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I have a feeling that almost ALL of the users of the Open Source version of LiveCode have stopped
contributing to the LiveCode Forums; leaving it poorer.
I've spent considerable time here, each month in the past years. I've answered a lot of questions, provided many code examples, made speed ...

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The problem, as we all know is not the 25 bucks, it is the perception
that C# and friends are what employers need.
While the 25 bucks are not much it's still money that has to be acknowledged, quarreled over, argued about & maybe finally allocated by the "bureaucrazy". So for 25 meager bucks ...

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my KeyMaker is targeted for Windows, and the classic Android SDK tools. It searches for an installed Oracle Java 8 using Win paths, uses backslashes all over the place, and, finally, tries to interpret a Win shell reply. In the code, it doesn't do much but creating a long shell command like ...

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[...] Win took about 6 times as long as the others to obtain the mod dates on the same random selection of 100 files in a folder of 15,100 files. [...]
It may be caused by this . I wrote about it here .

tl;dr:
Text operations with huge lists are unbearably slow in the Windows versions of the ...

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LC is still seen as an Apple Macintosh and iOS first society.

Funny: first time I have seen that.
Hint: Have a look at any release notes and check where's the vast majority of changes targeted.
Hint 2: Look at the screen shots of any documentation of LC Ltd.
Hint 3: Install & try a 9 ...

Well,

as long as LC doesn't find its way in any repositories this is academic anyways.

But back to topic:
There's a newer article on theVerge. Actually, every other day now there's another news item about what additional machines suddenly may run Win 11, too.
Makes me wonder if this isn't a ...

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Frightening. Microsoft ended support for Win 7 more than a year and a half ago. The only ones still producing modifications for the system are organized crime and hostile nation states.

You may have a look at the support status of the Linux distributions that LC lists as "supported ...

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It would be interesting to know how long this type of exercise takes on Linux.
I'd expect it to be faster - but that's off topic here: it's about the dramatic degradation of LCs performance with some basic operations in the new versions, and it's explicitly about Windows (thus the "Windows ...

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it has been reported repeatedly that operations with large amounts of text are unbearable slow when using new versions of LC on Windows, while not suffering this much on MacOS.

Now there is a thread on the mailing list (where the enlightened ones enjoy their neolithic quote hell undisturbed by ...

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try: Have fun!

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AFAIK ".tables" is syntax specific to the SQLite command-line program ("sqlite3"/ "sqlite3.exe"), and NOT part of the supported "dialect of the SQL language".

Since LC communicates with the DB using queries in "SQL language" this may not work. But you may use it via shell:
get shell(myPath ...

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adding to what Kelly said, maybe an example:


The content of your menu needs some more information, so let it be:
[MenuTitle]tab[MenuCommand]tab[MenuSelector]CR
...
where MenuCommand is what is send when the menu is choosen, and MenuSelector is a space-delimited list of chars that ...

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may be a mistake by myself, but too often I got the "filter" command to return things I'd not meant it to.
So I just stopped using it. Instead I do:
set itemdel to tab
repeat for each line L in myData
if (item 2 of L = 1) then put L & CR after myVar
end repeat
delete char -1 of myVar ...

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as Jacque said.

If this line:
put item pReverseItem of sScoreList into tThisResponse
blows up in LC 9 but runs flawlessly in LC 8 then there's something buried in the code. Something that doesn't smell well.

What happens:

LC evaluates pReverseItem as an integer
Then it evaluates ...

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what I do in case of CSV parsing problems:

Version A:
I create a variable before the loop: "put 1 into myVar".
Then I add a line of code at the start of the loop: "put myVar"
When it crashes I see the line number in the CSV where the culprit is hiding.

Version B:
I add a parameter check ...