Stability of LC 8 DP2?

[Richmond]

Well; I assume you mean 8.1 which IS a developer preview, so a bit daft to
use for development: 8.0.1 is the Stable release.

Richmond.

On 4.07.2016 15:30, Lagi Pittas wrote:
> I started using Livecode 8 (DP1) for a less critical project last week - so
> far so good.
>
> I decided to upgrade to DP2 today on my windows 7 system running parallels
> on a MAC.
>
> In the space of an hour I have had a blue screen of death in Win 7 (never
> happened in 2 years on this p[arallels setup).
>
> And 3 times the whole stack and livecode 8 just vanished without even a
> windows message to say it crashed or whatever (the usual when this happens).
>
> All I was doing at the time was increasing the font size on a tab Panel.
>
> Now I don't know if the universe is trying to tell me something - I've been
> meaning to ask for over a year now - and it's not fixed on version 8
> either. -  the tab panel text labels are STILL too big for the tab
> containers - it still looks like an afterthought as the descenders of the
> letter "g" "bleed" into the panel and the rest of the letters are sitting
> underneath by a pixel or 2 unless I make the text size about 17+ which cuts
> down - there is no way to adjust margins - you could say that's to show
> that they are not the "focused tab" but in the halcyon days we could change
> the colour and text styles of each tab and it's text - so we decided what
> looked good or not. Now if the tab panel is a widget I could go in and make
> it work the way I want without trying to fight with Visual Studio but I'm
> assuming it's not.
>
> Anyway I just left this for 10 minutes to work on my program added a
> graphic line to the tab panel - for some reason it get moving to the same
> place whatever i did - even locking it's position so I did the equivalent
> of switching it on and off again - press delete with the line selected -
> VOOM the whole stack and livecode 8 vanished again without a warning of no
> responding or a windows error message.
>
> Looks like I'm back to version 6 again for another 6 months.
>
> I really do Hope it's my setup so I will play around on my windows laptop
> with the same stack and see what happens.
>
>
> Regards Lagi
>
> p.s.
>
> Went back to do a bit more and got to a stage where I wanted to delete a
> two grouped lines and again  pressed the delete key  and voom again I lost
> the whole lot no windows error or no responibg dialog
>
> I'm using a Logitech K480 bluetooth keyboard which might have a few foibles
> but I can't belive pressing delete on a line would do that without some
> problem.. Ill plugin a wired keyboard and see what happens.
>
> Regards Lagi
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