LC 8 Property Inspector

Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net
Wed Oct 14 11:23:08 EDT 2015


On 10/14/2015 06:49 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote:

> No. The IDE already provides messages that things have changed, and all
> Navigator has to do is get its name on the list of message receivers. After
> that Navigator just responds to the update requests it receives. It doesn't
> have its own code for monitoring changes, and it is self-contained as
> Richard says.

Exactly. And that's, for the most part, how PowerTools works as well.
The hard part of tool coexistence is when you have to cooperate with 
frontscript handlers that may or may not do the right thing before you 
have a chance to handle messages. Duelling frontscripts gets ugly.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com




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