Re: read larger data streams over sockets - broken?

2017-12-06 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
On 12/6/17 6:12 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: May not mean anything for your use case, but I have built an in-house revision control system for InDesign documents… it's been in use for several years after the death of Adobe VersionCue (which was a night mare anyway)

Re: read larger data streams over sockets - broken?

2017-12-06 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
Just a guess it sounds like some kind of encoding issue but if you can provide demo client and server stacks that demonstrate the issue that will help us track down the issue. Also let us know the previous version it was working on. Cheers Monte > On 7 Dec 2017, at 10:51 am, Phil Davis via

Re: read larger data streams over sockets - broken?

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
May not mean anything for your use case, but I have built an in-house revision control system for InDesign documents… it's been in use for several years after the death of Adobe VersionCue (which was a night mare anyway) our team loves it: super simple, never fails, we never lose data, ever.

Re: Map Widget Futures

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks for replying Ali I wasn't thinking of overlays, though that could be useful and would obviously be an early enhancment request. message path: Presumably "markers" are in the msg path… i.e. like buttons, and would respond to mouseup/down/touch. That would suffice for my V1 vision of use

Re: Map Widget Futures

2017-12-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Ali Lloyd wrote: > ...make the map widget a lot more flexible on the > objective-c side... iOS-only? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web

Re: LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

2017-12-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Alex Tweedly wrote: > On 06/12/2017 19:14, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >> >> There's a difference in terms of the primary execution object, and >> how that effects the flow of both execution and the workflow. >> >> It seems I'm unable to articulate it clearly enough, but no worries.

Re: What a datagrid "sees"

2017-12-06 Thread Mike Bonner via use-livecode
As a workaround, you could try a slightly different method.. local sLooping on mouseleave put false into sLooping -- stop the loop when outside the dg end mouseleave on mouseEnter if sLooping is empty then put false into sLooping if not sLooping then send "startloop" to me in 10

Re: Map Widget Futures

2017-12-06 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'a member of the msg path in "proper standing"' - the map widget just wraps a native view essentially. The map 'object' is only accessible through foreign handlers in LCB, but if it can be done natively then it can be done. In the first instance the widget will

Re: sorting with number late in name

2017-12-06 Thread Tore Nilsen via use-livecode
Ascending is implied when you sort numeric. If you want to sort it the other way round use: sort lines of fld 1 numeric descending by item 2 of each Tore > 7. des. 2017 kl. 00:47 skrev Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode > : > > Yes, that did it. I had the item del,

read larger data streams over sockets - broken?

2017-12-06 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
Is anyone else having problems with moving multi-MB data streams across sockets in LC 8? I support a LAN-based system that relies on sockets to move data between server and clients. The server's response to a single client request will often consist of several hundred KB to several MB of

Re: sorting with number late in name

2017-12-06 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: > set itemdel to "_" > sort lines of fld 1 numeric by item 2 of each I *thought* that that was in there somewhere, but I didn't see it when I pulled the dictionary page :( For that matter,

Re: sorting with number late in name

2017-12-06 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Richard, > Am 07.12.2017 um 00:29 schrieb Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode > : > > Now that I've hit ten numbered items, I'm having an issue with > maintenance routines. > > If I have the items > > p13_1.07 > p13_1.08 > p13_2.04 > p13_10.01 > > I want them

Re: sorting with number late in name

2017-12-06 Thread Tore Nilsen via use-livecode
You could always try to set the itemDelimiter to _ and then sort the lines numeric by last item of each. Tore Nilsen > 7. des. 2017 kl. 00:29 skrev Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode > : > > Now that I've hit ten numbered items, I'm having an issue with > maintenance

crumbly IDE

2017-12-06 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
This is in the 8.2 series, but I think folks have sen it before. I haven't nailed it down yet, but I seem to permanently lose parts of the IDE, possibly after toggling messages off and back on from the toolbar. The message box still works, and can close stacks, but the stats seem to completely

sorting with number late in name

2017-12-06 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
Now that I've hit ten numbered items, I'm having an issue with maintenance routines. If I have the items p13_1.07 p13_1.08 p13_2.04 p13_10.01 I want them to sort in that order. However, the 10 will sort between the 1s and 2s. Is there a "decent" way to do this without a custom

Re: What a datagrid "sees"

2017-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Posted http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20747. This may be a regression from way back in the 2.9 days. Bob S > On Dec 6, 2017, at 15:04 , Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Okay I have figured out what this is. the mouseControl is sometimes

Re: What a datagrid "sees"

2017-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Okay I have figured out what this is. the mouseControl is sometimes returning the LAST object that was being pointed to, and NOT the CURRENT object being pointed to. I think this is a bug. I will try to come up with a sample stack and post it on QC. Bob S > On Dec 6, 2017, at 13:12 , Bob

Re: LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

2017-12-06 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
On 06/12/2017 19:14, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: There's a difference in terms of the primary execution object, and how that effects the flow of both execution and the workflow. It seems I'm unable to articulate it clearly enough, but no worries. The bottom line is that LC Server

Re: Naive Player Questions

2017-12-06 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Graham, > Am 06.12.2017 um 14:49 schrieb Graham Samuel via use-livecode > : > > Yes, this is just plain nonsense - it may be a leftover from a previous > LC/Revolution idea that “play” would have a larger range of possible formats, > but in the current

Re: Datagrid 2

2017-12-06 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
Mike, I am a heavy user of DG features. was just finding out about the timeframe of new scroll capabilities on mobile and overall dg speed improvements Sounds good .. thank you Kevin Miller. On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 4:25 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >

Re: LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

2017-12-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Rick Harrison wrote: > Hi Richard, > >> You use Wordpress. > > After exploring Wordpress a couple of years ago I decided not use > Wordpress. > I do not use Wordpress. My bad, though earnestly I must admit I don't understand this thread: if we're not talking about Wordpress, what are we

Re: Sending a message to users that floats above everything

2017-12-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 12/3/17 5:09 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: On 4 Dec 2017, at 10:01 am, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Bump. I think the team has forgotten about the PR for the Android toast. Anyone want to try their hand at making it in LCB?

RE: Versions of LC and Xcode

2017-12-06 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
#1 below==>The shared prefs is a problem. I see the same thing. Different prefs for each version would solve this. When a new version is started for the first time the prefs from the last version in the series(if any) should be copied to the new version prefs file. But the rub is... if you

Re: LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

2017-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Wording is a little harsh. A lot of web based systems seem to be working that way these days. We just got notice that we had to upgrade our Compass Sherpa software, which uses an embedded browser, to keep using it. Spiceworks dictates that the core system be updated by certain dates, or certain

Versions of LC and Xcode

2017-12-06 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
This continues to be a major source of friction. Once again all my versions of LiveCode seem to have been reset so that they can't find a version of Xcode they like. (At any time I am probably switching between (or have simultaneously open) four version of LC: LC 6.7.11; the latest stable

Re: IDE breaks down over time

2017-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Yes. I had an issue where ANY notification in the built in Notifications process in OS X 10.11 would max one of the cores. It was a known issue. I haven't seen it in 10.12 or 10.13. Bob S > On Dec 1, 2017, at 11:52 , Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 10:24 AM,

What a datagrid "sees"

2017-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Hi all. I have a mouseEnter handler in a table datagrid which is supposed to get the mouseControl. When I point at one of the populated table fields I trigger the mouseEnter, but then nothing else. I can point at another field and this time it might work. Or not. I am not sure why that is

Re: LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

2017-12-06 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Hi Richard, > You use Wordpress. After exploring Wordpress a couple of years ago I decided not use Wordpress. I do not use Wordpress. > I use Drupal. Someone else uses Joomla. Then there's the vast range of > other things people can add to their account. Yes, many people use different

Re: Naive Player Questions

2017-12-06 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 12/6/17 7:49 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode wrote: Yes, this is just plain nonsense - it may be a leftover from a previous LC/Revolution idea that “play” would have a larger range of possible formats, but in the current versions of LC the IDE should warn one off, no? Probably. There

Re: LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

2017-12-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Rick Harrison wrote: > If it were up to me to run On-Rev, I would make > sure that it was always up to date, or offered > easy ways to keep everything up to date. You’d > never hear me threaten anyone to take away their > account if they didn’t keep some piece of software > up to date. If that

Re: Naive Player Questions

2017-12-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
I have already admitted to making a complete foll of myself re that in an earlier post. Richmond. On 6/12/17 9:11 pm, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: Richmond wrote: NO: a player does not "demand" an external file as my example stack demonstrates:

Re: LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

2017-12-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Simon Smith wrote: > PHP is definitely the most popular language for letting you code this > way, but then it is pretty much only for the web unlike most other > languages. > > Other languages can work this way too - e.g. Python has PSP, Java has > JSP as does Ruby, Lua etc. but not as popular as

Re: Naive Player Questions

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Richmond wrote: NO: a player does not "demand" an external file as my example stack demonstrates: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9v2juqqu7ojb83v/Carrot%20Player.livecode.zip?dl=0 The player in that stack plays an embedded mp3 file. Does not play here (Mac OS X) of

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Matthias Rebbe wrote: The connection ID is only used/needed when you use the asynchronous commands of tsNet. The synchronous commands like tsNetUploadSync or tsNetFileUploadSync or others (they are ending with Sync) do not use connectionIDs. And i assume that put URL and get URL are

Re: LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

2017-12-06 Thread Simon Smith via use-livecode
It's impracticable for most hosting companies to keep a clients WordPress installation up to date. All the plugins and themes need to be kept up to date at the same time and sometimes need to be manually uploaded. There is then a problem that if a host updates something and something breaks - who

Re: LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

2017-12-06 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
Hi Matthias, When support tells one that he/she is now responsible for keeping Wordpress up to date or face the loss of one’s account, they should at least point out what you have shared with us. > And you if install Wordpress through Softacoulus (which is included in > On-Rev), you can enable

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-06 Thread Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
The connection ID is only used/needed when you use the asynchronous commands of tsNet. The synchronous commands like tsNetUploadSync or tsNetFileUploadSync or others (they are ending with Sync) do not use connectionIDs. And i assume that put URL and get URL are using the synchronous commands.

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Still searching… let's break this down a bit Almost TSNet functions and commands require a connectionID. In some instances these are aribitrary strings assigned by the dev on the initial call, then used later. but what if we use the simple libURL commands? get url

Map Widget Futures

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I'm not sure if the news from LiveCode Global is under any kind of NDA… Since I have a business license, we could pose this directly to HQ, but seems useful to share.. hope that is OK and I have this quesiton What is the binary format of the map "object" that the engine or map widget can now

Re: Naive Player Questions

2017-12-06 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Yes, this is just plain nonsense - it may be a leftover from a previous LC/Revolution idea that “play” would have a larger range of possible formats, but in the current versions of LC the IDE should warn one off, no? Graham > On 6 Dec 2017, at 10:26, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode >

Re: LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

2017-12-06 Thread Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
> Am 06.12.2017 um 07:14 schrieb Rick Harrison via use-livecode > >: > Then On-Rev wrote us that note saying that we were > the ones that would be held responsible for > ensuring that Wordpress was always up to > date on our

Re: Naive Player Questions

2017-12-06 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
However, the fact that "import audio file" allows one to import an mp3 file is a bit misleading. Richmond. On 5/12/17 9:17 pm, Richmond Mathewson wrote: I stand corrected! You are indeed right: I moved my "carrot.mp3" file out of the same folder as the stack and, no, no sound despite their