[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 259

[Mark Wieder]

On 3/24/21 8:19 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
> The question I always ask myself is, will I ever benefit from this again? Additionally, can anyone else ever benefit from this?

I think there may be other questions in play as well.
Will I learn anything from doing this?
Will I have fun experimenting with it?
Are there more pressing things I need to do instead?
etc.

Bernd Niggeman has pushed me to start working with the styledText array 
of fields, and we've been refactoring the glx2 script editor to use 
this. It's been painful, but along the way we've uncovered some areas 
where it makes a lot of sense and is much faster than manipulating text 
in a field, but also found cases where it makes things much harder 
and/or slows operations down.

I can't say that much of what I've been learning is in the category of 
"things I'll put to use again", and we've put in way more time on this 
project than we could ever justify for the ROI, but the end result is 
satisfying, I've found a new bug report to file, and my code just seems 
happier in general these days.

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  Mark Wieder
  ahsoftware at gmail.com