Works in IDE, doesn't work in standalone (revisited)

[Graham Samuel]

I am still trying to track this. Can anyone explain what prevents a tool (like the graphic tool, where the style of the graphicTemplate is set to "rectangle") actually working as the user drags the mouse across a card? I have checked the cantSelect of the card and the cantModify of the stack, and they're both false, but i have a case where I just can't get the tool to allow a drag (it creates a graphic, but one can't resize it), nor can the pointer tool select the graphics on the card, even though they can be selected by script.

I just can't think what other factors are involved in stopping these tools working like they do in the IDE. I can't find anything in the LC Dictionary or the User Guide (in fact it would be hard to deduce from either of them that one can offer a user the kind of drawing tools which are present in the IDE, but that's another issue)>

Any ideas, anyone?

TIA

Graham

On 9 Jun 2013, at 12:51, Graham Samuel wrote:

> Folks, I am struggling with an issue I reported before, but then I had other scripting errors making it unclear what was going on. Having now cleared these errors, I have the following situation:
> 
> 1. I have a tools palette which permits the user to pick a graphics (vector drawing) tool such as 'rectangle'
> 2. When the tool is set, the user expects to create a graphic on one of two visible cards in the program
> 3. In the IDE this work perfectly.
> 4. In the standalone (equally on Mac and PC), on one of the cards (the card that matters to the user), the rectangle is drawn but it's always the same size (a small square), and in fact corresponds to what happens in the IDE if you pick a graphic tool and click without dragging. Logging tests reporting the value of cantSelect for the card and reporting the firing of the newGraphic handler show that it's all working apart from the drag: but the really strange thing is that on the other visible card, the graphic creation works perfectly. The difference I know about between the cards is that one has only a single field on it, the other has a lot of graphics already. I am not trying to draw on top of the graphics in these tests, although doing so does in fact work in the IDE.
> 
> The above shows definitively that I have done something to the 'problem' card which does not show up in the IDE but does show up in the standalone. I think this is by definition a bug, but before I attempt to report it, I would like to pin it down somehow.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a way of finding out what's going on? I am already looking at tool selection, mouseDown, newGraphic - and I can't see anything wrong. I don't know a way of checking that the ability of the tool to grab the handles of a graphic has been inhibited, which is what seems to be happening. Maybe there's a hidden property that does this?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Graham
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