hand cursor

[Robert Brenstein]

>diskot123 at juno.com wrote:
>
>>was changed from 8 to 28 as requested by runrev. The MC IDE should 
>>be updated clone the hand and set it's id to 28.
>
>Thank you for chiming in on this.  Always good to have feedback from 
>the mother ship.
>
>I recognize that RunRev believes the current implementation is 
>complete, but it appears they did not implement or perhaps 
>misunderstood the spec that they'd worked on which would have also 
>provided backward compatibility as well.
>
>ID 28 is used by the splitter.  We could change that too, and the 
>arrow cursor and its affected compliment along with them and other 
>IDs in use for a decade before Rev was born, but before we slide 
>down that slippery slope I'd prefer to ask that the team review the 
>spec and decide if they're fully satisfied with the current 
>implementation.
>
>Remember that the first "solution" was to yank the hand cursor 
>altogether, until sufficient discussion warranted a re-think.  I'm 
>hoping things can remain as open-minded.
>
>I believe implemeting engine changes in ways that don't break the MC 
>IDE is a relevant consideration.  Given the implications for other 
>legacy works it may be best for all to use the spec they'd defined 
>for this.
>
>--
>  Richard Gaskin
>  Fourth World Media Corporation

I second that :)

I think there was too much focus on the appearance of the new cursors 
and the whole concept of dropping the hand cursor that the technical 
implementation aspects were overlooked in the pre-release testing.

Robert