Re: Design Time Properties


On Sep 10, 2007, at 9:57 PM, Brendan Murphy wrote:


I must be doing a heck of a job of covering your needs or you guys
haven't seen any thing else that needs to be added. I really want
to serve your needs here and make the FTC easy and flexible to
use.
I dunno about anyone else, but I think you're doing a great job. It's nice to see a new control come to life and have a say in how it works. 



OK, I'll open the discussion up a little wider and ask are there
any convenience methods you would like to see added that will make
your job easier?
I've not tried the new FTEditField subclass so I can't offer anything specific. But, I will say that given the general experience level of folks on the forums it needs to act exactly like an editfield out of the box. In other words it needs to be as "drop in" replaceable as possible with the same properties and events so newbies don't get (overly) confused.
In my spare time (ha!) I'll try this with an old project of mine that has some editfields and give feedback that way. Probably be a few days.
I think the only thing the example program needs is an inspector. Something that updates font names, sizes, colors, paragraph alignments and so on in a reasonable manner and you're good to go. You cover some of that with the Format menu but that's not the way most apps go these days. 

Documentation for the complete class is the other thing on my list.

FTC Website: www.truenorthsoftware.com/Realbasic/FormattedText.html
Set List Options (digest and vacation modes): www.freelists.org/list/ftcdev
List Archive: www.freelists.org/archives/ftcdev
Unsubscribe: Send email to ftcdev-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in 
the subject field.

Other related posts: