Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-16 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 12:58 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: a=1,b=2,c=3 That's pretty basic and is easily handled by: replace comma with cr Then just work through the lines and the itemDelimiter to =. What I was thinking about was: A,B,C,D etc and being able to specify the

Re: problem with counting words

2014-10-16 Thread Dick Kriesel
On Oct 14, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: on mouseUp put 1000 into n put aaa,bbb,ccc#ddd#eee#fff,ggg,hhh into tSomeData -- put the millisecs into t repeat n get nDepth(tSomeData, 3, comma, 2, # ) end repeat put the millisecs - t

AW: 3 questions about your coding habits

2014-10-16 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
1. I keep them on our server 2. My main dev platform is Windows, where I am using the files on our server. For finishing I take a copy over to my Mac. I don't trust Apple to handle my files on a windows server correctly AND up to today, runrev destroys the standalone setting of each stack, if you

Re: 3 questions about your coding habits

2014-10-16 Thread Kay C Lan
1. Burried deep deep within the Documents folder. 3 levels down I have a 'my stacks' folder and in there each project has it's own folder, usually because there is hodge podge of ancilliary files; some required by the stack, i.e. SQLite file or folder full of images, but also files not required by

Re: Teaching LiveCode to Children

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
What’s wrong with the old way of thinking?? ;-) Bob S On Oct 14, 2014, at 17:57 , Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.commailto:capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: I wholeheartedly believe that teaching LiveCode to these children will creatively and effectively help them develop a new way to think

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Colin Holgate
Testing to iPad 8.0 Simulator is working again. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: 3 questions about your coding habits

2014-10-16 Thread Peter Haworth
I forgot to mention in my reply that I use my lcStackBrowser plugin's Checkpoint feature for auto saves. It allows me to save at specific intervals or on request and I can assign a description to each checkpoint. The checkpoints are kept in a zip file in the same folder as the stack file and I

Re: Can you please enlighten me on the LiveCode versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Tony, Go to http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ and scroll down to 6.6.4. Find the STABLE release and download that. This is what you can use for production work. Sometimes, you need new features that aren't available in 6.6.4 yet. You might download an RC of a later version and try

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hmm, in the new 6.6.4 my iOS simulator always defaults to iPhone 4s (in which my apps appear to run fine except for the fact no keyboard appears when focusing on a native field is fine on a real device) - but if I choose iPhone 5 or above there is no sign of my app, the only iPhone simulator my

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Colin Holgate
I tried iPhone and iPad, 7.1 and 8.0, and apart from one time when there was an error dialog it worked fine, and gave me the right device. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Can you please enlighten me on the LiveCode versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Heather doesn't normally monitor this list, but your questions are similar to ones raised in my local LC user group and elsewhere, so let me don my Community Manager cap and see if I can help answer them: MCLAWHORN, TONY wrote: Heather I've been searching for some answers but have not

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-16 Thread Jim Lambert
Larry wrote: I am of the opinion that all of the platform/device specific approach to software is going the way of the dinosaur. That may be true with desktop software, but I respectfully disagree when it comes to mobile. There’s ever-growing fragmentation on Android, sometimes the

RE: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Ralph DiMola
+1 for the Mother ship on the rapid 6.6.4 fixes. I have one thing I can't understand. When the Privacy==Location Services for my app is set to While Using the App A dialog pops up every time the app is launched with this dialog: Background location is not enabled To use background location you

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-16 Thread larry
Hi Jim, I'm not trying to argue (don't know enough.) But what you say below (I put in italics) seems only to underscore what I believe: that it will be easier to deal with those differences by just developing apps that run within a browser. Because don't both Android and iOS both run browsers?

Re: 3 questions about your coding habits

2014-10-16 Thread Richmond
On 16/10/14 06:22, Richard Gaskin wrote: 1. When you're working on stack files, do you always keep them somewhere in your Home folder, or run with admin privileges and keep them somewhere else (e.g. Applications)? I keep all my stacks in a folder called 'xCode' and its subfolders, on the

Extend compress function

2014-10-16 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, On December 13 of 2012, Jan Schenkel - http://www.quartam.com wrote on Livecode Quality Center: Currently the compress/decompress function pair only supports 'gzip' compression as defined in

Re: Extend compress function

2014-10-16 Thread Alejandro Tejada
I just noticed that Mark Waddingham wrote in 2011: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9553 --- [snip] Of course, this does suggest several potential improvements... Add 'command' forms of compress and base64decode which

Re: LiveCode scripts on Rosseta Code

2014-10-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 10/15/2014, 10:25 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Hi All, After reading in Rosetta Code's website, about tasks not implemented in LiveCode, I am sure that many of you have published scripts that implement these task using LiveCode:

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jim Lambert wrote: Larry wrote: I am of the opinion that all of the platform/device specific approach to software is going the way of the dinosaur. That may be true with desktop software, but I respectfully disagree when it comes to mobile. There’s ever-growing fragmentation on Android,

Re: Can you please enlighten me on the LiveCode versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richard Gaskin wrote Heather doesn't normally monitor this list, but your questions are similar to ones raised in my local LC user group and elsewhere, so let me don my Community Manager cap and see if I can help answer them: [snip] Your answer was really useful, Richard! Many, many thanks

Re: Can you please enlighten me on the LiveCode versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: By the way, When are you going to share your secrets for time management? Looks like your working days have 36 or 48 hours... :-D Yeah, too many late nights this week, thankfully punctuated with rounds of rsync backups so I can take time to post. But if I were really

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Mike Kerner
Do your apps seem slower in this version, anybody, or is that just an ios8 thing? Some of my screen transitions in this version seem downright pokey. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Ralph DiMola rdim...@evergreeninfo.net wrote: +1 for the Mother ship on the rapid 6.6.4 fixes. I have one

Re: Volume Size

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
I was making a vague reference to the lawsuit that ensued when Linux was first becoming popular. Bob S On Oct 16, 2014, at 09:19 , Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.commailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: On the contrary, the reason Linux was invented was a desire to enjoy what Unix

RE: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Ralph DiMola
Mike, Yes they do seem slower. It gets worse though. If you cancel the dialog and allow your app to continue the keyboard is invisible for both LC and native input fields. Bug report== http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13699 I could check the permissions and kick the user out until they

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Mike Kerner
I was surprised that they threw this out as a finished version, since every RC so far has had issues that we've been finding as we go. This one has at least two, then. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Ralph DiMola rdim...@evergreeninfo.net wrote: Mike, Yes they do seem slower. It gets worse

Re: Programming LiveCode with LiveCode

2014-10-16 Thread Bob Sneidar
That sounds like what Sun said when they released Java! And look what happened. Bob S On Oct 16, 2014, at 10:32 , Jim Lambert j...@netrin.commailto:j...@netrin.com wrote: I am of the opinion that all of the platform/device specific approach to software is going the way of the dinosaur.

Re: Can you please enlighten me on the LiveCode versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richard Gaskin wrote Yeah, too many late nights this week, thankfully punctuated with rounds of rsync backups so I can take time to post. rsync! Thanks for reminding me this topic. I knew that something was missing when I tested LiveCode Server on Linux and Windows (using XAMPP)

Re: Volume Size

2014-10-16 Thread JB
Thanks, Bob! So it walks like a duck and quacks likea duck but if you say unix to linux people it is time to duck. NBG! sorry Richmond I did not know. John Balgenorth On Oct 16, 2014, at 8:23 AM, Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com wrote: In a word, no. Linux is the result of someone

Re: Can you please enlighten me on the LiveCode versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: rsync! Thanks for reminding me this topic. I knew that something was missing when I tested LiveCode Server on Linux and Windows (using XAMPP) http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13701 rsync is licensed under GPL 3.0, so RunRev could only integrated its code

binaryDecode in LC 7.0(rc2) and EXIFLib

2014-10-16 Thread Jacques Hausser
To the people using Alex Tweedly's EXIFLib: For the others, EXIFLib is a very useful library extracting the EXIF data (if any) of .jpg pictures. I'm really indebted to Alex for it and I'm using it for years now. It can be found here: http://tweedly.org/showpage.lc?page=EXIFLib This library works

handling push notifications

2014-10-16 Thread Terry Judd
Just starting with push notifications and have managed to get a simple example working using the livecode example code and AWS’s SNS service. So far so good! Now, in the livecode example it an ‘alert’ and a ‘payload’ are sent. The payload is received if the app is open and the alert is

Re: Enhancing the volumes function (was Volume Size)

2014-10-16 Thread JB
I would like the proper info about the volume path, size in bytes, available space in bytes and amount of bytes used along with the type of drive etc and if it is mounted so I can sector read and write to the volume. I have no intention of creating a program for people to sector read and write

Re: Can you please enlighten me on the LiveCode versions?

2014-10-16 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richard Gaskin wrote rsync is licensed under GPL 3.0, so RunRev could only integrated its code into the Community Edition. But moreover, rsync is freely available to anyone, and is most commonly used through the command line (its pre-installed on Ubuntu and most Linux distros, it's

Re: 3 questions about your coding habits

2014-10-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard Gaskin ambassador@... writes: What do you use for auto-saving? Assuming this is an open-ended question, 1. glx2 has auto-saving built in 2. Dropbox saves versions for up to 30 days. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode

Re: 3 questions about your coding habits

2014-10-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard Gaskin ambassador@... writes: 1. When you're working on stack files, do you always keep them somewhere in your Home folder, or run with admin privileges and keep them somewhere else (e.g. Applications)? Assuming you mean stackfiles rather than stacks, I try to keep them in the same

Re: handling push notifications

2014-10-16 Thread Mike Kerner
you don't. There are several open bug reports on push, and that's one of them. If the app isn't running and the user opens it via the springboard, no payload. If they open it via the notification center, payload. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Terry Judd terry.j...@unimelb.edu.au wrote:

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Gerry
And another one: I changed nothing between the RC 2 version and the release version and I can't now run my apps in the simulator - I get a message that says Unable to start simulation: Unable to run app in simulator. Ugh. Gerry On 17 Oct 2014, at 7:28 am, Mike Kerner

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Colin Holgate
I have the reverse situation, where I couldn’t before but now I can. Are you using Xcode 6.0.1? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

LiveCode and Yosemite

2014-10-16 Thread Colin Holgate
I updated from Mavericks to Yosemite today, and LiveCode 6.6.4 contuse to test onto Simulator ok. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Gerry
Yup. g On 17 Oct 2014, at 12:28 pm, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: I have the reverse situation, where I couldn’t before but now I can. Are you using Xcode 6.0.1? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: handling push notifications

2014-10-16 Thread Terry Judd
That¹s disappointing. Just to get this straight, the only time I get the payload is if the app is open - either when the notification arrives or if I select it from the Œlist¹ available when swiping down from the top of the screen. If the app isn¹t open then no payload via any method. Terry...

Re: handling push notifications

2014-10-16 Thread Gerry
Terry wrote: Thats disappointing Really? I'm just resigned to the fact that LC doesn't allow us to develop modern iOS apps that have the same capabilities (in terms of background operations) as xCode-developed apps. I've stopped trying and I've stopped being disappointed about it. What I'd

Re: handling push notifications

2014-10-16 Thread Mike Kerner
Try it. That's my observation. So, what I do, instead, is instead of sending the payload (which has to be short, anyhow), is have the app recognize that it's gotten a push notification, then hit my server to find out why. The message you send is for the user, anyway. The payload has to be

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Mike Kerner
When I get the simulator message, I go to the simulator, make sure there isn't an instance of the app already running, and if there is, exit it, then go back, and fire it off, again, from LC. I suspect we have a communication problem between LC and the simulator. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 9:30 PM,

Re: handling push notifications

2014-10-16 Thread Terry Judd
Thanks Mike - makes sense for the app to check in with the server when it starts up so I guess I'll go down that route. Terry... Sent from my iPhone On 17/10/2014, at 1:12 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: Try it. That's my observation. So, what I do, instead, is instead of

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Gerry
When I get the simulator message, I go to the simulator, make sure there isn't an instance of the app already running, and if there is, exit it, then go back, and fire it off, again, from LC. You get the same error message I do? g ___

RE: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Ralph DiMola
Get timeouts and eventually get can't start message. If I hit the home button on the simulator it will hang for 30-5 seconds and then show the home screen. 33% of the time the app will just start up. 33% it will be on the simulator and I can start it. 33% it will work if I test again. Can't put

Re: LiveCode 6.6.4

2014-10-16 Thread Paul Hibbert
Ralph, I've re-opened bug 13590 [ http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13590 ] to try to get this location services issue resolved. Please feel free to add more to it if you have any comments or if you feel I've missed anything. Paul On Oct 16, 2014, at 1:24 PM, Ralph DiMola

Re: Teaching LiveCode to Children

2014-10-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob- Thursday, October 16, 2014, 8:17:27 AM, you wrote: What’s wrong with the old way of thinking?? ;-) You mean as opposed to thwimming? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC_iWnt0ooA -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be unlawfully collected and stored by the