Re: [OT] Database Engine Comparison

2014-05-22 Thread Shawn Blc
On-Rev is still offering PostgreSQL databases. At least on pancake they are ;) On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 1:06 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > So I wonder why On-Rev dropped PostgreSQL as a default inclusion. I > believe you can still request to have PostgreSQL as part of your > install, but if the licen

Re: [OT] Database Engine Comparison

2014-05-22 Thread Kay C Lan
So I wonder why On-Rev dropped PostgreSQL as a default inclusion. I believe you can still request to have PostgreSQL as part of your install, but if the licensing terms are so good and it works so flawlessly it begs the question as to what is the downside that caused RunRev to pull it. On Tue, Oct

Re: iOS: Check for Internet Connection?

2014-05-22 Thread Gerry Orkin
Happy I could help :) g On 23 May 2014, at 1:30 pm, Rick Harrison wrote: > This is exactly what I need! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription prefere

Re: iOS: Check for Internet Connection?

2014-05-22 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Colin & Gerry, This is exactly what I need! iPhoneSetReachabilityTarget, is a little obscure to search for though isn’t it? Why didn’t they name it iPhoneCheckForInternetConnection? LOL Thanks! Rick On May 22, 2014, at 8:21 PM, Gerry Orkin wrote: > There are commands for this. See the d

RE: sloooowww standalone building with many included files

2014-05-22 Thread Ralph DiMola
Mike, I found that zipping them up and doing an unzip on first launch was the best compromise. I have an unzip function that will replicate a directory tree if you're interested. It works for Android and iOS. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net --

Re: LiveCode Global Jam kicks off in a few hours!

2014-05-22 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Excellent! Please, record the Hangouts, so those who could not be present watch the video. Thanks in advance! Al -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LiveCode-Global-Jam-kicks-off-in-a-few-hours-tp4679891p4679898.html Sent from the Revolution - Use

Re: What is the max number of points in vector graphic?

2014-05-22 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Bernd, BNig wrote > I think Craig ran into a display problem, not a number of points > of a graphic problem. Because the points made the graphic too > large. Similar to maximum of a line. It can hold 65,536 but only > display 32768 > I ran into this when vectorizing an image into graphic ob

Re: iOS: Check for Internet Connection?

2014-05-22 Thread Gerry Orkin
There are commands for this. See the dictionary for "iphoneSetReachabilityTarget" and "reachabilityChanged. This is what I do. Start with this at the top of your stack script: global internetAvailable Then on openstack call this: iphoneSetReachabilityTarget "google.com" Have this

Re: Coda 2 code formatting

2014-05-22 Thread stephen barncard
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > Can I send you a copy of any files or anything ? > > -- Alex. > does this mean you are the mysterious "The Core" ?? I'd love to have a version of the plugin that works with iRev files somehow.. I hacked together a code formatter for the

Re: iOS: Check for Internet Connection?

2014-05-22 Thread Colin Holgate
Took me a little while to track it down! Use the load command. You can say: load URL “url to a small text file” with message handlername You would have a handler, “handlername”, and that would either get the file or get an error. ___ use-livecode maili

Re: What is the max number of points in vector graphic?

2014-05-22 Thread BNig
Richard Gaskin wrote > dunbarx wrote: > > > The list of points goes negative after 32767 if I place a higher > > upper limit in the repeat loop. > > Hmmthat number has the scent of QuickDraw, or perhaps the deprecated > Carbon APIs used in QD's absence. > > A few of LC's limitations aren

Re: What is the max number of points in vector graphic?

2014-05-22 Thread BNig
Craig, > The list of points goes negative after 32767 nice finding. You can simplify the test on mouseUp repeat with i = 32767 to 32770 put 100, i & cr after tCollect end repeat delete last char of tCollect set the points of grc 1 to tCollect put the points of grc 1 into f

LiveCode Global Jam kicks off in a few hours!

2014-05-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
The LiveCode community's first Global Jam is almost here, our chance to come together as a community to help deliver the best version of LiveCode ever, 7.0. All the details are in RevNet - in the LiveCode IDE, choose Development->Plugins->GoRevNet The LiveCode Global Jam features three live

Re: iOS: Check for Internet Connection?

2014-05-22 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Colin, Yes, I get that, but which LiveCode statement is best for that? If one searches the LiveCode dictionary the term asynchronously does not come up. Launch URL? or something else? Thanks, Rick On May 22, 2014, at 5:50 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > At the time that you need the Internet, d

Re: iOS: Check for Internet Connection?

2014-05-22 Thread Colin Holgate
At the time that you need the Internet, do that asynchronously, and if it fails, they don’t have Internet. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferenc

iOS: Check for Internet Connection?

2014-05-22 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi there, Is there a way to invisibly check if an iPhone has an active internet connection? I’d rather do that if possible than have to ask the user if he/she is presently connected to the internet. I thought I would toggle some of the capabilities of my iOS app on or off depending on whether or

Re: What is the max number of points in vector graphic?

2014-05-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
dunbarx wrote: > The list of points goes negative after 32767 if I place a higher > upper limit in the repeat loop. Hmmthat number has the scent of QuickDraw, or perhaps the deprecated Carbon APIs used in QD's absence. A few of LC's limitations aren't internal to the engine, but evident

Re: Windows 8 and 8.1

2014-05-22 Thread Richmond
Thank you Paul Depuis, Larry, Roger Eller and Mark Schonewille for your help. I found that one can download a 90-day developer version of Windows 8.1 for free, did that just now, installed it in VMware Player and ran my standalone, and am extremely happy to say that it worked. My standalone

Re: Windows 8 and 8.1

2014-05-22 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I have quite a few apps, built with Revolution 2.x, 3.x, and 4.x and LiveCode 4.x, 5.x and 6.x and they all seem to work. Once in a while, there is a version that won't run at all, but most versions of RR and LC work on every major Windows version, including Win XP, Win Vista, 7, 8 and 8.

Re: Windows 8 and 8.1

2014-05-22 Thread Roger Eller
I believe anything we make that works in Windows 7 should also work in Windows 8 or 8.1. It's amazing how far computing has come in such a short time. I wish full computer OS' had been available on tablets sooner though. Would have made mobile apps easier to build, imho. http://www.amazon.com/D

Re: What is the max number of points in vector graphic?

2014-05-22 Thread dunbarx
Bernd may just have got this right. The list of points goes negative after 32767 if I place a higher upper limit in the repeat loop. I guess something "wrapped" around the max. Here is the handler: on mouseUp repeat with y = 1 to 5 put "100," & y & return after temp end rep

Re: Windows 8 and 8.1

2014-05-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/05/14 23:19, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I built a standalone with the old Rev 2.9 that works fine on Windows 8. I'm not 100% sure if it works on 8.1, but I think so (I think one of my sons has 8.1) Hope that helps! That's marvellous. I have a friend who runs Windows 8.1, and w

Re: Windows 8 and 8.1

2014-05-22 Thread larry
I built a standalone with the old Rev 2.9 that works fine on Windows 8. I'm not 100% sure if it works on 8.1, but I think so (I think one of my sons has 8.1) Hope that helps! - Original Message - From: "Richmond" To: "How to use LiveCode" Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2014 2:03 PM Subject

Re: Windows 8 and 8.1

2014-05-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/05/14 23:07, Paul Dupuis wrote: On 5/22/2014 4:03 PM, Richmond wrote: Do Livecode standalones work on Winodws 8 and 8.1? And, if so, can you tell me what is the earliest version of Livecode that produces standalones that work on these systems? I am not sure what the earliest is, but we

Re: Windows 8 and 8.1

2014-05-22 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 5/22/2014 4:03 PM, Richmond wrote: > Do Livecode standalones work on Winodws 8 and 8.1? > > And, if so, can you tell me what is the earliest version of Livecode that > produces standalones that work on these systems? > I am not sure what the earliest is, but we have Standalones built under LC 4

Windows 8 and 8.1

2014-05-22 Thread Richmond
Do Livecode standalones work on Winodws 8 and 8.1? And, if so, can you tell me what is the earliest version of Livecode that produces standalones that work on these systems? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: sloooowww standalone building with many included files

2014-05-22 Thread Chris Sheffield
I know. You’d think so. But it’s not the signing of the app that takes a long time. It’s the copying of the files into the app bundle. At least, that’s the step that’s shown in the standalone builder progress dialog. The actual signing is quick. On May 22, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Mike Kerner wrote:

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/05/14 21:49, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote I am perfectly happy to send you the code off-list on the understanding that you will keep it to yourself and not do anything with it other than look at how the code works. [snip] You already published your source code. :o ht

Re: Coda 2 code formatting

2014-05-22 Thread Alex Tweedly
Yeah, I'm using that. I haven't changed anything for a couple of years - so I don't really remember what I did back then. I kind of thought I was using an editor plugin that I got from you :-) The editor is OK - it gets some things wrong or just 'missing' for LC, but gets most coloring and mo

Re: sloooowww standalone building with many included files

2014-05-22 Thread Mike Kerner
You don't think it would have anything to do with signing an app that has 8500 files in it, do you? I would bet that THAT would take forEVER On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > So I have an app. An iOS app. This app includes lots and lots of small > audio files (nearly 850

Re: What is the max number of points in vector graphic?

2014-05-22 Thread BNig
Hi Al, I think Craig ran into a display problem, not a number of points of a graphic problem. Because the points made the graphic to large. Similar to maximum of a line. It can hold 65,536 but only display 32768 I ran into this when vectorizing an image into graphic objects, above 65,536 points

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/05/14 21:49, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote I am perfectly happy to send you the code off-list on the understanding that you will keep it to yourself and not do anything with it other than look at how the code works. [snip] You already published your source code. :o ht

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/05/14 21:00, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote I am afraid you have a misreading of my input method. My input method involves a huge amount of post-processing after an end-user presses a key on their keyboard: all that code would have to be altered prior to it working prop

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-22 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote > I am perfectly happy to send you the code off-list on the understanding > that you will keep it to yourself and not do anything with it other than > look at how the code works. > [snip] You already published your source code. :o http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.na

sloooowww standalone building with many included files

2014-05-22 Thread Chris Sheffield
So I have an app. An iOS app. This app includes lots and lots of small audio files (nearly 8500). All those files are in a folder, which is included in the Copy Files pane of the standalone build settings. Creating the build works just fine, but it takes a very long time. I haven’t kept track ex

Re: What is the max number of points in vector graphic?

2014-05-22 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Ok. This is the max number for a signed 16-bit integer. This limit was not included in the list from page 43 of LiveCode User Guide: 2.2.9 LiveCode Memory Limits The following table details the memory limits for different types of LiveCode components. Please note that these limits refer to the

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/05/14 21:00, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote I am afraid you have a misreading of my input method. My input method involves a huge amount of post-processing after an end-user presses a key on their keyboard: all that code would have to be altered prior to it working prop

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-22 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote > I am afraid you have a misreading of my input method. > My input method involves a huge amount of post-processing after > an end-user presses a key on their keyboard: all that code would have > to be altered prior to it working properly with LC 7. Now I understand. The

Coda 2 code formatting

2014-05-22 Thread stephen barncard
Is someone out there currently using Coda 2 for livecode server work? I love the editor but the plugins that enable Livecode code highlighting seems to be broken with the 2.x improvements. It just won't recognize rev coding, or iRev documents either. But the editor, while working on PHP and other

Re: [OT] Database Engine Comparison

2014-05-22 Thread l
> on the SQLite mailing list, I came across this comment by Dr Richard Hipp For reference, I found the comment at http://readlist.com/lists/sqlite.org/sqlite-users/12/60699.html -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Database-Engine-Comparison-tp465

Re: System menubar (on right) on Mac

2014-05-22 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thursday, May 22, 2014, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D < matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de> wrote: > is this just an offer to Bill or is it possible to also get this external? > You can get it as well. Just email me off list and let me know which version of LiveCode you are using. -- Trevor DeVore _

Re: Making the content of LC Server Scripts Safe

2014-05-22 Thread Martin Baxter
On 22/05/14 16:52, AndyP wrote: > Also apart from having the details in separate file, encrypt the file > and place it outside your public html folder, this way no would be > able to stumble onto the file by erm... 'accident' > > > > - Andy Piddock Storing files outside web root is always t

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2 RC4

2014-05-22 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Hello all, I have been away for a little while and am just getting back into LC again. Andre coming back and finishing the fbAuth library sparked my creative juices again. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone noticed arrowkey or keyDown not working correctly in this build. I downloaded this tetri

Re: Making the content of LC Server Scripts Safe

2014-05-22 Thread John Craig
Ageed - always include your credentials from another file - plenty of wise replies! :) On 22/05/2014 17:04, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D wrote: Yes and no. If for what ever reason the lc server engine is not running or misconfigured than it could happen that the content of that .lc script will be

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-22 Thread Richmond
On 22/05/14 01:59, Devin Asay wrote: On May 21, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Richmond wrote: On 21/05/14 18:19, Devin Asay wrote: Have you tried out the prerelease of LiveCode 7? I'm really curious how your projects will work with it. My understanding is that all of the arcane, language-specific gl

Re: Writing to Mum in Glagolitic script

2014-05-22 Thread Richmond
On 21/05/14 22:03, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote You are asking a lot: for a start, my Devawriter contains thousands of numToChar statements that have, for version 7, to be converted to 'what-ever-it-was-I-forgot'. No. I am asking that you try this in a plain text field usi

Re: Making the content of LC Server Scripts Safe

2014-05-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
Devin Asay wrote: > As John said .lc files are parsed by the server and only the output > is visible to the browser. But I'm like you, when storing things > like MySQL login credentials I'm nervous about saving them in plain > text, even in a .lc file. So I take the extra step of storing the > cr

Re: System menubar (on right) on Mac

2014-05-22 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Trevor, is this just an offer to Bill or is it possible to also get this external? Regards, Matthias Am 22.05.2014 um 18:04 schrieb Trevor DeVore : > On Thursday, May 22, 2014, Bill Vlahos wrote: > >> I it possible to add a menu item on Mac in my LC app in the menu bar on >> the top right

Re: Making the content of LC Server Scripts Safe

2014-05-22 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Yes and no. If for what ever reason the lc server engine is not running or misconfigured than it could happen that the content of that .lc script will be outputted. So the best thing would be, to place the script outside the public_html folder as AndyP suggested. You could then create a script

Re: System menubar (on right) on Mac

2014-05-22 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thursday, May 22, 2014, Bill Vlahos wrote: > I it possible to add a menu item on Mac in my LC app in the menu bar on > the top right of the screen (where the WIFI, clock, volume, etc are)? These > menus are always available regardless of which application is active. > Bill, It requires an ex

Re: Making the content of LC Server Scripts Safe

2014-05-22 Thread AndyP
Also apart from having the details in separate file, encrypt the file and place it outside your public html folder, this way no would be able to stumble onto the file by erm... 'accident' - Andy Piddock My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. Copy the new cloud spa

Re: Image cache question

2014-05-22 Thread Devin Asay
On May 22, 2014, at 2:26 AM, Phil Jimmieson wrote: > Hi Devin, > if you have more than one reference to the same image, then you'd presumably > have to set all of their filenames to something else, then the old image > would be removed from the cache, but yes - what I'm doing is just setting

Re: Making the content of LC Server Scripts Safe

2014-05-22 Thread Devin Asay
On May 21, 2014, at 10:31 PM, Nakia Brewer wrote: > Afternoon all, > > As I venture down the road of learning what the wonders of LC Server scripts > can do I find myself wondering how safe are the content of these scripts. > Being completely new to Web and Server development it's probably a

Re: What is the max number of points in vector graphic?

2014-05-22 Thread dunbarx
Alejandro. I think it is rather 32,767. I made a simple test with a line grc: on mouseUp repeat with y = 100 to 32768 put "100," & y & return after tList end repeat set the points of grc 1 to tList end mouseUp I get crap if the value is above that number. Craig Newman --

System menubar (on right) on Mac

2014-05-22 Thread Bill Vlahos
I it possible to add a menu item on Mac in my LC app in the menu bar on the top right of the screen (where the WIFI, clock, volume, etc are)? These menus are always available regardless of which application is active. I want to enable the user to hilite any text on the screen go to that menu ite

Re: Image cache question

2014-05-22 Thread Phil Jimmieson
Hi Devin, if you have more than one reference to the same image, then you'd presumably have to set all of their filenames to something else, then the old image would be removed from the cache, but yes - what I'm doing is just setting the filename of the image to empty and then back to the filena

Re: Making the content of LC Server Scripts Safe

2014-05-22 Thread John Craig
A server .lc file is parsed by the server and only it's output is ever sent to the browser (not the source code), so the code is safe :) On 22/05/2014 05:31, Nakia Brewer wrote: Afternoon all, As I venture down the road of learning what the wonders of LC Server scripts can do I find myself

Re: AW: Making the content of LC Server Scripts Safe

2014-05-22 Thread Nakia Brewer
Okay, I'll have a google around and see if I can come to understand that method... Sent from my iPhone > On 22 May 2014, at 5:07 pm, "Tiemo Hollmann TB" wrote: > > I think it's not special to LiveCode server scripts. If you communicate from > LiveCode via PHP to a MySQL db, the db credentials

AW: Making the content of LC Server Scripts Safe

2014-05-22 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
I think it's not special to LiveCode server scripts. If you communicate from LiveCode via PHP to a MySQL db, the db credentials are in the PHP files also "visible". You only can protect you server dir with htaccess from being ripped. Please correct me, if I am wrong. Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nac