New edition of Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner
I'm very happy to announce the second edition of my book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner. The previous edition stems from the time of LiveCode 6 and since then many features have been added to --and some removed from-- LiveCode. One of the major changes concerns Unicode. While I haven't deleted any of the valuable information about Unicode form the book, I have added a paragraph and made several changes to take into account the much easier way LiveCode deals with unicode nowadays. Everywhere in the book, small corrections and bigger changes have been applied. Where necessary, scripts have been updated and minor remarks have been added, making the text more comprehensible. The paragraphs about the standalone builder and the properties inspector have been renewed. Pictures have been updated with improved quality and doing more justice to LiveCode's multi-platform character. The red cover with scripts and mainboard has been replaced with a fresh yellow cover exhibiting four fields in which one might find LiveCode projects making a significant contribution. I intend to write a blog post about this when I have collected the necessary info. In response to feedback, we have decided to abandonthe bubble plastic envelopes and replace them with carton board book cases. Your book should now arrive in perfect condition. If it doesn't, contact us. Important to know: - 250 pages with many examples - This book is not available as e-book and it won't be. Don't ask. - Read more at https://ecxtalk.nl/file.php?node=programming-livecode-for-the-real-beginner (we still need to update the website but most information still applies) - The book costs 32 euro, including packaging and shipping costs - We ship globally with only a few (four or five) exceptions - Not receiving your purchase (e.g. sometimes in China)? Use our website to contact us and ask for a solution Have you written or are you writing a book and do you own the copyrights? I'd like to explore the possibilities to print more LiveCode-related books. Contact me if you think this is an awesome idea. (I'm a registered publisher). -- Kind regards, Drs. Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consultancy and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer Facebook: http://facebook.com/LiveCode.Beginner KvK: 50277553 ___ 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: What format is an FDF file?
I believe it’s proprietary... https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/fdf_data_exchange.pdf They also offer some api’s... https://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/fdftoolkit.html Mark On Oct 18, 2018, 4:10 PM -0700, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode , wrote: > Hi all. > > Just curious, I've been calling an FDF file produced by exporting fillable > PDF form data, an XML file. Clearly it is not, I see now. The beginning of > one looks soomething like this, and I'm wondering if this is a standard file > format, or if it is something proprietary that Adobe came up with: > > %FDF-1.2 > %âãÏÓ > 1 0 obj > < Form.pdf)/Fields[<>< Feeder)>>< Stand)>><><>< Finisher)>><>< Filter)>><><><><><>]/T(accessorydescrip)>><>< > Bob S > ___ > 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: pdftk issue solved
Looks like the link for pdftk on the pdflabs website has not been updated. The version available from this link works fine for me on Mojave. https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_server-2.02-mac_osx-10.11-setup.pkg Mark On Oct 18, 2018, 11:30 AM -0700, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode , wrote: > Looks like it's just for Windows and Linux. > > Bob S > > > > On Oct 18, 2018, at 10:17 , Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode > > wrote: > > > > Bob, > > > > isn´t Ghostscript able to do what you are want to accomplish? > > > > > > Matthias Rebbe > > ___ > 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: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?
Have you tried leaving off the output filename? Should dump it to stdout then. Mark On Oct 10, 2018, 10:29 AM -0700, Mark Wieder via use-livecode , wrote: > On 10/10/2018 10:16 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: > > Doesn't seem to work. I enter this syntax in a terminal session: > > > > pdftk "/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Installs/3PL > > Logistics/Hawthorne/20130815-3PL Logistics Site Survey.pdf" output > > "/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Installs/3PL Logistics/Hawthorne/20130815-3PL > > Logistics Site Survey_data.fdf" generate_fdf > > > > Doesn't throw an error, just doesn't do anything. I have to ctrl-c to get > > my terminal back. Do you see any issue with my statement? > > Dunno. But I'd immediately suspect the spaces in the pathnames. > > -- > 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 ___ 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: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?
I have used https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ server version in the past. Mark On Oct 10, 2018, 8:48 AM -0700, Peter Reid via use-livecode , wrote: > Does anyone have any code or suggestions for reading the data from PDF forms? > I have several hundred form fields in 5 different design forms in PDF format > that I need to extract. The data is mainly text fields but may include a few > checkboxes and radio buttons. Any thoughts please? > > Thanks > > Peter > -- > Peter Reid > Loughborough, UK > > > ___ > 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: Server-side xml validator anyone ?
If your XML is UTF8-enconded and your UTF8 data is correct, it will work. Your probably isn't invalid XML but either a problem with the encoding of the entire file or a particular string. The best way to validate XML on your server is to install a little command line utility and use the shell function. Op 12-01-18 om 13:19 schreef jbv via use-livecode: Hi list, I have several server-side LC scripts that transform text and data uploaded by end users on web pages into xml to be stored in a database and used later in other web pages or apps. The problem is, despite all the correction scripts I have added, that sometimes the uploaded content corrupts the xml structure. This happens for instance when some weird UTF-8 text is uploaded. Is there a ready-to-use piece of code that would check the conformity of some xml data that I could include in my LC scripts ? Thanks in advance, jbv ___ 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: Finding the 'Applications' folder on a Mac
On Mac OS X, user applications are in "~"& $USER & "/Applications" Global applications are in /Applications On Windows, you use specialfolderpath(38). My book has an appendix with all folder numbers and names. Op 04-01-18 om 23:46 schreef Graham Samuel via use-livecode: It looks to me that specialFolderPath doesn’t give a way of finding the /Applications folder on a Mac (or presumably the equivalent on a PC). If one is running a standalone which has been placed in the Applications folder, then it is possible to start with specialFolderPath(“engine”) and work back to the Applications directory, but I suspect this is fraught with uncertainty. Has anyone a solution? Graham ___ 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
