peter_honeder

Hi everybody!

I have tried different things and read through all the documentation but I cannot find a way to properly understand how object styles can be created will all their attributes. Is there any documentation I am missing or any additional explanation?

I have found the kNewObjectStyleCmdBoss and I have read through some commands inheriting from kObjectStyleBaseCmdBoss, but I cannot really find the way to set e.g. text inset or really fully understand how object styles work and their interfaces fit together.

Any help would be appreciated!

Best regards,
Peter

peter_honeder

ok, solved :-)

object styles made me really crazy until I fully understood how they work and what all the interfaces are for.

Basic howto:

look at kObjectStyleBoss and especially kObjectStylesTargetBoss. The "target" is the thing that holds all the data.

It is not a good idea to create an object style from scratch as it contains nearly 1300 boss classes in its attribute lists and similar datastructures.
Better get the target of an existing one, modify it and create a new one using this information.

Best regards,
Peter