[ANN] Release 8.1.0

[Richard Gaskin]

Richmond wrote:

 > Oddly enough, on Xubuntu 16.04 64-bit 8.1 is ahead of the curve in
 > this respect as populated the recent menu as soon as I started it up.

Same here under Ubuntu 14.04.


 > Mind you; no documentation . . . Still.

But not for lack of trying.

There are 74 comments in this bug report, with Panos, Peter, and Mark 
Waddingham taking time away from supported platforms to try to pin down 
this anomaly on your Xubuntu install, yet thus far it seems they've had 
difficulty reproducing it:
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16848

Please rest assured that we've all read every reference to this bug 
report each time you've posted it.

Maybe we can try a different tack:

I've been exploring the dictionary data in 
Documentation/resources/api/api.sqlite

As Mark Weider noted the other day, the IDE includes an API for 
obtaining the raw data for those entries.

And Jacque, myself, and others rather prefer a different layout for the 
Dictionary.

So why don't we make one?

We could use an LC stack as the viewer. The field object is pretty nice, 
well suited for nicely-formatted HtmlText.

I appreciate where they're going with the embedded-browser version, esp. 
since relying on it for the Dictionary means they've had to ensure the 
Browser Widget is generally robust on all platforms (your Xubuntu 
install notwithstanding), and at some point I'll be using that object on 
Linux so it's nice to see the attention it's been getting.

But for the Dictionary specifically, even though I have no technical 
problem preventing me from using the Dictionary I shared Jacque's 
preference for a different design (for me the biggest feature is among 
the smallest to implement: I really like having the search field 
pre-selected when I open the window so I can start typing immediately 
when it opens).

So why not all of us have exactly what we want?  Let a thousand flowers 
bloom and all that.  We could take the last Dictionary plugin Jacque and 
I made and revamp it for use in LC 8.  It may be that only three of us 
use it, but if seems a better use of time than re-posting the same bug 
report number over and over, and certainly more fun.

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  Richard Gaskin
  Fourth World Systems
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