Re: OpenControl

2014-08-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/4/2014, 10:24 PM, Sri wrote: Hi Jacque: Wilstrand's method seems to work (with a little modification). In the following, oldCardID is a custom property of the group. The first focusOut is issued on closeCard. on focusOut local tID put the ID of this card into tID if tID is not

Re: OpenControl

2014-08-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/4/2014, 10:48 PM, hh wrote: Your words are more than landmarks I'm very flattered, but I think you give me too much credit. There are some geniuses here on this list who know far more than I do, especially in niche areas where I have either no experience or no skills. You'll see who

Re: Shift-tab

2014-08-05 Thread BNig
Hi Pete, in a field with tab-delimited data that is editable this works for me provided that there is an additional tab before the returns. I.e.: data tab data tab return data tab data tab return otherwise it will omit the last item of a line and jump to the first item of the next line.

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 131, Issue 7

2014-08-05 Thread William Waldman
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Re: Shift-tab

2014-08-05 Thread BNig
Pete, in a scrolling editable field with columnar data delimited by tabs of the form data tab data return data tab data return i.e. no additional tab before the return the following code works for me for the tab key and shit-tab key to move from one item to the other (tested in 6.6.2, 6.7DP7

Dumb XML library question

2014-08-05 Thread jbv
Hi list When I have a tree such as the following one : person aliases namename1/name namename2/name namename3/name /aliases /person Is there a simple way to loop through the children of aliases and get their respective contents ? Please correct me is I'm wrong, but it looks like

Re: Dumb XML library question

2014-08-05 Thread Dave Cragg
On 5 Aug 2014, at 15:00, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: Hi list When I have a tree such as the following one : person aliases namename1/name namename2/name namename3/name /aliases /person Is there a simple way to loop through the children of aliases and get their respective

Re: Dumb XML library question

2014-08-05 Thread jbv
Thanks Dave, I had noticed revXMLChildNames but I didn't know that the child tag followed by a number inside brackets could be used to form the path to a specific child... jbv On 5 Aug 2014, at 15:00, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: Hi list When I have a tree such as the following one :

Another dumb question

2014-08-05 Thread jbv
Hi again list, I am processing large xml files (from 190 Mb to 1.6 Gb) in order to extract nodes contents to be inserted in a DB, and then displayed in various types of web pages or svg graphs. Because of the files size, I proceed by successive chunks of 1000 lines. These data include a small

read...until string -- buffer size

2014-08-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
The read...until string form is wonderfully convenient, but very slow. It's so slow, in fact, that I've found I can write a few dozen lines of code to perform a functionally identical task at much greater speed. The algo I use I picked up from some old HyperCard article back in the day. In

Re: Dumb XML library question

2014-08-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Dave- Tuesday, August 5, 2014, 7:39:06 AM, you wrote: There may be a better way, but using revXMLChildNames allows you get the child names with the index appended (e.g. name[1], name[2], etc.) You can also step through them with revXMLFirstChild and revXMLNextSibling. put field 1 into

Re: Shift-tab

2014-08-05 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Bernd, I had a feeling you'd respond to this one :-) My mistake on what type of field - it's a scrolling field not a scrolling list field. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin

Expressions as custom property names

2014-08-05 Thread Peter Haworth
Starting a new thread on this. The bug I entered on this has been changed to an enhancement request with a comment from Mark Waddingham that it should be straightforward to implement expressions within parentheses but more investigation needed to see if it could have a broader scope than that.

Problem with bounces.

2014-08-05 Thread dunbarx
I get this more and more. My account here is to be terminated due to too many bounces unless I reply to the eMail. This to confirm I am who I am, I suppose. Anyone else seeing this? Craig Newman ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: on-rev borked

2014-08-05 Thread Mike Kerner
You realize that they're going to send Jillian Michaels after you, now, for calling them a bottom feeder, right? On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:06 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: nuff said. I'm using gmane to post this because email is screwed up and the cpanel page is taking on the

Re: on-rev borked

2014-08-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Mike- Tuesday, August 5, 2014, 10:09:03 AM, you wrote: You realize that they're going to send Jillian Michaels after you, now, for calling them a bottom feeder, right? OK - I googled it but I still don't get it. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully

Re: on-rev borked

2014-08-05 Thread Mike Kerner
She's a GoDaddy spokesperson, and she's a badass personal trainer. On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:35 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Mike- Tuesday, August 5, 2014, 10:09:03 AM, you wrote: You realize that they're going to send Jillian Michaels after you, now, for calling them a

Re: on-rev borked

2014-08-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Spokes person? I thought they just pay her to use her photo? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy

Re: on-rev borked

2014-08-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Mike- Tuesday, August 5, 2014, 11:39:24 AM, you wrote: She's a GoDaddy spokesperson, and she's a badass personal trainer. Ah. Thanks. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the National Security Agency (NSA) in secret. The parties

Re: Problem with bounces.

2014-08-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/5/2014, 12:08 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I get this more and more. My account here is to be terminated due to too many bounces unless I reply to the eMail. This to confirm I am who I am, I suppose. Anyone else seeing this? No, but I'm betting it's your aol address. I had a client with an

Re: Dumb XML library question

2014-08-05 Thread Dave Cragg
On 5 Aug 2014, at 16:54, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: You can also step through them with revXMLFirstChild and revXMLNextSibling. put field 1 into tData //source of xml text put revXMLCreateTree(tData,true,true,false) into tID put revXMLFirstChild(tID, person/aliases) into

Re: Problem with bounces.

2014-08-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 05/08/2014 18:08, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I get this more and more. My account here is to be terminated due to too many bounces unless I reply to the eMail. This to confirm I am who I am, I suppose. Anyone else seeing this? Quite likely to be the DMARC problem, a change of policy by Yahoo

Re: read...until string -- buffer size

2014-08-05 Thread Alex Tweedly
Summary : Richard said : Should we consider adding an optional argument for read...until string to specify the buffer size the engine will use? IMHO, No. LC is supposed to be an easy to use language/system. I don't need to deal with malloc/free, I'm not vulnerable to memory leaks, I don't

Re: read...until string -- buffer size

2014-08-05 Thread stephen barncard
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: LC is supposed to be an easy to use language/system. I don't see the problem if there's a default as usual. Same thing with 'pointers' - as long as 'reasonable' defaults are in place and it doesn't bog down anything, win-win.

Cryptograhy

2014-08-05 Thread JB
I was testing base64 and the Pack function written by Richard Gaskin and after packing and unpacking the data appears the same but does not properly write to a file. For instance I have a image that I read as a binary and put the info in a field. Then I base64Encode it and put the date into a

Re: Cryptograhy

2014-08-05 Thread JB
Thanks for the quick response and info. I am using this code to write the file open file filePath for binary write put fld id 1004 into theData write theData to file filePath and it writes the data properly if all I do is base64encode/decode. When the encoded data is altered and

Re: Cryptograhy

2014-08-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
BJ wrote: Are you able to use the code to pack and unpack a image and write it to disk? Running this code here and selecting a JPEG file it seems to work well: on mouseUp answer file Select a file: if it is empty then exit to top put url (binfile: it ) into tData put

Re: Cryptograhy

2014-08-05 Thread JB
I just did a compare of both files and there was nothing different at all. Then your answer included a better file open and write which included url and special folder path. Thank you very much for the help Not to be mean but my initials are actually JB not BJ. I know I made a lot of

Re: Cryptograhy

2014-08-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Glad that worked out. Apologies for the typo; I was on an experimental system with all manner of oddities to contend with ( beyond my normal bad spelling g), -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for Desktop, Mobile, and Web

Re: Cryptograhy

2014-08-05 Thread JB
Not a problem. I can’t even begin to tell you how much this has helped me. I am working on a project that I wanted to use base64 on instead of accessing a line tool command and as you can see I was having problems. Your code fixed it and now I do not need to use the command line. John

Re: Problem with bounces.

2014-08-05 Thread Kay C Lan
As a side note, I think 75% of your emails end up in my Gmail SPAM folder. Gmail is normally pretty good, I occasionally get other use-livecode List emails in my SPAM folder, but over time Gmail seems to learn and they eventually end up where they should. Not so with yours. This email for

sending data somehow...

2014-08-05 Thread larry
I read the following lesson: http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4071/l/13197-how-do-i-create-an-html-e-mail Supposedly this only works if Thunderbird is the default email client. Does anyone know if there is a way to send an email from a stack if Thunderbird is NOT the default email client?