Amazing new feature in LiveCode 6.7DP-1.4.14

[Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D]

It´s really amazing what is possible with LiveCode,especially today.
Unfortunately i need this feature tomorrow. But i am afraid, it is not available anymore tomorrow. ;)

Matthias

Am 01.04.2014 um 17:53 schrieb Devin Asay <devin_asay at byu.edu>:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Thanks to the engine refactoring project made possible by last year's Kickstarter campaign the good folks at RunRev have finally been able to implement a feature that I have wanted for years. You know how you're always yelling at your computer to do what you mean, not what you actually coded? Well, that's a thing of the past with the new guessProgrammerIntent stack property. Try this in the stack script:
> 
> on openStack
>   set the guessProgrammerIntent of me to true
> end openStack
> 
> Suddenly everything I really want my stack to do "just works!"
> 
> So I can do things like this:
> 
>   sort field "mydata" in a way that makes sense
> 
> And Boom! the text in the field looks exactly like I want it to look, whatever that is.
> 
> It even works with Strict Compilation Mode turn on! I think what happens is that if you forget to declare a variable, LiveCode just assumes you meant to and carries on as if you had declared it.
> 
> I have tried this with both the LTR and the new RTL versions of LiveCode. I have yet tested it in Ambidextrous mode because I can't afford it right now.
> 
> Looking forward to hearing of other developers' successes with the new guessProgrammerIntent property.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Devin
> 
> 
> Devin Asay
> Office of Digital Humanities
> Brigham Young University
> 
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