Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-21 Thread jbv
Thanks to everyone who contributed with wise useful advices both on and offline. I still have a couple of questions comments though. A few years ago, when I had the metacard engine installed on a dedicated server, the way it worked was that a new instance of the engine would launch for every

Re: Creating a line that I can see

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Peter, You need to add the line set the points of the last graphic to 40,35 cr 120,105 -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter

Re: Creating a line that I can see

2013-08-21 Thread BNig
Hi Peter, you have to add points to the graphic, otherwise it is empty add this to your code -- put item 2 of the loc of last graphic into tY set the points of last graphic to the left of last graphic, tY cr the right of last graphic , tY -- or any other points

go to such name = go to stack such name!?

2013-08-21 Thread André Bisseret
Bonjour, Just discovering the following: In a script I put the short name of a stack into a global, say gStackName then another stack is opened. In a script in this second stack, I had put go to gStackName instead of go to stack gStackName and that is working!! (provided that the stack

Re: go to such name = go to stack such name!?

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi André, That's syntactical flexibility due to HyperCard. It as always been like that. go gStackName works too. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK:

Re: Sprite Kit, Box2D, Performance and LiveCode's Approach to Game Coding

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
I wrote an extensive response to your original mail on this thread but sadly lost it to rubbish Yahoo! webmail + the 15k limit on the list. (FWIW, JavaScript is not 50 times slower than C++ but with modern JS engines like Google's v8 more like 5 times + that amazing Citadel demo with the unreal

Re: Sprite Kit, Box2D, Performance and LiveCode's Approach to Game Coding

2013-08-21 Thread Ender Nafi Elekçioğlu
Even in the article you linked, the author had to give up the convenience of Objective-C and drop down to C++ to get that level of optimization. Touché :-) Btw, I'll give a shot to QT Creator; it looks interesting. And I definitely, definitely have to learn writing externals. Thank you Mark…

Re: go to such name = go to stack such name!?

2013-08-21 Thread André Bisseret
Thanks Mark for your confirmation Best regards André Le 21 août 2013 à 10:37, Mark Schonewille a écrit : Hi André, That's syntactical flexibility due to HyperCard. It as always been like that. go gStackName works too. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk

Re: Sprite Kit, Box2D, Performance and LiveCode's Approach to Game Coding

2013-08-21 Thread John Craig
I'm also interested in creating games with LiveCode and looking forward to box2d integration. I've been checking out Corona and (more recently) - Unity (3D), to familiarize myself with physics stuff. It makes a massive difference having a physics engine taking care of collisions, gravity,

Re: Sprite Kit, Box2D, Performance and LiveCode's Approach to Game Coding

2013-08-21 Thread John Craig
(Use the arrow keys (or A,W,S,D) to control the buggy and the return key to switch camera angle) On 21/08/2013 12:26, John Craig wrote: I'm also interested in creating games with LiveCode and looking forward to box2d integration. I've been checking out Corona and (more recently) - Unity

Re: completely OT, but you might want to know

2013-08-21 Thread Walt Brown
I have visions of thousands gathered in period costume, every one with head bent down to their device mumbling and thumbing away, wandering aimlessly through the woods in the manner of crowd scenes in vampire movies, tending to clump up wherever the highest signal is, forming a blue and grey

Re: Sprite Kit, Box2D, Performance and LiveCode's Approach to Game Coding

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
Box2d is definitely fun to play with but it's really only good for games that inherently need physics simulation - Angry Birds is a good example. (BTW, box2d is also the physics engine in Sprite Kit, which is basically Apple's cocos2d Lite - since the cocos2d developers started focussing on the

Re: Creating a line that I can see

2013-08-21 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
YES!, Thank you Mark and Bernd. On Aug 21, 2013, at 12:25 AM, BNig wrote: Hi Peter, you have to add points to the graphic, otherwise it is empty add this to your code -- put item 2 of the loc of last graphic into tY set the points of last graphic to the left of last

Re: HTML entities not displaying on Chinese Windows

2013-08-21 Thread Richmond
On 08/20/2013 10:08 PM, Peter Bogdanoff wrote: Thanks, Richmond, this makes some sense. How then, would I encode fields as unicode so they display reliably? Sorry if I'm being a bit thick, but do you mean in Livecode or in html? I know that anything that is rendered with Unicode exports

ANN:Another app made with LiveCode has been approved by Apple!

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Talluto
Fellow developers. I am happy to announce that we got our first iPad app approved for the iTunes store. It took 5 days to get through. Details: The app is free. It is a companion app to a desktop service/product we provide for the vision testing market. There is an in-app component to make

Re: ANN:Another app made with LiveCode has been approved by Apple!

2013-08-21 Thread Monte Goulding
On 22/08/2013, at 7:17 AM, Mark Talluto use...@canelasoftware.com wrote: We used Monte's socket external for iOS to make the communication between the iPad and the desktop work. We specifically use UDP for all communication. It is extremely fast and reliable. We could not be happier with

Re: ANN:Another app made with LiveCode has been approved by Apple!

2013-08-21 Thread Randy Hengst
Hi Mark, Congrats! How did you handle the retina requirement? be well, randy hengst - On Aug 21, 2013, at 4:17 PM, Mark Talluto use...@canelasoftware.com wrote: Fellow developers. I am happy to announce that we got our first iPad app approved for the iTunes store. It took 5 days to

Re: HTTP proxies

2013-08-21 Thread Devin Asay
So Trevor, when, if ever, is the HTTPProxy property in LiveCode useful? On Aug 20, 2013, at 12:26 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:22 PM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote: I am a neophyte when it comes to proxy servers. My application phones home on occasion via HTTP

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
jbv wrote: A few years ago, when I had the metacard engine installed on a dedicated server, the way it worked was that a new instance of the engine would launch for every incoming request, and would quit once the task was completed. This was ok for the kind of site I was working on :

Re: ANN:Another app made with LiveCode has been approved by Apple!

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Talluto
On Aug 21, 2013, at 3:26 PM, Randy Hengst iowahen...@mac.com wrote: Hi Mark, Congrats! How did you handle the retina requirement? be well, randy hengst Hi Randy, Eric wrote the app. In his words, It is totally ghetto! He basically had the app memorize the rect of each control after

OT - Re: Windows standalone puzzle

2013-08-21 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 20/08/2013 16:52, Richard Gaskin wrote: This is why I love this community: ... Collectively, there's nothing we can't solve. :) -- Richard Gaskin I've often thought that if I had *any* technical question, I could ask this list and there would be someone who knew (or at least had a very

Re: OT - Re: Windows standalone puzzle

2013-08-21 Thread Roger Eller
If they can edit what we see in a journalist presentation of the facts, have they not in a way, erased some of the truth? ~Roger On Aug 21, 2013 7:41 PM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: On 20/08/2013 16:52, Richard Gaskin wrote: This is why I love this community: ... Collectively,

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

2013-08-21 Thread RunRevPlanet
Hi jbv, I Know what you means about setting up from scratch on a VPS if you have a many sites to host and it was all done in a Control Panel. I still don't know how to set up multiple domains, cron jobs, smtp/pop on my VPS. Fortunately I could just ignore those issues for my purposes. These are

Re: Control From Outside

2013-08-21 Thread Mike Kerner
Richard, $# causes the script editor to mark the rest of the line as a comment. $# still works? On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Mike, these tips for implementing CLI support in a standalone may help:

Re: HTTP proxies

2013-08-21 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote: So Trevor, when, if ever, is the HTTPProxy property in LiveCode useful? You still use HTTPProxy in each case. When using a PAC file to determine the IP address of the proxy server you assign the IP address that the PAC file

Re: Control From Outside

2013-08-21 Thread Mike Kerner
And Mark S., sorry, I wasn't ignoring you, I just didn't see your message. I have a system that's written in 4D that needs some functionality added to it. The code to do that is already written in LC. Converting it would work, but why bother, when I can just create a standalone in LC that I call

Re: Control From Outside

2013-08-21 Thread Mike Kerner
And the reason that sockets aren't an option is because they aren't native in 4D. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote: And Mark S., sorry, I wasn't ignoring you, I just didn't see your message. I have a system that's written in 4D that needs some

Re: Control From Outside

2013-08-21 Thread Mike Kerner
And one more thing - similar to writing to stdout, can I write to stderr? On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote: And the reason that sockets aren't an option is because they aren't native in 4D. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Mike Kerner

Re: ANN:Another app made with LiveCode has been approved by Apple!

2013-08-21 Thread Michael Gruenthal
Doesn't that violate the terms of your agreement with Apple? -Original Message- From: Mark Talluto use...@canelasoftware.com Reply-To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2013 5:17 PM To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject:

Re: Control From Outside

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Mike- Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 7:07:41 PM, you wrote: And one more thing - similar to writing to stdout, can I write to stderr? Yes. I've lost track of what platform you're doing this on. But anyway, yes. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: Control From Outside

2013-08-21 Thread Monte Goulding
On 22/08/2013, at 12:07 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: And one more thing - similar to writing to stdout, can I write to stderr? I haven't been following this thread but as I've just implemented child process control via open process for update in the parent and read from STDIN and write to STDOUT

Re: Control From Outside

2013-08-21 Thread Mike Kerner
I'm doing this on Windoze On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: On 22/08/2013, at 12:07 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: And one more thing - similar to writing to stdout, can I write to stderr? I haven't been following this thread but as I've just

mobilePickPhoto camera - unstable on android

2013-08-21 Thread Paul Kocsis
At present time, testing with community 6.1.1rc2. I'm finding that on android, mobilePickPhoto camera is NOT stable. On a 4.1.3 galaxy s2, about 1 out of 30-ish (sometimes more) calls to mobilePickPhoto camera will not return (I.E. mobilePickPhoto camera' is called, camera comes up, photo is

Re: ANN:Another app made with LiveCode has been approved by Apple!

2013-08-21 Thread Ralph DiMola
CONGRATS! We tried to use what we saw as the Netflix billing model and got approved. Then in an app update a few months later Apple ask for a detailed workflow. I did not lie and Apple said no no no, use in app purchase and give us the 30%. I had to implement in app purchases to get a

Re: Control From Outside

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Mike- Wednesday, August 21, 2013, 7:56:25 PM, you wrote: I'm doing this on Windoze In that case, stderr will go directly to the console, while stdout needs to be caught with redirection. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode