The documentation works superbly in Xubuntu 14.04 32-bit (all my school
computers bar one
are that) for LC 8.1; everything popping up in Firefox "without a
backward glance".
I wish I knew why that does not happen in the 64-bit variant.
On 14.09.2016 21:37, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
> Oddly enough, on Xubuntu 16.04 64-bit 8.1 is ahead of the curve in
> this respect as populated the recent menu as soon as I started it up.
Same here under Ubuntu 14.04.
> Mind you; no documentation . . . Still.
But not for lack of trying.
There are 74 comments in this bug report, with Panos, Peter, and Mark
Waddingham taking time away from supported platforms to try to pin
down this anomaly on your Xubuntu install, yet thus far it seems
they've had difficulty reproducing it:
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16848
Please rest assured that we've all read every reference to this bug
report each time you've posted it.
Maybe we can try a different tack:
I've been exploring the dictionary data in
Documentation/resources/api/api.sqlite
As Mark Weider noted the other day, the IDE includes an API for
obtaining the raw data for those entries.
And Jacque, myself, and others rather prefer a different layout for
the Dictionary.
So why don't we make one?
We could use an LC stack as the viewer. The field object is pretty
nice, well suited for nicely-formatted HtmlText.
I appreciate where they're going with the embedded-browser version,
esp. since relying on it for the Dictionary means they've had to
ensure the Browser Widget is generally robust on all platforms (your
Xubuntu install notwithstanding), and at some point I'll be using that
object on Linux so it's nice to see the attention it's been getting.
But for the Dictionary specifically, even though I have no technical
problem preventing me from using the Dictionary I shared Jacque's
preference for a different design (for me the biggest feature is among
the smallest to implement: I really like having the search field
pre-selected when I open the window so I can start typing immediately
when it opens).
So why not all of us have exactly what we want? Let a thousand
flowers bloom and all that. We could take the last Dictionary plugin
Jacque and I made and revamp it for use in LC 8. It may be that only
three of us use it, but if seems a better use of time than re-posting
the same bug report number over and over, and certainly more fun.
I'm not as hung up on "fun" as some, but it would certainly be more
effective.
Richmond.
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