At 2:29 PM +1200 7/26/2006, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote:
It looks like the IDE sets the default paintCompression
to PNG instead of RLE, so I suspect it will actually be
PNG unless you're using a standalone.
Is this user-settable in the IDE?
No, although I suppose one could put a script to reset it into a
plugin and change the default that way automatically on startup.
If not, what is the benefit of concealing the engine's true behavior?
No idea. Maybe there was a thought about ensuring backward
compatibility with the MetaCard or other IDEs, or backward
compatibility with existing code that relied on the engine's behavior
for use in standalones.
But I have noticed a tendency to put some settings and functionality
into the IDE that I would think better in the engine itself - perhaps
going back to the habits developed during the period that RunRev
didn't own the engine.
Introducing differences between the engine's native behavior and the
IDE's modifications of that should be done only with great care, and
ideally with user-settable preferences which draw attention to these
anomalies.
Differences between runtime and development make it harder to
diagnose problem runtime problems from within the development
environment, raising development costs unnecessarily.
I tend to agree with this general principle. Occasionally there may
be a price to be paid in compatibility with existing code - that is,
a developer might have to make a change to existing code before
compiling a standalone with a new engine, as noted above - but I
think it ends up better for everyone overall if behavior using the
raw engine is as close as practical to the behavior with the IDE.
--
jeanne a. e. devoto ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.jaedworks.com
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