As my messages on this topic so far have been duds I should keep quiet but I
am a glutton for punishment. You can probably build a simple addin for rev
by handling the revNewTool message that you can set in the addin manager to
be sent to the addin. Check the name of the tool selected and the current
status of the of the lock messages button on the menubar then take action
accordingly. Thsi is a workaround but should enable you to have the function
you look for.
>
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2001, John Vokey wrote:
>
>
> > >on 4/24/01 9:53 AM, Wilhelm Sanke wrote
> > > What I am suggesting, however, is to have a "static" or
> "author" mode as
> > > a *normal standard feature* of Metacard that is available to anyone -
> > > even to a beginner that tries to find out how Metacard works
> by looking
> > > at the scripts of the demo stack.
> > > I am also suggesting to connect this feature with the pointer tool...
> > (snip)
> > > Wilhelm Sanke
> >
> >
> > No. No. No. And, again, no. There should not be an author
> (a.k.a. "edit")
> > mode in MC. That was/is (at least one of) the major problems with
> > Supercard. It violates the underlying metaphor: anything one
> does anywhere,
> > anytime in MC (and hypercard) can generate messages that can
> (but need not)
> > be responded to. So, even editing a script of an object is still just
> > typing characters into a field of some stack --- as it should be. MC is
> > modeless, as it should be. What's next, a clamour for separate edit,
> > compile, link modes, and paper tape to save the programs on?
> >
> > John R. Vokey, Ph.D.
> > Chair
> > Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
> > University of Lethbridge
> >
> I have the feeling that your emphatic "no" is caused by your experiences
> with the divided structure of Supercard, having indeed a separate
> "editing mode" as a different part of Supercard, which has to be
> launched as an extra file - or the other way round when you want to
> switch back to a browse mode (Excuse me in case the terminology is
> wrong, I do not have the Supercard user book at hand).
>
> To have a structure like Supercard is indeed very far from me. I very
> much disliked this aspect of Supercard. What I am advocating is to be
> able to stop the animated rabbit hopping across my screen immediately
> when I want to create an object or look at a script, and this with one
> mouseclick, and to go back to "browse mode" again with one mouseclick.
>
> Is the Revolution team also violating the "underlying metapher" with its
> "suppress messages" button?
> The only difference between them and myself is that I favor to have this
> "author" feature connected with the pointer tool, but I can also happily
> live with two mouseclicks instead of one as in Revolution.-
>
> Regards,
>
> Wilhelm Sanke
>
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