Theme Hooks and Designer Mode

[CodingJungle]

Had a client who purchased CJ Menu from me, and then asked me to get it to work in "designer mode". CJ Menu is basically a fancy theme hook to replace the primary menu in IPS. However it doesn't appear theme hooks get processed in designer mode. Is this intentional? or is there a trick to this that i'm not seeing? I've tried several plugins that are theme hooks and created a few myself, but to no avail, none of them would work in designer mode. As i originally thought it was something i had done in cj menu that prevented it from running. 

If this is the wrong section for this, please feel free to move it.

[Mark]

It is intentional at the moment.

[CodingJungle]

so can only use the default skin in_dev, and can't use theme hooks in designer mode...okay gotcha.

[teraßyte]

I think it would be fair to call this a "disaster". Often custom skins have additional templates or other changes compared to the default code, how can we easily make a theme hook work with those?

 

In 3.x we could switch skin using the masterMap.php file, but here we can't anymore. Certainly not developer friendly, I hope you consider to change this for 4.2 

[HeadStand]

16 hours ago, CodingJungle said:

so can only use the default skin in_dev, and can't use theme hooks in designer mode...okay gotcha.

This is my other gripe (I only have 2) with the framework.  So distressing....