Richmond,
You raise some interesting and in some ways disturbing questions. Why
are we seemingly locked into an endless cycle of replacing working
equipment with new more expensive versions? In early days the
improvements were real with greater storage and improved graphics. I
bought my first Apple because Acorn Ltd stopped making computers and I
could not figure out what I "needed" in a Windows PC. Initially I was
happy to upgrade both hardware and software as OSX improved but then
Lion was issued and Apple entered a phase of stagnation coupled with the
removal of features such as Rosetta.
Unlike you I have purchased a machine running MAC OS Y ("Black Hills of
Dakota") and its quite like Mountain Lion only with blue buttons. Where
possible I have switched off many of the "new exciting" but pointless
features such as transparency. The down sides have been many, most
notable being my new computer will not run the older version of Apple
Pages and the new version will not open older files, not that surprising
perhaps but it has made me review how I store information for the long
term. Also, many of my home movies no longer run as the new Quicktime
does not recognise the file formats (Its QUICKTIME you dumb piece of
S**T!) (yes I know quicktime is a container format but why have they
dropped old formats - have they run out of resources?).
The upshot is that I am unlikely to purchase a new Mac, especially as I
am certain it will have been dumbed down to the level of IOS and have a
finger painting interface included. I suspect that I will either give
Windows a try or take a leap into the unknown world of Linux.
I apologise for raving on and I think I did warn against getting me
started but the bottom line is I agree with you.
best wishes
Simon
On 04/04/2015 13:47, Richmond wrote:
On 04/04/15 15:10, Simon Knight wrote:
I've no objection to the built in script editor (except when it bangs
out during debug) especially as I have just re-discovered that if I
cut and paste from it I get coloured text. However, I want to create
a document that compares Livecode script with VBA code and if I do a
cut and paste from the VBA editor I get plain text. I now realise
that I can put the VBA through textwrangler and into a Wp such as
Bean with any Livecode being inserted with a straight cut and paste.
Ah! Appleworks 6. Now it comes from a time when Apple were hungry
and software had to work whereas today it just has to look good - but
please don't get me started.
Why do you think about 8 months ago I bought a second-hand G5 iMac
when I had the money for a new Intel iMac running Mac OS Y ("Black
Hills of Dakota")?
1. Running 10.4.11 the G5 can run Mac OS 9 - and as, a while ago, I
invested a lot of money in 3D graphics progs. for Mac OS 9 I'd far
rather run them than pay for their successors.
2. Running 10.5.8 with 2 GB RAM it does almost all I need for
programming.
3. AppleWorks will be my favourite office suite forever unless
somebody produces an exact clone than runs on Linux. It may not
have a million bells and whistles, but it does offer all I need, and
when compared with LibreOffice, Open Office, Star Office, Think Free
Office,
MS Office, KOffice, KingSoft Office (yes, I have tried ALL of them),
it still looks better than all of them to me - probabaly because it
doesn't suffer
from feature bloat.
See answers to my other posting entitled "Please release me, let me
go." and ask yourself why, although I really DID like Macintosh computers
and the Mac OS, I didn't like Steve Jobs and his heirs, and their
non-backwards-compatibility way of thinking.
Richmond.
As to 'if I want to do script editing in VBA"- well I don't really
its just that have to ;-)
best wishes
Simon
On 04/04/2015 12:03, Richmond wrote:
On 04/04/15 13:18, Simon Knight wrote:
Richmond,
Many thanks - I will give textwrangler a try, I have used it as a
plain text editor but never really dug deep: I have down loaded the
"Revolution" add-in that you pointed me to and may have a try at
creating my own. The one thing I have not been able to do is to
directly export coloured text to a word processor. The
Textwrangler export option remains grayed out but I can get the
text by printing to preview and copy and paste from there.
best wishes
Simon
I'm not entirely sure what your objection to the built-in script
editor is; as a syntax coloured external editor is much the same
sort of thing.
However, having said that, I tend to use Appleworks 6 on my G5 iMac
running Mac OS 10.5 for editing large scripts where I need to
perform bulk search-and-replace operations.
Appleworks does not offer syntax colouring, but I use it mainly by
doing a copy-paste of an already finished script to modify it via
search-and-replace rather than programming per se.
If you want to do script-editing like Visual Basic (i.e. one long
list rather than lots of little lists in each object) then I suppose
your question begins
to make sense; the only real problem is at that point you lose the
WYSIWYG aspect that is so powerful in LiveCode.
Richmond.
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