I forgot one detail: Eric A. Engle wrote: > ...really hate the fact that new stacks and old stacks are > incompatible.
As with all versions of MetaCard, stacks created with earlier version can be run in a more recent version.
And as with all versions of MetaCard, an older engine won't be able to recognize the format used by a newer engine, since of course the newer format didn't exist when the older engine was written.
But unlike all versions of MetaCard, you can choose "Save As" from the LC IDE's File menu and choose a format version you want the stack to be saved with.
All formats going back more than a decade are supported. Of course if you use new objects or object properties those will be lost when saving to a format that doesn't support them, but of course if you're writing new code to take advantage of new properties you'd probably want to keep using a newer format anyway.
Better still: once you've use the IDE's "Save As" and selected an earlier format, any time you use File -> Save in the IDE it'll continue to save the stack in that format.
So while we've always had to be mindful when adopting a new format since my earliest days with MC back in '98, now we have more flexibility with moving between current and older versions of the engine than we've ever had before.
-- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ____________________________________________________________________ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com _______________________________________________ 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
