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[Brian Milby]

A widget in a stack is just a reference until an application is built where the compiled LCB and resources are packaged with the app*.  Opening a stack with a different version of the IDE will use the included widgets from that version of the IDE.  User installed widgets will remain constant as long as a compiled version is present for that particular version of the IDE (you can create a package that contains versions compiled for both 8 and 9).

Widget versions are distinct from the overall IDE version.  I have looked briefly and am not entirely sure why the versions don’t appear in the dictionary.  The metadata is available.

* It is possible to embed a widget inside a stack and have it install but I have not looked into how that is done.

Thanks,
Brian
On Nov 16, 2018, 3:14 PM -0600, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> Hmm. I just seem to have answered my own question. It seems that it is
> the latter. I think we need to have a discussion with LC about widget
> versions.
>
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 4:11 PM Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Brian,
> > So walk me through this: Is the LCB code for the widget a component of
> > the widget itself or of LC - i.e. is the widget in a stack just a reference
> > to the widget in LC (which would mean that the code changes with each
> > version of LC, until you do a build), or is it dependent on the version of
> > LC that was used to build the stack that contains the widget, i.e. the way
> > to update the widget in my project is to open the stack with the RC, delete
> > the widget, reinstall it with the new version, and then the changes to the
> > widget code base apply to all 9.x versions (if that's the case, we need to
> > have a discussion with LC about being able to see which version of a widget
> > is installed in a stack...)
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 11:23 AM Brian Milby via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > > It would not work with 8 unless compiled with 8. It should work with any
> > > release of 9.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Brian
> > > On Nov 16, 2018, 9:06 AM -0600, Mike Kerner via use-livecode <
> > > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>, wrote:
> > > > Brian,
> > > > The widgets are backward-compatible, right? I can include the new
> > > version
> > > > of the widget and it will work in any version of 8 or 9?
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