Blowing Away the Cobwebs

Hi everyone, I’m getting back to LiveCode after a fairly long absence, having been sidetracked by a massive text analysis project that required me to depend a lot on Mathematica. I’m hoping you can help with a few ad hoc questions. Does LiveCode have a matrix inverse function? I

Re: Shell Command and cURL

Hi Richard and Mark, Thanks for responding. Richard, I had tinkered with Put and libURLDownloadToFile or whatever version of libURL was available in version 7.1 (I have only today updated to 8.1.2) but the problem with those commands is that they need to make a connection or call (not sure of

Shell Command and cURL

Hello everyone, I have never used LiveCode’s Shell command, and I was hoping that someone on the forum might be able to give me an example of how to use it with cURL to download a list of files from an FTP site. I have been using cURL to download many files at a time from a given directory by

Re: Need Help With String Pattern Matching

Hello Quentin, Thank you for the tips on string pattern matching. I’m used to Mathematica’s string pattern syntax, which is probably built on regex, but I can see the similarities in your nice examples, particularly the using of alternatives [Joe|Anges]. While Mathematica’s string functions

Need Help With String Pattern Matching

Hello everyone, I’ve just come back to LiveCode and I'm pretty little rusty. I used to do some basic text analysis of files where the lines containing strings of interest were consistent and therefore easy to spot. I am now working on files where the chunk of text that contains the data I want

Externals for Dummies

Howdy, I’d like to try my hand at creating externals from C code exported from Mathematica but not sure how to go about it. Anyone have a basic example of external building that they are willing to share? Mathematica produces beautiful graphs, and I’d like to create a front-end in LiveCode

Re: Need Help Throttling Downloads From an FTP Site

Hi Bob Sneidar, Scott Rossi, Mike Bonner, and Jim Lambert, Thanks for your suggestions. I going to experiment with all of them and share my results with the list. Regards, Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Need Help Throttling Downloads From an FTP Site

Hello everyone, I posted about this a while back but am still having trouble. I need to download thousands of files from the Security and Exchange Commission's website. Access is through anonymous FTP with "anonymous" as the username and my email address as the password. I've been using Put in

How can I strip away formatting from an RTF file?

Hi everyone, I imported an RTF file and put it into a field using set the RTFText of field File Text to url (file: longFileName) Of course, the text in the field is formatted as in the file that was imported. How can I import the text while stripping away the formatting, which I do not

Re: How can I strip away formatting from an RTF file?

Thanks everyone! Paste the RTF field into another field: formatting gone. Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Function to Remove HTML Tags from Text

Hello everyone, Is there a LiveCode function that will remove all HTML tags from some text? I know how to do it in Mathematica but not LiveCode. I tinkered with MatchText (maybe in combination with ReplaceText?) but I don’t think I’m getting the regular expression right (I rarely use regex)

Re: Displaying Web Pages in a Field

Hi Devin Asay and Scott Rossi, Thanks for responding. Devin, what Scott says is true: for many of the files the tags continue to appear in the stack’s field. Scott, you mention a browser object. Where would I find it? I can’t find one in the LiveCode’s Tools palette or under the Object menu.

Displaying Web Pages in a Field

Hi everyone, I’m a little rusty, so please excuse the lame question. I have some text files that are downloaded web pages. How can I display them in a stack field to look something like they do in a browser, that is, without the HTML tags showing? Regards, Gregory

Re: Need Help With FTP

Hi Mark, Richard and Dr. Hawkins, Much obliged for all the tips. Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Need Help With FTP

Hi Richard, On Tue, Apr 28, 2015, at 6:00 AM, Richard Gaskin: Seems I missed that. I thought he was posting to his own server. It wouldn't have occurred to me that a government site still uses FTP. Yes, Doc Hawkins was right: I’m downloading from the Securities and Exchange Commission’s

Re: Need Help With FTP

Hi Robert and Richard, Robert, thanks for the tip. I’ll give it a try. This may be the problem as I was able to download 60,000 of 130,000 files without a problem until it stopped. When I restarted the loop, it stopped roughly every 200. On Sat, Apr 25, 2015, at 4:44 AM,Robert Brenstein

Re: Need Help With FTP

Hi Phil, Thanks for the detailed handler! I’ll give it a whirl. Blocking is not really the problem for me; it’s the session timeouts or dropped connection when downloading many files in a loop. I think the public server does not like repeated calls with the same connection, but I do not know

Need Help With FTP

Hello everyone, I’m working on a big research project that requires that I download many small files (under 2MB) from the US Security and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) public FTP site. I have the links to all of the files I need, and I’m wondering how I would use a LiveCode “repeat with” loop to

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 135, Issue 3

Hi Peter, Thank you for the heads up on the ps command. I was able to get Apache running with the original httpd.conf file. Apache does not run with the httpd.conf file that I modified the way you suggested in your previous post for LiveCode server. I must have entered something incorrectly or

Re: Can't Start LiveCode Server Under Yosemite

Hi Peter, Thanks for responding. I tried starting Apache with Terminal, using both start and then restart. The command appears to have been accepted (see below) but when I type localhost into Safari, I still get the message “Safari Can’t Connect to the Server. Last login: Tue Dec 2 19:58:59

Can't Start LiveCode Server Under Yosemite

Hello everyone, I can’t seem to get LiveCode server working under Yosemite. I followed Peter Wood’s suggestion and modified the httpd.conf file as follows, where the path to LiveCode server is “Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables”. IfModule alias_module ScriptAlias /livecode-cgi/

Re: Running Apache Under Yosemite

Thanks, Peter, Mark, Richard, and all for your good suggestions regarding Apache on Yosemite. Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Running Apache Under Yosemite

Hello everyone, I have been happily running LiveCode server under Mavericks and am soon going to upgrade to Yosemite. Can I continue to use the same modified httpd.conf file that worked under Mavericks? Regards, Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Running Apache Under Yosemite

Much obliged, Richard. Gregory On Tue, Nov 18, 2014, at 4:01 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Gregory Lypny wrote: I have been happily running LiveCode server under Mavericks and am soon going to upgrade to Yosemite. Can I continue to use the same modified

Matrix Recoded

Hello everyone, On the LiveCode website there is an extension for sale called Matrix Recoded. Looks like it might be handy for the times when I don’t need the power of Mathematica, but unfortunately the website doesn’t list the functions and handlers that are included. Does anyone know where I

Re: LiveCode Server and Getting a List of Files in a Folder

Hi Richard, Robert, and Stephen, Thank you for responding. Richard, I am going to try your suggestion, namely, saving the default folder path: on listMyFiles put the default folder into tSaveDir set the default folder to someFolderPath get the files set the default folder to

LiveCode Server and Getting a List of Files in a Folder

Hi everyone, Have LiveCode Server running on my Mac. It is configured to look for web pages in the WebServer/Documents folder. But what do I do if I want to use the Files function to get a listing of files in another folder, say, a data folder? When I create a handler in the server using on

FTP and File Paths

Hello everyone, I’m having trouble getting the list of files in a subfolder, myData, of the WebServer folder on a remote Mac. I am able to get listings on any folder in my user account using put url ftp://username:password@ myRemoteMacDomain//Documents/anyFolder/“ but the following

LiveCode and Mathematica

Hello everyone, I've never written an external, but I wonder whether it is possible to incorporate Mathematica code in a LiveCode app. Mathematica notebooks and functions can be exported in C code. Mathematica also has some of the best plotting functions and matrix functions that I

Arrow Key Selection in Option Menus

Hello everyone, I have a question about buttons formatted as option menus. I created a standalone for my students that allows them to submit answers to multiple choice homework assignments via FTP to my Mac at work. Once in a while I will receive a blank submission from a student

Re: Arrow Key Selection in Option Menus

Hello Paul, Jacqueline, and Peter, Thank you for responding to my question on arrow-key selection of option menu items. It was generous of you to go out of your way to test things on a Windows box. Recently, I built in a check that warns students of the number of blanks, if any, they

Close Box and Stand Alone Apps in LiveCode

Hi Everyone, If a standalone LiveCode app in Windows has only one window open and the user clicks the close box in the window, does this quit the app or is there still an app menu from which the user must shut down? I ask because I develop on Macs and do not have easy access to a Windows

Re: Close Box and Stand Alone Apps in LiveCode

Thanks Bob, Much appreciated. Since I want to have my students log their signing out when quitting, I guess I should determine how many windows are open at the time a close box is clicked, and then assume that the intention is to quit if there is only one. Gregory The app quits. This is

Bug in libURLSetLogField and libURLSetFTPListCommand

Hello everyone, I have a stack with libURLSetLogField (field quote FTP Log quote) followed by libURLSetFTPListCommand NLST in the openCard handler of a stack. When the stack is opened in the IDE, it more often than not fails and gives the message Handler: can't

Ensuring a Windows Splash Screen Has a Close Box

Hello everyone, Would this do the trick in the preOpenStack handler? if the platform is MacOS then set the decorations of this stack to empty else set the decorations of this stack to close end if Gregory ___

Close Box and Stand Alone Apps in LiveCode

Good suggestion, Bob. Thank you. Gregory The way to mimic the normal behavior of a Mac application staying open when the last window is closed, is to have you main stack be a splash stack that remains hidden the entire time, and you true application stack be an included stack or

Re: ShutDownRequest

Hi Jacqueline, Thank you! Gregory A click in the close box should trigger a closeStackRequest message. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Appending Data Via FTP

Hello Richard, Thanks for the tip. I think I will switch from the app to LiveCode server and then do all data transfers through a web site using CGIs. Using FTP for now, I can download all of the data, because the files are small, append new data and then upload. The only catch is the odd

Re: Using Stacks With LiveCode Server

Hello everyone, When I try put the stacksInUse it comes up empty. Could there be something missing in y httpd.conf file (Mac OS X Mountain Lion)? The only two lines that I have added under Directory /Library/WebServer/Documents are AddHandler livecode-script .lc

Re: Using Stacks With LiveCode Server

Hi Phil, Thanks, but no go. I put the stack on my desktop and used start using /Users/gregory/Desktop/ParetoServer (Legacy 2.7).livecode and from the name of the stack, you can see that I took Mike Bonner's advice and saved it in legacy format. Gregory On Wed, Aug 29, 2012, at 10:27

Re: Using Stacks With LiveCode Server

Thanks Andre, Mike, and Phil, I have it straight now. Stacks go in the web server's root and only legacy stacks will work. Thank you also for your patience. My Internet coding abilities are primitive to say the least. If only the RunRev people would write documentation with some clarity.

ShutDownRequest

Hello everyone, I have a handler in a library stack that handles the shutDownRequest message. It enters logs the date and time when a student click a Sign Out button in a stack that makes use of the library. However, I don't think I am catching the message when a student clicks the close

Appending Data Via FTP

Hello everyone, Is it okay to append data to a file on a remote Mac using put return theLineOfData after URL (ftp://; pathToTheFile) where, theLineOfData is a single line of data? I figure that's safer than downloading all of the data from the URL into a variable, appending the new

Any Changes to LiveCode Server Setup for Mountain Lion

Hello everyone, I recently upgraded to Mountain Lion. Are there any changes to the setup procedures for LiveCode server? Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Any Changes to LiveCode Server Setup for Mountain Lion

Thanks Mike, Much obliged. I got the second part of the message as well. Gregory On Tue, Aug 28, 2012, at 11:33 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Message: 23 Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 09:20:32 -0600 From: Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode

Using Stacks With LiveCode Server

Hello everyone, I've got LiveCode server up and running on my Mac (OS X Mountain Lion). I'd like to be able to store a bunch of handlers in the stack script of a library stack, but I am not sure where to place the stack and how to refer to it from within web pages. Suppose I have a simple

How Do I Change My Main On-Rev Domain Name

Hello everyone, Is it possible to change my main on-rev domain name? If so, how can I do that? Regards, Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Code Security When Using LiveCode Server

things. Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance John Molson School of Business Concordia University ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Can't Get Server Engine to Work on My Mac

Hi Alex, Not a stupid question at all. I hang my head in shame. I was so focussed on working out server installation details and glitches that I forgot to change the filename on my test page. Sigh. Thanks. Gregory On Sat, Apr 21, 2012, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com

Re: Can't Get Server Engine to Work on My Mac

Thanks Alex, Mike, and Stephen, All great tips that have helped me iron out the glitches. Very much appreciated, Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Code Security When Using LiveCode Server

Hello everyone, In developing a site using LiveCode server, I’d be interested in your thoughts on keeping prying eyes away from LiveCode scripts. I imagine that keeping the scripts in files and stacks, as opposed to embedded in web pages, is the best thing. Gregory

Re: Can't Get Server Engine to Work on My Mac

Much appreciated, Mike. I will tinker with it this afternoon, and post what I find. Gregory On 2012-04-20, at 10:28 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Message: 17 Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2012 04:13:14 -0600 From: Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode

Re: Can't Get Server Engine to Work on My Mac

Hi again Mike, Thanks for the advice. I was able to get the server working, at least partly. I have the LiveCode executable in the CGI-Executables folder on my Mac. I created the one-line script put the long date in a file named longDate.lc, and placed it in the Sites folder of my

Re: Can't Download Server Engine

Thank you, Mike. On Thu, Apr 19, 2012, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Message: 1 Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 11:04:17 -0600 From: Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Can't Download Server Engine Message-ID:

Can't Download Server Engine

Hello everyone, I'm on my account page at RunRev and am trying to download the server engine, but when I click the link, I am prompted for a name and password. I've tried both my RunRev username and password as well as the ones provided in parentheses beside each server engine link. None

Can't Get Server Engine to Work on My Mac

Hello everyone, I must have missed something because I can't get the server engine to work on my Mac. Here's what I did. 1. I placed the livecode-server executable and the drivers and externals folder into /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/ 2. I added these two lines AddHandler

Re: Getting the Date and Time From a Remote Computer

Thanks again, Mike! Much obliged. Gregory On Mon, Jan 16, 2012, at 6:16 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Message: 9 Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 12:52:33 -0700 From: Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Getting the

Getting the Date and Time From a Remote Computer

Hello everyone, Is there a LiveCode handler that can be used to get the date and time from a remote Mac that has a static IP address? Regards, Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Windows Standalone Does Not Have an App Menu

Hello Roger and Mark, Thanks for responding and clarifying the Windows app question for me. Mark, I have no problem including decorations. If this is a convention on Windows, that is, that an app menu does not appear when a modal window is frontmost, so that the user cannot quit or cannot

Re: PDFs Not Downloading Properly From FTP Server

Thank you, Roger. Works like a charm! Gregory On Tue, Jan 3, 2012, at 12:37 AM, Roger wrote: Have you tried binfile: instead of file: to prevent alteration? In certain cases, you may not need the // either. ?Roger ___ use-livecode

Windows Standalone Does Not Have an App Menu

Hello everyone, I develop LiveCode apps for my students on my Mac, and I sometimes have limited opportunities to fully test them on PCs. I recently updated to LiveCode 5.0.2 and rebuilt a stack that was originally coded in 5.0.1. I saved the stack as Mac and Windows standalones for

PDFs Not Downloading Properly From FTP Server

Hello everyone, I use LiveCode to upload PDFs to a remote Mac using put url (binfile: longFileName) into url (ftp://; aFTPAddress newFileName) but when I download those same PDFs by using put url (ftp://; aFTPAddress newFileName) into url(file:// aLocalAddress

Re: libURL Script Error After Upgrading to LiveCode 5.02

Hi Guglielmo, Thank you for your response. I will do what you say while revising my app, but does it mean that the standalone will not be affected? Gregory On Fri, Dec 30, 2011, at 1:00 PM, Guglielmo wrote: Yes, same behavior for me with different handlers ... ... there must be an error

Re: libURL Script Error After Upgrading to LiveCode 5.02

Thanks again Guglielmo, That’s a relief. The Rev team needs to get its act together. There are too many such incidences. Gregory On Fri, Dec 30, 2011, at 8:19 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: No, fortunately the standalone applications seem to work normally (/... tried

libURL Script Error After Upgrading to LiveCode 5.02

Hello everyone, The following two lines used to work fine in a startup script. libURLSetLogField the long id of fld “Connection Log of card Connection of stack “Headquarters libURLSetFTPListCommand “NLST” Today I upgraded to version 5.02 of LiveCode and I get the following error

Re: Confirming an FTP Upload

Hi Stephen, Thanks for the tip. I was aware that LiveCode does not do SFTP. I had to get my Mac to start running regular FTP to work with it. I am using a separate account. Regards, Gregory On Wed, Dec 7, 2011, at 8:50 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: You should know

Confirming an FTP Upload

Hi everyone, I was wondering whether anyone would be willing to share scripting tips on how to monitor and confirm the uploading of files via FTP. I’m using the simple PUT URL form rather than the revFTP library stuff because the latter’s examples are not particularly well documented in the

Re: Confirming an FTP Upload

Hi Mark, Much appreciated! Just the kind of thing I was looking for. Regards, Gregory On Tue, Dec 6, 2011, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Greg, Here's how I submit data using the Put URL approach... ___ use-livecode

Questions About Uploading Files to an FTP Server

Hello everyone, Still tweaking an app to allow my students to upload files to an FTP server and save a log of their submissions. I would like to restrict the size of files they upload, and want to know whether the way to do that is to first set the defaultFolder to the folder in which the

Re: Windows Standalone Will Not Save Data to File

Thanks Mar, Much obliged. Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Windows Standalone Will Not Save Data to File

Hello everyone, I built a small utility app for my students. It was scripted on a Mac. It has the following handler to allow them to save their work to disk. It works on Mac stand-alones but not Windows. My PC-using students have shown me how it does not save. Is the problem the two

Re: Can't Get libURLftpUploadFile to Work

Excellent, Roger! I missed that bit. This fits the bill perfectly. Thank you, Gregory On Tue, Sep 27, 2011, at 7:18 AM, Roger Eller wrote: Whatever you put into tFileName will be the name on the server. It does not have to be the same as the source name.

Re: Can't Get libURLftpUploadFile to Work

Hello Roger, Thanks for the heads up. You’re suggesting that I do not use libURLftpUploadFile. Fair enough. I’m used to uploading data using the PUT URL form. Any suggestion as to how I might change the name of the file, on its way, or once it reaches the server? These files will be

Can't Get libURLftpUploadFile to Work

Hello everyone, Took my first stab at using libURLftpUploadFile My URL is of the form theURL = ftp://server Path//Documents/This Folder/That Folder/And Now Here and the file myFile = /Users/gregory/Desktop/My Assignment.csv I use the standard answer dialog to prompt for file

IP Address Function

Hello everyone, Is there a LiveCode function that returns the IP address of the computer on which LiveCode or a LiveCode standalone is running? Regards, Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Comma-Delimited Files on Macs

Hi Richard, Interesting, didn’t know that. Educating users is, or will be, no mean task, though. Thanks for sharing, Gregory On Mon, Sep 19, 2011, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Gregory Lypny wrote: Richard, I?m afraid that changing the extension does

Comma-Delimited Files on Macs

Hello everyone, When I create comma-delimited files with LiveCode by running handlers such as repeat with i=1 to 10 put i comma “something” comma “more stuff” return after theData end repeat put theData into url (“file://“ filePath) the file type

Re: Comma-Delimited Files on Macs

Hi Matthias and Richard, Thanks for the tip Matthias. I’ll give it a try. Richard, I’m afraid that changing the extension does not cause the type to change. I’ve been saving them with the extension “csv” and even even changed them manually to “txt” and then back to “csv”. The Get Info

LiveCode FTP Hanging in Some Instances

Hello everyone, Once again, I am trying to weed out the few remaining, infrequent bugs that have cropped up in a little FTP app that I have developed for my students. The app is working fine in that almost 100 students have been able to run it on their Macs or PCs, sign in, create an account

Re: Question About PreOpenStack

Thanks Bob, Another good tip to add to my notebook! Unintended re-initialization can bring disastrous consequences. This, I have discovered. Sigh. Gregory On Mon, Sep 12, 2011, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: One of the things I do to prevent re-initialization

Re: Question About PreOpenStack

Thanks Craig, Your thoughts on this are much appreciated. Darn right about the dangers! Gregory On Mon, Sep 12, 2011, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Gregory. Glad to see you have worked it out. It is a subtle danger, that other messages can insinuate

Re: LiveCode FTP Hanging in Some Instances

Hi Andy, Good points, all. isConnected() only checks for an Internet connection and is invoked by the OpenStack handler of a stack that represents the splash screen of the app. I will most definitely include a check for the library stack loading. I suspect it is the culprit. After posting

Re: Question About PreOpenStack

Hi Mark and Jacqueline, The substacks had PreOpenStack handlers that called a library stack and sometimes emptied out some fields, but what they did not have OpenStack handlers. The absence of OpenStack handlers appears to have been the problem because, after the the sub-stack executes its

Re: Question About PreOpenStack

Good stuff. Thank you, Mark. I’ll give that a shot. Regards, Gregory On Sun, Sep 11, 2011, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Hi Gregory, Instead of putting an openStack handler in every substack, it is much easier to move the openStack in your main stack from

Re: Question About PreOpenStack

Hi Craig, I had posted this right (see below) after you in message 21. On reflection, the behaviour makes sense, and so does Mark’s suggestion that I move the main stack’s OpenStack handler to the card script. Gregory Hi Mark and Jacqueline, The substacks had PreOpenStack handlers that

Curious Glitch in My FTP App

Hello everyone, I created a desktop utility that allows my students to access files on my Mac via FTP. I compiled it for Mac, Windows, and Linux. The app opens with a user ID and password field so that students can create accounts. Most students have been able to create accounts without a

Re: Curious Glitch in My FTP App

Hello Pierre, Thank you for responding. Yes, it may be. The account files are comma-delimited text and are sitting on my remote Mac, which acts as the server. What you do suggest? Clean the line endings? I’ve also been looking for a LiveCode function that tells me the OS os the user but

Re: Curious Glitch in My FTP App

Hi Pierre and Scott, Thanks for responding. Yes, Scott, it was Platform that I was looking for. Thanks. Pierre, it looks like my students may, in fact, be writing to the account files using a variety of line endings. When I replace various endings with Return, it seems to go away. Thanks

Re: Question About Windows Standalone

Thanks everyone, I get it. Windows builds pretty much need the whole thing. I don’t like the stack files sitting there though. I think I will turn them into sub-stacks and have users save their data to text files. Regards, Gregory ___

Re: Question About Windows Standalone

Thanks for the heads-up, Mark. I’ll look into the plug in. Gregory On Tue, Sep 6, 2011, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Hi Gregory, You need to send the entire Windows folder to your users. This includes the separate stack files, referenced files if there are

Question About Windows Standalone

Hello everyone, I’m am Mac user who doesn’t know much, if anything, about Windows. I’ve just built a standalone for Mac and Windows and I’d like to confirm what it is I need to provide to Windows users. The Standalone Builder produced a folder called Windows. Inside of it is a folder called

Re: Filtering Out Hidden Files

I want the user of the LiveCode application to see only the files that they would have put into a particular folder for use with the application. Gregory On Thu, Aug 25, 2011, at 8:46 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: There are. What is it you're trying to do? Do you want not to show hidden files

Re: The Cross-platform Fonts Issue

Much obliged, Ken. When I have time to get a little fancier, I suppose I can set something up with PreOpenStack that will identify the OS and set the fonts of all of the objects. Regards, Gregory Lypny Associate Professor of Finance John Molson School of Business Concordia University

Re: Accessing Functions in the Script of the Main Stack

Thanks everyone who responded. A library stack works like a charm. I will now be a dedicated user of the Start Using command. Regards, Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

The Cross-platform Fonts Issue

So, I’m creating an app on a Mac to be compiled for Mac and Windows. It’s a simple FTP front end for students. Would I be safe with various sizes of Lucida Grande throughout? Or perhaps Lucida Grande for buttons and Helvetica for all other objects? Regards, Gregory

Filtering Out Hidden Files

Hi everyone, On the Mac, I use filter theFileList without .DS_Store” to clean up the list of files that The Files function returns. Are there similar hidden files that turn up on Windows? Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list

Avoiding File Update Anomalies (Collisions) on a Server

Hello everyone, I would appreciate your thoughts on how to avoid collisions on a server on those presumably rare occasions when two or more visitors attempt to write to a file at exactly the same time. In my case, it’s students writing via FTP to a text log file, but the same situation can

Re: New App Developed in LiveCode

a list of things that are loaded when you log in. Select Clarify Helper and click the minus button to remove it. At least I think that's how you would do it! On Aug 21, 2011, at 10:57 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote: I noticed that when the application is deleted from my Applications folder

Re: Avoiding File Update Anomalies (Collisions) on a Server

Hi Pierre Sahores and Bob Sneider, Thanks for the tips. I’m getting the message that an external database (PHP or mySQL) is the way to go. Regards, Gregory ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: New App Developed in LiveCode

Hello Trevor, Elegant interface, nice and clean. I can see a market among IT and systems types who work in educational institutions and are constantly having to explain various computer and network things to faculty and staff. Site licenses might be a good option. I noticed that when the

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