Re: LC 8 on Windows

2016-08-04 Thread Skip Kimpel
Finally determined it was PowerPlug that was causing all the problems in version 8. Everything seems to be working good now that it is no longer in my plugin folder. SKIP On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 11:12 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > I don't have time to do it today but heres some possible pseudocode

Re: LC 8 on Windows

2016-07-10 Thread Mike Bonner
I don't have time to do it today but heres some possible pseudocode for a tool that would help. get revEnvironmentUserPluginsPath() -- the path to the users plugins folder click a button to move that folder to a new location (thereby removing all user plugins in one fel swoop) re-create an empty

Re: LC 8 on Windows

2016-07-10 Thread Alex Tweedly
[ this isn't yet a well-formed idea, but I'm sure there could be something ... ] Could there be a special "plugin diagnostic mode" ? When it is active, the IDE would - startup one plugin at a time - let you use it / try things out - and then (on some simple command) startup the next one,

Re: LC 8 on Windows

2016-07-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Skip Kimpel wrote: > After some experimentation based upon what Panos suggested, something > in my plugins folder is causing the issue. Yikes... I have LOTS of > plugins. Any good way of diagnosing the culprit without doing having > to drop my plugins one by one? By halves. -- Richard Gaskin

Re: LC 8 on Windows

2016-07-09 Thread Skip Kimpel
After some experimentation based upon what Panos suggested, something in my plugins folder is causing the issue. Yikes... I have LOTS of plugins. Any good way of diagnosing the culprit without doing having to drop my plugins one by one? By the way, I am VERY happy to see that it was just me! SK

Re: LC 8 on Windows

2016-07-09 Thread panagiotis merakos
Skip, What you describe is probably a result of corrupted Prefs. I would suggest to: 1. quit LiveCode 2. rename or remove the existing Prefs files 3. relaunch LiveCode On Windows, the LC Prefs are in C:/Users/your_user_name/AppData/Roaming/RunRev/Preferences/ There you should see one or two file

Re: LC 8 on Windows

2016-07-09 Thread Skip Kimpel
I am running Windows 8.1 with LC 8.0.2 RC3 On Sat, Jul 9, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Skip Kimpel wrote: > > > I have to ask has anybody actually tested LC8 on a Windows > > machine? It seems like so many features are missing or don't > > work that I am surprised there is not m

Re: LC 8 on Windows

2016-07-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Skip Kimpel wrote: > I have to ask has anybody actually tested LC8 on a Windows > machine? It seems like so many features are missing or don't > work that I am surprised there is not more outrage. The members of this list are not known for shyness. If you're seeing obvious things in a bui

Re: LC 8 on Windows

2016-07-09 Thread [-hh]
actions you describe: No problems here with LC 8 on Win7/Win10. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LC-8-on-Windows-tp4706517p4706520.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: LC 8 on Windows

2016-07-09 Thread AndyP
space now: Get Copy Script editor Themer for LC http://2108.co.uk PointandSee is a FREE simple but full featured under cursor colour picker / finder. http://www.pointandsee.co.uk - made with LiveCode -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LC-8-on-Wi

LC 8 on Windows

2016-07-09 Thread Skip Kimpel
I have to ask has anybody actually tested LC8 on a Windows machine? It seems like so many features are missing or don't work that I am surprised there is not more outrage. A FEW examples: *Can't right click on a field to get options *Script window, after making changes, APPLY button does noth