active plugins

2004-07-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
I've been getting a lot of questions about What are 'active' plugins? I'd like to make v2.6 final soon, but I must admit I still have misgivings about adding the active plugin mode. Folks understand what it is to open a stack, and what it is to library a stack. But they don't seem to grok active,

Re: active plugins

2004-07-18 Thread Klaus Major
Hi folks, Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: So the question is: Do we need an active mode for plugins in addition to the engine-supported open and library options? Cast my vote for no. My preference is to keep things simple. Same for me :-) Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media,

Re: active plugins

2004-07-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/18/04 11:06 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Do we need an active mode for plugins in addition to the engine-supported open and library options? I've never needed it. Just removing a library stack when I'm done with it seems to do the trick. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | [EMAIL

Re: active plugins

2004-07-18 Thread Pierre Sahores
Bonsoir All, If needed, transcript is, as is, full featured to let us start any new stack's add-ons at any time, without having to restart the main Rev running process. I use such features trough http POST commands, each time i need to update a net accessible app. So, the best is probably to

Re: converting stacks to html

2004-07-18 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello RCS and y.all, Converting stacks to html...hasn't everyone figured out how to do this? It's quite simple actually... I have been hand-coding HTML output from within stacks for years. Most of the material on this subject in the Pan comes from yours-truly. If I did not craft it then I am

RE: active plugins

2004-07-18 Thread Chipp Walters
I must admit, I really don't understand the need for a 3rd 'active' mode either. As one who has already built quite a few plugins, I neve never seen a reason for an 'active mode as you describe. One of the best features of Metacard is it's simplicity. My vote is to keep it that way. Best,

Re: active plugins

2004-07-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/18/04 11:06 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I'd like to make v2.6 final soon Speaking of which, I just spent a frustrating session trying to debug why the MC IDE went nuts during the initialization of the plug-in menu item. Turns out if you put an OS X alias to a file into the plug-ins folder,