Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-29 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 05/29/2018 08:11 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: This isn't addressed to anyone in particular, but I understand it's frustrating at times that the IDE can be problematic. Let me just say with the humblest of intentions, reporting it here does not help the dev team much. They have a

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-29 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I will say that from time to time while scriptint and debugging, my IDE wil CTD, but if I start up again and do the exact same thing I did before, it works. Because I cannot pin down the cause I don't want to report it. I am using LC 9.0.0 in MacOS 10.13.4. This isn't addressed to anyone in

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-27 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
Hi Folks I just wanted to chime in here on a couple of things. Regarding the windows day I am trying to do as much as I can on Windows now. It’s a bit easier now that 8.x has been EOLd there’s only one toolchain to deal with. Having said that though the way we work on LiveCode and the way you

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-27 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 5/26/18 7:20 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: When I wrote the list of things that were broken I was writing specifically about Mac. I haven't responded so far because I thought the issues were Windows-related and I do development on Mac. There is something going on that

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-27 Thread Erik Beugelaar via use-livecode
Maybe an idea for the mothership to setup an survey like they did with the HTML5 campaign. Survey containing for example questions about: 1. Percentage of total LiveCode developers mainly using LiveCode on Windows platform against Mac OSX platform; 2. Percentage of total LiveCode developers

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-26 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
On Sat, 26 May 2018 at 22:09, AndyP via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > If for example you are using LC on Mac which I have used in the past and > was a pleasure to behold.. it just works! > When I wrote the list of things that were broken I was writing specifically about

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-26 Thread AndyP via use-livecode
Windows and V9 is more problematic than the 8 series. Unfortunately before any of the problems previously mentioned are looked at, the message queuing and subsequent slow down, juttering and eventual crashing of the ide when either the script editor, project browser or message box are in extended

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-26 Thread R.H. via use-livecode
I like to add two more observations for Windows 10 and LC9: I wrote that before LC9 on a secondary monitor menus tend to move into Nirvana as they open not at the location of the menu. This is correct with one exception: The Script Editor's menus are still behaving the old way, maybe not as

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-25 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
Tool Palette - BROKEN Script Editor - BROKEN Project Browser - BROKEN Geometry Manager - BROKEN Inspector - BROKEN Message Box - BROKEN Dictionary/Guide - USELESS LiveCode = UNFIT FOR PURPOSE Is there ANY part of this Freakin' software that actually frakin works?? KEVIN! Stop adding 'new' stuff

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-25 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 05/25/2018 12:05 PM, John Burtt via use-livecode wrote: Also fixed is the bug that it was almost impossible to place new controls from the Tools palette to the IDE stack using drag-and-drop. It had been an uncontrollable trial-and-error thing. Often enough I had to try several times to "hit"

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-25 Thread John Burtt via use-livecode
Some of these bugs are not specific to Windows machines. Neither are they dependent on the speed of the machine. I see these everyday and I'm using a very fast MacBook Pro. > > Another real problem is when lots of controls are selected (maybe more than > 10). Moving the selection using arrow

RE: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-25 Thread Clarence Martin via use-livecode
> Subject: Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0 Roland said: > The kluge is turning off everything that is offered to support > script hiliting and debugging such as bracket completions, etc. This is one of the reasons I used LiveCode 6.7, and not 8 or 9, for my LC Conference presentation. Wh

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-25 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Roland said: > The kluge is turning off everything that is offered to support > script hiliting and debugging such as bracket completions, etc. This is one of the reasons I used LiveCode 6.7, and not 8 or 9, for my LC Conference presentation. When displaying code to others, nice to have the

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-24 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 05/24/2018 01:46 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 5/24/18 12:35 PM, R.H. via use-livecode wrote: What is now a new problem with 9.0, and a bit of an annoyance, is the fact that the property inspector does not keep the resized value when changing when selecting another control.

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

2018-05-24 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 5/24/18 12:35 PM, R.H. via use-livecode wrote: What is now a new problem with 9.0, and a bit of an annoyance, is the fact that the property inspector does not keep the resized value when changing when selecting another control. Each time, the window falls back to some default size and then it