Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace

2015-07-22 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Michael, Haven't come across that before. 600k records is a large number but I've seen dbs with millions of records in them so it's not unusual. In any case, almost every performance problem I've seen revolves around either selecting or changing data not simply opening the database. Try

Re: New License Idea for Hobbyists

2015-07-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Guay wrote: Well, correct me if I'm wrong, but I am under the impression that Apple will not accept open source code, so I think I need a commercial license. Plus, I think this would give RR a more reliable income scheme than the occasional unsolicited donation. The company used to

Re: New Indy License Pricing

2015-07-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andrew Kluthe wrote: Richard, It's not an issue of earnestness or integrity but of what has been delivered vs what we were told was going to be delivered. There is a huge gap between the way things looked when they were presented to us in April 2013 and the way they look today. ... Will

Re: Behavior question

2015-07-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
You double-checked the path to the behavior, right? If there are any other handlers in the behavior, do those work? On 7/22/2015 12:48 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Right, the unhandled is what is throwing me, plus the fact that using send results in a runtime error. As I've found, what I'm doing

Re: Behavior question

2015-07-22 Thread J. Landman Gay
Is this one of the behaviors that's dynamically assigned at startup or when a stack opens? I wonder if it's assigned too soon, before everything has finished loading. On 7/22/2015 1:03 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Yep, checked it over and over, plus the spelling of the command. My lcStackbrowser

New Indy License Correction

2015-07-22 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Heather, I just took advantage of the 2 years of Indy for $499. My old license wasn’t supposed to expire until March of 2016 according to my account when I logged into it. This new license told me it would expire two years from now July of 2017. I believe according to Kevin’s email to me

Re: Behavior question

2015-07-22 Thread Peter Haworth
Yep, checked it over and over, plus the spelling of the command. My lcStackbrowser plugin has a feature where you click on an icon for an object's behavior and it automatically opens its script - that opens the correct script so pretty sure all is OK. I tried dispatching to a different handler -

Re: Behavior question

2015-07-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: I do recall someone (Richard Gaskin) entering an enhancement request for a command to reestablish behaviors. My handler is very fast, not even noticeable at startup but it would be nice to have an official way to do it. Mark Waddingham's comment #8 here suggests a good

Re: Behavior question

2015-07-22 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Richard. Read Mark's comment and I agree his solution sounds like the best way forward. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:05 PM Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Peter Haworth wrote: I do recall someone (Richard Gaskin) entering an enhancement request for a command to

revZip and 64-bit iOS

2015-07-22 Thread Chris Sheffield
I’m running into a problem, and wondering if others are/have as well. I have an iPad app that extracts some media files from a zip archive upon first launching. This works great on an iPad Mini 1, but fails with the error “not a zip archive” on an iPad Air 1. I’m running the same exact build

Re: New Indy License Correction

2015-07-22 Thread Peter Haworth
It should have gone to Helen of course but I'm glad I saw it otherwise I might not have checked the new expiration date when I renew. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:42 AM Rick Harrison harri...@all-auctions.com wrote: Hi Matthias, I made the mistake of using “Reply” to an old message which she

Re: Behavior question

2015-07-22 Thread Peter Haworth
Well now it's one of the ones that is assigned at startup - it wasn't when I started this thread. I'm pretty sure this all has to do with the engine's resolution of behavior references happening before all stacks are loaded. I have all my behaviors in a separate mainstack which is opened in a

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Jerry, The keyboard shortcut to uncomment works for me. This is on OSX 10.10.4 and LC 6.6.5 On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:20 PM Jerry Jensen j...@jhj.com wrote: Hello bug chasers, This is regarding bug report 11142: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11142list_id=33024 I first

Re: New Indy License Correction

2015-07-22 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
such requests should be sent to supp...@runrev.com instead of posting here. Regards Matthias Am 22.07.2015 um 19:43 schrieb Rick Harrison harri...@all-auctions.com: Hi Heather, I just took advantage of the 2 years of Indy for $499. My old license wasn’t supposed to expire until March

Re: Behavior question

2015-07-22 Thread Peter Haworth
This now ringing a bell with a problem I had a few months ago where many behaviors were not being resolved. In that thread, somebody recommended a repeat loop at startup to go through all objects in the stack, find the ones with behaviors and set the behavior to its existing property. That fixed

Re: New Indy License Correction

2015-07-22 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Rick, there´s no reason to apologize. Just wanted to make sure that your request is sent to the right address to get the attention it needs. ;) Matthias Am 22.07.2015 um 20:41 schrieb Rick Harrison harri...@all-auctions.com: Hi Matthias, I made the mistake of using “Reply” to an old

Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Jerry Jensen
Hello bug chasers, This is regarding bug report 11142: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11142list_id=33024 I first reported this almost 2 years ago, and it had been happening for a while before that. I just received a note from Panos that it is fixed in 6.7.6 and probably before. It

Re: list field not getting arrowkey msg

2015-07-22 Thread BNig
Mike Bonner wrote Very weird. I can't get arrow keys to work with any list field if the selection is empty. But hey, all that matters is that it works. Hi Mike, could you try this on a list field with a hilited line and either a second field that can get focus or no other field/control that

What would you like to read about on the blog?

2015-07-22 Thread Jana Doughty
Hi LiveCode Community, Just wanted to say how much I appreciate your feedback on the blog (Thanks, Bill Prothero!). I really want to make this the LiveCode community blog by exploring the ideas and questions you might have. If you have a particular topic you'd like to see covered on the blog,

[OT] FlipPDF for 19$ instead of 99$

2015-07-22 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
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Re: list field not getting arrowkey msg

2015-07-22 Thread Mike Bonner
Yep, it works well, whether its a single field or not. The only instance where it doesn't work correctly is if click to toggle is on (so that there are no hilitedlines) Focus is accepted, but no selection is made. Of course with click to toggle on, using arrow keys to select multiple lines

Re: New Indy License Pricing

2015-07-22 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Richard, It's not an issue of earnestness or integrity but of what has been delivered vs what we were told was going to be delivered. There is a huge gap between the way things looked when they were presented to us in April 2013 and the way they look today. This has been the point of

Re: list field not getting arrowkey msg

2015-07-22 Thread BNig
Mike, thanks for testing. this thread made me aware of the problem and I think I will incorporate the code into my list field. Kind regards Bernd Mike Bonner wrote Yep, it works well, whether its a single field or not. The only instance where it doesn't work correctly is if click to toggle

Re: Char Set on Custom Properties

2015-07-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Dan, Not exactly. All text is now unicode. If you set a custom property to the text of a field, it is unicode already. When you set the text of a field to a property, it is again unicode. This avoids the need for mapping and other hacks. I haven't tested this much. I can imagine that

Re: New Indy License Correction

2015-07-22 Thread Marian Petrides, MD
Rick, It might be better if you just sent an email to Heather directly at supp...@runrev.com (if my memory is correct). There's no guarantee that she'll see a post here, but she's really good about replying to emails and resolving problems like these. Marian Sent from my iPhone On Jul 22,

RE: New Indy License Correction

2015-07-22 Thread Jim MacConnell
Can confirm Heather's great and is the go to person for anything license related. She resolved exactly the same situation for me. Jim -Original Message- From: Marian Petrides, MD [mailto:mpetri...@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 3:23 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re:

Re: New Indy License Correction

2015-07-22 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Matthias, I made the mistake of using “Reply” to an old message which she apparently had sent out to everyone instead of putting her email into the message directly. Sorry about that. My mistake, please ignore my message list members. Thanks Matthias, I just don’t get enough sleep these

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Mark Wieder
On 07/22/2015 05:59 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: Oh thank you Paul! I am not crazy I don't think that's a logical conclusion... it just means that now there are two of you. g -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Behavior question

2015-07-22 Thread Mark Wieder
On 07/22/2015 12:39 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Well now it's one of the ones that is assigned at startup - it wasn't when I started this thread. I'm pretty sure this all has to do with the engine's resolution of behavior references happening before all stacks are loaded. I have all my behaviors

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Paul Hibbert
I normally work on a 2009 iMac, but I’ve just installed LC 7.1.0(dp1) on my 2015 MacBook Pro and it’s doing exactly the same as the iMac, i.e. it doesn’t work correctly and adding the system shortcut is only a partial workaround. The MBP is also on OS X 10.10.4. I’ll head over to the bug

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Paul Hibbert
Probably more, but at least we’re in good company!!! :) Paul On Jul 22, 2015, at 18:24, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: On 07/22/2015 05:59 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: Oh thank you Paul! I am not crazy I don't think that's a logical conclusion... it just means that now there are

Split by null

2015-07-22 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
A heads up: split tText by cr and null works differently in LiveCode 7 than it did in LC 6. The cr parameter is OK, but the null adds another cr when this expression is used in LC 7. You use the split command to build an array from a list in a field. I was befuddled when I got bad

Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace

2015-07-22 Thread Michael Doub
Kay and Mark, the database file size is 250Mb. The performance issue that surprised me was the open time. Adds and Queries are as expected. ID's currently range from 1 to 60400 URL is a typical URL that ranges from 50 to 130 characters, average is 80 char. tag is currently not being used

Re: New Indy License Pricing

2015-07-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
Wrong thread. Bob S On Jul 21, 2015, at 13:17 , David Bovill david@viral.academy wrote: I want to send gzip encoded data back from the LiveCode server I'm working on. According to the docs: compress function uses the slob compression library. And according to Wikipedia The

Re: New Indy License Pricing

2015-07-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
Try playing a MOLRP game with infantile teenagers. Bob S On Jul 21, 2015, at 15:37 , J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.commailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Ask any product manager, or restaurant owner, or retail manager, or anyone else who thoroughly reviews customer feedback.

Char Set on Custom Properties

2015-07-22 Thread Dan Friedman
Hello! Way back in LiveCode 5 and 6, custom properties were not ported to the proper character set when you opened the stack on a different platform (Mac -- Win or Win -- Mac). This was easily solved by a simple macToISO() or ISOtoMac(). However, it appears that LC 7.x is now doing this

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Colin Holgate
It works for me too. I used the bug report stack and followed the directions carefully. Command - comments, Command shift - uncomments. I tried in 7.0.5, under Mac OS 10.11. On Jul 22, 2015, at 4:40 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Hi Jerry, The keyboard shortcut to uncomment works

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Jerry- Sorry to report that it works for me. Command-underscore comments Command-shift-underscore removes comments OSX 10.10.4 LC 6.7.7 rc1 Mac Air no third-party components -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Behavior question

2015-07-22 Thread Peter Haworth
Put a reference to the behavior stack in the stackFiles property of my application stack and commented out the startup handler. It works! On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 12:39 PM Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Well now it's one of the ones that is assigned at startup - it wasn't when I started

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread BNig
Hi Jerry, using your stack commenting and uncommenting works from the keyboard using MacOSX 10.9.5 and LC 7.1 DP1 LC 6.6.5 have you assigned a system wide shortcut via system preferences - keyboard by any chance? Just a guess. Kind regards Bernd -- View this message in context:

Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace

2015-07-22 Thread Mike Bonner
If its on an external usb drive, part of the wait is most likely the drive wake up time. To test, move the file to a local drive and try it from there, OR, open the drive in finder first and poke around a little to make sure the drive is live, then try to open the database and see if it solves the

Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace

2015-07-22 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Michael, Out of interest, when you say it takes a long time to open the database, how long do you mean? Also, where is the database located? On your Mac's hard drive, external drive, on a network? I'm a bit confused as to the number of records. Your original email said 600,000+ records, but

Re: New Indy License Pricing

2015-07-22 Thread Bob Sneidar
Oh, that’s easy! I am the only employee of my company, which is by the by a ficticious one, and I pay myself so little, nothing in fact, that I am pondering having to leave myself. Bob S On Jul 21, 2015, at 09:16 , Chris Sheffield cs_livec...@icloud.com wrote: There are two other

Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace

2015-07-22 Thread Michael Doub
I just updated the database and it now has 608436 records. Sorry for the typo. it was 604000. How long to open - 216 seconds. I timed put revDataFromQuery(,,db_id,select * from mydatabase) into tResult it was 26 seconds. 216 to open and 26 to copy all of the data into a variable. This

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 22.07.2015 at 16:56 Uhr -0700 Jerry Jensen apparently wrote: Thanks Mark, Peter, Colin and Bernd. Very mysterious! I'll try it on a few other computers at work when I get back there tomorrow. .Jerry Have you checked whether the behavior is keyboard related by chance? RObert

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Jerry Jensen
Oh thank you Paul! I am not crazy (well, not about that anyway!). What model computer are you using? Yes, please add this to the comments in the bug report. I do think it will help. .Jerry On Jul 22, 2015, at 5:50 PM, Paul Hibbert p...@livecode.org wrote: This has never worked for me on OS X

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Jul 22, 2015, at 2:37 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Jerry- Sorry to report that it works for me. Command-underscore comments Command-shift-underscore removes comments OSX 10.10.4 LC 6.7.7 rc1 Mac Air no third-party components Thanks Mark, Peter, Colin and Bernd.

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Jul 22, 2015, at 5:41 PM, Robert Brenstein r...@robelko.com wrote: On 22.07.2015 at 16:56 Uhr -0700 Jerry Jensen apparently wrote: Thanks Mark, Peter, Colin and Bernd. Very mysterious! I'll try it on a few other computers at work when I get back there tomorrow. .Jerry Have you

Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace

2015-07-22 Thread Mark Wieder
On 07/22/2015 02:11 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: You'll see auto indexes for any columns that are defined as UNIQUE, that's how sqlite enforces that constraint. Doh! You're right. I could swear the documentation said you had to compile sqlite with a non-default compiler option to get this to

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

2015-07-22 Thread Paul Hibbert
This has never worked for me on OS X with any version of LC and I had just got used to ignoring it. I have checked for conflicts and can’t find any. The strange thing is, the shortcut causes the ‘Edit’ menu to flash as though it is being chosen, then I found that if I click the ‘Edit’ menu once