Release 8.0 DP 9

Peter Haworth pete at lcsql.com
Fri Nov 13 20:51:46 EST 2015


Thanks for the info Alex, I'll try to track it down over the weekend.

Pete
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On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.org> wrote:

> It turns out I was wrong - I can't get it to run in 8.0-dp-4
>
> I've been using that version of LC8 - but only doing minimal stuff,
> testing stacks that were developed under 7.0.  I had changed lcStackbrowser
> to be run 'on request', instead of 'on startup' because I had had
> problems,  so I wasn't actually using it in LC8 at all.
>
> I upgraded to 2.2.1 but still have problems with 8.0 versions. When I run
> lcStackBrowser, it tries to run bvgDocu2 which fails.
> It is now failing with a different error message than before (in both DP4
> and DP9).
> (error message is about arraydecode from a URL (...../dict.index))
>
> So I decided I probably had an old version of bvgDocu - downloaded it, and
> it now fails with
> "Can't find background" error when executing
>    show group "please stand by"
>
> You know what - I'll just wait for a better version of LC8, and the news
> that both you and bvg have been able to successfully run your plugins, and
> then I'll try to move up from LC7 to LC8.
>
> Thanks
> -- Alex.
>
>
>
> On 13/11/2015 23:50, Peter Haworth wrote:
>
>> Hi Alex,
>> I will do some testing with lcStackbrowser and dp9.  It goes through a
>> process of discovering new properties when it is run under a version of LC
>> it hasn't seen before and that process has changed considerably with the
>> advent of LC8.  It was based on how things were in DP7 and since LC8 is
>> still very fluid, it wouldn't surprise me if something changed in DP8/9
>> that affects what I'm doing.
>>
>> In the next release, that process will go away and be replaced by
>> downloading a file from my web server containing new property definitions
>> for each new release.
>>
>> Are you on the latest version of lcStackbrowser (2.2.1)?
>>
>> Pete
>> lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com>
>> Home of lcStackBrowser <http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html> and
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>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Alex Tweedly <alex at tweedly.net> wrote:
>>
>> On 13/11/2015 22:58, Mark Wieder wrote:
>>>
>>> On 11/13/2015 11:48 AM, Richmond wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Considerably better than DP 8.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well Done!
>>>>>
>>>>> Hmmm... what are you seeing that I'm not?
>>>>
>>>> User plugins are again not loaded.
>>>>
>>>> I'm getting them loaded - kind-of.
>>>
>>> If I have lcStackBrowser in my Plugins directory, then it tries to load
>>> bvgDocu2 (which is not in my Plugins directory - in fact, I can't figure
>>> out where it loads it from). This gives me a message box saying it is
>>> "Creating a Docu 2 database for Livecode 8.0.0-dp-9",  and then hangs;
>>> can't close the box, can do a few other things, but not many - and can't
>>> even quit LC, I need to Force-quit.
>>>
>>> Other plugins load OK.
>>>
>>> No other problems to report, because I just can't bear to use LC without
>>> lcStackBrowser, so I'm going back to DP4 which is able to run
>>> lcStackBrowser OK.
>>>
>>> MacOSX 10.10.5 - but I'm not sure if this is a LC or a lcStackBrowser or
>>> a
>>> bvgDocu problem, so no bug report opened yet.
>>>
>>> -- Alex.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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