Edinburgh Aug 2-4, 2016

-hh hh at livecode.org
Wed Mar 2 23:22:14 EST 2016


I use to look at the top of the current bugs list when I
report one. I have several more to report but stopped for
a while:
The list is simply too long. They will even have problems
to solve the bugs for the current 8.0-dp and to solve the
main problems of LC 6/7 to get (essentially) rid of that
versions. [So any further bug report that goes from LC8
back to LC6 will slow down the 'avantgarde development'.]

Externals.
I meant this last point with a ";-)". That was a hidden
proposal to you, who is now the new externals specialist
of LC.

People say, the last external-SDK was brilliant while it
was actual (was before I started with LC). I hoped you
would actualize that as long it makes sense to generate
and use externals.

Take a simple example I have read in some posts and what's
also in the 'old' externals-SDK: Imagedata.

It's not the manipulation that's really asked, mainly the
steps for us LC-'dummies', from getting the imagedata of
img 1, deliver it to the external, then say change ARGB
to AGBR, give it back to LC and set the imagedata of img 1.
You could use the old description, the helpers and your
adjusted templates for that.

AND: As soon as this is comparably fast in LC Builder, you
could document the same task, done there? Would be great!

Regards, Hermann

p.s. No misunderstanding here: I appreciate your externals
too, have a license ;-)

> > Hermann H. wrote:
> > What's going on here? 
> > Don't waste valuable time of the dev team. 
> > 
> > **************** Note **************** 
> > Edinburgh Aug 2-4, 2016. 
> > 21 weeks and 5 days remaining just now. 
> > ************************************* 
> > 
> > I'm waiting for 8.0.1. 
> > I see a very long list of not-so-simple bugs. 
> > I'm waiting for an actual guide for externals 
> > (so that we can do by ourselves if nothing 
> > else is upcoming).
> Monte G. wrote:
> Do you want the conference sooner? 21 weeks is a while to 
> wait ;-)
> I have only experienced one LC conference so far and I 
> found it invaluable as a customer. With any luck I might 
> get to experience it from the other side as I expect it 
> will be just as invaluable from that side too. Getting 
> face to face time between engineers and the people they 
> are engineering for is seldom a waste of time. What do you 
> mean by nothing else coming? Have you seen my external 
> templates? https://github.com/montegoulding/livecode-
> external-templates <https://github.com/montegoulding/
> livecode-external-templates> They are for Xcode only at 
> the moment but the plan is to do Visual C++ and Linuxy 
> type things at some point… Maybe even some starter gyp 
> files if we want to get fancy. Contributions are welcome! 
> While LCB is the future there’s probably going to be a 
> while yet where externals are quicker and easier to 
> deliver features with. Cheers Monte 




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