Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread Dan Brown via use-livecode
When the GDPR comes into force in May 2018, Facebook et al will be legally obliged to remove all of your data from its databases should you make that request https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/ On 12 Dec 2017 4:28 am, "J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
That's kind of amazing, half the no-facebook people in the world are on this list. I'd be a boring participant anyway, I usually skip breakfast. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On December 11,

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Wieder wrote: > On 12/11/2017 03:29 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: > > I don't know, I'm one of the six people on earth who doesn't have > > or want a Facebook account > > I'm one of the other six. Never been tempted by it. If you develop apps for others to publish, that

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 12/11/2017 04:36 PM, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: I guess I make it three. I signed up, and didn't log in, the day they announced their own email, just to stop someone else from being labeled dochawk. One thing I found while helping a neighbor get untangled from fb is that you can

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
I guess I make it three. I signed up, and didn't log in, the day they announced their own email, just to stop someone else from being labeled dochawk. Then at my reunion a couple of months ago, it came up that someone had a page for our class. We went through a comedy of errors trying to find

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 12/11/2017 03:29 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: > I don't know, I'm one of the six people on earth who doesn't have or want a Facebook account. But Ghostery blocks any unwanted junk that comes in via a web page, and since you're viewing Facebook inside a web page then it's worth

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
If nothing else, there is a ghostery browser for iOS; it is what I use on the rare time I need one on my phone. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I do use Ghostery on my workstations/laptops, but this is of course on my iPhone. I'll see if there is any such thing. If it can't hook into Facebook tho, I doubt it will work, and Facebook is unlikely to provide a way to block ads as that is their bread and butter. Bob S > On Dec 11, 2017,

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I don't know, I'm one of the six people on earth who doesn't have or want a Facebook account. But Ghostery blocks any unwanted junk that comes in via a web page, and since you're viewing Facebook inside a web page then it's worth a try. Can't hurt. Even if it doesn't work completely there,

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Do they have Ghostery for Facebook? I'm talking about facebook pages where you click to read an article, and it takes you to a browser IN facebook where you are lambasted with ads. Also seems the more you scroll, the more ads there are. Bob S > On Dec 11, 2017, at 13:47 , J. Landman Gay via

Re: OAuth over localhost findings.

2017-12-11 Thread Monte Goulding via use-livecode
Hi Sean The HTTPS redirect uri requirement does make things a little trickier. A quick search indicates that a local HTTPS server is possible (Adobe’s Java SDK for sign uses one). I would need to research on the feasibility of implementing such a thing in LC though. At a minimum I suspect we

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 12/11/17 3:15 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: I find that the browser combination of AdBlockPlus and uninstalling Flash does wonders. Of course, I also disabled third-party cookies and have HTTPSEverywhere and PrivacyBadger installed. Ghostery does most of this. I uninstalled

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 12/11/2017 12:59 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: A very good point. I block sites on facebook all the time because while trying to read an article, there are more ads than content, and I get so frustrated because the ads are designed so that if I try to scroll, and the page shifts

Re: Script Editor problem

2017-12-11 Thread dunbarx via use-livecode
You might place a keyboard shortcut in a library script or plugin to reset the rect of the SE to your liking. Better than slogging through the msgs. Craig -- Sent from: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Revolution-User-f278306.html ___

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
A very good point. I block sites on facebook all the time because while trying to read an article, there are more ads than content, and I get so frustrated because the ads are designed so that if I try to scroll, and the page shifts (and it will ALWAYS shift while scrolling) I end up clicking

Re: advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Dr. Hawkins wrote: > I've tried to get this discussion going before, and failed. So > perhaps a crasser start: > > Is anyone actually making money from livecode app's advertising, > either iOS or android? > > If so, how did you get it done, who did you use, etc.? Good news: Roxio reported

Re: The Detailed and Long files

2017-12-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 9:06 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: > > Point taken. Thanks - that was me typing without being sufficiently > caffeinated. set the detailed caffeination of Mark to "High. VERY high." :) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702)

advertising,again, and is anyone actually making money from it?

2017-12-11 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
I've tried to get this discussion going before, and failed. So perhaps a crasser start: Is anyone actually making money from livecode app's advertising, either iOS or android? If so, how did you get it done, who did you use, etc.? All I have so far is that the folks that livecode supposedly

Re: Replacetext taking forever under 8.1.7

2017-12-11 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 11/29/2017 12:30 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: I downloaded 8.1.2 and performed the same test as above and the difference was substantial. I’m on a different machine, but the times appear consistent with the test I did on 7.x on the other one.

Re can?t save Standalone

2017-12-11 Thread Hillen Richard via use-livecode
Hello, thank you for your helpfull answers. -> Richard Gaskin: syserr is 2, wrong adress -> Mike Bonner: Standalone tries to save the datastack in folder Contents/MacOS of the App-Package; I changed the folder to Resources/_MacOS and it worked ok. Richard H.

Re: The Detailed and Long files

2017-12-11 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Waddingham wrote: > In general, it is best for us to avoid introducing / making worse the > whole function/property synergy as any function which has a property > form reserves the name of the function - i.e. you can no longer use > that as a property of an object (whether custom, or

Re: The Detailed and Long files

2017-12-11 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 12/11/2017 08:59 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: No - see http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3210 Awesome. My general feeling is that the english-like syntax *should* be:   the [detailed] files of folder i.e. 'the files' is a property of a pseudo-folder object

Re: The Detailed and Long files

2017-12-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-12-11 17:48, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: It *is* a step away from natural-language xtalk syntax though. I take it the syntactic sugar of offering "the detailed files of pFolder" would fall under the dreaded category of synonyms? No - see

Re: The Detailed and Long files

2017-12-11 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 12/11/2017 06:47 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: I added a second optional parameter to files/folders this morning:   get files(pFolder) -- the files   get files(pFolder, "detailed") -- the detailed files It *is* a step away from natural-language xtalk syntax though. I take

Re: The Detailed and Long files

2017-12-11 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Mark, > Am 11.12.2017 um 15:47 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > : > On 2017-12-10 02:33, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: >> Hi Swami, >>> Am 10.12.2017 um 02:25 schrieb Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode >>>

Re: The Detailed and Long files

2017-12-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-12-10 02:33, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Swami, Am 10.12.2017 um 02:25 schrieb Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode : it was a huge step to do away with the defaultfolder requirement to get a file list put files(somePath) is

OAuth over localhost findings.

2017-12-11 Thread Pi Digital via use-livecode
Hi all I’ve been doing some work for a client who is still using LC5.0.2 ?(because it works and they don’t want to go to the subscription model) and needed to add in functionality with Adobe echoSign (now just Adobe Sign™). This has changed from a SOAP auth method over to OAuth2, rightly so.

Re: MergPop error on iOS 11.2 & LC 8.1.8

2017-12-11 Thread William de Smet via use-livecode
Hi Monte, Just edited the plist file and it works now. Thanks! groeten, William 2017-12-11 4:24 GMT+01:00 Paul Hibbert via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: > Thank you for the quick response Monte, the fix works well! > > Paul > > > On 10 Dec 2017, at 13:36, Monte Goulding via