LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

[Mike Kerner]

Paul,
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Mark,
I have a bug report in for an issue with the PB not populating when a stack
loads.  I don't think it has been dealt with, yet.

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Mark Waddingham <mark at livecode.com> wrote:

> On 2016-03-03 16:35, Mark Wieder wrote:
>
>> I'm also curious now about the use case for cantSelect. I realize it's
>> not going away since it's always been there, but I'm having trouble
>> coming up with a scenario in which this is useful. My worry is that
>> we're putting a pretty obscure setting front and center in a primary
>> tool for stack design when screen real estate is already at a premium
>> (e.g. we're already overloading functions into the PB.
>>
>
> The use-case for 'cantSelect' is to allow you have objects on a stack
> which act as if they are in browse/run tool mode when the global tool is
> not the browse/run tool. For example you can create a single stack which
> has buttons allowing to (say) choose different types of graphic object, but
> still allow you to create the graphic objects on that stack with the
> standard graphic object tools. (i.e. You get a simple vector graphic object
> editor).
>
> In the IDE the 'cantSelect' property can seem strange because the IDE
> shares the same notion of current tool that user stacks do. Ideally the IDE
> 'tool' would be distinct from the user stack 'tools'; in much the same was
> as ideally it wouldn't have to rely on the same set of object manipulation
> messages as user stacks do (hence the current problem with palettes not
> updating when lock messages is in effect).
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Mark.
>
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