New Dictionary woes
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New Dictionary woes
Is there any way to get back the old LC Dictionary? I find the one in LC 8.x to be really... well, weird and not particularly helpful! I saw just now, in the 'Guide' tab in the Dictionary, that screengrabs of the old-style Dictionary are used. It was actually noticably more functional and fluid than the new one.
(Also, surely there should be more in the entry for "platform" than what's in the LC 8 Dictionary! That's nothing more than a placeholder thing, right? And what's with the chunk of text that shows immediately underneath? Screengrab for illustration:
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(Also, surely there should be more in the entry for "platform" than what's in the LC 8 Dictionary! That's nothing more than a placeholder thing, right? And what's with the chunk of text that shows immediately underneath? Screengrab for illustration:
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Re: New Dictionary woes
Hi thatkeith,
Please try the dictionary in 8.1 DP 3, it is a significant improvement on that of prior release of LC 8.
I *think* the problem you might be having with 'platform' is that you are looking at the glossary entry for the word platform rather than the entry for the platform function. Again, it should be more obvious in the 8.1 DP 3 dictionary which is which.
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Please try the dictionary in 8.1 DP 3, it is a significant improvement on that of prior release of LC 8.
I *think* the problem you might be having with 'platform' is that you are looking at the glossary entry for the word platform rather than the entry for the platform function. Again, it should be more obvious in the 8.1 DP 3 dictionary which is which.
Kind Regards,
Ali
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Re: New Dictionary woes
(The bug with the 'chunk of text underneath' has also been fixed in that release)
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Re: New Dictionary woes
(also if you scroll down below that chunk of text in the list of entries, you should see the actual dictionary entry for the platform function below)
Re: New Dictionary woes
Hi Ali,
in 8.1 dp3there is still this "bug" in the index for platform, see attached screenshot.
MacOS 10.11.6
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Klaus
in 8.1 dp3there is still this "bug" in the index for platform, see attached screenshot.
MacOS 10.11.6
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Klaus
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Re: New Dictionary woes
Is that Community, Indy or Business? Is there a bug report?
Re: New Dictionary woes
Hi Ali,
Geeez, how curious you are!?
I see this in my Indy edition and just filed a report: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18189
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questions, questions, question...livecodeali wrote:Is that Community, Indy or Business? Is there a bug report?
Geeez, how curious you are!?
I see this in my Indy edition and just filed a report: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18189
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Re: New Dictionary woes
Thanks