LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

[RM]

I designed an interface for my Devawriter Pro [ go and have a look at 
it: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/dwriterpro.html ].

Frankly I am well aware it is horrible because it is cluttered to blazes 
with all sorts of fancy features
I built into the thing along the way.

It is meant to be the "B-and-end-all" of Devanagari text entry: were I 
to dumb the thing down it
would be . . . well . . . DUMB.

So here's Richmond's "9 shilling note" on interface design:

1. You'll never keep everybody happy.

2. You'll always have a fight between what to include and what to exclude.

3. Which is more important? Functionality or Appearance?

4. Every single thing that has ever been invented involves a learning 
curve; be it a frying pan
or Livecode.

5.  People who expect to open a box and get something that "just works" 
are naive in their
expectations and should not be pandered to.

6. Certainly in my experience with Primary school children they lose 
interest very quickly indeed in
a program that is moronic and does not involve some cognitive effort.

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Livecode's interface as of version 7 is significantly easier to use than 
Runtime Revolution 1.1.1,
and Livecode 8's interface will take a bit of getting used to 
(especially the new properties palette),
but is NOT insurmountable, and is NOT daft, and after a wee while is 
perfectly usable.

Anyone who feels "lumpy" about Livecode's interface should take a look 
at Hypercard's, Metacard's and RunRev 1. AND that list doesn't even 
mention Visual Basic . . . or, for that matter, all those programming 
languages one writes in a text editor with NO interface whatsoever.

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My first reaction when I saw Livecode/RunRev 1.1 was a long sigh of 
relief after having wrestled with
Toolbook and Director. Any rude noises I have made about the interface 
subsequently are minor by comparison; and, as I have demonstrated time 
and time again, mucking around with the Livecode interface to get 
something more to one's taste is really comparatively easy.

Richmond.

On 2.03.2016 10:39, Mark Waddingham wrote:
> On 2016-03-02 06:46, J. Landman Gay wrote:
>> I confess my first reaction was that LC needs an interface designer.
>
> Ah - yes - those magical 'interface designers' who you just ask to 
> give you the perfect UI that *everyone* immediately understands and 
> knows how to use and works exactly how each individual wants it to 
> work ;)
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
> Mark.
>