the dictionary nor mentioned in the release notes: > > > > controlids > > controlnames > > lockupdates > > > > Anyone know what these are? > > Good catch Pete > > These were contributed by me before the docs were in the repo and I > assumed (obviously wrongly) that someone who had access was doing them. > > lockUpdates is a group property which disables resetting the group (rect, > scrollbars etc) when you do something to a child control like move it. You > want to use this to optimise performance if your changing lots of > properties on children and only need the group to refresh at the end. It's > a session only property (not saved). > > controlIDs and controlNames are like childControlIDs and childControlNames > however they parse all the children recursively rather than just direct > descendants. > > I guess I'd better add documenting these to my todo list unless someone > else feels like having a go? > > Cheers > > -- > Monte Goulding > > M E R Goulding - software development services > mergExt - There's an external for that! > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
