On Sunday, August 16, 2015, Mark Waddingham <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > 2. 12 classes of objects . . . well EPS seems to have gone the way of > all flesh . . > > EPS always relied on a display postscript system which was only ever > available on some higher end Unix systems way back. But it sure would nice to be able to include eps. Ultimately, I am likely to be forced to a platform with serious eps/pdf support > 3. How come after 15 years with LiveCode I have NEVER heard of > 'try/catch/throw' ? is this because they are pointless, > > or am I missing something extremely important? > > They are used for error handling. It allows you to catch runtime errors > and then take appropriate action when they occur. > > They come up every few months on this list > > > 6. "any groups on the current card are automatically placed on the new > card": well that didn't happen just now when I tried it in 7.1. > > but CLONE was introduced at version 1.0, so why was this capability > dropped? > > It hasn't been. I believe background behaviour groups still behave like > that. They do; I am heavily dependent on them -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
