Hello Tariel,
On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:22:56 -0700 Richard Gaskin wrote:
I've talked this over with Klaus Major via email, and he would be
willing to assume the role of Poohbah for the MC IDE project going
forward.
Richard did exceptional job maintaining MC IDE. What I appreciated
the most was that he was very careful to keep "purity" of MC IDE,
his IDE changes were "transparent" in terms of no new IDE
"behavior" or added complexity was introduced and most of the
changes were to just keep IDE compatible with new engines.
I'm sure Klaus will continue this tradition and 6 changes he made
in IDE so far were all excellent.
thank you very much!
Long live new Poohbah ! :)
Hip, hip... ?
Can't hear you! :-D
At Thu, 22 Jun 2006 J. Landman Gay wrote:
The Font Chooser stack contains a list field for font names rather
than
a popup button. I've been using this privately for a while and I
like it
much better. Anyone who has as many fonts as I do will see the
advantages of a list, I think.
SO much better. Thanks Jacque.
Yes, this is great.
I have also made some changes to the Preferences stack so that it now
supports a stackFileVersion preference. I could not think of a
suitable
way to change this setting on the fly, but the new stack does
allow you
to permanently set the preference, which will stay in effect until
you
change it. It checks for the engine version and is not effective
unless
the version is 2.7 or higher.
Great.
Yep, much appreciated.
...
The message box size is too small for me to read comfortably. I've
already changed it in my own copy, but thought I'd mention it here to
see if the majority wants it to ship the old way or the new way. I'm
okay with just changing my own copy with each release if other people
like it as-is.
Interesting. I can't see any change in msg box size between B12 and
RC1 but I didn't replace my Home stack if it makes any difference
(don't remember right now from which stack the msg box default size
comes from)
Speaking about sizes, I'm always changing the fonts and button
sizes in new MC IDE builds to accommodate to OS standards.
For OS 9 the standard font is Geneva 10 and button size is w= 95
and h= 22
For OS X the standard font is Lucida Grande 11 and button size is
w = 82 and h= 23
For Win the standard font is Tahoma 11, don't remember standard
button sizes
So, may be it makes sense to put a small handler in PreOpenStack
of "mctools.mc" and "mchelp.mc" that would set the textfont and
textsize of this stacks according to OS standards?
Can do, no problem!
Do you all agree?
This way substacks like "properties" or "control browser" would
inherit TextFont and TextSise of the main stack and would look much
better on all platforms.
Concerning default object sizes (when you create a new object) Rev
has it done very nicely in "Preferences / Object sizes"
May be Klaus would consider to add such tab to MC IDE preferences
stack and make it optional ?
Sure, could do, but probably won't since we create objects by
dragging them
on the card and not by Drag'n'Drop or doubleclicking the tool in the
palette,
something I still don't like very much in Rev.
So to implement these default sizes I would also have to change the
behaviour of the
tools palette, or did I oversee something?
That's one of few features I personally like in Rev ID and I'm
imitating it by setting default sizes in "on NewButton", "On
NewField" etc in script of stack Home.
Also, just to remind so this would not be lost in transition
period :) ... RC1 has libURL vs 1.1.4 and Dave Gragg posted vs
1.1.6 at
" http://www.lacscentre.co.uk/liburl/releases.html";
best regards
Tariel
Regards
Klaus Major
a.k.a. Winnie the Poobah :-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.major-k.de
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