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Certain preference changes not saved nor applied

Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 12:44 pm
by SammaySarkar
Hello, I've had LiveCode community 6.5.1 installed (on Windows 7 x64) for a few weeks now. But recently I've noticed that some preference changes do not get applied (sometimes they revert back after restarting LiveCode).
Here's a list:
• Backdrop color (Preference dialog shows changed color, but the backdrop always remains black.)
• "in LiveCode's own Windows" checkbox UNDER "Command-Option or Control-Alt click edits scripts"
• Update checkboxes (All four update checkboxes are always checked, even after I uncheck them.)

I can live with some of these... bugs (?) but the backdrop color is really very irritating. :x

Re: Certain preference changes not saved nor applied

Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2014 7:32 am
by SammaySarkar
I (probably) fixed the update preference. :D

The state of the checkboxes depend on non-existent custom properties of "revPreference".
For example this is the line that controls whether "Notify me of development releases" is checked or not:

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set the hilite of button "Notify me of development releases" to the cNotifyMeOfReleaseCandidates of stack "revPreferences"
But the corresponding custom property of "revPreferences" is cNotifyMeOfDevelopmentReleases.
So I renamed the properites correctly. Now the checkboxes in Preferences->Update remember their checked or not-checked state.

However, I still haven't found a fix for the non-changeable backdrop color . :( Even executing this script doesn't change the backdrop color from black :

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set backdrop to "50,200,30"

Re: Certain preference changes not saved nor applied

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 10:23 am
by MaxV
Please, post your bug and fixes on http://quality.runrev.com/
This way all will be corrected in the next release. :P

Re: Certain preference changes not saved nor applied

Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 1:42 pm
by SammaySarkar
Alright, thanks. I'll wait for the next release, then. (few more problems there are... If they also get fixed first let's see... :wink: )