On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote:
> Andre- > > Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 5:57:26 AM, you wrote: > > > calls and one for calls that send password. Given time, I think I may be > > able to build a alternative uploader. > > The issue isn't whether you or any other third party can come up with > an alternative... it looks bad for the official company-sponsored way > to share content and show off what can be done with their flagship > product to be broken for over six months, and no response from them > about fixing things or even acknowledging a problem. > > Oh Mark, I completely agree with you and I too have my own bag of corporate insane bugs here. I know we should have them working on it but if I could provide an alternative uploader for the interval between today and they fixing things, I think it would be good. There is something that we need that is beyond "revonline updater". We need a community patch system where we could patch the broken parts of the IDE. In the webOS world there is something called Preware, its like an alternative app store but it serves you with more than apps, it has patches and enhancements. Since all the system is written in Javascript, they can provide these small patches that fix important stuff while HP is busy killing the company that Bill and Dave started. Preware is a beautiful system and even though I have both an iPhone and an Nexus S, my OLD Palm Pre2 is my favorite phone, not thanks to HP but to the fine folks at webOS-Internals that came up with Preware. Now LiveCode IDE is basically LiveCode. There are a lot of things broken in the IDE, a lot of room for enhancements and a lot of customizations that some people would really enjoy but we can't do all this stuff because we can't share it. If I change my version of the script editor template and you change yours, there is no way for us to share our works except if we merge it by hand. But instead of suffering from paralysis by analysis, we can use the best solution which is positioning some clever frontScripts to trap and replace broken stuff. If you think about it the most atomic thing on LiveCode is the handler. If you place a frontscript you can intercept built-in IDE stuff and replace it with better stuff. I don't mean completely replacing the IDE because that would be recreating GLX2 and tREV but solving small issues such as why the hell my script editor keeps opening in the ghost second monitor, it should check the resolution before opening in a monitor that is no longer attached... As you said, we as a community lack traction and opportunity to reach the users but if we just had a little patch system in place we could start fixing things and then things would get traction. (or we could all go to Metacard IDE and just use RevNet and forget the little bugs of LC IDE and RevOnline) > -- > -Mark Wieder > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is Code. http://fon.nu -- minimalist url shortening service. _______________________________________________ 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
