While not as convenient, you could go to https://livecode.com/resources/api and look things up there. No widget info, but there is builder info. Its better than nothing.
On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 3:39 PM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm afraid that just doesn't work, as I have reported in Bugzilla, the > dictionary just > doesn't function at all in Livecode 8.x 64 bit Xubuntu. > > What I am looking to do is to install Livecode 8.x 32 bit on my 64 bit > system, because that does > let me get at the dictionary. > > So I installed the multiarch stuff, and I was still uynable to get the > Livecode 8.0.1 32 bit Linux > installer to start up. > > Richmond. > > > On 16.06.2016 00:28, Fraser Gordon wrote: > >> On 15/06/16 22:12, Richmond wrote: >> >>> Sorry; that title is a bit of a mouthful. >>> >>> Ideally (there's another semantically dubious word) the dictionary >>> should be properly accessible >>> in Livecode 8.x on Linux 64 bit; but it's not, and will probably take a >>> while to sort that out. >>> >>> 3 days ago my operating system "went West", and I had to reinstall. This >>> was neither here nor there >>> beyond being a bit frustrating and taking up 4 hours of my time. >>> >>> However; having reinstalled 64 bit Xubuntu 16.04 and Kernel 4.6.2 I >>> found that even on installing >>> the multi-arch "gubbins" I could not install the 32 bit version of >>> Livecode 8.0.1 - which I was trying >>> to install to get at the dictionary in a . . . relatively . . . >>> accessible fashion (i.e. via my web browser). >>> >>> So, here I am with Livecode 8.0.1 Indy and unable to get at the >>> dictionary; even fossicking around in >>> the /home/.runrev/ directories didn't give me any file I could open >>> directly via Firefox . . . >>> >> >> If it isn't already installed, it might be worth trying to install >> Chromium in case there is a missing dependency (the browser we use on Linux >> is, at its core, the same as Chrome/Chromium). One thing in particular that >> I've noticed may not be installed by default is the "xscrnsaver" library; I >> believe it is called "libxss1" on Ubuntu. >> >> Fraser >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ 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
