[ANN] tRev Magic Menus: contextual, mouse-free menus

[Richmond Mathewson]

  On 11/04/2010 01:52, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Peter Alcibiades wrote:
>> Here is the recipe.
>>
>> Open a stack with plenty of buttons and scripts.
>>
>> Now open any script in the editor.
>>
>> Use the property inspector to get the properties of a given field
>>
>> Select and copy the name of the field
>>
>> Paste it into the script.  I think I used middle click, but think I have
>> also used control-v in the past.
>>
>> It should freeze, flickering rapidly.  Then when you close the window 
>> of the
>> editor, the whole IDE crashes.
>
> I just followed that recipe to the letter, using Rev v4.0 on Ubuntu 
> 9.10/Gnome 2.28.1.
>
> To test I used a copy of my WebMerge stack, with just under 300 
> objects on its card.  The script I used was the main processing engine 
> for the app, more than 4600 lines worth.
>
> Worked a treat.
>
> So I kept trying, copying text from the Inspector, elsewhere in the 
> script, pasting all over the place, drag-n-drop -- all worked fine.
>
> I don't know enough about either your system or Rev to guess where the 
> problem lies, but here I can't reproduce it on Ubuntu.
>
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I'm off for a walk on the hills today [Not a bad idea for Peter as well 
judging by things . . .  :)  ], and will try to reproduce
this this evening. As I have previously stated; my only 'grunts' about 
RunRev for linux relate to fonts, and to a lesser extent, printing.