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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>I had a thought on handling the attributes last night. One of the dangers of allowing everything into an attribute is that cruft can build up and the file size balloon, especially if a single sequence is shuffled between applications. It would be nice to have a formalized way of ensuring that a minimal, informative sequence object can be created. So, I suggest that we code for three levels of information:<BR>
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Base level: minimum necessary to hold an attribute: name, type, range, notes. Everything else is removed. Guaranteed to work in any BC-based app.<BR>
App level: All objects are tested to determine whether the current application has the class to work with is kept; everything else is removed.<BR>
Verbose level: everything’s there, whether it can be used or not.<BR>
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This way, information that’s been copied, dragged and dropped, etc. can easily be streamlined in a way that’s more appropriate for the receiving app.<BR>
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JT<BR>
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Ok, yes, I'm awake, and yes, I'm still sleepy. Indeed one of the benefits of the NSString as charles mentioned was that along the lines of the BSML format it's handy to have it as a string for archiving and stuff. That's the reason... Also, it's a method, not an accessor it generates the NSString upon request. BUT, what I can do of course is add a - </SPAN></FONT><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'><FONT FACE="Courier, Courier New">classForName</FONT><FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial">: method in addition, perhaps a better alternative. <BR>
Cheers, and good morning, <BR>
Alex <BR>
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Ps. I realize this doesn't help reducing today's list traffic ;-) <BR>
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