Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-24 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
It's hardly 'Code Once' then. You absolutely HAVE to write for each OS specifically. Livecode DOES NOT pull up the slack and make it work cross-platform identically as insinuated in their homepage. Yet again, everyone happy to make excuses in accepting their fate to have to do all the work twice.

Re: Basic question about behaviors

2020-08-24 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
Wouldn’t it just be “me”? And “this me” should be the behavior object. Sent from my iPhone > On Aug 24, 2020, at 11:19 PM, prothero--- via use-livecode > wrote: > > I have assigned a behavior to a button. The behavior button/source is on a > different stack. It works fine. But a click on a

Basic question about behaviors

2020-08-24 Thread prothero--- via use-livecode
I have assigned a behavior to a button. The behavior button/source is on a different stack. It works fine. But a click on a movie player, on the same card, triggers the mouseUp handler in the behavior, which I don’t want to happen. It seems odd that this would happen, but I need to fix it. My

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-24 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On August 24, 2020 5:01:54 PM "Sean Cole \(Pi\) via use-livecode" wrote: The font IS embedded. Not a problem using the font itself. It is the same physical font on the two platforms. That's not what I'm asking when you read past paragraph one. HowTF do you get them to show up in the same

Re: iOS app denied: AVAudioSession

2020-08-24 Thread Dan Friedman via use-livecode
Update... Turns out, I was looking for the call for microphone consent in the wrong place. I was looking at app launch, but it was appearing when using mergAVCamCreate. So, I AM seeing the microphone consent even though I am not using the Microphone. Here's what I'm doing: on mouseUp //a

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-24 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Sean Cole wrote: > What is the current 'workaround' everyone is using when creating a > cross-platform app to make sure that all text appears the same > regardless of platform? Particularly between Windows and Mac for > me at the moment. Font metrics will differ between OSes because the

Strange behavior between Mysql, MariaDB and SSL.

2020-08-24 Thread Heriberto Torrado via use-livecode
Dear livecode programmers, For a few years we ran an internal app that accessed a MariaDB database (no PHP or LiveCode Server middleware, just a raw connection) using SSL. The server running the database is old, so we moved to a new one. The new one comes with a Mysql 8 Database instead of

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-24 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
Hi Richmond, buddy. The font IS embedded. Not a problem using the font itself. It is the same physical font on the two platforms. That's not what I'm asking when you read past paragraph one. HowTF do you get them to show up in the same 'fin place though (ie, the pixel placement of the text

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-24 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
How about embedding your fonts in the standalone? On 24.08.20 23:49, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: Hi all, What is the current 'workaround' everyone is using when creating a cross-platform app to make sure that all text appears the same regardless of platform? Particularly between

Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-24 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
Hi all, What is the current 'workaround' everyone is using when creating a cross-platform app to make sure that all text appears the same regardless of platform? Particularly between Windows and Mac for me at the moment. My client provided the font they needed in line with their tv show brand.

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 236

2020-08-24 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi all, Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #236 here: https://bit.ly/2FJ4yt5 This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and