You did the obvious, and restarted LC after placing the plugin right? If you didn't restart lc, and you don't want to, an easy way to force a re-read of the plugins folder is to go into the plugin settings. You don't have to do anything, just going to the settings dialog forced the re-read.
On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 1:16 PM, Richmond <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/27/2015 09:02 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Kay C Lan wrote: >> >> > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 9:03 AM, RunRevPlanet wrote: >> > >> >> None of my comments are from the perspective that enabling LiveCode >> >> to use an external editor is a bad thing. >> > >> > So we agree then. As Richard said, choice is a good thing. >> > >> >> More that for a cross platform IDE, written in it's supported >> >> language, to have an inadequate text editor is a very bad look >> > >> > Again, we agree. >> > >> >> and turns programmers away. >> > >> > Only if they don't have a choice to use something better. >> >> Choice is useful only so long as it's a choice, rather than a requirement. >> >> It would hardly be an INTEGRATED development environment if it didn't >> have a script editor. >> >> Moreover, a script editor is a very good example of the sort of thing >> LiveCode can do very well. >> >> And best of all, AFAIK no one in the company is thinking about shipping >> LC without a script editor. >> >> Given all this, making the current script editor robust and performant >> would logically seem among the highest priorities, since a good SE makes >> the product a joy to use and a poor SE makes LC look bad. In short, the >> choice is to either make more money or less, to the degree that the SE is >> solid and enjoyable. After all, it's the one part of the IDE everyone uses >> most often. >> >> Along the way, reinstating an updated version of MetaCard's support for >> external editors would be useful AS AN OPTION, and probably something the >> community could deliver. >> >> To make the latter work well we'll want formatting and colorization >> plugins for as many third party editors as we can make them for - again, >> best done by the community since each of us has our own favorite so each of >> us may be motivated to write a LiveCode add-on for it. >> >> This page at Ken Ray's site discusses how external editors can be used in >> LC, with links to various LC-specific modules (though some of these may >> need to be updated): >> <http://www.sonsothunder.com/devres/livecode/downloads/stsMLXEditor.htm> >> >> > Well: I've just downloaded the stsMLXEditor and placed it in the > /livecodecommunity-7.0.6 (x86_64)/Plugins/ folder and it does > not show up in /Development/Plugins in the 7.0.6 menu . . . > > Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
