Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
Ruslan, you might need to include some information about why someone might prefer to learn the Valentina API (accessible from V4REV) by citing some features of Valentina that are superior or unavailable in sqlite e.g. encryption, full-text searching (I'm not sure if the latter has been enabled

post command on Android not working (?)

2012-03-08 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hello, I'm having problems getting a post command routine which works fine between an onrev cgi file and my Windows desktop standalones to also work fine on Android. Whereas on the desktop setup the cgi sends back data as expected, on Android nothing seems to be happening. And this happens both

Re: Become a man with staying power

2012-03-08 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, On 3 Mar 2012, at 6:00 pm, Richmond wrote: the ultimate Sanskrit input system; and working hard towards the finishing line. Colonel Pickering would be proud of you! The rain falls mainly on the plain. I think he's got it ! By George, he's got it ! -Francis

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins

2012-03-08 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richard wrote : don't expect everything to work as well as it does with real Windows. Richmond. I hope you don't mind if I pass on that statement ! However, it reminds me of the definition of Real and Virtual Memory on the IBM computers of the 70's. 1 - If it's

Re: post command on Android not working (?)

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Nicolas, You're right, this doesn't work. It is a bug. Currently, I don't know of any solution, except for using GET instead of POST. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter:

Re: post command on Android not working (?)

2012-03-08 Thread Andre Garzia
That bugs prevents anyone from implementing any social network stuff on Android, should be marked as blocker. =/ On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi Nicolas, You're right, this doesn't work. It is a bug. Currently, I don't know of

Test using 5.1 Retina Simulator

2012-03-08 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Since the new xCode is an App bundle it isn't recognized as a folder for dev in LC. But you can still run LC apps in the simulator. As long as you have not deleted the old xCode /developer folder (or if you did and then moved it back after install) and you are using Lion 10.7.3 xCode

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-08 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Hi Trevor, I tried this approach in Livecode an it works great. I do have one strange thing going on which I hope you can help with. There are 12 lines in my datagird. I put a breakpoint in GetDataForLine and I see it

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 102, Issue 12

2012-03-08 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Andre you almost made coffee come out my nose! Apple damned by the stock market if they dont make things bigger, brighter and better at least twice a year and damned by their developers when they do! jeff On Mar 8, 2012, at 2:04 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: I've

Re: post command on Android not working (?)

2012-03-08 Thread Nicolas Cueto
You're right, this doesn't work. It is a bug. Mark, That got me thinking that there might be a bug report on this already. And there is! Report# 9964. That report offers this workaround: I can confirm there is a bug in Android post to URL. The post

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Tim Jones
On Mar 7, 2012, at 5:17 PM, Gerry Orkin wrote: Tim Jones wrote: I agree that the higher pixel density will provide for more comfortable reading, but it also means that we'll now need to add still another screen size to the three that we already must check for (iPhone, iPhone Retina, and

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
Would a quad core make you a bit happier? How about 4G LTE? I don't think it was about nothing. These are all somethings, and all together they comprise a significant upgrade. Also, I think that in the midst of economic uncertainty, it would be foolish of Apple to embark on some great new

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-08 Thread Pete
Hi Trevor, The properties you mentioned are both set correctly. I tried logging executioncontexts but everything looked exactly the same each time though. I also logged the line number parameter of GetDataForLine each time through and displayed them immediatly after the line of code that sets

[WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Tim Jones
Whoa - I touched a sensitive nerve ending with that one.. Everything that you mention was all stuff that could have been announced via press release. The quad core is the GPU only. The 4G-LTE support is again - catch up. Economic uncertainty is not part of the reality of Apple. They made

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Pete
Hi Monte, The callbacks that Paul mentions in his reply is one thing - would be great to be able to display some sort of progress messages during a lengthy db operation. But seems like that might be a problem according to Paul. I guess I've come across several niggling issues in the last few

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Pete
Hi Paul, Yes the callbacks are certainly one of the things I want to get access to but you're raising doubts as to how feasible that might be. But there are other things too. I guess the first thing I'm trying to ascertain is if it will be possible to call the C API's directly from LC or if

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
I also seemed to have touched a nerve! :-) I wasn't relating gas prices to the apple event (a drastic oversimplification of what I was saying) I was relating an unstable economy that has all the signs of destabilizing even more (using the rising gas prices as one vector on the issue as an

RE: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: Pete I guess the first thing I'm trying to ascertain is if it will be possible to call the C API's directly from LC or if there will have to be some intermediate external glue that sits between LC and the SQLite C API. I haven't written an external since Rev 3.5, but I don't think

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-08 Thread Jérôme Rosat
Trevor, yes I'm going to try. But I think it would be a good idea if you could change your stack in the lesson Displaying Large Amounts of Data to demonstrate the performance of LiveCode. Jérôme Le 8 mars 2012 à 05:19, Trevor DeVore a écrit : Jérôme - you might try something like this in

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-08 Thread Web Admin Himalayan Academy
On 3/5/12 12:53 PM, � wrote: Your acid test is very interesting. Using sqlite3 directly is one solution to increase performance of LiveCode. And you're right, a response time of less than a second is acceptable from a user's perspective and and limit the number of registration is a way to

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Richard MacLemale
Can I agree to disagree too? :) I think that when people actually SEE the iPad 3 they'll get what the big deal is. It's the best tablet screen you can buy as of right now. But yeah, iPad 3 is an evolutionary not revolutionary product. Heck in the K-12 market, the much bigger announcement

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread François Chaplais
please consider voting for report #2783 in quality center which calls for typed variables (an example being for passing parameters to externals) http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2783 Best regards François Le 8 mars 2012 à 19:48, Paul D. DeRocco a écrit : From: Pete I guess the

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins

2012-03-08 Thread Richmond
On 03/08/2012 02:28 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richard wrote : don't expect everything to work as well as it does with real Windows. Richmond. I hope you don't mind if I pass on that statement ! You are very welcome to. I don't like Windows to be honest,

Re: Test using 5.1 Retina Simulator

2012-03-08 Thread Graham Samuel
Tom, you understand this so much better than me - could you explain whether and what upgrades on the Apple side I can do and still work with the current version of LC (5.0.2). Presumably you've seen the email from Apple Update your apps for iOS 5.1. Can we? I understand your point about the

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
Would something like SWIG help with the construction of LC externals? I confess to not knowing anything about externals, and almost nothing about C. But I've used some products which are cross-platform and provide interfaces in many different languages. At their base they use SWIG (or something

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
Probably helps if I provide a link: http://www.swig.org/ On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Bernard Devlin bdrun...@gmail.com wrote: Would something like SWIG help with the construction of LC externals? I confess to not knowing anything about externals, and almost nothing about C.  But I've used

Re: Test using 5.1 Retina Simulator

2012-03-08 Thread Thomas McGrath III
This is not an easy egg to crack. I have been trying for a few hours now. When and if I get somewhere I will get back to you. Tom -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Mar 8, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: Tom, you understand this so much better than

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard MacLemale richard@... writes: They're doing the same thing with OS X Server. They've taken out a lot of stuff that the education market was still using. Speaking of which, has anyone tried out Lion Server? -- Mark Wieder ___

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
I would, but most of my servers are too old to run anything beyond Leopard, and the ones that could are not doing anything that would benefit from it. Bob On Mar 8, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richard MacLemale richard@... writes: They're doing the same thing with OS X Server.

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Mar 8, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richard MacLemale richard@... writes: They're doing the same thing with OS X Server. They've taken out a lot of stuff that the education market was still using. Speaking of which, has anyone tried out Lion Server? I'm a-scared. 10.6 server

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Richard MacLemale
I'v tried out Lion Server and Mountain Lion (10.8) Server. But I'm under NDA for 10.8 Server. I can say that in my District we're skipping 10.7 Server and will be deploying 10.8 Server. I can also say that for schools using Workgroup Manager for clients, they'll want to keep a 10.6 Server to

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Pete
Brenard, Havn't looked in detail but this sounds like it might help with developing some sort of wrapper for the C externals. Plus I always a good SWIG makes my code so much nicer! Pete On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Bernard Devlin bdrun...@gmail.com wrote: Probably helps if I provide a

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
And what really eats at this long time mac aficionado is that soon I will be forced to upgrade. I LIKE Leopard/Snow Leopard! I don't wanna give it up! Bob On Mar 8, 2012, at 4:58 PM, Richard MacLemale wrote: I'v tried out Lion Server and Mountain Lion (10.8) Server. But I'm under NDA for

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Pete
Done. Although it looks like this goes back to 2005 so doesn't seem like it's likley to get fixed after all this time. Pete 2012/3/8 François Chaplais francois.chapl...@mines-paristech.fr please consider voting for report #2783 in quality center which calls for typed variables (an example

Strange Rev 3.5 problem

2012-03-08 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
I'm recompiling an old program with a few minor mods, and now I'm getting the following error on a line in my first handler that merely says local s: stack main: compilation error at line 139 (local: name shadows another variable or constant) near s, char 3 If I change s to some other variable,

Re: Strange Rev 3.5 problem

2012-03-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, You might have something like this: local s on mouseUp local s put s end mouseUp which should be either on mouseUp local s put s end mouseUp or local s on mouseUp put s end mouseUp If you use local s in multiple handlers, then the error will show up for every

Re: Strange Rev 3.5 problem

2012-03-08 Thread Mike Bonner
Might look here: http://www.runrevplanet.com/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=205:52-tips-in-as-many-weeks-tip-52catid=57:tip-of-the-weekItemid=65 #23 and possibly here: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/What-does-shadows-mean-td3889721.html Not sure if there is anything

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Kay C Lan
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Gas prices are going through the roof It always puts a smile on my face when people who have it so cheap think it's expensive. I guess you might side with the Mayan's if Gas prices were to hit $8.33 a Gallon by the end of the

Re: [WOT] Warning - long winded discussion - was Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Jerry Jensen
Which device is serving DHCP? Where does it get ITS IP#? How are the DHCP served addresses set up? Be sure there is only ONE DHCP server on your network. Everything else should bridge. On Mar 8, 2012, at 9:15 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: As we are WOT and you guys are clearly Server savvy I thought I

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Ken Corey
On 09/03/2012 03:09, Kay C Lan wrote: paying a lot more for gas than that because I only purchase the cheap stuff and I have no doubt that it will be well above $8.50 by year's end. Prices are insane. I just filled my tank here in the UK, and paid £1.45 per litre for diesel. That's 1.45 x

[Now Seriously OT] Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-08 Thread Peter W A Wood
On 9 Mar 2012, at 14:43, Ken Corey wrote: That's 1.45 x 4.54 (to convert to gallons) x 1.57 ( from xe.com, to convert to dollars) = $10.33 per gallon, and my car holds about 18 gallons. Gallons are the exeception that proves the rule that everything is bigger in America. A Gallon is a