Another fine mess I find myself in...

[John Dixon]

Richard...


iOS 10.0.1 appeared as an update on my iPhone, so I guess it is out of beta.

I guess I will have to stay with LC 8.1.0 as it is said to be stable now...


I have just tested another stack that uses .lc scripts to query a database and with that one everything seems fine. I am just a little confused now why one stack does not work as I did nothing to it except upgrade... I really hope I don't have to 'rewrite it', as it were... lots of scripts to contend with...:-(


Thanks for the reply...:-)




________________________________
From: use-livecode <use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com> on behalf of Richard Gaskin <ambassador at fourthworld.com>
Sent: 14 September 2016 18:32
To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: Another fine mess I find myself in...

John Dixon wrote:

 > I have done something that I don't usually do... I have installed the
 > latest stuff without waiting for the 'shrieks of despair' to appear
 > in the list to find out what the problems are...
 >
 > I upgraded my iphone to 10
 > I upgraded liveCode to 8.1

In that case you have no choice but to use LC v8.1, since apparently
among the other changes in iOS is is a stronger requirement about some
of the specifics of how orientation and splash screens work.

We've had a couple reports of LC apps that work find under earlier
versions of iOS exhibiting odd behaviors under iOS 10 Beta.

Fortunately the team was able to resolve those, and AFAIK the Stable
release of v8.1 addresses all iOS 10 issues, possibly including:

 > After doing this I noticed that the status bar at the top of the
 > screen was nudging everything down 20 pixels... Just to see what
 > was happening, I got rid of the status bar... then things were,
 > let's say OK...
 >
 > I deleted the stack from the iPhone and loaded it afresh...
 >
 > Now it seems that there is a problem with running .lc scripts :-( in
 > that nothing is returned, no data is being returned... the .lc script
 > queries a database and returns some data... but it is not
 > happening...
 >
 > any clues ?

I wonder if this comment about splash screen applies to your circumstance:
<http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18327#c27>

If not this is an excellent reminder of why we want to use the latest
build of LC whenever possible, and almost always when a version of iOS
is in Beta.  iOS has well known to be less concerned with maintaining
backward compatibility than most other OSes, so working with the latest
builds of both iOS and LC will help ensure any potential issues are
identified early enough to be addressed before release.

--
  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
  ____________________________________________________________________
  Ambassador at FourthWorld.com                http://www.FourthWorld.com

_______________________________________________
use-livecode mailing list
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode