LiveCode 8 Question

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lohill
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LiveCode 8 Question

Post by lohill » Sat Sep 26, 2015 8:51 pm

What are the dangers in moving a fairly large project from LiveCode 7 to LiveCode 8? As long as I haven't used any widgets can I migrate back to LC7 if I feel I need to? I would like to get used to the differences in 8 even though I don't plan to put any widgets in my project.

Thanks,
Larry

paul_gr
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Re: LiveCode 8 Question

Post by paul_gr » Sat Sep 26, 2015 9:31 pm

1--Livecode 8 is not stable yet.
2--To open an LC 8 stack in LC 7, you will have to save it first as a legacy (LC 5.5 or 2.7 or 2.4) stack.
This can break things from my experience if you use functionality that was not in earlier versions.
3--I would open a copy of my project in LC8 and see how it goes, but I would zip up a few spare copies of your LC 7 project and keep them in reserve in case things go wrong.

Murphy's Law is never far away:-)

Paul

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