On 2015-10-13 06:08, Peter Haworth wrote:
The publish/subscribe stuff sounds great, especially since I just found no newxxx messages are sent when creating a control from the tools palette.
I did notice your bug report on that - however Ali is away for a few days at the moment so I haven't been able to check with him about this.
The problem with the 'tools hooking into the message path' approach is that you end up interfering with the operation of user stacks unless you are very careful. You kinda end up with the abstract picture of each tool wrapping the preceding tool with the application somewhere at the bottom surrounded by a wash of code each potentially doing its own thing.
The publish/subscribe mechanism, along with the other APIs emerging in the LC8 IDE tries to change this by providing a 'model' tools can hook into to mutate the user stacks being edited. This means that the tools themselves can be insulated from the user stacks, and the user stacks can be insulated from the tools - hopefully ensuring a much more easy co-existence than sometimes occur in the current (pre-LC8) IDE.
Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps _______________________________________________ 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
