[ANN] lcStackbrowser V2 Released

[Peter Haworth]

Hi Mark,
Thanks for the feedback.  Yes, it's important to run the installer no
matter what platform you're on since it makes sure various files are copied
to the "lcStackBrowser Resources" file in your plugins folder.

I'm puzzled about the zero length file though.  I use a "put url" statement
to copy the stack from the unzipped folder into the plugins folder - is
there something different about using that mechanism on Linux?  I had one
person who said lcStackBrowser didn't show up in the list of plugins after
running the installer, maybe this is the reason although he hasn't told me
what os he's on yet.

I am using code from BvG Docu 2 to create a database of dictionary info
(with Bjornke's permission).  There's one database for each version of
Livecode  so it only happens the first time you use lcStackBrowser with any
particular Livecode version. The database is used to display dictionary
information when you click the "i" icon next to any built-in property in
the display, so that feature won't be available in Linux but you should get
just an empty display rather than any sort of run time error.

I wasn't aware Docu 2 didn't work under Linux, probably some difference in
the unnecessarily complicated file and stack structures that make up the
dictionary.  I think I will bow to Bjornke's knowledge in that area but
I'll probably put some checks in to issue some sort of message if running
under Linux.


Pete
lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and
SQLiteAdmin <http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html>


On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:49 PM, Mark Wieder <mwieder at ahsoftware.net> wrote:

> Pete-
>
> Friday, January 10, 2014, 9:09:23 AM, you wrote:
>
> > On the Linux issue, I do not have access to a Linux box so have not been
> > able to test but I believe my plugins should work under Linux as I have
> > tried to deal with the obvious things like where the standard home
> > directories are for each platform.
>
> ...and it mostly does.
> You *have to* run the installer... copying the stack to the plugins
> folder doesn't work. Then after the installer has run, you copy the
> stack from the zip file in place of the zero-length file that the
> installer put into your plugins folder.
> Then for some reason the bvgDocu installer is launched (you can't skip
> this step), which doesn't work on linux, but it doesn't do any harm,
> and does create a sqlite database which you can ignore.
>
> Other than that, lcStackbrowser seems to do everything the Project
> Browser *should* do.
>
> --
> -Mark Wieder
>  ahsoftware at gmail.com
>
>
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