William Prothero wrote: > Richard: > Here’s what I found on the palette thing. I’m no longer worried about > the backdrop because it was just me not seeing that there was a LC > toolbar menu item that would turn it off. In fact, I may have been > blaming Devo incorrectly, when it was LC’s responsibility. > > If you, in 9.0.1 RC 2 or 3, drag the 4W toolbar to the right, lift the > mouse, then drag it back to the left, I see it refusing to be dragged > fully to the left. In LC 8.2.0, it acts normally, but in LC 9.0.1 > RC3, it won’t return all the way left. It seems like it’s trying to > leave space for the IDE Tools palette, but it doesn’t matter whether > it’s visible or not.
I see what's happening there. It appears the IDE team is attempting to use a floating palette in a highly unusual way: rather than floating on top of a document, it's assumed to be placed at the left and when it is the windowBoundingRect is adjusted so that no other windows can be placed in a way that overlap it. When the tool palette is moved to any other location sufficiently away from the left edge, the windowBoundingRect is apparently restore to the normal bounds everyone normally expects.
You will find that the IDE's change to the windowBoundingRect affects all windows when using the maximize option for a window.
This affects the dragging of 4W devolution's window because I have a customized appearance with my own title bar, and have scripted the dragging behavior to account for the windowBoundingRect so the window cannot be submarined beneath the menu bar or the Dock.
In my own work, I spend relatively little time with the IDE's tool palette open. Layout normally occupies just a bit of up-front time, with most of my time spend scripting the objects I'd laid out. And of course since the devo palette has its own controls for creating the two most commonly-used objects, buttons and fields, sometimes I go weeks without ever opening the IDE's tool palette at all.
And since devo makes it more convenient to open and close the IDE's tool palette with its generously-sized toggle buttons for the most common IDE windows, I find that when I do use the IDE's tool palette it's just to create an object or two and then I put it away again until I need it. It takes up a LOT of room for something used so seldom during the workflow; making it easy to access it ONLY WHEN I NEED IT was part of the motivation for making devo.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems http://fourthworld.com/products/devolution/ _______________________________________________ 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
