Re: If you don't read the forums

2015-03-12 Thread William Prothero
Folks: When Director added new code styles, it used a property called “scriptExecutionStyle” which you could set to maintain some older statements. One of the problems with just using older versions is that there may be critical unfixed bugs and the dev team wouldn’t want to be required to

Re: If you don't read the forums

2015-03-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Chris Sheffield wrote: Thanks for the heads up. Would have never known about it otherwise… You probably would once the basics were sorted out. As with the introduction of byteToNum, trueWord, and other changes to the engine, since the engine has gone open source RunRev has a good track

Re: If you don't read the forums

2015-03-12 Thread Colin Holgate
I’ll have to work out my forum login, it’s not working right now. But on the topic in question, here are a couple of examples from the history of Flash, that might help: When Flash 9 came out Adobe introduced ActionScript 3. It was radically different than ActionScript 2, and some of the ways

If you don't read the forums

2015-03-10 Thread J. Landman Gay
Devs who have been working with LC for some time and who don't read the forums may want to take a look at this thread and provide input: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=66t=23490 I think it is an important question which will affect the development of the engine moving forward and,

Re: If you don't read the forums

2015-03-10 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks for the heads up. Would have never known about it otherwise… On Mar 10, 2015, at 11:45 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Devs who have been working with LC for some time and who don't read the forums may want to take a look at this thread and provide input:

Re: If you don't read the forums

2015-03-10 Thread Peter Haworth
I very rarely used to look at the forums but I discovered the option to get a daily digest of new posts by email. That works great for me as I can quickly scan through the email and find the posts I might have an interest in. In this case, I'm glad Jacque brought it to our attentions; it's

RE: If you don't read the forums

2015-03-10 Thread Ralph DiMola
: If you don't read the forums Devs who have been working with LC for some time and who don't read the forums may want to take a look at this thread and provide input: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=66t=23490 I think it is an important question which will affect the development

Re: If you don't read the forums

2015-03-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
William Prothero wrote: When Director added new code styles, it used a property called “scriptExecutionStyle” which you could set to maintain some older statements. You and Colin will be glad to know that's one of Mark Waddingham's proposals, a global property which would preserve some

Re: If you don't read the forums

2015-03-10 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-03-10 20:31, Richard Gaskin wrote: Chris Sheffield wrote: Thanks for the heads up. Would have never known about it otherwise… You probably would once the basics were sorted out. As with the introduction of byteToNum, trueWord, and other changes to the engine, since the engine has