Re: The Road Map as it now is . . . . .

2014-08-17 Thread Colin Holgate
Couple of things to think of, with regard to Android and iOS potential market: Apps that go into Google Play show a figure, which represents the number of devices that your app is compatible with. That number has gone over 6,000. With iOS, if you include all the iPod touches and iPads, as well

Re: [OT] Virtual Desktops for Windows

2014-08-17 Thread tbodine
Hi, I like the idea of the virtual desktops, but have a concern: If you had your LiveCode workspace in a virtual desktop (on Windows), does this cause the locations and rectangles of controls and windows to be reported with coordinates from the virtual location? Or do programs like virtuawin

Re: The Road Map as it now is . . . . .

2014-08-17 Thread Terry Dennis
Allow me to support the prior commentary on weak Android support. LiveCode’s support of that platform is incomplete and frustrating. Colin’s reference to “potential income for app developers” is valid. However, I don’t rely on LiveCode for my income. I use it to develop customized apps for

revDataFromQuery and DELETE FROM

2014-08-17 Thread Dan Friedman
Hello, Can anyone tell me why this results in revdberr? put DELETE FROM tTableName WHERE entryID= entryID into tSQL put revDataFromQuery(tab, cr, gConnectionID, tSQL) into tData What's interesting is that the record is being removed from the database. So it's all working server side, just

Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Alain Farmer
Hello y'all, I'm using version 6.6.2 of LiveCode, running on a UNIX machine. I'm not sure if I have brought this up before, but.. there is a problem with folder names that contain diacriticals. put getCurrentFolder() Acériculture into myFolder1 put getCurrentFolder() Acericulture into

Re: revDataFromQuery and DELETE FROM

2014-08-17 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Dan, What is the text after revdberr? Strange that the row is being deleted but here's a couple of things that come to mind. You've probably already checked that tTableName and entryID contain valid information but one other thing to check is if the tablename includes any special characters

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Alain- Sunday, August 17, 2014, 10:25:10 AM, you wrote: Hello y'all, I'm using version 6.6.2 of LiveCode, running on a UNIX machine. I'm not sure if I have brought this up before, but.. there is a problem with folder names that contain diacriticals. put getCurrentFolder() Acériculture

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Richmond
On 17/08/14 22:41, Mark Wieder wrote: Alain- Sunday, August 17, 2014, 10:25:10 AM, you wrote: Hello y'all, I'm using version 6.6.2 of LiveCode, running on a UNIX machine. snip Does Livecode work on UNIX? If so why is this not more widely publicised? Richmond.

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alain Farmer wrote: I'm using version 6.6.2 of LiveCode, running on a UNIX machine. I'm not sure if I have brought this up before, but.. there is a problem with folder names that contain diacriticals. put getCurrentFolder() Acériculture into myFolder1 put getCurrentFolder() Acericulture

Church bell app?

2014-08-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I just about choked over the price: my church is gearing up to pay $6,500 for a church bell system (and that's because we *already* have the speakers from the old system). I'm scratching my head to figure out why this isn't a matter of a near trivial app on a dedicated ipod and an amplifier.

Re: revDataFromQuery and DELETE FROM

2014-08-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: What is the text after revdberr? THere is a known issue of livecode returning a bare revdberr (i think there's a comma; I'd have to check) on certain types of successful transactions. Its been repeatable for me; my error

Re: Church bell app?

2014-08-17 Thread Richmond
On 18/08/14 00:06, Dr. Hawkins wrote: I just about choked over the price: my church is gearing up to pay $6,500 for a church bell system (and that's because we *already* have the speakers from the old system). I'm scratching my head to figure out why this isn't a matter of a near trivial app

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Alain Farmer
To Richmond: YES, LiveCode runs on UNIX machines. Btw, MetaCard was first developed for UNIX, then Windows, then Mac. To Richard: Thanks for the nudge to use/test version 7, but I am swamped with work right-now, I do not have time, and I cannot risk using something beta at this time. To

Re: revDataFromQuery and DELETE FROM

2014-08-17 Thread Peter Haworth
I remember that but wasn't it something to do with multiple SQL statements in one call? Could be the same issue I guess. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html On Sun, Aug

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alain Farmer wrote: To Richard: Thanks for the nudge to use/test version 7, but I am swamped with work right-now, I do not have time, and I cannot risk using something beta at this time. I can understand that; I mix my time between 6 and 7 myself throughout the day as project needs require.

Re: The Road Map as it now is . . . . .

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: So, Android’s market share of devices doesn’t translate to potential income for app developers, and the wide range of OS releases, and hardware variations, makes it a harder platform to support. It's true that pretty much every survey on developer revenue from app sales

Re: Church bell app?

2014-08-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: That's odd; all the churches I know they have somebody who rings the bells. By that I mean 'bells' as in 'bells' not fake bells. That would certainly be preferred, but it isn't always possible. Our building

Re: revDataFromQuery and DELETE FROM

2014-08-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I remember that but wasn't it something to do with multiple SQL statements in one call? Could be the same issue I guess. I want to say that it's any delete from in-memory mySQL, but my memory is fuzzy. -- Dr. Richard E.

Re: The Road Map as it now is . . . . .

2014-08-17 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: IDC's latest numbers this week put Android at 84% for Q2 unit sales, with Apple at 11%. Not that much different from what we see on the desktop, with Microsoft actually gaining in recent years back up to 91% to

Re: The Road Map as it now is . . . . .

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: IDC's latest numbers this week put Android at 84% for Q2 unit sales, with Apple at 11%. Not that much different from what we see on the desktop, with Microsoft actually gaining in recent years back up to 91% to Apple's

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Sunday, August 17, 2014, 1:53:33 PM, you wrote: Version 6.6.2 predates the extensive work done with implementing Unicode throughout LiveCode, which should also take into account characters in file paths not well handled by earlier versions of the engine. ...and indeed LC 7.0-dp8

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: ...and indeed LC 7.0-dp8 does the right thing natively with diacriticals in file/folder names without having to do any unicode transliterations. Thanks for confirming that, Mark. One more down. Now I can focus on figuring out why font sizes seem inappropriately large on

Re: Church bell app?

2014-08-17 Thread Colin Holgate
In answer to an unrelated question I was looking at this earlier today: http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F7C027/ With something like that you ought to be able to remotely turn on the power to the amplifier, and play the appropriate sound from the same device that told the amplifier to turn on. And

Re: The Road Map as it now is . . . . .

2014-08-17 Thread Colin Holgate
The point made earlier about free apps that are to run on specifically Android, is a valid, and RunRev should continue to work on Android support. In your reply I think you also indirectly argued that LiveCode should support Windows 8 devices, which is a good idea too. There’s yet another

Re: The Road Map as it now is . . . . .

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: The point made earlier about free apps that are to run on specifically Android, is a valid, and RunRev should continue to work on Android support. In your reply I think you also indirectly argued that LiveCode should support Windows 8 devices, which is a good idea too.

Re: The Road Map as it now is . . . . .

2014-08-17 Thread Colin Holgate
With the Intel Android devices you have a choice of either living with the emulated performance, which is what we’ve done so far, or you have to use a tool that can publish to Intel. Those people you cite have more budget than we do, and may well have used tools that can publish to Intel. I

Re: The Road Map as it now is . . . . .

2014-08-17 Thread Richard Gaskin
Colin Holgate wrote: With the Intel Android devices you have a choice of either living with the emulated performance, which is what we’ve done so far, or you have to use a tool that can publish to Intel. Those people you cite have more budget than we do, and may well have used tools that

Re: Church bell app?

2014-08-17 Thread Mike Kerner
you mean something like this? http://goo.gl/NhJTkp On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: In answer to an unrelated question I was looking at this earlier today: http://www.belkin.com/us/p/P-F7C027/ With something like that you ought to be able to remotely

Re: Church bell app?

2014-08-17 Thread dunbarx
I have done much more than this with a gadget I now and then mention. Bonig und Kallenbach Service USB Plus. Fun and simple. A few hundred dollars for the hardware, a few hours of joy for the software. I can kibitz if you want, but this is easy fun stuff. -Original Message- From:

Re: The Road Map as it now is . . . . .

2014-08-17 Thread Mike Kerner
More platforms fully supported is far better for the ethos and reputation of the platform, and it makes my life as a developer, trying to convince corporate users to let us work for them a TON easier. Yes, sir, we can develop your app for both platforms, and we think you'll like our pricing

Re: Church bell app?

2014-08-17 Thread Tim Selander
The application you need is indeed rather trivial. I used hypercard to completely automate a radio station years and years ago. But if you would like an application ready to go, here is one: http://www.nch.com.au/atime/ Any old laptop will run it, and as far as turning the amp on and off, just

Re: Church bell app?

2014-08-17 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Obviously, Richmond, if the bell is tolling, it is not tolling for thee. It seems that $6000 will pay the electrical bill for that amplifier to be left turned on for a long time. Peter UCLA On Aug 17, 2014, at 2:11 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/08/14 00:06, Dr.

Re: revDataFromQuery and DELETE FROM

2014-08-17 Thread Dan Friedman
Pete, Thanks for the reply. The entire error string is revdberr, (with the comma). I tried your suggestion of using revExecuteSQL instead of revDataFromQuery() and I did not get the error. So at least I have a suitable workaround. Thanks for the assist! - Dan Hi Dan, What is the text

Re: Bug with diacriticals in folder names

2014-08-17 Thread Alain Farmer
Yup, thanks for confirming that, Mark. On Sunday, August 17, 2014 7:06:00 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: ...and indeed LC 7.0-dp8 does the right thing natively with diacriticals in file/folder names without having to do any unicode

RE: Church bell app?

2014-08-17 Thread Ralph DiMola
It seems that $6000 will pay the electrical bill for that amplifier to be left turned on for a long time. Unless it's a class A amp. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net Phone: 518-636-3998 Ex:11 Cell: 518-796-9332 -Original Message- From: