The real Challenge for every development platform

[MisterX]

Matry

It's better to have a confusing cursor than a confusing language!

The events can have some exceptions but it's usually solid! 

Since day 1 I notified the cursor horror but no one cared
at the end... But no one is stopping you from using your own!

for your startup stack script...

on startup
  set cursor to mycursor
  pass startup
end startup

cheerios
Xavier

> -----Original Message-----
> From: use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com 
> [mailto:use-revolution-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
> Marty Billingsley
> Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 18:26
> To: use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: The real Challenge for every development platform
> 
> > Judy Perry <jperryl at ecs.fullerton.edu> writes:
> >
> > Another newbie issue -- the cursor.  Those two selection cursors 
> > simply look waayyy too similar, the operative distinction 
> between the 
> > two is not visually intuitive, and, as someone here noted, 
> you often 
> > have to look long and hard to see which one you're using at 
> any given 
> > time (leading to the sort of modal errors that could entirely 
> > frustrate if not directly turn away a newcomer).
> 
> Can anyone explain *why* Rev decided to have the edit cursor 
> and the run cursor look the same?  It makes it extremely 
> difficult for my students to keep in mind which mode they are 
> in (develop vs. test).
> 
> It's also *really* confusing for them when some messages are 
> passed to controls in edit mode and some are not.  For 
> example, mouseUp isn't passed to a button when you click on 
> it in edit mode, but mouseEnter is passed to the button when 
> you mouse over it.  Very confusing.
> Anyone got a clear explanation why this is desirable?  (I've 
> been telling my students that it's a bug in the way the 
> software is written, but perhaps it's really a feature....)
> 
>   - marty
> 
> --
> Marty Billingsley
> The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools 
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