'Blessed' plugins

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Fri Sep 17 23:53:30 EDT 2004


Ken Ray wrote:

> On 9/17/04 3:58 PM, "FlexibleLearning at aol.com" <FlexibleLearning at aol.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
>>There is, presently no way I can figure to make a plugin immune from Rev's
>>drap and drop of controls. For plugins that need to be modifiable this is a
>>problem, especially for palette or modeless stacks... User accidentally
>>creates  
>>a control on your plugin and cannot easily remove it (and if a newbie to Rev
>>would probably be very confused if not lost).
> 
> 
> You're so right, Hugh! I opened Fred Rinaldi's RegEx builder plugin and
> dragged a button right on top of it!

For consistency with the rest of the IDE, new objects should only be 
creatable in toplevel windows, regardless of name, path, etc.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Media Corporation
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