LC 8 Property Inspector

Geoff Canyon gcanyon at gmail.com
Wed Oct 14 17:19:51 EDT 2015


Ah, okay, I do none of that.

gc

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 4:42 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
wrote:

> On 10/14/2015 1:54 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
>
>> Interesting -- does/did GLX remove the update messages the IDE sends?
>>
>
> I don't know but I doubt it. The problem in my case was that Zygodact's
> Registration dialog needs to store info in a prefs stack, and is intended
> to be opened before the mainstack is displayed. My method was to open the
> prefs stack, store the info, and remove it on the assumption that Zygodact
> should not interfere with the developer's instructions about whether the
> prefs should be in RAM or not. If their script opens a prefs file later, no
> problem. If not, prefs won't hang around.
>
> GLX has startup handlers that also work with prefs, and GLX leaves the
> stack open. When Zygodact closed it soon afterward, GLX errored.
>
> There were two ways to solve it. GLX could have checked the openstacks and
> reopened it if necessary, or Zygodact could have just left the file open.
> It was easier for me to leave it open, which hasn't seemed to interfere
> really with anything else the developer did with it except that there's a
> possibly unwanted stack in RAM.
>
> But the point is, there was interference that required me to know what
> another tool (or framework in this case) was doing.
>
>
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