Re: Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Kevin Miller writes: > No doubt we'll run intensive workshops at the conference with Mark > Waddingham and the other engine developers too. That. Because (awesome) -- Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@

Re: Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread Mark Wieder
Keith- Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 3:26:15 AM, you wrote: > …isn't a 'hairball' the new Mountain Lion archive format from > Apple, where decompression uses the 'retch' function? ;-) -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailin

Re: Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread Richmond
On 02/27/2013 02:29 PM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: Sure, but that's not different from the current situation, and yet almost nobody tried. Having developed the horizontal Toolbar for version 2 there was a complete interface redesign performed by the good folks at base (think RR/LC 2 versus 2.6

Re: Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Sure, but that's not different from the current situation, and yet almost nobody tried. On 27.02.2013, at 13:27, Richmond wrote: > And as a large part of the IDE is written in Livecode (err, is that what the > programming language is now called?) > those of us who run a mile as soon as somebody

Re: Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread Richmond
On 02/27/2013 01:42 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: No books really - just being able to code proficiently in C/C++/Obj-C... The knowledge required to do stuff to the current engine is a lot though, however all should start to get easier as we get past each phase of refactoring. No doubt we'll run inte

Re: Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread Richmond
On 02/27/2013 01:17 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote: Somewhere in the comments section of the Kickstarter page, a man who used to work with the code when it was Metacard describes it as "a hairball" (or something like that). I'm not sure anyone should be expecting to grasp the code until it is modulari

Re: Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread Monte Goulding
On 27/02/2013, at 10:42 PM, Kevin Miller wrote: > No doubt we'll run intensive workshops at the conference with Mark > Waddingham and the other engine developers too. Oooo that sounds interesting -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding - software development services mergExt - There's an ext

Re: Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread JB
Thanks! -=>JB<=- On Feb 27, 2013, at 3:42 AM, Kevin Miller wrote: > No books really - just being able to code proficiently in C/C++/Obj-C... > > The knowledge required to do stuff to the current engine is a lot though, > however all should start to get easier as we get past each phase of > re

Re: Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread Kevin Miller
No books really - just being able to code proficiently in C/C++/Obj-C... The knowledge required to do stuff to the current engine is a lot though, however all should start to get easier as we get past each phase of refactoring. No doubt we'll run intensive workshops at the conference with Mark Wa

Re: Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread Keith Clarke
…isn't a 'hairball' the new Mountain Lion archive format from Apple, where decompression uses the 'retch' function? ;-) Best, Keith.. On 27 Feb 2013, at 11:17, Bernard Devlin wrote: > Somewhere in the comments section of the Kickstarter page, a man who used > to work with the code when it was M

Re: Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread JB
Okay, thanks for the info. -=>JB<=- On Feb 27, 2013, at 3:17 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote: > Somewhere in the comments section of the Kickstarter page, a man who used > to work with the code when it was Metacard describes it as "a hairball" (or > something like that). I'm not sure anyone should be

Re: Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread Bernard Devlin
Somewhere in the comments section of the Kickstarter page, a man who used to work with the code when it was Metacard describes it as "a hairball" (or something like that). I'm not sure anyone should be expecting to grasp the code until it is modularised following the Kickstart financing. On Wed

Examining the code

2013-02-27 Thread JB
Now that LiveCode will be open source and people will be encouraged to help add features to it are there any books with good code examples to help people better understand the open source code of liveCode? Is the only requirement a good understanding of C+ or are there other books on programming