[ANN] Release 8.1.7 RC-1

panagiotis merakos merakosp at gmail.com
Tue Sep 5 14:25:32 EDT 2017


Hi all,

There are 2 different issues:

1. The dictionary on Linux (and the browser widget in general) does not
work **in some systems** in LC 8.x. This is not distro-specific, but rather
locale-specific, and there is a workaround described in the bug report.

2. The dictionary on Linux (and the browser widget) does not work at all in
LC 9.0 DP-7+. This is mentioned as a "known issue" in the release email. We
have spent *a lot* of hours trying to fix this, but with no result. We
believe that the issue is caused by an incompatibility of the current
version of CEF we use (needed for the browser widget), and we think the
issue will be fixed when we update the version of CEF we use. Unfortunately
this is not an easy task, so I do not expect it to be fixed in LC 9.0 DP-9.

best,
Panos
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On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> Warren Samples wrote:
>
> > On 09/05/2017 12:06 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
> >> The Linux version of LiveCode is STILL NOT loading a dictionary.
> >>
> >> [ I see that that problem has been "solved" in LC 9 dp 8 by simply
> >> inactivating the Dictionary button on Linux. ]
> >
> >
> > I have no problems with the dictionary in openSUSE (an unsupported
> > distro!) in any LC 8.x version including this one. In fact, I haven't
> > encountered this issue in any of the many different unsupported
> > distros I've tested.
> >
> > I do, however, suffer from the problem with the dictionary/browser in
> > the later versions of LC 9. Aren't these issues the result of at least
> > two distinct problems?
>
> Thanks for the info, Warren.  I see similar results here under Ubuntu
> 14.04 and 16.04:  v8.1.7rc1 opens the Dictionary well, v.9dp8 doesn't.
>
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