On 9/25/07, Ted Gould <ted@...11...> wrote:
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 13:49 +0900, Bill Baxter wrote:
On 9/25/07, Bill Baxter <wbaxter@...400...> wrote: What was the decision on the live update of extensions? The original justification was that it would happen in a separate thread so you wouldn't notice, but it is *very* noticeable. At least on Windows with the snapshot builds. The worst part of it theres a DOS console that pops up every time the command gets rerun, and often that steals the focus away from the text field you're trying to type some number into. It's very annoying.
Oh, and the real gem is that the DOS box steals the focus when you click on a spinbutton -- so the spinbutton thinks you're doing click and hold, resulting in a cascade of dos boxes popping up until you finally hit the parameter's min or max value.
Well, we decided that "Live" would be adjustable by a checkbox, and it is. So, it shouldn't happen unless you select it.
Ok, that checkbox wasn't in the snapshot I was using. I just downloaded a Sept 25 snapshot, and it indeed has the "LivePreview" checkbox, but it seems not to do anything. The live update happens regardless of checked/unchecked status.
As far as the command prompt window, I'm not sure. I asked, and it
seems that no one knows why this happens on Windows, or if it was in previous builds of Inkscape. The thread kinda died.
I just tried renaming the "interpreter" to "pythonw" in one effect's .inx and that does indeed fix it.
--bb