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Attribute Access System Procedures

The attribute access system procedures are introspective in that they describe an item's internal structure, including:

System- and user-defined attributes.
The default values of each attribute.
Hidden attributes.

One system procedure returns the current values of an item's attributes.

These are the system procedures to use in conjunction with the attribute access facility:

g2-get-attribute-descriptions-of-class 
	(class-name: symbol, specific-attributes: value) 
	-> 	attribute-descriptions: sequence

Returns a sequence of the attribute descriptions of the given attributes for a class.

g2-get-attributes-visible-in-mode 
	(class-or-item: item-or-value, user-mode: symbol) 
	-> 	list-of-attributes: sequence

Returns a sequence of the attributes that are visible in a particular mode.

g2-get-attribute-values-of-item 
	(itm: class item, specific-attributes: value) 
	-> 	attribute-values: structure

Returns a structure of the current values of the class attributes that you provide.

g2-get-attribute-texts-of-item 
	(itm: class item, specific-attributes: value) 
	-> 	attributes-as-text: structure

Returns a structure of the textual representation of the class attributes that you provide.

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