Indeed:
On 2/28/17 11:27 pm, Quentin Long via use-livecode wrote:
On Feb 28, 2017, at 07:14 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
an image is an image is an image, whether it is png, bitmap, jpg or svg, the fact that is
is a "widget" is secondary to the use case.
sez Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com>:
au contraire. Not all images are the same. Support for each kind of image has
to be implemented. If the industry developed a new kind of image, LC would be
faced with incorporating that format.
It's true that *under the hood*, LC must handle each distinct 'flavor' of image
differently. But why should *the user* be concerned about whether a given image
is vector or raster or RLE or what?
Consider: Numbers can be signed, unsigned, integer, or real, and the engine's internal
workings must handle each of those 'flavors' of number differently. But in spite of those
internal differences, *the expression "VarX + VarY" ALWAYS just works,
REGARDLESS of which flavors of number VarX and VarY happen to be*.
Surely one of the points of LiveCode is to "protect" people who want to
use a RAD tool from the "fiddly
bits". Ater all if we wanted to concern ourselves with the filldy bits
we'd all be "out there" learning
C++, C#, Turbo-Whatsit and all the other programming languages that I,
at least, have, thanks to LiveCode
so successfully managed to avoid for the last 15 years.
Now I am aware that LiveCode is in the process of trying to get itself
taken seriously by the
hairy-chested programming brigade (real men don't do object-based
stuff), but if that is at the price
of losing touch with their installed base of "unprogrammers" (and only
"unprogrammers" in the sense
of being people who aren't high as kites on command-line only
programming) as well as the very valuable niche they fill between the
blockly community and the C++ community I belive they are making a big
mistake.
I couldn't tell you about the difference between big-Endian and
little-Endian programming any more than
I could tell you about Michael Flatly's shoe size (what made me think of
that example? I wonder). But I have
used LiveCode to produce quite a lot of useful stuff; and with the
advent of SVG import and a lot of the
other exciting stuff that is on its way in LC 9 I hope to produce a lot
more.
Nobody bothered to point out that if one opens an SVG image with a
text-editor one can transfer its code into the prefs palette of the SVG
widget; and I suspect they didn't because they knew full well that that
seriously sucks as a way to import an image!
As far as *the user* is concerned, a number is a number is a number, and it
*doesn't matter* whether a number happens to be real or integer or what. Why
can't an image be an image be an image, *regardless* of whether an image
happens to be JPG or bitmap or what?
The main stregth of Livecode is that one can go on believing in the
illusion of the GUI.
Messing around with text-editors and images spoils that completely.
Richmond.
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