Hi all (and thanks Ethan for the offer)
I actually have a lifetime deal with on-rev and was asking so that I can
make suggestions to clients...
Someone on this list (or forum?) mentioned hostm.com a few days ago and I
checked them out and what they offer looks pretty good. I emailed them
asking
Thanks Rick.
Do you find one that you could launch from within LiveCode?
I would like to incorporate the search in a LiveCode app.
Jim
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To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: Can I produce a Google map showing SEVERAL
Hi Jim,
What platform are you developing for?
I didn’t find the old one that I used to use, but
a quick internet search showed:
http://www.click2map.com/ http://www.click2map.com/
I’m sure there are others which might
even be better.
If you need to manipulate things from
within LiveCode the
I'm using LC 7.0.1. Looking at both the LC User Guide and the Dictionary, I
find that I don’t exactly understand the way you put keyboard shortcuts into
menus and get them to activate, especially on Windows. I note for example:
1. The ‘’ character is always present in a menu item which is also
Question 1:
The only works for Windows, where menus can be triggered with the keyboard.
The character after the will be the one to trigger, and it'll be shown
underlined. You can choose any char in a word, it doesn't need to be the first
one, and the premade ones are chosen as per Windows
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote:
Can anyone explain what is going on behind the scenes?
Keep in mind that even built-in keyboard commands are generally not
functioning correctly in the current 7.0.1 (RC1)
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since LC6.7 all my scripts using record sound doesnt work any more
I work on a mac pro and yosemite
i have tried setting the dontuseqt prop to false but it is the same recording
is impossible
if i go back to lc 6.2 everything is ok
any idea ?
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It is my understanding that reference to id is faster than name.
However, if i get the long id of something, I can get
field id 1 of group id 2 of group id 3 of card id 4 of stack theSubStack
of stack /some/really/long/filename
If I take
word 1 to 3 of theLongId word -6 to -4 of theLongId,
One thing I noticed is that script execution speed seems to have gotten
dreadfully slow in 64-bit 7.0 - roughly 6x slower. I ran door-to-door
timings from a desktop stack against the same script on two different
servers, the DH server running 7.0.0 and the on-rev server running
6.1.0. While
Received.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
wrote:
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Hi all,
Anyone knows how you can replace screen shots in iTunes connect? It was so easy
to do before.
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514-596-1385
www.logilangue.com
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On 11/11/2014 12:42 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
One thing I noticed is that script execution speed seems to have gotten
dreadfully slow in 64-bit 7.0 - roughly 6x slower.
I have a simple script that repeats 5000 times, adding to a counter and
populating and sorting a list with seven items. It
I can't help but wonder what it would take to get runrev to follow normal
practice and actually get something to alpha level before calling it a
developer preview, beta by a release candidate (ok, that still wouldn't
be normal), and working rather than early beta before release.
If I sold
On 11/11/14 21:25, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
I can't help but wonder what it would take to get runrev to follow normal
practice and actually get something to alpha level before calling it a
developer preview, beta by a release candidate (ok, that still wouldn't
be normal), and working rather than early
Warren Samples wrote:
On 11/11/2014 12:42 PM, Phil Davis wrote:
One thing I noticed is that script execution speed seems to have gotten
dreadfully slow in 64-bit 7.0 - roughly 6x slower.
I have a simple script that repeats 5000 times, adding to a counter and
populating and sorting a list with
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
OK, I'll stop venting, but the amount of time I'm losing to bugs that never
should have seen a public preview is getting increasingly frustrating.
I agree, which is why it benefits no one more than ourselves to test our
work with pre-release versions.
The SQLite issue may
On 11/11/14 21:55, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
OK, I'll stop venting, but the amount of time I'm losing to bugs that
never
should have seen a public preview is getting increasingly frustrating.
I agree, which is why it benefits no one more than ourselves to test
our work with
Hi Dr. Hawkins,
The whole computer industry is changing too rapidly now.
Their is no such thing as “stable” as a result.
What everyone wants is a “stable” OS, a “stable” language, a
“stable” database, and stable hardware platforms to go with it all.
If we had all of that, we’d already have a
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
wrote:
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
OK, I'll stop venting, but the amount of time I'm losing to bugs that
never
should have seen a public preview is getting increasingly frustrating.
I agree, which is why it benefits no
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote:
In addition to the others I've mentioned here an in other recent posts, the
recompile of sqlite is not quite compatible with the old, and behaves
differently. For example, a semicolon at the end of an entry without
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
wrote:
The SQLite issue may be more related to the new SQLite code base than with
LiveCode. I can't say specifically - Mr. Haworth, what do you find with
that?
Just asked for an example and will check it out.
Pete
Richmond wrote:
On 11/11/14 21:55, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I agree, which is why it benefits no one more than ourselves to test
our work with pre-release versions.
That is, of course, very true.
Another idea that might not be bad, is to slow down the releases so
there is more time for
On 11/11/14 22:59, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
snip
I really can't give up any significant portion of my coding time to do
livecode's work for them; these are things that are so basic that they
never should have seen a release to the public.
I'm afraid, Richard Gaskin et al, the above is going to be
On 11/11/14 23:16, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond wrote:
On 11/11/14 21:55, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I agree, which is why it benefits no one more than ourselves to test
our work with pre-release versions.
That is, of course, very true.
Another idea that might not be bad, is to slow down the
On 11/11/2014, 3:16 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
So while we can't be expected to test everything, if we only test our
own apps with new builds that's usually all we need for our own work.
Collectively, if we call just ensured that new features get implemented
in ways we need, we'll all have what
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I agree, which is why it benefits no one more than ourselves to test
our
work with pre-release versions.
Two problems, though:
1) One can *either* stay with 5.5, *or* use any of the new features.
Without maintaining
On 11/11/14 23:34, Richard Gaskin wrote:
snip
Being in touch with them fairly regularly, I can say with confidence
that it's not like they're all sitting at the beach drinking Mai
Tais. Heck, it's Edinburgh - is it even sunny enough to go to the
beach? :)
snip
While I know they are not
J. Landman Gay wrote:
What usually stops me is the need to create a separate, stripped-down
stack to demonstrate a more complicated bug. I completely understand
the need for this, especially in my case where the original stack is
huge and complex, and I wouldn't expect RR to plow through all
On 11/11/2014, 3:23 PM, Richmond wrote:
Several times I have stated that in my opinion RunRev are being swept
along into a sort of feature bloat which prevents them
from sorting out little 'niggles' in existing features. I se no reason
to change that opinion.
Suppose while teaching English,
I just ran into this. If a variable contains “card foo” then the command open
card foo resolves to open card card foo. You can see the problem. There is no
card named card foo. Just foo.
Is this the problem you are seeing?
Bob S
On Nov 8, 2014, at 13:29 , Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com
The student example
Your comment is interesting BUT;
Instructors need to test the curricula before, during and after the
instruction.
The question is, is it the instruction, the testing or the student having
the problem. It all comes back to the testing. The teacher who does not
test the
Richmond wrote:
Obviously Dr Hawkins is not over-enamoured of the Open Source
theory: LiveCode is paid for in a different way [the I'll
scratch your back if you'll scratch mine way] than the
'standard' commercial way [I pay you, and you do ALL the work].
I think you and I may be a rare breed.
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com
wrote:
I just ran into this. If a variable contains “card foo” then the command
open card foo resolves to open card card foo. You can see the problem.
There is no card named card foo. Just foo.
Is this the problem you
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
I rarely, if ever, try to execute multiple SQL statements in one
revDatabasexxx so haven't seen that particular problem. Could you give an
example? I'd like to check it out as I don't want to get hit by the same
bug.
I
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
wrote:
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I agree, which is why it benefits no one more than ourselves to test our
work with pre-release versions.
Two problems, though:
1)
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com
wrote:
Obviously Dr Hawkins is not over-enamoured of the Open Source theory:
LiveCode is paid for in a different way [the I'll scratch your back if
you'll scratch mine way] than the 'standard' commercial way [I pay you,
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I'd like to raise these concerns with Ben and Kevin at my next
meeting.
It would be very helpful if you could point me to the bug reports that
describe these issues.
That's the problem. These are at a level that
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
wrote:
Any other specific issues you feel are show-stoppers may well be worth
looking into, and I'd be happy to help if I can. But to do that I'd need
to know what they are.
That the IDE doesn't work?
I filed those
Hi All,
I looked for the announcement in LC mail
list of this LiveCode Course on Udemy
https://www.udemy.com/livecode101/
Did I miss this announcement?
What is your opinion about this
course?
Thanks in advance!
Al
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Folks:
Just to chime in on this. I’ve been using version 7.0 for a couple of months.
No problems. I’m not using many of the new features like unicode, but have
found the IDE working fine for my purposes, so far. The slowdown in some
operations has affected me, though. Picking out a byte from a
Hi Richard,
on Tue, 11 Nov 2014
Richard Gaskin wrote:
[snip]
On the other issues, can you share the
bug report numbers so we can follow them?
Does exist an automatic way to post
every new bug report in this mail list?
Could bugzilla do this?
In this way, every bug will be noticed and
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Any other specific issues you feel are show-stoppers may well be worth
looking into, and I'd be happy to help if I can. But to do that I'd
need
to know what they are.
That the IDE doesn't work?
I'll run a search
On Nov 11, 2014, at 4:38 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote:
Any other specific issues you feel are show-stoppers may well be worth
looking into, and I'd be happy to help if I can. But to do that I'd need to
know what they are.
Hi Richard,
Thanks for taking this on.
On Nov 11, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote:
There was a recent comment about shadowed name warnings in the Facebook group
recently, but that seemed related to turning on the feature to warn about
those (Prefs - Script Editor - Strict Compilation Mode). The
On 12/11/2014 11:00 am, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote:
LiveCode's developer previews simply execue (nightly snapshot that
executed), the RC are alpha quality, the 5.5 series are late beta, and the
6.x and 7.x releases are early beta.
I think that¹s a bit harsh. There are problems with
Has anyone used the new binary parameter to revOpenDatabase when opening
an sqlite database? It's supposed to store binary data into BLOB columns
unchanged - apparently Livecode used to store BLOB's in a proprietary
format.
Here's what I'm doing:
revOpendatabase(sqlite,path to dbfile,binary)
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
wrote:
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 4:38 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Any other specific issues you feel are show-stoppers may well be worth
looking into, and I'd be happy to help if I can. But to do
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Terry Judd terry.j...@unimelb.edu.au
wrote:
On 12/11/2014 11:00 am, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote:
LiveCode's developer previews simply execue (nightly snapshot that
executed), the RC are alpha quality, the 5.5 series are late beta, and the
6.x and 7.x
OK, I'll try with and without multiple statements in both versions.
I do want to double check that you're not trying to access an SQLite
database over a network because you WILL have major problems if you are :-)
Pete
lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com
Home of lcStackBrowser
Mark Talluto wrote:
Thanks for taking this on. These are stopping us from using 7 either
in shipping
applications and in some cases development:
Move command renders graphics improperly when screen has been recently
locked
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13961
Player object
By way of an update on this, the length of the data I supply to the UPDATE
statement is around 2.5 million characters. When I read it back in again,
it's 244 characters. Obviously there's some severe truncation going on!
Question is - is it LC or SQLite? Everything I read on the web says that
Hi All,
Download this PDF file with a vector drawing
of LiveCode's Menubar.
Hopefully, I will find time to draw the Tool
palette and other icons, palettes and windows.
The purpose is: use High Quality images
for tutorials, courses and books.
By the way, I am using Xara, so if one of you
is a
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
The first one ('97) was especially interesting because in all the
years
I'd been using LC I'd never used that particular feature. The
description
of that feature on p68 of the User Guide does seem to match your
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:49 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
OK, I'll try with and without multiple statements in both versions.
Now, to make matters worse, it appears that I've been using 7.0.0, not
7.0.1-RC-1 for an unknown period of time--it has managed to set itself as
the default
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
wrote:
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
The first one ('97) was especially interesting because in all the years
I'd been using LC I'd never used that particular feature. The
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
Now, to make matters worse, it appears that I've been using 7.0.0,
not 7.0.1-RC-1 for an unknown period of time--it has managed to
set itself as the default version more than once on this machine.
If that's on a Mac, I don't believe there's anything a developer can do
-
Dr. Hawkins wrote:
To start with, Peter Hayworth filed *Bug 10511*
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10511 in 2006
. . . but wee discuss this every three or fourt months on
this list.
I recall only vague descriptions with no clear outcome, and that
amazingly long bug report
For greater control over app versions I put all the ones I use in my
Dock and launch them explicitly from there.
I¹m sure you¹re not alone there. I have six versions of LC in my dock that
I use for different projects and for testing. I have many more than that
in my Applications folder.
Terry...
On 12/11/14 07:46, Terry Judd wrote:
For greater control over app versions I put all the ones I use in my
Dock and launch them explicitly from there.
I¹m sure you¹re not alone there. I have six versions of LC in my dock that
I use for different projects and for testing. I have many more than
On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 9:41 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
revExecuteSQL gDBID,Update statement,*btData
Have you tried tData without the *b ?
I thought the *b was the 'old' way of gettting binary data in SQLite.
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On 11/11/2014, 7:24 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
The second one ('98) was one that could benefit from others here who've
used the debugger more than I have (Jacque, that means you g). I'm
not sure if it's a bug or merely needs more explanation in the docs.
For reference:
On 11/11/2014, 11:46 PM, Terry Judd wrote:
For greater control over app versions I put all the ones I use in my
Dock and launch them explicitly from there.
I¹m sure you¹re not alone there. I have six versions of LC in my dock that
I use for different projects and for testing. I have many more
On 11/12/2014, 1:15 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
That said, right-clicking on an existing and active breakpoint *does*
put up the expected popup, the one that gives you debugging options. So
I don't see any problems here.
I take that back, I didn't test far enough. The popup appears and the
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