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.

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.