Genu-Ine IDE issue

[Shari]

For once, I have a genuine IDE related post :-)

I have found two * bugs * in the IDE.

In case anyone is interested, I am using the Metacard IDE exclusively 
at the moment.  It makes my life much simpler and I have a lot of 
work to do.

There is, however, a point of annoyance that occurs every day at the 
beginning of the day.  I launch Metacard, and choose Open Stack from 
the File menu.

And the window does not open to the same folder I was working in 
yesterday.  My old Metacard handled this like a pro, as I will 
demonstrate below.

The way I work is that a project has a  folder full of text files, 
stacks, etc, and the folder is named:

100 Creator 9-17-06

As I go thru the day, I will save copies of this folder several 
times.  So the up-a-level folder named Creator will be full of 
folders with the above name, and appended Copy 1, Copy 2, etc.  The 
stack I want to open is within this (the above) folder, which is the 
working copy.

Tomorrow morning, I will moved all copies (Copy 1, Copy 2, etc) of 
the folder to a Saves folder, and make a copy of the above folder 
(which is the most updated version of it, no copies appended to the 
name) and move it to Saves.  Then I will rename the folder:

100 Creator 9-18-06

I will launch Metacard and attempt to open a stack within this folder.

Obviously the folder has been renamed, which confuses Metacard 2.7. 
It doesn't put any of the folders or stacks from the project into the 
selection window.  And it does not even allow me to click thru a 
heirachy from the windows in column view to search for the project. 
I cannot use the column windows in Open Stack to go up a folder, or 
use a scrollbar to move the heirarchy windows to the main folder that 
houses the project.  I must use the option button at the top of the 
window.

It did not used to confuse Metacard.  As a test I just launched the 
"old" Metacard 2.4.3.  I have not opened any files with 2.4.3 from 
this project in quite some time.  But when I choose Open Stack, it 
goes straight to the folder 100 Creator 9-17-06, and gives me a list 
of stacks within that folder to open!  It doesn't get confused about 
the name change of the folder.  (The stack itself has not had a name 
change.  Just the folder it is in.)

So this worked once upon a time in Metacard.  And doesn't work now.

I couldn't begin to guess what version of MC broke it, as my leap was 
a pretty dramatic one :-)

This represents two separate issues.

1.  MC IDE bug:  That Open Stack in MC 2.7 on Mac OSX 10.4.7 does not 
allow me to use the column view to drill upward thru the levels to 
find something.  I must use the Option button above the column 
windows to drill upward.  I tested this with the Rev IDE and the 
column views work properly.  I can properly drill upward with the Rev 
IDE.

2.  IDE or ENGINE bug:  That Open Stack in MC 2.7 cannot find the 
most recent project opened once it has been renamed, which was a 
feature that used to work okey dokey in MC.  I also tried with the 
Rev IDE as I know that I at least opened the project in Rev a couple 
times.  Same thing.  So this may be an engine issue or it may be an 
IDE issue.  Dunno which.

Shari
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