Getting property information

All the methods mentioned in this section are provided in the API class. Use the corresponding method to get the property information which you want.

Getting property value

The following methods are used for getting the property values of different types and return the property value:

• getInt(String handle, String name)
• getLong(String handle, String name)
• getFloat(String handle, String name)
• getDouble(String handle, String name)
• getString(String handle, String name)
• getBool(String handle, String name)
• getColor(String handle, String name)
• getControlFields(String handle, String name)

Parameters

• handle - Object handle.
• name - Property name.

Getting property name, type and checking property name

• getPropType(String handle, String name)
  Gets and returns the property type defined in the Designer class.
• getPropnames(String handle)
  Gets property names and returns a name array.
• containPropName(String handle, String name)
  Checks whether the property name exists. If it exists, it will return true.

Parameters

• handle - Selected object handle.
• name - Name of the property.

Changing property value

The following methods are used for changing the property values of different types. They will return true if the value is changed.

• set(String handle, String name, Boolean value)
• set(String handle, String name, int value)
• set(String handle, String name, long value)
• set(String handle, String name, float value)
• set(String handle, String name, double value)
• set(String handle, String name, String value)
• set(String handle, String name, Color value)
• setReference(String handle, String name, String refHandle)
• setControlFields(String handle, String prop, String field)

Parameters

• handle - Target object handle.
• name - Property name.
• value - Property value.
• refHandle - Referenced object handle.
• prop - Property name.