prehandler: (was: Locking size and position)

[DunbarX at aol.com]

Jacques.

OK, as mainly a development aid I see all that.

Rev is far less forgiving about trapping reserved words than you-know-what, 
so (I think) I cannot write a handler that traps "set", checks to see if my 
immovable object is in danger, and acts appropriately.

There was discussion a while back to have a universal handler trap in the 
engine, way in the front, that could be analyzed at will. What do you think? 
Before even the frontscripts, offer a control structure like:

on preHandler theMessage,paramList
...
end preHandler


It almost always just passes the usual stuff through, but you could check 
it at will to see, perhaps, if 'myImmovableObject' was somewhere in the 
paramList, and catch the "set" message that might be about to change its loc.

Craig

In a message dated 1/8/10 2:37:48 PM, jacque at hyperactivesw.com writes:


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> > It's strictly to ease developers during the construction phase.
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