Hi Andrew, I suggest filing a bug report to quality.livecode.com. This report would be a good candidate for a community pull request, as it requires changes in the Dictionary.
Best, Panos -- On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 2:00 PM, Andrew Bell via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I have some students working through the LiveCode academies in class and > have found an error in the first lesson (previously we have encountered > issues with the Parallax Effect lesson). On the Project Setup and Splash > Screen, the user is instructed to play a splashscreen video by doing the > following: > > play videoClip (specialfolderpath("desktop") & > "/BitterRevenge/Video/Intro.mp4") > > When I go to the Dictionary to search for the term videoClip I see it was > introduced in 1.0, but I have to read all the way to the end of the entry > to find out this was deprecated in 8.1 (and isn't indicated at the top of > the entry or with a ! in the list before selecting the entry). The > dictionary entry also seems to be missing bits and pieces (I thought this > was a filed bug, but couldn't find it in Bugzilla) reading unintelligible > like this: > > ... > The use of was deprecated in version 8.1 of LiveCode with new defaults for > and as true on all systems apart from pre OS X 10.8. The Windows build of > LiveCode no longer supports any features and setting the and > > will have no effect. Additionally does not include 64 bit support and > therefore can not be supported on OS X 64 bit builds of LiveCode. > ... > > I showed the student how to use a player object and execute the play > player command as a workaround. Does this get filed as an Enhancement > Request, email to support, or both? > > --Andrew Bell > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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