Re: Go to card has become slow

Earlier I wrote: > Bob Sneidar wrote: > > >> On Apr 8, 2020, at 11:16 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> > >> Better still, see the last comment on that page. :) > >> > >> It kinda fits Brian's observation about how the stack file is > >> written in a series of small writes, one per object. > >

Re: Apps to fight COVID-19

Hi, David! Hi, Mark! Hi, Everybody! There are several teams that need help in a variety of ways. Several teams are in the TCN Coalition . These teams respect privacy and use the TCN Protocol. COVID Watch is there with help from around the world, but with a USA focu

Livecode and AWS Sql

Any trick to connecting to an AWS Sql instance? I am using some of my old scripts that always hooked up properly to a local Sql server. Wondering if I might be a trick for AWS or heck, my method might be old and there is a better way to do it. *put revOpenDatabase("ODBC","DRIVER=SQL Server;SERVE

Re: File paths truncated

On 4/9/20 5:41 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: It seems I'm running into obstacles at every turn. A scripted file path to set an image reference will not work unless it is relative. This fails: specialFolderPath("resources") & "/folder/file" It has to be "folder/file". The property

File paths truncated

It seems I'm running into obstacles at every turn. A scripted file path to set an image reference will not work unless it is relative. This fails: specialFolderPath("resources") & "/folder/file" It has to be "folder/file". The property inspector truncates it automatically if you use its file p

Re: Video format for mobile

Only H.264/AAC is acceptable! Have you tried setting hardware acceleration rendering to be on? Have you tried including a small video file in the app, to help rule out security issues? > On Apr 9, 2020, at 4:10 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 4/9/20 3:41 PM, Colin Holgat

Re: Video format for mobile

On 4/9/20 3:41 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote: A long time ago it was possible to work around hardware acceleration issues by playing the video at a different size. That is, a 1920x1080 playback would fail and a 1920x1081 would work. It was just a trick to force the player to use sof

Re: Video format for mobile

The videos are, in fact, 1920x1080. I set the size of both the widget or the mobile scripted browser (whichever I was testing) to the card size but it still didn't play. Wish it worked, it would have been a nice trick. On 4/9/20 3:41 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote: A long time ago it

Re: Video format for mobile

My test stack didn't set accelerated rendering at all, so I think there's more to it than that. On 4/9/20 3:36 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: This sounds like a bug we are currently fixing (hopefully in time for 9.6-DP-4) - the android player doesn’t currently play nicely with acc

Re: Old Fossil seeks fast track assistance

Curry that’s a wonderful idea. However you need to get well. Perhaps I can find someone to help me in the way you say. I am getting very used to Zoom and other similar tools as I’m isolation myself and I’m doing a lot of visual communication. Keep safe Best wishes Graham > On 9 Apr 2020, at

mobileControlGet and htmlText

Greetings! Is it possible to get the htmlText (the content of the current HTML document) of a native browser? On desktop, I can do this easily with: revBrowserGet(tBrowserId,"htmlText"). Is there a mobile equivalent? -Dan ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Video format for mobile

A long time ago it was possible to work around hardware acceleration issues by playing the video at a different size. That is, a 1920x1080 playback would fail and a 1920x1081 would work. It was just a trick to force the player to use software instead of hardware. > On Apr 9, 2020, at 2:36 PM,

Re: Video format for mobile

This sounds like a bug we are currently fixing (hopefully in time for 9.6-DP-4) - the android player doesn’t currently play nicely with accelerated rendering... Turning that off should mean things play properly. We use the system player object so MP4 should be fine. Warmest Regards, Mark. Sen

Re: Video format for mobile

I tried the browser widget: no audio, no video, white screen, no browser outline on Android. I tried a mobile browser (mobileControlCreate): audio plays, no video, white screen. So yeah, it looks like there's no codec. The widget on desktop doesn't play it either. If I ask the client to re-do

Re: Old Fossil seeks fast track assistance

Howdy Graham, This particular problem is ideally suited to a screen-sharing video conference tutoring session, talking you through the process and solving obstacles while you are hands-on. That could get you running in minutes to a couple of hours, rather than days to weeks. I would normal

Re: Video format for mobile

hmmm.i'm going to do some testing on this to try to nail down the details on this. Visiting this page in the browser gives a lot of info. https://tools.woolyss.com/html5-audio-video-tester/ I've never used the built in player maybe it uses the OS's installed codecs? On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at

Re: Video format for mobile

> Am 09.04.2020 um 21:04 schrieb Tom Glod via use-livecode > : > > i am not sure of the difference between the codec your files used ...and > the YT live codec but surely there is one. QT Player info gave me h264 as the video codec. -- Klaus Major https://www.major-k.de kl...@major-k.de

Re: Video format for mobile

i am not sure of the difference between the codec your files used ...and the YT live codec but surely there is one. On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 3:03 PM Tom Glod wrote: > YT uses different codecs for 'live' and uploaded videos. After a period > of time, the re-encode the live videos as archived v

Re: Video format for mobile

YT uses different codecs for 'live' and uploaded videos. After a period of time, the re-encode the live videos as archived videos and then they can be viewed normally like you say. Indeed, I play youtube videos all the time in my toolbox that runs the cef browser widget. but ya. nothing l

Re: Video format for mobile

Hi Tom, > Am 09.04.2020 um 20:49 schrieb Tom Glod via use-livecode > : > > Hi Klaus, > > My experience with this issue was trying to view "youtube live" using the > browser widget, which uses h264...its how I found out that CEF needs to be > built with "-proprietary codec" flag in order to be a

Re: Old Fossil seeks fast track assistance

Graham, Not really visualizing what you’re seeing. When you choose Xcode from your LiveCode mobile support preference pane, all you should have to do is navigate to Xcode using the Add Entry button, choose Xcode, and the square next to the iOS section should turn green. If you see the green squ

Re: Video format for mobile

Hi Klaus, My experience with this issue was trying to view "youtube live" using the browser widget, which uses h264...its how I found out that CEF needs to be built with "-proprietary codec" flag in order to be able to play h264 videos from youtube or vimeo. It would make sense that its the same

Re: Video format for mobile

Nope. AAC is lossy but better than MP3. You may be thinking of ALAC - Apple Lossless Audio Codec. Just to add to the confusion, here’s a clip from a good Wikipedia article: "Apple Lossless data is frequently stored within an MP4 container with the filename extension .m4a. This extension is also

Re: Another Apple iOS Deadline

This IS for parity. When Apple announced this at WWDC last year, the pitch was that IF you chose to allow Google or Facebook signin THEN you had to add Apple signin on the top of the other two logos. If you didn’t have any preferential signin then you didn’t need to change anything. As a user, I

Re: Video format for mobile

Hi Tom, > Am 09.04.2020 um 20:34 schrieb Tom Glod via use-livecode > : > > Hi Richard, thats exactly what they did. > > Now if only would could get a LC and CEF build with that. Do you think it > would be a lot of work to add the codec to LC player and a build of CEF to > go with it? the x264

Re: Video format for mobile

Hi Richard, thats exactly what they did. Now if only would could get a LC and CEF build with that. Do you think it would be a lot of work to add the codec to LC player and a build of CEF to go with it? I got the licensing documents 2 years ago from MPEG-LA.. and had I started to read them the

Re: Another Apple iOS Deadline

Don´t remind me to that.. If such thing ever happens again i will stop developing for iOS. And if Apple ever cancels the possibility to publish outside of the Mac Appstore then i will stop developing for Mac. I mainly develop for Windows, but as i am developing on a Mac i used the opportunity

Re: Hide stack change focus not supported 64bit

Just to let everyone know I got it working and it is working great. Thanks, Bill > On Apr 3, 2020, at 3:59 PM, Bill Vlahos via use-livecode > wrote: > > Bob, > > What file(s) do I need to add? > > When I try adding to Stack Properties it won’t let me select macOStools.lcb. > > I can add oth

Re: Video format for mobile

Tom Glod wrote: > There is cisco's openh264 codec which they open sourced. So that is a > potential solution that would have to include the livecode team. > > https://github.com/cisco/openh264 Super-cool, Tom. Thanks for posting that. It's an impressive work, both technically for its breadth of

Re: Another Apple iOS Deadline

Matthias Rebbe wrote: > So let us keep our fingers crossed that Apple does not change the > exceptions. The debacle around iOS SDK v4.0 Section 3.3.1 in 2010 reminds us to remain wary of such things at all times... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for t

Re: Another Apple iOS Deadline

> Am 09.04.2020 um 20:10 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > : > > On 4/9/20 11:52 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: >> But fortunately the guidelines make exceptions: >> Sign in with Apple is not required if: >> Your app exclusively uses your company’s own account setup and sig

Re: Another Apple iOS Deadline

This is for parity... if you allow Facebook or Google federated authentication then you need to add Apple as an option. Thanks, Brian On Apr 9, 2020, 2:10 PM -0400, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode , wrote: > On 4/9/20 11:52 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: > > But fortunately the guide

Re: Another Apple iOS Deadline

On 4/9/20 11:52 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: But fortunately the guidelines make exceptions: Sign in with Apple is not required if: Your app exclusively uses your company’s own account setup and sign-in systems. Thank God. I almost had a heart attack. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: Video format for mobile

Hi Jaques, > Am 09.04.2020 um 20:03 schrieb J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > : > > On 4/9/20 9:53 AM, Bryan Anderson via use-livecode wrote: >> The .mp4 file spec allows for 3 different audio formats. AAC, MPEG1-Layer1 >> and MPEG1-Layer2. AAC is by far the most often used audio codec. >> I ju

Re: Mobile screen sizes - another naive question

On 4/9/20 11:47 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Graham Samuel wrote: > Folks, yet again I don’t know where to look for an answer in the LC > documentation. > > The issue is the enormous variety of screen sizes on smart phones. For > example the iPhone XS Max has 1242 pixels width

Re: Video format for mobile

There is cisco's openh264 codec which they open sourced. So that is a potential solution that would have to include the livecode team. https://github.com/cisco/openh264 On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 2:04 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 4/9/20 9:53 AM, Br

Re: Video format for mobile

On 4/9/20 9:53 AM, Bryan Anderson via use-livecode wrote: The .mp4 file spec allows for 3 different audio formats. AAC, MPEG1-Layer1 and MPEG1-Layer2. AAC is by far the most often used audio codec. I just made a quick video using each audio codec, and the only one that plays audio in LC is the

Re: Video format for mobile

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news here. :( if its h264 the browser widget won't play it. If you saw video but no audio then thats one thing.but no video means the video codec is also absent. On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 1:57 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>

Re: Video format for mobile

They're kind of huge (like 400 MB) so I didn't copy them to my phone, but they play okay on Mac using Firefox and on Android using Chrome browser. I guess that doesn't tell us much. Swami suggested to me privately that he uses a browser widget to play videos so I will try that next. On 4/9/20

Re: Another Apple iOS Deadline

https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ - Matthias Rebbe Life Is Too Short For Boring Code > Am 09.04.2020 um 18:51 schrieb Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > : > > Ralph DiMola wrote: > > From App developer email I just received: > > > > Please note that all apps that authentic

Re: Another Apple iOS Deadline

I was briefly shocked when i read your post. I am currently developing a service app, which allows to authenticate using already existing online shop login data. That login data is used not only for the online shop, but also to authenticate to webservices to download price data, fetch shipmen

Re: Another Apple iOS Deadline

Ralph DiMola wrote: From App developer email I just received: > > Please note that all apps that authenticate or set up user accounts > must support Sign in with Apple if required by guideline 4.8 of the > App Store Review Guidelines. New apps must follow guideline 4.8 and > Human Interface Guide

Re: Mobile screen sizes - another naive question

Graham Samuel wrote: > Folks, yet again I don’t know where to look for an answer in the LC > documentation. > > The issue is the enormous variety of screen sizes on smart phones. For > example the iPhone XS Max has 1242 pixels width, the iPhone 5 has 640. > And there are many many more before we

Another Apple iOS Deadline

>From App developer email I just received: Please note that all apps that authenticate or set up user accounts must support Sign in with Apple if required by guideline 4.8 of the App Store Review Guidelines. New apps must follow guideline 4.8 and Human Interface Guidelines on Sign in with Apple st

Re: [OT] Banks, Governments looking for COBOL programmers

Martin Koob wrote: ... > Just an OT comment with a tangential link to LiveCode. ... > "People who are conversant in terse languages, like C, do not like > COBOL because it's very wordy. You say things out in plain English > sentences and before you even get down to doing anything you have > to des

Re: Go to card has become slow

Bob Sneidar wrote: >> On Apr 8, 2020, at 11:16 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> Better still, see the last comment on that page. :) >> >> It kinda fits Brian's observation about how the stack file is >> written in a series of small writes, one per object. > > Yes, but I have saved stacks with both

[OT] Banks, Governments looking for COBOL programmers

Hi all Just an OT comment with a tangential link to LiveCode. At the end of the community zoom session there was a comment about old programming languages and I had made a comment that Canadian banks are still looking for FORTRAN programmers. I was wrong it is COBOL programmers. I found a

Mobile screen sizes - another naive question

Folks, yet again I don’t know where to look for an answer in the LC documentation. The issue is the enormous variety of screen sizes on smart phones. For example the iPhone XS Max has 1242 pixels width, the iPhone 5 has 640. And there are many many more before we even get to tablets… The quest

Re: Video format for mobile

Hi all, > Am 09.04.2020 um 16:53 schrieb Bryan Anderson via use-livecode > : > > The .mp4 file spec allows for 3 different audio formats. AAC, MPEG1-Layer1 > and MPEG1-Layer2. AAC is by far the most often used audio codec. yes, even my (not so smart) TV can play MP4 with AAc directly from an U

Re: Go to card has become slow

Are we saying we can use binFile to save stacks as opposed to the normal way? With no side effects?? Bob S > On Apr 8, 2020, at 7:04 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > >> put url ("binfile:"&fName) into tData >> put the long seconds into t >> put tData into url ("binfile:"& fName) >> put the lo

Re: Old Fossil seeks fast track assistance

Devin. I was too optimistic in thinking things would now go smoothly! I would very much appreciated your advice on the following: Following your advice to your students, I have downloaded and installed the latest XCode I can use on my Mac, which is 10.1. I have set the mobile preferences of my

Re: Video format for mobile

The .mp4 file spec allows for 3 different audio formats. AAC, MPEG1-Layer1 and MPEG1-Layer2. AAC is by far the most often used audio codec. I just made a quick video using each audio codec, and the only one that plays audio in LC is the AAC version (MacOS, LC 9.5.0). To make sure you’re video is

Re: Video format for mobile

As I recall, it is lossless, yes? Bob S > On Apr 8, 2020, at 7:46 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi J, > AAC is Advanced Audio Compression - successor to MP3. > https://fileinfo.com/extension/aac > Hope this will help you figure out how to play it. > .Jerry _

Re: Go to card has become slow

Yes, but I have saved stacks with both Defender and Kaspersky disabled. In our case I do not think that is the entire issue. Bob S > On Apr 8, 2020, at 11:16 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Better still, see the last comment on that page. :) > > It kinda fits Brian's obser

Re: Umlauts (again) and arraytojson

On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 8:06 AM Klaus major-k via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi friends, > > this just came up in the german LC forum, obviously "arraytojson" > does not like UMLUATS in the keynames!? > > This: > -- > on mouseUp > put "eins" into tAr

Re: Video format for mobile

What happens if you play the file locally on each device? -Mark On Wed, Apr 8, 2020 at 10:22 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Not sure what you mean by "an existing app" but my test app uses > mobileControlCreate to set up > a mobile player. When it ac

Re: Umlauts (again) and arraytojson

definitely not correct. On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 9:06 AM Klaus major-k via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi friends, > > this just came up in the german LC forum, obviously "arraytojson" > does not like UMLUATS in the keynames!? > > This: > -- > on mouse

Umlauts (again) and arraytojson

Hi friends, this just came up in the german LC forum, obviously "arraytojson" does not like UMLUATS in the keynames!? This: -- on mouseUp put "eins" into tArray["äns"] put "zwei" into tArray["zwöi"] put arraytojson(tArray) end mouseUp -- gives -> {} Is

RE: Go to card has become slow

Why would saving be so much faster on a Mac than Windows when writing to the same a SMB served by a Win 10 PC? I looks like the Windows problem is at higher abstraction layer than SMB. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- F

Re: Apps to fight COVID-19

Happy to contribute as well. > On Apr 8, 2020, at 3:17 PM, David Bovill via use-livecode > wrote: > > I’d be interested in volunteering to make a Livecode app for this. Anyone > else? > On 7 Apr 2020, 00:41 +0100, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode > , wrote: >> Hi, everybody! >> >> I ap