Re: OT: Wordle

2022-01-17 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
a screenshot, but it’s too big for the list. Regardless of the other > letters I’d used up, I can’t come up with anything that makes sense. Aloe > as a verb? That’s a real stretch and not in the American Scrabble > dictionary. > > Any ideas? > Dave > > > On Jan 7, 2022

Re: OT: Wordle

2022-01-07 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
n 7, 2022, at 10:37 AM, Roger Guay via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> > >> Very nice! Thank you Ali > >> > >> Roger > >> > >>> On Jan 7, 2022, at 2:53 AM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode < > use-liv

OT: Wordle

2022-01-07 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Many of you will no doubt already be addicted to the game 'Wordle' (if not, prepare to be: https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/) - the only problem with it is that you only get one per day to solve. So I have taken the liberty of making an unlimited version (in LC of course)

Re: Smile for Christmas.

2021-12-17 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Another super-useful and relevant scrabble word is EUOUAE, one of the charmingly monikered 'vowel dumps'. Unfortunately not available in TWL so only for UK scrabble play! On Fri, 17 Dec 2021 at 14:08, Craig Newman via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I play a lot of

Re: AW: IDE performance (Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition)

2021-09-08 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
One thing to check is whether you are using a fixed width font, and if not whether you have the same performance issue with the SE when using one. On Wed, 8 Sep 2021, 18:52 Bernard Devlin via use-livecode, < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I pasted 8000 lines of text into Script Editor

Re: Help me understand infinity

2020-07-29 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
I wonder if I can persuade the team to let me add a constant for the first uncountable strongly inaccessible cardinal. Regarding use-cases, I like the following one which is implicit in the above observations about comparisons between infinity and integers. Previously I would do the following a

Re: Script Only Behaviors

2020-05-02 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
It's also mentioned in the scriptOnly property and in the script only stack entry in the glossary On Sat, 2 May 2020 at 18:48, Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 5/2/20 7:44 AM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote: > > On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 8:36 AM Mark

Re: Hijack the property inspector?

2020-04-15 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
This is possible - you would need to look at how the datagrid does it: https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/blob/develop/Toolset/resources/supporting_files/property_definitions/com.livecode.interface.classic.DataGrid.tsv Each datagrid property uses a custom getter / setter defined in the IDE

Re: Livecode unit test harness?

2019-10-03 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Actually the exec-tests folder should probably be removed - that was our initial attempt at adding a test for each syntax variant while we were doing the refactoring project. They were translated at some point into the new test format at

Re: PlayStore and Tablets

2019-06-19 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Thanks Ralph - I checked last night and it seems we can build against API level 28 without any code changes, so it's just a case of reconfiguring the builders. On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 at 19:29, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Just got this today... API 28 will

Re: View XML file in Tree View widget - worth the effort?

2019-06-04 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Not sure if it's exactly the format you're looking for but this code snippet from Trevor DeVore converts between XML and LiveCode arrays: https://gist.github.com/trevordevore/5584753 On Tue, 4 Jun 2019 at 18:57, Keith Clarke via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi folks, >

Re: Displaying or identifying emoji

2019-01-24 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
For the specific examples you have there, simply putting the strings through textDecode(, "utf-8") will give you your emoji back. On Wed, Jan 23, 2019 at 4:34 PM David V Glasgow via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > On 23 Jan 2019, at 2:15 pm, Stephen MacLean via

Re: Refactoring is your friend / moving from 6.x to 9.x

2019-01-02 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
> Is there a way to "safely" add to LC contextual menu in the script editor? Yes! It is in a script-only stack behavior of the editor field: https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/blob/develop/Toolset/palettes/script%20editor/behaviors/revseeditorbehavior.livecodescript#L1024 There is also the

Re: Standalone build workaround

2018-09-20 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Just out of interest, what sorts of things are causing problems in openStack while building a standalone that do not happen when opening stacks for the first time in the IDE? To put it another way, is it simply the re-running of openStack that is causing problems, or is something going wrong?

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.1 RC-1

2018-07-09 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
By the way, we forgot to add to the 'highlights' the fact that we have updated the target sdk of the android build to API 26, and added a fixed target SDK version to the template manifest. This should mean that apps built with 9.0.1-rc-1 will be accepted into the Google Play store without any

Re: Data in Custom properties

2018-06-22 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
It sounds like something somewhere is changing that data to a native string before being textDecoded. Try putting in some logging of the value of 'tData is strictly a binary string' to find out where it is getting stringified. On Fri, 22 Jun 2018 at 18:39, Tom Glod via use-livecode <

Re: Optimization can be tricky

2018-06-12 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Hi Geoff, One thing to try in your original code, which should be significantly faster if the array is big, is using > repeat for each key T in interestArray[uID] instead of > repeat for each line T in the keys of interestArray[uID] The latter has to allocate memory for a string containing

Re: Android API Level 26 required as of August 2018

2018-05-18 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
PR: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/6536 I've managed to lock myself out of Bugzilla, so will finish it off when I've reported a bug! But obviously the patch can be applied locally if anyone needs it urgently. On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 9:05 PM Ali Lloyd wrote: >

Re: Android API Level 26 required as of August 2018

2018-05-18 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Currently the merge only takes the maximum of the provided minimum SDK versions, which is something of an oversight. However it's an easy patch to ensure it takes the maximum of the target versions too - I will submit a PR shortly. On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 8:17 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <

Re: Telling the IDE to build a standalone under script control

2018-04-28 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
The revSaveAsStandalone stack is now script-only, and therefore no longer a substack of revStandaloneSettings. So try *send* "revSaveAsStandalone" && quote & tStackName & quote to stack "revSaveAsStandalone" On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 6:48 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <

Re: Q on Accessing multi-dimension arrays.

2018-04-27 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
• trim or clean the rough edges of (a metal casting or a piece of > pottery) before firing. > > Apparently appropriate as well. Pronounced like feddle, likely where we > get our fiddle with. And I always thought it was a reference to playing a > violin-like musical instrume

Re: Identifying IDE stacks

2018-04-27 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
That would be revIDEStackIsIDEStack On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 10:45 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > It used to be we could identify IDE stacks because their names started > with "rev" but that's not true anymore. I want to scan for and list any > open

Re: Q on Accessing multi-dimension arrays.

2018-04-27 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Which reminds me - the tree view widget should probably use the list form of a path directly instead of fettling with a path delimiter property On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 12:26 AM Alex Tweedly via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Thanks Brian, Bernd, and everyone else. > >

Re: Has Anyone Got A Directory "Walker" Available

2018-04-21 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Ah, it will throw an error - so best to use try / catch around the function calls. On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 9:13 AM Ali Lloyd wrote: > Now that we have files(pFolder), folder(pFolder) (and files(pFolder, > "detailed"), folders(pFolder, "detailed")), directory walking code

Re: Has Anyone Got A Directory "Walker" Available

2018-04-21 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Now that we have files(pFolder), folder(pFolder) (and files(pFolder, "detailed"), folders(pFolder, "detailed")), directory walking code can be improved somewhat by not having to set the current folder. Actually, I haven't checked what happens when you get files(pRestrictedFolder) On Fri, Apr 20,

Re: LCG Session Suggestions

2018-04-10 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
e > develop-8.2 branch for submitting PRs for dictionary updates. Is that still > the branch you want us to use? > > Devin > > On Apr 10, 2018, at 9:56 AM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> > wrote:

Re: LCG Session Suggestions

2018-04-10 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
I also recommend reading the docs contribution guide: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/blob/develop/docs/contributing_to_docs.md which applies more or less equally to small code changes. On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 4:07 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > My

Re: RevMail - Status in 9,0

2018-04-10 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Just looking at the code in MCKeywordsExecCommandOrFunction, it seems that there is no provision for passing to a 'global handler' (eg mobile-specific handlers or cameraControl handlers). On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 3:35 AM Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I did

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0

2018-04-03 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Besides having most people busy on getting 9.0 out, it made sense to delay 8.1.10 a little more so we could get the Xcode/iOS update in there. It's next on the agenda! On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:38 PM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > And, what about the

Re: Android Native Button

2018-04-03 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Ah yes, we need to apply this https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/6441/files to the android button as well On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 5:51 AM Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Looking at the code for the android field, it is probably a bug. In that > code

Re: Guessing game

2018-04-02 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Probably there should be an example that illustrates the use of the into clause in that way! On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 10:00 PM Ali Lloyd wrote: > Yes, or the return value of a function > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 9:39 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode < >

Re: Guessing game

2018-04-02 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Yes, or the return value of a function On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 9:39 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Would that be for properties? Save the step of putting it into a variable > first? > > On Mon, Apr 2, 2018 at 2:29 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < >

Re: Guessing game

2018-03-17 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Oops, looks like we need to escape < and > in release notes! https://raw.githubusercontent.com/livecode/livecode/develop/docs/notes/feature-create-in.md On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 8:30 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I was just reading the release notes

Re: When me is not me

2018-03-11 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
It certainly sounds like it to me... On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 at 17:05, Brian Milby <br...@milby7.com> wrote: > Ali, he was doing the former. So could this actually be a bug? > On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 6:17 AM Ali Lloyd via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>

Re: Bizarre Number Sort of Files Mac

2018-03-11 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
I think this is a relevant enhancement request: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21013 On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 5:14 AM Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > That strange dictionary entry was due to a bug in the parser. It is fixed > now (9DP11 does not

Re: When me is not me

2018-03-10 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
In theory that shouldn't be the problem - `the of me` should short-circuit to directly evaluating the property of the object with the behavior, rather than evaluating `me` as a name first. This is why `put the long id of me into tID` also works. Peter, in your original script are you doing set

Re: Android Studio how to create AVD?

2018-03-01 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
One very irritating thing about Android Studio is that you have to create a project before you can launch a simulator. So when you open Android Studio, and get the welcome dialog, just start a new project with any old settings. Once you've done that you can choose Tools > Android > AVD Manager

Re: LC 9 DP11 hangs with "Loading Libraries" on Windows 10

2018-02-27 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Ah, I have just realised this may well be caused by http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20970 You could try the workaround described there. On Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 4:11 PM Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > My guess is there is something wrong with

Re: widget properties

2018-02-25 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
You didn't misunderstand, that is (almost) exactly what I'm suggesting (once we had import/export for all objects), although I think the way set works should probably be tweaked so that we *don't* do any manual fettling - we just document that setting certain groups of properties via the

Re: widget properties

2018-02-25 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
> > > > If we have export for all object types, there's no > > reason (other than backwards compatibility) that the properties property > > couldn't return the value of every single gettable property of an object > > type. > > Yes there is. If we include all the different forms of text for example

Re: widget properties

2018-02-25 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
> > My interest this morning came from a property sheet I build some years > ago as an alternative to an inspector. There are many good reasons why > a property sheet is a much better fit for an IDE, but we can save that > for another thread. > > Another reason Kevin asked Scott Raney to add "the

Re: widget properties

2018-02-24 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Not much has changed since this question was last asked: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2015-October/219630.html The question here really is what you want to use the properties property for. It is not correct to say that the properties property is used to create the property

Re: Do script-only stacks support "chained" behaviors?

2018-01-20 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
I should clarify: say you want stack 1 to have behavior stack 2 which has behavior stack 3. In the IDE we commonly do: Stack 1: on preOpenStack dispatch "setAsBehavior" to stack "Stack 2" with the long id of me end preOpenStack Stack 2: on setAsBehavior pTarget dispatch "setAsBehavior" to

Re: Do script-only stacks support "chained" behaviors?

2018-01-20 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
There are also plenty of examples in the IDE - most of the palettes have their own specific behavior chained to the generic palette behavior. Most of them do something like the following handler: on setAsBehavior pTarget dispatch "setAsBehavior" to stack revIDEFrameBehavior() with the long id of

Re: Changes to Google Play submissions

2018-01-19 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
A quick update on these things from the tech team point of view: We have made a a start towards both these things - firstly we have identified a number of issues that need to be fixed in order to increase the target sdk version. As you say, we probably need to add target sdk version to the

Re: Do widgets support introspection?

2018-01-10 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Yep. At some point it might be good to put add a general filtering parameter. On Wed, Jan 10, 2018 at 10:50 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 01/10/2018 01:52 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote: > > revIDEExtensions gives info on al

Re: Do widgets support introspection?

2018-01-10 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
, 2018 at 9:17 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 01/10/2018 12:37 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote: > > Brian is correct, this is a temporary use of the lcdoc stuff for script > > libraries to contain info that would be cont

Re: Do widgets support introspection?

2018-01-10 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Brian is correct, this is a temporary use of the lcdoc stuff for script libraries to contain info that would be contained in its manifest. Rather than worrying about what information comes from where, it would probably be best to use the revIDEExtensions function which returns all the 'metadata'

Re: Custom properties of IDE palettes?

2018-01-09 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
I don't think they have any custom properties... at least, if they do then they don't do anything. They are script-only stacks & behaviors that generate the UI; they don't use custom props for their functionality. On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 8:40 PM Geoff Canyon via use-livecode <

Re: Free SVG icons

2018-01-03 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
There has been some work to replace the icon picker with a stack with a filter field, so once that’s in it should help quite a lot. On Tue, 2 Jan 2018 at 23:51, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > As long as we're talking about this, I'd love to see more of

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-11

2017-12-22 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Try uninstalling and reinstalling. I believe Panos ran into this in testing at some point last week but was unable to replicate On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 10:37 PM Ralph DiMola via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I was trying to replicate J Gay's Android build error I ran

Re: Could not encode class bundle

2017-12-22 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
ecurity, net, and misc. > > I'm still using the Apple-supplied java installation 1.6.0. Do I need a > different one? > > On 12/22/17 2:26 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote: > > Could you put > > > > "answer the result" > > > > before &g

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-11

2017-12-22 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Another thing you can do in this DP is hide individual widgets from the tools palette from the extension manager, should you wish. On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 8:13 PM Mike Kerner via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > cool! that'll give me more space in my tools palette for all

Re: Could not encode class bundle

2017-12-22 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Could you put "answer the result " before throw "could not encode class bundle" in the revSaveAsAndroidStandalone script? That should give us a clue as to what the error is. On Fri, Dec 22, 2017 at 7:13 PM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 12/22/17

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-11

2017-12-22 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Yes, that is indeed the intention- but we thought we’d give you the components along the way until we’ve figured out the correct API for the cross platform version and actually implemented for all platforms. The single platform versions will likely stay around in some form, probably in the

Re: TS Net Documentation

2017-12-22 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Check out /Contents/Tools/Ext/tsNet.../api.lcdoc for all the tsNet things in one file - hopefully that's roughly what you're looking for On Thu, Dec 21, 2017 at 7:37 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: > an old theme "I want a printed

Re: Map Widget Futures

2017-12-07 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 12:56 AM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > 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

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: "export snapshot" still NOT in 8.1.7

2017-11-26 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Could you explain in what way it doesn't work? Does it throw an execution error? I notice you don't specify a full path or set the defaultFolder- perhaps it is getting exported somewhere odd. (Works with macOS 10.12.6, 8.2.0 DP 2 Community) On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 6:23 PM Richmond Mathewson via

Re: Android Sound Capture in WAV format

2017-10-18 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
I think this would make a nice example for my extensions session at LiveCode Global tomorrow. Here's the link for anyone not signed up! https://livecode.com/global/ On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 4:05 PM Ali Lloyd wrote: > Hi Peter, > The Android MediaRecorder class does not

Re: Android Sound Capture in WAV format

2017-10-17 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Hi Peter, The Android MediaRecorder class does not support WAV unfortunately. There may be some third party libraries you could use to achieve this - including third party jar files will be possible once this PR is merged: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/6059 On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at

Re: mergZXing alternative

2017-10-05 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Regarding sample stacks, this is a good suggestion - I'm in the process of tweaking how 'extensions' work in the IDE, but ultimately I'd like for things like mergExt externals to show up in an externals tab of the extension manager. I think that would be a good place to be able to launch sample

Re: Segmented Control Bugs?

2017-10-03 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
.2 are > good. > On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:18 PM Ali Lloyd via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Oh, looks like the docs for the segmented control have become mangled >> somehow... perhaps a mis-merge. >> >> On Tue, Oct 3, 2017

Re: Segmented Control Bugs?

2017-10-03 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Oh, looks like the docs for the segmented control have become mangled somehow... perhaps a mis-merge. On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 8:38 PM panagiotis merakos via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi BR, > > Sorry, I should have been more clear. The "hiliteChanged" is a **message**

Re: Scrollbar control and auto complete confusion

2017-10-03 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Hi Bill, probably best in this instance to refer to the dragLeave entry in the dictionary - "Sent when the mouse pointer moves out of an object during a drag and drop." So, this is relevant to all controls including the scrollbar, but perhaps not in the way you would think immediately. PS, you

Re: (Browser) Widget documentation

2017-09-20 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
The list of extension APIs will be sorted in 9 DP 9 (Thanks to Brian!) On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:29 PM Ali Lloyd wrote: > Alternatively, right-click on the widget in question and choose 'Show > Documentation' > > On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:03 PM hh via use-livecode < >

Re: (Browser) Widget documentation

2017-09-20 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Alternatively, right-click on the widget in question and choose 'Show Documentation' On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 5:03 PM hh via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Ben R. wrote: > > General question: where can users find a reference to the supported > >

Re: Android Audio Playback & Recording

2017-09-15 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Hi All, Firstly thanks to Peter Reid for discovering that the foreign bindings in that blog post were out of date! I have updated the blog accordingly. I took the liberty of tidying up the LCB code, and adding docs and a sample stack - you can check them out here (for now)

Re: Using the property inspector

2017-09-12 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Sorry Hermann, we have been even more busy than usual the last couple of weeks, I will endeavour to answer today - in theory everything you are doing should work! On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 6:10 AM hh via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > It was not heard there, so I ask here:

Re: Debug java on Mobile Browser

2017-09-07 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
You should be able to debug native web views on device/emulator on Android using Chrome and on device/simulator on iOS using Safari... admittedly I haven't tried this with a browser widget in LC, but I've done it recently on both in another context. On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 7:06 PM Ralph DiMola via

Re: remote debugging just stopped being available.

2017-09-05 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
The date support library I think was used for the calendar widget example - I don't think it comes with the ide. You should be able to uninstall it using the extension manager, should you wish! On Tue, 5 Sep 2017 at 04:28, Terry Judd via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Bug

Re: Parent of Target

2017-08-10 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
> > Jacque recently showed me the speed difference between explicitly > writing out the element of an object reference: > >get the width of btn 1 of cd 2 of stack "MyStack" > > ...vs other forms like long IDs: > >put the long is of btn 1 of cd 2 of stack "MyStack" into t5Obj >get teh

Re: how to get the value of a custom property if the name of the cProperty is in a variable?

2017-08-02 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
A good reason to use consistent prefixes to distinguish custom props and variables perhaps. On Wed, 2 Aug 2017 at 20:56, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 10:25 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

Re: Android field widget

2017-07-26 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Rather annoyingly a last-minute change I made caused the widget to a) error on startup thereby causing its properties to fail, and b) crash when tapping the field to enter text There was some blurb about this in the release email. If you are keen to give it a try, these issues are fixed in the

Re: Bug 20117: new rc2 sets a backdrop, and preferences for same

2017-07-19 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
. how about a button on the far right of the revMenubar stack? > > Richmond. > > On 7/19/17 10:06 pm, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:58 PM Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode < > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > >> Ho

Re: Bug 20117: new rc2 sets a backdrop, and preferences for same

2017-07-19 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 5:58 PM Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > How about *offering* to put up the backdrop for the tutorial, rather than > imposing it? > Well, we were acting in direct response to a whole lot of feedback from new users who didn't seem to

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.6 RC-2

2017-07-19 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 07/18/2017 10:51 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote: > > Just out of interest, if it is not having the dictionary that makes them > > 'unusable', does it launch correctly in a browser if yo

Re: Export SVG as PNG?

2017-07-19 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
export snapshot from rect (the rect of widget 1) of widget 1 to file ( specialfolderpath("desktop") & "/test.png") as png The 'of widget 1' part is the important part - that takes the object in isolation rather than snapshotting the background of the card. On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 4:36 PM Dan

Re: Bug 20117: new rc2 sets a backdrop, and preferences for same

2017-07-19 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Do your keyboard shortcuts work Mark? You could use Ctrl+M to pop open the message box, and set the backdrop to none, then toggle it on and off via the View menu, then hopefully it should be gone from your preferences. On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 6:25 AM J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.6 RC-2

2017-07-18 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Just out of interest, if it is not having the dictionary that makes them 'unusable', does it launch correctly in a browser if you change the script of revIDEBrowserWidgetUnavailable to return true? On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:14 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.6 RC-2

2017-07-18 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
. On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 9:21 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 07/18/2017 01:06 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 6:53 PM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode < > > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.6 RC-2

2017-07-18 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 6:53 PM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Why do I get the feeling we might be having to do a vigorous 'moomin'* > on how prefs are handled in the IDE at some point soon... > Ahem:

Re: Exposing ourselves

2017-07-18 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Hi Bob! A markdown guide that goes in here https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/tree/develop/Documentation/guides would be wonderful - then it would appear in the guides section of the dictionary and also be built into the user guide PDF. Eventually, IDE APIs will be built into an IDE

Re: Widget course

2017-07-10 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Hi James, "no version found in..." refers to module metadata - add metadata version is "1.0.0" to the library and it should hopefully install. I think perhaps the section on metadata should be before the install section. On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 4:13 AM james--- via use-livecode <

Re: Is there Digital Clock Component out there?

2017-06-30 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
just to make it easy to > print. - although they work remarkably well. > > I'm sure there are others who would like an easy way to connect to a local > networked printer. > > Thanks in advance > > > Kindest Regards Lagi > > On 30 June 2017 at 16:47, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode

Re: Is there Digital Clock Component out there?

2017-06-30 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
It should now work in HTML5 too :-D On Fri, Jun 30, 2017 at 9:31 PM hh via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > In Oct 2016 I made a digital widget clock, published in > the forum > LC Builder > Community widgets: > http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?p=146968#p146968 > >

Re: Is there Digital Clock Component out there?

2017-06-30 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Alternatively, take the clock widget and replace the OnPaint handler with public handler OnPaint() variable tTime as List variable tComponent as Integer repeat with tComponent from 1 up to 3 push mCurrentTime[tComponent] formatted as string onto tTime end repeat variable tTimeString as String

Android native widgets

2017-06-21 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Further to Kevin's note about creating native widgets on Android in another thread, I thought I'd post the LCB template here that gets you all the android native widgets (that is, classes in the android.widget package - see here:

Re: [ANN] a gauge widget

2017-06-09 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Bernd, The problem with your OnSave / OnLoad handlers are that Point and Color are types defined in the canvas module that the array-saving code does not know about. These need to be converted to a core type, eg string or list. On Fri, Jun 9, 2017 at 7:52 PM Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode <

Re: insanely long delays when moving several selected objects

2017-05-30 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
The workaround might be to close the property inspector- however that of course depends on whether the PI is open while you are experiencing this currently. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 10:34 PM Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I few minutes ago, I selected about

Re: TreeView widget - designed for general use?

2017-05-27 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
You should file bug reports for all of those, please! A couple of them would make good projects for people wanting to learn a bit of LCB and make an open source contribution - namely adding a property to change the disclosure icon (relatively easy) and a property for sort orders of subkeys

Re: English Like?

2017-05-24 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
All this chat reminds me about this old pull request: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/1587/files and blog post https://livecode.com/extending-the-refactored-engine-properties/ the top/bottom/left/right/middle/area etc of rect could probably be done in the same way. OK so it's maybe not

Re: Writing Extensions

2017-05-23 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Another way to search individual guides is to search the markdown files on GitHub: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/tree/develop/docs/guides and https://github.com/livecode/livecode-ide/tree/develop/Documentation/guides. Again, not ideal. There's an outstanding enhancement request for

Re: Writing Extensions

2017-05-23 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
No results in the page ranges of the LCB language reference section. On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 5:49 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 05/23/2017 09:41 AM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote: > > Well, you have a very different definition

Re: Writing Extensions

2017-05-23 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Well, you have a very different definition of can't to me then. On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 5:39 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 05/23/2017 09:08 AM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote: > > The guides are built into a PDF at build-time - t

Re: Writing Extensions

2017-05-23 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
The guides are built into a PDF at build-time - this is what you get under Help > User Guide. So you can search this just using your PDF viewer. On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 5:02 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 05/18/2017 10:30 AM, Mark Waddingham via

Re: Writing Extensions

2017-05-18 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Thanks Mark, those comments on the docs are really helpful! I've filed bugs for the core language features, the fixed width font in the extension builder, script object docs and misleading CamelCase naming. On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 8:59 AM Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <

Re: Writing Extensions

2017-05-17 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
even have to pay lip service to that . . . > > I am extremely grateful to you, Mark, that you were the one who took the > first critical plunge . . . > > Richmond. > > On 5/17/17 10:27 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: > > On 05/17/2017 12:09 AM, Ali Lloyd via use

Re: Writing Extensions

2017-05-17 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
Mark, it would be lovely if you could be more specific. What parts of the docs in particular could be improved and how? What specific sticking points did you have? Could you file a bug report about the extension builder? It may be that something about error reporting has changed that hasn't been

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 82

2017-05-15 Thread Ali Lloyd via use-livecode
To be fair, the docs claim the legacy blend modes have been deprecated since LC 5! We've supported thm for quite a long time post-deprecation... On Mon, May 15, 2017 at 7:56 PM Roger Eller via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Oh no! I use the legacy blendModes all the

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