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I have started losing the Tools Palette. It just disappears. Sometimes I can get the Tools Palette back by deselecting and reselecting the item under Tools, but not consistently.

Another side effect - I wrote a simple stack that has a button that calls a handler in the stack script. I have tried this twice, and it is consistent both times. When the button is clicked I get the error that the handler cannot be found. I added the same handler to one object in an existing stack I downloaded (blocks.rev) and it works (although the Tools Palette problems remain).

I have made no concious changes to any part of the IDE, I have only been creating stacks. Does anyone know what's going on? This has made the IDE unusable, it's a showstopper for me.

Thanks, Walt

PS: I just made an empty stack and the stack event handler worked. I can't find why it's not working in my real" stack though, so I don't know if the issues are related.

I think I worked around the Script Editor part - it appears to be starting up by default now with the Compile toolbar in the closed position, which I have never used that way. I hadn't changed it before, it always started open, now it starts closed, even after a re-install.

OK, a combination of pilot error and IDE user interface complexity - if the Script Editor tool bar is not visible, and the script is closed, when the system asks if you want to save the script it does so, but does not indicate if there are any failures in the script. After that, instead of posting a script failure when executed, it instead reports "Handler not found". My guess (in a blind man describing an elephant kind of way) is that the handler, since it is now broken, is no longer posted in the event path, rather than reverting to the last working version.

The Tool Palette is still playing hide and seek, though, so it appears to be unrelated.

Walt

OK, discovered why the Tool Palette is disappearing - a Preferences setting of course. Now the question is why does that setting change now, after quite a long time. This is the first tme I have seen that behavior since version 2.81 when I first started with Rev Studio, and I have never changed that setting. Is there some way I could have sent some message that coincedentally changed it? Or had my previous upgrades kept around an older preferences file rather than replace it with new?

Hi Walt,

RunRev's preferences are not the most stable part of the IDE, nor the most transparant. I'd just restore the preferences manually and if the problem persists delete the preferences files (somewhere in the Prefereces folder on Mac OS X or the Application Data folder on Windows, not in the Applications folder or the Program Files folder (!)).

Best,

Mark