Re: Embedded PDFs in Windows Menu

2024-01-04 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Curious to be sure. For my part I binary read my PDFs into an sql database large blob column then write them back out to disk when needed. That is the entire basis for my Forms Generator app. I have never encountered this issue. That may help narrow the scope of the problem. Bob S On Jan 3,

Re: Embedded PDFs in Windows Menu

2024-01-03 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
> Am 03.01.2024 um 17:09 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > : > > It sounds like he is dealing with file permissions. His app can create but > not write. I’ll bet the PDF file is 0 kbytes. > I had contact with Charles off-list. No, the pdf sizes are not 0 kbytes. And they were written

Re: Embedded PDFs in Windows Menu

2024-01-03 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
It sounds like he is dealing with file permissions. His app can create but not write. I’ll bet the PDF file is 0 kbytes. I would try saving the file using open file for binary write; write to file ; put the result into tResult, close file then check for tResult Bob S > On Dec 31, 2023,

Re: Embedded PDFs in Windows Menu

2023-12-31 Thread Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
Paul, the subject of Charles post is a bit misleading. The problem does not have to do with the menu. Charles problem is the following. He stored several PDF files on macOS as custom properties. His program allows the user to save the PDF to hard disk using a menu entry. The command for

Re: Embedded PDFs in Windows Menu

2023-12-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I'm not sure exactly what you are talking about? Are you asking about launching a PDF from a menu item under a "Windows" menu? On 12/31/2023 9:41 AM, Charles Szasz via use-livecode wrote: I have found that a method I use (proposed by LC tech support a few years ago to embed PDFs in a

Embedded PDFs in Windows Menu

2023-12-31 Thread Charles Szasz via use-livecode
I have found that a method I use (proposed by LC tech support a few years ago to embed PDFs in a Windows menu (using custom properties) does not work in LC 9+. It does work on a Mac. Anybody have solution for this problem? Sent from my iPad ___