RE: Idea about Norton

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Looks like we'd have to request user to disable or ignore both AV SW and
Microsoft's Smartscreen (Win 8 and 10) before installation. As a Norton user
myself, I just downloaded on Windows 10 a code signed test file of my own,
and Norton's screens were less off-putting and more informative than
Microsoft's Smartscreen warnings. 

( how-the-smartscreen-filter-works-in-windows

 
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Re: It looks like Director is Finally Dead

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Hey, Skip. 

I always loved your Director Podcast!

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Re: AW: Boring but important - selling a download product for Windows

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Hi all.

Here's what I've learned from many years of providing PC downloads:

* Email attachments are heavily filtered and rightly so. Use this only as a
last resort for delivery of a program.
* These days, fewer people are willing to download a trial version, in part
due to Norton, but also many organizations' IT block all downloads. If you
provide both a good, fast demo video and a trial version download, then
users can choose what works and is comfortable for them.
* Once a person buys your product, she is much more committed to downloading
your product and will be less put off by obstacles. But expect to provide
some support or guidance.
* The big value of code signing is it's a mark of professionalism and
usually reduces OS suspicion. I agree it is a slight that Norton treats
small developers and new releases as dubious. But, remember, Norton isn't on
all machines, so don't let Norton guide all your decisions.
* I use a traditional installer (Innosetup) because it looks professional,
ensures the app is installed with admin rights and into the right location,
displays a license and readme doc, creates desktop shortcut to the app, and
includes an uninstaller (also code signed). 
* For download links, avoid redirects and use an https or other secure
connection method to link to your download files. It helps establish trust
if your download file is on the same domain as your site.
* Fifteen years ago, download sites were useful. Today, they compete with
your site for search engine visibility and sometimes repackage your app with
their own installers that add adware or malware. Avoid!

Hope that helps.
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Idea about Norton

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Hi Graham.

I wanted to float a rough idea off-list... Tell me what you think.

If Norton faults our files for being new and not (yet) popular,  perhaps we 
could generate a base of download activity ourselves to get over the threshold. 
Specifically, I'm thinking of an informal group of software authors who form a 
"mutual download society." 

Say we had 10 authors to start who agreed to download one another's product 
file(s) once a day for a month.  At worst, we'd probably learn some things 
about what Norton counts, what it ignores, and what is the threshold to move to 
a trusted level. At best, we might help each other to win acceptance.

For those of us with fast, unmetered connections, there's virtually no cost to 
the downloading of files other than the time it takes to do it. And with 
Livecode we could easily write a stack to automate that job.

Thoughts?

Tom Bodine

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Re: Idea about Norton

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Or, NOT off-list. 
Tom 



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Re: Customer database stack for FastSpring, etc?

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Thanks, Richard. What you described will certainly work for future customer
records. But my main challenge is to take many years of past data stored in
tab-delimited spreadsheet files from various ecommerce vendors and bring all
that data together in one place where it will be easily searched and sorted.
I thought someone might have created a customer contact tool in Livecode
that would be suitable.

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Re: nabble babble

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Thanks for that, James. Nice to be able to see who said what again.
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Customer database stack for FastSpring, etc?

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Hi Livecoders.

Anyone know of a stack designed to import and manage customer data from
ecommerce services such as FastSpring and Plimus? 

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Re: AW: Which code signing authority?

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I've been using K Software's Comodo certs to sign Windows standalones and
installers for at least five years. The support provided by the owner of K
Software is quite good. (Example: http://certhelp.ksoftware.net/support/home
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Midi in LC on Windows and Mac

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Hi all.

I'm looking for a Win/Mac method of sending and receiving midi key notes in
Livecode without Quicktime. (I asked Thierry about this but his sunnYmidi
external is Mac only.)

Suggestions?

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Re: Suggestions for LiveCode (the company) to increase its revenue

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Code signing can be a major pain point. Adding code-signing features to
Livecode (or in a supplemental tool) could be a selling point for Indy and
Business license users. I pay about $50 annually for a third-party
code-signing tool subscription on the Mac platform. 

LiveCode Ltd may able be able to become a third-party Comodo certificate
reseller and make ongoing revenue by providing that service.

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Re: Windows 10 Screen resolution problem

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Hi,

I tested your script on a Win10 Pro PC, primary screen size of 1920 x 1080,
and the Resolution warning message did not fire. Tested in LC 7.1.4.

Could it be your user has dual screens and the one the program opens on is
set below your resolution threshold?

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UI design problem

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Hi Livecoders.

I am hoping you'll have some ideas for solving a UI design/coding problem.
My app lets users create simple presentation screens, one per card. The user
can import a picture and add a headline (text field) to the card.  And since
the user will sometimes want the text to be over the image, the text field
is always the top layer.

The problem is the text field often blocks the user from grabbing and moving
the image control below. (Both the field and image are meant to be movable.)

My many attempts to solve this have wandered into "rat's nest" territory, so
I'm hoping some of you will know a simple way to pass a mousedown from a
text field to an image control.

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Re: UI design problem

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Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote
> pass mousedown

"Pass mousedown" doesn't work here. (Message does not travel down to the
image control below the field.)
I used a send "mousedown" which does travel through, but what doesn't work
then is the "grab image 'blah'" line in the mousedown handler attached to
the image.  The same mousedown handler works fine to grab the image when I
click directly on the image control. 

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Re: UI design problem

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Thanks Jim.


Jim Lambert wrote
> Presumably text in the field is editable by the user.
> Therefore the field text cannot be locked and mousedowns will be used for
> text selection rather than grabbing of the entire field, correct?
> 
> Is the field user resizable? 

A right-click toggles the text field between being editable-text or a
movable block of text, but there are no resize handles on the text field.
The image, however, has resize handles.

When text and image overlap, I use the mousechar to figure out the user's
intent. (If the user clicked on  blank space, I treat that as an image click
and pass the click through to the image control to make it movable. If the
user clicked on headline text or the space between words, then the text
block becomes movable.)

I narrowed my original issue down to this: "grab" doesn't work for a
mousedown that is passed through to another object. So I bailed on "grab"
and I'm using the mouseStillDown message to make either the text or image
follow the mouse until released.

Spent way to much time on this!

Thanks to all for your suggestions.
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Re: play sound plays the wrong sound

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I believe the problem is the audio file settings. Open the file in an audio
editor and save it again with bitrate of 16 and 44100 Hz. 

HTH, 
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Re: on tabKey - what field contains the blinking curser?

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One way...

if the focusedObject begins with "field" then
put the focusedObject into tActiveField
end if

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Re: Build a simple app on Android

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Is the security external part included in your Android app? You may need that
external to reach an https url. (At least that's the case for desktop apps,
if I'm not mistaken.) -- Tom Bodine



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Re: AW: htaccess rewrite rule to https let my apps stop working

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T.

Had a similar experience while migrating my site to https. What I found was
my standalones were missing the revsecurity.dll external. After rebuilding
those to include revsecurity.dll, the standalones were able to contact my
site and access stacks and other files there without changing my links from
http to https, since the htaccess was managing that.

Notes: On Windows, that must be at the same level as the standalone exe
itself rather than the externals folder. And codesign your externals as well
as standalones.

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Re: Older version of LC vs Windows 10, app not responding

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Hi Geoff,

You app worked for this same user in the past, but now does not... Did
Windows 10 break it, or did the user migrate to another machine?

Possible culprits could be the user's security software or IT policies that
make your app untrusted. Is your app code-signed? Installed in an unusual
location? 

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Tom



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Re: how to download an image

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Is this happening in a standalone or the IDE? A standalone would need
revsecurity.dll for https.

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Re: Changes to Msg Path from LC 7 to 8?

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Thanks for the encouragement, Richard. Looks like I'll be doing the "Humility
Workout" for quite some time.

For future list searchers who might have this same symptom, I found the
cause: One of my stack level scripts used "theme" as a parameter name, but
apparently that's a reserved term that is strictly enforced in LC 8.
Changing that allowed all my stack scripts to run normally.

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Changes to Msg Path from LC 7 to 8?

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Hi all.

I am migrating a big project from LC 7.1.4 to LC 8.1.4, and hitting a wall
right away.

When my card scripts call stack level scripts directly, LC 8 throws a "can't
find handler" error. (I confirmed that the defaultStack is my main stack.)
LC 7 had no problem with this.

Example:

Card script:
on preopencard
centerThisCard
end preopencard

Stack script:
on centerThisCard
-- do stuff
end centerThisCard

Any theories or insights on why LC 8 won't do this when LC 7 will?

Thanks,
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Re: Changes to Msg Path from LC 7 to 8?

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Another clue... If I use the message box to call any simple stack level
handler, LC 8 changes that command to a put statement.

Example:

I type in msg box: zzShow -- a stack level handler
Msg box changes my cmd to "put zzShow" and then puts "zzShow" in the output
area.

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Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money...

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" Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs

 
" according to Stack Overflow survey. 

So THAT's what I'm doing wrong.

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Re: LC Global - my experience

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+ 1! Much better experience compared to previous simulcast attendance.



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Re: Can't Sign App

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Seems Mac Sierra is more of a problem for codesigning that previous OSXes.

Any help for you in this thread?

http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Codesigning-issue-with-revxml-bundle-in-LC-8-tc4711443.html

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Re: Anyone can confirm laggy IDE on Windows 10?

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On Win 10, I use LC 7.1.4 routinely and LC 8.1.x occasionally. In my
experience, LC v7 runs as smoothly as it did on Windows 7. But LC 8.x is
very hard to use with its slow script editor. Even dragging controls from
the palette to the card is spotty. 

Fortunately, my major project codebase is in LC 7.1.4.

My two cents,
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Re: goofy question about audioClip

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I've found when an audio file sounds like white noise in Livecode, it can
often be fixed by opening the file in an audio editor and re-exporting it
with settings of 16-bit, 44100 Hz sample rate, mono. 

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Re: Autosaving stacks corrupted on network drives

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Thanks, Mark and Trevor, for those ideas.

>>Mark wrote:
Split the data out into a separate data file or better into a database 
(because most databases use transactions, with greatly minimizes the 
probability of corruption).  

Does "databases use transactions" mean DBs don't rewrite the entire file
when there is a Save operation, but only write the changes into the DB file?
(Hence, faster saves?)

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Autosaving stacks corrupted on network drives

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Hi all.

Looking for your insights on an issue. Here's the scenario.. 

I have a standalone Win/Mac app that autosaves user data to a stack file as
the user moves from card to card. Typically, files reach sizes of 100-200k.
Normally, this works great. But a couple of times a year, some user will
manage to get corrupted data causing his stack files to be unusable. 

I've opened some of these corrupt stack files in a text editor and found the
data loss shows the Save operation was interrupted. There's no garble. Just
an abrupt end to the data and the file.  

I've found a common link in these cases -- either the app is on a network
drive or the stack file is on a network drive. 

My theory is that network save operations are slower than saving on a local
drive, and somehow this contributes to the data loss. But how?

All theories (except conspiracy) are welcome!

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Re: MacOS 10.13 crashes LC after color dialog

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Just ran into this bug, which I see is fixed for LC 8.x and up. But can this
fix also be done for LC 7.x? Or is 7 EOL?
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Exe and dll errors after standalone build

[tbodine via use-livecode]

Hi all.

I'm getting two error dialogs on launching a newly built standalone (built
with LC 7.1.4 on Win 10) of a stable project. 

Error on: Appname.exe 1 (6)
Error on: revsecurity.dll 1 (6)

I've been producing builds with this same project for many years without
seeing these errors. 
The errors are not triggering my errorDialog handler.
The errors happen whether or not I "Run as Admin."

Does anyone have a clue as to what the errors mean or possible causes?

Thanks,
Tom B.




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Re: Exe and dll errors after standalone build

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Roseanne Roseannadanna wrote
> Nevermind!

Fixed it.
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Re: Quit Command corrupts standalone (stack called by standalone splash)

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Hi Roland.

The "~" file is the original  (uncorrupted, unsaved) version of your stack
before LC executed your Save cmd. If you remove the "~" from the filename,
you'll probably find you can open that. LC creates the "~" file at the start
of the save operation and, if all goes well, removes that file when save is
complete. 

My guess is your problem is rooted in the lengthy save time in the quit
routine. Here are a couple ideas of how you could deal with that:

1) Do the save within a try/catch statement so you can deal with any error. 

2) If you are just saving some user data like prefs or fairly minor stuff,
then why not save that into a separate substack outside of your main
application stack? That should greatly shorten the time it takes to save. 

Hope that helps.

Tom Bodine



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Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

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Hi all.
I have a global array containing the value 4. It's stored in
gTSsettings["teamcount"]
The bizarre thing is when I do value comparisons, gTSsettings["teamcount"]
does not equal 4.
This first occurred in a repeat loop, but I can reproduce it in the message
box, too.
put gTSsettings["teamcount"]4put gTSsettings["teamcount"] = 4false
This seems way to fundamental to be an undiscovered bug. So, what am I
missing?
I'm using LC 8.1.10 Build 14072 Indy on a MacBook Pro.
Thanks!
Tom B.



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Re: Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

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No, strict compilation is off. 
Variable preservation is on.

So are LC 7 and 8 the same in terms of how variables are declared and
accessed? That's been my assumption.

Tom



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Re: Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

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Nope, not it. 

The global is declared at the top of a group script containing numerous
handlers that use that and other global vars.

(Unless there was a change from LC 7 to LC 8 that requires declaration of
variables in each handler? I am porting a LC 7 project into LC 8.)

Tom



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Re: Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

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Oops, my formatting got lost...

Message box experiment:

put gTSsettings["teamcount"]
4

put gTSsettings["teamcount"] = 4
false

Thx,
Tom



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Re: Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

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Hi,

>>global gTSsettings["teamcount"]; put gTSsettings["teamcount"] - 4

The global is just gTSsettings, so I modified your command as...

global gTSsettings; put gTSsettings["teamcount"] - 4

RESULT:

-0.497436

???

Thanks,
Tom



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Re: Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

[tbodine via use-livecode]

 Panos' test and Mark's insight have me on the right path.

I am not using "numberFormat" anywhere, but I am setting the value of
gTSsettings["teamcount] from a mouseup script on a scrollbar. Since my
scrollbar output is apparently coming out as a floating point value, I need
to add rounding to it.

Not sure how the scrollbar was able to generate floating point values, as
Start/End/Current values are all integers. Is "scroll distance on bar click"
actually used in the result calculation? That was set to .9ish.  I thought
the scroll distance setting was more of a UI setting that allowed the user
to not have to hit the exact tick on the scrollbar. 

Thanks to all for your help on this.
Tom B.



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Re: Fun with Windows 10

[tbodine via use-livecode]

Loved your story, JLG. To know and be your true self at such a young age is
like a super power.

(Let us all know when you tell your story on The Moth.)

-- Tom Bodine


Jacqueline Landman Gayl via use-livecode wrote
> A brief diversion:
> 
> I have always hated pink since I can remember. I climbed trees and read 
> books up there as soon as I was able.
> 
> When I was some high 1-digit age, I asked for a chemistry set for my 
> birthday. My mom was shocked, didn't I want a nice doll? No, I wanted a 
> chemistry set. I got one, but was disappointed that the most advanced 
> thing it would do was write with "invisible ink" made from lemon juice. 
> I wanted to blow up the bathroom.
> 
> When I was approaching puberty I asked for a Kenner Girder and Panel 
> set. This was a bunch of preformed, snap-together plastic pieces that 
> allowed you to construct buildings and skyscrapters. My mom was 
> appalled. Wouldn't a nice play kitchen be better? No, it wouldn't.
> 
> When I went to college my mom nagged me constantly to wear more makeup, 
> paint my eyes like a boll weevil, and "do something with your hair," 
> preferably helmet hair. She kept telling me that was the only way to 
> catch a man. I told her I didn't want to catch one, I wanted to find one 
> who liked me for how I was. She was positive I would never marry. But I 
> did, and we still are, and my sister who wore more makeup masks and 
> slept in beer-can rollers is on her third husband.
> 
> I would never buy a girlie computer. Besides, I've never in my life had 
> long fingernails.
> 
> -- 
> Jacqueline Landman Gay | 

> jacque@

> HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com





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Re: Anyone using Older LC versions?

[tbodine via use-livecode]

I use 7.1.4 almost daily.
Thanks,
Tom Bodine



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Re: [OT] Web based HyperCard

[tbodine via use-livecode]

Very cool! Playing with the paint features takes me back to my first Mac
encounter in 1984 with MacPaint: Draw a rect. Fill it with brick pattern.
Spray paint some graffiti on it. Virtual vandalism -- satisfying and
harmless.

Thanks for the link!

Tom B.




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Re: ANN: WordLib 2.2 Release is Available + LC Blog Post

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Congrats, Curry, on the new release of WordLib.

What's next?
 
Tom Bodine



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Re: [ANN] Network Tracer

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Congratulations on this release, Andre. This looks very useful. 

I have a (probably dumb) question... Are your products, such as AAG Tools,
only for use in the IDE, or can tools such as TypeTool be used in standalone
builds?

Thanks,
Tom Bodine



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Re: Large files crash on Windows 10

[tbodine via use-livecode]

Hi,

I develop a stack that is now up to 35 MBs on a Windows 10 machine without
any crashes like you described. I use LC 7.1.4 Indy for this. I also
distribute standalones built with this stack and it is also stable on
Windows 10.

When you have these crashes, do you find the artifact ~ file that indicates
the Save process was interrupted or has failed?  Does the stack file become
corrupted?

Tom B.







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Re: ImageHandles_v105

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I will definitely check this out. 
Thanks!
Tom B.



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Re: Black boxes replace images in Mojave (Was "No subject")

[tbodine via use-livecode]

Thanks for that info, Matthias.

Please clarify: 
Is the image you posted a screenshot of three separate png files or one
composite image? 
If separate, what are the differences between the files? (Strikes me as odd
that the black is only a part of the image. In my cases, users see entire
rectangles of black.)
Are the images in the screenshot being displayed in LC image controls or
through some other app?

Thanks,
Tom Bodine





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Re: Black boxes replace images in Mojave (Was "No subject")

[tbodine via use-livecode]

Mark and Matthias,

This workaround looks promising!

While I don't have Mojave to test against, I do find problem images have
many different colorSync profiles.

Matthias, after you have stripped out the profile, what does Preview's Info
screen show as the ColorSync Profile data?

I'm thinking it would be good to have an acceptable default value that I can
tell users is OK, and anything else should be stripped.

Thanks to your both!

Tom Bodine




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Re: Black boxes replace images in Mojave (Was "No subject")

[tbodine via use-livecode]

Bug report filed. See  bug 22156
  .

-- Tom



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