RE: Android Can't Find Path to Web folder

[Ralph DiMola via use-livecode]

BR,

I do it and use the same path for both mobile platforms. The only thing I
can think of is that I move the html folder tree to a folder in "the
documents folder". I also zip it up for brevity in the package. When the app
starts the first time(or app update) I unzip it to the documents folder. I
delete the tree before unzipping for an app update. If you need the LCS of
the un-zipper or folder tree deleter let me know.

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
Evergreen Information Services
rdim...@evergreeninfo.net


-Original Message-
From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf
Of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2018 11:08 PM
To: How LiveCode
Cc: Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Subject: Android Can't Find Path to Web folder

I give up! What is the magic that gets the browser widget on Android to see
a local html file

(it always works in iOS)

given the following directory layout

myApp.livecode # the standalone is built from this
  /module
   lexicon.livecode  # with nothing but a browser widget which
points too:
/web
index.html

if have tried all manner of:

hard coded:

 set the itemdel to "/"
 get item 1 to -2 of the effective filename of this stack
 put it & "/web/index.html" into tURL
 set the URL of widget "Browser" to ("file://" & tURL)

# this works on iOS but not on Android 

# Various incarnations of

if isMobile() then
 # this work on iOS 
 # but not on Android
   
  put specialFolderPath("engine") into tRoot
  set the URL of widget "Browser" to ( "file://"  &
"/modules/lexicon/web/index.html")

else
 # works on desktop

put specialFolderPath("resources") into tRoot
set the URL of widget "Browser" to ( "file://"  &
"/web/index.html") end if

?? 

BR




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Re: Project Browser Goes Blank - How To Refresh

[Mark Wieder via use-livecode]

On 04/07/2018 08:30 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote:

9.0 gm

Project browser always goes "blank"

it there keystroke to refresh it?
Sometime it requires a reboot… will not refresh, even from the menu.

revApplicationOverview , OTHO, always works…

so I switch to that until I have to reboot…


Yeah, that happens to me all the time.
I just close and reopen the PB. Repeat as needed.

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Android Can't Find Path to Web folder

[Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode]

I give up! What is the magic that gets the browser widget on Android to see a 
local html file

(it always works in iOS)

given the following directory layout

myApp.livecode # the standalone is built from this
  /module
   lexicon.livecode  # with nothing but a browser widget which points 
too:
/web
index.html

if have tried all manner of:

hard coded:

 set the itemdel to "/"
 get item 1 to -2 of the effective filename of this stack
 put it & "/web/index.html" into tURL
 set the URL of widget "Browser" to ("file://" & tURL)

# this works on iOS but not on Android 

# Various incarnations of

if isMobile() then
 # this work on iOS 
 # but not on Android
   
  put specialFolderPath("engine") into tRoot
  set the URL of widget "Browser" to ( "file://"  & 
"/modules/lexicon/web/index.html")

else
 # works on desktop

put specialFolderPath("resources") into tRoot
set the URL of widget "Browser" to ( "file://"  & "/web/index.html")
end if

?? 

BR




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Re: Project Browser Goes Blank - How To Refresh

[Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode]

Navigator..I have it… 5.5 alpha 1?

Is that the latest?

PB: It happened midst of "group whacking" 

But more often I close stack -- its blank after that. 

I shall try for recipe…

Mike Kerner 

You could also use Navigator
a) System
b) What are you doing when it goes blank?  I've had it happen on a Mac when
I'm in the midst of group whacking.

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RE: Inclusions for database access?

[Ralph DiMola via use-livecode]

I take it you included MySQL. Maybe Andre's library need some other inclusion 
like XML or json?

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
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From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of 
William Prothero via use-livecode
Sent: Saturday, April 07, 2018 7:57 PM
To: Use-livecode Use-livecode
Cc: William Prothero
Subject: Inclusions for database access?

Folks:
I’m accessing a mysql database using Andre Garza’s software, and it works 
perfectly in the IDE. (LC9.0.0, Mac OSX 10.13.3).

However, when I build a standalone, the call just seems to hang and nothing is 
returned.

I am assuming that I’m making some mistake with inclusions? What might I be 
doing wrong that is triggered in the standalone, but not the IDE? I’ve included 
everything in the inclusions list that seems related to internet actions.

Any suggestions would much appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill

I don’t expect that the code needs debugging, as it works fine, but just to 
make sure it’s clear what I’m doing, my code is:
-

function getAppSettings

put "In getAppSettings" after fld "status"

put 
"http://earthexplorer.earthlearningsolutions.org/scgi-bin/wpserver.php; into 
tConfigA["url"]

put "ADBDDFCFBDBBDDCCFFACGHDEEDCC" into tConfigA["encryption_key"] 
// Encryption Key

dbSetDefaultConnectionConfiguration tConfigA

put "Earth Explorer D3" into tAppName

dbWhere "appName", tAppName

put dbGet("app_settings") into pDataA

if pDataA["data"] = "" then

return "DbError: -- "

exit getAppSettings

end if

return pDataA["data"]

end getAppSettings

--


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Inclusions for database access?

[William Prothero via use-livecode]

Folks:
I’m accessing a mysql database using Andre Garza’s software, and it works 
perfectly in the IDE. (LC9.0.0, Mac OSX 10.13.3).

However, when I build a standalone, the call just seems to hang and nothing is 
returned.

I am assuming that I’m making some mistake with inclusions? What might I be 
doing wrong that is triggered in the standalone, but not the IDE? I’ve included 
everything in the inclusions list that seems related to internet actions.

Any suggestions would much appreciated.
Thanks,
Bill

I don’t expect that the code needs debugging, as it works fine, but just to 
make sure it’s clear what I’m doing, my code is:
-

function getAppSettings

put "In getAppSettings" after fld "status"

put 
"http://earthexplorer.earthlearningsolutions.org/scgi-bin/wpserver.php; into 
tConfigA["url"]

put "ADBDDFCFBDBBDDCCFFACGHDEEDCC" into tConfigA["encryption_key"] 
// Encryption Key

dbSetDefaultConnectionConfiguration tConfigA

put "Earth Explorer D3" into tAppName

dbWhere "appName", tAppName

put dbGet("app_settings") into pDataA

if pDataA["data"] = "" then

return "DbError: -- "

exit getAppSettings

end if

return pDataA["data"]

end getAppSettings

--


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http://earthlearningsolutions.org

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Re: Can't seem to build standalone in LC9.0.0

[William Prothero via use-livecode]

Panos:
That fixed it. Hmm… It seems like there are a lot more interactions between the 
IDE and the project, though. I haven’t decided yet if this is a good thing, or 
if it doesn’t matter.
Bill

> On Apr 6, 2018, at 11:06 PM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> In the error msg I saw a reference to "openstack". In LC 9 (started in RC-1
> I *think*) we no longer lock messages when building a standalone. This was
> necessary to fix other problems and it is mentioned in the 9.0.0 Release
> Notes under the section "Breaking Changes".
> 
> So I wild guess is that you get that error because when building the
> standalone one of these stacks receives the "openstack" message, and does
> things that should not be done while building a standalone. If this is the
> case, you can add this in the (pre)openstack handlers of your stacks:
> 
> on openstack
>   if the mode of stack "revStandaloneProgress" > 0 then
> exit openstack
>   end if
>  ..
>  ..
> end openstack
> 
> The same applies to "(pre)opencard", "closeStack".
> 
> Please let us know if this fixes the problem.
> 
> Best,
> Panos
> --
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Re: Widget User Defined Properties

[Brian Milby via use-livecode]

Take a look at the code for the switchbutton. It does use
backgroundcolor/hilitecolor/bordercolor but does not define a variable or
handler to get/set.
On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 5:58 PM Ralph DiMola via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I created a property called backgroundColor in a widget on the Colors pane
> figuring that it would be nice to have the LCS editor color it. Opened up
> the property inspector of the widget and it's there. The first time I
> change the property via script the property inspector the Colors pane gets
> completely whacked out. The other panes are OK. I changed the name of the
> property to backgroundColorUp and everything was OK. Is there a limitation
> that user defined widget properties can't be the name of any existing
> "built in" LCS recognized property?
>
> Ralph DiMola
> IT Director
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> rdim...@evergreeninfo.net
>
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Widget User Defined Properties

[Ralph DiMola via use-livecode]

I created a property called backgroundColor in a widget on the Colors pane 
figuring that it would be nice to have the LCS editor color it. Opened up the 
property inspector of the widget and it's there. The first time I change the 
property via script the property inspector the Colors pane gets completely 
whacked out. The other panes are OK. I changed the name of the property to 
backgroundColorUp and everything was OK. Is there a limitation that user 
defined widget properties can't be the name of any existing "built in" LCS 
recognized property?

Ralph DiMola
IT Director
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Re: RevMail - Status in 9,0

[Brian Milby via use-livecode]

In earlier versions the common library did not make it to mobile. revMail
was internally handled by mobileComposeMail (effectively anyway). Now, the
common library makes it to mobile.

The above code should still work, but should call the mail app to send the
mail instead of doing it inside the app. I would suggest using the
“mobileComposeMail” call instead. You just need to reorder the parameters
slightly. It works for both iOS and Android. If your app is also desktop
you would need to check first.

I’ll need to get my environment set up to actually test though (had to look
at the code on a PC for now).

Looking at the dictionary, we probably should put a check in the revMail
call to pass on mobile or change the dictionary entry to refer to the
mobile specific version.
On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 3:11 PM Brian Milby  wrote:

> Yes, there was a change. I’ll have to wait until I can look at the code.
> It is in the common library.
> On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 1:21 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
>  wrote:
>
>> This was working in Standalones for iOS and Android in all versions < 8.*
>>
>> on sendFeedBack
>> revMail "sivas...@hindu.org",,"SivaSiva App Feedback",\
>> ("Bug reports: " & cr & cr & "Describe what you did: " & cr  & "What
>> happened: " & cr  & "What you expected to happen: " & cr   &
>> "Feature requests: Describe your idea in as much detail as possible." 
>> &"Thank you.")
>> end sendFeedBack
>>
>> But in apps made with SA - 9.0  it no longer works.
>>
>> I check the inclusions, to see if it was externalized, but "nada"
>>
>> Nothing changed in the dictionary…
>> How to get revMail back ?
>>
>> BR
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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Re: Project Browser Goes Blank - How To Refresh

[Mike Kerner via use-livecode]

You could also use Navigator
a) System
b) What are you doing when it goes blank?  I've had it happen on a Mac when
I'm in the midst of group whacking.

On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via
use-livecode  wrote:

> 9.0 gm
>
> Project browser always goes "blank"
>
> it there keystroke to refresh it?
> Sometime it requires a reboot… will not refresh, even from the menu.
>
> revApplicationOverview , OTHO, always works…
>
> so I switch to that until I have to reboot…
>
> BR
>
>
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Re: RevMail - Status in 9,0

[Brian Milby via use-livecode]

Yes, there was a change. I’ll have to wait until I can look at the code. It
is in the common library.
On Sat, Apr 7, 2018 at 1:21 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> This was working in Standalones for iOS and Android in all versions < 8.*
>
> on sendFeedBack
> revMail "sivas...@hindu.org",,"SivaSiva App Feedback",\
> ("Bug reports: " & cr & cr & "Describe what you did: " & cr  & "What
> happened: " & cr  & "What you expected to happen: " & cr   &
> "Feature requests: Describe your idea in as much detail as possible." 
> &"Thank you.")
> end sendFeedBack
>
> But in apps made with SA - 9.0  it no longer works.
>
> I check the inclusions, to see if it was externalized, but "nada"
>
> Nothing changed in the dictionary…
> How to get revMail back ?
>
> BR
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0

[Jerry Jensen via use-livecode]

Yes, my slow download was via the auto updater.
.Jerry

> On Apr 7, 2018, at 12:15 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the update Ron. I confirm the auto updater is slower compared to
> a direct download from the downloads page. I'll file a bug so as we
> investigate further.


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RevMail - Status in 9,0

[Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode]

This was working in Standalones for iOS and Android in all versions < 8.*

on sendFeedBack
revMail "sivas...@hindu.org",,"SivaSiva App Feedback",\
("Bug reports: " & cr & cr & "Describe what you did: " & cr  & "What 
happened: " & cr  & "What you expected to happen: " & cr   & "Feature 
requests: Describe your idea in as much detail as possible."  &"Thank you.")
end sendFeedBack

But in apps made with SA - 9.0  it no longer works.

I check the inclusions, to see if it was externalized, but "nada"

Nothing changed in the dictionary…
How to get revMail back ?

BR






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Project Browser Goes Blank - How To Refresh

[Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode]

9.0 gm

Project browser always goes "blank"

it there keystroke to refresh it?
Sometime it requires a reboot… will not refresh, even from the menu.

revApplicationOverview , OTHO, always works…

so I switch to that until I have to reboot…

BR



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Re: Can't seem to build standalone in LC9.0.0

[prothero--- via use-livecode]

Pianos,
Thanks for the hint. I’m busy this morning, but will try your fix this 
afternoon and get back.
Best,
Bill

William Prothero
http://earthlearningsolutions.org

> On Apr 6, 2018, at 11:06 PM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> Hi Bill,
> 
> In the error msg I saw a reference to "openstack". In LC 9 (started in RC-1
> I *think*) we no longer lock messages when building a standalone. This was
> necessary to fix other problems and it is mentioned in the 9.0.0 Release
> Notes under the section "Breaking Changes".
> 
> So I wild guess is that you get that error because when building the
> standalone one of these stacks receives the "openstack" message, and does
> things that should not be done while building a standalone. If this is the
> case, you can add this in the (pre)openstack handlers of your stacks:
> 
> on openstack
>   if the mode of stack "revStandaloneProgress" > 0 then
> exit openstack
>   end if
>  ..
>  ..
> end openstack
> 
> The same applies to "(pre)opencard", "closeStack".
> 
> Please let us know if this fixes the problem.
> 
> Best,
> Panos
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Re: Text to Speech

[Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode]

I know: I nearly split my sides laughing at 'Fiona', who sounds like, 
one assumes,

some engineer in California's stereotype.

Richmond.

On 7/4/2018 5:10 pm, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote:

Hi Richmond,

You need to download some of the newer voices.
Try Veena from India, Fiona - a Scottish voice,
and Moira from Ireland.  There are a ton of them
out there now. Some are still better than others,
but a few are quite convincing!

Have fun!

Rick


On Apr 7, 2018, at 4:03 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode 
 wrote:

as far as I can work out,
text-to-speech on Macintosh doesn't seem to have improved much since my kids 
and I were
fooling around with it in Jeddah, KSA, in 1996, with Mac OS 8.1).

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Re: Text to Speech

[Rick Harrison via use-livecode]

Hi Richmond,

You need to download some of the newer voices.
Try Veena from India, Fiona - a Scottish voice,
and Moira from Ireland.  There are a ton of them
out there now. Some are still better than others,
but a few are quite convincing!

Have fun!

Rick

> On Apr 7, 2018, at 4:03 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode 
>  wrote:
> 
> as far as I can work out,
> text-to-speech on Macintosh doesn't seem to have improved much since my kids 
> and I were
> fooling around with it in Jeddah, KSA, in 1996, with Mac OS 8.1).

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Re: Text to Speech

[Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode]

Looking up revSpeak in the 8.1.9 Dictionary I found several things of 
interest:


NOT for Linux.

Works just fine (albeit a bit slowly) on my Polycarbonate iMac running 
Mac OS 10.7.5


on mouseUp
  revSpeak fld "ff"
end mouseUp

HOWEVER: this seems to presuppose text-to-speech IS installed in the OS 
. . .


SO: revSpeak does NOT seem to be a self-contained system, but one that
leverages whatever the underlying OS has to offer.

[I could be wrong here; so, if 'the usual mavens' (Klaus ?) could 
confirm/contradict, that would be useful]


When I set up a listField "VOX" (Hey, dead original or what?)

and issued this command:

put revSpeechVoices() into fld "VOX"

the list coincided EXACTLY with the voices I had installed in my 
Operating System.


When I set the fld "ff" contents to 'fishfingers' the speech made a 
'right hash' of things,
but did rather better with 'eat my socks': so you will find that the 
capacity of revSpeak is
as good or as crappy as the underlying speech synthesiser (and, as far 
as I can work out,
text-to-speech on Macintosh doesn't seem to have improved much since my 
kids and I were

fooling around with it in Jeddah, KSA, in 1996, with Mac OS 8.1).

If one makes the "mistake" of doing a search for revSpeak in the 
dictionary one
misses all sorts of useful stuff that DOES turn up if one searches for 
Speech.


NOT knowing much about Windows, I don't know if a text-to-speech 
capability is automatically installed
during a "plain vanilla" install: if it isn't, one has to consider 
carefully about issuing standalones

for Windows that leverage this capability.

Richmond.

On 7/4/2018 1:45 am, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote:

Folks:
I’m wondering if there is any text to speech capability in livecode. There are 
references to it when I do a Google search, but I don’t get any sound when I do:

   on mouseUp
 revSpeak "Hello, How are you?"
 end mouseUp

I don’t get any sound.

I would want to use it for more than a simple alert. Is this practical?

Best,
Bill

William A. Prothero
http://earthlearningsolutions.org

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Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0

[Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode]

I'm sorry, I missed the point about using LiveCode's built-in upgrade 
download capacity when

I reported that it took me about 3 minutes to download LC 9.0.

The reason I missed the point was that I have used the in-built upgrade 
system exactly once (on a Mac)
and the whole thing was such a negative experience (slow and giving me a 
slight feeling I wasn't in control)
that I have always downloaded versions via the download page through 
Firefox.


The time I used the in-built upgrade system was a few years ago: and 
coupled with the odd situation
that versions such as the 9.0 DP series offered me the opportunity to 
"update" to some of the 8.1 series,
the result was that the in-built upgrade system has not been in the 
"forefront of my consciousness"

for a considerable time.

Richmond.

On 7/4/2018 6:12 am, Ron Metzker via use-livecode wrote:

Hi Panos,

I updated my two Macs today with LiveCode 9.0.0. Unfortunately I also had a 
very slow download on both. I have a very fast internet connection. I dowloaded 
them from within LiveCode by doing an update.

After I had downloaded them, I tried to see what the problem was. I did a test 
on my internet. It was at the correct speed in the test. So I went to the 
LiveCode download page and downloaded both the Indy and the Business dmg from 
the site at the same time. It took only a couple of minutes. So the slowness of 
the download appears to caused by using the LiveCode download stack. It was 
probably 20 to 30 times slower than using the download page.

Best Regards,
Ron


On Apr 4, 2018, at 10:51 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode 
 wrote:

@Peter
One more thing to try before filing a bug report:

1. Clear Prefs again
2. Open LC, you should see the revFileAssociation dialog ("LiveCode files
are not currently associated with this version. Would you like to make this
association?")
3. Choose "Yes"

Does the splash screen close after that?

BTW if you want to close this stack manually, you can try that:

- type in the msg box "close the mousestack" but do NOT press Enter
- place the cursor on the splash stack
- press enter

I am wondering if an error occurs on startup, so LC stops execution, and
the line of code in the IDE startup scripts that closes this stack is never
reached.

@Richard
Thanks for the update, I'll pass it to the team. I know we had at least
another 3 users in your area that suffered from very slow download speeds.
Network issues are hard to diagnose :)

Best,
Panos
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On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 6:35 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:


@Peter Bogdanoff bogdanoff:

Yesterday it took me 3-4 hours to download LC 9. I’m in California.

Good to know I'm not the only one.  Thanks.


@Panos:

Do you still experience slow download speed? I had no problem
yesterday from my home internet connection

Thanks for asking. Yes, and it's been the darndest thing.  Not even my ISP
could explain it.  It's been this way for more than a week, and persists
this morning, even across multiple computers.

I was able to find a workaround that demonstrates that it's not the
livecode.com server per se:  I shelled into one of my VPSes in New Jersey
and used wget to download the builds I needed - each took less than a
minute there.  Then I copied them to my web folder, and on my local machine
downloaded from that VPS - at normal speed.

So to summarize what I've learned thus far:

- It's not my computer: all computers here show this slow download

- It's not your server: I can download from it to another computer
  in a different geographic region with no delay.

- It's not my local network setup: Peter has the same issue, and
  downloading from my VPS is speedy.

Given all this, my wild guess would be that this is something related to
the CDN you're using (Cloudflare?), affecting only southern California, or
maybe even more limited than that since Peter and I are less than about 20
miles from one another.

While Cloudflare's status page shows the Los Angeles area to be
"Operational", a quick search at Google turned up a few discussions about
issues in my area, the most recent I stumbled across being just 22 hours
ago.

The bigger mystery is that this has persisted as long as it has.  Most
CDNs are super on top of things, and a multi-day issue is rare.

At least I have a workaround for now, and if I learn anything more I'll
pass it along.  In the meantime, if you hear of anything with your CDN it
may be helpful to share.

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Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0

[panagiotis merakos via use-livecode]

Thanks for the update Ron. I confirm the auto updater is slower compared to
a direct download from the downloads page. I'll file a bug so as we
investigate further.

Best,
Panos

On Sat, Apr 7, 2018, 04:12 Ron Metzker  wrote:

> Hi Panos,
>
> I updated my two Macs today with LiveCode 9.0.0. Unfortunately I also had
> a very slow download on both. I have a very fast internet connection. I
> dowloaded them from within LiveCode by doing an update.
>
> After I had downloaded them, I tried to see what the problem was. I did a
> test on my internet. It was at the correct speed in the test. So I went to
> the LiveCode download page and downloaded both the Indy and the Business
> dmg from the site at the same time. It took only a couple of minutes. So
> the slowness of the download appears to caused by using the LiveCode
> download stack. It was probably 20 to 30 times slower than using the
> download page.
>
> Best Regards,
> Ron
>
> > On Apr 4, 2018, at 10:51 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode <
> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> > @Peter
> > One more thing to try before filing a bug report:
> >
> > 1. Clear Prefs again
> > 2. Open LC, you should see the revFileAssociation dialog ("LiveCode files
> > are not currently associated with this version. Would you like to make
> this
> > association?")
> > 3. Choose "Yes"
> >
> > Does the splash screen close after that?
> >
> > BTW if you want to close this stack manually, you can try that:
> >
> > - type in the msg box "close the mousestack" but do NOT press Enter
> > - place the cursor on the splash stack
> > - press enter
> >
> > I am wondering if an error occurs on startup, so LC stops execution, and
> > the line of code in the IDE startup scripts that closes this stack is
> never
> > reached.
> >
> > @Richard
> > Thanks for the update, I'll pass it to the team. I know we had at least
> > another 3 users in your area that suffered from very slow download
> speeds.
> > Network issues are hard to diagnose :)
> >
> > Best,
> > Panos
> > --
> >
> > On Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 6:35 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> >> @Peter Bogdanoff bogdanoff:
> >>> Yesterday it took me 3-4 hours to download LC 9. I’m in California.
> >>
> >> Good to know I'm not the only one.  Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >> @Panos:
> >>> Do you still experience slow download speed? I had no problem
> >>> yesterday from my home internet connection
> >>
> >> Thanks for asking. Yes, and it's been the darndest thing.  Not even my
> ISP
> >> could explain it.  It's been this way for more than a week, and persists
> >> this morning, even across multiple computers.
> >>
> >> I was able to find a workaround that demonstrates that it's not the
> >> livecode.com server per se:  I shelled into one of my VPSes in New
> Jersey
> >> and used wget to download the builds I needed - each took less than a
> >> minute there.  Then I copied them to my web folder, and on my local
> machine
> >> downloaded from that VPS - at normal speed.
> >>
> >> So to summarize what I've learned thus far:
> >>
> >> - It's not my computer: all computers here show this slow download
> >>
> >> - It's not your server: I can download from it to another computer
> >>  in a different geographic region with no delay.
> >>
> >> - It's not my local network setup: Peter has the same issue, and
> >>  downloading from my VPS is speedy.
> >>
> >> Given all this, my wild guess would be that this is something related to
> >> the CDN you're using (Cloudflare?), affecting only southern California,
> or
> >> maybe even more limited than that since Peter and I are less than about
> 20
> >> miles from one another.
> >>
> >> While Cloudflare's status page shows the Los Angeles area to be
> >> "Operational", a quick search at Google turned up a few discussions
> about
> >> issues in my area, the most recent I stumbled across being just 22 hours
> >> ago.
> >>
> >> The bigger mystery is that this has persisted as long as it has.  Most
> >> CDNs are super on top of things, and a multi-day issue is rare.
> >>
> >> At least I have a workaround for now, and if I learn anything more I'll
> >> pass it along.  In the meantime, if you hear of anything with your CDN
> it
> >> may be helpful to share.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Richard Gaskin
> >> Fourth World Systems
> >> Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
> >> 
> >> ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com
> >>
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Re: Can't seem to build standalone in LC9.0.0

[panagiotis merakos via use-livecode]

Hi Bill,

In the error msg I saw a reference to "openstack". In LC 9 (started in RC-1
I *think*) we no longer lock messages when building a standalone. This was
necessary to fix other problems and it is mentioned in the 9.0.0 Release
Notes under the section "Breaking Changes".

So I wild guess is that you get that error because when building the
standalone one of these stacks receives the "openstack" message, and does
things that should not be done while building a standalone. If this is the
case, you can add this in the (pre)openstack handlers of your stacks:

on openstack
   if the mode of stack "revStandaloneProgress" > 0 then
 exit openstack
   end if
  ..
  ..
end openstack

The same applies to "(pre)opencard", "closeStack".

Please let us know if this fixes the problem.

Best,
Panos
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