ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

[Judy Perry]

I've followed this thread with some interest as it is something I intended 
to purchase once my vacation here in Florida is done.

What amazes, no, horrifies me is the pure vitriol and outright personal 
nastiness that has greeted this nice product.

Sure, the rest of you Titans could figure out this stuff pretty easily. 
Every time I get one of those things I just throw up my hands and give up. 
Because I have neither the time nor the inclination to go looking 4,000 
different places to find out why something doesn't work/what's the way to 
make it work/ is it a bucket, a mop, a lesson, a tutorial, a blog posting, 
something mentioned in passing somewhere in 10+ years of use-list 
postings, on the forums that are always asking for some other password I 
can never remember, etc. etc. etc.  It's not taking advantage of people's 
naivete to put arcane stuff together in once place for a reasonable price. 
It's what's called a SERVICE.

Why not just tell all the beginners/non-programmers to blow off and go use 
HyperStudio?  IS THAT WHAT YOU ALL REALLY WANT?  Because that's what 
you're doing.

You don't need it?  Don't buy it.  All kinds of people don't need Scott 
Rossi's stuff either or any number of other people who sell stuff to the 
community, but nobody ever craps all over those people.

All of you people doing the complaining -- how many sessions have YOU done 
for Livecode.tv?  I'm betting zero.  How many have you organized?  How 
many have you troubleshot? Zero and zero.

How surprising.

:-(

Judy

On Wed, 20 Jul 2011, J. Landman Gay wrote:

> I also have a free web interface for error lookup. But what bothers me is 
> that everyone who has LiveCode already has a copy of the error list, 
> extracting it to a field takes one line of script in the message box, and the 
> lookup script is two lines of code. Even the most basic newcomer could do 
> this without much trouble.
>
> Charging money for something that is already free and available appears to 
> take advantage of the naivete of new users who don't know that. While that's 
> pretty common in the general public, in our community it isn't.