How to set modality within IDE

[Judy Perry]

Hi Sarah,

I suppose I could do a doMenu "Suspend Development Tools", but then how
would I get them back? (since there's no longer a menu for doing so)?

Thanks for the help!

Judy

On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Sarah Reichelt wrote:

> Hi Judy,
>
> Check out the "Suspend Development Tools" in the Development menu. It
> sounds to be exactly what you want, but you may be able to script it
> yourself to fit in better with your stacks.
>
> Cheers,
> Sarah
>
> On 29 May 2004, at 9:01 am, Judy Perry wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > After testing out my Rev Tour stack on a bunch of Master's Candidates
> > in
> > Reading (well, okay, 5 or 6 of them), it became apparent that they
> > (and,
> > presumably, other novice programmers) have problems with modality.
> >
> > That is to say, the Rev interface interferes with their ability to
> > peruse
> > the stack (for instance: the IDE defaults into edit mode and so I had
> > to
> > run around and reset it to browse mode).  Sometimes they would
> > accidentally get themselves back into editing mode and would be
> > frustrated
> > that clicking on things didn't do anything (or, at least not what they
> > expected).
> >
> > So, here's my question:  Is there a way to turn off the tools palette,
> > etc. leaving only the menu bar visible via a script, and then turn them
> > back on via script when it is time for them to "peek under the hood" at
> > some button script?
> >
> > Thanks for all the help! Acknowledgements will be found in my thesis
> > :-D
> >
> > Judy
> >
> >
> >
> >
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