Re: Our first Community Zoom Session

Mark Wieder wrote: > I'm *very* impressed with Zoom's engineering team, rolling out a new > version to quash this vulnerability asap. I got prompted to install > the new version this morning. Upgrading was painless. Not only is > Zoom being super-responsive about this (and given the publicity

Re: Our first Community Zoom Session

The proper security fixes come on April 5th I’m told. Today’s fixes were just a whole bunch of usability and feature fixes. But, even so, it ‘is’ very quick. I’m guessing their super happy people hooked onto them over the last two weeks. To the point that people everywhere are using Zoom as a

Re: Our first Community Zoom Session

On 4/2/20 5:43 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: I'd be more concerned about this vuln if I were running Windows. Luckily there's a simple group policy or registry fix.

Re: Getting started with geographical coordinates

And I'm at plump.magpie.tightest (sorry, no calculated height available, not even in annoying feet - but I'd guess somewhere around 2 or 3 metres). Alex. On 03/04/2020 23:07, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote: A long way from me at 43°16′43″N 2°09′36″E

Re: Hide stack change focus not supported 64bit

Bob, What file(s) do I need to add? When I try adding to Stack Properties it won’t let me select macOStools.lcb. I can add other files in the standalone builder I still don’t see macOStools.lcb in the Inclusions and it doesn’t hide. I think I need more complete instructions. Thank you, Bill

Re: Getting started with geographical coordinates

I feel that Calculate Distance script has been shared before, because it looks strikingly similar to one that I use in my mobile app (and is WAY better written than I ever could have done), so thank you. Recently I was tasked by my cousin to come up with a delivery system for his brewery since

Re: Getting started with geographical coordinates

A long way from me at 43°16′43″N 2°09′36″E - and much higher (I’m about 130m). Sorry not to be quite so accurate! Thanks Graham > On 3 Apr 2020, at 22:28, Devin Asay via

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Ralph, thanks very much. It’s late here, but this will get my full attention shortly! Graham > On 3 Apr 2020, at 23:27, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > wrote: > > Graham, > > This my distance calculation for what it's worth. > > Function distance lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2, unit > --

RE: Getting started with geographical coordinates

Thanks Bob. Whoops... I forgot to include this: Function deg2rad deg Return (deg * PI / 180.0) end deg2rad Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On

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Ralph, this is brilliant. I remember trying to do something similar years ago, and giving up because I didn't know how to do the math. I suck at math, or rather I am too lazy and impatient to work the problem. Bob S > On Apr 3, 2020, at 14:27 , Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > wrote: > >

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Graham, This my distance calculation for what it's worth. Function distance lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2, unit -- Calculate Distance between to points -- --lat1, lon1, lat2, lon2 are in deg.fractionalDegrees -- Unit -- if empty then miles -- K = kilometers -- N =

RE: Getting started with geographical coordinates

Graham, If Detailed is specified then an array with these 8 keys are returned. Example values are actual from an Android device. "Altitude" integer in annoying meters. Ex: 88 "course" floating point in degrees Ex: 321.5 (I was walking due north) "horizontal accuracy" integer also in annoying

Re: Strange times, amazing projects

Skip, have you tried the Google geocoding web service? Give it an address or landmark, and get back latitude/longitude coordinates. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/start Fairly simple to get into, a snap to implement in LiveCode, and free until you exceed a certain

Re: Ready to go

On Mar 31, 2020, at 12:13 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: > > I know you guys just had a 30% sale to start the year...but Christmas > killed us with customer missing in action so I couldn't do it at the > time. :( > They don’t have much left to sell me but a lifetime upgrade from

Re: Getting started with geographical coordinates

Most of the mobileSomething are wrappers around the system functions so you can learn a lot by reading the ios developer documentation as most of the functions started there. And reading the docs I can see that you probably get a CLLocationCoordinate2D from the system and that is in turn two

Re: Getting started with geographical coordinates

Graham, You get back lat and long in degrees and fractions of degrees, as a decimal numeral. For instance, I get latitude: 40.248676 and longitude: -111.651062, and for good measure altitude in meters at 1398.380493. Wow, now you all know exactly where I am! Devin > On Apr 3, 2020, at 1:49

Re: Getting started with geographical coordinates

This is cheeky but I can’t run up my mobile simulation today - can someone tell me the format of the geographical coordinates produced by mobileSensorReading et al. I mean, is say latitude just one integer showing seconds, or is it deg, min, sec - and are fractional seconds returned (so,

Re: DataGrid question: Suggestions for further enhancements

Roland wrote Thu, 02 Apr 2020 04:08:51 -0700: Thank you Roland for your detailed list of possible improvements to modTableField > + Selecting columns: > > marking selected columns I will have to think about that > + Dragging and dropping columns and rows presently it is possible to drag

Re: Getting started with geographical coordinates

Thanks Ralph, that really helps, along with Devin’s tutorial as well I should be able to make progress. Graham > On 3 Apr 2020, at 18:14, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > wrote: > > > mobileLocationAuthorizationStatus() will tell you if the OS app setting will > allow location tracking >

Re: Getting started with geographical coordinates

Wow, Devin, that is luck! I shall look at it instantly. I have got a little further on my own but am rather disturbed that there seem to be iOS functions with no Android equivalent, e.g. mergCLDistanceBetween - but I am still totally ignorant really. Thanks Graham > On 3 Apr 2020, at 17:42,

Re: DataGrid question...

> Bernard Devlin via use-livecode Fri, 03 Apr 2020 11:23:08 -0700 > Reminds me of the work of the late great Eric Chatonet Thanks Bernhard for your kind words. But Eric is in my memory such a super coder and his code was crystal clear. Whereas my code is, um, less so. > I see only one

Strange times, amazing projects

Good afternoon LC'ers (evening to some), Enjoyed the Zoom chat today and it was good to see all of your faces again. It has been way too long. Over the past couple of years I have been sidetracked from LC as I have not had the need to be as hands on as I once was. Now, however, I am forced to

Re: DataGrid question...

Hi Bernd Your modTableField is very impressive. Reminds me of the work of the late, great Eric Chatonet (author of many works on Hypercard). I see only one slight problem: after I click into a cell a trace of the I beam is left behind on leaving the cell (this becomes visible on selecting

Re: Our first Community Zoom Session

Hmm. Think maybe some timezone confusion? We started at 4pm UK time, its now 5.19pm... Best Heather Heather Laine Customer Services Manager LiveCode Ltd www.livecode.com > On 3 Apr 2020, at 17:14, Tom Glod via use-livecode > wrote: > > Is it already over ? its only 12:20 EST and its

Re: Our first Community Zoom Session

Is it already over ? its only 12:20 EST and its saying the start is at 11 AM... if I am the host I should log in Am I crazy to expect "Meeting is over". if its over? On Fri, Apr 3, 2020 at 11:29 AM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 4/2/20 9:34 AM,

RE: Getting started with geographical coordinates

mobileLocationAuthorizationStatus() will tell you if the OS app setting will allow location tracking mobileSensorAvailable("location") will tell you if there is a location sensor mobileStartTrackingSensor "Location", [true|false] will start the tracking. mobileSensorReading("location",

Re: Go to card has become slow

Mark, you may have answered why it is my Forms Generator app is running so slow on Windows. I don’t use transactions and I make multiple queries for most transactions. Bob S On Apr 3, 2020, at 1:42 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: On

Re: Go to card has become slow

What may help in the future to eliminate possible script issues, is to use a text editor that has the capability of comparing two scripts and showing you the difference. Most of the code editors have addams that will do this. Bob S On Apr 3, 2020, at 1:25 AM, Terence Heaford via use-livecode

Re: Getting started with geographical coordinates

Hi Graham, As fate would have it I just created a video tutorial for my students on reading mobile device sensors. http://livecode.byu.edu/mobile/devicesensors-index.php Hope you find these useful. Devin On Apr 3, 2020, at 9:18 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode

Re: DataGrid question: Suggestions for further enhancements (Bob Sneidar)

:-) I wasn’t arguing, just pointing out that before the data grid, the community was practically begging RunRev for some kind of robust table object, BECAUSE the table field was so unwieldy. That others have found ways in the interim to enhance the table field is nothing short of astounding,

Re: Our first Community Zoom Session

On 4/2/20 9:34 AM, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote: I think the that’s midnight PST . . . Also, I would ask that you to *not* submit our email address to zoom, but instead send the code to the lit, or by your own servers to our email—it came out in the last couple of days that, just a zoom

Getting started with geographical coordinates

Hi I am reviving my LiveCode skills in these troubled times, and I want to do something that involves the location of a device using GPS. A very rapid (obviously too rapid) search of the documentation finds commands like iphoneStartTrackingLocation, but no link to a description of how one

Re: How to find the column and row of a basic tableField

Probably has to do with margins. Bob S On Apr 2, 2020, at 11:42 PM, Håkan Liljegren via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: It works for tables with or without date but doesn’t handle tables with variable row heights as that was not the case at the moment. To get it

Re: Hide stack change focus not supported 64bit

Open Stack Properties, add to the stackfiles. Also in the standalone builder you can add other files and folders that are not stack files. Bob S On Apr 2, 2020, at 9:33 PM, Bill Vlahos via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: I don’t see it in the inclusions tab. How

RE: Go to card has become slow

On Windows I have seen a slow down on some but not all cards when the SE is open. Close the SE and everything speeds back up. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode

Re: Go to card has become slow

I have now copied the modified scripts from the project version that was slow and reapplied them to the previous version which was running fast. Applying the modified scripts has not resulted in any slowdown of the version they have been applied to. So, I cannot understand why the project

RE: Answer Dialog in Stack now

Hi Bob, Did you take into account the release notes (LiveCode 9.4) about Standalone Building? StandaloneBuilding The standalone builder has always needed to close the stacks it builds for reasons pretty deeplyin grained in the code. However this causes a few problems, for example: - values

Re: DataGrid question: Suggestions for further enhancements (Bob Sneidar)

@ Bob S Sure, you are right that the DG data grid supports most of what users might wish to have. My point was that there is a nice enhancement to the table field from Bernd Niggemann and that it could even be further enhanced -- without arguing about DG vs table field. Even if that would only

Re: Go to card has become slow

On 2020-04-03 09:25, Terence Heaford via use-livecode wrote: Fortunately I have Time Machine running on my mac. I have gone back to a previous copy from the 01 April 2020 and this project is running at full speed. I have made no modifications to the underlying functionality of this project

Re: Go to card has become slow

Fortunately I have Time Machine running on my mac. I have gone back to a previous copy from the 01 April 2020 and this project is running at full speed. I have made no modifications to the underlying functionality of this project other than some modifications to SQLite scripts to improve

Re: How to find the column and row of a basic tableField

With risk of going slightly off-topic, but also showing yet another code example. I had exactly this problem some time ago and came up with the following solution: getProp clickedRowCol    # calc Row => TODO: Handle row with variable row heights    put the clickV - the top of me - the