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