Script Editor fixable? (was: Configuring a Sublime Text project to notify LiveCode IDE about updates to script only stacks)

[Simon Knight]

Hi, it was the comment by Dr. Hawkins : "as well
as the inability to actually put a pdf or eps on a card (just a bitmap of
it won't do); livecode just doesn't seem to me doing towards such a
direction.

Sorry for causing confusion.




> On 27 Feb 2017, at 16:10, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> I don't understand the last question, on PDF's
> 
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 4:47 AM, Simon Knight via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> I’m curious how do the likes of Swift, C# store details of their GUI ?
>> 
>> As to display of PDF what is it you want to do that can’t be achieved
>> using the browser ?
>> 
>> best wishes
>> Simon
>> 
>> Simon Knight
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>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On 26 Feb 2017, at 21:06, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>>> 
>>>> More commonly, until and unless livecode can save such that such
>>>> standard tools or comparable can be applied, multi-person development
>>>> will remain a fantasy and/or novelty.
>>> 
>>> And yet here we are, using an IDE written in LiveCode by a team
>> comprised of dozens of company and community developers working together on
>> a single code base.
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> I've come to accept that the next major rewrite of my software is
>>>> going to have to be in something else (Swift?) so that I can add
>>>> developers, as well as the inability to actually put a pdf or eps
>>>> on a card (just a bitmap of it won't do); livecode just doesn't
>>>> seem to me doing towards such a direction.
>>> 
>>> The Business Edition has already gone that direction:
>>> https://livecode.com/products/livecode-platform/pdf-viewer/
>>> 
>>> Probably at least an order of magnitude cheaper to upgrade to Business
>> than to rewrite the whole thing in Swift from scratch.  And with LC you get
>> a cross-platform solution, while even if you did find a GUI framework for
>> Swift for Windows you'd likely be writing a lot of forked code for each
>> platform.
>>> 
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