Re: Two Windows

2013-03-03 Thread Timothy Miller
On Mar 3, 2013, at 10:57 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Nothing will happen to the file on disk until you save it. Remember that > stacks exist only in memory until they're saved. Copy 1 of LiveCode won't > know a thing about the changes you made in Copy 2. The dangerous part is when > you sav

Re: Two Windows

2013-03-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/3/13 12:28 AM, Timothy Miller wrote: Do you mean to say I can have the same stack open in two copies of LiveCode, resulting in two windows? Are two copies of the same version of LiveCode okay? This sounds wrong, but who am I to say? I assumed I would get a "file in use" error

Re: Two Windows

2013-03-03 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Mar 2, 2013, at 7:19 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 3/2/13 5:59 PM, stephen barncard wrote: >> one can create a copy of Livecode and run each version (name it Livecode B >> or something) in a different space, yet cut and paste between. No name >> space conflicts this way! > > I do that all t

Re: Two Windows

2013-03-03 Thread David Epstein
I think Tim Miller is right to think that opening two copies of LiveCode will not help him edit the same stack in two windows, as each will not know about the changes in the other until saved to disk and reopened, and two very different versions are likely to result-- unless all changes are

Re: Two Windows

2013-03-03 Thread Peter Alcibiades
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Re: Two Windows

2013-03-02 Thread Timothy Miller
f the engine running. Thanks for all the suggestions. Sad to say, I'm lost now. (I'm moderately competent in my own occupation, believe it or not. Not this one..) Do you mean to say I can have the same stack open in two copies of LiveCode, resulting in two windows? Are two copies of the sam

Re: Two Windows

2013-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/2/13 5:59 PM, stephen barncard wrote: one can create a copy of Livecode and run each version (name it Livecode B or something) in a different space, yet cut and paste between. No name space conflicts this way! I do that all the time, only my second copy is using the MetaCard IDE. I keep

Re: Two Windows

2013-03-02 Thread stephen barncard
en working on a long and complex document with a word processor, I > sometimes find it useful to display the same document in two windows, > simultaneously. I can cut and paste from one window to the other, or read > one part of the document while typing in another, and so on. > >

Re: Two Windows

2013-03-02 Thread dunbarx
Hi. Why not just make a copy of the file? You will want to name the stack itself differently. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Timothy Miller To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Sat, Mar 2, 2013 2:30 pm Subject: Two Windows Hello, When working on a long and complex document

Two Windows

2013-03-02 Thread Timothy Miller
Hello, When working on a long and complex document with a word processor, I sometimes find it useful to display the same document in two windows, simultaneously. I can cut and paste from one window to the other, or read one part of the document while typing in another, and so on. Now I have