LC 8 Property Inspector

[Geoff Canyon]

Interesting -- does/did GLX remove the update messages the IDE sends? Other
than that, I don't think there's anything Navigator needs/does that could
cause a problem, but of course I'm not really thinking about it thoroughly.
If someone complained I might, but Navigator has been mostly unsupported
for some time now.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 1:13 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> It's likely you've never had interference issues with Navigator because
> users wouldn't be using more than one property inspector simultaneously.
> But my Zygodact system did interfere with the GLX framework and I had to
> rewrite it to accommodate GLX. It wasn't how I wanted things to work, but
> enough people were using GLX at the time that it was necessary. Fixing the
> problem required communication between me and the author.
>
> The conflict occurred because of different approaches when handling
> preferences files. Standardization would have avoided the issue.
>
> On October 14, 2015 8:59:51 AM CDT, Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:14 AM, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com>
> >wrote:
> >> Great - how do you ensure that Mark's tools don't interfere with
> >Geoff's
> >> so users can use them side-by-side?
> >>
> >> If every toolmaker has to take into account every other toolmaker's
> >'way
> >> of doing things' you end up with a situation where one individual who
> >wants
> >> to write a tool needs to learn about everybody else's if they want to
> >> distribute it for the benefit of all.
> >
> >
> >I've never found this to be the case. I have never had someone report a
> >bug
> >to me because some other tool interfered with Navigator, or because
> >Navigator tripped up someone else's tool.
> >
> --
> Jacqueline Landman Gay         |     jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> HyperActive Software           |     http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>
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