Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-28 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Clarence, That's lcStackbrowser trying to unpack the dictionary. I'll email you offline for more details. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 a

RE: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-28 Thread Clarence P Martin
I have tried to load the new DP 10 and my computer locks up with the following dialog: Livecode version 8.0.8-dp10 Extracting property information from dictionary. This can take up to a minute. This dialog box just stays and doesn't close. I have to close LiveCode with the task manager. Sincerel

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/25/2015 08:38 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Yes, the release notes appear to be inaccurate. We currently build against: * glibc 2.11 (released Nov 2009) or newer on x86 * glibc 2.13 (released Feb 2011) or newer on x86-64 I will make sure they are updated in time for our next releases. Out

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-25 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 25/11/2015 14:19, Warren Samples wrote: On 11/24/2015 05:46 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote: We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0 DP 10. The release notes provided with this version of Livecode Server say it requires glibc 2.3.6 or later for 32-bit Intel. This seems not to be the cas

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/24/2015 05:46 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote: We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0 DP 10. The release notes provided with this version of Livecode Server say it requires glibc 2.3.6 or later for 32-bit Intel. This seems not to be the case. It won't run in my environment and ldd

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-25 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-11-24 19:11, Richmond wrote: BUT ( and, you know me by now, there always has to be a 'but') Please, Please, Pretty Please, integrate SVG import into the 'standard' image import menu feature. Patience Richmond :) As we've said before we will do something along those lines once the SVG

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-24 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Hermann, Accurate rendering of strokes with different weights requires special techniques to get the desired effect: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/a-closer-look-at-font-rendering/ Alejandro -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Release-8

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-24 Thread [-hh]
> Alejandro wrote: > Accurate rendering of strokes with different weights requires > special techniques to get the desired effect: > http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/a-closer-look-at-font-rendering/ Hi Alejandro, this is, once again, not a problem of integers or floating points. Of course

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-24 Thread [-hh]
> Alejandro wrote: > Remember, again, Livecode vector graphics only use integers (1,2,3,4,5...) > for displaying graphics strokes (borders). This limitation IS an > insurmountable barrier to import and display faithfully many professional > illustrations created or exported to SVG format. I rea

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-24 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote > In the short-term, at least, Alejandro's SVG stuff looks > far better than the LiveCode 8 SVG widget. > Not least because it works with earlier versions of Livecode! I disagree... Ian's stack SVGL is great and is an excellent alternative but there is no replacement f

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-24 Thread Richmond
On 24/11/15 22:02, BNig wrote: Hi Paul, have a look at this pull-request from Mark Waddingham https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/3089 So I guess SVG import is coming, though not the full specifictions. But that should meet most needs. Kind regards Bernd In the short-term, at least

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-24 Thread BNig
Hi Paul, have a look at this pull-request from Mark Waddingham https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/3089 So I guess SVG import is coming, though not the full specifictions. But that should meet most needs. Kind regards Bernd Paul Hibbert-4 wrote > +1 > > Paul > >> On Nov 24, 2015, at 1

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-24 Thread Paul Hibbert
+1 Paul > On Nov 24, 2015, at 10:11 AM, Richmond wrote: > > I may not know much (and I, oddly enough, am more aware of > how little I know than you), but, despite the growls and groans, know > that LiveCode 8 when we get there, eventually (and let's hope, paradoxically, > that that is a long an

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-24 Thread Richmond
I may not know much (and I, oddly enough, am more aware of how little I know than you), but, despite the growls and groans, know that LiveCode 8 when we get there, eventually (and let's hope, paradoxically, that that is a long and lumpy road), will be a KILLER, and, like that other Killer, Jerr

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-24 Thread Joseba Aguayo
Hello: When I try to group four object in one card, the program crashh! (OS X Capitan v10.11.1) Un saludo. Joseba ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subsc

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Geoff Canyon wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote: *Native string performance* The performance of native string operations has been vastly improved, with many achieving similar speeds to those in 6.7. This is definitely improved. I had already been running tests using list

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-24 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote: > *Native string performance* > The performance of native string operations has been vastly improved, with > many achieving similar speeds to those in 6.7. > This is definitely improved. I had already been running tests using list parsing, and I