Drag and Drop Images

2020-04-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
>From a substack called "library" Where images are loaded one after another to a group, referenced by filename (to image data) on disk (not placed) to a mainstack called "Slideshow" with one Image per card Before I try and reinvent the wheel, does

Re: iOS build error - help needed

2020-04-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I 9.6.1.dp3 and Catalina 10.15.4 and Xcode 11.3.1 It works Suggest he unstall Xcode and reinstall in and get install the command tool from menu (again) And be sure he is not using a development profile and had the beta test box checked in SA setting (that one cost me a lot of time!) you can

Re: Keyhole effect?

2020-04-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Monte Goulding wrote: > If I understand what you want correctly then: > > Create image > Create mask object > Group both > Set the ink of the mask object to blendDstIn > Set the ink of the group to blendSrcOver Super, Monte. That works well. I was up late with a tool I'd made to let me walk

Re: Keyhole effect?

2020-04-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Brian Milby wrote: > On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 5:32 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Back in the day I could easily make a sort of keyhole effect, in >> which I used one graphic to obscure an image, and a second graphic >> on top as a mask to define a shape (such as a keyhole) through >> which I

Re: Damn You Unicode!

2020-04-14 Thread doc hawk via use-livecode
I’m thinking that possibly there is a violated assumption as to what the other end is using within that, yes. Or that the other end makes an assumption, and puts the “wrong” type back in. Which kind of SQL server is that? Microsofts? I can probably rig access to my Postgres server if you

Re: Keyhole effect?

2020-04-14 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
If I understand what you want correctly then: Create image Create mask object Group both Set the ink of the mask object to blendDstIn Set the ink of the group to blendSrcOver Like everything else graphical I’m sure Scott Rossi has a better way ;-) Cheers Monte > On 15 Apr 2020, at 7:31 am,

Re: Keyhole effect?

2020-04-14 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
We had a discussion in 2018 about using a hex shaped grc to split up an image (started by Richmond). The key line there was: set the backPattern of grc "hex" to the ID of img "box" Since attachments and stacks were involved, I'm pretty sure it took place on the forums. I'm not sure if this

Re: Damn You Unicode!

2020-04-14 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 4/14/20 2:34 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote: Mark mentioned Try a picnic basket instead Given that someone actually implemented RFC 1149, why not? Ha! I totally missed the fact that someone (other than Terry Pratchett) had actually done a real-world implementation. "And, as

Re: Damn You Unicode!

2020-04-14 Thread doc hawk via use-livecode
Mark mumbled > and in doing so you could unUnicode it. OK I made up that word, but still… Verbing nouns again, the man is . . . ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Damn You Unicode!

2020-04-14 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 4/14/20 12:56 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I have some code in a field that I put into a variable then I “do” the variable. Works fine on a Mac. On Windows however, the command throws an error. I build the code in the field by getting values from different objects on the card.

Re: Damn You Unicode!

2020-04-14 Thread doc hawk via use-livecode
Mark mentioned > > Try a picnic basket instead Given that someone actually implemented RFC 1149, why not? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Damn You Unicode!

2020-04-14 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 4/14/20 1:09 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote: Shooting from the hip, but could it be differences in cr, lf, and the like getting processed differently? That is, being intrereted by your yogi as a break in one implementation and not another? (Which, of course, would be a boo-boo.)

Keyhole effect?

2020-04-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Back in the day I could easily make a sort of keyhole effect, in which I used one graphic to obscure an image, and a second graphic on top as a mask to define a shape (such as a keyhole) through which I could see a portion of the image. It was done easily enough with inks. Inks that, it

Re: Damn You Unicode!

2020-04-14 Thread doc hawk via use-livecode
Shooting from the hip, but could it be differences in cr, lf, and the like getting processed differently? That is, being intrereted by your yogi as a break in one implementation and not another? (Which, of course, would be a boo-boo.) pawk, who couldn’t manage to get “Cindy” or “ranger smith”

Re: Damn You Unicode!

2020-04-14 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Actually it looks like this is happening internally to sqlYoga. I think it’s because I am querying a SQL Server. This doesn’t happen with a mySQL database. Bob S > On Apr 14, 2020, at 12:56 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > I have some code in a field that I put into a variable then I “do” the >

Damn You Unicode!

2020-04-14 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I have some code in a field that I put into a variable then I “do” the variable. Works fine on a Mac. On Windows however, the command throws an error. I build the code in the field by getting values from different objects on the card. In this particular case, I am getting the dgProp

Re: Apps to fight COVID-19

2020-04-14 Thread dsc--- via use-livecode
Jonathan Rothberg is looking for brilliant people who can code whatever your domain. > On Apr 13, 2020, at 6:52 PM, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode > wrote: > > Thanks! > > >> On Apr 13, 2020, at 11:42 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> On 4/13/20 10:14 AM, dsc---

iOS build error - help needed

2020-04-14 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hello all, A new user gets some strange errors trying to build an iOS app with LC 9.6 DP-3 and Xcode 11.3.1 on Catalina. I know some of you folks have no problems building iOS apps with this setup - my guess is that something in his Xcode is not setup correctly - although he has tried everything

Re: Problem simulating a location

2020-04-14 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Gents, thank you. Good advice, and I’m taking it! I will report back. Graham > On 14 Apr 2020, at 19:39, Andrew at MidWest Coast Media via use-livecode > wrote: > >> >> From: Graham Samuel >> I suppose I can try the test on a real phone, but I would rather stick to >> the simulator for

Re: Problem simulating a location (Graham Samuel)

2020-04-14 Thread Andrew at MidWest Coast Media via use-livecode
> > From: Graham Samuel > I suppose I can try the test on a real phone, but I would rather stick to the > simulator for now. If you have a physical device, regardless of age, try it. There are some things that either don’t work (like camera) or are spotty in the emulator. > And I haven?t

Re: Problem simulating a location

2020-04-14 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Hi Graham, You should really try it on the phone before knocking yourself out about why it doesn’t work on the simulator. I have found that some things involving sensors simply don’t work on the simulator. Try that, if it doesn’t work on the phone let us know. Good luck! Rick > On Apr 14,

Re: Problem simulating a location

2020-04-14 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Folks, I am still struggling with this. Alan Stenhouse has been kind enough to help me, but so far I have not got the simulator to simulate any kind of location information. There is a function, mobileCurrentLocation, that is supposed to return an array provided tracking is enabled and