I'm talking about my mergExt stuff. RunRev have fixed their stuff in the .3
releases.
On 27 Feb 2015, at 4:39 pm, William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org wrote:
Monte and Gerry;
Is this the same code that comes with LC? If so, will it be possible to
install the fixed external separately
Monte and Gerry;
Is this the same code that comes with LC? If so, will it be possible to install
the fixed external separately from a new release version?
Bill
On Feb 26, 2015, at 7:46 PM, Gerry gerry.or...@gmail.com wrote:
*Sound of cheering and clapping*
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 at 14:45
On 27/02/15 02:58, JB wrote:
I am developing a desktop app for Mac that I plan
to sell on the Mac App store.
My question is if people using other systems are
able to use a Mac emulator to purchase apps at
the Mac App store? Do the apps usually run with
out any problems on the emulators these
Road maps are good to have! Does it
tell you any Kool stuff to do after you
get there? How about extra code?
John Balgenorth
On Feb 26, 2015, at 8:42 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote:
On 2/25/2015 9:35 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
For those who have already made the trek,
Actually, in this case it turned out to be related to the mergExt externals
(sorry, Monte). An error occurs when building the app *only* if these externals
are included (this is LC 6.7.3 and 7.0.3 only; LC 6.7.2 builds just fine). So
I’m not sure if there is an actual bug in LC or if there’s a
On 2/25/2015 9:35 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
For those who have already made the trek, what's the best resource to get
from I can happily build a desktop app to I can happily build a mobile
app?
Same way you get to Carnegie Hall. I think Colin's book has a map.
--
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I have seen the same problem using LC 6.6.5 with the 8.1 simulator… the problem
shows itself with the iPhone 6 and 6+ simulators, but not the 4 or 5s. On the
6 simulator the real splash displayed, followed by a reduced size version of
the screen (I don’t know where it comes from), followed by
Is there a space in the path?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:02 AM, Ray r...@linkit.com wrote:
I've had this problem come up before and here it is again today. I've
never posted it before. It seems kind of intermittent.
It's simple. A script sets the FileName of an image in Livcode to the
I've had this problem come up before and here it is again today. I've
never posted it before. It seems kind of intermittent.
It's simple. A script sets the FileName of an image in Livcode to the
full path of a png disk file but the image in Livecode simply doesn't
show it. The image object
Ben,
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but I get the following error when trying
to build an iOS standalone with 6.7.3:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23640711/iOS_build_error.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23640711/iOS_build_error.png
I was anxious to try 6.7.3 because of an
Solved the problem. I was using a standard LC text field instead of a
native iOS field.
On 2/26/15 8:01 AM, Richard Miller wrote:
I've noticed that the built in voice-to-text feature on an iPhone
doesn't work in a standard LC text field. When I tap the icon on the
iPhone keyboard to the left
Hi Chris, sounds like you may be experiencing one of these bugs:
This bug (related to sqlite external)
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14675
Or this one (related to revzip)
http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14625
In both cases the trick is ensure that the minimum iOS version
I've noticed that the built in voice-to-text feature on an iPhone
doesn't work in a standard LC text field. When I tap the icon on the
iPhone keyboard to the left of the spacebar and then speak, no text
comes into the field. Anyone know how to enable this feature?
Michael Doub wrote:
Thanks for the feedback. I did not know about revAvailableHandlers.
I believe it's engine-level, which means it not only provides more
useful info than most alternatives (type, line offsets, etc.), it's also
much faster.
Not sure why it isn't documented, but it's
Release 31 is available...
Wow! I had heard of the difference in speed of using repeat with vs
repeat for each but I had no idea the difference could be so profound.
Sorry for releasing this the next day after making release 30 available,
but the performance difference is so great I felt, I
Here are the numbers for the 7.0.3 and 6.7.3. Moving in the right
direction.
7.0.3:
Original: 440
Latest: 485
6.7.3
Original: 117
Latest: 133
I am still blown away by the difference in using repeat for each and
repeat with. What a great lesson that will not be forgotten.
-= Mike
On
Thanks for the feedback. I did not know about revAvailableHandlers.
Responding to Mark's comment about what I am trying to do. I tried the
MasterLibrary on 7.x and the performance was terrible. I decided to
change the implementation to create an index of pointers to the meta
data around
Not sure it has anything to do with it, but you might try to-- set the
filename of image myimage to the shortfilepath of path/to the/file.png
which will turn it into a non spaced, 8.3 style path. But I see klaus has
added a response, so i'm sure correct answer is forthcoming as soon as I
update
Am 26.02.2015 um 18:11 schrieb Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com:
Not sure it has anything to do with it, but you might try to-- set the
filename of image myimage to the shortfilepath of path/to the/file.png
which will turn it into a non spaced, 8.3 style path. But I see klaus has
added a
Mike, Klaus, I appreciate your ideas on this. I'll try checking the
result and pay more attention to case but being one of those
intermittent bugs apparently it might be difficult for me to report back
with a solid conclusion as to what worked.
Thanks!
On 2/26/2015 2:17 PM, Mike Bonner
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:42 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com
wrote:
Same way you get to Carnegie Hall.
What, take the 'A' train?
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The revBrowserCEF is still not ready for prime time. Crashes the IDE. There is
a bug report on it.
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On Feb 26, 2015, at 8:20 AM, Chris Sheffield cs_livec...@icloud.com wrote:
Actually, in this case it turned out to be related to the mergExt externals
(sorry, Monte). An error occurs
I've never used the short file path. I'll experiment with that. Thanks!
On 2/26/2015 2:11 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
Not sure it has anything to do with it, but you might try to-- set the
filename of image myimage to the shortfilepath of path/to the/file.png
which will turn it into a non spaced,
Oh true, it just returns the same filepath that it was given on osx and
linux. However, now i'm wondering, linux and osx are case sensitive, if
you're on one of those, are you sure you're not having a case issue?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Klaus major-k kl...@major-k.de wrote:
Am
Hi Ray,
Am 26.02.2015 um 18:06 schrieb Ray r...@linkit.com:
Yes, there is. Good point! Although it seems weird it would work if I
re-paste the same path with the spaces in it into the properties palette.
SPACE or not, that should work right out of the box!
You could try to add an
Klaus - thanks but I wonder why this code would work sometimes and
others not. It's an isolated piece of code that doesn't do much else.
Nonetheless, I've add an unlock screen both before and after setting the
fileName of the image. Let's see if that works.
On 2/26/2015 2:08 PM, Klaus
How do you make a native iOS field?
Alain Vézina, directeur
Logilangue
www.logilangue.com
Le 2015-02-26 à 10:30, Richard Miller w...@together.net a écrit :
Solved the problem. I was using a standard LC text field instead of a native
iOS field.
On 2/26/15 8:01 AM, Richard Miller wrote:
Oh, and you might check the result right after you set the filename and
see if it says could not open image which probably indicates a problem
with the path in your code.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:17 AM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote:
Oh true, it just returns the same filepath that it
On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote:
Since its a table field, the dontlock and don'twrap are that way on
purpose. To edit a cell in a simple table, click, and it'll pop up an edit
field. Its supposed to be that way. There are a bunch of settings required
to
Hi,
today i wanted to install the new LC versions 6.7.3 and 7.0.3. But the
installation take awfully long here on my mac. After 45 minutes the progress
bar is filled about 3/4.
I restarted the computer already and i even tried to installed 6.7.2. Installer
really really slow.
Did anyone on
Yes, there is. Good point! Although it seems weird it would work if I
re-paste the same path with the spaces in it into the properties palette.
What do you suggest? I could html encode it.
On 2/26/2015 2:04 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
Is there a space in the path?
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:02
Spend a little bit more money and get TMControl2 from Scott and if you
don't already have it, get Monte's external pacakge.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:42 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com
wrote:
Same way you
On 2/26/2015 12:21 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:42 AM, J. Landman Gayjac...@hyperactivesw.com
wrote:
Same way you get to Carnegie Hall.
What, take the 'A' train?
Practice, practice, practice.
I wasn't sure if you were serious or not. ;)
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay
On 2/26/2015 1:22 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D wrote:
As i wrote, i have the same problem with 6.7.2 on that machine.
And on my notebook installation is quick as always.
It seems to be something with my system. But i have no clue what it is.
Is there anything in the Console logs that might give
You can tell I'm not serious if my lips are moving. Up to you to determine
whether I move my lips while I type.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:12 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com
wrote:
On 2/26/2015 12:21 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote:
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:42 AM, J. Landman
+1 on this. Both are excellent tools for mobile development, iOS in particular.
On Feb 26, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote:
Spend a little bit more money and get TMControl2 from Scott and if you
don't already have it, get Monte's external pacakge.
Just testing the release procedures for my SQLiteAdmin program. On Windows
8, I create a .msi file for installation. It runs fine but the .exe. file
is immediately flagged as being infected by a virus by Panda Antivirus and
moved to its quarantine folder.
Anyone come across this before?
Both 6.7.3 and 7.0.3 downloaded and installed reasonably quickly on my
Win 8 laptop this morning. No problems at all.
On 2/26/2015 1:03 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D wrote:
Hi,
today i wanted to install the new LC versions 6.7.3 and 7.0.3. But the
installation take awfully long here on my mac.
As i wrote, i have the same problem with 6.7.2 on that machine.
And on my notebook installation is quick as always.
It seems to be something with my system. But i have no clue what it is.
Btw. It took me 1hr to install 6.7.2. Installing other software on that machine
is also fast as usual. Only
BTW, I think Colin’s book uses Monte’s stuff in it’s recipes?? I haven’t looked
at it in a while… I could be wrong.
Best,
Roger
On Feb 26, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Chris Sheffield cs_livec...@icloud.com wrote:
+1 on this. Both are excellent tools for mobile development, iOS in
particular.
The road to enhanced support for Cocoa, Unicode, GTK, iOS, and all the
other things that make up v7 has been a long one, and while it's not
been without difficulty this third point release seems very promising.
But don't take my word for it. I'm just a fanboy - you can safely
ignore anything
Richard.
Do you think it a good idea to open a new category in the forum, perhaps in the
Talking LiveCode area? It would allow issues to aired, and to be vetted
before they are submitted as bugs. I suspect many of the new aspects of v.7
will just take getting used to, and should not be taken
mobileControlCreate multiline, displayInput
mobileControlSet displayInput, rect, the rect of fld note
mobileControlSet displayInput, vScroll, 0
mobileControlSet displayInput, visible, true
mobileControlSet displayInput, autocorrectionType, no
mobileControlSet
No there wasn´t.
I decided to undelete all livecode related stuff from ~/Library…. (prefs and so
on).
After that the installation went through quickly again.
Don´t know what it was, but it´s much faster to setup the LC preferences again
than finding out what file was causing the trouble.
On Feb 25, 2015, at 9:11 PM, Charles Szasz csz...@me.com wrote:
I am currently using 5.5 to make Mac apps that do not employ QT. I am also
started using App Wrapper 3. I noticed that each app that I code signed for
the Mac I have to always to designate not to include QT as an exec.
I
On Feb 25, 2015, at 9:36 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote:
My first real play with Datagrids and I have to say I'm very impressed.
After sorting out the display and getting the first set of data into the DG
(which all went very smoothly - much better than expected) I went to
Richard,
I’m wondering if the standalone engine size is a concern for anyone else. I
have a standalone for iOS that is 3 times smaller when built with 6 over 7. I
think I understand that the unicode dictionary is responsible, but until there
is a way to selectively remove that, I would rather
Can you buy that directly from Colin?
What about Andre Garzia? He was
writing a book, does it cover mobile
apps?
John Balgenorth
On Feb 25, 2015, at 8:12 PM, Roger Guay i...@mac.com wrote:
Colin Holgate’s Book, LiveCode Mobile Development.
Roger
On Feb 25, 2015, at 8:35 PM, Geoff
On 26/02/15 01:45, Jim Lambert wrote:
Richmond wrote:
my son who has the MacBook is now back in the States at University
Hi Richmond,
Does he have problems connecting to WiFi at the University? Or anywhere else
other than your home?
if not, perhaps there’s a clue.
No, he doesn't.
Jim
Dear List Members,
We're pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.7.3 and 7.0.3. This
release is a maintenance release that contains one primary fix to the
externals issue in iOS 64 bit standalones. We chose to skip 7.0.2 GM to
keep the 6.7.x and 7.0.x series in sync.
*Getting the Release*
Dear List Members,
We're pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.7.3 and 7.0.3. This
release is a maintenance release that contains one primary fix to the
externals issue in iOS 64 bit standalones. We chose to skip 7.0.2 GM to
keep the 6.7.x and 7.0.x series in sync.
*Getting the Release*
I tried turning off all openstack and opencard scripts. Nothing I do
prevents that black screen from showing up on my iPhone 6+. I'll have to
settle with using the splash screen tied in through the IOS settings
page, then going directly to the first main navigational card in my
stack. At least
Thanks Mike. I have posted to the Panda forum to see if I can find out
just what it is about a Livecode standalone that makes it look suspicious
to them.
Seems like RunRev might be interested to know about this, I'm sure they
would prefer programs created by Livecode not be flagged as
I’m sorry JB, I haven’t been keeping up with Colin and Monty’s stuff so I don’t
know. Here is the website for MobGUI
http://mobgui.com/index.php http://mobgui.com/index.php
and I think Colin’s book is still available from PAKT publishing.
AFAIK, Andre has not published yet, but again I don’t
dunbarx wrote:
Do you think it a good idea to open a new category in the forum,
perhaps in the Talking LiveCode area? It would allow issues to
aired, and to be vetted before they are submitted as bugs. I
suspect many of the new aspects of v.7 will just take getting
used to, and should not be
Michael Doub wrote:
I must say that I agree with Eric on this one. I never use Unicode
and the size and performance penalties do not seem like a reasonable
tradeoff. I do understand your point about having to maintain
multiple versions. I would suggest that solving selectively removing
Hi Richard
There are various bugs in 6.7 and 7 that concern me (all of which I can deal
with through various kludges) - what I apparently don't have any control
over and which is much more serious is the long amount of time it takes apps
built with 6.7 or 7 to launch on iOS
Please see
Devin,
Thanks for the response. The problem I was having is that:
1) Straight up my Next btn was not appearing in the Project Browser
2) To get it to appear I had to select my DataGrid and then select 'Edit
Group'
3) If I then tried to Drag Drop (or simply Click to select) my Next btn
the IDE
Thanks for the info and links, Roger.
I think Andre was offering a pre-release price
for his book and was giving extra code. Does
anyone have a link if it is still available?
John Balgenorth
On Feb 26, 2015, at 3:47 PM, Roger Guay i...@mac.com wrote:
I’m sorry JB, I haven’t been keeping up
Just got home, let me poke around and see. (The obvious one would be the
field actually being disabled, but thats unlikely)
Not seeing anything. I even tried adding empty mouseup/down handlers to
the table, but the edit field pops up for me before they fire.
You might toggle the enabled of the
Quick follow-up - my same prototype app that takes FIFTEEN SECONDS to launch
on iOS opens instantly on Android lollipop (or at least so quick I perceive
it as instantly)
Kind regards
Dave
Dave Kilroy wrote
Hi Richard
There are various bugs in 6.7 and 7 that concern me (all of which I can
I run into this with Norton all the time (but not as much, recently, so I
think they may have updated their hueristics).
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
Just testing the release procedures for my SQLiteAdmin program. On Windows
8, I create a .msi file for
I must say that I agree with Eric on this one. I never use Unicode and
the size and performance penalties do not seem like a reasonable
tradeoff. I do understand your point about having to maintain multiple
versions. I would suggest that solving selectively removing the unicode
dictionary
I am developing a desktop app for Mac that I plan
to sell on the Mac App store.
My question is if people using other systems are
able to use a Mac emulator to purchase apps at
the Mac App store? Do the apps usually run with
out any problems on the emulators these days?
John Balgenorth
Richard,
I'm still seeing a huge slowdown with some parts of the IDE in LC7.0.3 on Mac
OS X 10.10.2, for example if I click any title in the main menubar such as
'File' or 'Edit' in 6.x.x the menu appears instantly, but if I click any title
in the menuBar of LC7.0.x it takes at least 3 seconds
Monte and RunRev have been working on this. He has to re-build his
externals before this'll work. I've been waiting 4 weeks for RunRev to fix
this and now, through no fault of his, I have to wait until Monte gets his
wonderful externals updated.
Gerry
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 at 05:21 William
If it happens again you might try cutting it and pasting it onto the card.
On February 26, 2015 6:46:20 PM CST, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote:
Devin,
Thanks for the response. The problem I was having is that:
1) Straight up my Next btn was not appearing in the Project Browser
2) To
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:58 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote:
a Mac emulator
There's such a thing? Why? Surely there is no Mac software that there isn't
a Windows equivalent.
The only Mac emulators that I am aware off are the ones to run old Classic
MacOS apps on OS X.
Anyone else who
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote:
I suspect the question is about a virtual machine
A quick Google of OS X virtual machines and the most recent posts date back
to 2010 and Snow Leopard. Now IMO SnoLeo was the last great implementation
of OS X, but still, I
On 27 Feb 2015, at 12:53 pm, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote:
Yes, and I'm having a spot of bother working out the right settings to use so
what I hoped would be a quick compile and release might not be ;-(
OK, I worked out the issue and my build script is running. It takes
*Sound of cheering and clapping*
On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 at 14:45 Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com
wrote:
On 27 Feb 2015, at 12:53 pm, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com
wrote:
Yes, and I'm having a spot of bother working out the right settings to
use so what I hoped would
Thanks for the info and link, Kay.
I was not aware of the Hackintosh
and have not kept up with recent
emulators for many years.
That solves my problem of trying
to code and sell the app to those
who do not own a Mac. Apple will
love the extra money selling the app
to Hackintosh users.
John
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:11 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote:
That solves my problem of trying
to code and sell the app to those
who do not own a Mac.
But isn't that why you code in LC, so it's easy to create crossplatform
apps?
Actually, that's a stupid statement. I don't code in LC
Panda only tells me the application is suspicious, not why so I can't
really answer that. Bu that's a good point - I had assumed it was
something in the engine code that caused it to be flagged
The program opens an sqlite database chosen by the user so no hard coded
file paths there. The only
It's been SO LONG since I've been a beginner in this family that I don't
know what to recommend to someone who is starting from nothing. We used to
have Danny Goodman and The Waite Group's excellent resources, but those
were for HC. What would be a great resource to put in front of someone,
Why not try here:
http://lessons.runrev.com/
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It doesn’t sound too difficult to make the
app cross-platform. The problem would
be the needed testing before a release
and that may involve owing the different
computers etc. to make sure the app is
running properly. More time and money
and without a good place to market it. I
can build my own
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
The program opens an sqlite database chosen by the user so no hard coded
file paths there. The only other file it open is its prefs file which it
puts into folder specialFolderPath(26)/SQLiteAdmin. I believe
I don’t own a Windows machine, I don’t test on a Windows machine, I do however
have an internal app that is used on Macs except for two Windows users. I click
the checkbox for build a Windows Standalone and the Windows version works just
fine for them.
Kee Nethery
Thanks Kee!
That info is nice to know.
John Balgenorth
On Feb 26, 2015, at 8:50 PM, kee nethery k...@kagi.com wrote:
I don’t own a Windows machine, I don’t test on a Windows machine, I do
however have an internal app that is used on Macs except for two Windows
users. I click the checkbox
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 9:59 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com
wrote:
If it happens again you might try cutting it and pasting it onto the card.
Yes, that would probably work too, but my biggest problem was that every
time I selected my Next btn in the Project Browser it seemed to
I suspect the question is about a virtual machine, so not really a
simulator. My guess is that if the host machine is fast enough with enough
memory, and the guest OS is solid, things will -probably- run fine. But
everyone knows that theory and practice differ.
On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 7:00 PM,
Alain
Put Richard's code into an open card handler to make the native field
appear when you first open the card. The rect of the field in his code is
set to match the rect of a field named note - I do the same kind of thing
because it lets you easily change the size and position of the native
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 8:35 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com
wrote:
But it really was very small, arguably more so than it's now big.
One of the smallest apps on my Mac right now is Apple's calculator,
weighing in a 9.5 MBs, ... compared to the LiveCode 7.0.3 runtime engine
On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 6:14 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
Seems like RunRev might be interested to know about this, I'm sure they
would prefer programs created by Livecode not be flagged as suspicious.
But unfortunately RunRev have no control over what people do with LC and LC
On 27 Feb 2015, at 12:50 pm, Gerry gerry.or...@gmail.com wrote:
Monte and RunRev have been working on this. He has to re-build his
externals before this'll work. I've been waiting 4 weeks for RunRev to fix
this and now, through no fault of his, I have to wait until Monte gets his
wonderful
On February 26, 2015 5:47:45 PM CST, Roger Guay
do I recall that Jacqueline also has some treasure to offer?
Nothing there for mobile particularly though.
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Maybe I will need to develop for other systems.
I haven’t heard of anything like the Mac App
store for other systems so the marketing will
not be as fast and easy as it will be for a Mac.
And with that in mind the coding will be done
after the Mac release.
John Balgenorth
On Feb 26, 2015, at
Kay C Lan wrote:
I hate programs that flag false positives and don't reveal why.
Some AV packages use Bloom filters, which are very efficient but prone
to false positives, and in ways that may bear no relationship with the
intended target pattern so it may not be possible to explain why.
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