[futurebasic] Re: NOT compiling as APPEARANCE

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From: Robert Cogburn <rcogburn@...>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 21:52:44 -0600
One source of confusion with the current interface is that the bottom 
section of the Command menu, which is grayed out when a project is open 
and foremost, reflects the choice of the Runtime for last non-project 
file you have had open. It has no relation to the project you may have 
open and foremost. To see how this works try this:

1. Open one of your projects. Note if the grayed out Runtime selection is 
Console, Standard BASIC or Appearance Compliant.

2. Now open a New file. The bottom section of the Command menu is no 
longer grayed out, so select some different choice of the Runtime.

3. Click in your project to bring it foremost. Note that the now grayed 
out Runtime selection remains the one you selected in step 2, not the one 
previously shown.

4. Quit the FB program, then reopen your project. Note the grayed out 
Runtime selection is still the one you chose in step 2. In other words FB 
remembers the last non-project setting.

In none of these moves is the Runtime for the project changed, it remains 
whatever it was when the project was created. To me this was confusing 
until I caught on. I would (and will) suggest to Staz that it would help 
if, when a project is open and foremost, the project's choice of Runtime 
be checked, even though it is grayed out, just to avoid the confusion 
described above.

Greetings to all, after a long quiet spell,

RCog