> > > Thank you for the update on progress and reasons for the delay. > > When you outline all the reasons, the delay is understandable. > > The problem, as I see it, is that until a better IDE is released the new > user > just sees a poorly executed environment without basic features. The new > user > does not know about the cool technology being worked on behind the scenes. > > The current approach sounds so ambitious I worry. It unfortunately reminds > me of > a Joel Spolsky post "Things You Should Never Do, Part I" I read many years > ago. > > http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html > > But not knowing how much more work the LiveCode team needs to do, I will > wait > patiently and hope my 2017 prediction is just pessimistic nonsense. >
I doubt we will be writing a whole new script editor from scratch in one go. More likely we will replace individual elements with widgets (as has been done with the variables pane) to make sure all the components work as expected. _______________________________________________ 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
