Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > Now *Bug 18638* > Hmm, it now seems to work in 8.1. I'll give 8 another try, but my first few minutes aren't promising . . . I'm used to the 2-5 second delay when switching tabs in the scri

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Now *Bug 18638* I can't put the stacks publicly, so I'll wait for an email or ftp at live code to upload. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@list

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > Hmm… Is this only when opening the stacks by double-clicking rather than > from the IDE menubar To tell the truth, the only time I ever loaded a stack from the menubar was when opening another version of live code, blocking messages, and

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 7:01 AM, Ralph DiMola wrote: > I was on 6.7.6 up to 4 weeks ago. There was some pain but not as bad as I > thoug > I never ended up using 6; the global shade problem was so much worse than 5 that I just couldn't get anything done. By the time it was solved (well, I ass

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-18 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:03 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > And now at about 23 minutes . . . and apparently ended at ten hours and one minute, giving by the save time on the file (save & quit buffered) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___

RE: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-18 Thread Ralph DiMola
, October 17, 2016 10:05 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines > On 18 Oct 2016, at 1:02 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > 8 has still been to painful the last couple of times I've checked. There’s your problem. Sounds like s

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-17 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 18 Oct 2016, at 1:43 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > >> What kind of errors? Startup in the IDE or standalone? > > > The IDE. Hmm… Is this only when opening the stacks by double-clicking rather than from the IDE menubar

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > What kind of errors? Startup in the IDE or standalone? The IDE. It throws an error apparently coming from trying to resize the message box, and refers to a blank line of code in the engine . . . Naturally, if i use an answer/breakpoint

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-17 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 18 Oct 2016, at 1:13 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > I'm doing this so that I *CAN* file the bug report for this bit where the > engine throws errors on startup. What kind of errors? Startup in the IDE or standalone? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 7:04 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > There’s your problem. Sounds like staying on 7 is painful right now. > > What are the bug report numbers for the issues causing you pain? > I'm doing this so that I *CAN* file the bug report for this bit where the engine throws errors on

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-17 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 18 Oct 2016, at 1:03 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > And now at about 23 minutes . . . Yep… go watch a movie or something. The code was *very* inefficient. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-17 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 18 Oct 2016, at 1:02 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > 8 has still been to painful the last couple of times I've checked. There’s your problem. Sounds like staying on 7 is painful right now. What are the bug report numbers for the issues causing you pain? Cheers Monte

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
And now at about 23 minutes . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.c

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 6:58 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > What version are you using? I did some work on this a little while ago so > it should be much quicker in the latest releases. 7.1.4. 8 has still been to painful the last couple of times I've checked. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (7

Re: insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-17 Thread Monte Goulding
What version are you using? I did some work on this a little while ago so it should be much quicker in the latest releases. > On 18 Oct 2016, at 12:55 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > I have been waiting now for over ten minutes for this round of commenting > to apply. > > My main script is somethin

insane time to comment out hundreds or thousands of lines

2016-10-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I have been waiting now for over ten minutes for this round of commenting to apply. My main script is something like 15k lines. At the moment, I'm sequentially blocking out large parts for a stripped down stack for a bug report. This last round, I think I applied comment to about 2k lines at onc