On 08/27/2015 10:41 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
You did the obvious, and restarted LC after placing the plugin right? If
you didn't restart lc, and you don't want to, an easy way to force a
re-read of the plugins folder is to go into the plugin settings. You don't
have to do anything, just going to the settings dialog forced the re-read.
I looked in the settings dialogue as you suggested, and there it is,
but it still does not up in the Plugins menu; instead it loads as
a small palette.
Thanks.
Richmond.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On 08/27/2015 09:02 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Kay C Lan wrote:
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:03 AM, RunRevPlanet wrote:
None of my comments are from the perspective that enabling LiveCode
to use an external editor is a bad thing.
So we agree then. As Richard said, choice is a good thing.
More that for a cross platform IDE, written in it's supported
language, to have an inadequate text editor is a very bad look
Again, we agree.
and turns programmers away.
Only if they don't have a choice to use something better.
Choice is useful only so long as it's a choice, rather than a requirement.
It would hardly be an INTEGRATED development environment if it didn't
have a script editor.
Moreover, a script editor is a very good example of the sort of thing
LiveCode can do very well.
And best of all, AFAIK no one in the company is thinking about shipping
LC without a script editor.
Given all this, making the current script editor robust and performant
would logically seem among the highest priorities, since a good SE makes
the product a joy to use and a poor SE makes LC look bad. In short, the
choice is to either make more money or less, to the degree that the SE is
solid and enjoyable. After all, it's the one part of the IDE everyone uses
most often.
Along the way, reinstating an updated version of MetaCard's support for
external editors would be useful AS AN OPTION, and probably something the
community could deliver.
To make the latter work well we'll want formatting and colorization
plugins for as many third party editors as we can make them for - again,
best done by the community since each of us has our own favorite so each of
us may be motivated to write a LiveCode add-on for it.
This page at Ken Ray's site discusses how external editors can be used in
LC, with links to various LC-specific modules (though some of these may
need to be updated):
<http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/downloads/stsMLXEditor.htm>
Well: I've just downloaded the stsMLXEditor and placed it in the
/livecodecommunity-7.0.6 (x86_64)/Plugins/ folder and it does
not show up in /Development/Plugins in the 7.0.6 menu . . .
Richmond.
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