Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Nakia Brewer
Okay will take a look. Will this allow me to ditch using the mergMicrophone external then ? Sent from my iPhone On 26 Apr 2014, at 12:32 pm, Stephen MacLean smacl...@madmansoft.com wrote: Look to another of Monte's externals, mergAV. Specifically, you can set the AVsession to play and

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/04/14 06:23, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Read this report: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11603 Backdrop is not displayed on Linux LiveCode 6.7.0 dp2, displays a black backdrop under Lubuntu Linux 13.10. but LiveCode turns very unstable while displaying this backdrop... After

encrypt and decrypt on iOS

2014-04-26 Thread Jim sims
Am trying to figure out how to use the new Encrypt/Decrypt with iOS. I want to encrypt a few hundred words of data then send as a file attachment via email. I have zero idea what PEM format and such are. Anyone have a stack that shows how this is done? Would be great to have example stacks for

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Nakia Brewer
Just had a quick look through the commands for mergAV. Wow, it sure has a lot of functionality.. Sent from my iPhone On 26 Apr 2014, at 5:02 pm, Nakia Brewer nakia.bre...@westrac.com.au wrote: Okay will take a look. Will this allow me to ditch using the mergMicrophone external then ?

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Nakia Brewer
Okay, Had a small tinker and seems the same issue occurs. To check my understanding, am i to assume the mergAvSessionCategory effects the iphonePlayOnChannel command ? I think I may be miss interpreting how to achieve this... I am still using mergMicrophone to record the file and using

Re: encrypt and decrypt on iOS

2014-04-26 Thread Mike Kerner
Jim, There are two ways to do encryption on ios in LC: 1) Monte has an encryption external in his mergEXT suite 2) You can use the native code. The native code uses OpenSSL. Due to some technical issues it CAN be less secure than the libraries that Monte is using, but that is something for you

Re: encrypt and decrypt on iOS

2014-04-26 Thread Mike Kerner
One more thing - don't forget to decode before you decrypt. On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote: Jim, There are two ways to do encryption on ios in LC: 1) Monte has an encryption external in his mergEXT suite 2) You can use the native code. The

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Peter Haworth
Backdrop is messed up on OSX also. Plugins loaded at startup disappear and when you get them back, clicking on the backdrop hides them again. Also, parts of Livecode are still visible. Pete lcSQL Software On Apr 25, 2014 8:23 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: Read this

Re: encrypt and decrypt on iOS

2014-04-26 Thread Jim sims
Mike - thanks loads :-) I was trying to use the dictionary syntax: *Syntax: * encrypt *source* using *cipher* with [password|key] *passorkey *[and salt saltvalue] [and IV *IVvalue*] [at *bitvalue* bit] I found your explanation much more friendly, in fact got it working first shot. We think

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Stephen MacLean
They work together:) On Apr 26, 2014, at 3:01 AM, Nakia Brewer nakia.bre...@westrac.com.au wrote: Okay will take a look. Will this allow me to ditch using the mergMicrophone external then ? Sent from my iPhone On 26 Apr 2014, at 12:32 pm, Stephen MacLean smacl...@madmansoft.com

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/04/14 19:01, Peter Haworth wrote: Already there - 12302 Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html Good stuff! Richmond. ___

Re: MS SQL

2014-04-26 Thread Rodney Green
Thanks Matthias, that's good to know. I'm using the evaluation version but I think that its supposed to return 3 rows of data. This should work in the LC IDE correct? Any ideas on how I can trap this error? On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 7:22 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Alejandro- Friday, April 25, 2014, 8:23:11 PM, you wrote: Read this report: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11603 Backdrop is not displayed on Linux I don't understand why this is a problem. The bug report shows a status of awaiting build, which would indicate that the bug has been

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Hmmm- Saturday, April 26, 2014, 9:36:25 AM, I wrote: I don't understand why this is a problem. The bug report shows a status of awaiting build, which would indicate that the bug has been fixed and will no longer be a problem in the next dp release. ...although maybe I spoke too soon. I see

flattening ouput pdf

2014-04-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I am using print cardName into . . . to generate pdf output. This leaves me many (but not all) editable fields and clickable checkboxes. As this is for filing with court, and these survive the court impact, this is bad. Very bad. Is there a way to flatten the pdf output so that it isn't

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Talking to myself- Saturday, April 26, 2014, 9:51:35 AM, I wrote: Hmmm- Saturday, April 26, 2014, 9:36:25 AM, I wrote: I don't understand why this is a problem. The bug report shows a status of awaiting build, which would indicate that the bug has been fixed and will no longer be a

Re: flattening ouput pdf

2014-04-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/04/14 20:01, Dr. Hawkins wrote: I am using print cardName into . . . to generate pdf output. This leaves me many (but not all) editable fields and clickable checkboxes. As this is for filing with court, and these survive the court impact, this is bad. Very bad. Is there a way to

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/04/14 20:20, Mark Wieder wrote: Talking to myself- Saturday, April 26, 2014, 9:51:35 AM, I wrote: Hmmm- Saturday, April 26, 2014, 9:36:25 AM, I wrote: I don't understand why this is a problem. The bug report shows a status of awaiting build, which would indicate that the bug has been

Re: flattening ouput pdf

2014-04-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/04/14 20:46, Richmond wrote: On 26/04/14 20:01, Dr. Hawkins wrote: I am using print cardName into . . . to generate pdf output. This leaves me many (but not all) editable fields and clickable checkboxes. As this is for filing with court, and these survive the court impact, this is

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Saturday, April 26, 2014, 10:48:28 AM, you wrote: It does not work (as I posted earlier) on Ubuntu Studio 14.04. Defining fixed as 'it works on Linux Mint' is a bit . . . ...Yeah. I gave up on Ubuntu a long time ago because of Things Like This. -- -Mark Wieder

Re: MS SQL

2014-04-26 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi Rodney, Am 26.04.2014 um 18:24 schrieb Rodney Green green.rod...@gmail.com: Any ideas on how I can trap this error? There are 2 things you could try. You could try to use the legacy database drivers in LC. In LC´s preferences go to compatiblity and activate Use legacy drivers This will

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/04/14 21:15, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- Saturday, April 26, 2014, 10:48:28 AM, you wrote: It does not work (as I posted earlier) on Ubuntu Studio 14.04. Defining fixed as 'it works on Linux Mint' is a bit . . . ...Yeah. I gave up on Ubuntu a long time ago because of Things Like This.

Re: MS SQL

2014-04-26 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Ah, i forgot a 3rd option. Try the odbc driver from Openlink Software. http://uda.openlinksw.com/odbc-sqlserver-ee/ They are also offering a evaluation of it. Regards, Matthias Am 26.04.2014 um 20:31 schrieb Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de: Hi Rodney, Am

Re: flattening ouput pdf

2014-04-26 Thread Richmond
I ran up a little stack (as one does) containing a field fff and a button Print to PDF containing the following script: on mouseUp ask file Save as: with Print.pdf put it into tFileName if tFileName is empty then exit to top set the printerOutput to file: tFileName

Re: flattening ouput pdf

2014-04-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: Frankly; if you don't want anybody extracting text from your exported files you might be better exporting them as image files ?? Those get big, fast. We have a 3mb limit per file, and 90 page petitions aren't

Re: flattening ouput pdf

2014-04-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/04/14 21:50, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: Frankly; if you don't want anybody extracting text from your exported files you might be better exporting them as image files ?? Those get big, fast. We have a 3mb limit

Re: flattening ouput pdf

2014-04-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: I'm being a bit goofy: I don't quite understand what you mean by: *court* The United States Bankruptcy Court. We don't file on paper anymore, but by uploading PDF or the court stamp. Would I be correct in

Re: flattening ouput pdf

2014-04-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/04/14 22:08, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: I'm being a bit goofy: I don't quite understand what you mean by: *court* The United States Bankruptcy Court. We don't file on paper anymore, but by uploading PDF or the

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/26/14, 9:19 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Backdrop is messed up on OSX also. That's listed as a known issue in the 6.7 dp 1 release notes. I haven't looked at dp 2 yet though. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Richmond
On 26/04/14 22:42, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/26/14, 9:19 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Backdrop is messed up on OSX also. That's listed as a known issue in the 6.7 dp 1 release notes. I haven't looked at dp 2 yet though. I honestly wonder how many Livecode programmers actually use the

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/26/2014 12:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Nonetheless, backdrops are working properly in 6.7-dp2 on linux mint 14, and there are no backdrops in dp1, so it does look like the problem is fixed. Also seems to be working fine here in both 6.6.2-rc2 and 6.7.0-dp2 running openSUSE with

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Peter Haworth
Mark Waddingham left a comment on my bug report that he thought he had disabled backdrop in DP2 because he hadn't figured out how to get it working properly so looks like not everything about it was disabled. Due to fixed in DP3. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Peter Haworth
I know of at least 1 :-) Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 12:50 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: On 26/04/14 22:42, J. Landman

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Dar Scott
I use backdrop for impromptu LiveCode demos for customers or kids. For planned demos or classes for customers, I use a clean desktop on a big screen and have no other applications running. I used backdrop once when teaching computer-nerd kids one time and after they recognized the applicable

RE: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Nakia Brewer
Thanks Steve, After I wrote this email I did try to create the mergAV Player to play the file but had no luck (however iPhonePlayOnChannel and the player that iPhoneCreatePlayer create would play it but the original issue still occurs). When I try the mergAV Player they player doesn't seem to

RE: encrypt and decrypt on ios

2014-04-26 Thread Mike Kerner
you can download the livecode dropbox library at http://www.phoenixsea.ch/downloads/Livecode/phxDropboxLib.zip. The explanation of the Dropbox REST API is at: https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs Once you start messing around with dropbox, you will probably want some help with json.

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Stephen MacLean
Hi Nakia, You need to create your own UI for the AVPlayer. I would also check to see if the file being recorded is being written and growing in realtime on the phone. I'll take a closer look into later tonight. Best, Steve On Apr 26, 2014, at 6:13 PM, Nakia Brewer

RE: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Nakia Brewer
Ah righto, that might explain why I cant get it to work. I am pretty sure the file is being written real time from mergMicrophone as I can play the file using the other methods and it plays up to its current location when I called the play command (I am calling the play whilst I am still

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Saturday, April 26, 2014, 11:33:00 AM, you wrote: Maybe you did give up on Ubuntu: but, like Ubuntu or not, it is the dominant form of Linux at the moment: and if this sort of thing f***s up on Ubuntu it does not count as 'fixed'. Well, my use of fixed was done facetiously, and

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Stephen MacLean
Hi Nakia, Ok, played around some, and found that while the file is created when you start to record, it doesn't write any data to it until you stop recording. That's not going to work, so I came up with a little something that does. It rotates the file that is being recorded and the file that

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Nakia Brewer
Thanks mate, Will give this a crack! Btw, how did you come to the assumption the file was not being written to real time ? In my testing I could start playing the file whilst I was still recording it which indicated to me it was being written real time. Sent from my iPhone On 27 Apr 2014,

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Stephen MacLean
T'was fun:) And since I'd just spent a bunch of time building recording and playback into my app, it was pretty fresh. Running in the iOS simulator, you can see what's being written to the cache (Your user account Library Application Support iPhone Simulator the os version you are running

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Nakia Brewer
Ah okay, that doesn't explain why it can be played though does it ? Maybe when I play it this cancels the recording ? Not meaning to question/interrogate your findings, I'm just curious really... Sent from my iPhone On 27 Apr 2014, at 12:31 pm, Stephen MacLean smacl...@madmansoft.com wrote:

RE: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Nakia Brewer
Any chance you could email me that test stack? nakia-brewer[at]bigpond[dot]com From: use-livecode [use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] on behalf of Nakia Brewer [nakia.bre...@westrac.com.au] Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 12:18 PM To: How to use

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Stephen MacLean
No worries:) Yes, it actually does. There is a file, with the proper format, so it can be played. If you use some of the other mergAV commands to get the duration you'd probably find that it's of zero length or duration. So you are playing it, but it since there is no length and nothing in

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Stephen MacLean
Sure, make sure to adjust the paths for your copies of the merg externals. On Apr 26, 2014, at 10:48 PM, Nakia Brewer nakia.bre...@westrac.com.au wrote: Any chance you could email me that test stack? nakia-brewer[at]bigpond[dot]com From:

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Nakia Brewer
Oops forgot to say, I could actually hear the recording I was making.. It did actually play and I could hear the audio! Sent from my iPhone On 27 Apr 2014, at 12:52 pm, Stephen MacLean smacl...@madmansoft.com wrote: No worries:) Yes, it actually does. There is a file, with the

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Stephen MacLean
Sorry, I'm confused... Did it play what you recorded as you were recording? Did it stop playing or stop recording? I never saw the file size increase until it stopped recording, but that could be the OS not updating the file size until then. If that's the case you could create a new player

RE: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Nakia Brewer
Hey Steve, Check this stack out, it might explain what I am trying to explain. https://www.dropbox.com/s/2u1m4c0r0kew5l2/Speech%20Scrambler%20copy.livecode Press the start recording button and start speaking.. you should hear you voice in 2000 milliseconds. Keep talking for a further few

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Stephen MacLean
Hi Nakia, Ok, so here is what I think is happening is this. It does seem that the recording is continuing, as you do get the entire thing. Must be the OS not updating the file size in real time. I'm thinking the problem lies in that when you issue the LC play command, it reads the file as it

Re: Really basic SQLite questions (Mike Kerner)

2014-04-26 Thread James Hale
Thanks everyone. As I am only accessing a local file(s) and there is only a single user at any one time I will go with connecting at startup and disconnecting at quit. Externals I will load on the appropriate connection. Of course if this doesn't work I will report back, but so far everything

Re: Record and Play sound at same time IOS

2014-04-26 Thread Nakia Brewer
Yeah that is cool, I guessed that was what's happening.. Just gotta get the mergAV player to work.. Can't even get your test stack to work on my system here... Sent from my iPhone On 27 Apr 2014, at 1:40 pm, Stephen MacLean smacl...@madmansoft.com wrote: Hi Nakia, Ok, so here is what

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