Re: OT: Catalina - the end of ad hoc & in-house development?

I've been reading the responses to my original posting with interest. My thoughts are as follows: 1. Matthias Rebbe's tutorial and helper stack seem to be excellent and appear to be the best way of complying with Apple's requirements, for now. Let's hope that Matthias can maintain this as

Re: Merge and unicode

I'll wager using a styledText array for this will be fun to write and will perform very well.Richard GaskinFourth World Systems ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Using LiveCode & AppleScript to make mouse selection in another Mac application

Hi Bob, Thanks for telling us about Keyboard Maestro! I used to use Quikeys for Mac for a long time, but they haven’t updated it for quite some time and I was hoping to find a substitute. It looks like Keyboard Maestro is like Quikeys on Steroids! Thanks again, Rick > On Sep 10, 2019, at

Re: Merge and unicode

I wondered about using htmltext in the merge too, but before I started using merge I was setting the properties one by one in a handler. Here's part of my original handler, where pResults is a list of lines that match search criteria: repeat for each line l in pResults put item 1 of l &

making outputted pdf background transparent [ was:high resolution when printing to pdf, ...]

I’ve managed to make overlay of pdfs work with PyPDF2. Now I have the problem that livecode outputs a background color to the pdfs I make. Even if I et the background color of my card, the groups, etc. to empty, I still get a grey background, instead of a transparency. This means that when I

OSTimeInfo_105

OSTimeInfo_105 is #111 of the Raspi stacks collection. What it does: Shows the uptime (since last reboot) and shows last reboot, last shutdown and last uptime. Works with LC 6/7/8/9 on Mac, Win 7/10, linux (Ubuntu 1904 flavours) and with LC 6.5.1/7.0.4 on Raspi 3/4 running Raspbian or Lubuntu.

Re: Using LiveCode & AppleScript to make mouse selection in another Mac application

You need a Macro program. I like Keyboard Maestro. Bob S > On Sep 10, 2019, at 13:14 , Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Tom and Martin, > > Thanks for the responses. That's where I'm at the moment; the problem is that > I AFAICT I can click at a position using System

Re: Merge and unicode

Because htmlText does not set the metadata to interesting characters, you can consider this workaround: Change the quotes in tCONCEPT to and . And, thus, in tMETADATA. > On Sep 10, 2019, at 12:47 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > :) > 1. Jacque is very confused too, but is

Re: Merge and unicode

I looked at this some more on OS X. I'm not seeing a problem with merge. And I'm not seeing a problem with metadata per se, I don't think. But I am seeing a problem with setting metadata with htmlText. > On Sep 10, 2019, at 1:32 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 9/10/19

Re: Using LiveCode & AppleScript to make mouse selection in another Mac application

Hi Tom and Martin, Thanks for the responses. That's where I'm at the moment; the problem is that I AFAICT I can click at a position using System Events; but I can't click at one location and release at another. The issue is that I'm trying to make a rectangular selection, encompassing a

Stop Integer Coercion to Scientific Notation in JSON

setPref "preferences/global/lastRunDate", (the seconds) # e.g 1568144731 put getPref ("preferences/global/lastRunDate") into tLastRunDate returns {"preferences": {"global":

Re: Merge and unicode

On 9/10/19 1:47 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: :) 1. Jacque is very confused too, but is afraid of big sticks. 2. Encoding should be identical throughout. I'm working with a large text block, pulling out sections to create a list. All data is retrieved from othe same variable,

Re: Merge and unicode

:) 1. Jacque is very confused too, but is afraid of big sticks. 2. Encoding should be identical throughout. I'm working with a large text block, pulling out sections to create a list. All data is retrieved from othe same variable, which is UTF16 native LC text. 3. The metadata is only set at

Re: Merge and unicode

I extracted an example. The main issue is curly quotes. The text came from FileMaker in UTF8, which I textDecode to UTF16. You can assume that all text is LC native throughout the app. Here is the template I use for merge: size="16" color="#C77C02">[[tSECTION]][[tCONCEPT]] In the field, this

Re: Merge and unicode

Jacque, these are my latest thoughts as far as possible problems. 1. Dar is very confused and off in the wrong direction. Use big stick. 2. Binary data is in an 8-bit char set encoding causing problems with UTF-8 decode. Check encoding. 3. Field, line and character metadata are interfering.

Re: Merge and unicode

Trusting... Also, interpreting Latin-1 as UTF-8 can generate some weird characters and lots of ?-diamond symbols. > On Sep 10, 2019, at 8:36 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Trust me it's better than a feral gander persuit. > > Bob S > > >> On Sep 9, 2019, at 17:23 , Dar

Re: Merge and unicode

Trust me it's better than a feral gander persuit. Bob S > On Sep 9, 2019, at 17:23 , Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode > wrote: > > Sorry, if I am off on a bunny trail... > > Dar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: 9.5 on Windows seems terribly unable to deal with fields full of text?

There´s already a bug report from Mark Talluto about this from 15.08.2018 https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21497 describing exact this problem. And he noted also that this is "extra problematic for Windows systems." Matthias >

Re: Weird behavior for modal stacks and answer dialogs

Hi Mark, thank you for highlighting the 14275 report. I can confirm the Spotify “interference” on Yosemite and Sierra. It seems to be ininfluent on latest version like Mojave. I want to underline that this wrong behavior is present also in the executables, that is the real problem. Is there a