Re: Platform Divergence

2020-06-24 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 6/23/20 7:03 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: Put a standard scrolling field on a mobile device and it always looks Win91/Linux styled. To this day!! Hasn't been improved by Team LC or even considered. It has always fallen on us to fake it and go through mental amounts of flaming hoo

Re: Platform Divergence

2020-06-23 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
I'm pretty convinced that, although some of the UI niceties won't be included initially, LC will be barely, if not completely, unaffected by this divergence (even with AppleStore complications). No more than we already have! Scrollbars always get me! Put a standard scrolling field on a mobile devic

Re: Platform Divergence

2020-06-23 Thread Colin Holgate via use-livecode
Something they did show was a demo of a high end Intel CPU compiled game, and with Rosetta 2 the performance was good. I think it will be a few years before having to take advantage of native hardware will matter, and if LiveCode is built with Xcode, there is already a way to compile so that the

Re: Platform Divergence

2020-06-23 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Presentation yesterday made a point of saying that apps DID NOT have to go through the Mac App Store. It will probably be like Catalina where the OS will warn, but there is an unobtrusive Open button that will let you run anything you want. Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 23, 2020, at 1:22 PM, P

Re: Platform Divergence

2020-06-23 Thread Dev via use-livecode
Time to learn Swift and SwiftUI Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 23, 2020, at 1:44 PM, Richmond via use-livecode > wrote: > > A plastic bath-toy that dumbs everything down for the fashionistas and rich, > slack-jawed morons. > > Vrey sad indeed. > >> On 23.06.20 22:36, Stephen Barncard via use

Re: Platform Divergence

2020-06-23 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
A plastic bath-toy that dumbs everything down for the fashionistas and rich, slack-jawed morons. Vrey sad indeed. On 23.06.20 22:36, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode wrote: Got really depressed watching the presentation. On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:22 Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-liveco

Re: Platform Divergence

2020-06-23 Thread Stephen Barncard via use-livecode
Got really depressed watching the presentation. On Tue, Jun 23, 2020 at 12:22 Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > We make and sell a desktop application (Windows and macOS) for a niche > research market. I expect when Apple does their migration to a common > pro

Re: Platform Divergence

2020-06-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
We make and sell a desktop application (Windows and macOS) for a niche research market. I expect when Apple does their migration to a common processor and OS, Apple Developer's will have to go through all of Apple hoops for all their platforms.Most of our customer don't care about UI widget ani