Re: LC Server: shebang breaks tags?

2020-02-07 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
Can’t answer regarding the design decision, but here is the pertinent line: One recent feature that was introduced in LiveCode 6.6 was the ability to use hashbangs (#! /path/to/livecode) in LiveCode server scripts instead of script open and close tags (). Of note is the “instead of” statement

LC Server: shebang breaks tags?

2020-02-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
LC Server 6.6 and later allows you to use LC as you would other system utility languages, by including the path to the engine on the first line following a shebang - see discussion here: https://livecode.com/livecode-server/ This lets us use the old MetaCard style with command line scripts,

Re: WebDAV

2020-02-07 Thread Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
Not yet, but for a prototype i played around with tsNet and Webdav some time ago. I used tsNetGetSync to list the content of a folder tsNetCustomSync to do actions like delete, create and so on tsNetUploadfilesync for uploading Worked fine so far, but i did not work further on it, because

WebDAV

2020-02-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Anyone have a client library for working with a WebDAV server in LC? Bonus (not needed now, but might be fun down the road): Anyone have a library for implementing WebDAV in LC Server? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the

Re: OT: Completely OT: Reading list recommendations.

2020-02-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Alex Tweedly wrote: > Hopefully I'll find 3 books > > - a techie one Rapid Development by Steve McConnell > - a non-techie non-fiction one Critical Path by R. Buckminster Fuller > - fiction - preferably fairly light, easy reading Hippolyte's Island by Barbara Hodgson -- Richard

Re: OT: Completely OT: Reading list recommendations.

2020-02-07 Thread Lagi Pittas via use-livecode
Techie ones without any problem solving involved and they could actually be Novels - you feel that you are there rooting for the participants in both "stories" Surely Your Joking Mr Feynman What Do You Care what other people think The Eudaemonic Pie by Thomas Bass The Soul of a new machine by

Re: OT: Completely OT: Reading list recommendations.

2020-02-07 Thread Martin Koob via use-livecode
Hi My favourite book of fiction (science fiction) is Isaac Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy, Perhaps a bit long for your journey. I have read it a few times along with looking for the sequels and prequels. (It is currently underproduction for an Apple TV+ series. I am half in hope it will be