lcb missing manual

Brian Milby brian at milby7.com
Tue Aug 30 17:56:57 EDT 2022


LCB has been slower than LCS, but the advantage is that you can easily link to much faster compiler code.  I’m not sure if that has changed any… I could pull out some code from a while back where we were doing some speed tests.

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> On Aug 30, 2022, at 5:31 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Is there a page that discusses the pros of LCB? I looked and didn’t find it. 
> 
> I’m thinking of a simple list (I’m making this up because I didn’t find the page)
> 
> — N times faster execution than LCS
> — interface with code libraries using simple hooks
> — bundle code and graphics together into widgets
> 
> More?
> 
> gc
> 
>>> On Aug 28, 2022, at 11:27 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 8/28/22 11:06, Mike Kerner wrote:
>>> the lcb documentation, especially in the api widget is ungreat.
>>> the good news is that as long as there is an oss repo version of LC, you can hunt for some of the information that is missing. AND, at least for now, you can still find much of it in the LC application
>>> example: as i was hunting, i found a bunch of editors, but none of them seem to be documented anywhere obvious.
>> 
>> Yep - I find most of my documentation by digging.
>> 
>> The lack of colornames just bit me earlier this week and I had to backpedal and code a list of a dozen color names as "R,G,B". Even the "#FFFFFF" format isn't accepted.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Mark Wieder
>> ahsoftware at gmail.com
>> 
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