On 07/12/14 09:09, Erik Beugelaar wrote:
I am afraid it must be the unicode beast... Personally I have never seen
the need of it to implement it in this way so you can program in another
foreign language (eg Chinese ;-). But I hope it will be parameterized so
you can choose which unicode you want to support in the end result of your
application.

Erik



At the risk of repeating myself [always struck me as funny, that phrase; because whoever
uses it then repeats themself] . . .

I suggested that it might not be a bad idea if parts of the NEW (i.e. '7') Livecode were modularised in someway so that parts could be included or excluded via a preferences palette.

For the sake of argument, those who have no need of all the fancy and system-heavy Unicode
parts could exclude them so that they are not 'bound into' a standalone.

Considering the effort that seems to have gone into refactoring and rejigging how Unicode is
implemented . . .

. . . [Unicode capability has NOT been introduced as a new feature, as I have been leveraging
Unicode for donkey's ages with LC 4.5] . . .

. . . I wonder if it would not take too much extra effort to chop the IDE up into LEGO-like pieces . . . after all, the concept of 'Plug-ins' is already part of Livecode.

As I have started smelling "8" flavoured smells, let us hope that "8" (or, if we are very lucky, a "7.5")
is not as clunky as, say Windows Vista . . .

. . . because of feature bloat that can not be opted into and out-of.

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But then I'm the chap who suggested that RunRev consider re-releasing a commercial version of say 4.0 or 4.5 at a reduced rate for those who feel that those versions suffice for what they need.

So, shouting in the wilderness, I stagger on, increasingly bonkers and wild-eyed.

Richmond.

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