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[Stephen Barncard]

What do you mean by delete/kill the script editors? I've never seen 
that term before, nor have I had problems saving scripts, except when 
I've done some name changes to stacks, which would really be my 
fault. I just type <enter><enter> and the script commits and the 
window closes. Then I do a save of the stack..

Also you have not mentioned the platform that you are having window 
problems with. Mac OSX in general has a fairly rude window 
management/priority scheme, IMHO, compared to OS9.

At 2:12 PM -0400 6/4/05, Jon wrote:
>Dennis:
>
>You said "lots of cracks in the IDE". I'd have to agree.
>I've given up on saving scripts, and now only delete/kill the script 
>editors.  That way I'm SURE to see the error messages.  Far too 
>often I have "saved" a script and the save did not take, with no 
>error window visible.  Too bad window visibility is handled 
>correctly during a script editor kill, but not when saving a script. 
>It can't be that hard to do the latter correctly if the former is 
>correct.
>
>Window visibility is a problem in general with the IDE: do an 
><alt><tab> away from Rev and an <alt><tab> to go back, and a 
>different window appears within Rev, not the one you were working 
>on.  Do a save and focus flies away to a context other than the one 
>you were working on.  Lots of windows pop up so that they cannot be 
>controlled (kill or minimize buttons hidden behind other windows) 
>and many windows cannot be hidden at all, and can only be killed, 
>forcing the user to reactivate them from scratch.
>
>I like the (theoretical?) cross-platform aspect of Rev, and some 
>things are fairly easy to do in it, but the conceptual base is 
>verbose and the implementation is buggy.  Sigh.
>
>Jon
>