David,
I think I am starting to see the main goodness in this. The code you
wrote would be fine in my opinion But if the object has a custom prop
and you want the 'state' to travel with that object then you can do
it all at once i.e. set the state of that object and it's attributes
and store that by the very nature of the setProp in the object
itself. Then in polling that object/group you then can know if it was
set to a certain state and that is unique to that object. The actual
function below might be better in this case and may not be the best
way to show the usefulness of setProp but I think I am starting to
see setProps in a better light.
Thanks
Tom
On Apr 13, 2006, at 5:55 AM, David Burgun wrote:
Hi,
I don't see what is to be gained using setProp's in this example?
Surely:
function setEditMode pMode
if pMode then
enable button "Save"
enable button "TextColor"
set the lockText of fld "myfld" to true
set the traversalOn of fld "myFld" to true
else
disable button "Save"
disable button "TextColor"
set the lockText of fld "myfld" to false
set the traversalOn of fld "myFld" to false
end if
end setEditMode
---------------
get setEditMode(true/false)
Would do the same job with less lines of code and be much easier to
follow?
All the Best
Dave
On 12 Apr 2006, at 22:26, Devin Asay wrote:
The way I use it is much more pedestrian than the Marks'. For me
it's a really easy way to make sure my interface objects get set
to the proper states. For example, let's say I want to toggle
between an 'editable' and 'noneditable' mode for a text editor:
setProp editMode pMode
if pMode then
enable button "Save"
enable button "TextColor"
set the lockText of fld "myfld" to true
set the traversalOn of fld "myFld" to true
else
disable button "Save"
disable button "TextColor"
set the lockText of fld "myfld" to false
set the traversalOn of fld "myFld" to false
end if
pass editMode -- the docs say you have to explicitly pass it to
have it set the prop
end editMode
Anyway, this is a crude example, but illustrates how it's been
most useful to me. There may be several events in my program that
could trigger a change in edit mode for this field, but in each
case all I'd have to do would be to
set the editMode of cd "editor" to true ## or false
Devin
Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University
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