Making the clipboard Excel compatible

2017-09-30 Thread Michael Julian Lew via use-livecode
Excel doesn't like the line endings that Livecode puts into the clipboardData["text"] and renders the lines as if they were double spaced. I have asked once before what magic wand to wave to fix the problem, but I forgot the answer and googling was entirely unsuccessful (although I found that t

Re: Dismiss Keyboard on Mobile

2017-09-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmm. that nice "DONE" option is only for iOS iPhoneSetKeyboardReturnKey J. Landman Gay wrote: See " mobilesetkeyboardtype". ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage yo

Re: AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

2017-09-30 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 9/30/17 12:42 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: Our symptom is, (as you know) the objects for stack A still appear on screen, ( only on Android) even if you log for the current top stack and LC engine returns "Stack B" we are seeing the contents of the card for Stack A

Re: not really OT: The Coming Software Apocalypse

2017-09-30 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 09/30/2017 11:58 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: Good read.Thanks! Oops. I forgot to post a link to Bret Victor's talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxWM4t68cR4 -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode m

Re: Dismiss Keyboard on Mobile

2017-09-30 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
See " mobilesetkeyboardtype". On September 30, 2017 12:48:31 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: And this app has a nice keyboard with the word "DONE" in blue, in the place where the return key is (at least in iOS) I looked all through the dictionary and online lessons…

Re: Dismiss Keyboard on Mobile

2017-09-30 Thread prothero--- via use-livecode
I wonder if simply setting the "editable" property of the field, in code, would close the keyboard. Bill P William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Sep 30, 2017, at 10:46 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > wrote: > > Yes peruising the dictionary in the little cool app mad

Re: not really OT: The Coming Software Apocalypse

2017-09-30 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
Good read.Thanks! > > On Sep 30, 2017 at 12:31 PM, (mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com)> wrote: > > > > Long read, but worth the effort: > https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/ > -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@

Re: Dismiss Keyboard on Mobile

2017-09-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Yes peruising the dictionary in the little cool app made by someone in Asia… LC dictionary.. and looking through all the mobileControlCreate input options and saw that focus was the key. And this app has a nice keyboard with the word "DONE" in blue, in the place where the return key is (at leas

Re: AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

2017-09-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Well …"exactly" And that is what we want to clarify if stack A is open and contents for its front card are buffered. Now open stack B on top of stack A with Accelerated Rendering on.. Just then… before we close Stack, for n number of milliseconds we have buffered objects for 2 different card

not really OT: The Coming Software Apocalypse

2017-09-30 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
Long read, but worth the effort: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/ -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subsc

Character sets in Android, iOS, OS/X, Windows

2017-09-30 Thread Pyyhtiä Christer via use-livecode
There are character set differences between the different platforms, when entered in an app by the user. Characters slash "/" for example is one of these. Has anyone detected the same problem? What would be the intelligent solution to overcome this? So when a user is typing "ä" (a with umlau

Re: Dismiss Keyboard on Mobile

2017-09-30 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Try "focus on nothing" instead of selecting empty. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On September 30, 2017 12:20:26 AM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: I have a drop down sea

Re: AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

2017-09-30 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I doubt the layermode is an issue here. Layermode is relevant only when the card is open. I'm not where I can review Mark's post about it, but I think acceleratedRendering basically tells the engine to buffer the content of designated controls so they will move smoothly. The layermode tells th