Hi christerp

In the past the LC HQ had an initiative where they asked LC developers to 
submit a list their top ten bugs they needed to be addressed.  They collated 
that list which they used to set the agenda for a team focus to pare down the 
list of outstanding bugs.   I understood that this was to be done again at some 
point but I think their focus for the past year has been on LC 10.x and 
LiveCode Create and which is an important initiative too.  As any of us who 
write software know, things take more effort and time than you estimate. Even 
if you used the Scotty principle to create the estimate.

Regarding having a way to register the requests for new features you can create 
an Enhancement Request on the LiveCode Quality web site 
https://quality.livecode.com/enter_bug.cgi

That way they have an ID and URL you can reference and share with other 
LiveCode Developers. Furthermore, other LC users and the LiveCode team can 
discuss the new feature in the comments that follow the initial post.  There is 
not an opportunity to vote up or down Bugs or Enhancement requests but you can 
add yourself to the cc list.  In a sense that is an unofficial poll on the 
degree of interest in the feature.  You can also voice your support for the 
feature in the comments and explain your use cases and how that would help you 
achieve what you are trying to accomplish. (You may get advice from other users 
or the LC Team on other ways to accomplish what you are aiming to do but that 
is good too.)

Posting an enhancement request also puts your idea on the development team’s  
radar as they are reviewed by Panos and periodically reported to the team. 
There should be  some sort of initial response from LiveCode staff.*  

Anyway an enhancement  request I have is to be able to have graphics or text 
visible above the player while it plays.   So to follow my own advice I have 
posted a feature request on quality.livecode.com

Its ID in the database is "Bug 24402” 

Its URL is "https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24402";

I am not sure whether I or someone else has posted this before.  I think if Tom 
Glod’s request "3. integrated layering of native controls” was implemented it 
may resolve my request as well.
In any case as I filled out the summary filed on the ‘new request’ form  of the 
the quality.livecode.com site it should have displayed reports that were 
potentially similar bugs.  It did not do that at all this time which was odd.  
I should have searched for some terms in my request to see if mine is a 
duplicate before posting but just to get it off my todo list now I posted 
without doing that.  I can check that later and if I find a duplicate I can 
note the ID of the Duplicate Report mark my report as a duplicate of another 
report and enter the ID of the duplicate linking my report with that one.  
Panos may beat me to doing that when he reviews the post.

Anyway let me know what you think of that request and if you post your features 
on quality.livecode.com please share them in this thread as Tom has asked.

Thanks Tom for starting this discussion.  



Martin Koob

* Panos or others on the LiveCode development team please correct me if I have 
said anything wrong about using the LiveCode Quality website and the process 
that new issues or requests are triaged and responded to.




> On Nov 12, 2023, at 10:04 AM, christerp1 via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Wow! Now, guys  it is time to make a move! The key is to get this feedback 
> registered and  - a bit organized.So much good feedback from us all, how 
> could it be served? Get to know what great ideas to create apps and what is 
> needed.It is to be undrrstood that making a succesdful app and to the largest 
> target group  possible needs a supported process, releasing many of us 
> taclking stupid problems.The key is to help us all making a spec of an idea 
> for a system and help us to understan if it is worth while. If yes, how to 
> invest and make it hapoen.Best regardschriste...@gmail.com+358-400-410216Sent 
> from my mobile
> -------- Original message --------From: Paul Dupuis via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> Date: 12/11/2023  15.20  (GMT+02:00) To: 
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Cc: Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> 
> Subject: Re: Top things you are waiting for .... On 11/12/2023 3:42 AM, jbv 
> via use-livecode wrote:> My top priority : "rev" libraries (revXML, revZIP, 
> perhaps others) to > be fully Unicode compatible.I'll add the shell() 
> function, which is not Unicode compatible on Windows 
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