Re: Unicode in file paths...

2015-05-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Paul, Before playing a movie, you could use AppleScript or shell to store a copy of the file in the temp folder with a name encoded in MacRoman-compatible characters. (Use UTF8 for the file path in AppleScript). You may need to save the AppleScript as a .scpt file on disk and execute with

[ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-07 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi LiveCoders Today I have released builds of all my externals for iOS 8.3 so they are now compatible with LiveCode 7.0.5 and Xcode 6.3.1 In addition I have also released major updates to mergAV and mergBanner. mergAV 4 now includes barcode reading in the camera control. mergBanner 2 now

Re: Can I set up a delayed message queue?

2015-05-07 Thread William Prothero
Scott: Yes, I had tried to send multiple delayed messages and now I find that the simple way just works. I can set more than one delayed send message and they seem to queue properly. Sorry for the goof. I guess I’m jumping in to ask a question a bit too fast. I’ll be better. Best, Bill On May

Re: Communication Suggestion for LiveCode (RunRev)

2015-05-07 Thread Terence Heaford
An acronym from my old employer before retirement, sums it up I think. C.A.R.E. Customer Awareness Rewards Everyone All the best Terry On 7 May 2015, at 20:29, AndyP smudge.a...@googlemail.com wrote: Very much agree that more information would have gone a long way to reducing the

Communication Suggestion for LiveCode (RunRev)

2015-05-07 Thread Scott Rossi
I know the LiveCode (RunRev) folks don't spend all their time on this list, but with the recent server issues mentioned on the list, I thought I would pass along a humble suggestion to the guys managing On-Rev and such. Maybe our Fearless Leader Richard G could act as messenger, if he feels so

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-07 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Skip, in case no one else already has sent you a copy of that doc file, i´ve uploaded it for you. Please find it here https://dl.dropbox.com/s/sc0mbvfmzn3uo7s/index.html Regards, Matthias Am 07.05.2015 um 19:16 schrieb Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com: Is it updated

[OT] land for sale

2015-05-07 Thread Richmond
The Linkedin account LiveCode developers has been badly compromised as this is the second nonsense I have recieved about lad for sale round the back of Lagos in Nigeria. While I would quite like to visit Nigeria one of these days (along with just about every country I haven't visited), I would

Re: Can I set up a delayed message queue?

2015-05-07 Thread Scott Rossi
Perhaps I'm not understanding your comment, but I don't believe it's correct. Try the following on a card (one button, one field): [ button script ] on mouseUp repeat 3 send doStuff to me in 1 second wait 500 millisecs with messages end repeat end mouseUp on doStuff put got it

Re: [OT] land for sale

2015-05-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richmond, The account you refer to is a group. It is in no way related to the company. I'm not sure who is the admin of the group, but if you know, you could trying contacting that person Every message in the group has a link to report spam. If you haven't done so yet, you could just

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread Richmond
On 07/05/15 16:47, John Dixon wrote: Now that we have unicode that 'just works' ?! Every time I come across anything that claims it 'just works' I laugh my socks off. CAn someone tell me what I am doing wrong, or even better what to do now as what used to work for me doesn't

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread Guglielmo Braguglia
Mmm ... this is very strange ... a link to a .zip file normally doesn't show any page, but just trigger the download on the browser. I just tested with Opera, Firefox and Safari (I'm on OS X) and all do the same ... they just download the file :/ I don't know what to say ... Guglielmo

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-07 Thread Martin Koob
Yes the README.html document that comes with the download has the documentation for the latest features. The page on Monte's Mergext.com site has not been updated yet. Martin skiplondon wrote Is it updated on the public document side? I do not have access to the backend, downloadable

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread William Prothero
Guglielmo: Thanks! Best, Bill William A. Prothero http://es.earthednet.org/ On May 7, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Guglielmo Braguglia guglie...@braguglia.ch wrote: Hi William, thanks to let me know that the link was broken ... now is repaired

Re: Communication Suggestion for LiveCode (RunRev)

2015-05-07 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
I suggested such an info page, which informs about planned and urgent maintenance or about any other related stuff, a long time ago. I mentioned that this also would reduce the urgent support requests, because in cases of a server fault the users could see there is already someone working to

Re: Status of on-rev restore?

2015-05-07 Thread Howard Bornstein
I've now been without reliable email for 10 days. A week ago I got this message: You are being moved to our new server, Sage. This is making good progress and we should have it up and running soon now. No word since then and no email. :-( On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 6:15 PM, Bruce Pokras

Re: Status of on-rev restore?

2015-05-07 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Howard, have you already tried to login in SAGE with your old login data? Did you try to change your mail server settings in your email client from pancake.on-rev.com to sage.on-rev.com? Give it a try. Maybe you will be successful. Matthias Am 07.05.2015 um 21:45 schrieb Howard Bornstein

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread William Prothero
Guglielmo: By the way, the link shows a web page that gives the “Error 404-Page not Found” message, but the file downloads anyway. It may have been ok anyway and the error message on the page confused me. Best, Bill On May 7, 2015, at 10:19 AM, Guglielmo Braguglia guglie...@braguglia.ch

Re: We're giving away a book tonight!

2015-05-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi everyone! We're happy to announce that the free copy of Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner has been won by our fan Jammy Dodger. Congratulations Jammy! We have contact Jammy already and will proceed to ship the book. If you didn't win, don't despair: we will raffle off another

Re: Communication Suggestion for LiveCode (RunRev)

2015-05-07 Thread AndyP
Very much agree that more information would have gone a long way to reducing the uncertainty and hostility vented. I do not understand why such info was not posted on the server status page, it seems the obvious place? I still have two sites down and I am still waiting (patiently) for a response

OT: where to find a tutorial about putting up a web site at on-rev

2015-05-07 Thread Graham Samuel
I haven’t had much luck getting info out of on-rev, and I know they’ve had their problems, so I’m looking to this list for a source of advice even though it’s OT. Quite simply I’m trying to upload some simple web pages that worked fine on another hosting system to my on-rev space. I can get

Google Play Store and openSSL

2015-05-07 Thread Ralph DiMola
Just got this from Google. Does anyone know what version of OpenSSL LC uses? We wanted to let you know that your app(s) listed below statically link against a version of OpenSSL that has multiple security vulnerabilities for users. Please migrate your app(s) to an updated version of

Question on How to Distribute iOS apps for testing

2015-05-07 Thread William Prothero
Folks: I have an iOS app that I will probably never, at least for the near term, put into the Apple Store. I want to be able to distribute it to a few friends, though, without them having to load it on their using Xcode. I’ve been testing this on my own computer, trying to use iTunes, which I

Re: Question on How to Distribute iOS apps for testing

2015-05-07 Thread Scott Rossi
The iTunes method I've used in the past is to first add friends' device IDs under Devices in the iOS development portal and generate/download an updated provisioning file. Distribute the standalone and the provisioning file to friends. They then drag these files onto iTunes, and sync their

Re: Question on How to Distribute iOS apps for testing

2015-05-07 Thread William Prothero
Scott, thanks for your input and patience. Problem solved. I need to use the “Add to Library” command under the File menu, tho. Dragging didn’t seem to do it for me, even though I drug, drug, drug everywhere I could think of. Best, Bill On May 7, 2015, at 4:50 PM, Scott Rossi

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-07 Thread Monte Goulding
Sorry Skip, I’ve updated the online docs now. On 8 May 2015, at 2:42 am, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com wrote: I am looking at the online documentation for mergAV but do not see any reference to the bar coding capabilities?!? I am very interested in playing around

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-07 Thread Skip Kimpel
No problem at all Monte... heck, you are amazing at what you do. The public facing documents are obviously not as high priority. Look forward to exploring the new capabilities! SKIP On May 7, 2015, at 8:29 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Sorry Skip, I’ve updated

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread William Prothero
Guglielmo: No worries. I’ve got it. perhaps it’s a cache thing. Best and thanks again, Bill On May 7, 2015, at 11:49 AM, Guglielmo Braguglia guglie...@braguglia.ch wrote: Mmm ... this is very strange ... a link to a .zip file normally doesn't show any page, but just trigger the download

Re: Question on How to Distribute iOS apps for testing

2015-05-07 Thread William Prothero
Sheesh! I did it again! After quitting and restarting iTunes, checking in the library using the finder, it my app showed up and loaded onto my iPhone successfully. Dragging the app to the iTunes screen didn’t work, and most of the google pages addressing this are old. Anyway, it does work with

Re: OT: where to find a tutorial about putting up a web site at on-rev

2015-05-07 Thread stephen barncard
try first pointing your domain to the right Domain name server IP for on-rev - do this at your registrar. you might have to wait a bit. I don't know if this needs to be propagated or on-rev checks directly. next Create an Add-on domain in cPanel with the domain name you registered and pointed

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-07 Thread Mike Kerner
FYI, barcoding works MUCH better than it did in ZXing. It's a little more complicated to set up, and your users have to grant microphone priviliges in order for it to work (in order to address a crash issue), but it is faster, more accurate, and I have been able to implement oversampling and

Re: Unicode in file paths...

2015-05-07 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 5/6/2015 7:08 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: answer file Pick a movie: set the fileName of player 1 to shortFilePath(it) Mark Peter, Thank you for the tips. The issue (in LC 6.7.4) appears not to be the manipulation of the file, but having some way of prompting the user to select a file with

Re: Communication Suggestion for LiveCode (RunRev)

2015-05-07 Thread Richmond
On 05/07/2015 10:49 PM, Terence Heaford wrote: An acronym from my old employer before retirement, sums it up I think. C.A.R.E. Customer Awareness Rewards Everyone All the best Terry Well said that man! Much better than: W.L.T.W.S.O.I.O. We Listen To What Serves Our Interests Only.

Re: Communication Suggestion for LiveCode (RunRev)

2015-05-07 Thread Richmond
On 05/07/2015 10:12 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D wrote: I suggested such an info page, which informs about planned and urgent maintenance or about any other related stuff, a long time ago. I mentioned that this also would reduce the urgent support requests, because in cases of a server fault

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread Mike Kerner
As far as dropbox goes, we use it in our apps frequently. We use Gugliermo's library to accomplish the task. It's free and open and the code is open. Monte's Dropbox external has the advantage of not being blocking, so your app doesn't have to wait while you're accessing dropbox. On Wed, May

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread Mike Kerner
It's free and open and the code is open? UGH. It's free and the code is open. On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 9:21 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: As far as dropbox goes, we use it in our apps frequently. We use Gugliermo's library to accomplish the task. It's free and open and the

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread Colin Holgate
From what Mr Google suggests, URI and URL can’t have Unicode characters in them, you have to UTF-8 encodes things. Try: put http://www..com/spencerdata/index.lc?A=indexthetongue= http://www..com/spencerdata/index.lc?A=indexthetongue= uniEncode(thelanguage,”UTF8”) into tURL

RE: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread John Dixon
Colin... Thanks, but that does not work... nothing is returned..:-( From: colinholg...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Strange Characters... Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 09:54:58 -0400 To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com From what Mr Google suggests, URI and URL can’t have Unicode characters in them,

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread Colin Holgate
What values is the database expecting? ___ 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: Unicode in file paths...

2015-05-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Paul, If you do this entire part in AppleScript, the problem solves itself. set xFile to choose file of type mov -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553

Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread John Dixon
Now that we have unicode that 'just works' ?! CAn someone tell me what I am doing wrong, or even better what to do now as what used to work for me doesn't anymore...:-( Using the lines below, I make a request to a datbase through an .lc script...The result is returned to temp.. put

Re: Can I set up a delayed message queue?

2015-05-07 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 11:41 AM, William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org wrote: Yes, I had tried to send multiple delayed messages and now I find that the simple way just works. I can set more than one delayed send message and they seem to queue properly. Sorry for the goof. I guess I’m

Re: OT: where to find a tutorial about putting up a web site at on-rev

2015-05-07 Thread Mike Bonner
You have a few options. In the diesel control panel, you can look under the files section. From there you can set up a web disk (so you can treat your diesel account as a local folder) You can use one of the two file managers (legacy, or current) to choose what you want to upload and download,

Re: Status of on-rev restore?

2015-05-07 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi Howard, if you want to get to know on which server you are hosted, just open your website url with :2083 to open cpanel. e.g. http://YOURACCOUNTNAME.on-rev.com:2083 You will then forwarded to the appropriate server and the url in the browser address field changes to

Re: Forcing 'paste' to paste plain text

2015-05-07 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks to all who replied. I love Roger’s latest - it appears then that even if the clipboard contains styled text, that one command will lose the styling. That’s really what I wanted. Richmond’s solution only works if one programs the actual ‘paste’ - knowing what one is pasting into - but as

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-07 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Thank you Matthias! SKIP On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote: Skip, in case no one else already has sent you a copy of that doc file, i´ve uploaded it for you. Please find it here

Re: Status of on-rev restore?

2015-05-07 Thread Howard Bornstein
Thanks Matthias, I am on Sage and, interestingly, now I can get my email via the web-email interface. But still nothing via my email client. Now I have to see where it may be configured wrongly, although I haven't changed anything since before when it was working (I did change my password, but

Re: OT: where to find a tutorial about putting up a web site at on-rev

2015-05-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
All I had to do after my account was set up was this: Get an FTP client. I use Fetch, but there are many others. I hear Transmit works similarly. I like Fetch because it acts and works like OS X Finder. Create a new connection in Fetch/whatever and put in your credentials: Hostname:

Re: Status of on-rev restore?

2015-05-07 Thread Howard Bornstein
Hi Matthias, Yes, I've had my email checking both sage.on-rev.com and jasmine.on-rev.com (as well as pancake.on-rev.com) for several days. I can see that all my web pages have moved to sage and they are now displaying correctly (although I can't say for sure where they're being served from).

OT: where to find a tutorial about putting up a web site at on-rev

2015-05-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Graham Samuel said: I haven't had much luck getting info out of on-rev, and I know they've had their problems, so I'm looking to this list for a source of advice even though it's OT. Quite simply I'm trying to upload some simple web pages that worked fine on another hosting system to my

Re: OT: where to find a tutorial about putting up a web site at on-rev

2015-05-07 Thread Alex Tweedly
Naturally, within one hour of sending that email, I did hear from Heather, telling me I had been moved to sage. So as an update - 2 email accounts are working - all the rest still fail - 2 websites are (afaict) working - 4 are still failing in various ways. So my advice wouldn't change, at

RE: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread John Dixon
Colin.. If I run the URL in a web browser, the data is returned correctly... If I ask the URL to give me the list (returned in temp) in English then everything is good... but when pulling the list in French, for example, any char that has an accent, grave, acute or circumflex appears as

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread William Prothero
Thanks, Mark: I suspect mergeMicrophone would not be maintained as well and Monte’s mergeAV, where he is actually paid. I don’t blame him. Probably it’s best if I just “bite the bullet” and fork over the $100 for mergeAV, for sound recording. Thanks for the info, Mark. It’s a big help! Bill

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread William Prothero
Mike: Thanks for the info. I got to the forum and perhaps Guglielmo is updating the library, because the link to the download is broken. I posted a request for a new link. Regards, Bill On May 7, 2015, at 6:21 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: As far as dropbox goes, we use

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-05-07 15:47, John Dixon wrote: Now that we have unicode that 'just works' ?! CAn someone tell me what I am doing wrong, or even better what to do now as what used to work for me doesn't anymore...:-( Using the lines below, I make a request to a datbase through an .lc script...The

Re: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-05-07 16:41, Mark Waddingham wrote: I suspect the data you are getting passing to the client is encoded as UTF-8. In this case you should be able to set a 'Content-Type' HTTP header when sending back the data to 'text/plain; charset=utf-8' and in an ideal world libUrl would 'do the right

RE: Strange Characters...

2015-05-07 Thread Peter Haworth
Assuming you are using LC 7, try put textDecode(URL tURL) into temp Pete lcSQL Software On May 7, 2015 7:29 AM, John Dixon dixo...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Colin.. If I run the URL in a web browser, the data is returned correctly... If I ask the URL to give me the list (returned in temp) in

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread Mike Kerner
Well, if you don't hear from him by tomorrow, let me know and I'll send you the latest version. On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:14 PM, William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org wrote: Mike: Thanks for the info. I got to the forum and perhaps Guglielmo is updating the library, because the link to the

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-07 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
I am looking at the online documentation for mergAV but do not see any reference to the bar coding capabilities?!? I am very interested in playing around with this as ZXing worked will but had a few caveats around it. SKIP On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-07 Thread Mike Kerner
It's under the mergavcam section in the documentation. On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com wrote: I am looking at the online documentation for mergAV but do not see any reference to the bar coding capabilities?!? I am very interested in

Re: Unicode in file paths...

2015-05-07 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 5/7/2015 12:42 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: If I read that correctly the LC 7.0.4 results for Unicode media paths could be summarized as: Works: - Windows QuickTime - OS X 10.10 AV Foundation - OS X 10.9 AV Foundation - OS X 10.8 AV Foundation Fails: - OS X 10.7 QuickTime -

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread Mark Wilcox
Hi Bill, 1. Can iOS do audio recording, without Xtras? Not as far as I know. You don't need mergAV though, Monte also has an open source external mergMicrophone. 2. Is it possible for LC to link to iTunes songs. Seems I really only need to determine the directory. I notice there is also a

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-07 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Is it updated on the public document side? I do not have access to the backend, downloadable version as I need to renew my subscription so maybe that is where the disconnect is. SKIP On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 1:08 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: It's under the mergavcam section

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread Guglielmo Braguglia
Hi William, thanks to let me know that the link was broken ... now is repaired (http://www.phoenixsea.ch/downloads/Livecode/phxDropboxLib.zip) ;) I'm sorry for the problem ... everything was caused by 'nth' problem on pancake (... which I have definitively abandoned for a more reliable

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread William Prothero
Thanks, Mike. Bill On May 7, 2015, at 10:09 AM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: Well, if you don't hear from him by tomorrow, let me know and I'll send you the latest version. On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 12:14 PM, William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org wrote: Mike: Thanks

Can I set up a delayed message queue?

2015-05-07 Thread William Prothero
Folks: I have several timed situations in my app. They run specific handlers in a set number of seconds. It looks to me like there can only be a single invocation of “send xyz in myDelay seconds” at a time. I’m thinking of setting up a queue to do this. I’m thinking of a handler that sends a