8.0.0 RC1 Stuck in Loop for Deleting Card

8 RC1 has some serious regressions.. Anyone getting this: attempt to delete card, dialog “Are you sure you want to delete Card “Portals2” from this stack “/path…” Click yes… dialog opens again, click No, dialog opens again… no way out. Pretty bad… I can’t break it so worry about saving work

Re: [OT] automator ln to specified folder

OH, and the alternative option listed.. ln "$f" "/Users/colin/myfolder/Plink-$(basename "$f")" is worth a try if you didn't already. On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Hmm. I'll get my mac up and going in the morning and try a few things. > Another

Re: [OT] automator ln to specified folder

Thanks, that looked hopeful, but with this: cd/Users/colin/myfolder for f in "$@" do ln "$f" "Plink-$(basename "$f")" done I still puts the links in the original folders. I trie this too: for f in "$@" do cd/Users/colin/myfolder ln "$f" "Plink-$(basename "$f")" done

Re: "unable to load foreign library"

It's 32 bit? Sent from my iPhone > On 15 Apr 2016, at 1:07 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > > Thanks, Monte! > > However, I still have the same error message, so my problem seems to be > something else. > > I poked at it a bit. > > The error message seems to be in

Re: 8.0.0 RC 1 Text Properties all gone?

On 4/14/2016 9:45 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: I’m trying to set the font, style alignment etc from the “A” icon in the inspector.. And this appears broken on my mac. In the textFont field it has dimmed (Message) And the list of system fonts does not open. It this just me? There

Re: [OT] automator ln to specified folder

I assume you've tried the obvious stuff for your automator shell script call.. cd to the directory first then loop through the dropped files. cd /my/target/directory for f in "$@" do ln "$f" "Plink-$(basename "$f")" done basename removes path information and returns just the filename portion,

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > >why not turn this into a simple plugin to add a button to the dictionary > stack. > > Scraping html text, that's super easy for me; creating a plugin - that's another story. Have generally steered clear of plugins

Re: "unable to load foreign library"

Thanks, Monte! However, I still have the same error message, so my problem seems to be something else. I poked at it a bit. The error message seems to be in script-instance.cpp. Looking at that, it seems that dlopen is used. I don't have environment variables for dlopen, the best I can

8.0.0 RC 1 Text Properties all gone?

I’m trying to set the font, style alignment etc from the “A” icon in the inspector.. And this appears broken on my mac. In the textFont field it has dimmed (Message) And the list of system fonts does not open. It this just me? BR ___ use-livecode

8.0.0 RC1 - Where is the "Remove Group" option in menus

If you want to remove a group from a card, but not the whole stack Where in the menus is the choice for this? BR ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

[OT] automator ln to specified folder

I want to drag any number of files (in different folders) on to an Automator application that has a Shell script to make a hard link of each file into a particular folder. Whatever I’ve tried so far makes the link file in the original file’s folder. Any suggestions on how to set the target

Re: Anyone have any LiveCode hooks to WordPress? And, are you following these Word Camp events

Good News for WP to LiveCode linking. We have completed an App that allows you to control most WP function from LiveCode using the REST API. It addiction we have a complete and detailed wrap of the WOO Commerce REST API. It has taken us six months to get this right and well tested. We will setup

Re: "unable to load foreign library"

Thanks! I'll move it there. I will need to remove the copies everywhere else once that works. > On Apr 14, 2016, at 5:30 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > Hi Dar! > > The dylib should be found if it is in resources/code/mac/ > > // This is the callback given to libscript

Re: "unable to load foreign library"

Hi Dar! The dylib should be found if it is in resources/code/mac/ // This is the callback given to libscript so that it can resolve the absolute // path of native code libraries used by foreign handlers in the module. At // the moment we use the resources path of the module, however it will need

Re: "unable to load foreign library"

I want to see the "Widgets by Dar" collection, too! I'm not sure if I want the snap-together widgets or the "who needs LabView when you have LiveCode" widgets first. I might start with some libraries. And I still haven't solved the issue with this error message. I've tried putting my

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

Mark - my comment refers to an earlier line in the description section. Your change to the list of references is correct, but the format of the reference within the description (I.e. The bit between < and >) is entryName(optionalType) rather than what it is at the moment, entryName optionalType

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

Thanks... I will take a look. I am grappling with another problem at the moment (and I need to download and install 8 so I can see what all the comments are about :) But Peter had me editing an entry for "sessionSavePath (property)" and then Ali said I should change it to " property" so it would

Re: "unable to load foreign library"

Now all he needs is someone who knows the answer. I'm looking forward to seeing the "Widgets By Dar" collection. :) On 4/14/2016 2:24 PM, Jim sims wrote: It's Dar! He Lives! He's Alive! Alive!! On Thursday, April 14, 2016, Phil Davis wrote: My sentiments exactly!

Re: Anyone have any LiveCode hooks to WordPress? And, are you following these Word Camp events

Thanks for the kind words Dave. The project involved using WooCommerce and WooCommerce Subscriptions. WooCommerce Subscriptions has numerous hooks that we could tie into everything depending on the event (e.g. Person activates a subscription) and CURL was used to pass that information to the

Re: specialfolderpaths on Windows >=8

Will you ever give them the option to write certain files to the desktop or is that becoming a bad idea too? JB > On Apr 14, 2016, at 12:24 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: > > On 4/14/2016 1:33 PM, Klaus major-k wrote: >> Hi firends, >> >> on Wndows XP and 7, I usually to

Re: "unable to load foreign library"

It's Dar! He Lives! He's Alive! Alive!! On Thursday, April 14, 2016, Phil Davis wrote: > My sentiments exactly! > > Phil Davis > > > On 4/14/16 12:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> On 4/14/2016 1:34 PM, Dar Scott wrote: >> >>> Dar "I'm back" Scott >>> >> >> Yay! >> >> >

Re: specialfolderpaths on Windows >=8

On 4/14/2016 1:33 PM, Klaus major-k wrote: > Hi firends, > > on Wndows XP and 7, I usually to store user preferences in > -> specialFolderPath(35) > ### For all users! > resp. > -> specialfolderpath(26) > ## for the current user only! > > Is this still valid for Windows 8, 9 and 10? > Thanks a

Re: "unable to load foreign library"

My sentiments exactly! Phil Davis On 4/14/16 12:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 4/14/2016 1:34 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Dar "I'm back" Scott Yay! -- Phil Davis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: "unable to load foreign library"

On 4/14/2016 1:34 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Dar "I'm back" Scott Yay! -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

On 4/14/2016 12:27 PM, Roland Huettmann wrote: There is a work-around for me: Not using "read until " but reading "at" "for" As Mark suggested, that implies that the search string is uncommon in the text and large amounts of data need to be parsed before a match is found. By reading for a

"unable to load foreign library"

I'm using LiveCode Builder in LC 8.0.0-rc-1 on Yosemite. I am getting the error "unable to load foreign library" on the first try of a call to a foreign handler. I am guessing that I don't have the .dylib in the right place. It is a couple folders down in a folder I put at /opt/ and

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On 4/13/2016 5:49 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Do you have Ali's latest version of the preview.livecode stack? Sorry I tried to find a link to it but I can only find one to the previous version. I downloaded the one at the bottom of the blog post only a few days ago and it appears to be the newest

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

Roland Huettmann wrote: > There is a work-around for me: > > Not using "read until " but reading "at" "for" > > I can read even 100 MB into memory (it does not create a big problem) > and then process using offset() and then reading the next pack of > data. You may find the sample stack

specialfolderpaths on Windows >=8

Hi firends, on Wndows XP and 7, I usually to store user preferences in -> specialFolderPath(35) ### For all users! resp. -> specialfolderpath(26) ## for the current user only! Is this still valid for Windows 8, 9 and 10? Thanks a lot in advance! Best Klaus -- Klaus Major

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

Hi all, great response. Enjoyable to read, and motivating a lot ))). > Mark: ... "When you say 'non-responsiveness' I take it you mean that Windows thinks that the application has 'hung'? (i.e. the windows go slightly opaque)." That is correct, Mark. As I understand it now, it is Windows

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

Roland Huettmann wrote: > And a more generalized question also discussed before: What exactly > happens when LC tries to read from a very very large file? Maybe it > is Gigabyte or even Terabyte file? It could just be too big to read > and it should then still not return empty or become

Re: errorDialog broken?

Mark Waddingham wrote: > The IDE engine itself doesn't have any special handling for errors > (relative to the standalone engine) - however, the IDE must be doing > something *somewhere* as the part of the engine which implements the > engine-side part of the debugger is distinct from the part

Re: errorDialog broken?

On 2016-04-14 17:06, Richard Gaskin wrote: It's almost like the IDE engine has had special handling added at some point to send errorDialog messages directly to one particular IDE script. To be fair, it does say in the dictionary under 'errorDialog': Note: The errorDialog message is only sent

Re: errorDialog broken?

Mark Waddingham wrote: > When the script debugger is active, errors indirect via a different > message (traceError) - so my hypothesis was that the debugger is > intervening and causing the target of the errorDialog message to > change so that your button is no longer in the message path, and

Re: Server Help Needed

too bad. Was hoping it would work, but I guess since it can't find certs at all, if it were me, I'd be talking to the provider to see if it can be fixed. It looks like the cert path is pointing to the wrong place, or the certs are missing entirely. On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 8:29 AM, Michael Doub

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

Mark Talluto wrote: > Version 7/8 are slower than version 6 in almost every way. Here are a > couple of bug reports on the issue: > > > > You may want to add this enhancement request to that

Re: errorDialog broken?

On 2016-04-14 16:22, Richard Gaskin wrote: What I get in the message box is just two lines: - the errorDialog handler in revbackscriptlibrary - mouseup from the button that starts the execution path. What could cause all other scripts to be bypassed to favor one particular backscript? My

Re: Server Help Needed

Humm ... no change when using curl -k On 4/14/16 10:06 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: Looks like the certificate setup at the receiving end (ridewithgps) not sure why it might have changed, but until you get that part tracked down, you might try using the -k curl option (which allows insecure ssl

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

Mark Waddingham wrote: > I wrote the above whilst waiting for my Windows VM to spin up... One more reason to consider VirtualBox. Being free is just icing: I switched because I found it much faster in restoring VM sessions than any other VM software I've used. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: errorDialog broken?

Mark Waddingham wrote: > On 2016-04-13 22:46, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Ralph DiMola wrote: >> >>> It works in a library stack. In fact it also catches IDE errors. >> >> Thanks. I found the culprit: I hadn't yet turned off "Debug Mode" >> (still don't know why the default is to create yet one

Re: Server Help Needed

Looks like the certificate setup at the receiving end (ridewithgps) not sure why it might have changed, but until you get that part tracked down, you might try using the -k curl option (which allows insecure ssl connections with some exceptions.. wrong domain certs will still fail) On Thu, Apr

Re: selObj changed?

Mark Waddingham wrote: > One possibility is that the changes in the way the IDE works in v8 > is causing one of your plugins to do things in a slightly different > order causing a selected state to be set *after* the tool has been > changed. Very helpful - thanks. I'll keep that in mind as I

Server Help Needed

I need some help in understanding what is going on with my hostm server relating to security. I have a script that was working fine for several weeks and now it is no longer functioning. Obviously something changed. put shell (("curl -s" && baseURL & RouteNbr & "/cue_sheet")) into tSource

Re: Anyone have any LiveCode hooks to WordPress? And, are you following these Word Camp events

About a year ago I asked Simon Smith (sometimes active on this list, runs a nice LiveCode resource at http://activethought.net/about/) to help me create a 'code bridge' between a Wordpress website and LiveCode Server I also had WooCommerce installed on WordPress which I think in some ways made

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

On 4/14/2016 5:43 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > When you say 'non-responsiveness' I take it you mean that Windows > thinks that the application has 'hung'? (i.e. the windows go slightly > opaque). This may or may not be related, but I have some code that does lots of data manipulation in a big

Re: selObj changed?

On 2016-04-13 23:46, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ali Lloyd wrote: Not a feature, and I can't reproduce it here. Is it Linux-specific? Perhaps, haven't tested it elsewhere. It seems to be related to how one of my plugins works, but it's behaving differently in v8 than before. I'll pin down the

Re: errorDialog broken?

On 2016-04-13 22:46, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ralph DiMola wrote: It works in a library stack. In fact it also catches IDE errors. Thanks. I found the culprit: I hadn't yet turned off "Debug Mode" (still don't know why the default is to create yet one more difference between IDE and runtime,

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

Hi Roland, On 2016-04-13 12:03, Roland Huettmann wrote: NON-RESPONSIVENESS USING "UNTIL" READ I found opening a very large text file (my file is 26 GB), simply reading from it up to 90 MB of data in each iteration, using an offset () function processing the read junk of data, and iterating

Re: Indy Licensing

Dear List Folks, Robert is quite right. The policy is that personal licensing questions are off topic and should be addressed to support, but general questions about how the licensing works are fine - provided they remain polite and do not go on ad-infinitum. Once the topic becomes an

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

Thanks a lot for replies Mark and Monte and for everyone ) I like to stress that this is planned to be a version for a real product to everyone out there... working with large files. The anomaly starts immediately after calling the handler whether or not an individual block of data is parsed.

Re: Bugs in 8.0.0 RC1 and trying to convince a colleague that LC is *not* flaky

> On 14 Apr 2016, at 4:20 PM, RunRevPlanet wrote: > > Thanks Monte, you have made the solution seem so easy, but as someone who has > never made the time to delve in the IDE source, I wouldn't have known where to > start. It was quite easy to find by just setting a

Re: Bugs in 8.0.0 RC1 and trying to convince a colleague that LC is *not* flaky

Quoting Monte Goulding : > I've worked out a fix for this... Thanks Monte, you have made the solution seem so easy, but as someone who has never made the time to delve in the IDE source, I wouldn't have known where to start. Quoting RM : > Well,

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

> On 14 Apr 2016, at 3:49 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > Don't you hate it when you hit Send and immediately realise there is a > simpler solution. Don't need to ask for your fork name, I can just use the / > livecode/livecode/ fork to demonstrate the same thing: > > on

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

> on mouseUp > put the htmltext of widget 1 of stack "revDictionary" into tText > filter lines of tText with "* 12px" & quote & ">*" > get matchText(tText,".+>(.+?)",tName) > replace " " with "-" in tName > get matchText(tText,">type ,tType) > ask "Please enter your GItHub fork