Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-07 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 8 Oct 2015, at 9:53 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > I have a tool in the works that'll help that conversation along Talking about tools in the works. Does anyone have a tool to identify inaccessible handlers, unused variables etc? I was poking in the IDE the other day and I noticed som

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Waddingham wrote: On 2015-10-06 04:54, Richard Gaskin wrote: Monte Goulding wrote: On 6 Oct 2015, at 1:15 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote: some really long script somewhere to create every control and set every property? ^ this Where can I read that? I wonder what the break-even ROI calcu

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-06 Thread Richmond
On 05/10/15 22:36, Richmond wrote: 1. I seem unable to GROUP a single object. This is a real pain if one wants to do an IMPORT SNAPSHOT with a drop shadow. Importing the button as a button, rather than within its own group means one loses a DROP SHADOW or a GLOW. 2. The Application Browse

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-10-06 04:54, Richard Gaskin wrote: Monte Goulding wrote: On 6 Oct 2015, at 1:15 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote: some really long script somewhere to create every control and set every property? ^ this Where can I read that? I wonder what the break-even ROI calculation for that effort

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-10-06 04:11, Monte Goulding wrote: On 6 Oct 2015, at 1:05 pm, Roger Eller wrote: Is that why LC8 takes longer to open? Could be, I think most of it is because of the docs. This is the most likely explanation - the docs are merged together on startup (so that they can be added to b

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 6 Oct 2015, at 1:54 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Where can I read that? It’s all in the script of stack revMenubar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscr

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: > On 6 Oct 2015, at 1:15 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> some really long script somewhere to create every control and >> set every property? > > ^ this Where can I read that? I wonder what the break-even ROI calculation for that effort looks like -- Richard Gaskin

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 6 Oct 2015, at 1:15 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > some really long script somewhere to create every control and set every > property? ^ this ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubsc

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: > It is now a script only stack that has it’s UI built on startup so > you need to add things each time you open LC. I've been writing IDE patchers for myself for months to tidy up things that had been sitting in the bug queue for a while (one of which got fixed today), a

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 6 Oct 2015, at 1:05 pm, Roger Eller wrote: > > Is that why LC8 takes longer to open? Could be, I think most of it is because of the docs. @livecodeali If this is slowing the load of the load of IDE a lot then one thing you could do is switch script only stacks to binary stacks during you

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread Roger Eller
Is that why LC8 takes longer to open? On Oct 5, 2015 10:01 PM, "Monte Goulding" wrote: > > > On 6 Oct 2015, at 7:28 am, Richmond wrote: > > > > As modifications to the LiveCode 8.*.*. revMenuBar stack don't seem to > "stick" between restarts > > > > [or, put another way, I haven't worked out how

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 6 Oct 2015, at 7:28 am, Richmond wrote: > > As modifications to the LiveCode 8.*.*. revMenuBar stack don't seem to > "stick" between restarts > > [or, put another way, I haven't worked out how to manage that yet] > > I am also offering a palette with a button to call the Application Brow

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread Richmond
On 05/10/15 22:36, Richmond wrote: 1. I seem unable to GROUP a single object. This is a real pain if one wants to do an IMPORT SNAPSHOT with a drop shadow. Importing the button as a button, rather than within its own group means one loses a DROP SHADOW or a GLOW. 2. The Application Browse

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread Richmond
On 05/10/15 22:50, panagiotis merakos wrote: Hi Richmond, Can you group a single object if clicking on the "Group" button in the toolbar? It is a known issue (and now fixed for the next build) that grouping controls does not work from menu or shortcuts, but does work when using the "Group" butto

Re: Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread panagiotis merakos
Hi Richmond, Can you group a single object if clicking on the "Group" button in the toolbar? It is a known issue (and now fixed for the next build) that grouping controls does not work from menu or shortcuts, but does work when using the "Group" button in the toolbar: http://quality.runrev.com/sh

Basic grouches about LiveCode 8

2015-10-05 Thread Richmond
1. I seem unable to GROUP a single object. This is a real pain if one wants to do an IMPORT SNAPSHOT with a drop shadow. Importing the button as a button, rather than within its own group means one loses a DROP SHADOW or a GLOW. 2. The Application Browser is present in LiveCode 8, but is