Script editor instability

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Thu Apr 12 15:27:29 EDT 2012


And sadly, I have not heard further from Jerry Daniels about any progress
in regard to Remo working with 5.x ...    http://www.remoeditor.com/ seems
to have been taken over with spam...

anyone here use the latest revision of the *open source GLX editor* with
Livecode 5.5?


On 12 April 2012 05:49, Graham Samuel <livfoss at mac.com> wrote:

> I just want to add my name to the chorus of issues not only with the
> script editor but with the 5.5 IDE in general. I have had situations where
> I change a line of script but the 'Apply' button stays dimmed. Editing is
> still allowed, i.e. the editor isn't stuck, and after a certain amount of
> messing around, 'Apply' lights up. I can't get a repeatable formula; nor
> can I with several other issues I've had with the IDE, including having
> lost 'it' as a predefined local for quite a large part of a day, despite
> restarting, and a rash of 'name shadows another' problems where the name in
> question seemed unique and the usual tests didn't contradict this. I have
> also had a script run when I was supposed to be editing… that happened just
> now when all I did was to create a new label field from the toolbar. But
> nothing repeatable so far. Very frustrating.
>
> Graham
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Landman Gay <jacque at hyperactivesw.com>
> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
> Sent: Tue, Apr 10, 2012 2:40 pm
> Subject: Re: Script editor instability
>
>
> On 4/10/12 12:26 PM, Mark Talluto wrote:
> > On Apr 9, 2012, at 7:37 PM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Since I upgraded to 5.5, now and then the script editor cannot be
> >> moved. Rather the titlebar becomes a sort of resize tab, as if I
> >> clicked and dragged the actual resize tab. So trying to move the
> >> script editor window only results in resizing that window.I think
> >> it only changes the width, not the actual rect, like the real
> >> resize tab would.
> >
> > We are having a number of issues with stability in 5.5.  The problem
> > is that the script editor issues you are seeing are very sporadic.  I
> > think the majority of issues arise if you save with a command S often
> > like I do.  I find that the IDE becomes locked down for a period of
> > time before it returns.  Everything you do to it gets queued up and
> > runs through very fast once the IDE returns.  Once we have a better
> > recipe, I will bugzilla it. For now, I to am looking for others that
> > may be seeing this problem.  For the moment, our studio is moving all
> > desktop work back to 5.02 and leaving 5.5 for mobile work only.
>
>
> I've seen some issues too, but like you I can't pinpoint them. I've had
> more lockups recently than ever before. There's a decided delay before
> menus drop down too, and menu key shortcuts don't always work reliably
> any more, as Mark mentioned.
>
> I rarely Cmd-S from within the script editor, I usually save after
> bringing the stack to the front. But the lockups I've had are almost
> always in the editor, usually while stepping through code in debug mode.
>
> I've wondered if the problems are related to the rewrite of the field
> object.
>
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