Re: Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-21 Thread AndyP
Wold it be possible or even practical to use the atom editor passing info back and forth to LC thus separating LC from the editor so only one instance of the engine is required to be running ? No idea how to do this, just throwing it in for discussion. - Andy Piddock My software never h

Re: Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Malte Brill wrote: > Ali Lloyd wrote: > >> I don't think that the current script editor should be neglected > > I think that depends on when 7 will be EOLed. If you plan to have 8 > stable by the end of the year and you plan to have a new Script > editor there, wasting resources might be indeed a

Re: Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ali Lloyd wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 at 16:49, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> With the IDE things are even better: it's already written in a >> high-level scripting language. Why not use LiveCode Script? >> >> If we can't build a good text editor in LiveCode, what are any of us >> doing here? > >

Re: Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-21 Thread Malte Brill
Ali Lloyd wrote: > I don't think that the current script editor should be neglected I think that depends on when 7 will be EOLed. If you plan to have 8 stable by the end of the year and you plan to have a new Script editor there, wasting resources might be indeed a waste. Mike Kerner wrote: >

Re: Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-21 Thread Mike Kerner
There are SO MANY things that can, and, in my opinion, should happen with a/the script editor, that I often wonder if instead of working on one, effort should instead be spent on a BBEdit/TextWrangler plugin or some method for leveraging someone else's text editor. Bootstrapping is an unbelievably

Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-21 Thread Ali Lloyd
On Thu, 20 Aug 2015 at 16:49, Richard Gaskin wrote: > With the IDE things are even better: it's already written in a > high-level scripting language. Why not use LiveCode Script? > > If we can't build a good text editor in LiveCode, what are any of us > doing here? > > That is a false dichotom