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Not Facepalm (as I keep reading it), but Facespan.
Very similar in design to Runtime Revolution / Livecode... strikingly so.
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/facespan-3

Instead of the main IDE being focused on OpenXTalk, it's purely implemented in Applescript.
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Cripes . . .

Was that for MacOS 7,8 & 9?

Time to fire up my PPC Mac Mini running Siberian Tiger
[tarted up 10.4] and 9.2 again and give that a go.

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There is a PPC Mac OS X version available as well:

http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/facespan-43
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But, in Facespan 4.3 its interface was deviating from the RunRev one [as if it ever was lined up with it]:
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Journeying back into 'Classic' Mac OS for a minute, I noticed that in LiveCode 1.1, they tried the 'unified' inspector palette thing. The problem with this of course was that the palette took up 2/3rds of the screen when writing any code, and when inspecting a button, it normally continued to take up 2/3rds of the screen - when it didn't lose focus or crash that is.

The standalones generated were around 2MB in size, for what essentially can be a window with interface elements. The same stack generated on Mac OS 10.9 and above takes 19+MB. So I wondered why the bloat? Can this fat be trimmed?
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I noticed that in LiveCode 1.1, they tried the 'unified' inspector palette thing.
That's odd, I missed that one: and it is even odder when I consider that I started with RunRev 1.0.

Could you "be a darling" and post some screenshots of this?
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richmond62 wrote: Sun May 07, 2023 8:04 am Could you "be a darling" and post some screenshots of this?
Thinking about that, the odd graphical glitch could be because I'm running Mac OS 9 through sheepshaver.
But here's what I meant about the universal palette not changing size.
https://www.tsites.co.uk/otherstuff/ran ... code_1.mp4
It could just be a quirk of sheepshaver.
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What you call a 'unified' inspector is ONLY the properties palette.

What is a bit more instructive is how KM and his sister (Yes) have managed to edge out all the other people
in that about thing.
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