Its main change is to allow you to use more than one 'Messages' file, and a general file loader/saver has been introduced. There are some other enhancements and a few bug corrections. Fuller details can be obtained from my website which has a page devoted to the changes.
This new release also contains updates to !CodeTemps and !Fabricate, the former to correct a couple of bugs, but the latter to make it more versatile and even easier to use - and to get it into a better shape for future development.
User Jonathan Lupton helped me to identify that, currently, Dr Wimp will only work properly if the draggable icon is a 'sprite only' icon (the usual sort for this icon); a fatal error will occur on dragging if you use a 'text-plus-sprite' icon instead.
I have a cure for this bug but it is not a very elegant one and (as the current restriction is not serious) I'd like more time to improve it. In the meantime, this warning will help.
It would be called DEF PROCuser_error and it would only be called when the 'fatal' global error trap is activated (i.e. when a genuine error occurs). The intention is (as with all the user-functions) to allow you to put whatever you wish inside the DEF PROC - in this case, so that it would be actioned before the pre-closedown error message appears.
The thought arose when I was doing some programming - using Dr Wimp, of course - and I wanted to close an open file if/when an error occurred. It was so easy to rig up something and I thought that a general facility might be useful to all. What do you think? Why am I worried about it?
| Source: | Archive 14.05 |
| Publication: | Archive Magazine |
| Contributor: | Ray Favre |