Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-02 Thread Tore Nilsen
The academic year has just started here in Norway, and I have just finished a preliminary edition of a digital textbook about using LiveCode in the subject “Information Technology 2”, for my students. The textbook covers all the objectives in the national curriculum with explanations and

Re: libURL gone mad

2016-09-02 Thread ahsoftware
On 09/02/2016 10:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Phil Davis wrote: Richard, You could always write yourself a curl wrapper... just sayin'. Good for OS X; doable on Linux if I wrap shell calls to wget instead (seems many Debian-based distros include wget but not curl by default); non-starter on

Fwd: Re: AW: IDE puzzler...

2016-09-02 Thread ahsoftware
On 09/02/2016 12:54 PM, Paul Dupuis wrote: A inclusion option, where I could embed the script editor/debugger in my Standalone, so that I can debug bugs that surface in the standalone and mysteriously disappear in the IDE. I guess that would be sort of like replacing the errordialog with some

AW: IDE puzzler...

2016-09-02 Thread Paul Dupuis
Development > Suspend Development tools was probably the way to go. I was so busy looking for a "Preference" I missed seeing that in the Development menu In the mean time, since I already have a front-script that had a commandKeyDown message handler for other things, I just added a condition for

Re: IDE puzzler...

2016-09-02 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
At 2:04 PM -0400 9/2/2016, Paul Dupuis wrote: But, here is the puzzler, is there a way to tell the IDE to NOT handle menu keyboard equivalents and send those keyboard commands to the Applications menu so that all the functions of the App's menu can really be tested in the IDE? Develop >

Re: IDE puzzler...

2016-09-02 Thread Richmond
What about "Suspend Development Tools"? The Whole IDE vanishes, and you are left with your work . . . . Richmond. On 2.09.2016 21:04, Paul Dupuis wrote: So I just wasted an hour tracking down a sort of "problem" that was not really a problem. My desktop app has printing and selecting

Re: IDE puzzler...

2016-09-02 Thread Richmond
Hey look: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/27/revolution_runtime/ "One of the best features of" . . . Livecode . . . "is the ability to flip flop between edit mode and run mode." Um . . . tooth-sucking time. Richmond. On 2.09.2016 21:04, Paul Dupuis wrote: So I just wasted an hour

Re: IDE puzzler...

2016-09-02 Thread Richmond
I feel a "Richmond naive remark" coming on: On 2.09.2016 21:04, Paul Dupuis wrote: So I just wasted an hour tracking down a sort of "problem" that was not really a problem. My desktop app has printing and selecting "Print..." from the File menu of my app was doing the "right" think, but

Re: IDE puzzler...

2016-09-02 Thread Mark Schonewille
You can do this by handling the commandKey or controlKey message. Use a front script if necessary. Kind regards, Mark Schonewille http://economy-x-talk.com https://www.facebook.com/marksch Buy the most extensive book on the LiveCode language: http://livecodebeginner.economy-x-talk.com Op

Re: libURL gone mad

2016-09-02 Thread Dave Cragg
> On 1 Sep 2016, at 23:18, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > In brief, sometimes GET or POST with libURL returns with no data in either > "it" or "the result". Richard, I haven't looked at libUrl in a long time. But my memory tells me that a fairly common problem of

IDE puzzler...

2016-09-02 Thread Paul Dupuis
So I just wasted an hour tracking down a sort of "problem" that was not really a problem. My desktop app has printing and selecting "Print..." from the File menu of my app was doing the "right" think, but Comand/Control-P was not. Sadly, it took me a whole hour to realize that the Command-P was

Re: libURL gone mad

2016-09-02 Thread Phil Davis
On 9/2/16 10:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Phil Davis wrote: > Richard, > You could always write yourself a curl wrapper... just sayin'. Good for OS X; doable on Linux if I wrap shell calls to wget instead (seems many Debian-based distros include wget but not curl by default); non-starter

Re: libURL gone mad

2016-09-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Phil Davis wrote: > Richard, > You could always write yourself a curl wrapper... just sayin'. Good for OS X; doable on Linux if I wrap shell calls to wget instead (seems many Debian-based distros include wget but not curl by default); non-starter on Windows since I don't believe either is

Re: libURL gone mad

2016-09-02 Thread Phil Davis
Richard, You could always write yourself a curl wrapper... just sayin'. Phil Davis On 9/2/16 9:28 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Charles Warwick wrote: > I would like to resolve as many libUrl reliability issues as possible > in the community edition as well. > > Having worked on the tsNet libUrl

Re: libURL gone mad

2016-09-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Charles Warwick wrote: > I would like to resolve as many libUrl reliability issues as possible > in the community edition as well. > > Having worked on the tsNet libUrl wrapper, I have some ideas about > what is going on but what always helps is a sample script that can > reproduce the problem.

Another Menu Builder Bug

2016-09-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
I looked but could not find a similar bug so I reported it. Bug# 18316. Menu Builder is not displaying sub-menus. Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

LC & BLE for Android

2016-09-02 Thread jbv
Hi list I might be working soon on a mobile app that will intereact with peripherals through BLE. I am aware of theexistence of MergExt mergBLE for iOS and OSX. But has anyone found a solution for Android ? Thanks in advance. jbv ___ use-livecode

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-02 Thread Mike Kerner
Hey, Peter, thanks for starting the thread. I've seen four people, so far, that are working on things that might help me, so I've reached out to them. On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 8:02 AM, Dave Kilroy wrote: > Alex yes of course you’re right (although it does sound like

Re: CTD when stepping through code reprise

2016-09-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 02/09/2016 16:20, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hi all. So version 8.0.2 I have seen on numerous examples that while stepping through code I crash to desktop. Launch again, step through code again, CTD in same spot. 8.0.1 same code same breakpoint NO CTD. The particular code I am executing is put

CTD when stepping through code reprise

2016-09-02 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. So version 8.0.2 I have seen on numerous examples that while stepping through code I crash to desktop. Launch again, step through code again, CTD in same spot. 8.0.1 same code same breakpoint NO CTD. The particular code I am executing is put the dgHilitedIndex of group "dgCustomers"

Re: Set the fillGradient ....

2016-09-02 Thread Randy Hengst
Glad it was helpful, Scott. > On Sep 1, 2016, at 8:35 PM, Scott Morrow wrote: > > Ah, thanks Randy! I was familiar with this behavior but (slaps forehead) your > straight forward solution never occurred to me. > > Scott Morrow > > Elementary Software > (Now with

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-02 Thread Dave Kilroy
Alex yes of course you’re right (although it does sound like what you needed was a copy of Trevor’s Clarify (http://www.clarify-it.com/ ) I first used the ‘scribbling on images’ when I was doing a mobile prototype for a health related project called OpenEyes

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-02 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 02/09/2016 12:04, Dave Kilroy wrote: What a great list, we should do this every month :) I’m also doing too much: 3. Putting on a LiveCode workshop here in Plymouth, UK where the topic will be creating an iOS/Android app that allows participants to take photos of their friends, deface

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-02 Thread Dave Kilroy
What a great list, we should do this every month :) I’m also doing too much: 1. Developing the ‘DiADeM’ dementia diagnosis app as featured at the recent LC conference - we’ll be going for pilot testing in Yorkshire and Buckinghamshire on 3rd October so I still have a lot to finish off. 2.

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-02 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 01/09/2016 09:48, Peter TB Brett wrote: Hi all, What exciting LiveCode project(s) are you working on at the moment? I'll answer that later today (hopefully), but first a rather negative alternative Q Q. What exciting LC projects am I *NOT* working on ? A. Widgets. (any of them, many of

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-02 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
For an application with a complicated set of data types and a growing ability to collect and export them, I'm working on a set of routines to export ALL the things - text, HTMLText, tabular data (as HTMLText, plain text, or a 2D array), images, or any combination of several of the above - to a