sending a PDF mail attachment in iOS7

2014-05-13 Thread Scott Morrow
Using mobileComposeHtmlMail to send a PDF attachment works as expected under iOS 6 but under iOS 7 the email to be sent (in the iOS 7 mail app) has a small box with a question mark instead of the pdf attachment icon (I also tested a text attachment and that seems to display correctly) There

Re: Error Messages Are Evil

2014-05-13 Thread Dave Kilroy
Thanks for this Dar - I like it very much :) Dar Scott wrote Sure. Here is a belabored example of my style of tenacious I/O. - Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior -- View this message in context:

Re: Does exists LiveCode Server Portable...

2014-05-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I'm not sure I understand your question correctly, so here's two answers: Any livecode standalone can be a server. All you need to do is to use the accept socket command. For example, the ChatRev server runs from an IDE installed on an old ibook. But it could as well be a windows standalone

[SERVER] Is it possible to run a stack on LC-Server and interact with it ?

2014-05-13 Thread Rolf Kocherhans
Hi All After reading the revUp article Cool Cat Server from David Williams some time ago here: http://newsletters.livecode.com/november/issue160/newsletter1.php I was wondering if it is possible to take a snapshot of a stack running on a server and directly interact with the snapshot from

Re: Error Messages Are Evil

2014-05-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter M. Brigham wrote: Someone on this list (Richard Gaskin?) once observed that the difference between a tool and a product is that a tool only has to be able to be used properly, whereas a product has to be unable to be used improperly. I wish I could take credit for that, but that slice

Animation Engine: animating points in a polygon?

2014-05-13 Thread Monk in Exile
Just taking a look at the latest version of AE... I have some complex geometry that create polygons, and would like to animate individual points so that the shape changes - any ideas? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Does exists LiveCode Server Portable...

2014-05-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: LiveCode could open a socket to send and receive data from other applications. Does exists a method to create a portable LiveCode server that runs locally without installing any file in the computer? Many years ago Dr. Raney made a stack available at the old MetaCard

Re: sending a PDF mail attachment in iOS7

2014-05-13 Thread William de Smet
Hi Scott, I have asked the same thing before on the list. Never got an answer. So nobody uses this or there is no solution. Maybe it's a bug? greetings, William 2014-05-13 9:33 GMT+02:00 Scott Morrow sc...@elementarysoftware.com: Using mobileComposeHtmlMail to send a PDF attachment works

Re: dgh_findIndexes Overwrites Button Script

2014-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sorry my posts from iPhone are not all getting through. Thinking about it now, I probably moved the scripts somewhere else. In fact I may have copied the button from another project thinking my utility scripts were contained therein, and they were not. Bob On May 6, 2014, at 15:04 , Dar

Re: Need to compare two datagrids

2014-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Easier to work with SQL. Dump your data into two memory resident sqLITE databases and use SQL for your comparisons. I did mention quite a while ago how nice it would have been to get a single column of data from a data grid. But it would not be too difficult to get into the library and write

Subscription-based sales system

2014-05-13 Thread Marty Knapp
Has anyone set up sales of their applications on a subscription basis? I would want something that could be automated so that if a customer's subscription ran out, they could make a payment and be back up and running without having to wait. It would be for Mac and Windows - no mobile and no

Re: Subscription-based sales system

2014-05-13 Thread Simon Smith
Hi A number of payment gateways let you do subscriptions (e.g. paypal), if the periodic payment is unsuccessful (e.g. credit card expires) it will send a notification to your server, so that you can process and stop the subscription. You would just need your application to periodically check the

Re: Subscription-based sales system

2014-05-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Marty, Installer Maker is a plug-in and standalone program that can be updated for free during 3 months after purchase. During one year after purchase, people can buy a new license at a discount price. Almost everything happens automatically when someone buys a license. I only need to

Re: Subscription-based sales system

2014-05-13 Thread Andrew Kluthe
I did this for a while. Used revIgniter to talk to stripe.com's recurring payment service. They provide you with webhooks that can contact your backend system when a clients subscription status changes. I found their interfaces and documentation geared towards developers. On Tue, May 13, 2014

Re: Does exists LiveCode Server Portable...

2014-05-13 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Network Security must be one of the fastest moving areas in computer technology... :o Looks like the knowledge in this area is replaced and discarded every few days or hours (probably faster than in any other area in Computer Science). This explains why an experienced IT security manager

Re: Does exists LiveCode Server Portable...

2014-05-13 Thread Alejandro Tejada
This is the correct link, instead of XP die-hards... :D http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/061213-highest-lowest-tech-salaries-271126.html Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Does-exists-LiveCode-Server-Portable-tp4679431p4679452.html Sent

Re: Animation Engine: animating points in a polygon?

2014-05-13 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi David, To animate a polygon graphic, change the points of the polygon using the command: set the points of graphic myAnimation to the cpFrame01 of graphic myAnimation wait 1 second set the points of graphic myAnimation to the cpFrame02 of graphic myAnimation etc, etc, etc Notice that if your

Re: Does exists LiveCode Server Portable...

2014-05-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: A Portable LiveCode Server would help a lot towards the adoption of it. What do you mean by portable? Servers run many services, LiveCode being just one. They also need DNS. So using LC Server under Apache at a Web host seems a good way to go, no? Besides, neither

Re: Does exists LiveCode Server Portable...

2014-05-13 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Richard, Richard Gaskin wrote Many years ago Dr. Raney made a stack available at the old MetaCard site called mchttpd which is exactly that: a simple Web server built in what was then called MetaCard. It still runs in LiveCode, but needed modification to output proper headers for

Re: Error Messages Are Evil

2014-05-13 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richard Gaskin wrote [snip] These are basic tasks we should expect to be done efficiently and without error. They require no celebration. Don't even mention them unless something goes wrong. Otherwise, as long as the computer is doing what we expect it to do, please just shut up and let

Re: sending a PDF mail attachment in iOS7

2014-05-13 Thread Scott Morrow
There appears to be discussion of, what I assume is our problem, in the Apple Support Communities. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5992793 https://discussions.apple.com/message/25177460#25177460 This would indicate that it isn’t a LC issue. — Scott On May 13, 2014, at 8:48 AM, William