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AW: How to get the user or his rights?

2012-03-26 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB

Hi Bob,
thanks for your hints.
For windows standalones you can set the UAC Execution Level to require
Admin. So LC knows, who's logged in. I wonder, if we can retrieve this
information from LC?
Tiemo

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 Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-
 boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Bob Sneidar
 Gesendet: Freitag, 23. März 2012 18:01
 An: How to use LiveCode
 Betreff: Re: How to get the user or his rights?
 
 Okay so ID -G in OS X returns a space delimited list of groups the user
 belongs to. If 80 is in that list, then he is an admin. You can use the
 form ID -p and the results will be human readable, but you can't just look
 for admin because other groups may contain the string admin, like _lpadmin
 for example.
 
 I am not going to dig into how to do this on Windows.
 
 Bob
 
 
 On Mar 23, 2012, at 12:41 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote:
 
  Hello,
 
  I have some configuration in my program which I would like to show
  only to the admin and not to a standard user.
 
  Is there a way to read the logged in user from the system or his
  permission level (win  mac)? I didn't find anything in the docs. Or
  is there another approach to differentiate between users?
 
  Thanks
 
  Tiemo
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-26 Thread Richmond


On 03/26/2012 08:44 AM, Warren Samples wrote:

On 03/25/2012 12:38 PM, Richmond wrote:

I have spent some time playing around with PearOS,
and can honestly say it sucks;


I installed the latest version, Comice OS 4, and gave it only a quick 
look. While I don't mind if someone likes it, I wouldn't recommend it 
to anyone, especially with hopes that it might an easy transition from 
OS X. Choosing Comice Classic at login, I did have a working dock with 
icons which included Finder so finding my home folder was a cinch. 
The Dock icon set mysteriously changed at some point and I could not 
find an obvious way to do that deliberately. Beyond that, the control 
center made me feel mostly like there was little I could do to take 
control. The software center seems very easy to get, though, and 
that's a big plus. The UI has with good snap, but in the end, a lot of 
simple basic stuff is not intuitive for the new user. I think even 
less than most of the more traditional flavored DEs.


I also discovered that my unmodified install is useless with Livecode, 
which is Pete's interest. There are all kinds of problems with 
characters in scripts. you can't use /. Quotes are treated literally 
as in:


put something into tAnything; put tAnything

returns something with the quotes. If someone can tell me what's the 
likely cause, I'd be interested to know :D Even more interested in 
knowing how to remedy it.


It was only a cursory look. I've never liked the stock OS X Dock and 
always ran it without 3D, reflections and animations 


PearOS uses CairoDock. I use, whatever the distro, Avant Window 
Navigator; it can be easily configured to present a flat, transparent
dock with no annoying resizing of icons, 3D fluff and so on. I find that 
Avant Window Navigator can closely resemble the Mac OS 10.2
dock - which I much preferred to later versions. Personally I think that 
the Mac Dock is about the best thing about Mac OS, so have made sure
I have had a dock wherever I have worked; even going to far as to have 
one in my Virtual box running Windows XP.


Of course, with XFCE (let's say Xubuntu) one can set the bottom panel to 
behave in almost the same way; without the overhead of having to

install AWN.

and set it out of the way in the lower left corner, so this was 
definitely not a positive feature for me, but that's a matter of 
taste. That said, this distro has some real drawbacks in my opinion. 
Pete, this is not the best choice. Sorry to have brought it up.


Warren



Certainly, with Ubuntu and its spinoffs (currently doing most of my 
stuff with Xubuntu 12.04 beta 1), Livecode generally behaves
itself; although my Dictionary stack does seem to crash the IDE. However 
this may be due to my warped route to Xubuntu; Ubuntu 12.04
with UNITY, mucked about with Cinnamon, mucked about with MATE, mucked 
about with Lubuntu, installed XFCE. Until I pull
myself together and reinstall a virgin install of Xubuntu (not likely 
until the April full release) I won't know for certain why this is 
happening.


I have had Livecode doing very nicely with ZevenOS, a sort of kiddified 
Debian; got cheesed-off with the distro as it kept dumping me in 
dependency hell; so I dumped it.


I have always stuck to Debian derivs, so cannot really say anything 
about other types of Linux.


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[ANN] New version of password field

2012-03-26 Thread Mark Schonewille

Hi,

For a project, I needed an improved version of my password field. The new 
password field includes better copy, paste and undo features and is now 
available on the Economy-x-Talk homepage to those who have made or will make a 
donation.

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Re: Playing Flash Video?

2012-03-26 Thread paolo mazza

I think the only way to show a flash movie (in streaming from a server
or directly from a local file) is to embed a FlashPlayer into a
revBrowser window.
However,  managing video (stop/start/pause ...) with javascript  is
not a trivial task!

In the rev Browser stack ( resources/examples folder of the LC the
distribution) , on the 4th card, there is a button Embed a Flash
Training viewer but the sample page does not work because the rev
browser can not find the page  /externals/flashexample.php .

Then, I found a thread in this mailing list addressing the
javascript-revbrowser issue ... see  Using Javascript with RevBrowser
to control a Flash Movie with some interesting  hints.

I am looking for a multi-platform solution to show streaming video
in LC stacks, but it seems to me that only the iOS solution is working
properly.In LC/Mac IDE the quicktime player can not open streaming
video (html/MPEG4). That's weird, because I can play the same video
opening it from the Archive/connect to menu of the QuickTime Player
10 installed in the same machine,

All the best
Paolo

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Re: Android 4

2012-03-26 Thread Devin Asay

Mark,

I downloaded Jacque's Casey's Solitaire app to an ASUS Transformer Prime 
running Android 4.0.3 and it runs flawlessly. I have also run several simple 
test apps on this tablet with no problem. (I am building for Android 2.3.3.)

Regards,

Devin

On Mar 24, 2012, at 7:33 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:

 Hi (again),
 
 I didn't get a reply to my question:
 
 Does anyone have (good) experience with LiveCode apps running on an Android 
 4 tablet? I thought I'd ask before upgrading my tablet.
 
 Does that mean that LiveCode is not compatible with Android 4 yet?
 
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Re: Android 4

2012-03-26 Thread Mark Schonewille

Thanks Ken and Devin,

It looks like I can upgrade my tablet to Android 4.0.

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On 26 mrt 2012, at 17:16, Devin Asay wrote:

 Mark,
 
 I downloaded Jacque's Casey's Solitaire app to an ASUS Transformer Prime 
 running Android 4.0.3 and it runs flawlessly. I have also run several simple 
 test apps on this tablet with no problem. (I am building for Android 2.3.3.)
 
 Regards,
 
 Devin


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Re: Difficulty with Reply Size To The List

2012-03-26 Thread Bob Sneidar

Reply with a plain text format. Any kind of formatting like color can 
dramatically increase the size of the email. Don't worry about quote coloring 
that is not embedded in the text. But custom fonts or colors will give you 
problems. 

Bob


On Mar 25, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Roger Guay wrote:

 I am using a Mac and Mail for my email stuff. Often when I reply to posts on 
 this list with as little as 1 or 2 lower quote levels, I get a reply from 
 use-livecode-bounces for exceeding the size limit of 15 KB. Such is the case 
 with a reply I was trying to make today to Thomas McGrath III and Tim Jones 
 re Calling ALL SETI Enthusiasts. Is this normal or am I missing something? 
 There are often, what appear much larger files, appearing on the list!
 
 Thanks and cheers,
 Roger
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Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-26 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon


Hi from Beautiful Brittany,

For Pete, Michael, Colin . et alia !

I think we have been down this road before !

This is not a completely internal display of
pdf files within a LiveCode stack, but it's the
closest I could get, and it solves all my needs.

I have a library of pdf files. I have a LiveCode
stack containing a card for each of the files
I may want to display. On each card, I have

1 - The pdf file name within my library,
2 - A display scale value for the pdf file,
3 - a field containing a list of page numbers
 that may interest me, within the pdf file.

I select the scale, select a page number and
open the pdf file, at a specific page, in an
external window, by building an applescript file
to call the Skim app with the required parameters.

Warning : Skim is for Macs only ... Life is so hard !

NOTE : I have not exploited the potential of all
possible parameters which can be passed to Skim.

I also found out that if my pdf file originated as a text
file (first-hand), then I could eventually dig out the text,
(which means that pdf display COULD be pure LiveCode)
but if the pdf file was built (for example) by conversion
from a jpg file, then I could NEVER recover the text.
(that seems pretty reasonable, does it not ?)

Catch me off-forum, and I can send you an
example stack.

Best Regards

-Francis

Nothing should ever be done for the first time !

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Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-26 Thread Pete

Thanks Francis - and all the others who have suggested ways to deal with
this.

I think I will have to go with launching the pdf documents as a separate
process. Seems like that is the only way to get a cross platform solution
that will deal with the display of bookmarks without having to spend time
writing Livecode scripts.

Maybe someone will write an LC plugin to deal with pdf files one day.
Judging by the response to my initilial question, seems like there would
be enough interest to make it worthwhile.

Pete

PS I'm still looking at ScreenSteps. They confirm that bookmarks are
included in pdf files created from ScreenSteps so I could get the best of
both worlds.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.frwrote:

Hi from Beautiful Brittany,

For Pete, Michael, Colin . et alia !

I think we have been down this road before !

This is not a completely internal display of
pdf files within a LiveCode stack, but it's the
closest I could get, and it solves all my needs.

I have a library of pdf files. I have a LiveCode
stack containing a card for each of the files
I may want to display. On each card, I have

1 - The pdf file name within my library,
2 - A display scale value for the pdf file,
3 - a field containing a list of page numbers
that may interest me, within the pdf file.

I select the scale, select a page number and
open the pdf file, at a specific page, in an
external window, by building an applescript file
to call the Skim app with the required parameters.

Warning : Skim is for Macs only ... Life is so hard !

NOTE : I have not exploited the potential of all
possible parameters which can be passed to Skim.

I also found out that if my pdf file originated as a text
file (first-hand), then I could eventually dig out the text,
(which means that pdf display COULD be pure LiveCode)
but if the pdf file was built (for example) by conversion
from a jpg file, then I could NEVER recover the text.
(that seems pretty reasonable, does it not ?)

Catch me off-forum, and I can send you an
example stack.

Best Regards

-Francis

Nothing should ever be done for the first time !

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revsecurtity.dll

2012-03-26 Thread Klaus on-rev

Hi friends,

I created a win installer app which uses HTTPS, so the revsecurtity.dll is 
obviously neccessary.
But I would like to only deploy a SINGLE EXE file if possible, ZIPping the 
thing is no option.

Unfortunately this special DLL cannot be installed dynamically and 
temporarily like other DLLs.
Can it? Anything I am missing?

So any clever hint is much appreciated :-)
Thanks a lot in advance!

Too bad this functionality has not yet been impemented into the engine like in 
the Macversion.


Best

Klaus

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