Custom Property

2017-12-20 Thread Roger Guay via use-livecode
Please, how is it that a graphic can have a custom property that does not show up in the property inspector? Does the fact that the graphic has a behavior have anything to do with it? TFYH, Roger ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev

Time to get kinky

2017-12-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Good; that grabbed your attention 8-) I always thought . . . . Here's a challenge: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=27672&p=161638#p161638 A diagonally constrained grab. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runre

Re: non-blocking http ... will tsnet end up in community?

2017-12-20 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
It makes perfect sense that it is a strong reason to get a business license ...I have full respect as to why it currently is not part of the community edition. i also understand that for a lot of use cases, its perfectly fine. Just not in mine. Having said that, there has to be a solution, so th

Re: [off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

2017-12-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode
On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 3:35 PM, JB via use-livecode wrote: > Is Apple going to have enough intelligence to > make the ios compatible with the os desktop > or will they do away with the desktop to make > the new mac os like the ios? *shudder* I'd be back on FreeBSD in a couple of days. It's Sp

Re: [off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

2017-12-20 Thread JB via use-livecode
Is Apple going to have enough intelligence to make the ios compatible with the os desktop or will they do away with the desktop to make the new mac os like the ios? I have not been too impressed with Apple lately. If it is done right ti could be one of the best things they have done in years. JB

Re: [off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

2017-12-20 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mike Kerner wrote: > Both of my brothers use Surface laptops, even though they are both > mac/ios lovers. The latest Surface models are pretty awesome. Even most of my Linux friends want one, if only it didn't have enough MC-specific firmware to make a Linux install difficult. But no matter

Re: [off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

2017-12-20 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Wieder wrote: > Now would probably be a good time to plan on jumping ship and > switching to linux. Just sayin... Dive in, the water's fine. Anyone getting started using LC on Linux is encouraged to post questions you have along the way to the Linux section of the LC forums: http://foru

Re: non-blocking http ... will tsnet end up in community?

2017-12-20 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
andrew at midwestcoastmedia.com wrote: >> DDoS tools aside , what APIs need more than one call at a time? >> > > I can think of a use in my (relatively) simple Indiana On Tap mobile > app. Currently I fetch some mySQL data and download some images from a > HostM account through their SSL API. The

Re: non-blocking http ... will tsnet end up in community?

2017-12-20 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Excellent thinking, Charles. Thanks for chiming in. Most of my net work has been on projects where I deliver both client and server, so I've too often had the luxury of working with APIs of my own design. You raise some good considerations there. Given the value of multiple connections, beyo

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.9 RC-1

2017-12-20 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
No, that is specific to the feature that allows the orientation change in 9. The name was changed internally that was causing it to not load properly. This just means that a horizontal segmented widget will work between versions. A vertical one is not going to look right but won’t throw an error. O

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.9 RC-1

2017-12-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Wow: I'm actually reading the release notes carefully . . . AND . . . I wonder . . . Does this: Specific extension bug fixes (8.1.9-rc-1) 20534 Ensure segmented widget created in LC 9.x opens in LC 8.1.x too mean that ALL widgets currently available in LC 9.0.0 DP 10 can be ported to LC 8.1.9

Re: Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

2017-12-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Well, what we see in iTunes connect "90 crashes" is not reflected in xCode for the same app which only shows what appears to be, 6 reports. The only option offered is for me to symbolicate these and then I was able to get these six report out as text files, zipped and sent to you view support e

Re: Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

2017-12-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
FWIW I learned why iTunes connect show 90 crashes, but xcode only give me 6: That's because they only offer the crash files from the past two weeks. I guess this makes sense in a way… crashes from previous builds may not be that relevant. On 12/19/17, 11:22 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of M

Re: [off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

2017-12-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Well, I jumped ship about 12 years ago: admittedly through financial necessity. The other way I cope is by using an iMac that runs Mac OS 10.7.5 (apart from my PPC machines). I do think that Apple's current obsession with producing fashion laptops for Paris Hilton lookalikes is a big mistak

Re: [off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

2017-12-20 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
Both of my brothers use Surface laptops, even though they are both mac/ios lovers. Their reasoning comes in two complaints: 1) The surface lets them annotate on the screen, pretty much any document they want, using the stylus, and 2) even though they can now do similar things on the ipad, the spr

Re: [off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

2017-12-20 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 12/20/2017 12:22 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Mike, Am 20.12.2017 um 21:14 schrieb Mike Kerner via use-livecode : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-20/apple-is-said-to-have-plan-to-combine-iphone-ipad-and-mac-apps yep, just read about this, will be a nightma

Re: [off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

2017-12-20 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
Too soon to tell, but it could just be a way to more easily cross compile. Currently apps can be designed with separate UI for tablet/phone, so this would extend that to desktop too. Someone who has developed native code for both could probably speculate how it would look and work. On Wed, Dec 20,

Re: [off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

2017-12-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Does this mean that the Macintosh computer interface will look like an iPad, or the other way round? I have a feeling that Apple will sink their desktop and laptop market if they make it end up looking like an iPad with a keyboard. Richmond. On 20/12/17 10:22 pm, Klaus major-k via use-liveco

Re: [off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

2017-12-20 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Mike, > Am 20.12.2017 um 21:14 schrieb Mike Kerner via use-livecode > : > > https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-20/apple-is-said-to-have-plan-to-combine-iphone-ipad-and-mac-apps yep, just read about this, will be a nightmare for the mothership (and us LC developers) for sure!

[off] Apple to unify ios/macos apps next year

2017-12-20 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-20/apple-is-said-to-have-plan-to-combine-iphone-ipad-and-mac-apps -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a littl

Re: Spending too much time in the bathroom with Danny Goodman

2017-12-20 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Richmond, > Am 20.12.2017 um 19:40 schrieb Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > : > > Slimme Duitse ergernissen slapen Scotsman. well, OK? That makes as much sense as the deadly MP joke: Wenn ist das nun Stück gitt und Schlottermeyer? - Ja: Bayer-Hund. Das, oder die Flipper-Wald Gespütt!

Re: Spending too much time in the bathroom with Danny Goodman

2017-12-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Slimme Duitse ergernissen slapen Scotsman. Thanks. Richmond. On 20/12/17 8:35 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Richmond, Am 20.12.2017 um 19:31 schrieb Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode : ... Anyway, I came across on returnInField and on enterInField which I found (this must

Re: Spending too much time in the bathroom with Danny Goodman

2017-12-20 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Richmond, > Am 20.12.2017 um 19:31 schrieb Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode > : > > ... > Anyway, I came across > on returnInField and > on enterInField > which I found (this must go down as the ultimate example of reinventing the > wheel) > are also "there" in LiveCode, which is marvell

Spending too much time in the bathroom with Danny Goodman

2017-12-20 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
For a variety of reasons I have a bookshelf in my bathroom. Over the last 3 or 4 days I have been reading parts of Danny Goodman's "The Complete HyperCard Handbook" for HC 2.2 that I have not read before (about 75% of the book), and learnt lots of things that are relevant to LiveCode that I di

RE: Versions of LC and Xcode

2017-12-20 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
LC looks for build tools from that hard coded path. It does not matter what Xcode entries are in the prefs this path(applications/xcode.app) is always used when building. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livec

Re: Versions of LC and Xcode

2017-12-20 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
I've added an enhancement request http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20779 to keep all paths requested by the user (in the shared prefs), clearly indicating which ones are compatible with the version of LC in use. There's also an existing request http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.c

Re: non-blocking http ... will tsnet end up in community?

2017-12-20 Thread Andrew Bell via use-livecode
DDoS tools aside , what APIs need more than one call at a time? I can think of a use in my (relatively) simple Indiana On Tap mobile app. Currently I fetch some mySQL data and download some images from a HostM account through their SSL API. The data is a couple of arrays with a 30-300 ent

Re: non-blocking http ... will tsnet end up in community?

2017-12-20 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
Charles gave a perfect example of 1 api that could easily be called more than once. Another example is syncing files to dropbox, but also attempting to download one at the same time, or even just updating the list of files in the folder as it may be syncing files. also, using any of google's api'

Re: non-blocking http ... will tsnet end up in community?

2017-12-20 Thread Charles Warwick via use-livecode
Hi Richard, > Is it? > > DDoS tools aside , what APIs need more than one call at a time? Not that I am Tom, but many APIs need different calls to retrieve various pieces of information. Just as a simple example, if you are writing a weather app and you want to display on one screen the temper

Re: Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

2017-12-20 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2017-12-19 21:19, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: One app report 90 crashes in iTunes connect among users who have opted in. a) sending to LC HQ If you can extract the text file versions of the logs (like you get from CrashReporter on Desktop), zip them up and attach the

Re: non-blocking http ... will tsnet end up in community?

2017-12-20 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Tom Glod wrote: > ...being unable to send more than one asyncronoys request to the same > server is highly limiting. Is it? DDoS tools aside , what APIs need more than one call at a time? And since LC is single-threaded, what do you anticipate doing with the data from the multiple requests as