Revised Font Chooser and Preferences stacks

[Richard Gaskin]

J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> Ken Ray wrote:
> 
>> Can you modify the Save As dialog like they did in Rev to allow you to 
>> pick
>> what format to save into? Or is this something Richard should do... ;-)
> 
> I've done this now, but there's a problem when running the revised 
> script in versions of the engine less than 2.7. Even though the script 
> checks for the version and branches, the script won't compile if any 
> part of it tries to set an unknown property. MC 2.6.1 aborts its tools 
> scripts in that case and most of the IDE no longer works.
> 
> I thought of putting the commands into a custom property and "doing" 
> those, but there are lines scattered throughout the handler so it would 
> be messy. I could try it though. Or we could branch the IDE and have a 
> 2.7-only version.

I looked at that for my tools.  You could wrap the troublesome token in 
a "do" statement; sure, it's technically inefficient, but at the moment 
of saving I'm sure no one will notice a couple lost microseconds.

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