Trying a custom handler for several math fields

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Sat Sep 14 14:27:27 EDT 2013


Vaughn Clement wrote:

>  I proposed yesterday to add a Cloud app "My Codebook Pro v12" to be
> available for free to any LC user/s. Here this kind of script can be
> offered and amended by other developers to allow all users to benefit from
> the code. So far I have not heard any conversation pro or con about this
> offer. Since this would be a LC public access app, the new users could use
> it like the (index / Table of Contents) I stated was not available on the
> LC site today.

That sounds like a wonderful contribution - thanks for that.

In some ways it sounds similar to Scripter's Scrapbook 
(<http://www.flexiblelearning.com/ssbk.htm>), but has enough distinction 
that both seem very useful.

I look forward to seeing it.

> I am sure that the rebuttal would be that LC's forum is
> available and does this now. My answer is that the current forum is not
> effective to find answers to technical question in that it is not a subject
> oriented database, but rather a word search for any word in blog fields.
> This kind of search is OK but it does not lend it's self to subject
> searches to specific topics of interest.
...
> I have a friend who said that it will work, but will the input be valid. He
> was saying that the uncertainty of the support being added may be wrong. My
> answer is, this may be true, but not allowing us to try it out will not
> supply the users to see the results.

Your observations about the nature of list and forums discussions is 
spot-on IMO, which has led some here to prefer the more strictly 
enforced Q&A format of StackOverflow - here's the LC stuff there:
<http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/livecode>

SO also provides a sort of built-in vetting of answers through its 
voting feature: the answer the members there find most useful gets 
floated to the top with the highest number of votes, while less helpful 
replied are still there but pushed down.

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