Graphic Tools Mystery

[Richard Gaskin]

Graham Samuel wrote:
 > I finally got round to boiling down this app to a simple form that
 > I could use in a bug report. RunRev (actually Elanor) quite quickly
 > came up with a reply - here's an extract:
 >
 >> Comment # 6 on bug 11183 from Elanor
 >> Hi Graham
 >>
 >> This is not actually a bug, the choose command, for choosing a tool,
 >> is only for editable windows, that is editable stacks in the IDE.
 >> The graphic tools don't really work as you want in a standalone
 >> as it is not an editable window

I'm hoping that's merely ambiguous wording, and not meant to imply that 
anyone at RunRev believes the tool property should be limited to use 
only within the IDE.

Giving the benefit of the doubt, I'd guess she meant the IDE only as an 
example, and really meant only toplevel, since of course the current 
tool mode can only work on toplevel stacks.

Since many of us have been writing apps that rely on having complete 
access to all tool modes going all the way back to HyperCard, any 
limitation on their use in standalones would be a bug, and I trust Kevin 
would agree.

On the issue at hand, I was hoping to be able to run the example stacks 
included in your report to track down the issue, but unfortunately I 
can't even run them in the IDE (apparently they call an undefined 
command "ssLog").

Do you have a more isolated example of the problem?

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