problems with 5.5, 6.6, 6.7. 7.0

Richmond richmondmathewson at gmail.com
Mon Dec 29 04:24:19 EST 2014


On 29/12/14 11:16, Bernard Devlin wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
>

My inclination would be to try all these versions out on another PC 
running the same version of Windows you are
using at the moment: if you can repeat these effects then it is 
Livecode: if not, it's your machine.

Richmond.




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