LC 7.0.4 and Xcode 6.3 - once again broken?

[gtheus]

Hi,
I'm wondering if the brand new LC 7.0.4 (build 10030) is once again behind the actual Xcode development? Yesterday, Xcode 6.3 arrived on my Mac and yes: iOS is now no longer available as a target platform in my LC due to missing SDK (with 8.2 as the highest possible version).
Can someone confirm this latest incompatibility of LC 7.0.4 and Xcode 6.3 - or was it just me doing something wrong (but: what)?
Best regards, Gian-Reto.

[scotttyang]

reverted back to LC 6.7 and Xcode 6.1.1

works for now.

[Dixie]

LC 6.7.4 or LC 7.0.4 and xCode 6.2 works...

[scotttyang]

Of Course, Time Machine with 4 terabytes of space made life so much easier to go back

[FireWorx]

I am working on the same issue. Specifically trying to assign Xcode in the mobile preferences section of LC 7.0.4 to locate the SDK's. I opened the Xcode 6.3 contents package and see that the only SDK included was for IOS 8.3. LIvecode wants 5.1, 6.1, 7.1 or 8.2. I guess Ill try and download Xcode 6.2 and see if I can run both Xcode 6.2 and 6.3 side by side (if I want to write for iOS 8.3)

Just beware. LC 7.0.4 and Xcode 6.3 will currently NOT work on their own out of the box. You will not be able to assign Xcode 6.3 in the mobile Support section of Livecode preferences and therefore no IOS testing or deployment will be taking place.

Seems like 1/2 the time assigning SDk's is a headache in LC. The other 1/2 she is oh... so sweet as pie. Im used to it.
Dave

[quailcreek]

I'm using LC 7.0.4 for desktop apps and 6.7.4 for mobile apps. both with xCode 6.2. From what I've seen, the keyboard doesn't show up when tapping a fld and datePicker doesn't work with 7.0.4. I'm okay with using 2 versions of LC. We may see the problems in LC but the root cause is xCode.

[FireWorx]

I tried loading the IOS 8.2 SDKs into Xcode 6.3 and Livecode 7.0.4 then excepted Xcode 6.3 but still failed to recognize the IOS 8.3 SDK. that sits in the same folder. It appears to me the issue is with Livecode 7.0.4. They haven't made the improvements to except the IOS 8.3 SDK yet.

My app requires the ability to download zipped folders from a web server and that bug just got fixed and is now working in LC 7.0.4 . (also works in 6.6.7 but nothing in between) So I figured I would upgrade both LC and Xcode. I upgraded my iPad to IOS 8.3 in anticipation and am now without a test iPad until Livecode 7.0.4 is improved to work with Xcode 6.3.
Dave

[Dixie]

Dave...

I made the same mistake..
I am using LC 7.0.4 and xCode 6.2, I updated my devices, in a moment of not thinking to iOS 8.3...

A way around this is to download xCode 6.3, the full DMG from Apple Developer not the update as would be done through iTunes... put it on your desktop, name it xCode 6.3 and then slip it into your applications folder... don't add it to mobile support through liveCode preferences.

So, build your standalone and then open xCode 6.3 to place it onto your devices.. it works...(Chris Sheffield pointed this out)

[macnomad2]

Can I make a silly suggestion for this type of recurring situation ?
Maybe it is not possible for RR to implement it, but it would be simpler IMHO

RR wold design a simple text file which could be downloaded from their site and used by the local engine on your machine to change the settings of important parameters
that are different between the supported version of Xcode (i.e. 6.2) and the next one (i.e. 6.3 yet unsupported). Most of the time it seems to be paths for folders and files, especially those essential for the mobile development environment.

Such a file - if possible - would allow users to use very quickly the last version of Xcode, without waiting for a more complex update of the engine.
This would be enough for applications which do not need the new functionnality but a simple way to be compiled on the new iOS (i.e. 8.3)

Is it a silly suggestion, RR ?

[FireWorx]

Hi Dixie,
The LC 7.0.4 standalone builder doesn't seem to have the IOS 8.3 as a choice available to build or test. So even if I built and tested it in the simulator as IOS 8.2 I wouldn't be able to build an 8.3 version to test on my devise right? What am I missing?
Thanks,
Dave

[wizard]

With regards to the suggestions to use XCode 6.3 to test with device, what would happen if we save stand alone using XCode 6.2, then upload to Test Fairy? Won't testers who have updated their phones to IOS 8.3 run into a problem?

[arc]

This might seem an obvious question, but is there an ETA for a fix/patch/update to resolve this?

[Dixie]

I think that it will happen, I seem to remember reading this somewhere, in LC 7.0.5(RC 1)... maybe in the next few days ?

[arc]

Lets hope so.

If any of the Livecode staff are monitoring this, an ETA would be very much appreciated. We can't test our app till we can run it on the simulator and test it on our iOS devices. If we had an ETA we'd be able to schedule the next phase of our app development. Works pretty much come to a stand-still on our current project

[soloista]

Agreed - I have spent all day on this