Re: LC Server: shebang breaks tags?
Can’t answer regarding the design decision, but here is the pertinent line: One recent feature that was introduced in LiveCode 6.6 was the ability to use hashbangs (#! /path/to/livecode) in LiveCode server scripts instead of script open and close tags (). Of note is the “instead of” statement which leads me to believe that it was designed that way. It makes sense if trying to use it for automation since you don’t need the code tags. I would guess that a command line parameter could be added to have it work the other way. Thanks, Brian On Feb 7, 2020, 11:05 PM -0500, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode , wrote: > LC Server 6.6 and later allows you to use LC as you would other system > utility languages, by including the path to the engine on the first line > following a shebang - see discussion here: > https://livecode.com/livecode-server/ > > This lets us use the old MetaCard style with command line scripts, > without needing to put "" around the code. > > But oddly, it seems that running a script this way not only doesn't need > to comment wrappers, it actually tries to execute them - and of course > fails. > > For example, this script: > > #! ./lcs > > put the long date && the long time > ?> > > ...throws this error: > > row 3, col 1: script: not a command (<) > > > Weirder, I've found that if I omit the shebang and call the engine > directly in the path on the command line it runs well: > > ./lcs test.lc > > What is it about the shebang that's breaking execution in comment blocks? > > I have a need to embed code within larger blocks of non-code, and had > considered using LC Server as a helper app for that.* It doesn't matter > much to me if I launch it with the app path or not, but since most of my > systems have LC Server installed for general use it would be nice to use > the shebang method. So this seeming anomaly is certainly not critical, > just odd. > > > > * Yes, I know I can use the merge function for this, but LC desktop's > merge is far more limited to the implicit merge that happens when using > LC Server. > > The merge function doesn't continue code execution across blocks of code > separated by non-code, whereas LC Server does this well: > > > This is some non-code > > Some other non-code > > > Maybe we could have the desktop merge function expanded to work like > Server's implicit merge? That would be most awesome. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
LC Server: shebang breaks tags?
LC Server 6.6 and later allows you to use LC as you would other system utility languages, by including the path to the engine on the first line following a shebang - see discussion here: https://livecode.com/livecode-server/ This lets us use the old MetaCard style with command line scripts, without needing to put "" around the code. But oddly, it seems that running a script this way not only doesn't need to comment wrappers, it actually tries to execute them - and of course fails. For example, this script: #! ./lcs ...throws this error: row 3, col 1: script: not a command (<) Weirder, I've found that if I omit the shebang and call the engine directly in the path on the command line it runs well: ./lcs test.lc What is it about the shebang that's breaking execution in comment blocks? I have a need to embed code within larger blocks of non-code, and had considered using LC Server as a helper app for that.* It doesn't matter much to me if I launch it with the app path or not, but since most of my systems have LC Server installed for general use it would be nice to use the shebang method. So this seeming anomaly is certainly not critical, just odd. * Yes, I know I can use the merge function for this, but LC desktop's merge is far more limited to the implicit merge that happens when using LC Server. The merge function doesn't continue code execution across blocks of code separated by non-code, whereas LC Server does this well: This is some non-code Some other non-code Maybe we could have the desktop merge function expanded to work like Server's implicit merge? That would be most awesome. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: WebDAV
Not yet, but for a prototype i played around with tsNet and Webdav some time ago. I used tsNetGetSync to list the content of a folder tsNetCustomSync to do actions like delete, create and so on tsNetUploadfilesync for uploading Worked fine so far, but i did not work further on it, because the customer decided to put the final project on hold for some time. - Matthias Rebbe Life Is Too Short For Boring Code > Am 07.02.2020 um 19:11 schrieb Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > : > > Anyone have a client library for working with a WebDAV server in LC? > > Bonus (not needed now, but might be fun down the road): Anyone have a library > for implementing WebDAV in LC Server? > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > > ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
WebDAV
Anyone have a client library for working with a WebDAV server in LC? Bonus (not needed now, but might be fun down the road): Anyone have a library for implementing WebDAV in LC Server? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: OT: Completely OT: Reading list recommendations.
Alex Tweedly wrote: > Hopefully I'll find 3 books > > - a techie one Rapid Development by Steve McConnell > - a non-techie non-fiction one Critical Path by R. Buckminster Fuller > - fiction - preferably fairly light, easy reading Hippolyte's Island by Barbara Hodgson -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: OT: Completely OT: Reading list recommendations.
Techie ones without any problem solving involved and they could actually be Novels - you feel that you are there rooting for the participants in both "stories" Surely Your Joking Mr Feynman What Do You Care what other people think The Eudaemonic Pie by Thomas Bass The Soul of a new machine by Tracy Kidder The Cuckoos egg by Cliff Stoll is also good but Not available in Kindle I've read them all - not to everyone's tastes but I find fiction these so samey - Always the "Heroes Journey" in a different form - same meat different gravy - discuss! HHGTTG - now that's different kettle of fish Lagi On Thu, 6 Feb 2020 at 17:35, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > So, I'm going on a train journey tomorrow and the next day. Three or > four hours each day, scenery I've seen a million times already > > Hoping for suggestions to keep me reading while on the way. > > Requirements. > > 1. MUST be on kindle (or iBooks or similar). > > 2. Hopefully I'll find 3 books > > - a techie one > > - a non-techie non-fiction one > > - fiction - preferably fairly light, easy reading (as a break from the > others above). > > I know you guys can give me better recommendations than Amazon can -) > > Many thanks, > > Alex. > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: OT: Completely OT: Reading list recommendations.
Hi My favourite book of fiction (science fiction) is Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy, Perhaps a bit long for your journey. I have read it a few times along with looking for the sequels and prequels. (It is currently underproduction for an Apple TV+ series. I am half in hope it will be amazing and half in dread of that it will be awful.) For Non fiction I recently read “Born a Crime” by Trevor Noah of Daily show fame. I really enjoyed that. Funny and poignant stories of growing up in South africa. Really more a story about his mother than him. They are both on Kindle Regards, Martin Koob > On Feb 6, 2020, at 12:34 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > wrote: > > So, I'm going on a train journey tomorrow and the next day. Three or four > hours each day, scenery I've seen a million times already > > Hoping for suggestions to keep me reading while on the way. > > Requirements. > > 1. MUST be on kindle (or iBooks or similar). > > 2. Hopefully I'll find 3 books > > - a techie one > > - a non-techie non-fiction one > > - fiction - preferably fairly light, easy reading (as a break from the > others above). > > I know you guys can give me better recommendations than Amazon can -) > > Many thanks, > > Alex. > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
