LC 8 on Windows

[Skip Kimpel]

After some experimentation based upon what Panos suggested, something in my
plugins folder is causing the issue.  Yikes... I have LOTS of plugins.  Any
good way of diagnosing the culprit without doing having to drop my plugins
one by one?

By the way, I am VERY happy to see that it was just me!

SKIP

On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 5:01 PM, panagiotis merakos <merakosp at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Skip,
>
> What you describe is probably a result of corrupted Prefs. I would suggest
> to:
>
> 1. quit LiveCode
> 2. rename or remove the existing Prefs files
> 3. relaunch LiveCode
>
> On Windows, the LC Prefs are in
> C:/Users/your_user_name/AppData/Roaming/RunRev/Preferences/
> There you should see one or two files:
> livecode.rev --> Prefs file for LC version <= 6.7.x
> livecode7.rev --> Prefs file for LC 7 and 8
>
> I suggest renaming/removing *both* of them. Those files will be recreated
> once you launch LC.
>
> Regards,
> Panos
> --
>
> On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 11:37 PM, Skip Kimpel <skiplondon at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I am running Windows 8.1 with LC 8.0.2 RC3
> >
> > On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Richard Gaskin <
> ambassador at fourthworld.com
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Skip Kimpel wrote:
> > >
> > > > I have to ask.... has anybody actually tested LC8 on a Windows
> > > > machine?  It seems like so many features are missing or don't
> > > > work that I am surprised there is not more outrage.
> > >
> > > The members of this list are not known for shyness.  If you're seeing
> > > obvious things in a build that aren't discussed here, it's not only
> > managed
> > > to elude the core team while they were making it, but also the
> automated
> > > test tool and the human users here.  Such cases may require us to dig a
> > > little deeper to understand what's going on.
> > >
> > > The following are my efforts to help confirm these in v8.1 dp2 under
> > > Windows 8.1:
> > >
> > > > A FEW examples:
> > > > *Can't right click on a field to get options
> > >
> > > Can't reproduce; works as expected.
> > >
> > >
> > > > *Script window, after making changes, APPLY button does nothing
> > > > and you have to force yourself out of the script to get it to
> > > > save the changes (3 attempts to complete)
> > >
> > > When I first tried this is failed as you described, but then I found
> that
> > > switching to the Browse tool allowed the Apply button to work.
> > >
> > > But weirder, subsequent attempts to use the Apply button all worked,
> > > regardless whether the Browse or Pointer tool was active.
> > >
> > > And in all cases Shift+Enter consistently worked (which is what I
> always
> > > use anyway, so I wouldn't have noticed this if I weren't testing from
> > your
> > > recipe, and possibly why this has eluded others).
> > >
> > > So while I was able to confirm this once, I'm unable to come up with a
> > > recipe to reproduce it.  Is the issue consistent in your install?
> > >
> > >
> > > > *Selecting an object on the screen, clicking on it and trying to
> > > > position it with the arrow keys does nothing.
> > >
> > > Can't reproduce; works as expected.
> > >
> > >
> > > SUMMARY:
> > >
> > > I was unable to reproduce two of three of these, and the other I was
> only
> > > able to reproduce once, but never again.
> > >
> > > Can anyone else here please test these recipes on Windows and report
> back
> > > what you find?
> > >
> > > If we see further variance we may want to explore our respective mix of
> > > plugins to see if those might be affecting things.  FWIW my plugins
> > folder
> > > is chock full o' stacks, but they're all ones I wrote.
> > >
> > > Also, which version of Windows are you running, and which version of
> :C?
> > >
> > > If your LC is not the most recent you may want to try LC 8.1 dp2, since
> > > that represents the most recent and most feature-rich version, and
> likely
> > > targeted to go to RC soon so let's get anything we need fixed
> identified
> > > and into the bug queue ASAP.
> > >
> > > --
> > >  Richard Gaskin
> > >  Fourth World Systems
> > >  Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
> > >  ____________________________________________________________________
> > >  Ambassador at FourthWorld.com                http://www.FourthWorld.com
> > >
> > >
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