monte wrote:FourthWorld wrote:Answer is the #1 reason some form of escape is needed.
Yes... sorry I meant that ask and answer dialogs would just close but custom modals would toplevel.
Ah, right. Thanks for the clarification. Agreed.
FourthWorld wrote:It kills me when I make a mistake in a resizeStack handler in LC.
Indeed it's painful and causes data loss if you didn't save before you are forced to quit...
Aside from a significant difference in performance, the simpler error handling is the only thing I miss from MC these days.
FourthWorld wrote:Seven months in and LiveCode is only half open source.
To be fair open source projects aren't required to accept contributions.
Fair enough, though given that this is one of the few scripting tools that eats its own dogfood (made in its own language), the user base is in an unusually good position to help fix bugs and add optimizations.
I myself advised Ben not to bother until the real problem is resolved. It's just too much of a headache for them unless they can very easily see the changes being contributed. I'm not sure if the reality escapes RunRev that we could have a much better IDE with just one (probably part time) resource acting largely as an integration/project manager coupled with community contributions and the tweaks the rest of the RunRev team makes for bugfixes, engine and environment changes.
Hard to say. I agree that a community manager for the IDE could do a lot of good, but in the nearly complete absence of any communications about their IDE plans we have little guidance to imagine what those plans might be.