Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bernard Devlin wrote: I gave up on LiveCode on Linux some years ago. Last week I downloaded and installed one of the v5.x installers from my LiveCode account, and installed it on Mint Linux. As soon as I started LiveCode, it hung. Luckily, as it started, the LiveCode window was smaller than

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Mike Kerner
I've been doing some work with LC in Ubuntu, with mixed results. The most annoying things to me are: 1) scroll bars that overlap the text field they control, with an opaque thumb and transparent guide, making the right side unreadable 2) Fonts don't seem to be rendered the same way, making

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/02/2012 06:15 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote: I gave up on LiveCode on Linux some years ago. Last week I downloaded and installed one of the v5.x installers from my LiveCode account, and installed it on Mint Linux. As soon as I started LiveCode, it hung. Luckily, as it started, the LiveCode

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: I've been doing some work with LC in Ubuntu, with mixed results. The most annoying things to me are: 1) scroll bars that overlap the text field they control, with an opaque thumb and transparent guide, making the right side unreadable 2) Fonts don't seem to be rendered the

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Warren- Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 7:58:54 AM, you wrote: FWIW, I never had any trouble running Livecode under Mint 9 and 10, both 64 bit with compatibility libs installed, and 32 bit native, and have run it without any problems under openSUSE 11.4 and, currently, 12.1, 64 bit with 32 bit libs

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Mark Wieder
Mike- Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 7:31:37 AM, you wrote: The worst part is 5) No response to bug reports from the team. I almost *always* get responses to bug reports. They may not get acted on right away (or ever), but at least I know that someone has noticed and one of confirmed, couldn't

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Richmond
I have had nothing but 2 small grunts with my experience with Livecode 4.5 on Ubuntu, ZevenOS, Mint and various other Debian derivatives. 1. The 'hole' created by Livecode's dependency on Quicktime. 2. Characters in a Unicode-enabled textfield aren't visible (this is quite a big grunt in my

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Richmond
On 04/03/2012 05:58 PM, Warren Samples wrote: FWIW, I never had any trouble running Livecode under Mint 9 and 10, both 64 bit with compatibility libs installed, and 32 bit native, and have run it without any problems under openSUSE 11.4 and, currently, 12.1, 64 bit with 32 bit libs

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Richmond
Would you mind posting the RQCC #s here? I track Linux issues since they affect an ever-greater portion of my work. Thanks - -- Richard Gaskin Gladly, if you could tell me where here is . . . :) ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Richmond
On 04/03/2012 08:15 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Mike- Tuesday, April 3, 2012, 7:31:37 AM, you wrote: The worst part is 5) No response to bug reports from the team. I almost *always* get responses to bug reports. They may not get acted on right away (or ever), but at least I know that someone has

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/03/2012 12:11 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Still would be nice to have feature parity and not cost*more* than the other platforms. That's just insulting. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net :) I agree with this entirely. I haven't been running Livecode under Linux for all that long, no

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-03 Thread Mike Kerner
Let me correct that on no response. That isn't really correct. It's more like no action. I do get responses most of the time, generally confirming what I'm seeing. It's the next step - putting things on the priority list that is more the problem. I agree that the priority should be more on

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-02 Thread Bernard Devlin
I gave up on LiveCode on Linux some years ago. Last week I downloaded and installed one of the v5.x installers from my LiveCode account, and installed it on Mint Linux. As soon as I started LiveCode, it hung. Luckily, as it started, the LiveCode window was smaller than the monitor - as even

near feature parity

2012-04-01 Thread Richmond
That would be super for us Linux users. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: That would be super for us Linux users. Or at least offer price parity. Right now RunRev sells the Mac version bundled with the Windows version for the same price as the Linux version by itself. This disparity is compounded by those versions having many more features than the