LiveCode to eLearning

2016-09-29 Thread William Jamieson
Today I would like to announce that we are going to be setting up a meeting on Thursday, October 6th, 9am PST to talk about how we can create an integration between LiveCode and the standardized eLearning compatibility systems such as xAPI, TinCan, LTI etc. The goal of this project is to allow

Re: How to make my app keep running in the bg

2016-09-29 Thread William Prothero
Scott: I think I’ve got it. mobileLockIdleTimer Best, Bill > On Sep 29, 2016, at 5:46 PM, William Prothero wrote: > > Scott: > I use the native sound player to play the sounds. Actually, what I really > want to do is to keep the app in the foreground. I play the

Re: How to make my app keep running in the bg

2016-09-29 Thread William Prothero
Scott: I use the native sound player to play the sounds. Actually, what I really want to do is to keep the app in the foreground. I play the audio through my wifi and if it goes to background, the wifi gets disconnected and it’s a real pain. A previous version of this app stayed in the

Re: How to make my app keep running in the bg

2016-09-29 Thread William Prothero
Scott: I use the native sound player to play the sounds. Actually, what I really want to do is to keep the app in the foreground. I play the audio through my wifi and if it goes to background, the wifi gets disconnected and it’s a real pain. A previous version of this app stayed in the

How to make my app keep running in the bg

2016-09-29 Thread William Prothero
Folks: I have an app that plays sounds and I don’t want the iPhone to stop playing them when the phone hibernates. I also have a timer that runs and I don’t want it to stop after a minute or so. So, how can I keep an app up front and running without constantly touching the screen? I know

Re: reloading iOS provisioning profiles etc

2016-09-29 Thread William Prothero
Dave Kilroy: Dave, your prescription for loading the iOS app really helped a lot!!! I got the app onto my iPhone is less than an hour and most of that was spent making icons. It solves a problem of using very complex software to do a rather simple task and it’s so easy to go wrong at any step.

Re: tsneterr ???

2016-09-29 Thread Charles Warwick
Hi Klaus, both together form a valid pathname, of course! Anyway I get: tsneterr: (21) QUOT string not accepted: DELE /the_above_menitoned/pathname I see this in a standalone. And yes I know tsNet is the new external that replaces (more or less) libUrl, but does it not support DELETE URL XXX?

Re: testflight

2016-09-29 Thread Dave Kilroy
Jacque’s AirLaunch > Is anyone else using testFlight? What is your favorite way to generate the > .ipa file? > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: corrupted stack

2016-09-29 Thread Mike Kerner
Well, it does not open mine. I just tried. On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 2:45 PM, mwieder wrote: > Richard Gaskin wrote > > Thanks for filing that report, Mark. > > > > Just to clarify: the issue is limited to saving in legacy format 2.7 or > > earlier - is that corrrect? > >

Re: corrupted stack

2016-09-29 Thread mwieder
Richard Gaskin wrote > Thanks for filing that report, Mark. > > Just to clarify: the issue is limited to saving in legacy format 2.7 or > earlier - is that corrrect? Not entirely. That was one method of getting corrupted stacks, but there's another bug report I filed as well where a stack just

Re: corrupted stack

2016-09-29 Thread Mike Kerner
I sent him a copy of mine, just in case. On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:51 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > well, I'm not saving in legacy format. > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Richard Gaskin < > ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > >> Mike Kerner wrote: >> >> > I just ran

Re: corrupted stack

2016-09-29 Thread Mike Kerner
well, I'm not saving in legacy format. On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Mike Kerner wrote: > > > I just ran into this, yesterday. I don't know if it matters that I > > was using glx2 at the time, or not, but it was my foray into using > >

tsneterr ???

2016-09-29 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi friends, I have a stack that I have been using for years, some simple FTP and HTML stuff, but with LC 8.1 I get an error when I use: ... delete URL (zielordner & todel) ... where "zielordner" is a valid folder on my server, "todel" a valid filename and both together form a valid pathname, of

Re: corrupted stack

2016-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Kerner wrote: > I just ran into this, yesterday. I don't know if it matters that I > was using glx2 at the time, or not, but it was my foray into using > glx2 in about a year. > > On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 12:03 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > >> On 04/21/2016 08:39 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: >> >>> I

Re: Opening a stack without a .livecode extension

2016-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Graham Samuel wrote: > Thanks Richard. You're right (of course!), it’s a path problem. But > it’s a pretty subtle one, since I obtained the path by executing > put specialFolderPath("preferences") & “/my preferences" into > tPrefsPath > > Which should have given me a cast iron result. Turns out

Re: corrupted stack

2016-09-29 Thread mwieder
Probably not glx2 itself, although LC8 did corrupt a build of glx2 and I had to revert to an archived copy. That's filed as a separated (but maybe related) bug report, and Panos says it should be fixed with 8.1.1. I haven't gone back to check that out, but I can also say that 8.1.1 hasn't produced

Re: Opening a stack without a .livecode extension

2016-09-29 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Richard. You're right (of course!), it’s a path problem. But it’s a pretty subtle one, since I obtained the path by executing put specialFolderPath("preferences") & “/my preferences" into tPrefsPath Which should have given me a cast iron result. Turns out that this produces a path with

testflight

2016-09-29 Thread Mike Kerner
Is anyone else using testFlight? What is your favorite way to generate the .ipa file? -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said,

Re: Opening a stack without a .livecode extension

2016-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Graham wrote: > I’ve got a preferences stack which is called something like “my > preferences”. It’s not called “my preferences.livecode”. It’s a > mainstack, not a substack of any other. The path to the stack is > of the form > > /Users/Graham/Library/Preferences/my preferences > > If I put the

Re: [OT] Looking for a statistic

2016-09-29 Thread Roger Eller
On Sep 28, 2016 1:25 PM, "Richard Gaskin" wrote: > > Recent metrics suggest that on mobile devices users spend about 80% of their time in apps, with only 20% in their phone's browser: Depending on which browser a user prefers, and whether it supports user-agent

Opening a stack from an OSX library

2016-09-29 Thread Graham Samuel
I just sent this mail under the wrong subject - please ignore that version! G I’ve got a preferences stack which is called something like “my preferences”. It’s not called “my preferences.livecode”. It’s a mainstack, not a substack of any other. The path to the stack is of the form

Re: [OT] Looking for a statistic

2016-09-29 Thread Mike Kerner
There are other ways that the stats can be gleaned - protocol headers, for one, but you have to find someone who is collecting them and is sharing the info. On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:16 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > Hi Richard - I think you may struggle to find that number,

Opening a stack without a .livecode extension

2016-09-29 Thread Graham Samuel
I’ve got a preferences stack which is called something like “my preferences”. It’s not called “my preferences.livecode”. It’s a mainstack, not a substack of any other. The path to the stack is of the form /Users/Graham/Library/Preferences/my preferences If I put the path to the stack in a

Re: LC 8.1.1. rc1 thinks I'm rich!

2016-09-29 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Monte for your instant reply! The way I normally do development is to load my splash stack into the IDE, and when I’m ready to test, send a ‘startup’ message via the message box. I don’t expect the IDE to fire startup on my behalf. This means that I can start a test within the IDE

Re: LC 8.1.1. rc1 thinks I'm rich!

2016-09-29 Thread Monte Goulding
Graham Does your stack either not handle startup or pass startup? In either of those cases the home stack startup script is probably being run again. So there’s an easy workaround for you: don’t pass startup or make sure you handle it. But it would be good if you also reported this because

LC 8.1.1. rc1 thinks I'm rich!

2016-09-29 Thread Graham Samuel
Just installed 8.1.1rc1. I have an Indy licence, which it acknowledges. I then open a stack I’m working on and try to send it a message via the message box: send startup to cd 1 of stack “mystack” The window warning that the Indy license is only valid for organisations with a turnover of $500K

Re: Help Adding Cookie support to libURL

2016-09-29 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 29/09/2016 02:30, Trevor DeVore wrote: Hey gang, I've been going through a customized version of libURL that I've distributed with the GLX App Framework for years and incorporating the changes into libURL. Some additions are new features while others are bug fixes. Some changes have been