On 19/03/14 16:26, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
On 19/03/14 11:28, Shawn Blc wrote:
This would be a great feature for the Commercial version ;) Another
feature to differentiate the two versions.
Raw Prawns!
That would be a good thing for both versions.
Having taken a quick shuftie at the Dictionary this morning, the idea
should not be insurmountable to implement.
I agree that it would be best to produce some sort of enhancement for
personal annotations that could be used by everyone, Commercial and
Community users alike.
In an ideal world LiveCode would be everywhere, with a solid majority
of its users enjoying the free Community Edition - indeed, that may
well be the case already.
The Commercial Edition offers a proprietary license - that should be
sufficient enticement for those who need that.
For everything else, at least where a feature poses no logical
conflict with the GPL (such as script encryption), parity between
Community and Commercial is a valuable goal.
My only hesitation here is with attempting to modify the existing
Dictionary stack, esp. given the scope of changes the team is
implementing for v7 and beyond.
I don't think there is much point with mucking around with the
Dictionary stack right now.
However, when we see what the Dictionary looks like in version 7:
1. Just the same but with more words.
2. Completely redesigned.
Either somebody can hack the Dictionary stack as it is [doesn't get me
vote],
or somebody can write a 'hack-stack' which people can use to add
features to the Dictionary stack, AND [very important]
UNDO changes they don't like.
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When people think of additional features, I feel that the 'hack-stack' route
is a better bet than mucking around with the original thing - these could be
rather like those little things you dropped into your Mac OS 7,8,9
system folder
to enhance things: easily added and easily removed.
From time to time Apple would then roll the more successful features into
their next release.
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Richmond.
But a separate Notes stack that can instantly open relevant Dictionary
entries with the IDE's revDocumentationGo command would be easily
achievable, and an ideal community project since it would require no
coordination with the RunRev IDE team.
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