The Editor→Design Note property is used to specify most parameters for a script. The design note is a string that can be a list of parameters, or a single parameter by itself. A parameters is a keyword, followed by an equals sign (=), then an argument. The argument may be surrounded with single or double quotes. Multiple parameters are seperated with a semi-colon (;). If you need to include a semi-colon in an argument, then it must be surrounded by quotes. A quote mark can be included by using the other type of quote mark to surround the argument, or escape the quote mark with a back-slash.

  param='a \'quoted\' argument'
  name="This is a name";number=15

When a script looks for an integer or flag parameter, you can have it read a quest variable. After the equals sign, type a dollar sign ($) and the name of the quest variable. There may not be space between the dollar sign and the variable name.

  knockouts=$DrSKnockout
  zero=0;also_zero;true=1;also_true=true

Some scripts use a parameter for a time value. If this is in the Script→Timing property, then the time is in milliseconds. But where the time is read from the design note, or a string file, then you can add a suffix to have the time interpreted differently. Add the letter s to indicate seconds, or m for minutes. Without a letter, the time is milliseconds.

  time=1.5m
  time=90s
  time=90000

Color values can be given one of three ways: in HTML form using six hexadecimal digits, as three decimal numbers separated with commas, or as a name.

  red=#FF0000
  blue="0,0,255"
  green="green"

The color names are black, silver, gray, grey, white, maroon, red, purple, fuchsia, green, lime, olive, yellow, navy, blue, teal, aqua.

Most properties are read on a first-serve basis. First the concrete object is checked, them metaproperties, then archetypes. If design notes were like this, then every each object would require a complete list of parameters required. Instead, parameters are read in a way similar to the Scripts property. All the parameters in the Editor\Design Note properties of the object, metaproperties, and archetypes are combined together.

Like a regular property, the individual parameters are found on a first-serve basis. The script will look for it first on the concrete object, then the metaproperties, then the archetypes. If a parameter is set on the archetype, but you want to ignore it without setting any particular value, then use just an exclamation mark as the parameter value.

  ignore_this=!

This is not the same as giving the parameter an empty value. A script may provide a default value for parameters that are unset, but will do something different if it is set to nothing.