I must also agree that the SE (script editor) in Windows with latest versions of LiveCode tends to be nearly unusable -- at least for professional work.
Also, I turn off the messages box when using the SE but using a field displaying messages instead. I am not using Navigator. When I add a new handler, in the "end handler" statement of the previous handler (the handler above) parts of the word "end" are deleted without me doing anything. It happened not only once. As many others here, I can also say that I have turned off most helpers supposed to support with scripting. I type 10 x faster myself and make corrections than using any of such helpers; they block my workflow even though I still use automatic indentation. It will probably be a lot of work to fix this for Windows so that it is not obstructing work instead of supporting it. Even I started using a separate text editor (Notepad++) for writing scripts and I insert the script later into the SE. The turn-around time between script changes and saving them is way too long. Turning Defender off does not make a difference for me, but I need to test more to come to a conclusion. My main problem is that saving the stack while scripting may take three times as much time than writing code. I feel like wasting time a lot waiting for the save process to end. This does not happen with freshly started stacks, but quickly after inserting more than just 100/200 lines of code the problem appears. I did not exactly measure when the problem starts to show up. Also, I have the feeling that script errors in earlier versions of LiveCode had been identified better. Regularly, the reported errors are simply wrong. And often enough, the debugger does not see any error even though there is one. Kind of a mystery. I started to use strict mode declaring all variables. It helped a lot. It should be recommended much more. It adds discipline and clarity and avoids errors that are hard to detect otherwise. Even beginners can learn it easily and understanding will even be better. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
