Re: OT: Web Server-side ID3 Tagger

2014-12-16 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi Brahmanathaswami, there is a ID3 library for livecode the late Mark Smith created in 2009. You can find it here http://marksmith.on-rev.com/revstuff/files/ Maybe it is of some help for you. Regards, Matthias Matthias Rebbe Bramkampsieke 13 32312 Lübbecke Tel +49 5741 31

RELEASE: LiveCode 7.0.1 RC4

2014-12-16 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Dear List Members, We're pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 7.0.1 RC4. This is a maintenance release focusing on bug fixes and refinement. Release Contents This release contains 23 bug fixes (14 of which were fixes applied to 6.7 RC4). The most notable fix relates to 100% CPU usage in

Vertically aligning text in a field

2014-12-16 Thread Terence Heaford
Is there a definitive calculation that correctly sets the position of text vertically in a field? I am using LC 6.7. I have come across a few ideas like the one below that all appear to use an arbitrary offset to the margins, is there a method to calculate this accurately? put the

Re: Vertically aligning text in a field

2014-12-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Terry, There's a long discussion about this on the forum. I believe I did a good attempt, but Bernd's solution was probably the most reliable. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter:

Re: OT: Web Server-side ID3 Tagger

2014-12-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 12/16/2014 12:24 AM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: I need to set the ID3 tags for MP3 files that have already been uploaded to our web server. typically my approach is to create a thin desktop client, which can read our media database from the web server... then I need to send a POST back to my

Re: controlids and controlnames properties

2014-12-16 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Dec 15, 2014, at 4:06 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: A few days ago I was bemoaning the fact that there wasn't a way to get a list of control ids or names without a repeat with x=1 to the number of controls of By chance, I just discovered there is a controlids property and a controlnames

Re: bug or feature in player filename?

2014-12-16 Thread Martin Koob
Hi I pretty sure these are bugs in the new player introduced in LiveCode 6.7. Thanks Jacqueline for the info about the result that should be returned when a player is set to an incorrect path. Didn't know that. However it does not work in LiveCode 6.7.1-rc4 I have posted a bug report for

Re: Determine the LC version of an existing stack

2014-12-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mike Bonner wrote: You can also do a sneaky if you want to see the stackfileversion of one stack from another. you can: send put the stackfileversion into wherever you want it to go to stack stackname I can't get that to work. Since the stackFileVersion if a global property I wouldn't

Re: Determine the LC version of an existing stack

2014-12-16 Thread Mike Bonner
DOH Yep, my misunderstanding. Though with the preserve stack file version option in the preferences, it must be stored somewhere for that stack. Klaus has the easiest method I guess, but i'm curious now to know where the engine tracks which format each stack uses. IF I can dig up how the engine

Re: Determine the LC version of an existing stack

2014-12-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/16/2014, 12:18 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: IF I can dig up how the engine tracks the version for stacks, i'll letcha know. I'm pretty sure it must be reading the first few bytes of the file, like Klaus said. As far as I know, that's the only place the info is stored. -- Jacqueline Landman

Re: Determine the LC version of an existing stack

2014-12-16 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Dec 16, 2014, at 2:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 12/16/2014, 12:18 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: IF I can dig up how the engine tracks the version for stacks, i'll letcha know. I'm pretty sure it must be reading the first few bytes of the file, like Klaus said. As far as I know, that's the

Re: Determine the LC version of an existing stack

2014-12-16 Thread Mike Bonner
Got it. In 7.0, first do this.. put the cRevGeneral[stackfileversion] of stack stackname If its empty, it means it was created in an earlier version of LC, and hasn't been saved using save as legacy whatever at any point. SO if that one is empty then get revstackfileversion(the filename of

Re: Determine the LC version of an existing stack

2014-12-16 Thread Mike Bonner
For those who use multiple version, the manual way is best. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote: On Dec 16, 2014, at 2:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 12/16/2014, 12:18 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: IF I can dig up how the engine tracks the version for

Re: Determine the LC version of an existing stack

2014-12-16 Thread Mike Bonner
just created a stack in lc, 4.6.3 and saved it, the crevgeneral[stackfileversion] of stack testing reports 2.7. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: For those who use multiple version, the manual way is best. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Peter M.

Re: Determine the LC version of an existing stack

2014-12-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/16/2014, 2:24 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: just created a stack in lc, 4.6.3 and saved it, the crevgeneral[stackfileversion] of stack testing reports 2.7. There are only three stackfileversions (well, four, but the very earliest stacks didn't have the property.) They are: 2.7 5.5 7.0 These

postgres replication

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
Has anyone worked with postgres replication through livecode? Apparently, automatic replication is supposed to appear in 9.4, but I'd like an easy way to keep 2-4 postgres servers reasonably synchronized until then -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Anyone wired up the Cloudinary API?

2014-12-16 Thread Geoff Canyon
I'm thinking about uploading/retrieving images, and wondering if anyone has already done it? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
With just a few minutes in, it appears that RC4 bombs at least as frequently as RC3 :( -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: With just a few minutes in, it appears that RC4 bombs at least as frequently as RC3 :( It may be happening during disk save--I've just gotten corrupted files of 2.2M a couple of times (full stack is 15.1M) -- Dr. Richard

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: It may be happening during disk save--I've just gotten corrupted files of 2.2M a couple of times (full stack is 15.1M) It is most definitely either saving when the crash happens, or it is making a failed attempt to save

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Eric Corbett
One of my stacks was crashing on save in 7.0.1 (rc 4). I deleted everything I could including script up to the point that it would not crash anymore and will send it to LC. Submitted bug 14239 with a crash log. Trevore also submitted a bug 14227 with a crash log. - eric On Dec 16, 2014, at

7.0.1 redraws IDE too many times

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
It's been nagging at the edge of conscious for a bit, and now I see it. I first registered that the code section moved at least twice after the window opened. Now I just saw some more jiggling while hovering over a variable in the IDE trying to select it. The screen is being redrawn *way* to

Re: 7.0.1 redraws IDE too many times

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: The screen is being redrawn *way* to many times. Did someone forget a lockscreen? Another hint: with two code tabs loaded, I click into the find window, and see the double-redrawa couple pixels to the right each time.

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Eric Corbett e...@canelasoftware.com wrote: One of my stacks was crashing on save in 7.0.1 (rc 4). I deleted everything I could including script up to the point that it would not crash anymore and will send it to LC. In my case, it's the Background or

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: In my case, it's the Background or emergency saves, rather than any that I triggered manually. I take that back; it just did on a manual save. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Eric Corbett eric at canelasoftware.com wrote: One of my stacks was crashing on save in 7.0.1 (rc 4). I deleted everything I could including script up to the point that it would not crash anymore and will send it to LC. In my case, it's the

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: What is a background save? doesn't it periodically update the ~ rescue file, or some such? If not, then it's recognizing a problem and attempting to save I just triggered another one just by hitting save three

Re: 7.0.1 redraws IDE too many times

2014-12-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/16/2014, 4:51 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: It's been nagging at the edge of conscious for a bit, and now I see it. I first registered that the code section moved at least twice after the window opened. Now I just saw some more jiggling while hovering over a variable in the IDE trying to select

Re: 7.0.1 redraws IDE too many times

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:06 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I sure wish you'd put these things into the QCC where someone in a position to fix it would be made aware. The engineers won't see it here, and there's nothing we can do. Is this enough? It's now but 14241:

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Eric Corbett e...@canelasoftware.com wrote: Submitted bug 14239 with a crash log. I added a crash log to your bug. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: 7.0.1 redraws IDE too many times

2014-12-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/16/2014, 5:13 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:06 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I sure wish you'd put these things into the QCC where someone in a position to fix it would be made aware. The engineers won't see it here, and there's nothing we can do.

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: I added a crash log to your bug. Just thought of something . . . Do the other people who see this have windows spread across multiple screens? Just tried staying on one screen, which didn't stop the crash. After several

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Eric Corbett
My issue caused LC to crash with every cmd-s. A Crash Log opened, the stack was saved, but corrupt, and the original was backed up using [file name].livecode~ - e On Dec 16, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 3:02 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: What is a background save? doesn't it periodically update the ~ rescue file, or some such? If not, then it's recognizing a problem and attempting to save Probably the latter (almost certainly so given the

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-16 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: This save bug seems like a particularly nasty regression, but the bug reports from Eric and Trevor hopefully RunRev will get an RC5 out ASAP. I am now fairly certain that it became bad in RC3. I'm using RC2

Re: hide / show oddities ?

2014-12-16 Thread Alex Tweedly
Thanks everyone for the suggestions, experiences, etc. Definitely not mismatched lock / unlock, since all the other parts of the screen are fully updated. I couldn't (naturally) recreate anything in a smaller sample, nor even reliably be sure to make it happen on demand. I finished up using

Andre Garcia's FacebookLib

2014-12-16 Thread Gerry
Hi all Is anyone successfully using Andre Garzia's FacebookLib library on mobile? I'm getting the following error when trying to log into Facebook from the demo mobile app, but using my app's key - previously this was all working: Given URL is not allowed by the Application configuration.: One

Re: Andre Garcia's FacebookLib

2014-12-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Gerry, A few follow-up e-mails within 4 weeks is really too much. Try again in a few months. It isn't easy to fix something like this, especially if you're busy like Andre. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: Andre Garcia's FacebookLib

2014-12-16 Thread Gerry
Really? I should wait a few *months*? It's a commercial product! g On Wed Dec 17 2014 at 5:50:12 PM Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Gerry, A few follow-up e-mails within 4 weeks is really too much. Try again in a few months. It isn't easy to fix something like

Re: Andre Garcia's FacebookLib

2014-12-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
LiveCode is a commercial product too. Quite a few bugs were reported a decade ago and were not fixed. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer