LC 8 on Windows

[Richard Gaskin]

Skip Kimpel wrote:

 > I have to ask.... has anybody actually tested LC8 on a Windows
 > machine?  It seems like so many features are missing or don't
 > work that I am surprised there is not more outrage.

The members of this list are not known for shyness.  If you're seeing 
obvious things in a build that aren't discussed here, it's not only 
managed to elude the core team while they were making it, but also the 
automated test tool and the human users here.  Such cases may require us 
to dig a little deeper to understand what's going on.

The following are my efforts to help confirm these in v8.1 dp2 under 
Windows 8.1:

 > A FEW examples:
 > *Can't right click on a field to get options

Can't reproduce; works as expected.


 > *Script window, after making changes, APPLY button does nothing
 > and you have to force yourself out of the script to get it to
 > save the changes (3 attempts to complete)

When I first tried this is failed as you described, but then I found 
that switching to the Browse tool allowed the Apply button to work.

But weirder, subsequent attempts to use the Apply button all worked, 
regardless whether the Browse or Pointer tool was active.

And in all cases Shift+Enter consistently worked (which is what I always 
use anyway, so I wouldn't have noticed this if I weren't testing from 
your recipe, and possibly why this has eluded others).

So while I was able to confirm this once, I'm unable to come up with a 
recipe to reproduce it.  Is the issue consistent in your install?


 > *Selecting an object on the screen, clicking on it and trying to
 > position it with the arrow keys does nothing.

Can't reproduce; works as expected.


SUMMARY:

I was unable to reproduce two of three of these, and the other I was 
only able to reproduce once, but never again.

Can anyone else here please test these recipes on Windows and report 
back what you find?

If we see further variance we may want to explore our respective mix of 
plugins to see if those might be affecting things.  FWIW my plugins 
folder is chock full o' stacks, but they're all ones I wrote.

Also, which version of Windows are you running, and which version of :C?

If your LC is not the most recent you may want to try LC 8.1 dp2, since 
that represents the most recent and most feature-rich version, and 
likely targeted to go to RC soon so let's get anything we need fixed 
identified and into the bug queue ASAP.

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