Vent!

[J. Landman Gay]

On 1/13/11 12:15 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
> Livecode is a great tool but the IDE is full of user interface
> weirdnesses as far as I'm concerned.  There are three different
> Find/Replace dialogs and you're never sure which one will pop up when
> you press command-F.

They're contextual. The right one appears depending on what you're 
doing. I can only think of two though, the one in the script editor and 
the general one for stack searches.

> The File menu contents are completely different
> depending on which window is active.

Menus are contextual too. It's only an issue on OS X, which doesn't have 
menu bars in the windows. On other operating systems it's pretty clear 
because the menu is part of the window; script editor menus are attached 
to the script editor window, for example.

>  The  message box appears and
> disappears at what seem to be completely random intervals.

It isn't really random, it's whether a script editor has the focus or 
not. You can turn off that behavior in preferences. On small monitors, 
it's convenient to hide the message box and other palettes when a script 
is open to save screen space. On larger monitors it isn't necessary. I 
always turn off hiding.

>  How nice
> would it be to have an Application Browser option to list stacks, not
> cards, in alphabetical order.

For mainstacks that would be nice. I'd like to keep the substacks 
attached to them the way they are now though.

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