Re: override HTTPS certificate failure

2016-10-25 Thread Lyn Teyla
Bob Sneidar wrote: > True, but isn't the issue that a malformed cert including self signed certs > are rejected? A self signed cert is not insecure, it's just less secure than > a root signed cert, and only because a background check has been done against > the cert owner. Otherwise a self

Re: override HTTPS certificate failure

2016-10-25 Thread Lyn Teyla
Ben Rubinstein wrote: > If an "https" site has a misconfigured certificate, most browsers will tell > you what the problem is - and generally give you an option (more or less > hidden) to ignore the warning and load the resource anyway. > > Loading the same resource from LC using libURL, the

Re: LC Server: Getting a file list when filenames use UTF8

2016-10-18 Thread Lyn Teyla
I opened a bug report in August concerning this issue: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18202 Lyn > Tim Selander wrote: > > Thanks for confirming that for me Ralf. > > I wonder if the team can look into this > > Tim Selander > Tokyo, Japan > > On 2016/10/17 20:02, Ralf

Re: 9.0???

2016-10-01 Thread Lyn Teyla
Richmond wrote: > The main question that worries me is what happens when the > curve of the graph approaches a vertical line :P The team has foreseen this issue, hence the Infinite LiveCode campaign. Lyn ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: TSNet and proxies

2016-10-01 Thread Lyn Teyla
Charles Warwick wrote: > If you are not using standard libUrl commands then you will need to call > tsNetSetProxy if the connection needs to go through a proxy server. When calling tsNet commands directly, how does one obtain and pass tsNetSetProxy the _exact_ same set of proxy settings that

Re: SSL Help

2016-08-15 Thread Lyn Teyla
Dan Friedman wrote: > Other than this issue, LC 7.0.1 is working well. Can you offer any support > for this issue with 7.0.1? Or, do I just set libURLSetSSLVerification to > false and hope for the best? If you’d like to stay on LC 7.0.1, then to avoid the SNI bug, you’ll need to ensure

Re: SSL Help

2016-08-15 Thread Lyn Teyla
Dan Friedman wrote: > I purchased a SSL certificate and installed it and set it as the default. It > is working fine in every browser I try. However, in LiveCode (7.0.1), it's > getting the previous self-signed SSL certificate and failing with this error: It’s possible that you’re running

Re: Extracting list of errors from LiveCode 8

2016-08-04 Thread Lyn Teyla
Ali Lloyd wrote: > You can use the global property > > the scriptExecutionErrors > > To obtain this list. Note that this does not work in a standalone so if you > need it you'll have to set a custom property on an included stack or > something like that. Thanks Ali! It looks like the

Re: Extracting list of errors from LiveCode 8

2016-08-04 Thread Lyn Teyla
Thierry Douez wrote: > within LC 8.0, this works: > > *put* the cErrorsList of stack "revErrorDisplay" Thanks Thierry! However, this doesn’t seem to work with 8.0.2 RC 4 and 8.1.0 DP 3. Lyn ___ use-livecode mailing list

Extracting list of errors from LiveCode 8

2016-08-04 Thread Lyn Teyla
Hi all, In LiveCode 7 and earlier, one could use the following to extract the list of errors: the cErrorsList of cd 1 of stack "revErrorDisplay" However, this no longer works in LiveCode 8. What is the new method of extracting the list of errors? TIA, Lyn

Re: LC and webviews

2016-06-13 Thread Lyn Teyla
Jerry Daniels wrote: > I just read this article about Basecamp's use of webviews in their mobile > (Android in this case) apps. It got me thinking about LiveCode's htmlText. > Does it use some sort of CSS? If so, can one be set in its stead? That's exactly the sort of thing the browser widget

Re: OT Livecode and Intego Virus Barrier

2016-05-26 Thread Lyn Teyla
Kay C Lan wrote: >> The reason I say that is because if I downloaded any software and it >> took 3 min to load I wouldn't use it. I don't care how good it >> 'really' is, if it took 3 minutes to load the impression it would give >> me is that it is very poorly written/performing app. I have no

Re: Storing and retrieving data from a SQL database

2016-05-18 Thread Lyn Teyla
Paul Dupuis wrote: > Does anyone have some really good (comprehensive) routines to escape and > unescape text data for storing in a SQL database (like SQLite or MySQL) HostM’s server-side demo stack comes with a function (look for the one named "se") that you can use:

Re: LC on VMWare?

2016-05-16 Thread Lyn Teyla
Dan Friedman wrote: > I have a client that is trying to run my LiveCode Standalone (built with LC > 7.0.1) using VMWare. They are trying to get it to run in VMWare so they can > run it from a Chromebook. Problem is when they run the app remotely, it > crashes on launch with the message

Re: Beeing a developer after 40

2016-05-02 Thread Lyn Teyla
Stephen Barncard wrote: > obviously one hasn't been to a LC event lately. More white hair and > ponytails on old folks than an AES convention. The cool geeks club. I’ve got nothing against younger or older people at all, but: Whenever I come across photos of LiveCode events, and see white hair

Re: Multiple Threads

2016-04-20 Thread Lyn Teyla
Bob Sneidar wrote: > So I think I've isolated why it is that virtually every post on this list > ends up creating multiple threads in my email application. Lots of people are > *STILL* using use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com. Because of this I start > reading the replies to a post before I ever

Re: HTML5 teaser

2016-03-05 Thread Lyn Teyla
Colin Holgate wrote: > I may have missed a reply too. Which one covered the question of the PDF > remaining encrypted after the user has downloaded it? You added the following 5 requirements after my response containing the suggested implementation: 1. The PDF file itself is also to be

Re: HTML5 teaser

2016-03-04 Thread Lyn Teyla
Mark Wieder wrote: > On 03/04/2016 06:38 PM, Lyn Teyla wrote: > >> Using a HTTPS connection ensures that the PDF file is transmitted securely. > > Uh, sorry, no. > HTTPS by itself will (mostly) guarantee that you are connected to the server > you think you'r

Re: HTML5 teaser

2016-03-04 Thread Lyn Teyla
Colin Holgate wrote: > Is LiveCode required in what you say? You can use LiveCode Server (or any other server-side language) to perform those tasks. > Does the PDF travel securely? Using a HTTPS connection ensures that the PDF file is transmitted securely. Lyn

Re: HTML5 teaser

2016-03-04 Thread Lyn Teyla
Colin Holgate wrote: > A PDF is online somewhere. A logged in user asks for it, and the server > encrypts it before sending over, using some sort of key that was in the > query. On receiving the data, the client side would have to unencrypted it, > and show it as the original PDF in a browser.

Re: connecting db sqlserver with my app livecode, how?

2016-02-06 Thread Lyn Teyla
David Alfredo Zuñiga Soto wrote: > I have an application that I need to drive android.Esta app. gets its data > from SQL Server 2008 R2.I have a lot off problems, ps, I used to make free > hostings connection, and these are quite limited and my app does not give me > permission to coneccion.Al

Re: mySQL Host access

2016-01-07 Thread Lyn Teyla
Peter Haworth wrote: > Is this common practice when accessing mySQL on a host server? If so, is > there a better way to set about accessing a mySQL database in these > circumstances, perhaps using php scripts on the server instead of accessing > the db directly with the LC database functions?

Re: mySQL Host access

2016-01-07 Thread Lyn Teyla
Peter Haworth wrote: > Thanks for that info, that will certainly help me when I start looking into > LC server. Unfortunately, I think I'm about 6 months into a 2-year > contract with my current web host so probably could not switch at this > point. The stacks are a free download, and from what

Re: HTML5 update: why it is slow?

2016-01-06 Thread Lyn Teyla
Monte Goulding wrote: > Personally I’d rather you declare force majeure on wait for HTML5 and apply > your considerable talents to implementing non-blocking versions of everything. Agreed. Won’t the planned improvements to networking include asynchronous communication in any case? If a

Re: Charset problems with .lc web page

2016-01-05 Thread Lyn Teyla
Tim Selander wrote: > When I first tried your tip, it didn't work for me. But when I looked at the > tutorial you linked to, I saw that the > > was the very first line of the .lc file, before or anything else. > > When I tried that, it worked great! Thanks for letting us know. I’ll strive

Re: Charset problems with .lc web page

2016-01-05 Thread Lyn Teyla
Tim Selander wrote: > 1) --> must be the first line > of the .lc > 2) set the outputTextEncoding to native --> must be the first line of the > first script in the file > > If you put "set the outputTextEncoding to native" later in the script, UTF-8 > above that line will be garbled;

Re: More questions regarding Server oddities

2015-12-25 Thread Lyn Teyla
Tim Selander wrote: > Copy and paste the url into the browser, and the text loads up. The csv file > is in the very same directory as the .irev file > (http://www.pba.on-rev.com/ynh5today.irev). Both are in the root of the > public_html folder. But the {put URL >

Re: Happy Christmas!

2015-12-25 Thread Lyn Teyla
Kevin Miller wrote: > Merry Christmas everybody. Thanks for making the LiveCode community what it > is. I hope you are all having a wonderful holiday. Peter TB Brett wrote: > Happy Christmas to all our users and contributors! Season’s greetings guys, and may you have a prosperous new year.

Re: More questions regarding Server oddities

2015-12-25 Thread Lyn Teyla
Alex Tweedly wrote: > I think you both missed the point about Tim's original problem : > his page works with the OLD rev Server, and fails with the latest LC server > (6.6.2) > > So while I agree that it is probably better to not pursue issues in old > versions, I don't think Tim has much

Re: More questions regarding Server oddities

2015-12-25 Thread Lyn Teyla
Peter W A Wood wrote: > I don’t think the problem is related to the HTTP Header. It is the same for > both Tim’s rev page and his lc page: > > Having a "Content-Type" meta tag is not the same as implementing a "Content-Type" HTTP header via the "put header" command. The former is

Re: Scrolling Smoothly through Large Scripts

2015-12-24 Thread Lyn Teyla
Ray wrote: > Does anybody know how to scroll just one line per mouse-wheel movement > through the script editor window? > > I typically view several thousand lines at a time. Each push of the little > scroll wheel on my mouse produces an abrupt 'jerk' of 10 or 15 lines. It's > really hard

Re: Charset problems with .lc web page

2015-12-24 Thread Lyn Teyla
Tim Selander wrote: > I'm having trouble making a .lc web pages correctly show the charset. > Anyone else having problems with this? Can .lc files not handle charset > correctly? Try inserting the following 3 lines right at the top of your .lc script, leaving everything else untouched:

Re: Charset problems with .lc web page

2015-12-24 Thread Lyn Teyla
Lyn Teyla wrote: > Try inserting the following 3 lines right at the top of your .lc script, > leaving everything else untouched: > > put header "Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8" > ?> There was a slight typo (missed the quotes); try this at th

Re: Charset problems with .lc web page

2015-12-24 Thread Lyn Teyla
Tim Selander wrote: > But I tried it, and it didn't solve the problem with .lc & . However, > without fail, using .irev as the filename extension and tags in the > web page show utf8 Japanese correctly -- so I am content to use those. > Problem solved, as far as I'm concerned. The “put

Re: Script Indenting?

2015-12-15 Thread Lyn Teyla
Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: > This was changed because for very long scripts, indenting the entire script > (instead of just one handler) could cause a considerable pause when > indenting. (HyperCard did the whole script, but HyperCard also had a 32K > limit on a single script.) > > This was

Re: Script Indenting?

2015-12-12 Thread Lyn Teyla
Peter TB Brett wrote: > When I have the time, I'd really like to split the script indenting & > formatting code out from the script editor into a separate library. > > That would make it much easier for people to use and re-use, not only in IDE > extensions etc. but also in other applications.

Re: ASK dialog box

2015-11-25 Thread Lyn Teyla
Hi Randy, As Klaus mentioned, when the 'Cancel' button is pressed, not only is "it" set to empty, but "the result" is also set to "Cancel". If the user leaves the dialog blank by pressed 'OK', then both "it" and "the result" are set to empty. - on mouseUp ask "Are you a bunny?" if

Re: JSON library

2015-11-18 Thread Lyn Teyla
Ali Lloyd wrote: > The JSON library is an extension and so you need to include it manually (at > least at the moment) - you'll need to select com.livecode.library.json in > the Copy Files pane of the standalone settings. On a somewhat related note, how does one utilize this JSON library (and

Re: Converting HTML to Jade?

2015-11-12 Thread Lyn Teyla
Terry Vogelaar wrote: > Does anyone know if there is an easy way to convert HTML to Jade from within > a LiveCode script? I use the html2jade command line tool: https://github.com/donpark/html2jade You can run it from within LiveCode using the "shell" or "open process" commands, thereby

Re: What happens when enabling Hi-DPI scaling?

2015-10-27 Thread Lyn Teyla
Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Do you enable "Hi-DPI scaling" in the standalone settings for windows since > 6.7.7 by standard or never? (I can't test the difference myself, not having > a Hi-DPI monitor) There's currently a bug relating to the Windows Hi-DPI status in the standalone settings

Re: Compare numeric strings with leading zeros

2015-09-03 Thread Lyn Teyla
Thierry Douez wrote: > on mouseUp > local userTyping = 5 > local myVeryStrongPassword = "005" > if matchText( userTyping, myVeryStrongPassword) then > answer "Great!" > else > answer "Too bad :( try again.." > put "005" into userTyping > if matchText( userTyping,

Re: Compare numeric strings with leading zeros

2015-09-03 Thread Lyn Teyla
Thierry Douez wrote: > put "\Q^5$\E" into myVeryStrongPassword > if matchText( userTyping, myVeryStrongPassword ) then ... Here is indeed an example of the danger involved with the use of regular expressions. It can be easy to miss things at times, which is why I simply cautioned against

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-20 Thread Lyn Teyla
Ali Lloyd wrote: I doubt we will be writing a whole new script editor from scratch in one go. More likely we will replace individual elements with widgets (as has been done with the variables pane) to make sure all the components work as expected. Assuming one of the elements to be replaced

Re: libCurl wrapper using LiveCode Builder [was: Re: SFTP support]

2015-08-19 Thread Lyn Teyla
Peter TB Brett wrote: The LiveCode engine can already do secure communication using SSL (Secure Socket Layer). It would *probably* be possible to use secure socket to implement FTPS (FTP over SSL) in scripts, without any engine changes (i.e. in libUrl). Given the following: 1.

Re: libCurl wrapper using LiveCode Builder [was: Re: SFTP support]

2015-08-19 Thread Lyn Teyla
Peter TB Brett wrote: On 2015-08-19 20:27, Lyn Teyla wrote: Have you guys at LiveCode Ltd thought about implementing this revamp of networking/sockets by simply writing a libCurl wrapper using LiveCode Builder? Yes -- one of our very first, high priority ideas for an LCB-based project

Re: libCurl wrapper using LiveCode Builder [was: Re: SFTP support]

2015-08-19 Thread Lyn Teyla
Peter TB Brett wrote: On 2015-08-19 21:53, Lyn Teyla wrote: If a libCurl wrapper using LCB is in development, wouldn't the above be a non-issue? That is, adding SFTP (or any other libCurl-supported protocol) shouldn't need to involve writing and testing a lot of new, security-critical code

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

2015-08-17 Thread Lyn Teyla
Richard Gaskin wrote: On the one hand I don't recall any specific promises made about PDF rendering in terms of licensing, but on the other hand that PDF widget was the example used in Kevin's video from July 2014 to demonstrate the v8 architecture we all funded in the Kickstarter

Re: Business Application Framework

2015-08-12 Thread Lyn Teyla
Hi all, I agree with many of the posters to this thread thus far that it would appear to be a mistake to offer, at this time, solely with the Business license, additional features such as built-in GIT compatibility, OOP and MVC. I would go one step further and suggest, if I may, that it might,

Re: mergJSON, externals and Livecode Server

2015-08-04 Thread Lyn Teyla
David Bovill wrote: Monte's external is available for all platforms - so it should work on the server I think the the mergJSON.so is the version I believe that is used on Linux. Puttin it in the cgi bin along side the built in externals does not seem to be sufficient. How does basic extension

Re: arrays with merge

2015-06-05 Thread Lyn Teyla
function myArray pString return myArrayTest[pString] end myArray Small typo: myArrayTest[pString] should of course be: myArray[pString] ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: arrays with merge

2015-06-05 Thread Lyn Teyla
Terence Heaford t.heaf...@icloud.com wrote: This line gives a syntax error, obviously because an array does not work in merge? put merge(SELECT [[tColumns]] FROM '[[tTable]]' [[myArray[test]]] [[tSortOrder]]) into tSQL Is there a way around this or do I have to resort to using ?

Re: Obtaining names of current and calling handlers?

2015-02-11 Thread Lyn Teyla
Thanks Richard — these work perfectly! Lyn On Feb 12, 2015, at 7:28 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Lyn Teyla wrote: 1. How does one obtain the name (and its location/object) of the handler/function that called the current handler/function

Obtaining names of current and calling handlers?

2015-02-11 Thread Lyn Teyla
Hi all, 1. How does one obtain the name (and its location/object) of the handler/function that called the current handler/function? on cheers hello end cheers on hello put the name of the calling handler -- hypothetical; would have returned cheers end hello

Run a handler each time a handler/function within current script is run?

2015-02-11 Thread Lyn Teyla
Hi all, How does one automatically run a handler each time a handler/function within the current script is run? I'm looking for a proper/non-clumsy way of implementing the following: private command doSomeStuff -- stuff that must be done each time _any_ --

Will the new Widgets system allow LiveCoders to implement these?

2014-08-03 Thread Lyn Teyla
Hi all, A preview of the Widgets Themes project was shown last month by Kevin: http://livecode.com/blog/2014/07/08/the-next-generation-widgets-themes/ Will the following missing GUI items be possible to implement via Widgets (i.e. solely via the new lower-level LiveCode)? 1.

Re: Post-KickStarter LiveCode - security issue fix?

2013-02-28 Thread Lyn Teyla
how to further improve code security in the commercial edition and look forward to implementing those during the restructure. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can code On 27/02/2013 18:08, Lyn Teyla lyn.te...@gmail.com

Post-KickStarter LiveCode - security issue fix?

2013-02-27 Thread Lyn Teyla
Hi all, It has been 3 years since my post to this list urging RunRev to fix the serious security issue where the scripts of password protected stacks and standalone apps can be fully viewed via memory dumps. This is because password protected scripts remain unencrypted in memory after