IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

[stephen barncard]

"The only reason you guys think tabWidths are better is because you're too
young to have spent enough time on teletypes, or IBM's that had
single-digit model numbers."

yeah, 1965 I drank a lot of Cokes, dreamt  of being a pirate DJ off the
coast of England and thought computers were boring.


On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 10:43 AM, <dunbarx at aol.com> wrote:

> Hmmm.
>
>
> I will give 2-1 odds, payable in LC tokens, for each year older you are
> than I.
>
>
>
> Craig Newman
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Wed, Aug 14, 2013 1:35 pm
> Subject: Re: IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops
>
>
> The only reason you guys think tabWidths are better is because you're too
> young to have spent enough time on teletypes, or IBM's that had
> single-digit model numbers.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:24 PM, J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com
> >wrote:
>
> > On 8/14/13 11:49 AM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
> >
> >  With what you explained, I might see how, say, a negative number
> >> might trip up the translation, but do not see why the particular
> >> string mentioned does. Anyway, that string does not crash two
> >> machines I tried it on, so I suspect something more local and
> >> sinister in his getup.
> >>
> >
> > I found early on that if I had the project browser showing, setting
> > properties in the older property inspector would cause a crash sometimes.
> > Later I found out there was a bug in the new project browser that caused
> > that, but I'd already got into the habit of not showing it any more. I
> > haven't had crashes since I turned it off, and I don't know if the bug's
> > been fixed since then because I haven't turned it back on.
> >
> > Maybe the OP had both browsers showing and hit the same bug.
> >
> > --
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