[OT] LC's Fields of the Future

[Mark Schonewille]

Richard,

The point is that all those extra features make very little sense as long as unicode doesn't just work, like it does in RealStudio. LiveCode really is very much behind the competition in this regard.

It is impossible to make a decent word processor, since word processors must be fully compatible with unicode and RTL languages these days.

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On 24 feb 2012, at 15:36, Richard Gaskin wrote:
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> There's always a way to turn progress into a downer. ;)
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> True, and there are many other requests in the RQCC that aren't completed in 5.5 as well.  I'd like to see all of them included, but I don't think it's realistic to expect them all in one release.
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> The 5.5 field revisions represent the single biggest leap forward for the field object we've seen yet.
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> In many ways, this new architecture paves the way for other enhancements, like RTL, Unicode, independent column alignment, and others.
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> But even if its 5.5 form may seem modest, it's really quite substantial in so many ways that will have a very positive impact on hundreds of projects.
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> Kay's mention of workarounds mirrors my own experience in many ways, esp. with the need to embed arbitrary metadata in text runs.  That alone would have me singing from the rooftops, but when we add paragraph-level formatting, independent style attributes, and the mind-bendingly flexible array access to field structures, this is a very exciting step forward for a great many developers.
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> With 5.5 it's now possible to make a decent word processor, and a few hundred other things besides....