Re: No progress updates on LC 10. Am i the only one who is concerned?

2023-07-25 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
> On 25 Jul 2023, at 01:24, Mike Kerner via use-livecode > wrote: > > it's not that it isn't there, it's that it isn't in a state that is > ready-for-prime-time I’ve had to abandon a project and hence a client and hence LiveCode all together because of this single solitary issue. My

Re: Android and USB footswitch

2023-05-25 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi Klaus Get something like this. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/404250759038?mkcid=16=1=711-127632-2357-0=kxdzbfgltem=2349624=GspHaDqVTAS=_ver=artemis=COPY A usb footswitch will work like a mouse but with a different signature. The hub will be picked up via the tablet in a LiveCode app through the

Re: revZIP library...

2022-10-20 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Do you have no success with the revZipDescribeItem() function. This should give the compressed size directly after compression. Sean > On 20 Oct 2022, at 16:31, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > In addition to the revZIP library, whether building for 32 bit Windows > standalone

Re: RANT (Mild): revZIP library

2022-10-11 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi Paul I got affected by that and other win revzip issues too. I ended up parsing them through a shell script and using windows built in unzipper. Of course the downfall with that is a lack of feedback on progress which, for large files like this, requires a great deal of time to process and

Re: Stylistic question.

2022-09-06 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Arriving late to the conversation. I never put code into buttons other that enough to cover messages. These will only have enough code in them to pass on the rest of the message. Eg on mouseUp pBtn btn_nameOfButtonMUp pBtn end mouseUp on mouseRelease btn_nameOfBtnMRel end mouseRelease

Re: Standardize Font Appearance

2022-09-04 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
ther story, but I > won’t get into that here.) > > Peter Bogdanoff > ArtsInteractive > >> On Sep 4, 2022, at 4:49 AM, Pi Digital via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> I had a quick turnaround job for some guys in Ghana. It made it a complete >> night

Re: Standardize Font Appearance

2022-09-04 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
I had a quick turnaround job for some guys in Ghana. It made it a complete nightmare as I had done the original build in Windows, their main platform, and they wanted a backup for Mac. As this was for a TV show where the text was dynamic but had to be identical on both it made it almost

Re: Livecode / Github

2022-09-01 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hopefully this helps a little. I think there are a couple of videos from > conferences over the past few years covering Git. I know that there is at > least one that I did (but it was targeted at building LC from source). > > Thanks, > Brian > >> On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 5:39 P

Re: Livecode / Github

2022-09-01 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
LC9.6.7? Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On 1 Sep 2022, at 23:48, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 9/1/22 15:16, Pi Digital via use-livecode wrote: > >> Here are the steps > > Yep. Exactly what I did. > Oh well. ¯\_ (ツ)_/

Re: Livecode / Github

2022-09-01 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
I don’t know who coded it but it really does not follow the standard LC conventions. I am going to assume it was someone external to LC so will cut them a huge bit of slack. It’s also very clear English is not their first language so they did pretty well considering. Here are the steps

Re: Livecode / Github

2022-09-01 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Fab :D however, ‘how’ does one… (i) set up a GitHub (I know how, this is for the benefit of others), (ii) perform commits, push, pulls (perhaps using LC and having an LC library/widget for this would be best), (iii) merge to a branch, (iv) switch branches All the while making it simple for

Re: Livecode / Github

2022-08-31 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
It created a smartcrumbs folder which contained 1 .livecode.sc folder which contained 3 subfolders, medias, scripts and shareTexts. medias contained 1 images folder with 2,325 jpeg files. The scripts folder contained 22,006 livecodescript files. The sharedTexts folders contained 7,352 GUID

Re: the script of with line numbers?

2022-08-29 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Using The earlier example, you could use put theErrorLineNum into tLineNum put the script of stack “myScript” into tScript split tScript using cr logError tLineNum, tScript[tLineNum] Or something like that. Sean >>> Is there a way (an existing function or command in the language or IDE) to

Re: Livecode / Github

2022-08-29 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Look at the guide in the guide section of the dictionary app. It formats okay (although I’m going through and rewriting the grammar to send for an update). Thanks Brian for the heads up on MagicPallet. I hadn’t looked to see what that was for yet. It’s all early stages yet but it’s looking very

Re: Livecode / Github

2022-08-28 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
in Navigator. I wrote it about five years ago >> when I was preparing to transform Navigator itself to use script behaviors. >> >> Always work on a copy. >> >> That said, it worked fine for Navigator, and no one has ever told me it >> broke anything. >

Re: Livecode / Github

2022-08-18 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
I tried scriptifier and it broke stuff so just be careful with it and check its output. Sean > On 19 Aug 2022, at 01:39, Mike Kerner via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hey Skip, long time... > I don't know if you were around when script-only-stack behaviors came into > being, but you can now

Re: Email via IMAP with HTML body from a template

2022-08-11 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Thanks Charles I think that’s going to work. I’m going to do some testing and let you know how I get on. Sean > On 11 Aug 2022, at 07:23, Charles Warwick via use-livecode > wrote: > > Sorry, the last line of the replacement code should have been: > > put

Re: Livecode SQLite

2022-08-11 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
How was you accessing the database? Is it locally based? The ones I access are stored on a web host server with a cPanel. I have my own php I POST my sql request to and receive JSON back. I then use JSONtoArray or, recommended, JsonImport encapsulated in a ‘try’ structure to convert the data.

Re: Email via IMAP with HTML body from a template

2022-08-11 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi Charles I know how to add an attachment because there are tutorials on this. That is already being implemented. My question is on how to add in proper html body for the content. Does your stack show how to do that? Sean > On 11 Aug 2022, at 06:45, Charles Warwick via use-livecode >

Re: No subject

2022-07-13 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
I agree. There is also no content :) Let us know if there is anything else you would like help with, Muaath. Sean > On 13 Jul 2022, at 17:18, Muaath Salih via use-livecode > wrote: > >  > ___ > use-livecode mailing list >

Re: LC 9.6.8 and UTF-8 on MacOS 10.15

2022-07-09 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
What result do you get from: put it contains “æ” Sean Cole Pi > On 9 Jul 2022, at 12:43, jbv via use-livecode > wrote: > > æ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Curved text possible?

2022-05-18 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
There is a better way to do this using LCB. If you don’t mind waiting I can pull something up. I’m out of office at the moment so can’t get to my files. Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On 18 May 2022, at 09:40, William de Smet via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi there,

Re: Localizing e.g. "Answer dialog" featuzre reques = hibernated?

2022-04-12 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Fantastic :D Sean > On 12 Apr 2022, at 19:24, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > he wrote: > Cannot say anything to this issue, but must confuse the list or I will > lose my good reputation otherwise. > > :-D :-D :-D > On Apr 11, 2022, at 11:00 , Richmond Mathewson via

Re: New user

2022-03-30 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
A very warm welcome to you, Guillaume. You will find everyone really helpful here. Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On 30 Mar 2022, at 16:06, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > You will find it to be a USE list (emphasis on USEful.) > > Bob S > > >> On Mar

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-03 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
I usually test this by using put the milliseconds into tMs …loop code… put the milliseconds - tMs This shows me a record of how long that loop took and helps me narrow down where the slow downs are occurring. You can do it within the loop too and keep a record for each iteration and see if it

Re: iphoneSafeAreaInsets()

2022-02-23 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi there Scott. https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/ios/visual-design/adaptivity-and-layout/ Layout Guides and Safe Areas That will explain the safe areas as defined by Apple and implemented in the library. Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On

Re: [ANN] Release 10.0.0 DP-2

2022-02-20 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
It’s so frustrating because I just spent the last week making my own widget to make bar and pi charts. LOL! Now it feels like a futile gesture with something far superior ‘just around the corner’. Your teams have done a really good job of making them. I’ll get back to making more futile tools

Re: Simple? DG question

2022-02-15 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
is what changes the visible state of the widget. If you are doing this with a standard radio button, the same principle applies. Sean Cole Pi Digital eMail Ts & Cs > On 15 Feb 2022, at 23:40, Pi Digital via use-livecode > wrote: > > When the user clicks on the toggle, do

Re: Simple? DG question

2022-02-15 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
When the user clicks on the toggle, do you have script that is overwriting the dgData or dgText and then invoking a redraw of the form? Or are you only changing the state of the graphic? Ideally you want to change the data and allow it to redraw the grid again. I’m coding the same myself at

Re: (area used by) Keyboard in iOS 15.x

2022-02-11 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi Mark This is really useful to know. Thanks for all your testing and research. Just a note about what iPhoneSafeAreaInsets is for. It returns the number of pixels from the top (the second item, 47 in your case) to allow for the top notch and from the bottom (4th item, 34) to allow for the

Re: [ANN] Preview of AppStarterStack for Livecode

2022-01-05 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
V0.99 - I love it!! :) We’ll done Tom. I’ll be in touch very soon. This sounds perfect for something I’m working on right now. All the best Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd > On 5 Jan 2022, at 18:48, Tom Glod via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hello Everyone, > > > Today I am happy to

Re: New user

2021-12-24 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
I’m refitting the bathroom and laying new carpet in the upstairs hallway, so have Hol Dom Dues too ;) Arduino will be basically the same as any other IO with the added benefit that you have control over the controller by your own Arduino coding. There is a difference in approach for PC vs Mac.

Re: New user

2021-12-22 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
For Android and iOS, use WiFi and sockets. This is just as quick and easy. Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On 22 Dec 2021, at 10:24, General 2018 via use-livecode > wrote: > > Just need this capability on Android - please Livecode > > Regards Camm > >> On 22 Dec

Re: Smile for Christmas.

2021-12-16 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
> I will donate "aluminium" for them. I don't know where they got that. Sir Humphry Davy, the same one responsible for the confusion in the term/name. So, the same place as our American cousins. > Oh, and don't forget Wales. They only have one sorta vowel, "y", and they > make do with

Re: Number of items

2021-10-25 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
It’s not a bug. It’s a feature. And a welcome one, too. We just have to handle it differently to the way it is for CSVs and DB records. Sean > On 25 Oct 2021, at 15:56, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 10/25/2021 10:46 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: >> I'm glad we

Re: Mud slinging versus genuine criticism

2021-10-25 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
> On 25 Oct 2021, at 14:54, Richmond via use-livecode: > genuine criticisms Every word! ‘Extremely intemperate’, maybe, but not without cause. Or, indeed, unconsidered. I had held off from commenting at all (to a number of posts in fact) while I considered my take on it. Sometimes a bit of

Re: Mud slinging versus genuine criticism

2021-10-25 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
I would if I could, Bob. I seriously would if I could! Sigh. Sean > On 24 Oct 2021, at 02:51, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > If Sean doesn’t like the product, he is certainly within his rights to > cancel his subscription and cut off all associations.

Re: ‘Mud slinging’ versus ‘genuine criticism’

2021-10-25 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Thanks, Richmond Mathewson, for your review from your perspective. I’m sure anyone else here not a ‘bottom feeder’ could enlighten you to the points I made to better ‘educate’ you. I’m too ‘ill’ to respond myself. Sigh Sean > On 23 Oct 2021, at 17:45, Richmond via use-livecode > wrote: >

Re: Our survey - please don't discuss :)

2021-10-22 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
>> never conciously > > I've tried that excuse but my wife never buys it. ;) > My wife and I have an agreement that ‘if it isn’t written down, it never happened’. We never wrote the agreement down though, so… Sean ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Our survey - please don't discuss :)

2021-10-22 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
> Come on, how should Matthias know? He won’t. Heather might. Obviously  ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Our survey - please don't discuss :)

2021-10-22 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Where do you opt in or out. I never consciously did so Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On 22 Oct 2021, at 09:15, Heather Laine via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Sean, > > You didn't get the survey because you have opted out from receiving our > surveys. This is not

Re: Stack with the same name loop

2021-10-08 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
> On 8 Oct 2021, at 16:08, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Actually I never quit LC. I duplicate the file in Finder and then rename the > one I was working on, which is still open in memory. > > I don't often use Save As but when I do I don't see a second copy of the > stack.

Re: Stack with the same name loop

2021-10-07 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
On 7 Oct 2021, at 17:28, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: > > So the first thing to ask is, is the recipe as simple as: > > 1) Select stack you want to 'Save As' > 2) File > Save As > 3) Give a different name and Save > 4) Duplicate name Save/Purge/Cancel dialog appears? > > Or is

Re: Stack with the same name loop

2021-10-07 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
> On 7 Oct 2021, at 15:49, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > Indeed, is this a multi-stack system which you are working on? Is there a way > your code (which is being triggered somehow after save) is referencing the > stack you just saved as, by its original filename? It is a

Re: Stack with the same name loop

2021-10-07 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
> On 7 Oct 2021, at 15:38, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > So the looping problem here lies somewhere in the process removing the > existing stack from memory / saving it. Like what, for example? Thanks. ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Stack with the same name loop

2021-10-07 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi Mark (both :) ) Thanks for your explanation. Very thorough. What I don’t understand is why the engine needs to delete the old reference (weak handle) when invoking a ‘save as’. Is it not just a matter of resaving you a new location and making the pointer to the storage device for that

Re: OT: Priorities (was: Re: Stack with the same name loop)

2021-10-07 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
> On 7 Oct 2021, at 05:49, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > In the larger picture, what would you address first: Firstly the fundamentals Closely followed by UX These are the foundation upon which ALL software AND hardware are based. Without them everything else is a waste. Sure, a wheel can have

Re: IDE line number doesn't update

2021-09-22 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi Probably best if you go back to bed, Curry. You’re too unwell to read my Full report (a whole stream of specific bug reports with duplicates and fixes and reprisals) or notice how Lng the email was you wrote regarding the bugs you’d found. A bit more than two lines. Stop getting ratty

Re: IDE line number doesn't update

2021-09-22 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
; On Sep 22, 2021, at 7:29 AM, Pi Digital via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Have you logged these on the quality site? I didn’t see them when doing my >> research. >> >> Sean Cole >> Pi Digital Productions Ltd >> >> eMail Ts &a

Re: IDE line number doesn't update

2021-09-22 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Have you logged these on the quality site? I didn’t see them when doing my research. Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On 22 Sep 2021, at 14:08, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode > wrote: > >  > Me: > > > Separate LC 9 SE Bugs we have, or had: > > "- Performance and

Re: Licensing model change

2021-09-18 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
> Licensing emails are going out, Did everyone else receive theirs? I still haven’t heard anything. I wasn’t going to push or be impatient but it’s been on my mind. Just wondering if I somehow got forgotten or they at just struggling to get through the tens of paying users. Sean Cole Pi

Re: Send a table in an email.

2021-09-09 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
ode > wrote: > > Hi Sean, > > Why don’t you just email them a spreadsheet or a .csv file, > let them open it. and they can copy and paste whatever they want > into their own spreadsheet? > > Rick > > >> On Sep 8, 2021, at 10:43 PM, Pi Digital via use-livecode

Re: Send a table in an email.

2021-09-08 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
st send > an image of it? Create a screenshot of the table and email it. > Are you trying to send just one or a lot of them over a period of time? > > Rick > >> On Sep 8, 2021, at 3:42 PM, Pi Digital via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> I just wanted a simple way

Re: Send a table in an email.

2021-09-08 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Me too, Bob. Same sort of scenario. It should just deal with them. It looks like I may end up with a mix of Mark’s and Rick’s suggestions. Maybe just html that bit. Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On 8 Sep 2021, at 18:09, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > I

Re: Send a table in an email.

2021-09-08 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
I just wanted a simple way of showing it without all the extra coding rigmarole. Especially in html. Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On 8 Sep 2021, at 17:41, Rick Harrison via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Sean, > > So you want the receiver of your emailed table to

Re: Send a table in an email.

2021-09-08 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Thanks Mark I will take a look Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On 8 Sep 2021, at 16:28, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 2021-09-08 11:02, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: >> Hi all >> I'm trying to use the MIME encoder to send an email with a

I’m a software engineer, not a platform engineer.

2021-09-02 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Peace to all at this difficult time. My working structure doesn’t seem to fit in with the new ‘model’ that LiveCode have imposed on us earlier this week. I understand their need to change and up their methodology. And I’m sure their model probably does fit the vast majority of LC users and

Re: LiveCode community edition is gone

2021-09-02 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Rick has brought to mind an interesting point about the new pricing model. It’s one that I think of occasionally. Currently and in the new model we pay for each deployment. But it’s a bit odd. Surely what we should be paying for is the Core engine and then smaller amounts for each deployment

Re: Bye, and thanks for the fish

2021-09-02 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
You will still be able to use the current Community Edition. It just won’t get updated any further or receive support from LCLtd. You are welcome for the fish. Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On 2 Sep 2021, at 09:38, Bernard Devlin via use-livecode > wrote: > >

Re: Can't reach license server...

2021-08-31 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
The main website is undergoing maintenance at the moment so this may have caused an interruption. Sean Pi > On 31 Aug 2021, at 16:13, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > Apparently only temporary as now the license server is back and responding. > > >> On 8/31/2021 10:57 AM, Paul

Re: Apple App Store Agreement

2021-08-27 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Is good news. EA won. This is great for us that also work on Unreal Engine. Back on the Mac for v5 hopefully. Sean Cole Pi Digital Productions Ltd eMail Ts & Cs > On 27 Aug 2021, at 20:02, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode > wrote: > > Does this actually level the playing field; or is it

Re: Collaborative help request for oAuth2 access to DocuSign

2021-06-11 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
I’ve still not been able to make any headway with getting oAuth to work for DocuSign. Anyone have any ideas? Sean > On 9 Jun 2021, at 20:31, Pi Digital via use-livecode > wrote: > > Yep, exactly. So that is where DocuSign should send back a redirect that is > picked up b

Re: Collaborative help request for oAuth2 access to DocuSign

2021-06-09 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Yep, exactly. So that is where DocuSign should send back a redirect that is picked up by the oAuth2 LC library. From there it should continue with the LC code. But the only way out at the moment is to press Cancel. I think the red message is not relevant as it always seems to be there. What

Re: number = layer?

2021-06-05 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi Paul. Your field numbers will not be the same as layer numbers if anything else is in a layer between or before them. The better indicator would be If word 7 of X = the number of fld “Address” then That will do what you are thinking I believe. Sean > On 5 Jun 2021, at 19:12, Paul

Set and get dgData and dgText delay

2021-03-24 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi All This has been a bit of a mind bender, mainly because in a test stack it works just fine, but... Has anyone ever had problems with something like this: on myHandle — ...some code Set the dgData of grp “myDG” to tDataA Put the dgText of grp “myDG” into tDataS — tDataS returns empty —

Re: Test

2021-02-11 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi Ludovic Do you get this one? Sean Cole Pi Digital > On 10 Feb 2021, at 19:43, Ludovic THEBAULT via use-livecode > wrote: > > I can send but I don't receive anything! > > You can see the list here : > http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2021-February/date.html >

Re: No visual effects on Big Sur?

2021-02-08 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
It’s been confirmed to be a regression in RC2 and should be fixed in RC3 Sean Cole Pi Digital > On 8 Feb 2021, at 16:15, ELS Prothero via use-livecode > wrote: > > Folks, > I get effects in Apple’s Big Sur when I use v9.6.1 in Livecode. But > 9.6.2(rc2) fails. It’s not the Mac OS.

Re: Ali or Monte - MimeEncodeAsMIMEMultipartDocument

2021-01-03 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Thanks Monte That’ll point me in the right direction. I only put Ali in there because he was in the ‘blame’ list on GitHub. I figured he might know a little about it’s innards as he’d worked on it a couple of times. As I’d not got a reply I’d bumbled my way around and gave it a play based on

Re: Slow performance on Big Sur

2020-12-16 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
What about using ‘lock screen’? Then go card. For preopen it ‘shouldn’t’ make a difference but I have found this to be a cause for stammering in the past. Don’t bother putting an ‘unlock screen’ at the end of the preopencard or opencard as it will unlock itself at the end of the open sequence

Re: CentOS Death in 2021

2020-12-16 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Ah, i see your POV now. You distinguish a difference between ‘runs on’ and ‘deploys on’. Where as I infer that there is no difference and that ‘supports’ is as ‘system requirements’ or ‘supported systems’. The document is aimed at users of Livecode who, of course are developers but, are also

Re: CentOS Death in 2021

2020-12-15 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
It’s this kind of rhetoric that drive me to madness and then getting a used of being abusive as I defend what I’ve said. Richard, there is no need as you have clearly misinterpreted practically everything I said in an effort to get some kind of oneupmanship. >> On 16 Dec 2020, at 01:00,

Re: CentOS Death in 2021

2020-12-15 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
inux > window manager (e.g. Cinnamon). > > Hope this helps, > Panos > -- > >> On Tue, 15 Dec 2020 at 10:42, Pi Digital via use-livecode < >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >> >>> On 15 Dec 2020, at 02:52, Richard Gaskin via use-

Re: CentOS Death in 2021

2020-12-15 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
But that does not seem to correlate to the way it is for MacOS or Win. Are you saying they compile from all of those versions of MacOS and Win they reference to supporting. This is a very odd use of semantics. When reading about LiveCode support, to me it doesn’t matter if it is LC Ltd or

Re: CentOS Death in 2021

2020-12-15 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
> On 15 Dec 2020, at 02:52, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > As Mark Weider noted, the "official" support is merely a reflection of their > build system, and it relies on a version of Ubuntu still actively getting > security updates. That doesn’t seem to be stated or inferred in

Re: CentOS Death in 2021

2020-12-13 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Thanks all. These insights are useful. Hery’s explanation of their choice to move to Debian provides a good argument. I had just tried Ubuntu 20.04 in a parallels virtual machine and my server app worked ok. I will try a Debian build too. I wonder why LC don’t state support for later Ubuntu,

Re: Printing To Pdf Linux Rendering

2020-12-03 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
That’s a possibility. Interesting. I’ll give it a go when I’m more awake. Thanks Richard Sean Cole Pi Digital > On 4 Dec 2020, at 06:16, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Sean Cole wrote: >> I've got a CentOS7 server that I am printing reports from as PDFs. No >> matter which

Downloading LC9

2020-11-16 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi I’ve been getting weird errors in MacOS (Catalina 10.15.7) where LC is saying there is a script error in a data grid of the startup window and also the script editor is not opening at all from any stack card or object. So I’ve decided to delete and reload LC. But the download is taking

Re: Livecode server UNIX version (not Linux).

2020-10-28 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
It’s a great idea. How do you propose it be handled? Assuming this is a build based on the current system it will likely have to be compiled in Linux as the obvious choice. Do we have anyone with the appropriate skills in coding C to look into the various server platforms to be compiled for?

Re: POST to https in LC5.0.2 - Error socket closed

2020-10-23 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
rrent commercial license? If so, maybe Support is willing to > give you a license for the old 5.x. > > Regards, > Matthias > > >> Am 23.10.2020 um 11:47 schrieb Pi Digital via use-livecode >> : >> >> Hi >> >> Is there any way I can get Lc5

Re: POST to https in LC5.0.2 - Error socket closed

2020-10-23 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi Is there any way I can get Lc5.0.2 unlocked to Enterprise level just so I can get this ssl https revdb behind me so our clients don’t all go running before we upgrade the code to v9.x. I’m truly at a loss. Sean Cole Pi Digital > On 23 Oct 2020, at 05:48, Sean Cole (Pi) wrote: > >  >

Re: POST to https in LC5.0.2 - Error socket closed

2020-10-23 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Yes. But have you seen how it has to get turned on. I have trouble enough with IT departments not wanting to install our software let alone ask them to go through the hassle of setting curl up on all of their clients desktops. This whole ssl https mySQL security thing came about because an IT

Re: Livecode Podcast Player

2020-10-23 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
wrote: > > You've just hijacked someone's thread...you said something last time. It's > now a totally different subject. > But nevertheless I total agree with what you just said. > > Op wo 21 okt. 2020 17:46 schreef Pi Digital via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.

Re: POST to https in LC5.0.2 - Error socket closed

2020-10-23 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
It’s not listed in LC5.0.2 dictionary so I arseumed it wasn’t implemented in that version. But I tried it. It made no difference at all. Either set to true or false. Even the call to put url https://google.com came back with error socket closed. Http works. Https does not. It is locked out

Re: POST to https in LC5.0.2 - Error socket closed

2020-10-22 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi bill Even a call to https://google.com returns the same error. It’s https it does not like. As mentioned, in LC9 it works perfectly. LC5.0.2 won’t let me access https because LC locked out that for enterprise users only. So basically, I screwed! Again! Sean Cole Pi Digital > On 23 Oct

Re: Livecode Podcast Player

2020-10-21 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Maybe that’s what we can all contribute. Get assigned a section of the guide and rewrite it. Submit, revise and add to the guide. And rewrite a better built in guide viewer. One that is searchable at the very least. And doesn’t take an age to load each section. Sean Cole Pi Digital > On 21

Re: Livecode Podcast Player

2020-10-21 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
I’m going to chime in, not to discredit anyone else or their comments, only to voice a reason I personally feel is far more needed and worthwhile. Before any of what has been suggested being carried out, as lovely as it all would be, getting the dictionary and the guide usable and

Re: SQL Show Status

2020-10-20 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
I was actually trying to look at the sslcypher tag. Wanted to see if it thought the server was enabled for it and if the certs would work. But there was no way of telling using revdb if the certs were wrong, if the server was set or anything. No one was able to tell me how to find out and was

Re: SSL cPanel mySql setup

2020-10-16 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
> the request string and executes it. The return from the DB is then returned >> to our standalone. >> >> Another way would be to use an LC server api HostM is providing for free. >> https://www.hostm.com/tutorials/livecode/api-mariadb-mysql >> >> >> R

Re: SSL cPanel mySql setup

2020-10-16 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Thanks Mark As I thought. Might as well have a server app that does the talking to the database. Sean Cole Pi Digital > On 16 Oct 2020, at 11:33, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 2020-10-16 10:51, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: >> Hi Sean, >> there was a discussion

SSL cPanel mySql setup

2020-10-16 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi I’ve found myself out of my depth and in need of advice. We have a cPanel webspace with mySQL running on a phpMyAdmin layer within the cPanel setup. Communicating with it from LC has been a breeze. However, doing a traffic scan we noticed that our queries and responses from the database are

Re: Contesting for Idiot du Jour

2020-09-07 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Except Black ... and white. > On 7 Sep 2020, at 18:16, Roger Guay via use-livecode > wrote: > > … and reminding me yet again that most things are never black or white! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: How Do You Get Filename / Image

2020-09-07 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
nd mouseUp > >  Pi Digital wrote: > >I’ll try that again:: > ># I’m going to assume this was a hiccup too and now fixed: > set the filename of img “slideimage” to (item 1 to -3 of the filename of > img “slideimage” & “/_ForWebSite/” & tRelativeURL) &g

Re: Contesting for Idiot du Jour

2020-09-07 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
. The same chap we get the name for Gaussian blur from. > On 7 Sep 2020, at 05:26, Roger Guay via use-livecode > wrote: > > I’m sorry, I don’t understand your terminology. Could you please elaborate? > > Thanks, > Roger > >> On Sep 6, 2020, at 10:54 AM, Pi Digit

Re: How Do You Get Filename / Image

2020-09-06 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
I’ll try that again:: # I’m going to assume this was a hiccup too and now fixed: set the filename of img “slideimage” to (item 1 to -3 of the filename of img “slideimage” & “/_ForWebSite/” & tRelativeURL) > On 6 Sep 2020, at 23:01, Pi Digital via use-livecode > wrote: &g

Re: How Do You Get Filename / Image

2020-09-06 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
on mouseUp local tRelativeURL -- repeat with x = 1 to (the number of cards of stack “SlideShowSetUp”) --go card x set the itemdelimiter to “/” put (the item -2 to -1 of the filename of img “slideimage” ) into tRelativeURL # this works is: there is a path #

Re: Contesting for Idiot du Jour

2020-09-06 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Pixel math: Counting incomplete pixels within a circle outline (%Pass)(%Fail): 10x10 = 88 (88%)(12%) 20x20 = 344 (86%)(14%) 100x100 = 8012 (80%)(20%) Counting complete pixels: 10x10 = 48 (48%)(52%) 20x20 = 276 (69%)(31%) 100x100 = 7444 (74.4%)(26%) Your conclusion here:

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout

2020-08-25 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
>> Am 26.08.2020 um 00:43 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode >> : >> >> 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 That would be the case if it wasn’t

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-25 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
really have to ask… if you are having such problems that are so >> insurmountable using LiveCode, then why not just abandon ship…? >> Seriously. If this is such a showstopper, why not find another language >> that will do exactly what you want..? Don’t waste any more of your

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-25 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Paul It’s a reasonable question so I’ll afford it the dignity it deserves. Here’s the thing. With thousands of £ invested in them including when they beg for money to help them out during times of distress you end up almost locked into their ecosystem. Besides, my main bread and butter client

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-25 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Not Fridge, Fork. I assume (dangerously) from your reply that you do not have to make real world applications for corporate branded customers. Where design has been done by a branding team with a 12 - 120 page Production guide). Someone like the BBC, Channel 4, NBC, or their subsidiaries.

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