LC8 dp9 Difficulty

[William Prothero]

Paul:
Yeah. I have started to spend a bit more time with it. But, it still isn’t ready for me to use, and I’m a pretty basic user who just discovered how much custom properties can help me.

But then, I know the platform has so many features that it is hard to get all of them, and it’s up to us to help with the testing. I’ll report a bug on this one. 

Best,
Bill

> On Nov 15, 2015, at 11:41 AM, Paul Hibbert <paul at livecode.org> wrote:
> 
> Same problem here, can’t even set the custom props by message box or script, this is on Mac OS X 10.11.1.
> 
> DP9 does seem to be quite buggy, lots of problems with the script editor, the re-introduced geometry manager, the tools palette, the effects palette, the list is getting longer each time I try something else. It seems to me that relying on auto-testing isn’t revealing all the issues, because I’m sure if anyone at LiveCode Ltd. tried these basic things manually they wouldn’t have released this version so soon.
> 
> I would submit bug reports, but right now I have way too much going on and not enough time to file so many reports, If I get some free time later I’ll see what I can do, I don’t like complaining to the list and not doing something positive to help LC Ltd. to address the problems.
> 
> LC8 does seem to be on a downhill trend as far as bugs are concerned, I really hope that changes soon, I’ve had to go back to LC7 to continue my projects with any form of reliability, but, on the positive side, I do like the way LC8 is developing with new features/widgets etc..
> 
> Paul
> 
>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 10:47 AM, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:
>> 
>> More info. When I mess around with the object inspector, I can get it to start showing some of the keys I put in. But, to duplicate my situation, I first create a new stack, then drag the “Label” field onto the stack, then try to set a custom property. It doesn’t work.
>> Bill
>> 
>>> On Nov 15, 2015, at 10:30 AM, William Prothero <prothero at earthednet.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I’m just getting used to the new object inspector in LC8 DP9. I’m trying to set a custom property. In older versions, there was a diamond shaped button to press, a dialog came up to name the custom property, then you put in a name. A value was set in the field below the list of propertynames.
>>> 
>>> In V8DP9, the custom properties are accessed in the object inspector, by clicking on an icon along the top. That’s fine. But, I can’t get it to either display or accept a custom property that I enter. The dropdown menu only has “customProperties” listed. If I click the little diamond symbol, I get the dialog, but it is asking for a “custom property set”. I only want to enter a single custom property. Then, it never displays the property that I put in.
>>> 
>>> This seems like a bug to me, or at least a very user unfriendly interface.
>>> 
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>> 
>>> Bill
>>> 
>>> William Prothero, Ph.D.
>>> University of California, Santa Barbara, Emeritus
>>> prothero at earthednet.org
>>> 
>>> 
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