How buggy is 7.0.1?

[Brahmanathaswami]

A rambling answer to your "Straw Poll" :

We have a desktop app that Andre built and continues to maintain,  which 
we depend on heavily for communicating with a MySQL database on our web 
server.  It's so much better than a web interface for accessing tables 
etc. I have volunteers in several different countries that use this to 
help with data entry to the web site. Runs on Mac or PC.

But in 7.0.1 the libURL, POST, Headers etc all seem to be giving us 
(Andre) major troubles. I had to rescue the stack (save as legacy) and 
now he's working with it in 6.6.1. And the issues with POST seem to have 
gone away.

I really do have faith in LC, and I need to keep moving forward because 
the upgrades to the field object will be very important for our work. 
I'm not sure if Andre submitted a bug report...

Is anyone else successing POSTing large amts of data from a desktop app 
in 7?  I'm talking about large JSON objects, MP3 files, Jpeg's etc. he's 
tried to identify the problem to report it... not sure where that is at 
the moment.

Also as someone else noted, the CEF browser is pretty buggy... I don't 
have a recipe yet... because I don't have time to play around much.. .I 
need to pick the path of least resistance to staying up and running...if 
something doesn't work I typically move to path where I get the job done 
and this means no more testing on the "broken path"... which, I realize, 
is not very helpful.

As an aside: Yosemite has it's own issues, so the line between what we 
see in LiveCode being an LC issue or a Mac OS X issue seems a bit blurry 
at times... flickering progress bars etc. Again, I'm not in a good 
position to qualify these issues...

All that said I have start up some new projects that are totally 
desktop/local  in 7.0.1. and other than having to stay away from the CEF 
browser, things are working. None of them use libURL...


Swasti Astu, Be Well!
Brahmanathaswami

Kauai's Hindu Monastery
www.HimalayanAcademy.com



Graham Samuel wrote:
> I’ve been kind of following “Can’t Move Backward" conversation, and I have to say that the app I’m working on seems to be fine in 7.0.1. I have generated standalones for both Mac and PC that run well and don’t crash. I have found the odd bug, but I really mean ‘odd’ (minus infinity is a number, anyone?). Although the program has quite a few stacks and palettes, low thousands of lines of code and a certain amount of Unicode manipulation, it clearly isn’t putting a strain on 7.0.1.