Large Scripts Run too Slowly

[Peter M. Brigham]

I've put gZipper into my plugins folder -- thanks, Richard! However, I attempted to edit the stack -- just cosmetic stuff, the controls weren't aligned and things were off-center, etc, I'm a little obsessive that way, it really distracts me when stuff doesn't look good. (I know this is just a quick and dirty utility, and Richard, you are among the best at GUI, so no offense.) I recall a possibly apocryphal story about Steve Jobs calling up an Apple graphic designer at 3am to tell him that one of his icons was off by one pixel and that it had to be fixed by 8am -- I know that Steve was a real bastard to work with but I have a certain amount of admiration for this kind of perfectionism.

So, back to the point, I edited the positions of the controls, but every time I tried to save the stack, LC crashed, leaving a "corrupted" stack. When I restarted, the stack was still available in the plugins list and opened fine, but if I tried to change the opening mode, eg from modeless to palette, LC crashed again. The trigger seems to be trying to save the stack. I'm guessing this is probably due to my running LC 5.5.1 still, but advice would be appreciated.

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


On Apr 20, 2015, at 8:21 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> J. Landman Gay wrote:
> 
> > On 4/20/2015 11:07 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >> I made a drag-and-drop plugin for LC's gzip:
> >> <http://fourthworld.net/revnet/devolution/4W_gzipper.mc.gz>
> >
> > I've been using this a lot over the years, just because it's easier
> > than typing the command into the message box. But the copy I have
> > isn't drag and drop so I downloaded this one -- but it isn't either.
> > That'd be a nice touch.
> >
> > The scripts are locked so I couldn't look though.
> 
> The scripts have been unlocked for many years, ever since I first released it as Public Domain back in 2002.
> 
> The drag-n-drop worked on Mac last time I used it there a few weeks ago, but now that I'm spending more time on Linux I tested it in Ubuntu and it didn't work.  Very old code, using very old syntax.
> 
> I just made a quick update to it and posted both compressed and uncompressed copies, compatible with LC 5.5 and later:
> 
> <http://fourthworld.net/revnet/devolution/4W_gzipper.livecode.gz>
> <http://fourthworld.net/revnet/devolution/4W_gzipper.livecode>