YES, thank you Richard !
I don't understand all that but (after experimentation > I keep your post 
preciously) I think I can bring improvement in my sripts...
René

Le 16 juin 2010 à 01:52, Steven Axtell a écrit :

> Richard,
> 
> Thanks for the information.  I appreciate it much.  
> Steve Axtell
> 
> 
> 
>> Steven Axtell wrote:
>> > Is there a command that will allow a field property (textfont,
>> > for example) to be changed in all of the fields of a stack at
>> > the same time?
>> Most visual attributes (textFont, textStyle, textSize, backgroundColor, 
>> foregroundColor, and others) are inherited using roughly the same chain as 
>> the message path: control, background (if present), card, stack, home.
>> If you set the desired properties to empty in the controls themselves, you 
>> can set them at the stack level and those controls will take on those 
>> appearances.
>> Tip:  to find the property settings for a control you can of course just get 
>> it from the control, e.g.:
>>  get the textFont of fld 1
>> But if you've set the property to empty and want to know what value is being 
>> inherited by it, you can use the "effective" keyword:
>>  get the effective textFont of fld 1
>> That will return the value of the property nearest the control which has a 
>> non-empty value, or the engine's default if nothing in the message path has 
>> been set.
>> For example, if your field's textFont is set to empty and your card has a 
>> textFont of "Lucida Grande", then using "the effective textFont" will return 
>> "Lucida Grande".  If the card's textFont is empty but the stack's textFont 
>> is "Ariel", it will return "Ariel".  If you later set the textFont of the 
>> control to "Trebuchet", it will return "Trebuchet" regardless of the value 
>> of any subsequent objects in the chain.
>> HTH -
>> --
>> Richard Gaskin
>> Fourth World
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