Navigator 7.3rc1 is available

[chipsm at themartinz.com]

Ji Geoff,
I am responding to you 7.3rc1 and this is probably true about the other
releases too.
I noticed that if I open a group in a New Navigator window, the first
Navigator window has lost control over the group that precipitated it. 
The new Navigator Window Group items don't respond to any items that are
clicked or highlighted.
Also, if I open a group for editing, the Navigator window does not respond
to any items that are clicked or highlighted in the Group Edit window.
I can live with this now that I know  about this behavior, but I don't know
if anyone has pointed this out to you.

Sincerely,

Clarence Martin
Email: Chipsm at themartinz.com
Cell: 626 696-5561

-----Original Message-----
From: use-livecode <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com> On Behalf Of
Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2019 10:59 PM
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Cc: Geoff Canyon <gcanyon at gmail.com>
Subject: Navigator 7.2rc1 is available

As usual, you can get Navigator here
<https://www.dropbox.com/s/kz3zqi4botzglgq/navigator.zip?dl=1>. Or grab it
from GitHub <https://github.com/gcanyon/navigator>.

For details read the release notes
<https://github.com/gcanyon/navigator/releases/tag/v7.2rc1>, but briefly
this:

-- fixes the color sets being borked by an earlier release.
-- significantly improves the relayering code -- again.
-- -- It was a minor thing, but it should now be possible to have a group be
the topmost object, and drag a control below it in Navigator's list, and
have the control *not* placed into the group, which is now consistent with
the behavior in any other circumstance.
-- -- Also, there were circumstances where Navigator would start editing a
group to place a control into the group, and then fail, leaving the group in
edit mode. This should now be fixed.
-- -- Finally, the relayering code has again been simplified. Details below
if anyone is curious -- it's weird.

If you find any bugs, file them here
<https://github.com/gcanyon/navigator/issues>.

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To achieve uniform behavior with the simplest code, here are (most of) the
relayering steps in pseudo LC:

set relayergroupedcontrols to true
set layer to 1 -- this gets the control out of any groups it is in set
relayergroupedcontrols to false set layer to 9999999 -- the control is now
at the highest level if target is group then
   set relayergroupedcontrols to true
   set the layer to 1 + the layer of the target group -- the control is now
in the group
   set relayergroupedcontrols to false
   start editing group
   set layer to 9999999 -- the control is now at the highest level of the
group end if if targetobject is not empty -- the object to place the control
just under
-- if empty, the control should remain at the top
    then set the layer to the layer of the targetobject -- works whether
editing a group or not if target is group
    then stop editing group -- need to make sure to use a "background"
reference

This doesn't include the logic for using the option key to move/copy if the
control is from another card, or duplicate/move if from the same card.

Also important to use simple references that don't include the full
hierarchy of groups, since that will fail while editing a group.
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