LC PDF User Guide
Thanks so much for bringing this to my attention. I was aware of the LC User Guide in the past, but hadn't realized (or had forgotten) that it is in the PDF format, and as such, is easy to duplicate and press into service on a tablet for browsing or when assistance is required. Kurt Richard Gaskin wrote: "... It has more than 650 pages of comprehensive info on using LiveCode, broken down into well organized sections and subsections, often with illustrations and screen shots, all put together in a well-indexed PDF. They call it "LiveCode User Guide", and it's been secretly bundled with every release of LiveCode for several years. :) I'm having fun there, but seriously, the User Guide has been pretty good in recent years. I'm often surprised at how the answers to many forum questions are covered well in it, yet when I ask about it most people don't even notice that it's there, the second-from-the-top item in LC's Help menu. ..." ___ 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: Where LiveCode is Now
There are probably quite a few who, like me, have used LC/RR/MC for years, creating in-house labor-saving devices (for myself, they are mostly of the variety "pull A,B, and C from X, rearrange them and format them to Y, and spit the result out as a text file"). Could I have [attempted] to write these un-glamorous utilities in another language? Probably, but I really am not a "natural" programmer, so I greatly appreciate the shortcuts to functionality that LC provides. I sometimes watch this list for new developments or other news, and I am grateful to be able to query it for help when I need a function that I can't figure out on my own. Some bumps here and there, but I am like the fact that the discourse here is almost always civil. Thanks! -Kurt ___ 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
OT: Fascinating read
I apologize that, in addition to being someone who almost never contributes to this list (although I do read the posts I can understand), when I finally do it's OT. But so it goes: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609048/the-seven-deadly-sins-of-ai-predictions/ Kurt ___ 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
Congratulations, community!
I'm very glad to see that we all could come together to support this promising endeavor! Even though I'm not doing much programming at the moment, I do use my LC-based applications everyday in a professional setting, and have a significant interest in seeing continued support for LC. Thanks to all! Kurt ___ 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
LiveCode to the rescue (once again)
Had a call from a doctor who recently switched medical billers. Seems her new biller used software that did not display all of the fields in the caret-delimited text files (iPlexus) that were sent as batched bills. It took just a few hours (and would have taken some on the list here far less time) to whip up a one-trick-pony application to pull the bills that contained data in those missing fields, format and display, and enable printing of the data. Since I hadn't used LiveCode in a while, I initially made the mistake that I'm sure I've made before: confusing the data to be incremented with the counters that control the looping. Fortunately, the LC editor let me know immediately by indicating that the types on each side of the operand did not match (can't add a number to a variable holding a string!). Anyway, it's another instance of LC being used to quickly provide a solution. -KK ___ 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: LiveCode to the rescue (once again)
Luckily, here in Bulgaria, as well as in Britain, we never have to face medical bills as we have socialised medicine; very civilised. Having lived in Belgium, in general I can vouch for the civility of the socialized medical system. However, I believe that physicians there still have to send records of their procedures, etc. to the central medical database. Whatever happens in the US, the current system will have to change, as it is inefficient and wasteful. KK ___ 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: Scripting a text to binary digits converter
More fun with LC's binaryEncode functions (see the card script): http://www.kkef.org/MIDIBuilder031212.rev It must be pretty quick to accept from user input an ascii representation of a musical note, convert it to binary from which a MIDI file is constructed and played, then add the input to an as-yet open-ended MIDI sequence (whose current length must be properly specified before attempting to update or play)- all in a fraction of a second. ___ 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
iOS; Android: manual sound recording level
I understand that on both iOS and Android, there is no provision for manual adjustment of sound recording levels. I assume that there must be some sort of compression scheme used to average the sound levels, with low level sound boosted and high level sound clipped. I also guess that there might be problems with background noise at very low sound levels, and distortion at very high sound levels. Anyone have experience working with sound recording on these two platforms? Thanks, Kurt ___ 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: Audioclips: can't get at the data?
Stephen Barncard wrote: ...What's needed to make a usable audio file is just to provide the appropriate header info, which obviously missing. The binary data with no or special headers is stored in the stack as an audioclip. Are there hidden properties of the individual audioclip object ( such as sample rate ) that can be found before export?... Isn't there a reference to standard headers for the various sound file formats- the way there is for MIDI files? For instance, for AIFF: http://uweb.txstate.edu/~me02/tutorials/sound_file_formats/aifc/docs/aifc.htm -and- http://uweb.txstate.edu/~me02/tutorials/sound_file_formats/aiff/common.htm and for WAVE: http://www-mmsp.ece.mcgill.ca/Documents/AudioFormats/WAVE/WAVE.html I'm presuming here that in the case of, for example AIFF, the length of the raw binary sound data could be read by LiveCode so as to be able to define cksize and other chunk components. This could then be added to create the required header. Am I mistaken? Or would this be too much to bother with? Perhaps the length of audio data, as opposed to MIDI data, makes this method impractical? Of course, best would be for this to be a built-in function. -Kurt ___ 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
Humor: xkcd- How To Write Good Code
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