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.

It is intentional at the moment.

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

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 

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....