New Visual Editor ?

[Richmond]

On 16/04/14 15:21, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> There's a recent Dr. Dobbs article about the historically bad record 
> the software industry has for delivering accurate estimates:
> <http://www.drdobbs.com/architecture-and-design/software-estimation-how-misperceptions-m/240166474> 
>
>
> While your estimates may be consistently spot-on, it seems RunRev's 
> estimates are more in line with industry averages.
>
> To see what the team is up to the Road Map offers useful guidance:
> <http://livecode.com/community/roadmap/>

No mention, as far as I can see, of the new GUI.

>
> There we see four major categories of tasks, broken into two groups. 
> The first group consists of three "strands", related sets of tasks 
> that form a foundation on which the second group, labeled "Queued", 
> can the be implemented.
>
> The IDE work is one of the three strands, and a team is currently 
> working on it.
>
> As Community Manager, part of this role requires me to bring concerns 
> from the community to the core dev team.  My next meeting with them is 
> tomorrow. and I'll make this an item on that agenda, encouraging the 
> IDE team to provide an update on their work in the new UI.
>
> With the engine so very much in flux as we move toward v7, we can 
> expect that work in the IDE has been somewhat hampered by the need to 
> complete that version, so I don't imagine they're at a stage where we 
> can expect nifty screen shots and such quite yet.
>
> But I'll see what info I can find and either the team or myself with 
> provide you some info on where they are with that.
>

Thank you very much indeed. The main thing, as far as I'm concerned at 
least, is not how long it takes
(lesson number 1: everything takes longer than one's estimates), but 
that it has not been quietly dropped.

As self-appointed gadfly I do find myself, from time to time, stinging a 
bit, largely owing to things that
probably are happening, but the "Great Livecode Public" are not being 
adequately informed
about.

Richmond.

> -- 
>  Richard Gaskin
>
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> After rather more than a year this is quite fun to look at again:
>>>>
>>>> https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1755283828/open-source-edition-of-livecode 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ----------------------------
>>>>
>>>> However, one quite significant question pops up:
>>>>
>>>> "We will introduce a *new visual editor* designed around today's 
>>>> usability standards. The editor will be open. The more technical 
>>>> members of our community can create simplified versions of the 
>>>> editor for tablets or primary schools."
>>>>
>>>> When? "Final Delivery. Fall 2013" Aha; of course.
>>>>
>>>> Has this been dropped without us having been informed?
>