Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive
Hi, I have an old Mac SE, which I can connect to the serial port of an old Performa, which has ethernet, and which lets me surf the net on my SE. It is kind of a hassle and I didn't think it was that interesting. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 3/26/2015 01:59, Kay C Lan wrote: Was rummaging through boxes of stuff looking for something when I came across a few ADB keyboards and mice. Thought to myself, 'it's about time to turf these, no one, not even Richmond, could possible want them'. Seems like I could be wrong: http://kernelmag.dailydot .com/issue-sections/features-issue-sections/12228/mac-plus-modern-web/?fb =ddutm_source=huffingtonpost.comutm_medium=referralutm_campaign= pubexchange ___ 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
Move the clock hands with fingers
Hello :) I am new here :) i am learning livecode and I found clock code in livecode,where you can move the clock hands with scrollbar, i tried to move the minute clock hand with touch but something is wrong, i couldn't do it in the right way. please can you look at the code? i wrote the code in minute clock hand :) thanks P.S. sorry for my bad english :) ___ 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] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: Was rummaging through boxes of stuff looking for something when I came across a few ADB keyboards and mice. Thought to myself, 'it's about time to turf these, no one, not even Richmond, could possible want them'. Seems like I could be wrong: I still have my 128k mac, apparently working, my MacPortable (disassembled; needs fuse), and a working MacClassic. And a PowerBook 180 in pieces; it's been years since you could get a working 2.5 scsi drive . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ 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] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive
Gotcha all beat. I still have my Apple ][+ (purchased 4/4/1980) and it still works—did a power supply transplant 20 years ago. Plus three Apple ][ GSs—two work, one is parts for the others. And, of course, my 512K Enhanced Mac (Fat Mac), which also works. And a bunch of newer Macs, LC 2, gumdrop iMacs, fruit colored iBooks. All of them work. It’s a regular Mac museum in the making up there in my loft. Too bad I don’t have space to display all my goodies. On Mar 26, 2015, at 1:38 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: Was rummaging through boxes of stuff looking for something when I came across a few ADB keyboards and mice. Thought to myself, 'it's about time to turf these, no one, not even Richmond, could possible want them'. Seems like I could be wrong: I still have my 128k mac, apparently working, my MacPortable (disassembled; needs fuse), and a working MacClassic. And a PowerBook 180 in pieces; it's been years since you could get a working 2.5 scsi drive . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ 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
Suggest a USB device.
While I am waiting for my turtle to be delivered I am getting pretty cheesed-off as I would like a USB device I could hook up to my various computers running various operating systems . . . Certainly I feel it is pretty pointless working on open to read and open to write stuff if I don't have a target USB device to practise with. I have plenty of USB devices, but most of them are what I call one-way devices: that is to say they sent data to the computer, but no data is ever sent the other way. Anyway, I have just spotted a fairly old USB scanner (well, bought it about 15-16 years ago) lurking under a desk, and that is a two-way device as it has to be controlled from an interface on the computer . . . However, while I can, quite possibly, do an open to read, I am going to find it difficult to read anything until I write some sort of command to the scanner to scan something . . . Has anybody tried controlling a scanner from LIvecode? Has anybody any idea of the sort of commands I should be sending a scanner? Richmond. ___ 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: Suggest a USB device.
On 26/03/15 22:14, Phil Davis wrote: Hi Richmond, If the scanner is an HID device, you won't get very far. You would probably need a driver to communicate with, via open driver etc. And even then you would have to have info about the driver's data formats. Am I being naive? or if one uses open driver to write can one then write API commands to that driver? I tend to see USB as a large black hole. I haven't looked at it since USB 2.0, but at that time the spec was daunting. It seems to have multiplied since then: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ Do you have a flash drive (aka thumb drive)? That's a USB mass storage device. You can read from/write to that. (Of course) Just some thoughts off the top of my head - Phil Davis On 3/26/15 1:04 PM, Richmond wrote: While I am waiting for my turtle to be delivered I am getting pretty cheesed-off as I would like a USB device I could hook up to my various computers running various operating systems . . . Certainly I feel it is pretty pointless working on open to read and open to write stuff if I don't have a target USB device to practise with. I have plenty of USB devices, but most of them are what I call one-way devices: that is to say they sent data to the computer, but no data is ever sent the other way. Anyway, I have just spotted a fairly old USB scanner (well, bought it about 15-16 years ago) lurking under a desk, and that is a two-way device as it has to be controlled from an interface on the computer . . . However, while I can, quite possibly, do an open to read, I am going to find it difficult to read anything until I write some sort of command to the scanner to scan something . . . Has anybody tried controlling a scanner from LIvecode? Has anybody any idea of the sort of commands I should be sending a scanner? Richmond. ___ 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] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive
On 3/26/2015 2:09 PM, Richmond wrote: If you happened to have a SCSI-to-USB cable . . . Or one of those USB-to-ADB+SCSI for iMac things . . . Sorry, those I don't have. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive
This will help maybe: http://www.amazon.com/Griffin-2001-ADB-iMate-Universal-adapter/dp/B67V8L https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=14290.0 Cheers, Erik -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of J. Landman Gay Sent: donderdag 26 maart 2015 21:14 To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive On 3/26/2015 2:09 PM, Richmond wrote: If you happened to have a SCSI-to-USB cable . . . Or one of those USB-to-ADB+SCSI for iMac things . . . Sorry, those I don't have. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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
Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive
Okay, so do any of you want some of the dozens of SCSI cables I have? How about a whole set of...whatchacallit... the dealies that connect a local network over telephone wires. Got a ton of those. On 3/26/2015 12:55 PM, Marian Petrides MD wrote: Gotcha all beat. I still have my Apple ][+ (purchased 4/4/1980) and it still works—did a power supply transplant 20 years ago. Plus three Apple ][ GSs—two work, one is parts for the others. And, of course, my 512K Enhanced Mac (Fat Mac), which also works. And a bunch of newer Macs, LC 2, gumdrop iMacs, fruit colored iBooks. All of them work. It’s a regular Mac museum in the making up there in my loft. Too bad I don’t have space to display all my goodies. On Mar 26, 2015, at 1:38 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: Was rummaging through boxes of stuff looking for something when I came across a few ADB keyboards and mice. Thought to myself, 'it's about time to turf these, no one, not even Richmond, could possible want them'. Seems like I could be wrong: I still have my 128k mac, apparently working, my MacPortable (disassembled; needs fuse), and a working MacClassic. And a PowerBook 180 in pieces; it's been years since you could get a working 2.5 scsi drive . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ 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 -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive
On 26/03/15 19:38, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: Was rummaging through boxes of stuff looking for something when I came across a few ADB keyboards and mice. Thought to myself, 'it's about time to turf these, no one, not even Richmond, could possible want them'. Seems like I could be wrong: I still have my 128k mac, apparently working, my MacPortable (disassembled; needs fuse), and a working MacClassic. And a PowerBook 180 in pieces; it's been years since you could get a working 2.5 scsi drive . . . Joking apart (???) I have, in the attic of my house in Scotland, an all-in-one Performa as well as a few pre-PPC machines, and about 4 ADB keyboards: as such the keyboards are extremely resilient and much stronger that your average USB keyboard. So, if I could only lay me hands on a few ADB-to-USB converters I could put them to good use. Richmond. ___ 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] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive
On 26/03/15 20:41, J. Landman Gay wrote: Okay, so do any of you want some of the dozens of SCSI cables I have? How about a whole set of...whatchacallit... the dealies that connect a local network over telephone wires. Got a ton of those. If you happened to have a SCSI-to-USB cable . . . Or one of those USB-to-ADB+SCSI for iMac things . . . Richmond. On 3/26/2015 12:55 PM, Marian Petrides MD wrote: Gotcha all beat. I still have my Apple ][+ (purchased 4/4/1980) and it still works—did a power supply transplant 20 years ago. Plus three Apple ][ GSs—two work, one is parts for the others. And, of course, my 512K Enhanced Mac (Fat Mac), which also works. And a bunch of newer Macs, LC 2, gumdrop iMacs, fruit colored iBooks. All of them work. It’s a regular Mac museum in the making up there in my loft. Too bad I don’t have space to display all my goodies. On Mar 26, 2015, at 1:38 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 5:59 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: Was rummaging through boxes of stuff looking for something when I came across a few ADB keyboards and mice. Thought to myself, 'it's about time to turf these, no one, not even Richmond, could possible want them'. Seems like I could be wrong: I still have my 128k mac, apparently working, my MacPortable (disassembled; needs fuse), and a working MacClassic. And a PowerBook 180 in pieces; it's been years since you could get a working 2.5 scsi drive . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ 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 ___ 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: Movie problems in LiveCode
On 3/26/2015 8:47 AM, stgoldb...@aol.com wrote: Richard and Jackie, does your reluctance to use relative paths also extend to the distribution of standalones, or is it just stacks that present the problem? I do it mostly for the reasons Richard outlined -- more control over playback and media selection as well as the abilitly to specify different movie playbacks by reloading the same player object. But I get the feeling you don't want to mess around with scripts, you just want to set a filepath once during development and forget about it. If the IDE is changing that path then you're right, you won't be able to do that during development. I'd submit a bug report. But it shouldn't be an issue for a standalone. Selecting the Copy referenced files in the standalone builder's Copy Files pane should create a standalone where your referenced movies are converted to correct filepaths inside the standalone, which is probably what you're after. So that's a solution for standalones, even though during development you may be stuck with absolute paths. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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: Suggest a USB device.
On 3/26/15 1:26 PM, Richmond wrote: On 26/03/15 22:14, Phil Davis wrote: Hi Richmond, If the scanner is an HID device, you won't get very far. You would probably need a driver to communicate with, via open driver etc. And even then you would have to have info about the driver's data formats. Am I being naive? Sometimes ignorance/naivety can lead to great things, because you didn't know it couldn't be done. ;-) At least that's what I keep telling myself. or if one uses open driver to write can one then write API commands to that driver? Basically yes, that's my understanding at least. That may require you to deal with strongly typed data. I'm sure there are others on this list who have much more experience than I do with drivers. Maybe you! Phil I tend to see USB as a large black hole. I haven't looked at it since USB 2.0, but at that time the spec was daunting. It seems to have multiplied since then: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ Do you have a flash drive (aka thumb drive)? That's a USB mass storage device. You can read from/write to that. (Of course) Just some thoughts off the top of my head - Phil Davis On 3/26/15 1:04 PM, Richmond wrote: While I am waiting for my turtle to be delivered I am getting pretty cheesed-off as I would like a USB device I could hook up to my various computers running various operating systems . . . Certainly I feel it is pretty pointless working on open to read and open to write stuff if I don't have a target USB device to practise with. I have plenty of USB devices, but most of them are what I call one-way devices: that is to say they sent data to the computer, but no data is ever sent the other way. Anyway, I have just spotted a fairly old USB scanner (well, bought it about 15-16 years ago) lurking under a desk, and that is a two-way device as it has to be controlled from an interface on the computer . . . However, while I can, quite possibly, do an open to read, I am going to find it difficult to read anything until I write some sort of command to the scanner to scan something . . . Has anybody tried controlling a scanner from LIvecode? Has anybody any idea of the sort of commands I should be sending a scanner? Richmond. ___ 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 -- Phil Davis ___ 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
Movie problems in LiveCode
Regarding the problem of the LC 6-7 series not allowing relative paths on the Macintosh: On 3/24/2015 10:26 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've always been wary of shipping things that rely on relative paths, since any other script can change the default directory out from under me at any time. In apps where the media I'm playing resides in a single folder. I often just have a central handler cover that to which I pass the file's short name only and it takes care of the rest, e.g.: on PlayMovie pFile put specialFolderPath(documents)/MyApp/media/ pFile into tPath if there is not a file tPath then answer Media file missing: tPath exit to top end if play tPath end PlayMovie Jackie Landman Gay wrote: That's exactly what I do too, I've never trusted relative paths. Richard and Jackie, does your reluctance to use relative paths also extend to the distribution of standalones, or is it just stacks that present the problem? I’m not experienced enough to follow the above script. Perhaps you can recommend a place where I can find a more detailed explanation. Thanks. Stephen Goldberg, President Medmaster Publishing Co. Prof Emeritus, Univ Miami Miller School of Medicine ___ 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: Suggest a USB device.
Richmond. Buy the Bonig and Kallenbach gadget already. You will love it. I have four. Craig -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Suggest-a-USB-device-tp4690650p4690658.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Suggest a USB device.
Hi Richmond, If the scanner is an HID device, you won't get very far. You would probably need a driver to communicate with, via open driver etc. And even then you would have to have info about the driver's data formats. I tend to see USB as a large black hole. I haven't looked at it since USB 2.0, but at that time the spec was daunting. It seems to have multiplied since then: http://www.usb.org/developers/docs/ Do you have a flash drive (aka thumb drive)? That's a USB mass storage device. You can read from/write to that. (Of course) Just some thoughts off the top of my head - Phil Davis On 3/26/15 1:04 PM, Richmond wrote: While I am waiting for my turtle to be delivered I am getting pretty cheesed-off as I would like a USB device I could hook up to my various computers running various operating systems . . . Certainly I feel it is pretty pointless working on open to read and open to write stuff if I don't have a target USB device to practise with. I have plenty of USB devices, but most of them are what I call one-way devices: that is to say they sent data to the computer, but no data is ever sent the other way. Anyway, I have just spotted a fairly old USB scanner (well, bought it about 15-16 years ago) lurking under a desk, and that is a two-way device as it has to be controlled from an interface on the computer . . . However, while I can, quite possibly, do an open to read, I am going to find it difficult to read anything until I write some sort of command to the scanner to scan something . . . Has anybody tried controlling a scanner from LIvecode? Has anybody any idea of the sort of commands I should be sending a scanner? Richmond. ___ 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 -- Phil Davis ___ 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: Suggest a USB device.
Richmond richmondmathewson@... writes: Am I being naive? Quite, I think. If the scanner is that old your chances of finding a recent driver are miniscule. If you *do* find a driver for it, you'll still have to figure out how to use the driver. USB device manufacturers don't normally publish communication information, and certainly not at a device driver level. The USB standard gives you guidelines when creating a device, but leaves a lot to the imagination. And manufacturers have a lot of imagination. If you actually manage to talk to a USB device, you have no assurance of being able to leverage that information to other devices, even from that manufacturer. If you're attempting to create the holy grail of universal usb functions, I think you'll soon come to realize why this hasn't yet been done. I have a nice USB breakout box that I helped Kickstart, and it helps when trying to follow the communications stream in order to reverse-engineer how to talk to various USB devices, but it's still a *lot* of work. And without that box and the python tools that enable it, I wouldn't even try. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.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
LC 7.03 ff Crashing on larger text blocks
I am trying in varying ways to process large chunks of text data, actually in this current application trying to read my Gmail contact data (cvs export) and converting such data to lists / arrays. Using lists I want to exchange commas and returns inside quoted text and keep records as lines to be able to import to Excel or do whatever. Using either a repeat for or repeat with loop, using replaceTex(), offset() or simply going through each characters and changing one or the other character whatever I do, LiveCode fails operating and crashes after processing part of the data. I tried other versions of 7. I need UTF-8 character encoding, so going to 6.x is not an option. Nothing helps. It crashes and crashes. Trying to understand when what is happening, I multiplied step by step thousands and then millions of times a line of 50-100 commas and tried replacing this list with semikolons using any of the methods available - but it crashes. Also going through it line by line, adding lines to another text variable, or whatever I do, the same happens. LiveCode 7 ff obviously runs into a memory problem. Maybe there is a work-around I did not yet recognize? I already have filed a bug report first seeing this behaviour with the replacetext() function. But it happens whatever processing is done on such largers text blocks. Roland ___ 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
Replace existing notification
Does anyone know a trick to replace an existing Android notification with new content? I need to repeat a notification periodically if it isn't dismissed and I don't want more than one in the notification bar. Android OS allows this but I'm not sure if we can do it. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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: LC 7.03 ff Crashing on larger text blocks
Suggestion 1. Is it feasible for you to avoid the problem ? i.e. rather than something like (I assume what you currently have) put URL (file:inputdata.txt) into myVar replaceText (...) put myModifiedVar into URL(file:output.txt) do the processing within a read / write loop, something very vaguely like open file inputdata.txt for read open file output.txt for write repeat forever read from file inputdata.txt until CR if the result is EOF then exit repeat put it into t replace comma with ; in t write t CR to file output.txt end repeat Suggestion 2. You mentioned a synthetic example (i.e. creating a data string and processing it). Can you post the snippet(s) of code to create and operate that sample, and let others try it to see if (a) they also encounter a problem and (b) can find a variant that will work Thanks Alex. On 26/03/2015 20:42, R.H. wrote: I am trying in varying ways to process large chunks of text data, actually in this current application trying to read my Gmail contact data (cvs export) and converting such data to lists / arrays. Using lists I want to exchange commas and returns inside quoted text and keep records as lines to be able to import to Excel or do whatever. Using either a repeat for or repeat with loop, using replaceTex(), offset() or simply going through each characters and changing one or the other character whatever I do, LiveCode fails operating and crashes after processing part of the data. I tried other versions of 7. I need UTF-8 character encoding, so going to 6.x is not an option. Nothing helps. It crashes and crashes. Trying to understand when what is happening, I multiplied step by step thousands and then millions of times a line of 50-100 commas and tried replacing this list with semikolons using any of the methods available - but it crashes. Also going through it line by line, adding lines to another text variable, or whatever I do, the same happens. LiveCode 7 ff obviously runs into a memory problem. Maybe there is a work-around I did not yet recognize? I already have filed a bug report first seeing this behaviour with the replacetext() function. But it happens whatever processing is done on such largers text blocks. Roland ___ 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
revDataFromQuery Selecting Files
I am working on the sort, search and find in SQL lite with revDataFromQuery in a single database with a single table. I know this is simple for people who already are able to do it but for those who are new to working with database selecting records here are a couple of steps to help. To return a list of ALL RECORDS with ALL FIELDS in a table named tFiles you can use the following where gConID = the connection id; put SELECT * FROM tFiles into tSQL --returns all records fields put revDataFromQuery(,,gConID,tSQL) into tList put tList To return a list of ALL RECORDS in 1 FIELD in a table named tFiles you can use the following where gConID gConID = the connection id and the field name is FirstName; put SELECT FirstName FROM tFiles into tSQL --returns all records in 1 field put revDataFromQuery(,,gConID,tSQL) into tList put tList John Balgenorth ___ 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] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive
On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Marian Petrides MD mpetri...@earthlink.net wrote: Gotcha all beat. I still have my Apple ][+ (purchased 4/4/1980) and it still works—did a power supply transplant 20 years ago. Plus three Apple ][ GSs—two work, one is parts for the others. Well, that's not a mac. If any computer counts, my 1978 wire-wrapped 1802 and parts are still in my garage . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ 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
compress decompress
In my attempts to provide backups of databases, I have a sequence that gathers the commands and executes open file outfile for binary write write compress(theData )to file outfile Another routine has put url infile into theData switch case infile ends with .gz put decompress(theData) into theData break end switch I get stack mcp: execution error at line 11923 (decompress: error during decompression), char 1 On the attempt to decompress. If I instead open the file from the OSX finder, it decompresses correctly. There don't seem to be any options to affect this. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ 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: compress decompress
On 3/26/2015 8:31 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: In my attempts to provide backups of databases, I have a sequence that gathers the commands and executes open file outfile for binary write write compress(theData )to file outfile Another routine has put url infile into theData switch case infile ends with .gz put decompress(theData) into theData break end switch I get stack mcp: execution error at line 11923 (decompress: error during decompression), char 1 On the attempt to decompress. If I instead open the file from the OSX finder, it decompresses correctly. There don't seem to be any options to affect this. Is the file opened as a binary file? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.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: [ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_2
Hello Bernd Your new TableField looks very clean and very tidy, thanks for it ! Everyone who doesn’t like DataGrid should have a look at it ! Cheers Rolf Dear list, here is a new version of modTableField. It is a way to display tabular data in a table view. -- http://berndniggemann.on-rev.com/modTableField/modTableField_0_3_2.zip http://berndniggemann.on-rev.com/modTableField/modTableField_0_3_2.zip -- modTableField_0_3_2 has been cleaned up and has more examples and a revamped Helper stack that makes it easier to configure columns. Additionally you can now add Icons to columns that are user switchable. ___ 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: [ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_2
Bill, Rolf thank you. modTableField is at its core just two fields that are used for display. All data lives in these two fields. It is not as powerful as the dataGrid which I think is an ingenious piece of code. modTableField can be easier because of its simpler structure and might suffice in some situations where you don't need all the options of the dataGrid-table. On the other hand it is of course more limited. Kind regard Bernd -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-modified-Table-Field-0-2-2-tp4690621p4690635.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: Workaround on the inability to create relative paths in the LC6-7 series Movie Player
Stephen, have you verified that VR playback works with QuickTime Player 10 on Windows? My guess is that the Windows system you're looking at has QuickTime Player 7 installed (which is also capable of playing VR movies on OS X, but is out of date). It seems unlikely that Player 10 would work on Windows and not OS X, but maybe Apple did something different there. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX/UI Design On Mar 26, 2015, at 7:16 AM, stgoldb...@aol.com stgoldb...@aol.com wrote: 3. QTVR is not so fortunate. QTVR will not play on Macintosh in the LC 6-7 series, even if a build is made on Windows with LC 7.0. Windows itself, though, with LC 7.0 will play QTVR. ___ 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: Workaround on the inability to create relative paths in the LC6-7 series Movie Player
stgoldberg wrote: 2. Create the standalone on Windows. In Windows, LC 7.0 does maintain the relative path, and standalones built on Windows for Mac will keep the relative path and display the Quicktime movies on Mac, even when using the LC 6-7 series. Are the movies files stored within the Mac app bundle? Remember that the app bundle is unique to OS X, so the paths from the standalone executable to whatever folder contains media will often differ between platforms. Phil Jimmieson wrote (Mar 24 2015): I think Apple dropped support of quicklime VR movies. You’re supposed to move to AVKit and AV Foundation. In order to show the movies through LiveCode, though, we’ll have to wait for the LiveCode team to adopt the newer technology. If you're referring to temporal media (movies, audio), that was part of the v6.7 transition to the Cocoa APIs. If you find bugs in v6.7 or later for playing temporal media files please file a report on those. For spatial media (QuickTime VR) it appears Apple has abandoned support for that altogether, and users are now expected to rely on third-party solutions. Too bad, IMO, since QTVR was pretty cool in its day. But given the number and variety of third-party solutions, the somewhat specialized nature of spatial media, and the goals already on the Roadmap that the core dev team is committed to completing, it may be quicker to put together a team of people in the community who need spatial media support and use LC 8's ability to talk to native APIs to create a library for that. -- 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: Movie problems in LiveCode
stgoldberg wrote: On 3/24/2015 10:26 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've always been wary of shipping things that rely on relative paths, since any other script can change the default directory out from under me at any time. In apps where the media I'm playing resides in a single folder. I often just have a central handler cover that to which I pass the file's short name only and it takes care of the rest, e.g.: on PlayMovie pFile put specialFolderPath(documents)/MyApp/media/ pFile into tPath if there is not a file tPath then answer Media file missing: tPath exit to top end if play tPath end PlayMovie Jackie Landman Gay wrote: That's exactly what I do too, I've never trusted relative paths. Richard and Jackie, does your reluctance to use relative paths also extend to the distribution of standalones, or is it just stacks that present the problem? It's not so much a problem (at least not while QuickTime existed) as it is an opportunity to centralize program logic for easier scripting in the short term and easier maintenance over the long term. Without centralizing the playback handling, I'd need to write paths to the media and check for the file's existence everywhere throughout my code that I need to play a movie. By centralizing it in a common handler, the scripts that call it are very short: on mouseUp PlayMovie SomeFile.mov end mouseUp ...and all the details for how that file is found, verified to exist, and then played are handled in one handler. So there's an immediate benefit while I'm writing the program, and it only gets better over time: if I later need to change anything about how movies are played, I change only one handler and everything throughout my app that calls it benefits from that change immediately without any of those calls needing to be changed themselves. I’m not experienced enough to follow the above script. Perhaps you can recommend a place where I can find a more detailed explanation. The Dictionary entry for the specialFolderPath function is good reading, and worth taking some time to experiment with. For security reasons, OSes are increasingly limiting the places applications can access files. The specialFolderPath function returns the path to a good many special folders, directories the OS guidelines recommend for certain types of files, such as Preferences and Application Support, and handles constants for other commonly-used folders like Desktop and Home. All that's happening in that handler is using that function to build a full path at runtime, with an additional step to make sure the file exists (you never know what people might do with stuff after it's installed, which is why more than 30% of an app's code on average isn't feature-related but merely error-checking). Let's look at each part: put specialFolderPath(documents)/MyApp/media/ pFile into tPath This calls the specialFolderPath function, asking for the path to the Documents folder. Mac, Windows, and Linux all have a Documents folder, the recommended place for users to store files they create with your app. For files your app creates or installs itself it may be better to use another folder to install those into, but the recommended location is a bit different for each OS. I can provide a handler for that if needed, but for now we'll keep things simple here using one of the special folders consistently supported across OSes. This second bit just ensures the file exists, informing the user if it's been removed: if there is not a file tPath then answer Media file missing: tPath exit to top end if The last line just plays the file: play tPath If somewhere down the road is became necessary for the engine team to change the play command to something like PlayVideo, with this centralized handler you just make that change in one place and everything in your app immediately benefits without any other changes. If you if need to add more error-checking, or handle platform-specific considerations, or just about anything else, without a centralized handler you'd need to replicate that code throughout your app every time you want to play a movie. Much simpler to just write: PlayMovie SomeMovie.mov ...and let one script to all the work for you in one place. -- 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
Workaround on the inability to create relative paths in the LC6-7 series Movie Player
The LC 6-7 series for Macintosh will not allow the creation of a relative path for the movie player. I understand that Apple has deprecated Quicktime and QTVR. While the LiveCode team works to resolve the issue, I find several temporary workarounds for the problem: 1. On Macintosh, create the standalone with the relative path in LC 5.5.3. The standalone will play in the LC 6-7 series. 2. Create the standalone on Windows. In Windows, LC 7.0 does maintain the relative path, and standalones built on Windows for Mac will keep the relative path and display the Quicktime movies on Mac, even when using the LC 6-7 series. 3. QTVR is not so fortunate. QTVR will not play on Macintosh in the LC 6-7 series, even if a build is made on Windows with LC 7.0. Windows itself, though, with LC 7.0 will play QTVR. Scott Rossi wrote (Mar 24 2015): In some simple tests, it looks like QuickTime Player 10 (on Mavericks) won’t even open VR movies, but will hand them off to Player 7 if available. You’d probably do well to stop using QTVR and look for an alternative. If Scott say so, I take it seriously. Phil Jimmieson wrote (Mar 24 2015): I think Apple dropped support of quicklime VR movies. You’re supposed to move to AVKit and AV Foundation. In order to show the movies through LiveCode, though, we’ll have to wait for the LiveCode team to adopt the newer technology. Stephen Goldberg, President Medmaster Publishing Co. Prof Emeritus, Univ Miami School of Medicine www.medmaster.net ___ 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: Move the clock hands with fingers
Astghik, Contact me off list and I will try to help you. Please send a copy of your stack. Regards, Mike On 3/26/15 7:59 AM, Astghik Salnazaryan wrote: Hello :) I am new here :) i am learning livecode and I found clock code in livecode,where you can move the clock hands with scrollbar, i tried to move the minute clock hand with touch but something is wrong, i couldn't do it in the right way. please can you look at the code? i wrote the code in minute clock hand :) thanks P.S. sorry for my bad english :) ___ 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
