Re: Go to card has become slow

2020-04-12 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2020-04-13 02:23, Neville Smythe via use-livecode wrote: But no, it shaved only 1 second off a 7 second save for styled text (elderly MacPro running Windows 10 VM) So your engine modifications must be having a much wider effect, not just on reducing the 3 API calls for styled as opposed to

Re: Video format for mobile

2020-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 4/12/20 4:16 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: On 13 Apr 2020, at 3:58 am, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 4/12/20 9:43 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2020-04-10 21:39, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: @Mark is there a bug number for this? I

Re: Go to card has become slow

2020-04-12 Thread Neville Smythe via use-livecode
Mark Waddingham wrote > There appear to be two reasons for the difference: > > 1) When saving each style run (block) in a field the engine is making > three Win32 API calls. > > 2) The saving method uses (and always has used) direct Win32 system > calls to manipulate files without any

Re: LiveCode useless seems to be Junk

2020-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 4/12/20 1:11 PM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: This is a real pain-in-the-bum, but Thunderbird has recently started marking posts from the Use-list as junk. I wonder if anyone knows whay, and whether there is something that can be done: either at my end, or server-side? I use

Re: Apps to fight COVID-19

2020-04-12 Thread dsc--- via use-livecode
Anybody with experience in MyChart or HIPPA or the like? > On Apr 11, 2020, at 2:40 PM, dsc--- via use-livecode > wrote: > > I don't know why they allow hippos to run free in a hospital, but I hear > there can be a hippo concern. > > >> On Apr 11, 2020, at 2:05 PM, dsc--- via use-livecode

Re: Apps to fight COVID-19

2020-04-12 Thread Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode
Is this normal? Guideline 5.1.1 - Legal - Privacy - Data Collection and Storage We found in our review that your app provides services or requires sensitive user information related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the COVID-19 pandemic is a public health crisis, services and information related

Re: MP3s

2020-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Graham Samuel wrote: > Still, subject closed - I presume the mother ship has long ago decided > not to enhance LC in this respect any time soon. Not at all. I noticed this thread got off on the tangent of codec specifics, but never addressed your core question: LiveCode can play all of

Re: Sample Stacks tab in IDE is not functional

2020-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
kee nethery wrote: > Am unable to search and get results. > > 9.5.1 on MacOS Indy Edition Build 15505 > > Have gone to web site and it too is unresponsive. > > In specific I’d like to get a stack that can read or parse a QR code. Confirmed here in v9.6dp3. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Sample Stacks tab in IDE is not functional

2020-04-12 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
Am unable to search and get results. 9.5.1 on MacOS Indy Edition Build 15505 Have gone to web site and it too is unresponsive. In specific I’d like to get a stack that can read or parse a QR code. Kee ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Video format for mobile

2020-04-12 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
> On 13 Apr 2020, at 3:58 am, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 4/12/20 9:43 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: >> On 2020-04-10 21:39, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: >>> @Mark is there a bug number for this? I couldn't find anything. >> Not specifically as yet

Re: LiveCode useless seems to be Junk

2020-04-12 Thread dunbarx--- via use-livecode
Richmond. I was going to lay into you, until I saw that "useless" was actually "use-list" Close one. Craig -Original Message- From: Richmond via use-livecode To: Skip Kimpel via use-livecode Cc: Richmond Sent: Sun, Apr 12, 2020 2:12 pm Subject: LiveCode useless seems to be Junk This

Re: MP3s

2020-04-12 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Lossy? Yes, like JPEG. And like JPEG, the format does very well indeed for a huge variety of applications. I listen to MP3 music a lot, mostly classical, and I don’t feel the lossy aspect is really taking away from the quality of what I hear to any extent. Of course if the whole chain of

Re: Livecode and AWS Sql

2020-04-12 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
And their support, if ever needed, is excellent. Btw., if you want to use ODBC connection strings with LC <7 and Actualtech´s ODBC drivers, then here is the needed syntax for it //MSSQL get revOpenDatabase("ODBC","Driver={Actual SQL Server};SERVER=;DATABASE=;UID=;PWD=;",,,) //SQLite get

Re: MP3s

2020-04-12 Thread Colin Holgate via use-livecode
For AIFF and WAV the file size is affected by the sample rate, number of bits, and number of channels. For MP3, only the data rate determines the file size. > On Apr 12, 2020, at 12:32 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 4/12/20 11:07 AM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: > >>

Re: MP3s

2020-04-12 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 4/12/20 11:07 AM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: "Just for fun" I exported a sound file as WAV, AIFF and MP3 using Audacity" WAV 36.9 MB AIFF  36.9 MB MP3  4.4 MB which means that WAV and AIFF stink about 9 times more than MP3 For the record, mp3 is a lossy format while WAV and AIFF

Re: LiveCode useless seems to be Junk

2020-04-12 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 4/12/20 11:11 AM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: This is a real pain-in-the-bum, but Thunderbird has recently started marking posts from the Use-list as junk. I wonder if anyone knows whay, and whether there is something that can be done: either at my end, or server-side? Thunderbird

Re: Livecode and AWS Sql

2020-04-12 Thread Skip Kimpel via use-livecode
Matthias, By the way, Actualtech´s ODBC drivers work perfectly. thank you for the recommendation! SKIP On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 4:56 AM matthias rebbe via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > Skip, > > As i wrote in my previous post > i am using Actualtech´s ODBC

LiveCode useless seems to be Junk

2020-04-12 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
This is a real pain-in-the-bum, but Thunderbird has recently started marking posts from the Use-list as junk. I wonder if anyone knows whay, and whether there is something that can be done: either at my end, or server-side? Richmond. ___

Re: What is a token

2020-04-12 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
A token is passed among nodes in a network to allow subway entry. :P -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: MP3s

2020-04-12 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
You are not ignorant . . . And the sound import stuff in LiveCode is donkey's years out of date. "Just for fun" I exported a sound file as WAV, AIFF and MP3 using Audacity" WAV 36.9 MB AIFF  36.9 MB MP3  4.4 MB which means that WAV and AIFF stink about 9 times more than MP3 NWO: as

Re: Livecode and AWS Sql

2020-04-12 Thread Skip Kimpel via use-livecode
I first started with the Microsoft driver options but had zero luck... this was a very frustrating part of my learning curve with this project. SKIP On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 4:56 AM matthias rebbe via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > Skip, > > As i wrote in my previous

Re: Livecode and AWS Sql

2020-04-12 Thread Skip Kimpel via use-livecode
Thank you everybody! You have been a great help. SKIP On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 10:25 AM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > This next week I will probably get my client-server thingummy going to > where you can securely pass queries and return data, but I only

Re: Video format for mobile

2020-04-12 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 4/12/20 9:43 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2020-04-10 21:39, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: @Mark is there a bug number for this? I couldn't find anything. Not specifically as yet I don't think - Monte noticed some issues late last week, and is the progress of

Re: MP3s

2020-04-12 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
AIFF On 12.04.20 20:09, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote: Pardon my ignorance, but Is there really no way to put an mp3 sound into a stack as an audioclip and play it? Seems unlikely, but that’s what the dictionary says. WAV, forsooth! Graham

MP3s

2020-04-12 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Pardon my ignorance, but Is there really no way to put an mp3 sound into a stack as an audioclip and play it? Seems unlikely, but that’s what the dictionary says. WAV, forsooth! Graham ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: What is a token

2020-04-12 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 4/12/20 8:51 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: How about: if “/*" is among the words of No, I've got it working here for the trivial case by replacing "/*" with numtochar(5) and then back again at the end of formatting. But that doesn't deal with the more general case of put "

Re: What is a token

2020-04-12 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
How about: if “/*" is among the words of Bob S > On Apr 12, 2020, at 8:47 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 4/12/20 12:49 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: > >> If you want to see if a line starts with a multi-line comment then you >> should do: >> if word 1 of

Re: What is a token

2020-04-12 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 4/12/20 12:49 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: If you want to see if a line starts with a multi-line comment then you should do:   if word 1 of tLine begins with "/*" then ... The solution isn't that simple, since multiline comments can begin anywhere in a line, as in /*

Re: Video format for mobile

2020-04-12 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2020-04-10 21:39, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: @Mark is there a bug number for this? I couldn't find anything. Not specifically as yet I don't think - Monte noticed some issues late last week, and is the progress of fixing them. I've asked him to chime in when he's back to work

Re: Livecode and AWS Sql

2020-04-12 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
This next week I will probably get my client-server thingummy going to where you can securely pass queries and return data, but I only use sqlYoga when I can help it, so you might have to modify it for your own purposes. Bob S > On Apr 12, 2020, at 2:09 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode >

Re: What is a token

2020-04-12 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Mark Wieder, I think what we will have to do when you encounter an open block comment that is not followed by a close block comment in a single line is toggle a variable to true, and check each subsequent line for a close block comment, formatting everything in between, then toggling the

Re: What is a token

2020-04-12 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
:-) That is exactly what I submitted to Mark Wieder as a fix. Am I becoming as smart as Mark Waddingham?? LOL! Bob S > On Apr 12, 2020, at 12:49 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > If you want to see if a line starts with a multi-line comment then you should > do: > > if

Re: WebDAV library for LC community available which does not depend on tsNet

2020-04-12 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
Of course it´s Ralf Bitter and not Ralf Bitte. - Matthias Rebbe Life Is Too Short For Boring Code > Am 11.04.2020 um 22:09 schrieb matthias rebbe via use-livecode > : > > Hi, > > Ralf Bitte released a WebDAV library , which does not depend on tsNet and > can therefore also be used > with

Re: Livecode and AWS Sql

2020-04-12 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
> Am 12.04.2020 um 01:11 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > : > > Same as on Windows, but the difference is that Microsoft has built in drivers > for SQL Server, mySQL and some other things. Yes, MS Windows has included a SQL Server ODBC driver. But, if i remember correct, then you need

Re: Livecode and AWS Sql

2020-04-12 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
Skip, As i wrote in my previous post i am using Actualtech´s ODBC drivers. They are not free, but what i think they are cheap. They cost 39,- USD. https://www.actualtech.com/product_sqlserver.php There´s also a trial version available. There are also free ODBC drivers for MSSQL for Mac from

Re: What is a token

2020-04-12 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2020-04-11 22:22, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: So the question is, should I submit this as a bug, or no? No you shouldn't as it isn't a bug :) The 'token' chunk is a wrapper around the internal routine the engine uses to divide a script text up into tokens which are then parsed.