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[Mark Wieder]

Jacque-

Monday, May 17, 2010, 8:59:41 AM, you wrote:

> As far as I can see, the confusion comes from those who don't understand
> the scrolling behavior. Once they get that, it falls into place.

Sorry, I'm with Jeff on this. There are (at least) three things I
never use in the rev IDE: the menu builder, the geometry manager, and
the database query builder. They all need to be dumped or completely
revamped, the way the animation thing was swept under the rug.

The fact that you had to write a long explanation on your web site of
how to deal with menus is a good reason for reworking the way menus
are handled in the engine, not an excuse for "you just don't
understand". If the engine is going to be smart (sic) enough to handle
my menubar in a cross-platform way then it should be able to take care
of the stuff that I would have to code myself in the way of scrolling
and positioning. And the location of the Help and About menus. And
whatever else needs to be taken care of.

There are only a few situations where I have to put platform-specific
code in my scripts, as in "if the platform is...", and I'd like to
eliminate *all* of those. Everyone comes across the menu bug sooner or
later, and that starts a thread here or on the forum. Do you know of
any other cross-platform development environment where you have to
deal with this?

(as I am writing this, I notice that Damien Girard's announcement of
NativeGeometry just came in) <g>.

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net