Crash-a-lot just became critical

J. Landman Gay jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Thu Jan 8 22:06:00 EST 2015


On 1/8/2015 8:16 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
> Richard-
>
> Thursday, January 8, 2015, 1:50:34 PM, you wrote:
>
>> There are an annoying number of apparently undocumented changes in the new
>> engine with regard to message handling--I had apparently been relying on
>> mouseEnter being sent to a stack itself, which 5.x does not do.  I've seen
>> and forgotten one or two more like that.
>
> The mouseEnter message is indeed sent to the stack, unless you're
> trapping it somewhere along the message path and not passing it.
>

I think he means, he relies on the message being sent to the stack where 
there is no other control present. LC 7 sends it, but in all previous 
versions, mouseEnter isn't sent directly to cards or stacks, only to 
controls on the card.

I wasn't aware of this change either until now.

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