I'm trying to rally the troops...

[Richmond]

On 19/03/14 16:26, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Richmond wrote:
>
>> On 19/03/14 11:28, Shawn Blc wrote:
>>> This would be a great feature for the Commercial version ;)  Another
>>> feature to differentiate the two versions.
>>
>> Raw Prawns!
>>
>> That would be a good thing for both versions.
>>
>> Having taken a quick shuftie at the Dictionary this morning, the idea
>> should not be insurmountable to implement.
>
> I agree that it would be best to produce some sort of enhancement for 
> personal annotations that could be used by everyone, Commercial and 
> Community users alike.
>
> In an ideal world LiveCode would be everywhere, with a solid majority 
> of its users enjoying the free Community Edition - indeed, that may 
> well be the case already.
>
> The Commercial Edition offers a proprietary license - that should be 
> sufficient enticement for those who need that.
>
> For everything else, at least where a feature poses no logical 
> conflict with the GPL (such as script encryption), parity between 
> Community and Commercial is a valuable goal.
>
> My only hesitation here is with attempting to modify the existing 
> Dictionary stack, esp. given the scope of changes the team is 
> implementing for v7 and beyond.

I don't think there is much point with mucking around with the 
Dictionary stack right now.

However, when we see what the Dictionary looks like in version 7:

1. Just the same but with more words.

2. Completely redesigned.

Either somebody can hack the Dictionary stack as it is [doesn't get me 
vote],

or somebody can write a 'hack-stack' which people can use to add 
features to the Dictionary stack, AND [very important]
UNDO changes they don't like.

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When people think of additional features, I feel that the 'hack-stack' route
is a better bet than mucking around with the original thing - these could be
rather like those little things you dropped into your Mac OS 7,8,9 
system folder
to enhance things: easily added and easily removed.

 From time to time Apple would then roll the more successful features into
their next release.
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Richmond.

>
> But a separate Notes stack that can instantly open relevant Dictionary 
> entries with the IDE's revDocumentationGo command would be easily 
> achievable, and an ideal community project since it would require no 
> coordination with the RunRev IDE team.
>
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