Re: Black boxes replace images in Mojave (Was "No subject")

Bug report filed. See bug 22156 . -- Tom -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Black boxes replace images in Mojave (Was "No subject")

Mark and Matthias, This workaround looks promising! While I don't have Mojave to test against, I do find problem images have many different colorSync profiles. Matthias, after you have stripped out the profile, what does Preview's Info screen show as the ColorSync Profile data? I'm thinking it

Re: Black boxes replace images in Mojave (Was "No subject")

Thanks for that info, Matthias. Please clarify: Is the image you posted a screenshot of three separate png files or one composite image? If separate, what are the differences between the files? (Strikes me as odd that the black is only a part of the image. In my cases, users see entire

Re: Large files crash on Windows 10

Hi, I develop a stack that is now up to 35 MBs on a Windows 10 machine without any crashes like you described. I use LC 7.1.4 Indy for this. I also distribute standalones built with this stack and it is also stable on Windows 10. When you have these crashes, do you find the artifact ~ file that

Re: [ANN] Network Tracer

Congratulations on this release, Andre. This looks very useful. I have a (probably dumb) question... Are your products, such as AAG Tools, only for use in the IDE, or can tools such as TypeTool be used in standalone builds? Thanks, Tom Bodine -- Sent from:

Re: ANN: WordLib 2.2 Release is Available + LC Blog Post

Congrats, Curry, on the new release of WordLib. What's next? Tom Bodine -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: ImageHandles_v105

I will definitely check this out. Thanks! Tom B. -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Fun with Windows 10

Loved your story, JLG. To know and be your true self at such a young age is like a super power. (Let us all know when you tell your story on The Moth.) -- Tom Bodine Jacqueline Landman Gayl via use-livecode wrote > A brief diversion: > > I have always hated pink since I can remember. I

Re: Anyone using Older LC versions?

I use 7.1.4 almost daily. Thanks, Tom Bodine -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

Panos' test and Mark's insight have me on the right path. I am not using "numberFormat" anywhere, but I am setting the value of gTSsettings["teamcount] from a mouseup script on a scrollbar. Since my scrollbar output is apparently coming out as a floating point value, I need to add rounding to

Re: Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

Hi, >>global gTSsettings["teamcount"]; put gTSsettings["teamcount"] - 4 The global is just gTSsettings, so I modified your command as... global gTSsettings; put gTSsettings["teamcount"] - 4 RESULT: -0.497436 ??? Thanks, Tom -- Sent from:

Re: Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

No, strict compilation is off. Variable preservation is on. So are LC 7 and 8 the same in terms of how variables are declared and accessed? That's been my assumption. Tom -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html

Re: Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

Nope, not it. The global is declared at the top of a group script containing numerous handlers that use that and other global vars. (Unless there was a change from LC 7 to LC 8 that requires declaration of variables in each handler? I am porting a LC 7 project into LC 8.) Tom -- Sent from:

Re: Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

Oops, my formatting got lost... Message box experiment: put gTSsettings["teamcount"] 4 put gTSsettings["teamcount"] = 4 false Thx, Tom -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html ___ use-livecode

Too fundamental to be a bug, so what's wrong?

Hi all. I have a global array containing the value 4. It's stored in gTSsettings["teamcount"] The bizarre thing is when I do value comparisons, gTSsettings["teamcount"] does not equal 4. This first occurred in a repeat loop, but I can reproduce it in the message box, too. put

Re: MacOS 10.13 crashes LC after color dialog

Just ran into this bug, which I see is fixed for LC 8.x and up. But can this fix also be done for LC 7.x? Or is 7 EOL? Tom B. -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: [OT] Web based HyperCard

Very cool! Playing with the paint features takes me back to my first Mac encounter in 1984 with MacPaint: Draw a rect. Fill it with brick pattern. Spray paint some graffiti on it. Virtual vandalism -- satisfying and harmless. Thanks for the link! Tom B. -- Sent from:

Re: Quit Command corrupts standalone (stack called by standalone splash)

Hi Roland. The "~" file is the original (uncorrupted, unsaved) version of your stack before LC executed your Save cmd. If you remove the "~" from the filename, you'll probably find you can open that. LC creates the "~" file at the start of the save operation and, if all goes well, removes that

Re: Exe and dll errors after standalone build

Roseanne Roseannadanna wrote > Nevermind! Fixed it. -- Tom B. -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Exe and dll errors after standalone build

Hi all. I'm getting two error dialogs on launching a newly built standalone (built with LC 7.1.4 on Win 10) of a stable project. Error on: Appname.exe 1 (6) Error on: revsecurity.dll 1 (6) I've been producing builds with this same project for many years without seeing these errors. The errors

Re: goofy question about audioClip

I've found when an audio file sounds like white noise in Livecode, it can often be fixed by opening the file in an audio editor and re-exporting it with settings of 16-bit, 44100 Hz sample rate, mono. -- Tom B. -- Sent from:

Re: Anyone can confirm laggy IDE on Windows 10?

On Win 10, I use LC 7.1.4 routinely and LC 8.1.x occasionally. In my experience, LC v7 runs as smoothly as it did on Windows 7. But LC 8.x is very hard to use with its slow script editor. Even dragging controls from the palette to the card is spotty. Fortunately, my major project codebase is in

Re: Autosaving stacks corrupted on network drives

Thanks, Mark and Trevor, for those ideas. >>Mark wrote: Split the data out into a separate data file or better into a database  (because most databases use transactions, with greatly minimizes the  probability of corruption).  Does "databases use transactions" mean DBs don't rewrite the entire

Autosaving stacks corrupted on network drives

Hi all. Looking for your insights on an issue. Here's the scenario.. I have a standalone Win/Mac app that autosaves user data to a stack file as the user moves from card to card. Typically, files reach sizes of 100-200k. Normally, this works great. But a couple of times a year, some user will

Re: AW: htaccess rewrite rule to https let my apps stop working

T. Had a similar experience while migrating my site to https. What I found was my standalones were missing the revsecurity.dll external. After rebuilding those to include revsecurity.dll, the standalones were able to contact my site and access stacks and other files there without changing my

Re: Build a simple app on Android

Is the security external part included in your Android app? You may need that external to reach an https url. (At least that's the case for desktop apps, if I'm not mistaken.) -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context:

Re: play sound plays the wrong sound

I believe the problem is the audio file settings. Open the file in an audio editor and save it again with bitrate of 16 and 44100 Hz. HTH, Tom B. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/play-sound-plays-the-wrong-sound-tp4716673p4716675.html Sent from

Re: Older version of LC vs Windows 10, app not responding

Hi Geoff, You app worked for this same user in the past, but now does not... Did Windows 10 break it, or did the user migrate to another machine? Possible culprits could be the user's security software or IT policies that make your app untrusted. Is your app code-signed? Installed in an unusual

Re: Can't Sign App

Seems Mac Sierra is more of a problem for codesigning that previous OSXes. Any help for you in this thread? http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Codesigning-issue-with-revxml-bundle-in-LC-8-tc4711443.html Tom B. -- View this message in context:

Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money...

" Developers Who Use Spaces Make More Money Than Those Who Use Tabs " according to Stack Overflow survey. So THAT's what I'm doing wrong. Tom B. -- View this message in context:

Re: LC Global - my experience

+ 1! Much better experience compared to previous simulcast attendance. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LC-Global-my-experience-tp4715908p4715919.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Changes to Msg Path from LC 7 to 8?

Thanks for the encouragement, Richard. Looks like I'll be doing the "Humility Workout" for quite some time. For future list searchers who might have this same symptom, I found the cause: One of my stack level scripts used "theme" as a parameter name, but apparently that's a reserved term that is

Re: Changes to Msg Path from LC 7 to 8?

Another clue... If I use the message box to call any simple stack level handler, LC 8 changes that command to a put statement. Example: I type in msg box: zzShow -- a stack level handler Msg box changes my cmd to "put zzShow" and then puts "zzShow" in the output area. Tom -- View this

Changes to Msg Path from LC 7 to 8?

Hi all. I am migrating a big project from LC 7.1.4 to LC 8.1.4, and hitting a wall right away. When my card scripts call stack level scripts directly, LC 8 throws a "can't find handler" error. (I confirmed that the defaultStack is my main stack.) LC 7 had no problem with this. Example: Card

Re: how to download an image

Is this happening in a standalone or the IDE? A standalone would need revsecurity.dll for https. Tom B. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/how-to-download-an-image-tp4715487p4715503.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at

Re: on tabKey - what field contains the blinking curser?

One way... if the focusedObject begins with "field" then put the focusedObject into tActiveField end if Tom B. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/on-tabKey-what-field-contains-the-blinking-curser-tp4714288p4714289.html Sent from the Revolution -

Re: AW: Which code signing authority?

I've been using K Software's Comodo certs to sign Windows standalones and installers for at least five years. The support provided by the owner of K Software is quite good. (Example: http://certhelp.ksoftware.net/support/home ) Tom B. -- View this message in context:

Re: Suggestions for LiveCode (the company) to increase its revenue

Code signing can be a major pain point. Adding code-signing features to Livecode (or in a supplemental tool) could be a selling point for Indy and Business license users. I pay about $50 annually for a third-party code-signing tool subscription on the Mac platform. LiveCode Ltd may able be able

Midi in LC on Windows and Mac

Hi all. I'm looking for a Win/Mac method of sending and receiving midi key notes in Livecode without Quicktime. (I asked Thierry about this but his sunnYmidi external is Mac only.) Suggestions? Thanks, Tom B. -- View this message in context:

Re: nabble babble

Thanks for that, James. Nice to be able to see who said what again. -- Tom B. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/nabble-babble-tp4713301p4713310.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Customer database stack for FastSpring, etc?

Thanks, Richard. What you described will certainly work for future customer records. But my main challenge is to take many years of past data stored in tab-delimited spreadsheet files from various ecommerce vendors and bring all that data together in one place where it will be easily searched and

Customer database stack for FastSpring, etc?

Hi Livecoders. Anyone know of a stack designed to import and manage customer data from ecommerce services such as FastSpring and Plimus? Thanks, Tom B. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Customer-database-stack-for-FastSpring-etc-tp4713278.html

Re: Windows 10 Screen resolution problem

Hi, I tested your script on a Win10 Pro PC, primary screen size of 1920 x 1080, and the Resolution warning message did not fire. Tested in LC 7.1.4. Could it be your user has dual screens and the one the program opens on is set below your resolution threshold? Tom -- View this message in

Re: UI design problem

Thanks Jim. Jim Lambert wrote > Presumably text in the field is editable by the user. > Therefore the field text cannot be locked and mousedowns will be used for > text selection rather than grabbing of the entire field, correct? > > Is the field user resizable? A right-click toggles the text

Re: UI design problem

Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote > pass mousedown "Pass mousedown" doesn't work here. (Message does not travel down to the image control below the field.) I used a send "mousedown" which does travel through, but what doesn't work then is the "grab image 'blah'" line in the mousedown handler

UI design problem

Hi Livecoders. I am hoping you'll have some ideas for solving a UI design/coding problem. My app lets users create simple presentation screens, one per card. The user can import a picture and add a headline (text field) to the card. And since the user will sometimes want the text to be over the

Re: It looks like Director is Finally Dead

Hey, Skip. I always loved your Director Podcast! Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/It-looks-like-Director-is-Finally-Dead-tp4711978p4712011.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

RE: Idea about Norton

Looks like we'd have to request user to disable or ignore both AV SW and Microsoft's Smartscreen (Win 8 and 10) before installation. As a Norton user myself, I just downloaded on Windows 10 a code signed test file of my own, and Norton's screens were less off-putting and more informative than

Re: Idea about Norton

Or, NOT off-list. Tom -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Idea-about-Norton-tp4711879p4711882.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Idea about Norton

Hi Graham. I wanted to float a rough idea off-list... Tell me what you think. If Norton faults our files for being new and not (yet) popular, perhaps we could generate a base of download activity ourselves to get over the threshold. Specifically, I'm thinking of an informal group of software

Re: AW: Boring but important - selling a download product for Windows

Hi all. Here's what I've learned from many years of providing PC downloads: * Email attachments are heavily filtered and rightly so. Use this only as a last resort for delivery of a program. * These days, fewer people are willing to download a trial version, in part due to Norton, but also many

Re: How do I codesign an App?

It is VERY frustrating, though I was able to get codesigning to work earlier this year using AppWrapper 3. But even with successful signing, Apple manages to rub salt into the wound with this bug If you codesign for Mac as a third party developer for distribution outside of the app store,

Re: LC performance change from Win 7 to Win 10

UPDATE: For my immediate deadline, I cannot make the leap to LC 8.x. But I have found most of the issues I cited above have improved or cleared up after updating to LC 7.1.4. -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context:

Re: LC performance change from Win 7 to Win 10

I'm running Windows 10 Pro native on a workstation*. -- Tom * 64-bit, Intel Xeon CPU 3.19 GHz, 12 GB memory Mike Kerner wrote > Are you running 10 in parallels, or on a native pc? 10 is slower than 7 > in > many cases, and the new Parallels is slower than the last one, in many > cases.

Re: LC performance change from Win 7 to Win 10

Thanks Monte and Richard for the fast replies. OK, I'll give the latest stable version of 8 a try using the same codebase and let you know what happens. It may be a week or so before I get to that due to a pressing deadline. Thanks again, Tom Bodine -- View this message in context:

LC performance change from Win 7 to Win 10

Hi All. Has anyone else experienced a severe drop in LiveCode's speed in Windows 10 compared to Windows 7? I recently upgraded to Win10 on my PC workstation. When I use LC 7.1.1 (my mainstay version on this machine for a long time now), it's like it is stuck in a bog. Specifically: * A

Re: opening utf8 text file

Is the textDecode still necessary? I thought in LC 7 and up, Unicode "just worked"? Tom B. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/opening-utf8-text-file-tp4705847p4705908.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: [OT-ish] WWDC things of interest

Richard Gaskin wrote > Even if we develop on Mac or Linux, the majority of most of our income > comes from Windows users, and our income is what enables LC's income. > > The Mac audience may be two to three times larger than Linux, but both > are niches compared to the 86% using Windows.

Re: Forcing redraw of a LC window

Thanks for that! -- Tom Bodine [-hh] wrote > ...how to force the redraw of a (possibly resized) LC window. > > I use it mostly just before an "unlock screen": > ** set backcolor of this card to the backcolor of this card ** -- View this message in context:

Re: Unidentified Developer

Hi, My understanding is this second-class treatment is what Apple does to us for opting out of their app stores. You would think after all the trouble we face to maintain Apple's code-signing system and play by Apple's shifting rules, that our code-signed apps would at least have our valid IDs

Re: IMG resize advice wanted

Thanks for elaborating on that, James. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/IMG-resize-advice-wanted-tp4702682p4702862.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: line spacing coming in from text pasted from pdf or .doc

If you go the html parsing route, this blog article may prove useful: http://www.websighthangouts.com/how-to-paste-from-microsoft-word/ I found pasted text from Word carried the invisible characters linefeed (numToChar 33) and null (numToChar 0). Tom Bodine -- View this message in context:

Re: IMG resize advice wanted

Hi Jim. Nice script! I am exploring a project that would have a similar need to embed images in fields, so I have a couple of questions for you... 1) What method are you using to embed those images in your field? 2) For smaller images, are you able to inset them within the text and have text

Re: Playing movies

Hi, Bill. Seems the whole LC community is in a state of frustration regarding this. But one minimal method I find works to play an online movie is to embed a movie url in a LC field with the linkStyle set to "link". Then add to your stack a script... on linkClicked pLink launch url pLink

Re: Sending emails, with attachments, on your server

Thanks Bill! Tom -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Sending-emails-with-attachments-on-your-server-tp4700411p4700465.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: Modifying revErrorReport

Hi Bill. Yes, I'd really like to see your tutorial on that approach. Thanks! Tom -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Modifying-revErrorReport-tp4700383p4700386.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Modifying revErrorReport

Hi All. Last year, I modified revErrorReport in LC 6.5.1 in order to add more environment data (platform, version #, etc) to users' emailed Bug Reports. That worked well. Now that I'm working in LC 7.1.1, I need to repeat those modifications to revErrorReport*. But upon saving the edited stack,

Re: Windows 10 file paths

Followup on the code signing hunch: We know in the Apple world a lack of code signing can get an app banished by Apple's Gatekeeper. So perhaps a Windows machine with high security requirements also blocks exes or dlls that are not signed. It looks to me like RunRev does not code sign the dlls

Re: Windows 10 file paths

Is the dll code signed? Perhaps higher security settings are blocking its installation or use for that reason. -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Windows-10-file-paths-tp4700179p4700189.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing

Does user have network connection?

For desktop standalones, is there a function or constant that will tell me if the user has an Internet connection or not? (Can't find one searching the dictionary.) Happy new year! Tom B. -- View this message in context:

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

Hi, You didn't mention how you are distributing your programs or what platforms your users have. My understanding is if you build standalones from your licensed version those standalones can be distributed at no further cost to you. At least those were the terms I recall from the 5.x era. (I know

Re: play vc xyz, still stuck in the 80s?

As a multimedia developer, I just want to echo what Klaus said about the lack of modern multimedia support in Livecode. Fixing this shortcoming will lead to more new customers for LC. I know that I, for one, have not been able to recommend Livecode to my peers due to this lack of modern

Re: [ANN] lcStackBrowser v2.2.1

As a user of lcStackBrowser, just want to say this latest release has completely replaced my need for the LC Project Browser. I was experiencing chronic crashes with LC's Project Browser. Those went away with lcStackBrowser. And it has reduced screen clutter from the IDE by gathering so much

Re: Application Data

There's one potential problem with cloning or copying a group or controls from one stack to another... In a standalone that uses password protection, the engine will silently block the copy/clone operation as part of that protection. (In the IDE, everything works fine. It's only shows up as a

Re: Quicktime in Windows 10?

Richard Gaskin wrote > The team patched a few bugs in their Windows media playback a few > versions back, so if you haven't tried it recently you may be pleasantly > surprised. Richard, can you elaborate? Which version or which bugs? Richard Gaskin wrote > ... under the current plan I don't

Re: uncrufting a stack file?

Hi, Not sure of your platform or LC version, but perhaps this is relevant: I went through a period of chronic crashes while saving work on a large project that originated two years ago in LC 5.5 and is now in LC 7.1. The crashes were happening on Win 7, LC 7.x (pre 7.1). What helped reduce, but

Re: How can I get a high-res image into LC?

There is still no import feature of SVG vector graphics. (And the EPS import is very limited and old.) The "Roadmap" says: "Vector Shape Object Use widget framework to write this control." So, like the multimedia player object, SVG is in LC8 limbo. Note that the bare info. in the roadmap blurb

Re: Future crowdsourced features and priorities

Yes, multimedia is Livecode's great weakness. Upgrading LC's multimedia to modern times was among the stretch goals in the original Kickstarter campaign and many of us are awaiting that. Since it was promised and paid for as part of that campaign 2.5 years ago, I don't see how they can come back

Re: 'Check for Updates' not working?

Yes, same issue: 'Check for Updates' reports no updates for me on Win 7 with LC 7.x. I do find the new downloads page (http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/) gets me to what I need, but it's only useful when I know there's been a new release. (Another good reason to belong to this list!) Tom

Re: Audio Delivery to Multiple Platforms

Hi, This approach is working to play mp3s in a LC 7.0.5 standalone on Windows 7 and Vista: I've tested this on a Windows 7 machine where QT is installed, but I set the dontuseQT to true. And on a Vista machine that does not have QT installed. Worked on both. on PlayMP3 theMP3file, pname lock

Re: Audio Delivery to Multiple Platforms

I searched this list and the LC forums to piece together a working method, and the lock messages was part of what was recommended. As Paolo said, multimedia in LC is in a state of chaos. Personally, I'd rather have stable, coherent multimedia controls before experimental things like html5

Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card

Peter W A Wood wrote Reworked Multimedia Support New Player Completed on OS X. Windows/Linux ??? I’d appreciate if somebody could let me know the status of the items about which I’m unclear and any mistakes I have made. Hi Peter. Thanks for

Re: Choosing a database and LC tools

Hi Bill. Thanks for those insights. I'm not sure which route I'll take yet, but I would welcome access to your php script collection. Thanks, Tom Bodine On 8/10/2015 8:12 PM, Wprothero [via Runtime Revolution] wrote: Tom: I use Navicat to manage my databases. It will access a variety of

Re: Choosing a database and LC tools

Thanks guys for the information on this! Very helpful. Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Choosing-a-database-and-LC-tools-tp4694777p4694818.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Choosing a database and LC tools

Hi, I want to add a content library module to a LiveCode-built project. It will enable users to store, tag, sort and retrieve their content. I've read various threads and articles about databases, but I have minimal database experience and I want to get it right the first time. So I'd appreciate

Re: Import Snapshot of Stack?

Richard, Thanks for that great tip! I was just grumbling about the poor image quality of my exported snapshots (on Win7, LC 7.0.5). I tried your syntax from card instead of a rect or object, and it's a night and day difference. Gradients, photos and type are much smoother in the image from the

Re: Best practise for a quiz control?

Hi. I would definitely write my own handler to manage and display the questions and call that handler with a Send command instead of the forever loop. -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context:

Re: Improving Bug Reports feature of standalones

Thanks Mark! -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Improving-Bug-Reports-feature-of-standalones-tp4694032p4694087.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode

Improving Bug Reports feature of standalones

Hi all. I use the built-in Bug Reports feature of the standalone builder, which provides basic info. via email when a user hits an error. Problem is these reports omit basic, key details, such as the platform and my codebase version number. And users never include those in their comments. A

Re: AW: how to get an option button with a full size icon?

Thanks for sharing that solution. I probably would have spent half a day trying to sort that out. Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/how-to-get-an-option-button-with-a-full-size-icon-tp4693733p4693795.html Sent from the Revolution - User

Re: Text to speech and create wav file

Hi Bill. I don't know if that's doable within Livecode. If not, perhaps you can use an external source. A site such as http://www.fromtexttospeech.com/ may have an API where you can send the text and get back a url to download your wav file. On the Mac side, looks like many people have used

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Currently everything I do in LiveCode is done in v7.0.5. Do you get frequent crashes? That said.. 7.0.5 is frustrating. Crashed 5 times on me to today... I am trying to move entirely to V7 engine, but as Brahmanathaswami notes, 7.0.5 is makes it very hard with frequent and unpredictable hard

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Thanks, Richard. Here are the basics: * Platform Win 7, 64-bit machine * Running LC 7.0.5 (rc2) * Bug report of these crashes: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15418 * The application is a quiz application that lets the user to create quiz content and customize its presentation. It's been

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Hi Richard. Thanks for your interest in this case. Do you recall if these crashes occur more frequently if the Project Browser is open? I virtually always have the project browser open! I have turn off all 3rd-party plug-in tools in case those are a factor and will see if there are any

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Thanks Richard and Mike. I will run without Project Browser and see how that goes. Mike, good theory on drives, but not a factor here: this machine runs off one SSD. No USB drives involved. I don't have data on the time factor, but I'll start logging my sessions to look for a pattern. When a

RE: Confirm bug in MeasureText in LC7.0.4 stable?

Hi John. It wouldn't be the first time the bug turned out to be in my brain. But does it strike anyone else, based on the dictionary description, that this should be reporting info. similar to the formattedHeight and formattedWidth? Use the measureText function to find the dimensions of text

Confirm bug in MeasureText in LC7.0.4 stable?

Hi, Do you get this odd behavior of MeasureText function in LC 7.0.4 stable? (I'm using Win 7). Make a new field with don't wrap off. Add the following script to the field and watch the message box. Reported vertical size never changes when there are hard or soft line wraps. It's always the

Re: struggling with player

It would be really helpful if the LESSONS part of the Livecode site gave the correct info for the player. Agreed! As a relative newcomer to LC, the two biggest obstacles I found to learning it are out-of-date online lessons and the spotty indexing of the Dictionary. Maybe when the dust settles

Re: Hanging indents?

Terry, If you are open to your hanging indent lines having an outline or list format, try setting the ListStyle of the block of lines where you want the hanging indent. Here's a tutorial: http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4071/l/58770-how-do-i-use-hierarchical-list-support -- Tom Bodine -- View

Filtering text styles on the Clipboard

LC friends, I have an app with basic word processing and I'm looking for the best way to detect the source of what's on the clipboard. I'm trying to apply two rules: 1) Text formatted within LC can be copy/pasted with styled text using clipboardData[styledText] 2) Text formatted from outside of

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