use-livecode Digest, Vol 145, Issue 11

[Terry Dennis]

Message: 18
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 14:58:13 -0500
From: "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
Subject: Re: App Browser versus Project Browser
Message-ID: <56157955.3080302 at hyperactivesw.com>
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The issues would probably become clear if you open, say, 10 large 
stacks, each with 50 cards or more, containing dozens of controls per 
card. Since my primary project for the last 2 years uses that setup, I 
haven't been able to use the Project Browser because it isn't practical.
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+10
I inherited a large, complex project that was written by an early user of Revolution.  The Project Browser is darned near worthless in that project.  Because of that, I am staying with 7.x so I can use the Application Browser.  Unfortunately, 7.x is slower than 6.X, and has more bugs than I (or anyone) should have to deal with.  Intersect caused me much lost time until I finally figured out an empty array somehow incorrectly intersected with a large array.  “Split” of a blank delimited series of numbers created empty elements, instead of putting “true” into the value of each entry like the dictionary says it does.  The Dictionary filter is ridiculously slow.  Etc. ...
I don’t have time to wait for fixes from RunRev, so I have to roll my own.  That takes time, and time is money.
If there hadn’t already been significant funds expended on this project, I would be transitioning to another development platform.
As to the thought of using an add-on written by somebody else ... WHY?
The requisite basic functionality should be provided by the vendor I support with my license fees.  Throwing somebody else’s well-intentioned “enhancements” into the mix introduces additional risk of quality control errors (aka: bugs).
TED