Hi all,
All REALbasic platforms.
For a future REALbasic release.
Yesterday, I was reading the FolderItem Class entry of the Language Reference
and found the following 8 boolean property names:
Alias [r/o]
Directory *
ExtensionVisible **
Exists *
isReadable [r/o]
isWriteable [r/o]
Locked
Visible
[r/o] stands for Read Only. These property names were in bold and according to
the documentation, these are Read Only.
Everyone can see that the two latest entries are prefixed using 'is'.
My question here is: can you change the other 6 boolean names to include that
prefix too so after you implement this change in a future version, the code
source reader knows instantly if the property is a boolean or not.
What do your think ? Worth a feature request or not ?
I do not talk about:
a. implementing that in REALbasic,
b. future changes in the existing sources
(to make them working with these "new names").
Emile
* I can't understand why this is not marked as Read Only: an OS mass storage
related object is a file _OR_ a directory (or folder if you prefer). How can I
change that ? For the Exists property, I can't understand too why this is not
noted as Read Only.
** I still have to see this working. Understand me correctly: I do not say that
this do not works, but I say that I do not have seen it working. According to
the documentation this is a Mac OS X only feature (I currently run 10.3.8), and
according to my 'usage', I failed to see it working. A simple explanation is
welcome;
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