problems with 5.5, 6.6, 6.7. 7.0

[Bernard Devlin]

Thanks for the suggestion Bill.  However, I don't see how it can be
something to do with the disk.

In the case of 5.5, the border of an image disappears when the blendLevel
is altered.  This seems to have something do with the new layerMode
introduced in 5.5.

With regard to the 6.x series, I hadn't been doing any LC development
between June and the end of November.

I remembered last night that I'd seen that distinctive visual artefact, of
the clock moving from the start bar to the to top left of the screen, so I
checked back on my notes.  When I looked back on my notes, I found that I
got these crashes when I tried out 6.6.  In April I was working on an
entirely different kind of stack (no use of images or graphics).  My notes
show that 6.6 would hang/crash in just these unpredictable ways (even just
deleting a line in the script editor would cause these kinds of problems).
It seems that on Window 7, 6.7 still has these unpredictable problems.
I've been using this particular PC for a couple of years, with no other
application but Livecode behaving in this erratic manner.

5.5 was at least very stable while I was doing nothing with images (i'd
been using the 5.x series on this PC from 2011 until I tried 6.6 in
April).  With 6.6 and 6.7 it seems extremely unstable, regardless of what I
am doing.  I realise that others are recommending 6.6 to those with
problems with 7.0.  However, since no-one has drawn attention to the visual
inconsistencies with a scrolling field on Windows (see the bug report I
mentioned), I'm wondering if very few people are using LC on Windows.
Either that or there's some strange incompatibility between LC 6.x and my
PC.  I've checked the graphics drivers and there's nothing more up to date
than what's installed.

Regards, Bernard



On Sun, Dec 28, 2014 at 10:35 PM, EED-wp Email <prothero at earthednet.org>
wrote:

> Bernard
> Don't know if this will help, but when I get this kind of inexplicable
> failure sequence, I start by rebuilding, testing the system disc drive. I'm
> on OS X and. LOVE Disk Warrior. It fixes disc corruption problems the the
> Disk Utility reports as unfixable. Don't know about Windows os's.
>
> Regards and good luck.
> Bill
>
> William Prothero
> http://ed.earthednet.org
>
> > On Dec 28, 2014, at 9:53 AM, Bernard Devlin <bdrunrev at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm having problems with every version of Livecode I've tried using in
> the
> > past month or so.
> >
> > On 5.5 I get a crash with an image when I use the inspector to look at
> the
> > colors/patterns.  So I started to use 7.0 a few weeks ago, but went down
> to
> > 6.6 and 6.7 when I got a corrupted stack with 7.0.
> >
> > On 6.6 and 6.7 I am getting random hangs (this is with a different stack
> to
> > the one where I have problems in 5.5).  I cannot find any pattern to
> these
> > hangs.  Even trying to close Livecode 6 using task manager is a problem:
> it
> > can take several attempts, and much of the screen area not occupied by
> > Livecode becomes distorted/unresponsive (for example, the clock moves
> from
> > the bottom right hand side of the screen where the taskbar is, to the top
> > left of the screen)
> >
> > On 7.0 I had a corrupted stack (and since the stack file is different in
> > 7.0, I'm very wary about continuing to use that version).
> >
> > 6.7 and 7.0 also have basic defects when it comes to the field object.
> > http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14222.  I'd been using 5.5 and
> > only recently started to use 6.7 and 7.0.  I'm surprised no-one else
> > reported the defects with the scrolling field on Windows (I'm assuming
> they
> > are not confined to my copy of Windows, since runrev have acknowledged
> the
> > bug as "New").
> >
> > These problems are all occurring on Windows 7.
> >
> > Are there crash logs I can send to runrev?  I have no recipe whatsoever
> for
> > the problems with 6.x
> >
> > Bernard
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