Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
On the 18th I wrote: I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the launch document command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after choosing Help-User Guide. I'm please to report

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-20 Thread Robert Sneidar
There are drawbacks to using snapshots. Typically if you want to resize the disk or convert it from dynamic to static or vis Versa, you have to merge the snapshots and I have had issues not being able to merge snapshots locking me into the current state of the drive. Also, if you have

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 11:24:01 PM, you wrote: There are drawbacks to using snapshots. Typically if you want to resize the disk or convert it from dynamic to static or vis Versa, you have to merge the snapshots and I have had issues not being able to merge snapshots locking me into

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Warren Samples wrote: On 01/19/2013 12:47 AM, Warren Samples wrote: I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the launch document command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Robert Sneidar
Richard I don't know what you mean by synchronously. If you mean simultaneously while the LC engine goes on to do other things, this works asynchronously for me on OS X 10.6.8 and LC 5.5.3. I put this in a button: on mouseUp answer file Choose a word document: put it into theFile

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 6:17:49 PM, you wrote: Yes, apparently only on Ubuntu - or maybe even just my Ubuntu. I haven't heard back from other Ubuntu users, but Warren was kind enough to test on openSUSE and Mint and he sees the asynch behavior we see on OS X, which is what I've

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: And for the record, I see no problems on Fedora Core 16 xfce spin, Linux Mint 14 (LMDE or Unbuntu based). Thanks for checking, Mark. I've added that info to my report. Maybe it's just my machine? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting:

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 6:40:52 PM, you wrote: Maybe it's just my machine? Hard to say. Is this native or in a VM? I *have* had the dictionary take ~two minutes to load at times for no apparent reason. Don't know if that's related or not. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 6:40:52 PM, you wrote: Maybe it's just my machine? Hard to say. Is this native or in a VM? Native. VMs are for Windows. ;) I *have* had the dictionary take ~two minutes to load at times for no apparent reason. Don't know if

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 7:00:19 PM, you wrote: Hard to say. Is this native or in a VM? Native. VMs are for Windows. ;) Back off, dude g ... I've got LMDE in Virtualbox on a Fedora base. Sheesh... who in their right mind would run a linux VM on a native Windows base? Linux with

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- Saturday, January 19, 2013, 7:00:19 PM, you wrote: Hard to say. Is this native or in a VM? Native. VMs are for Windows. ;) Back off, dude g ... I've got LMDE in Virtualbox on a Fedora base. Sheesh... who in their right mind would run a linux VM on a native

launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the launch document command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after choosing Help-User Guide. I've filed a bug report for the IDE issue:

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/18/2013 11:35 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the launch document command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after choosing Help-User Guide.

Re: launch document synchronous on Linux only?

2013-01-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/19/2013 12:47 AM, Warren Samples wrote: I've somehow never noticed that on Linux the launch document command behaves synchronously, while it's not synchronous on Mac or IIRC on Windows. This winds up being especially bad for RunRev: you can't use the IDE after choosing Help-User Guide.