Possibly several steps back might be better than total stagnation.
As I have demonstrated by my article in "Hello World" I'm not always
averse to backward steps if they serve some purpose.
Richmond.
On 9/5/17 10:18 pm, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote:
Well, that would take us a step (or lots of steps!) back :)
The dictionary in LC < 8 is totally different, it is a .livecode stack that
displays .xml files (e.g. the dictionary entries).
In LC 8+ it uses a browser widget, and all the entries have been re-written
to .lcdoc files. This makes it more easily maintainable and extensible.
BTW the bug I was referring to (in LC 8), which describes a workaround is
this one:
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16848
Workaround described in comment 81(!) and/or 96(!)
On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Here's a really dangerous, radical thought . . .
as the Dictionary DOES WORK for LC 7.1.4 with Linux would it not be
possible to
port that for LC 9?
Richmond.
On 9/5/17 9:25 pm, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote:
Hi all,
There are 2 different issues:
1. The dictionary on Linux (and the browser widget in general) does not
work **in some systems** in LC 8.x. This is not distro-specific, but
rather
locale-specific, and there is a workaround described in the bug report.
2. The dictionary on Linux (and the browser widget) does not work at all
in
LC 9.0 DP-7+. This is mentioned as a "known issue" in the release email.
We
have spent *a lot* of hours trying to fix this, but with no result. We
believe that the issue is caused by an incompatibility of the current
version of CEF we use (needed for the browser widget), and we think the
issue will be fixed when we update the version of CEF we use.
Unfortunately
this is not an easy task, so I do not expect it to be fixed in LC 9.0
DP-9.
best,
Panos
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On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Warren Samples wrote:
On 09/05/2017 12:06 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
The Linux version of LiveCode is STILL NOT loading a dictionary.
[ I see that that problem has been "solved" in LC 9 dp 8 by simply
inactivating the Dictionary button on Linux. ]
I have no problems with the dictionary in openSUSE (an unsupported
distro!) in any LC 8.x version including this one. In fact, I haven't
encountered this issue in any of the many different unsupported
distros I've tested.
I do, however, suffer from the problem with the dictionary/browser in
the later versions of LC 9. Aren't these issues the result of at least
two distinct problems?
Thanks for the info, Warren. I see similar results here under Ubuntu
14.04 and 16.04: v8.1.7rc1 opens the Dictionary well, v.9dp8 doesn't.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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