Jim Lambert wrote: >> Klaus wrote: >> when the pointer tool is active, "mouseenter" and "mouseleave" >> handlers are executed nevertheless!? >> >> I don't this this is correct behaviour! > > I agree. > When the pointer tool is selected in the IDE one is supposedly in > Editing Mode.
This is a philosophical point in LC, created by a change in how tool modes are presented.
Throughout all of xTalk history, and the history of the LC engine prior to its acquisition in 2003, tool modes have always been presented as options available to scripters like any other part of the language, changeable with the "choose" command.
Most xTalk IDEs have lacked the confidence in their language to also build their IDE in their own language, so this was less of an issue for HC, OMO, Plus, and others.
But MetaCard, SuperCard, Gain Momentum provided runtime editing of the sort we have with LiveCode. While each had subtly different ways of guiding the user to appreciate the differences in tool modes, their audiences had less confusion, because they presented tool modes as tool modes (language elements like any other available for us all to use), rather than attempting to present a more consumer-app experience in which the pointer tool is somehow not something a scripter could be expected to ever want to use.
LC documents the "choose" command, but is designed in a way that attempts to be both an xTalk dev environment and a consumer app, resulting in an experience that lends many users to think of the pointer tool as somehow not available among the "choose" options.
One of the most powerful moments of my scripting life was when I launched SuperCard and was invited to explore one of the sample apps that came with it, SampleDraw. It was basically MacDraw, a decent drawing app with vector graphics, document handling, and all that, but SampleDraw even more capable, with features like polygon morphing, and the whole thing written in xTalk.
That moment of seeing an app I'd known well reimplemented more powerfully in a scripting language I enjoyed is what compelled me to spend so many years enjoying xTalks.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ 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
