lcb missing manual

[Sean Cole]

The subject of the dictionary has long been one of contention. One that I
have often spoken up and been shouted down about (nb, I'm not making
accusations or flames :) ). But I also understand the great amount of
resources this would take to produce decent, up to date guides and
indices of all the terms and libraries. LC's become quite the behemoth and
I doubt any one individual could carry it out. Indeed, even a bunch of us
during past HacktoberFests only achieved a percentage of it.

The AI thing Kevin showed us some time ago showed promise. But I'm not sure
how far off that is from seeing the light of day. Hopefully soon if I
haven't already missed it. But, even so, a lot of the examples, language
and syntax are out of date or incomplete so would still need some work.

As someone who eats manuals and dictionaries for brunch I'd love to be part
of the team to put it together as I have in the past. But I guess it would
depend on LCL having the resources to put into it. I would hope they see it
as important as we do.

All the best

On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 13:53, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> It would be interesting if lcb was slower, since it's supposed to be
> lower-level.
> The demo that Steven did, demonstrating the speed of populating a polyGrid
> (lcb widget) vs. a dataGrid (lcs group) was that it was much, much faster.
>
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2022 at 5:58 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > 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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