decrypt error junk
Hi Folks, I'm having bizarre issues with livecode's decrypt command. strap in, its a weird one. I have found a "wrong decryption key" that does not return a bad decrypt error, but returns garbage into "the result". Every other wrong key correctly gives the usual error. The right key works to decrypt. But this one key gives a different result. the length of the encryption/decryption key is always 64 characters it is always alphanumeric, because its a hash derivative, no weird characters, always the correct length. and the salt is the same for every key i tried. I can program around it, but its unsettling. I will report it, but in the meantime has anyone ever come across this garbage in "the result" as a result of an incorrect. decryption key? the even more bizzare part is that my test password was "abc123" and the key that does not work is "abc12" ...although those become hash derivatives that are 64 characters, so that has nothing to do with it. its ...just...so weird. I spend nearly all my working time in Livecode these days, so I will find all the bugs. Thanks,Tom ___ 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: Filter with wildcards
I agree David, regular expressions look intimidating at first sight. But in fact if you compare your intuitive attempt filter tList with “*with [you,u] *” with the regex which does what you set out to do filter tList with regex “.*with (you|u) .*” they are almost exactly the same – for very good reasons of course. The . is just the regex for a single character, the * says “any number incuding 0 of the preceding pattern”. I don’t know your actual use-case, the above may be enough for all your searches, But I suspect you should allow for the required strings to be followed by punctuation or be at the end of the line, things which are hard to do with a simple LC wildcard search, at least in a single filter. The final tweak to account for a case insensitive search adds a flag at the front the of the regex (and I agree is rather arcane). If you want arcane, there is a possibly better way to do the regex search for either the whole word “you" or the whole word “u”. You can use the code “\b” to indicate a word boundary instead of a character, that is white space, punctuation or line start or end. filter tList with regex “.*with\b(you|u)\b.*” As usual with a complex language there are alternative ways of accomplishing the same thing. Hmm, if to be truthful, my previous regex doesn’t do precisely the same thing as looking for word boundaries (hyphens, numbers, hard spaces…human language is so complicated). I opine that regular expressions and sql are the two most useful technologies to add to the LC developer’s toolbox. After some basic user interface design principles course. Beyond those lie the web languages html, css, javascript (shudder). And then LCB, something I have yet to tackle. BTW, apologies for the “numeric” when I meant “alphabetic” in the previous email. It seems I cannot write an email these days without at leat one mistke. Neville > On 1 Nov 2023, at 7:54 pm, David V Glasgow wrote: > > This is the thing about regex, amazing,powerful, impressive, but scary as > hell. > > I will play with this a little, though… so thanks for your time when you > should have been doing something else. I appreciate it. > > Best Wishes, > > David Glasgow > Consultant Forensic & Clinical Psychologist > Carlton Glasgow Partnership > Director, Child & Family Training, York > Honorary Professor (SOCAMRU), Nottingham Trent University > > LinkedIn Profile > >> On 31 Oct 2023, at 8:59 pm, Neville Smythe via use-livecode >> mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: >> >> Forgot any number of other chars after the non-numeric character >> >> Filter tList with regex "(?i).*with (you|u)([^a-zA-Z].*|$)” >> >> Now I’ve really got to go … hope I’ve got it all right this time! >> >> Neville Smythe ___ 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: Direct editing of polygrid text cells and polylist text elements
+1 I'd like to know this too as I can see no way in the Property Inspector or the pgColumns property to indicate a column is 'editable'. Nor can I find any property, message, etc. in the polygrid Dictionary entry that seems to suggest cell editing. On 11/1/2023 5:28 PM, Peter Thirkell via use-livecode wrote: I am enjoying both the polygrid and polylist add-ons to Livecode. They are infinitely flexible to use once you get to know them, and most importantly they render beautifully across all platforms. I have one question which doesn’t seem to be addressed in the documentation. The polygrid widget specifications say that it supports “direct cell editing” but I am not able to find any way to do this. Has anyone found a way? More generally, do we have any multi-line input field options for Livecode which render well across all platforms? Polygrid and polylist work beautifully in displaying already existing data from some sort of data repository ... but it would be awesome to provide the ability for users to input information as well as display it using the brilliant polygrid and polylist tools. Providing truly cross-platform inputting of data and information in an easy way would provide the final puzzle piece for many of us wanting to provide a modern and beautiful user interface for our apps. Many thanks ___ 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
Direct editing of polygrid text cells and polylist text elements
I am enjoying both the polygrid and polylist add-ons to Livecode. They are infinitely flexible to use once you get to know them, and most importantly they render beautifully across all platforms. I have one question which doesn’t seem to be addressed in the documentation. The polygrid widget specifications say that it supports “direct cell editing” but I am not able to find any way to do this. Has anyone found a way? More generally, do we have any multi-line input field options for Livecode which render well across all platforms? Polygrid and polylist work beautifully in displaying already existing data from some sort of data repository ... but it would be awesome to provide the ability for users to input information as well as display it using the brilliant polygrid and polylist tools. Providing truly cross-platform inputting of data and information in an easy way would provide the final puzzle piece for many of us wanting to provide a modern and beautiful user interface for our apps. Many thanks ___ 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: Modify timeout for shell function
On 2023-11-01 11:20, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: An install which runs daily and makes a number of calls using the shell function occasionally reports The process "..." exceeded the timeout of 10 seconds. I'm not sure where this timeout is defined; I'm not totally sure where this message is coming from (the shell? LiveCode? the process that was invoked through the shell command?). Definitely not LiveCode - LiveCode runs the shell process until it ends on all platforms its implemented on (I'll leave it for another day to ponder whether there should be some sort of timeout to account for rogue/hung processes!) Assuming for a moment that this isn't a timeout internal to the process that I happen to be invoking, is there a way in LiveCode, or in shell configuration, to modify this timeout? Doing a quick google for variants of "The process ... exceeded the timeout of 10 seconds" - then there are various results relating to Laravel - which is a PHP framework. So are you shell'ing to PHP? If so my guess is that whatever PHP script you are running is using sub-processes too, and has a process timeout set to 10s. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ 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: PolyGrid: UNhilite a row? UPDATE
Hi friends, > I tried had: > ... > set the hilitedrow of widget "index" to "0" > ... > set the hilitedrow of widget "index" to 0 > ... > set the pgHilitedText of widget "index" to "" > ... > set the pgHilitedText of widget "index" to EMPTY > ... > no dice!? it turned out that ONLY this widget "index" is affected, all other PolyGrid widget behave as advertised!? Best Klaus -- Klaus Major https://www.major-k.de https://www.major-k.de/bass kl...@major-k.de ___ 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
Modify timeout for shell function
An install which runs daily and makes a number of calls using the shell function occasionally reports The process "..." exceeded the timeout of 10 seconds. I'm not sure where this timeout is defined; I'm not totally sure where this message is coming from (the shell? LiveCode? the process that was invoked through the shell command?). Assuming for a moment that this isn't a timeout internal to the process that I happen to be invoking, is there a way in LiveCode, or in shell configuration, to modify this timeout? TIA, Ben ___ 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: Filter with wildcards
This is the thing about regex, amazing,powerful, impressive, but scary as hell. I will play with this a little, though… so thanks for your time when you should have been doing something else. I appreciate it. Best Wishes, David Glasgow Consultant Forensic & Clinical Psychologist Carlton Glasgow Partnership Director, Child & Family Training, York Honorary Professor (SOCAMRU), Nottingham Trent University LinkedIn Profile > On 31 Oct 2023, at 8:59 pm, Neville Smythe via use-livecode > wrote: > > Forgot any number of other chars after the non-numeric character > > Filter tList with regex "(?i).*with (you|u)([^a-zA-Z].*|$)” > > Now I’ve really got to go … hope I’ve got it all right this time! > > Neville Smythe > > > > > ___ > 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: Filter with wildcards
Thanks all for the suggestions, folks. I expected someone to mention regex (shudder). I have many searches in a loop and most are simple strings, so excepting regex filters would be a bit of a pain (unless of course I could specify regex but this would not choke if the search was simple string containing no regular expressions) Because I am lazy, and a simple soul, I will probably just split the task into two filter commands - which will deliver exactly what I want at only a minimal time and thought overhead. Cheers David G > On 30 Oct 2023, at 7:29 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > The filter command has had a ‘with[out] regex’ form for a long time - so I’d > use a regex instead :) > > (I’m pretty sure [ ] is a set of characters to match, rather than a list of > sub strings, in wildcard expressions) > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 30 Oct 2023, at 17:19, David Glasgow via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I am doing the above and struggling with an oddity that I can’t find >> guidance on on Livecode or wider wildcard stuff >> >> A simple example is I am searching text messages for 'with you' or 'with u’ >> >> so I use the wildcard form >> >> *with [you,u]* >> >> That finds all examples of both just fine. However, it also finds ‘with >> unlimited cheese’ and 'with us’, ‘with yours’ etc. so I want a space after >> both u >> >> When I put two spaces inside the square brackets after each string, the >> search still works but spaces seem to be ignored (so still finds the above >> resamples I don’t want). >> >> If I put a single space after the brackets the first bracketed string is >> ignored and the filter only finds “with u “ >> >> Hope someone can help me stop pulling my baffled face >> >> Cheers >> >> David Glasgow >> >> >> ___ >> 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
