Inspectors: How to see the properties and attributes of the parent class?

[Anonymous]

Several inspector functions are provided with Maxscript and are very useful to get the name of the properties and attributes of an object. They seem stuck to the class of the object itself though.

Does someone know how to list the properties of the parent class (also called the superclass)?

Eg:
s = sphere()
$Sphere:Sphere01 @
getpropnames s
#(#smooth, #radius, #segs, #mapcoords, #slice, #hemisphere, #sliceFrom, #sliceTo, #chop, #recenter, #realWorldMapSize)

The sphere also has a property "name" inherited from a parent class (MAXWrapper?).
I would like to list this property as well as all the other properties from the sphere parent classes.

This would also help me to get the properties of rootnode.

Thank you

[Anonymous]

I eventually wrote something that do what I needed:
The following code lists all the properties of a given class or object, at the class level. I find it useful to quickly inspect various classes of objects.

currentClass = sphere -- or classof $
 parentClass = undefined
 
 while parentClass != currentClass do
 (
  format "% properties: \n" currentClass as string
  for prop in getPropNames currentClass do format "   %\n" (prop as string)
  
  currentClass = classof currentClass
  parentClass = classof currentClass
 )