Mike, this is the part that I don't get about open source... yet. I guess we don't have the community structures to handle it.
I mean, I've made that (free) plugin to handle this specific problem. "lcMover" moves stacks/windows around, whether they are off-screen or not. I even added an option recently to specifically move off-screen stacks back on-screen. (Not posted quite yet... on the way.) Isn't the whole open source idea that I could contribute some code for that to the IDE? Preferably without having to write it in C++? Since GitHub doesn't work for this, will we eventually have designated community members to shepherd the integration of code or features like this? That is, a community mechanism for addressing "IDE oddities"? - Charles On 15 May 2014, at 10:23 AM, Mike Kerner <mikeker...@roadrunner.com> wrote: > And another: > If you have your lappie hooked to two monitors at work, and you use both > monitors, and then you go home, guess what happens to windows, especially > on a Mac, where you are using multiple workspaces? That's right, the > windows, even the LC development windows, are off-screen somewhere at > 3750,150, and your only hope of getting them back is to figure out what the > name of the development window is (say, the message box, or a properties > palette, or maybe the script editor" and then going to the message box and > moving it manually. > > The good news with most of the things that we complain about is that > because you can modify LC from within LC, you can fix these things > yourself. The bad news is that when you run into these sorts of things, > there isn't an uproar from the community that puts pressure on Edinburgh to > drop refactoring the engine to fix something. > > HOWEVER, I think I'd take it this way, because this way, there is an > economic motive for some author to release a tool that does something > better than LC does, or is ready before LC might make it a priority. Yes, > it costs money to purchase those tools, but it makes the ecosystem better, > even though the IDE isn't better. -- Charles E. Buchwald CEO/Director General Museografica Digital http://digital.museografica.com LC Developer Tools: http://buchwald.ca/developer-tools/ Email Notice: http://wp.me/P3aT4d-33 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
