Re: The Most Stupid Question Ever?

2020-11-10 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
hazy back then, what with having to watch for dinosaurs and large predators with teeth like swords. Bob S > On Nov 10, 2020, at 12:03 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Ah! That would have to mean that script interaction with the message box is > using send in t

Re: The Most Stupid Question Ever?

2020-11-10 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
ssage box. Works just fine, like it ought to. Craig -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Bob Sneidar via use-livecode Sent: Monday, November 09, 2020 12:04 PM To: How to use LiveCode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com&g

Re: The Most Stupid Question Ever?

2020-11-09 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I have seen this sort of thing before with the wait command. Very frustrating. Apparently Livecode is not *strictly* single threaded. Bob S > On Nov 8, 2020, at 22:31 , Roger Guay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Thank you, Mark. You’re very kind! And very helpful. I do remember now how >

Re: Is the DateFormat read only?

2020-11-09 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Your code contains a smart quote and an em dash. This works: function fUTCTime local t1,t2,t3 -- this gets the current time and puts it into UTC format, i.e -MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD put word 5 to 6 of the internet date into t3 -- we are interested in the time and time zone put the

Re: Segmented Control Widget

2020-11-09 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I believe so. In my custom tabbed object group, I had to put transparent buttons over the tabs, then have a way to size and rearrange the buttons to match the size of the tabs, just so I could get it to respond to mouse messages and drag/drop operations. It's so ugly it's cute. Like a shar-pei.

Re: Segmented Control Widget

2020-11-05 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
The segmented control is fairly limited. Most of the widgets are. The properties you see are the properties you get. I did however, with a bit of clever scripting, develop a tabbed object group that works as well or better that the built in tabbed button. And for a bonus, it looks in Windows

Re: Plotting Equations that Bifurcate

2020-11-04 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
The plot sickens… Bob S On Nov 4, 2020, at 3:58 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: On 11/4/20 3:37 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode wrote: Neil DeGraph Tyson? On Nov 4, 2020, at 3:09 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode

Re: Ideas on iOS GPS tracking needed

2020-11-03 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Seems to me if you are tracking linear movement, you need to average the trending values, say the last 5 or 10 reads, against a time base, and reject the ones outside an acceptable tolerance. You may reject some good data here and there, but something grossly outside tolerance should be pretty

Re: Query large CSV file as a data source?

2020-11-03 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Just read for 10,000 lines and check for empty each time. Bob S > On Nov 3, 2020, at 7:09 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode > wrote: > > Regarding the loop. > > you could do a > > put the detailed files > > to get the file size of that csv file. > > With that size you would now how

Re: Plotting Equations that Bifurcate

2020-10-30 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Last time I plotted an equation while bifurcating, I was pretty drunk, and don't remember much. Bob S > On Oct 29, 2020, at 15:03 , Roger Guay via use-livecode > wrote: > > I am trying to plot an equation that bifurcates by setting the points of a > polygon as I iterate the equation. But

Re: Is the DateFormat read only?

2020-10-30 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I have a formatDate() function (not to be confused with dateFormat) that has a few extra formats, one I call sql date for instance which is -mm-dd (and another function for time so I can produce a datetime compatible for SQL databases). I suppose it can be expanded for other formats, but

Re: Is the DateFormat read only?

2020-10-29 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I believe that when you convert a pure time to dateitems it assumes the current date. The date has no time component so it assumes midnight of the current date. Bob S > On Oct 29, 2020, at 04:04 , Graham Samuel via use-livecode > wrote: > > Just FYI, I think the dictionary is wrong or

Re: Livecode server UNIX version (not Linux).

2020-10-29 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Are we sure about this?? I thought Apple had moved completely away from BSD a long while back. Bob S > On Oct 28, 2020, at 12:53 , Heriberto Torrado via use-livecode > wrote: > > Thanks Andre, > > I realized that BSD kernels are not the same as MacOS kernels. > As you say: MacOS has a

Re: Line length

2020-10-26 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I have a field on one of my apps whose width needs to change depending on content, but there is a minimum and a maximum width aspect, so that an empty field doesn’t appear like a weird tiny rectangle or stretch to overlap other objects. I use something like: if the formattedWidth of field x

Re: DG outcomes on desktop vs mobile

2020-10-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I got into the habit of setting the dgdata to empty before populating it because I ran into issues where my own code set the dgdata to something not an array, and this seems to bork the data grid. I think it was an empty array, or an empty record. This didn’t show up as a blank line however,

Re: Question about Windows 10 for Surface

2020-10-20 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Yes. It’s Windows 10. I do not thing there is anything different about a tablet running Windows 10 and a PC. There WERE some mobile devices running some sort of Windows OS that was NOT v10, but I haven’t seen one of those in years. They were as I understand it a total flop. People who want

Re: SQL Show Status

2020-10-20 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I’m wondering what status you are trying to retrieve. If you are wanting to see if the SQL database is accessible/online, using an actual query has it’s drawbacks. Querying an SQL database that is inaccessible will result in a 60 second timeout during which Livecode will be unresponsive. What

Re: Textsize of label of copied btn changes

2020-10-19 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
One of those gotchas that you learn once and never forget. It's really handy when you want to change the look and feel of an entire stack, or each card in a stack. It REALLY is handy when creating cross platform apps and you want to use one font for both Windows and Mac without having to change

Re: Anyone archived the information from http://andregarzia.com/async.irev

2020-10-13 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Whew! That would have been a substantial loss. I remember when this was the hot topic of the day. Nice work Andre. Bob S On Oct 12, 2020, at 2:30 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Hi Andre, thanks for the offer, but i am sure i found now the

Re: The iOS "Files" folder

2020-10-13 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I’m gonna say you have a bone to pick with Apple. Bob S On Oct 12, 2020, at 4:34 PM, John Balgenorth via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: So for school children who are interested in keeping their work for the rest of their life it all depends on Apples mood since it

Re: The iOS "Files" folder

2020-10-13 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I’ll have to take issue with that one. If your device is set to sync to the cloud, your notes will be preserver. There’s no unlikely about it. The only way they would not sync is if you had sync turned off for notes. In that case it is not only likely but certain you will lose any new data

Re: The iOS "Files" folder

2020-10-12 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
It is my understanding that each app has it’s own storage are and that this is sandboxed from other apps. That being said, there is obviously a way for an app to request permission from the iOS to access another app’s storage. I’m not sure if Livecode has that mechanism though. it’s probably

Livecode and Non-Responsiveness

2020-10-12 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Hi all. Just to confirm, my iMac was very unresponsive again, only this time I quit Livecode, that took a couple minutes to completely quit, then my iMac became responsive again. That doesn’t prove anything in itself. Something else may have been leaking memory and quitting Livecode just

Re: Big Sur bugs

2020-10-09 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
So my custom tabbed object would come in handy then. :-) Bob S On Oct 8, 2020, at 5:31 PM, Marty Knapp via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: In my testing of LC apps running under Big Sur I have run into the following bugs running LC 9.6.1: 1) Tabbed buttons: The

Re: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-07 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
We can just send a man to mars. Same deal. :-) Bob S On Oct 6, 2020, at 6:08 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: So "just" changing from 32k to 64k isn't as easy as putting the word "just" in front of it might make it seem. :)

Re: Getting URL to Work in specialFolderDocuments

2020-10-02 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
You are putting a file from a url into a variable called tLocalDocumentsStories & sStoryTitle & "/" & sStoryTitle & ".livecode”. You should probably have a variable with the full path to the file: put tLocalDocumentsStories & sStoryTitle & "/" & sStoryTitle & ".livecode” into tFilePath Then

Re: ICS Generation

2020-10-01 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Thanks Alex. I already downloaded the git zip file. I’ll have a look. Bob S > On Oct 1, 2020, at 3:33 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > wrote: > > I don't know of one - but the minimal version (i.e. all-day events only, no > repeating events, no multiple timezones) should be really

Re: ICS Generation

2020-10-01 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Ditto. I would LOVE to be able to not only WRITE events but READ them too. On a Mac I could probably AppleScript it (given a LOT of time doing almost exclusively research and trial and error) but on Windows I think it becomes a lot more difficult/impossible without a real C compiled API.

Re: Modal stacks cpu usage

2020-10-01 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I’ll weigh in here. I have noticed at times my Mac becoming slow and extremely laggy to input. Quitting all my apps, including LC seems to resolve it, although I never dug in any deeper. (Honestly I thought it was a Chrome or web page issue and I am used to those.) Next time I see the issue I

Re: How to delete cards but card 1

2020-09-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
You cannot delete a card that contains a running script unless you send in time. If you delete the last card of a stack if will create a new card as otherwise there would be no stack. So this script it seems would run forever. Bob S > On Sep 28, 2020, at 6:02 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami

Re: I Have a Problem With a Plug-In

2020-09-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Before launching your stack, select Suppress Messages from the Development menu. Bob S > On Sep 27, 2020, at 1:52 AM, FlexibleLearning.com via use-livecode > wrote: > > Assuming your openCard handler is in the script of card 1, from the message > box... > > edit the script of cd 1 of

Re: included inclusions

2020-09-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
If you manually select an inclusion that api is included in the project. I think the whole point of manual inclusions is to bypass what the engine thinks it ought to include. Bob S > On Sep 25, 2020, at 10:40 PM, scott--- via use-livecode > wrote: > > If I have an inclusion selected in

Re: Accessing files on a local network file server - BEST PRACTICE?

2020-09-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
After a little experimenting it appears that open file does not create a new file on OS X mount points! I can open a file that already exists but it will not create a new file. You learn something new every day! Bob S > On Sep 25, 2020, at 4:21 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >

Re: Accessing files on a local network file server - BEST PRACTICE?

2020-09-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Hmmm. Neither does open file for read… Bob S > On Sep 25, 2020, at 4:20 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Even worse, if the mount point is mounted it does not create the file. > > Bob S > > >> On Sep 25, 2020, at 4:18 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >

Re: Accessing files on a local network file server - BEST PRACTICE?

2020-09-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Even worse, if the mount point is mounted it does not create the file. Bob S > On Sep 25, 2020, at 4:18 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Unfortunately, if it fails no error is generated, and nothing is in the > result or the it variable. > > Bob SW &g

Re: Accessing files on a local network file server - BEST PRACTICE?

2020-09-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Unfortunately, if it fails no error is generated, and nothing is in the result or the it variable. Bob SW On Sep 25, 2020, at 3:56 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: On my Mac this form works to a Win 10 smb share put url

Re: Accessing files on a local network file server - BEST PRACTICE?

2020-09-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
“path not accessible”, “write access denied”, “file already exists” etc. Bob S On Sep 25, 2020, at 2:28 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: OK using your convention I cannot even open a file with the server mounted and an actual file that DOES

Re: Accessing files on a local network file server - BEST PRACTICE?

2020-09-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
OK using your convention I cannot even open a file with the server mounted and an actual file that DOES exist! (//servername/mountpoint/pathtofile/filename) Bob S > On Sep 25, 2020, at 2:22 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Have you tried opening the file t

Re: Accessing files on a local network file server - BEST PRACTICE?

2020-09-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Have you tried opening the file then checking the result? Bob S > On Sep 25, 2020, at 12:13 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 9/25/2020 2:42 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: >> I know very little about Windows network addresses, but from the example you >> gave,

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
FYI I have a rudimentary document storage system developed where I can “check out” a document from my app so that no one else can check it out, which downloads the file from it’s repository into a temp folder. The user can then edit or work with the file, then check it in. It RETAINS the

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Yes I understand that I was thinking of using the method for something I need. Bob S On Sep 23, 2020, at 11:47 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: No lookup table is needed at all if the relationship between the original string and the resulting

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
ookup table. > > Like the old saying goes, "There are two hard problems in computer science: > cache invalidation, and naming things". > > Lookup tables are effectively a form of cache, a secondary replication of > data, very useful at times but best avoided unless ab

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Will binaryEncode get you back to the filename? Bob S On Sep 23, 2020, at 8:03 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: J. Landman Gay write: > I'm looking for a way to create non-unicode file names > based on the string that comes out of the

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Duh. That was a stupid question. How do you get back to the filename? Bob S On Sep 23, 2020, at 8:08 AM, Bob Sneidar mailto:bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com>> wrote: Will binaryEncode get you back to the filename? Bob S On Sep 23, 2020, at 8:03 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode mail

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
You could extract the filename part of the path returned by tempfile() and use that anywhere. That would require something to track the visible name linked to the stored filename tho’. Bob S On Sep 22, 2020, at 11:10 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-22 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
There’s a tempname() function??? Ohhh fun!! Bob S On Sep 22, 2020, at 4:22 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Can you use tempname() to create and retrieve the stack? ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: How to get layer for group

2020-09-17 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I think Control in Group is the phrase that pays here. The property you are looking for is relayerGroupedControls. Bob S > On Sep 17, 2020, at 2:32 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode > wrote: > > I believe this is one of the commands/properties that require you to be on > that card—it

Re: Issue with dropbox

2020-09-15 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Interesting. Not sure how far app signing goes. For instance I downloaded Livecode for Mac, then made the mistake of modifying 2 data grid libraries (in the bundle) before opening the app for the first time. This of course caused the system to refuse to open Livecode, but when I re-copy

Re: Possible : stack with transparent backgound?

2020-09-10 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
ome > other elements to be visible but the stack background to be transparent - is > this possible with some combination of inks and masks and blend levels? > On 2 Sep 2020, 22:03 +0100, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > , wrote: >> It appears I have that backwards? >> >>

Re: Contesting for Idiot du Jour

2020-09-04 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
If math breaks, we are all in for a world of hurt. Bob S On Sep 3, 2020, at 4:46 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Your suggestion reestablishes my faith in the basic math, while recognizing limitations sometime apply to any particular solution.

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-09-04 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
That's really an old saying?? I came up with the saying People don't change until it hurts not to. I thought I was being pithy. Bob S > On Sep 3, 2020, at 13:40 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Like the old saying goes, "Change occurs when the pain of changing is finally >

Re: Looping though a numerically indexed array

2020-09-02 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
It appears I have that backwards? Bob S > On Sep 2, 2020, at 8:28 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Ditto, and I am not sure what noticeable impact one method would have over > another. There was some blurb a long time ago about how these keys are > internally sorted. I believe wh

Re: Looping though a numerically indexed array

2020-09-02 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Ditto, and I am not sure what noticeable impact one method would have over another. There was some blurb a long time ago about how these keys are internally sorted. I believe what was proposed is that a set of NUMERIC keys beginning with 0 would actually sort correctly. Bob S > On Sep 2,

Re: Layers in PBrowser

2020-09-02 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
X2 bar. Can you send me the name of any stacks involved to avoid? I haven't looked, but I think it would be as simple as adding a stack name to a list. On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 10:09 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>

Re: formattedRect, formattedLeft, formattedWidth of chunks

2020-09-01 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
so we could reproducethe error in-house and then tracing it down in the IDE took a very long time to go through the 1000's of lines of code to find the crash on the 'formattedRect' call. On 9/1/2020 5:49 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I have a great many of these. I’ll keep a lookout.

Re: formattedRect, formattedLeft, formattedWidth of chunks

2020-09-01 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I have a great many of these. I’ll keep a lookout. Bob S On Sep 1, 2020, at 6:25 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: formattedWidth ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Layers in PBrowser

2020-08-31 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Hi Sean. I concur with Geoff. There were quite a while ago issues, but Geoff got on them and now I use Navigator all the time. The only thing I will say Geoff is that when I drag the window to a location, I would like it to remain there, even when minimized. It always reverts to a default

Re: ...and now for something completely off the wall...

2020-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
d quartering. > > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/BNMsFr2643FroissartFol97vExecHughDespenser.jpg > > On 28.08.20 18:54, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: >>  >> >>> On Aug 28, 2020, at 7:59 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode >>> wrote: >>

Re: ...and now for something completely off the wall...

2020-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I was under the impression that the latter was the case on account of the former. ;-) Bob S On Aug 28, 2020, at 9:05 AM, Richmond via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Potentially tens of millions of people now think that Scots is a horribly mangled rendering of

Re: ...and now for something completely off the wall...

2020-08-28 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
 > On Aug 28, 2020, at 7:59 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > Almost every article on the Scots version of Wikipedia is written by one > American teenager who can't speak Scots > > "A veelage is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet > but smawer than a

Re: Strange behavior between Mysql, MariaDB and SSL.

2020-08-27 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Just a heads up, ODBC is a local service, not a network protocol. You have to create a DSN on the client OS which handles the network communications for you. So every client that connects will need to have this DSN set up first. For the experienced, this is no big deal, but for the first time

Re: Adding items to a group

2020-08-26 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Also, Geoff Canyon wrote a GREAT utility called Navigator, which among other things, allows you to drag objects around in a hierarchical list. If you drag an object in a group to somewhere outside that group, into another group let’s say, it does all the relaying for you. I cannot tell you how

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
ehind me, but just point the finger at me assuming I'm in the wrong for >>> highlighting a bug that is clearly already accepted? It astounds me, it >>> really does! You tell me off for getting angry about it but it is purely >>> because everyone has made out th

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Reminds me of HTML. All platform consistency in display… until Microsoft and Netscape decided to do it “better”. It begs the question, is it better to be consistent with everyone else’s standards, or better to be… well… better? Bob S On Aug 25, 2020, at 5:40 PM, Richard Gaskin via

Re: Basic question about behaviors

2020-08-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
This Me only works in the behavior script, not the button script. Not sure if that helps. Bob S On Aug 25, 2020, at 3:48 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: I assumed the script would be: on mouseUp put this me into theName —theName is

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout

2020-08-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
+10 > On Aug 25, 2020, at 3:43 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Kudos also to Mark Waddingham who calmly delivered supportive info in an even > response, even after reading for days how he and the team are liars, > incompetents, and cheats. > > On 8/25/20 2:59 PM, Richmond

Re: Getting page counts of PDFs

2020-08-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Me too. I stopped before my head exploded and my brain fell out onto the floor like scrambled eggs. :-) Bob S On Aug 23, 2020, at 7:17 AM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: PDF Widget will do the trick. I start reading the PDF spec 20 years ago and

Re: Big Sur issues

2020-08-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
FYI I recently built my own tab control that looks almost exactly like the one the Mac displays, but it has two advantages: 1. It looks good on both Windows AND Mac. 2. It has support for Drag and Drop. You edit the tabs by right-clicking in the “pane” of the group object, then selecting

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I’ll toss this in. I was using a Mac font that had a Windows corollary (I thought) but when I dug deeper I found that the Mac had individual type faces whereas the Windows equivalent did not. This font was a BUILT-IN font on both platforms! The result is if I chose the bold version of the

Re: Basic question about behaviors

2020-08-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Try the execution contexts. And yes, this me will return the behavior object itself. Bob S On Aug 24, 2020, at 8:18 PM, prothero--- via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: I have assigned a behavior to a button. The behavior button/source is on a different stack. It

Re: Strange behavior between Mysql, MariaDB and SSL.

2020-08-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
mySQL for which platform? Last I checked, the build for Windows did NOT support encryption. There is a special branch that does, but I could never get it to work. What I came up with is an agent that resides on the SQL server, built in Livecode that listens for connections. It then handles the

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I’m sure there are other development environments out there you could explore. Bob S On Aug 24, 2020, at 9:02 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: It's hardly 'Code Once' then. You absolutely HAVE to write for each OS specifically. Livecode DOES

Re: The Apple Ecosystem

2020-08-20 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I’m on the side of having a mobile device that is out of the box safe to use. But I think that Apple should stop resisting attempts to jailbreak it if a user wants to. It should not just be a “switch” as the article states, but rather a process that the end user has to engage in to open up the

Re: Old stack will not save or save as...

2020-08-19 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Ahah! I will safely tuck that away in my storehouse of knowledge, then completely forget I know it when I run into the same problem myself! Bob S > On Aug 19, 2020, at 11:38 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 8/19/20 9:41 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: > >> Why I

Re: Old stack will not save or save as...

2020-08-19 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Just a shot in the dark, suppress messages before opening? Bob S On Aug 19, 2020, at 8:34 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: I have a really old stack (the file ends in .mc for Metacard) When I open it in LiveCode, the save and save as are disabled

Re: LibURL and TSNet in LC Indy

2020-08-19 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I get a 404 error on the download. Bob S On Aug 18, 2020, at 9:52 PM, Charles Warwick via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Hi Tom, Using unique URLs for multiple load URL requests against the same server with the standard libUrl library allows you to *initiate*

Re: LibURL and TSNet in LC Indy

2020-08-17 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Hey hey! I’m back on the list again. Turns out my account DID get deleted somehow. Bob S > On Aug 17, 2020, at 3:23 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode > wrote: > > Thank you sir. That worked. > > I will try to diagnose the difference between the 2 libraries in this > scenario.. if only to

Tab Buttons Mac vs. Win

2020-07-14 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Hi all. I would LOVE to find out how Livecode for Mac draws those beautiful tab buttons so I can duplicate it on Windows, because DAYAM are the Windows ones ugly! Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

drag drop on a tab field

2020-07-10 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
If I drag drop on a tab field TAB, is there a way to tell which tab I dropped on? Probably not but it’s worth a shot. Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

No Replies (or anything)

2020-06-30 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Hi all. I’m not getting anything on the use list. Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Sockets (again)

2020-06-29 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Hi all. I’m trying to get sockets working. The host is working, but I am not getting the message to trigger. Here’s the basic code: on mouseUp put "test" into tPayLoad open socket to "localhost:8085" write tPayload to socket "localhost:8085" end mouseUp -- socket handlers on

Re: Changing text properties in a field via the IDE

2020-05-19 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I had to write a function that returns only true ASCII printable characters because when I performed a drag/drop operation from a searchable PDF, I discovered that Acrobat puts all kinds of hidden characters in the text that really messes with LC. It’s a simple function: FUNCTION cleanASCII

Script Only Behaviors

2020-05-01 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Hi all. I’m gonna say that script only stacks cannot have behaviors eh? Reason is, I’d like to move my nested data grid behavior to a script only stack, but it occurs to me this might break the datagrid, since it’s next level behavior is the old data grid behavior button (not sure why that’s

sqLite delete memory database

2020-04-30 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I can create memory databases, but how do I delete it once created? revdb_disconnect still leaves it in memory. revCloseDatabase is just a synonym of revdb_disconnect. Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Apparently nothing is a real. Neither is anything strictly a real. put 1 is strictly a real — false put 1.1 is strictly a real — false put 1.1 is a real — compilation error Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Stack Files

2020-04-20 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Hmmm… it seems to be sticking now. I wonder if I had a crash before getting a chance to save the stack. So false alarm I guess. Bob S > On Apr 20, 2020, at 2:23 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Isn’t that just for standalone building? > > Bob S >

Re: Stack Files

2020-04-20 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
They are a little more than text files. My first attempt I tried simply creating a text file that ended in .livecodescript and it didn’t work. The Lesson says you need to create a new stack and select the Script Only Stack, then edit the script of the stack. Also, creating a behavior in the

Re: Stack Files

2020-04-20 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Isn’t that just for standalone building? Bob S > On Apr 20, 2020, at 2:10 PM, scott--- via use-livecode > wrote: > > Bob, I don’t use script only stacks but aren’t they just text files? If they > were all in the same folder you could just add that directory in the Copy > Files pane. > >

Stack Files

2020-04-20 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I am beginning to move a lot of things over to script only stacks to be used by behaviors. I created a script only stack from an existing object’s property, and it was working fine, but after closing and re-opening the stack, the behavior doesn’t work. When I try to re-select the behavior for

Re: DataGrid table DeleteIndex

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I ran into the same problem when I started working with multiple indexes. Bob S > On Apr 18, 2020, at 5:58 PM, Neville Smythe via use-livecode > wrote: > > BobS wrote > >> Did you try the plural form of deleteIndex(es)? > > Well you see I read the documentation. Which says

Re: Long Standing Issue with the defaultStack

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Go and Open are synonyms. Bob S > On Apr 18, 2020, at 2:19 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > same thing > > Bob S > > >> On Apr 18, 2020, at 2:18 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Wha

Re: Long Standing Issue with the defaultStack

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22691 if anyone is interested. Very simple test stacks included. Bob S > On Apr 18, 2020, at 2:20 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > I’m putting together a simple demo and will post on bulgiest in a few. > > Bob S

Re: Long Standing Issue with the defaultStack

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I’m putting together a simple demo and will post on bulgiest in a few. Bob S > On Apr 18, 2020, at 2:18 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > What do you get if you use "go" instead of "open"? > > On 4/18/20 3:48 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-live

Re: Long Standing Issue with the defaultStack

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
same thing Bob S > On Apr 18, 2020, at 2:18 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > What do you get if you use "go" instead of "open"? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Long Standing Issue with the defaultStack

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
s setting it by script once the script terminates. Additionally it does not make it the topStack. If a user CLICKS in an open stack THEN it becomes the defaultStack AND the topStack. It just does not work by script. The only reliable way to change either by script is by setting the style of a

Re: Long Standing Issue with the defaultStack

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
By the way, this has NOTHING to do with substacks as I initially thought. The same thing happens with separate stacks. > On Apr 18, 2020, at 1:48 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Okay I created a simple stack with one sub stack. In the card script of stack > 1 I

Re: Long Standing Issue with the defaultStack

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
ed 2 After I go me, neither the defaultStack nor the topStack changes! What is more, the untitled 2 stack still has focus!! Just to be certain I disabled all my plugins and relaunched, same thing. This CANNOT BE RIGHT! And if it is the expected behavior, it ought not be. Bob S > On A

Re: Visual Effect

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Thanks Scott. I should read the whole command. I only got as far as the examples for cards. Bob S > On Apr 18, 2020, at 12:15 PM, scott--- via use-livecode > wrote: > > From the docs: > > The visual effect command affects only navigation within a window. If you > want to create a

Visual Effect

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I’m having trouble wrapping my head around visual effects. I’ trying to hide and show stacks using visual effects. Consider this in a button: on mouseUp wait 1 second set the visible of homeStack() to false lock screen set the visible of homeStack() to true unlock screen with

Re: Long Standing Issue with the defaultStack

2020-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Not sure at this point. When I open a sub stack called “Devices” (or any sub stack) of my main stack “Forms Generator” and I enter “put the defaultStack” in the message box, I get “Forms Generator”. If I put the command “put the defaultStack” in the last line of the openStack handler of stack

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