Re: QR Code & mobile devices & the desktop

John, your script worked. Can't believe it was that simple. Thank you! Thank you too, Mark (but John's solution is much simpler, sorry) and Stephen (if only Inventory Scanner could send data directly to my desktop). Now, to hope that Monte Golding will soon have an Android version of his mergZXin

Re: OT: DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free

Holey moley! I just went and got mine! You are sooo awesome for sharing this with us, Matthias! Thankee! > > > Hi, > > Daz3d http://www.daz3d.com is giving away 3 of their products (Win and > MacOSX) for free for a limited time. > > The apps are > > Bryce 7 Pro > Hexagon 2.5 > Daz Stu

Re: QR Code & mobile devices & the desktop

For those that want to get started with Barcode scanning using the iPhone might look at a free app in the iphone store Inventory Scanner using John Craig's new QR code generator library and this app, one can get a personal invent

Speech recognition

Anyone know of resources for integrating speech recognition (speech-to-text) with LiveCode so that simple input could be collected and then assessed for correctness (e..g. letter or word recognition in reading) or used to adapt the current screen or activity? Would also like to be able to monit

Linode + Livecode + Virtualmin

Hello Folks, This is a postmortem email about setting up a Linode server to use Livecode Server. If you are not interested in learning about a great service (Linode), a great control panel (Virtualmin) and a great server language (Livecode server), then, you should just close this. I've been invo

Re: Odd Filter Command Behavior

Maybe you should be filtering with "*checkbox" & tab & "√*" ? Without the asterisk after the checkmark wouldn't it just find checkmarks at the end of lines? And do you need the asterisk after "checkbox" ? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Feb 7, 201

Re: IMAP libraries?

I have googled and searched and cannot find anything lc native. There are articles on how to set up an imap daemon in OS X, so it might with a lOT of hard work be possible to create a library that interacts with the terminal. I wouldn't tackle it myself though. Someone could theoretically compil

IMAP libraries?

I presume the answer is no but ... are there any LiveCode IMAP client libraries for LiveCode to act as a mail client? Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Odd Filter Command Behavior

Hmm. The pasted text example (the 2 liner) doesn't have checkbox* tab √ it has spaces. Is it possible this is due to copy and paste? I thought at first there might be spaces AND a tab in which case "*checkbox*" & tab & "*√*" should cover it but no such luck. Is it possible you have inconsistent

Odd Filter Command Behavior

This has to be something I am missing because I am blind to it. I have a variable set to "*checkbox*" & tab & "√". When I filter the following text with that filter I get just the line which matchs. [1] ["roomid"] 16,[1] ["siteid"] 4,[1] ["uniqueid"] 18,[1] ["status"] Availab

iOS: strange flash when setting acceleratedRendering to false

Okay, I know this came up on the list a couple weeks ago or so, but this is a strange problem. All of a sudden, I'm experiencing this issue where I wasn't before. I have a card that contains a field object with words set up as links. When a link is clicked, a "pop-up" group is displayed that in

[OT] AT&T Throttling

It happened to me and, unless you are talking about a new policy, you are perhaps misinformed on some points. If you are in the top 5% of data users AT ANY TIME of the billing cycle, the first month they warn you that you will be throttled if it happens again. If it does happen again (and by the

Re: Android stats

Have you read the latest on how AT&T is treating those of us hanging onto our "unlimited" plans? (I do the same thing) I've seen demonstrations of how they throttle your connection once you exceed about 2GB per month. You pay as much as someone with a 3GB plan, but beyond 2.1GB or so, you get rough

Re: Android stats

It's just my assumption, but I would think that the *vast* majority of Android users leave in place whatever is on their device. It takes some geek-ish effort to root, and most people want nothing to do with that. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 11:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Very true, and I don't see

Re: Android stats

Bob Sneidar wrote: > My only real point was that multiple versioning of the OS and > multiple hardware configurations, some compatible with some versions > and some not is the tradeoff for the "openness" of the Android world. > Some like it hot! Indeed, I prefer the steamy jungle, teeming with l

Re: Android stats

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I rooted my iPhone ONLY because I could tether it without having to pay > YET AGAIN for the unlimited data I was grandfathered into. Other than that, > I have advised against it, mainly because there was a possibility of > bricking it (at one ti

Re: iBooks Store connection

Hi Sergio, That would be something like launch url "itms-books:" & mySecondPartOfUrl Just replace http with itms-books in the URL to the book in the store. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://

Re: Android stats

I rooted my iPhone ONLY because I could tether it without having to pay YET AGAIN for the unlimited data I was grandfathered into. Other than that, I have advised against it, mainly because there was a possibility of bricking it (at one time) and also because it voided the warranty for iPhones/i

Re: Android stats

Point taken. But it should also be mentioned that Apple got rid of it's BSD underpinnings a few years and couple three OS versions back, and is now running pure Unix (or so I am led to believe). At the time, Apple was not in much of a position to make a real choice in the matter. Their own attem

Re: Android stats

erm... not my experience with Apple at all! If you don't want updates, you can tell Software Updates to not check! In fact even if it DOES check, you ALWAYS have to enter a user and password to install them. In fact, one of my great problems I have around here is how to get users with laptops ru

Re: Windows Admin vs Standard Users - App startup times

I just found this by googling. It may help and it may not: http://www.techradar.com/news/computing/pc/how-to-make-old-programs-work-on-windows-7-922313 Bob On Feb 7, 2012, at 9:58 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > I did think it might be a cache, but not in this case. > > If I restart the computer,

iBooks Store connection

hi, iOS question: does somebody know if there is a way for opening iBooks Store showing certain specific book after touching a button in a livecode stack ? thanks and best regards __ Sergio Schvarstein __ ___

Re: Android stats

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 12:55 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/7/12 11:22 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > >> On 07/02/2012 05:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> >>> Very true, and I don't see much hope for improvement. On the other >>> hand, it's >>> pretty much expected you'll jailbreak an Android tablet so

RE: Android stats

Here Here!!! "jailbreak" is creepy and reminds me of IBM then DEC and soon to be Apple. No one has learned from the past Tech companies and their tight grip. "The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers." ―Princess Leia to Grand Moff Tarkin Ra

Re: Android stats

Bob Sneidar wrote: > The whole issue highlights the Achilles Heel of Linux (read Open > Source) operating systems. NOT SAYING that OS systems are BAD, > just that there are tradeoffs to letting anyone do anything with > an OS. Some of us like being able to tailor our OS to our tastes and needs.

Re: Android stats

My stats are showing just over 60% of my app users are on Gingerbread, with the rest spread between everything else. The paid apps tend to be more weighted towards the later versions, and the free apps towards the earlier ones, maybe the people with the newer phones are more willing to pay f

Re: Windows Admin vs Standard Users - App startup times

I did think it might be a cache, but not in this case. If I restart the computer, log in as the standard user then right click and start the app in administrator mode it starts immediately. If I then close the app and re-launch it using the normal double click it takes forever to load, so

Re: Android stats

On 2/7/12 11:22 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: On 07/02/2012 05:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: Very true, and I don't see much hope for improvement. On the other hand, it's pretty much expected you'll jailbreak an Android tablet so people update that way. Jacque, Do you have any stats for that, or is i

Re: Android stats

On 07/02/2012 05:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: Very true, and I don't see much hope for improvement. On the other hand, it's pretty much expected you'll jailbreak an Android tablet so people update that way. Jacque, Do you have any stats for that, or is it anecdotal/instinct? I work in a roomful

Re: Android stats

It is apparently not illegal to "jailbreak" or root an iPhone either, according to fairly recent court decisions. However, rooting a device CAN void a warranty, so be advised. And there are lots of places in the world where you don't have to do anything technically illegal to be thrown in jail,

Re: Android stats

Wouldn't it be great if the Android market had one large agency powerful enough to force the cell companies to keep the devices updated? That way people would be able to just expect that the latest and greatest were available to them. They would have to be able to control the hardware too of cou

Re: Windows Admin vs Standard Users - App startup times

That may be a bit of a misnomer. Windows (and OS X) is designed to keep recent code from an app in virtual memory. You will discover this phenomenon to be true with all programs. The first time you run it, the startup time may be longer than you expect, but quit it and start it up again, and the

Re: AW: OT: windows run as admin what's the difference?

Just guessing, but does quicktimeinstaller have an install for user as opposed to install for all users option? Perhaps that is the difference? Otherwise Microsoft has got some 'splainin' to do. :-) Bob On Feb 6, 2012, at 11:36 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Thanks Bob, > yes, so far the theo

Re: AW: Windows - Storing data for all users

And Windows is asking for authentication?? See, this is why I disable UAC on any computers here at work, but of course, that is not a solution for a commercial product. It's another example of how Microsoft (and others I'm sure) tries in principle to solve a problem, but ends up creating other p

Re: Android stats

On 2/7/12 9:07 AM, Roger Eller wrote: On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: If I jailbroke my Acer tablet, how would that let me install ICS, if Acer haven't yet adapted it for that tablet? On Feb 7, 2012, at 12:14 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Very true, and I don't see much hope

Re: Android stats

On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > If I jailbroke my Acer tablet, how would that let me install ICS, if Acer > haven't yet adapted it for that tablet? > > > On Feb 7, 2012, at 12:14 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Very true, and I don't see much hope for improvement. On the other

re: standalone size

Yes. That is it. The default box is the Universal. This makes sense. Thanks, William and Stephen! Art het volgende geschreven: > I recently noticed that the Mac version of my standalone is 7.9 MB, while the PC version is only 3.0 MB. That's quite a difference, isn't it? Is that normal. If,

Re: Video on Linux (again)

Roger Eller wrote: On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I had set aside playing video on Linux because of an annoying rendering anomaly and I didn't really need it at the time. Now I went back to try it again, and I can't even get videos to play at all, even after setting th

Re: QR Code & mobile devices & the desktop

Just noticed that tType should be 'text' or 'text/html', etc... in socketRespond put "Content-Type: " & tType & CRLF after tHeaders On 07/02/2012 14:07, John Craig wrote: Hi, Nicolas. I had thought the exact same thing - there's no need for additional hardware if you already have a capable

Re: QR Code & mobile devices & the desktop

Hi, Nicolas. I had thought the exact same thing - there's no need for additional hardware if you already have a capable phone / tablet. I put a simple demo together - just paste the following code into a card and add a button that calls 'serverReset' and a field called 'Data' to show incoming d

Re: Android stats

On 07/02/2012 13:48, Colin Holgate wrote: If I jailbroke my Acer table0t, how would that let me install ICS, if Acer haven't yet adapted it for that tablet? Because someone else (http://cyanogenmod.com) does it. -Ken ___ use-livecode mailing list u

Re: Android stats

If I jailbroke my Acer tablet, how would that let me install ICS, if Acer haven't yet adapted it for that tablet? On Feb 7, 2012, at 12:14 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Very true, and I don't see much hope for improvement. On the other hand, it's > pretty much expected you'll jailbreak an Androi

Re: Windows Admin vs Standard Users - App startup times

Thanks Its also easy to test, if you compile the simplest of apps and compile it, then switch to a standard user account and run the app it is slow to start. If you close the app, the right click on it and select 'run as administrator' to start it again it starts instantly. I cant really t

Re: Windows Admin vs Standard Users - App startup times

Hi folks, I've seen this much-delayed startup of LiveCode apps, though only on Windows 7. On 7 Feb 2012, at 12:08, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > There was a thread a few days ago about the differences between the Windows > Admin and Standard users. > > This may be related, but can anyone explain (or

Windows Admin vs Standard Users - App startup times

There was a thread a few days ago about the differences between the Windows Admin and Standard users. This may be related, but can anyone explain (or replicate) why, when a Livecode app is compiled with the UAC Execution Level set to either default, or same as invoker and on a Windows 7 pc,

OT: DAZ3D is giving away three 3D-Apps for free

Hi, Daz3d http://www.daz3d.com is giving away 3 of their products (Win and MacOSX) for free for a limited time. The apps are Bryce 7 Pro Hexagon 2.5 Daz Studio 4 Pro That´s a value of about 800US$ Just thought this could be of interest for someone. Regards, Matthias > ___

Re: QR Code & mobile devices & the desktop

Hi Nicholas, The easiest way is to write your own little html server in LiveCode and have your mobile LiveCode app connect to that web server. You'll have to use the http protocol on the server side. A slightly more difficult way is to compile the rresockets external and use it to connect to a

QR Code & mobile devices & the desktop

Hello All, Given the relatively high price of USB 2D code readers, those recent and tempting announcements about QR Code libraries aimed for LC users have got me wondering. What LC components (add-ons?) and LC commands ought I consider for somehow relaying (internet? WIFI?) to a desktop computer

Re: Android stats

On 07/02/2012 05:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/6/12 8:40 PM, gcanyon+rev wrote: One thing that stands out (which has been mentioned in previous articles numerous times) is how far behind most Android-based phones are on their OS updates. Three-fourths of android phones are two major versions be

Re: Video on Linux (again)

On 02/07/2012 05:23 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I had set aside playing video on Linux because of an annoying rendering anomaly and I didn't really need it at the time. Now I went back to try it again, and I can't even get videos to play at all, even after setting the videoclipplayer to mplayer, s