selObj from a palette stack

[Richard Gaskin]

Peter Haworth wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 7:51 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>
>> There are also some mirrored properties, like the cRevLoadInfo["mode"]
>> property which does the same thing as the built-in style stack property.
>>  The mirrored properties have mystified me since they were introduced into
>> the IDE; I'm a big fan of just teaching people how the engine works and how
>> to use it well.
>
> The only cRevLoadInfo property I find useful is "mode". I use it to
> preconfigure my lcStackBorwser stack as a modeless when I make a production
> build. I've found it works best as a modeless stack rather than a palette
> and palette is the default stack style if none is specified.

Sadly, the cRevLoadinfo["mode"] property is only useful because the IDE 
was designed to override the engine's own style stack property. :/

If they had simply encouraged folks to use the built-in engine property 
to govern a stack's mode, you could easily have palette, modeless, or 
any other style without the need to learn one more IDE-specific exception.

But as it is, no matter what your stack's style property is set to, the 
IDE will open the stack as palette unless you set cRevLoadinfo["mode"] 
to something else.

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