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Hello. I am experiencing 2 strange behaviours when porting old stacks to 9.6 indy:

I started with some old stacks in Metacard. First opened them in Rev, then moved to LiveCode 5.0.2. There everything is fine and I saved them as livecode files.
The problem appears if I open the 5.0.2 stack in 9.6: In Edit mode if I click on a Field to open the Properties (an existing, or even one I create) I do not see/have the Contents Tab anymore.
Do I do something wrong? In 5.0.2 the Field Contents can be displayed from the popup menu in the field Properties. Why does it not work in 9.6?
I have tried to look around but could not find help. Thank you for any hints.

Albert

... actually the Properties of the Buttons are limited too, compared to the usual properties I get for buttons in 9.6. Some of the info that were there in 5.0.2 seem really to get lost when I open the stack in 9.6.

Hi.

Does a newly made field in your updated stack also not contain the contents and, what I assume you meant, the "custom" properties tabs?

Craig

I wasn't able to recreate the issue on 'nix moving a stack in a similar manner (Mc -> Rev. 4 -> Lc 9.6 community) on 'nix, so I'd ask that you include your Os after answering Craig's questions.

dunbarx wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 16, 2020 1:58 pm

Does a newly made field in your updated stack also not contain the contents...

Well, he did write that -

AlbertAA wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 16, 2020 1:09 pm

In Edit mode if I click on a Field to open the Properties (an existing, or even one I create)

Yes. As soon as I open the stack with 9.6 even new buttons and fields behave in this "limited" way.
I noticed that when I select objects I cannot "copy" them.
The Project Browser also behaves in a limited way (not possible to click to open the properties), etc...

While the same stack, in 5.0.2 behaves normally.
And new stacks I create in 9.6 also behave normally.

Is there perhaps something which remained associated with this "old" stack that prevents 9.6 to work "normally"?

Hi Albert,

this is very mysterious!

I can offer to take a look at your stack, if you like.
If yes, send it to -> klaus AT major-k.de


Best

Klaus

Thank you for the suggestion. I just emailed it to you.
Btw I tried opening the stack also on the Mac (version 9.6) and I have the same problems of "limited editability of objects".

LC 7 introduced a new file format, which has since been updated a couple more times. LC 7 translated the old format to the new one, but it may be that LC 9 doesnt do that, or does it incorrectly.

You could try opening the 5.0.2 stack in LC 7, saving a copy there, and then see if LC 9 works properly with it.

I found the issue, using the messagebox -> set the hcaddressing of the mousestack to FALSE solved the problem!

Good sleuthing, Klaus.

Now we have a choice to make about the remedy:

Do we flag the Dictionary entry for hcAddressing as deprecated, or take on the likely-non-trivial expense of ensuring the IDE fully supports that seldom-used feature?

FourthWorld wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 16, 2020 5:40 pm

Good sleuthing, Klaus.

Thanks, I saw a lot of cd fld "xyz" and background field "zyx" in the script so I came to this conclusion

FourthWorld wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 16, 2020 5:40 pm

Now we have a choice to make about the remedy:

Do we flag the Dictionary entry for hcAddressing as deprecated, or take on the likely-non-trivial expense of ensuring the IDE fully supports that seldom-used feature?

Good question! I, personally, never needed this one.

Yes, really clever, Klaus.

AlbertAA, was this an earlier HC stack that you imported to LC?

Craig

Yes! Imagine that a few pieces are untouched from original 1995 HyperCard stacks What a journey!
Thank you again Klaus for the "magic trick" which now allows me to edit even my "old/dusty/dirty" stack properly also with 9.6