Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread Mark Mitchell
First of all, LC is an absolutely amazing product. It's actually so amazing that I don't want to tell anyone about it, as I can make my computer dance and sing, and everyone thinks I am a programming wiz... However, my basic data base app has been running my small company for about 14 years?

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread larry
Message - From: Mark Mitchell cowh...@mac.com To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 2:44 PM Subject: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB! First of all, LC is an absolutely amazing product. It's actually so amazing that I don't want to tell anyone about

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread Paul Hibbert
Mark, Please bear in mind that LC 7.0 is not in final release yet, so it shouldn't really be used in production, it should only be used for testing right now. There are prominent warnings in the release notes. If you do find a bug such as this then RR needs to know about it, so reporting it

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/9/2014, 3:44 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have narrowed down the offending code to this: global planDate,linNum put absolutely anything into line linNum of card field plan -- It gets 'put' alright, but card field plan loses all previous formatting. Big, big bug if it

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/9/2014, 3:58 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: LC seems to be following the same rule of business as Microsoft - Let's not worry too much about making our new stuff backward compatible with the old stuff. What do we care if people cannot run their old stuff anymore? I'm not sure why

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 9/9/2014, 3:44 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote: I have narrowed down the offending code to this: global planDate,linNum put absolutely anything into line linNum of card field plan -- It gets 'put' alright, but card field plan loses all previous

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Sep 9, 2014, at 2:11 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 9/9/2014, 3:58 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: LC seems to be following the same rule of business as Microsoft - Let's not worry too much about making our new stuff backward compatible with the old stuff.

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm kinda surprised that someone would put 7.0 into a production environment at this point - there isn't a GM release yet. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html On Tue, Sep

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread Colin Holgate
Are you able to describe a simple test that would show the issue? If I put styled and colored text into a field, and then change a line of that text with code, all the formatting stays intact. I wondered if it’s just an issue if you take an old stack and open it in LiveCode 7, but the oldest

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread Colin Holgate
I went ahead and logged a bug about italics not working: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13392 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread Mark Mitchell
On Sep 10, 2014, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: put absolutely anything into char 1 to -1 of line linNum of card field plan Thanks Jacqueline, wow I remember you and Gaskin from the old days! Anyway, that doesn't work either. However, I realize now that I haven't been keeping up and LC

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Mitchell wrote: Thanks Jacqueline, wow I remember you and Gaskin from the old days! Good to see you here. The installer (Which is absolutely awesome, by the way, I don't know who coded that!) states that it is a 'stable' release That would be a bug. I've not seen this myself, but

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark Mitchell cowhead@... writes: However, I realize now that I haven't been keeping up and LC 7.0 is a not ready for prime time player? The installer (Which is absolutely awesome, by the way, I don't know who coded that!) states that it is a 'stable' release so I usually just click

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/9/2014, 7:18 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: I just ran the installer again on OSX, and couldn't find anywhere where it said it was a stable release. I've seen it. I think the info is in the dialog that appears on launch when it tells you there's a new version available, not in the installer

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread Alejandro Tejada
larry wrote LC seems to be following the same rule of business as Microsoft - Let's not worry too much about making our new stuff backward compatible with the old stuff. What do we care if people cannot run their old stuff anymore? an emphathetic coder Larry Funny Enough, the original

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Tuesday, September 9, 2014, 7:39:52 PM, you wrote: I've seen it. I think the info is in the dialog that appears on launch when it tells you there's a new version available, not in the installer itself. OK. I forced the updater to run and if you scroll the info window all the way to

Re: Congrats LC 7.0! You finally broke my DB!

2014-09-09 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/9/2014, 6:11 PM, Mark Mitchell wrote: wow I remember you and Gaskin from the old days! This list is kind of like that street corner in New York where, if you stand there long enough, everyone in the world passes by. Welcome back. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |