'Blessed' plugins

[xbury.cs at clearstream.com]

Sorry, I didn't see the date on that post. I assumed my email client would 
keep things 
sorted the way it was last time - but it being lotus not... it doesn't... 
And I keep
messing it up :)

sorry
Xav

On 25.04.2005 14:19:28 use-revolution-bounces wrote:
>Hi Hugh,
>
>Just a question if you have seen a similar problem I have:
>When I drag'n'Drop a control over stack b and ControlsN2O is in the 
"path"
>of the
>drag, ControslN2O intercepts the control (even in palette mode), hides my
>stack
>ControlsN2O and the best is that it's still visible, in the rect of teh
>screen and you
>can't see it again until you toplevel/palette it again...
>
>Have you seen that too? I have other plugins with similar calls and they
>dont cause
>this trouble... Very strange indeed...
>
>I'll add a fix to teh Rev's scritps in my IDE modder... For a release
>soon! ;)
>
>cheers
>Xavier
>
>On 17.09.2004 22:58:46 use-revolution-bounces 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).
>>
>>At the moment, the revTools palette locks messages (so no trapping
>events)
>>and only tests if visible and modifiable (unreliable). My suggestion is 
a
>>'blessed' property of some nature that the plugin author and revTools
>both
>>implement as a common identifier.
>>
>>Comments? Suggestions?
>>
>>/H
>>
>>Hugh  Senior
>>The Flexible Learning Company
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