Agreed. I was sitting with a client on Thursday trying to work through some design
decisions in D8. The window focus/foreground/redrawing problem was downright
humiliating. I'm charging good money for my time and this client is thinking "Doesn't
this freakin' idiot know how to bring a window to the front?"
This sucks. Please fix ASAP instead of making 3D engines.
Bruce
At 11:03 AM -0500 09/30/2000, Lingo-L Digest wrote:
>Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 15:36:39 +0100
>From: Jon Rowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: <lingo-l> getPropertyDescriptionList - spot the error!
>
>My other current gripe about D8(Win) is this window focus issue which
>means that e.g. the message window does not come to the front when you
>hit CTRL-m, it can't be that difficult to get these basic things right
>can it? I'm all for enhancing Director's functionality and would love to
>see a good, solid implementation of a 3-d engine in D9 but please don't
>let it be at the expense of these basics that were supposed to have been
>fixed in D8 (remember that's D8 where MM were going to listen to the
>developers concerns and concentrate on fixing all the bugs!) Grumble,
>grumble - god i must be getting old, now where did i put my glasses...
>
>Jon
Bruce Epstein
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