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Jacque. I know you can edit scripts, so presumably you can write your own. OK, so Create does all the control dragging and laying out, and then we can tweak that. Then it writes a lot of code based on some description of functionality we feed it. And then we can edit that code. OK, that seems in pri...

Jacque, Richard. So is my contention that a "classic" workspace is necessary if one wants to build whatever one wants, however clever the "Create" paradigm becomes? Do either or both of you know, or believe, that a classic-free (Create-only) environment can do that kind of work? Perhaps I am misunde...

I agree. A standalone is just (oversimply) the engine bundled with a stack. There have been questions of this sort raised before, and the issue was never that something in the way a stack works in the IDE and the way it works as a standalone was the culprit. As Emily suggested, can you show us what ...

Richard. Classic IDE is still available as an option in Create, and I can't imagine any benefit in adding the additional expense of somehow purging it later on. "Still available..." That seems like a tenuous hope; the effort of maintaining its compatibility with Create might either orphan it, or req...

Richard.

...to try to put into a machine too stupid to count past 1.

Craig

Richard.

Am I somehow disingenuous in my thinking that only classic can do anything, never mind that Create can do lots of things?

Craig

Richmond. So you are saying that you could work out the parsing of sentences in five seconds, but a computer cannot. OK. but if we are using computers, then what is the solution to parsing these, what Richard calls "semantic units", into semantic chunks, call them "sentences". You cannot in all case...

Richard. But I still enjoy New Order's music, and can catch them on tour now and then as schedule permits, and all the while the world continues to produce so much great music. I am famous for, and smug about my popular music tastes, which are frozen in the decade or so from 1963 to 1975 or so. Blin...

Richmond. Bernd's example is, er, an example of a string of chars that would fail when asking for the number of sentences. What I (and Bernd) means is this: if you put Bernd's text in a field 1 and: on mouseUp answer the number of sentences in fld 1 end mouseUp you get five, not 2. This can be under...

I guess I am still not clear on one thing. Money aside, do I understand that "LC Classic", that is, being able to work the "old" way instead of the "Create" way, will one day NOT be included within the Create program? that in the near future only Create will be available? Um, it is old-fashioned, bu...

Maybe it was always naive to believe that the software first touted as for the "rest of us" could ever survive growing up in the world we currently live in. The good ol' days are for the most part gone, in whatever guise that phrase applies. That is normal. Again, I hope that the silence felt among ...

Richmond.

Is this news ominous, terrific or not news at all?

Craig

Lorena.

Your English is fine. My understanding is awful.

There has been much "public" debate about all this for a couple of years, which is why I posted as I did. Anyway, Scotland is rather silent these days.

Craig

Lorena. When you say "public response" do you mean from LiveCode or from people like you and I? I do not know if am disappointed about the seeming silence from Scotland. They have, to be fair, tried to both explain and assure "us" quite a bit in the past. They may think they have done the best they ...

Hmmm. Any other messages that work in the IDE (wherever they are placed) but not as a standalone? I thought a complete engine was ported into the .app bundle, and everything worked exactly the same. I assume that was naive. At least it does not "crash" in that the app does not automatically quit. Cr...