Re: Problem with filter and regex

2014-07-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
I haven't use the filter by regex pattern, but perhaps try putting the End of Line marker ($) at the end of your regex. You may need the Start of Line marker too. ^.*cat.*mat$ ^ is the Start of Line marker. Bernard On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 4:28 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel

Re: Simulcast

2014-09-02 Thread Bernard Devlin
I don't know what the difference is with those links (other than 2 different tracks of talks). Is there a page listing the subject matter/times for the talks on the different tracks? I searched the livecode website, but could not find such a page. Regards, Bernard On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at

Re: Hmmm...

2014-11-01 Thread Bernard Devlin
Such discussions crop up on Hacker News every year or so. They lament the passing of Hypercard; then show no interest in hearing that Metacard/Livecode carried on that tradition, with a living product for the past 22 years. It is very odd. I've given up commenting on such discussions. Bernard

Re: Progress info from wget or curl?

2014-11-03 Thread Bernard Devlin
I'm sure that a few months ago I came across an updated version of the late Mark Smith's libRevCurl. I didn't recognise the name of the person who had updated it, but it was hosted on somewhere like github (but for the life of me, I can't find it now). I may have downloaded it, but if I did so,

Re: Progress info from wget or curl?

2014-11-03 Thread Bernard Devlin
I found Mark Smith's old website. http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=runtimerevoluti1;id=15;url=http%3A%2F%2Fmarksmith%2Eon-rev%2Ecom%2Frevstuff%2F You could have a look at how he uses open process in that (AFAIR in order to get feedback from the curl process, he writes to files and reads the

Re: how are variables passed from functions?

2014-11-15 Thread Bernard Devlin
Assuming that this has been the behaviour of Metacard, Revolution, Livecode (and possibly Hypercard) for 22 years (or more), it is perhaps best just accepted as a fait accompli. If no-one has noticed this aberrant behaviour in those 2 (or more decades), then fixing it now might well lead to

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-17 Thread Bernard Devlin
I started using 6.7 recently, but gave up using it when my stack got corrupted. I wouldn't say this was a particularly complicated stack, consisting of 3 images, a couple of fields and about 6 buttons, spread over 2 cards. There's about 1200 lines of scripts and a few dozen custom properties.

Re: SMIL and QuickTime

2011-06-07 Thread Bernard Devlin
I looked into SMIL/QT a couple of years back, but never did much with it. Could it be simply that the URL in the xmlns:qt is returning a 404? Maybe there was a real document there before. If that is the problem, then maybe you can put the appropriate document up on a webserver of your own and

Re: double byte chars

2011-06-22 Thread Bernard Devlin
I know this is a late reply (I just happen to be digging into unicode myself at the moment). Did you try lock screen and unlock screen, bracketing the slow screen interactive code? Bernard On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 5:59 PM, Lars Brehmer larsbreh...@mac.com wrote: So out of curiousity, how can

Re: ANN: LiveCodeErrors for iPhone

2011-07-20 Thread Bernard Devlin
Whilst I don't have a use for this incarnation of Mark's app (I'm avoiding the new Apple ecosystem as much as possible), I've used his web service for looking up such errors, and I bought a copy of his library errorLib years ago for the same purpose. It's kind of weird that some of us should get

OT: It's Android Jim, but not as we know it (what CPUs does Livecode compile to?)

2011-07-21 Thread Bernard Devlin
Hi folks, This is a question for those of you who have sallied forth into the world of Android development (or, who have at least considered it). When Livecode creates an app for Android deployment, what CPU architecture does Livecode compile for? My reason for asking is that I like the look of

Re: OT: It's Android Jim, but not as we know it (what CPUs does Livecode compile to?)

2011-07-21 Thread Bernard Devlin
Since the Tegra has an ARM processor on the system chip, then it would seem to fundamentally be an ARM processor. It is a rather amazing ecosystem where linux/google/ARM/nvidia/asus combine to produce something like that, which was probably never envisaged by any of them 10 years ago. It does

Re: OT: It's Android Jim, but not as we know it (what CPUs does Livecode compile to?)

2011-07-21 Thread Bernard Devlin
Thanks Roger, that sounds like the first hurdle will be overcome. As a machine that I might carry with me to run admin/monitoring apps written in Livecode, the Transformer is looking better. I've never tried to see how much could be done within the scriptLimits but provided I don't look on it as

Re: OT: It's Android Jim, but not as we know it (what CPUs does Livecode compile to?)

2011-07-23 Thread Bernard Devlin
Jacque, that sounds like the easiest option in order for me to test the device in-store (but at this stage I'm feeling very confident it will work to run Livecode apps). If you could put a simple 'hello world' on to dropbox and send me the URL off list, then I'll give it a go. The various

Re: ASCII, Unicode and Livecode

2011-08-16 Thread Bernard Devlin
If you get the htmlText of a char in a unicode mixed field (i.e. containing single double byte chars), there is an attribute of the p/p tag that tells you the font. If you get char 1 of a double byte char, that font attribute of the paragraph tag will (in my experience) contain unicode as item 2

Re: LC -- Website ?

2011-08-27 Thread Bernard Devlin
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:12 AM, Timothy Miller gand...@doctortimothymiller.com wrote: My website is a bit too complex for a self-serve website builder. I understand drag and drop web-building apps tend to make really messy code. That's not necessarily true and many (most?) professional

Re: Sound formats on Android

2011-08-31 Thread Bernard Devlin
This bug and the workaround was already discussed in the comments on this Livecode/Android lesson (see comment by Michael McCreary): http://lessons.runrev.com/manuals/2571/lessons/27389 [I wish I'd read the comments before I'd ploughed through the instructions 3 times, and before working out the

Re: Sound formats on Android

2011-09-01 Thread Bernard Devlin
Mike, it was far more work than it should have been getting Livecode 4.6.3 and the Android SDK to work on OS X. I'll give you that :) Have you got the Android VM set up and running before you try to connect Livecode to it? I certainly had the VM identified in the Livecode IDE, but then plugged

Re: URLStatus(tURL) doesn't work anymore since LC 4.5.1!?

2011-09-21 Thread Bernard Devlin
LibUrl in 4.6 is not the same as 4.5. I had code working in 4.5 that stopped working on upgrading to 4.6. By swapping out the liburl library from 4.5 into 4.6 the code worked again. I just haven't got round to debugging what has changed in that library in 4.6. Bernard On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at

Re: Alternatives to SiteGrinder?

2011-09-26 Thread Bernard Devlin
There is also NetObjects Fusion (or Essentials, which is free). If you have a clever enough server-side templating system, it is possible to simply drop re-designed output from NOF into server-side folders, thus using a drag and drop tool to provide the GUI portions of a dynamically-generated web

Re: Alternatives to SiteGrinder?

2011-09-26 Thread Bernard Devlin
Pete, NetObjects was originally a Mac-only product. IMO it was the hypercard of web development. Whilst Runrev (formerly Metacard) went on to continue developing hypercard, NetObjects hasn't really developed much since it was migrated to Windows only. Bernard On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:19 PM,

Re: libJSON

2011-09-27 Thread Bernard Devlin
I seem to remember that Mark Smith sent an announcement to the list when he moved domains. It might be worth checking the archives to see if he is contactable at the new domain/website. Bernard On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote: And

Re: libJSON

2011-09-30 Thread Bernard Devlin
I am so sad about this. Over the last 3 or 4 years, this list has lost some truly great people. Mark Smith was one of them. When I saw the post to his wikipedia entry, I just thought that's got to be the wrong Mark. I had no idea he was a musician as well as a programmer. I've probably made

Re: Reading PDF - a cry for help

2011-09-30 Thread Bernard Devlin
I have a couple of suggestions (although I am not sure either will work as smoothly as Graham wants, but my still be worth a try). 1. display the pdf in a browser control, snapshot the window, present the snapshot to the user to crop to just the image. 2. assuming that there is a linux solution

Re: Reading PDF - a cry for help

2011-10-01 Thread Bernard Devlin
You're either extremely knowledgeable about the GPL, or I think you have misunderstood the GPL. The GPL v2 does not mean you cannot charge for re-distribution of GPL code (there are companies who charge for the re-distribution of linux on dvds). If your code is bound to GPL libraries and you

Re: Reading PDF documents

2011-10-02 Thread Bernard Devlin
I just downloaded one of the binaries from the IM download site (the zip file that is meant to require no installation/windows registry atlerations). No compilation was involved. No error messages were thrown up in the installation (i.e. unzipping process). I found what I took to be the GUI

Re: Licensing Issues for LC developers [was: Re: Reading PDF - a cry for help]

2011-10-03 Thread Bernard Devlin
My pleasure. I'm sure that there are plenty of discussions on the internet that will help you further understand what is possible and where the limitations are. It seems a shame to throw away a possible solution to a problem on a misunderstanding of the possibilities. My thoughts on the matter

Re: Offer to Author a LiveCode book

2011-10-04 Thread Bernard Devlin
I think LiveCode is the latest pseudonym for cialis. Author now means sell. But seriously. The offer did not come to me. Bernard On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Richmond Mathewson richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Interested to know whether an e-mail entitled Offer to Author a LiveCode

Re: [TEASER] It is Alive! SFTP support in LiveCode

2011-10-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
Hi Andre, I'm curious about this external. Do you have plans to compile it for iOS (and when possible, Android)? Did you sort out the blocking issue? Bernard ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: [TEASER] It is Alive! SFTP support in LiveCode

2011-10-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
Just to clarify. My interest is more in the normal curl features, rather than SFTP. Bernard On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Bernard Devlin bdrun...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Andre, I'm curious about this external.  Do you have plans to compile it for iOS (and when possible, Android)?  Did you

Re: [TEASER] It is Alive! SFTP support in LiveCode

2011-10-10 Thread Bernard Devlin
Hi Stephen, I am aware of Mark's library. I use it in one application. Mark's library is very well implemented. And thanks for mentioning it in this context (there may be others seeking to use curl). I am looking to the day where I will want to take that application to run on iOS and Android.

Re: So RunRev wants more of my money- what has been fixed?

2011-10-13 Thread Bernard Devlin
As Oscar Wilde said: life imitates art. Surely no-one intended the interminable thread to mimic the Cheese Shop sketch from Monty Python? It seems like ideas just settle down into our sub-conscious, and we can't help but act them out (over and over again). Bernard On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 8:32

Re: lc shell and command line

2011-11-14 Thread Bernard Devlin
put shell(cd ..; pwd) would appear to do what you want. There is going to be no state maintained between different calls of shell(). Thus, changing to a directory in one calls is not (IMO) going to be maintained on a subsequent call of shel|(). Concatenating commands (as I did above using the

[DGH] inks needs to be reset to addMin; sometimes inks is disabled

2011-11-14 Thread Bernard Devlin
When I use DGH to add a custom control to a datagrid (e.g. just a 'classic' field control), I can get my custom field to display the data when the datagrid is updated. However, the datagrid for that column(s) loses the alternating row colour that is found in other columns. In my experiments with

Re: lc shell and command line

2011-11-14 Thread Bernard Devlin
It may be that the easiest way around that is to edit /etc/sudoers and configure some username, such that said the logged-in user does not need to enter a password in order to call 'sudo su - auser'. If you look inside /etc/sudoers it should explain what is required to make access to sudo

Re: Custom Property Data Limit?

2011-12-02 Thread Bernard Devlin
Some years back I was working with a few joined tables in a commercially available relational database. Making certain queries across these joined tables became unusably slow as the size of the tables increased (I can't remember the numbers, but certainly in the millions, possibly billions). As

Re: [OT}] Hypercard and an uneasy read.

2011-12-02 Thread Bernard Devlin
Björnke, I think you are right on the money. I had never used Hypercard, but stumbled across Rev 1.1.1 and was staggered to think that this entire programming paradigm had passed me by (I wrote my first BASIC program in 1980). I'm glad that RunRev/Metacard had gone with a cross-platform

Re: Mobile devices and barcodes

2011-12-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
I was intrigued by this topic, so did a little research myself. First of all, I'm not particularly inclined to jump through Apple's hoops when it comes to installing applications on a phone I own. So, I only looked into doing this for Android. I came across this 6 line piece of code for reading

Re: Creating an Undo palette

2011-12-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
Just off the top of my head... couldn't you clone the current card, so the cards of the stack containing the object who's properties are being altered would represent the history of changes. What would be required of the palette stack then would be some kind of timeline interface to the stack of

Re: connecting to MySQL database thru SSH tunnel

2011-12-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
Are you sure that your tunnel is working? I'm assuming that for some reason SSL is not an option, neither is a VPN. You should be able to tunnel a database connection through a SSH tunnel. I've done it many times with different kinds of databases and servers (although never with MySQL). Can you

Re: Running a multiline shell command

2011-12-10 Thread Bernard Devlin
Could it be an issue with the return character? As you know, they are different on each platform. You could try variations between ascii 10 and 13. If you have it working as a script on your file system, you could try putting that script into a custom property (get hold of it using a binfile

Re: Running a multiline shell command

2011-12-13 Thread Bernard Devlin
How about if you set the shellCommand so that instead of pointing to /bin/sh it points to /bin/tcsh, or even have the shellCommand set to point to /usr/bin/telnet itself. There are definitely some oddities with OS X and line endings (I seem to remember Mark Schonewille explaining it to me some

Re: characters lost pasting from Word To LiveCode field

2011-12-13 Thread Bernard Devlin
Is it possible to export the text from Word as RTF, then import into Livecode as RTF? Bernard On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Sieg Lindstrom s...@trackandfieldnews.comwrote: I use a LiveCode app (OSX) to parse text taken from Word files, glean relevant data, write records to a database and

Re: revServer (on-rev) and https:

2011-12-18 Thread Bernard Devlin
I haven't use on-rev or the rev server. But you could try: libUrlSetSSLVerification false That bypasses certificate verification. I would have thought you would need that on the desktop too. I think there was once some discussion about where to place .pem files in order to get desktop apps to

Re: revServer (on-rev) and https:

2011-12-19 Thread Bernard Devlin
If it can't find that handler in the internet library, then that suggests that the internet library is not fully loaded. Unless later versions of libURL have removed that handler. I can't see why they would do that - there might still be situations where one needs to bypass the certificate

Re: Database syntax

2011-12-20 Thread Bernard Devlin
In my experience _no database_ will outperform arrays as data storage. The simple reason is that a) arrays are stored in memory b) Of course, if you run out of memory, you are in dangerous territory anyway. If you read some of the arguments of Ruslan (of Valentina fame), even he admits that

Re: Database syntax

2011-12-20 Thread Bernard Devlin
In my experience _no database_ will outperform arrays as data storage. The simple reason is that a) arrays are stored in memory b) sigh :) b) arrays have no machinery (null checking, referential integrity, etc.) that would slow them down. Bernard

Re: Database syntax

2011-12-21 Thread Bernard Devlin
Actually, this was precisely the situation in which multiple LC arrays, being used as tables, where the array key was the primary key of the table, and joining these tables was far faster to do using LC arrays than any in-memory SQL database. Admittedly these were only 2-way and 3-way joins, so

Re: Database syntax

2011-12-21 Thread Bernard Devlin
I think I've hijacked this thread beyond providing the OP with the links to the Runrev documentation. I'm emailing Ruslan privately about this discussion so that others don't have to bother with it. I'm not slighting Ruslan in the least, nor saying that people should avoid databases. Bernard

Re: is among the words AND find words

2011-12-21 Thread Bernard Devlin
Before rushing for a tokenOffset feature request, perhaps it might be worth considering some other options. Perhaps there could be a way of signalling a string of items which would mark either what should be considered a non-word, or a non-token. That way such a search feature could be used with

Re: File time off by an hour...

2011-12-22 Thread Bernard Devlin
Keith, It seems this issue has come up with Windows and other programming languages (included those supplied by Microsoft!) http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4605983/io-file-getlastaccesstime-is-off-by-one-hour

Re: revAndroidPlugin and the Android SDK

2011-12-22 Thread Bernard Devlin
Check in your Preferences, that right beneath the path to the Android SDK, that it has not lost a path to the JDK. Bernard On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 12:13 AM, Ralph DiMola rdim...@evergreeninfo.net wrote: The revAndroidPlugin is not recognizing the Android SDK anymore. I still use to view

Re: revAndroidPlugin and the Android SDK

2011-12-22 Thread Bernard Devlin
It sounds familiar. There was a discussion on the mailing list about a missing aapt.exe before. Look for the thread LiveCode for Android under Windows Bernard On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Ralph DiMola rdim...@evergreeninfo.net wrote: main prefs liked the plug-in tells me: That is not a

Re: Optional keywords?

2011-12-24 Thread Bernard Devlin
I've come across it, but to be honest, I really like the verbose real-language nature of Livecode. I am a touch typist, so for me it really is a question of programming as talking to myself. One of the main things I wish LC had was named parameters, like in Python, where one can call a function

Re: [OT] iPhone is for games, Android is for apps.

2011-12-24 Thread Bernard Devlin
This article asserts that there are 16 million activations of Android a month. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/2011-the-year-of-the-android-os/17021 Then there are the 10 billion app downloads. That’s a staggering number, and at the equivalent point in the Apple App Store’s life cycle, it had

Re: Crashing Ubuntu 11.10 with LC 4.5

2011-12-27 Thread Bernard Devlin
I was so appalled by the latest Ubuntu, I switched to Mint. Ubuntu had become as slow as using Windows Vista. No wonder Mint has taken off. Whilst the main charts in the link below are based on DistroWatch (arguably a sign of what cutting-edge linux users are up to), the chart further down the

Re: Regular expression to find the date

2012-01-05 Thread Bernard Devlin
I just want to offer the simplest solution first. If there's a reason why this won't work, please say. put sfgsfg gsfgs g 05/01/2011 t trtr into tText repeat for each word tWord in tText if tWord is a date then put tWord cr after tFound end repeat put tFound Maybe you are just looking to

Re: [OT] Bill and Eric - not forgotten

2012-01-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
Indeed. I was just last week considering buying a copy of one of Eric's books on Hypercard, even though I don't speak French! I think of Eric often. He was not only knowledgeable, but kind and modest. I regret never having met him personally. A few days ago I was looking at his ListMagic,

Re: Zen of Computer Programming

2012-01-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
It's all about change. Who needs test-driven development when testing is development. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD pmb...@gmail.com wrote: So the vendor makes him a deluxe pizza and the Dalai Lama hands him a $20 bill. After a moment he says, Where's my change? The

Re: Shell question

2012-01-09 Thread Bernard Devlin
Ah. The beauty of Livecode's OS X/Unix return substitutions. OS X is unix. Kind of. Until you shell out from Livecode. On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: OK, I got this working.  In order to get the correct linefeed characters for Unix,

Re: Reliability of setProp/getProp

2012-01-15 Thread Bernard Devlin
Are you locking the message path in some other handler (e.g. maybe one that is done with 'send in time'). That might explain intermittent behaviour. Also, there is a 'breakpoint' command that you can literally type as a line in your handler. I've often (like almost always) seen red dot

rTree author

2012-01-20 Thread Bernard Devlin
Hi folks, does anyone have contact information for this gentleman? I posted a comment on his site a while back and never received a reply. http://www.tapirsoft.com/index.php?option=com_jdownloadsview=viewcategorycatid=1Itemid=3 And there is a post in the RunRev forum that requires his

Re: rTree author

2012-01-20 Thread Bernard Devlin
Thanks Malte. Fingers crossed. Bernard On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Malte Brill revolut...@derbrill.de wrote: We were having a quick chat on phone 2 weeks back. But I also did not hear from Mats since. Let's hope he is just busy. ___

Re: Navigating XML in LiveCode

2012-01-24 Thread Bernard Devlin
You could also consider using JSON instead of XML. Particularly since we have 2 libraries around which convert LiveCode arrays to JSON and vice-versa. JSON is known as the fat-free xml. I don't think either format is paritcularly easy to scan by the naked eye. One library is by Andre, the

Re: database write error

2012-02-01 Thread Bernard Devlin
Perhaps I am misunderstanding the problem here. I am a great fan of the concept of merge. And it is certainly possible to use merge() to produce the list of fields with each field value enclosed by either single or double quotes. It just requires a litte indirection. (I've put some arbitrary

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-15 Thread Bernard Devlin
Alas, I think it is not a new phenomenon. I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde Whenever I walk into a large library, I feel a sense of awe in the physical presence of so much that I do not know, and will never know. Being able to click between Facebook, Google and Wikipedia

Re: want you error expertise

2012-02-16 Thread Bernard Devlin
1. Does LC on Windows not produce a crash log the way it does on OS X? I would look at that if it exists. On OS X I've found these logs to be quite useful in tracking down crashes (mostly, in recent years, in my experience these crashes have related to externals). 2. If the log does not exist

Re: want you error expertise

2012-02-16 Thread Bernard Devlin
By the way, I found that Valentina 4.7 is the last version that is usable for Livecode.  Ruslan is aware of the defects I encountered.  I assume a later version will fix those problems. Others may well be using 4.8, 4.9 or 5.0 without facing the defects I faced.  It's just a question of which

Re: Valentina 5 Platform Announced; Reports, Valentina Studio forPostgre, Valentina DB and SQLite

2012-02-17 Thread Bernard Devlin
Ruslan, Python does have classes. I noticed from when I looked at the Ruby PHP valentina libraries, that they seemed to do much less than the V4REV library. I assume that is the difference between what you mention below with A and B. I'm very glad that V4REV does have so many ways to work with

Re: [OT] OS X's Gatekeeper

2012-02-17 Thread Bernard Devlin
Thank gnu for Linux. Bernard On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Ken Corey k...@kencorey.com wrote: Companies are yearning for total control, for better or worse. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-19 Thread Bernard Devlin
I saw one version where they built a robot arm (using LEGO, I think) to turn the pages. The process had thereby been completely automated. I also understand there is a Japanese company that does such scanning (and reasonably priced). Last time I looked, they had a backlog of months. I feel I

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2012-02-25 Thread Bernard Devlin
I couldn't find the Sumvision Cyclone Astro on that site -- maybe they've sold out. As for it only being available in the UK -- I have lost count of the number of products I have wanted to buy that were only available in the US. I think this is the first time I've seen the shoe be on the other

Re: Running LiveCode and Quicktime as virtual applications

2012-02-28 Thread Bernard Devlin
Alejandro, thanks for sharing this with us. I'm sure it will come in useful for me too. Bernard On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 5:50 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, Thanks to the Cameyo forum users, now there is a fix and a working version :-D

Re: unresponsive sequential post requests - libURL problem?

2012-03-01 Thread Bernard Devlin
The standard libURL is also just a library inside the IDE. Which means you can inspect it and change it. I had a problem where 4.6.x LC would barf on ip addresses that worked previously. I took an older version of libURL and swapped it in, and the problem went away. There is another libURL

Re: unresponsive sequential post requests - libURL problem?

2012-03-01 Thread Bernard Devlin
I'd go with Andre on this, only try some voodoo too :) 3. try increasing the timeout interval. I have some code that fires off hundreds of load urls sequentially. But this is done by using send in time for the load (and using callbacks to handle the returned data). I figured that smarter

Re: User's System

2012-03-03 Thread Bernard Devlin
Windows 3.1 was Win16. Windows 95 and Windows NT (3.5 and 4) were Win32 and were NT. It was around Windows 3.11 that Microsoft threw in Win32s, which was apparently a deliberate move to stop Windows 3.1 working inside OS/2's virtualisation system (where Windows ran better than it did outside of

Re: User's System

2012-03-03 Thread Bernard Devlin
I'm not saying Win95 was based on NT (it wasnt'). I mean NT 3.5 and 4 were Win32 and NT. Bernard On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Bernard Devlin bdrun...@gmail.com wrote: Windows 3.1 was Win16.  Windows 95 and Windows NT (3.5 and 4) were Win32 and were NT

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-05 Thread Bernard Devlin
There was such a datagrid-lite control a few years back, produced by Eric Chatonet. Sadly Eric died, and ListMagic appears to no longer be maintained. It used the basic field object, and well, it did some quite magical things with it. I think ListMagic stopped working with some changes

Re: How to set initial appearance of all buttons on UI using behaviors

2012-03-05 Thread Bernard Devlin
Look in the dictionary at the templateButton. If you set the properties of that, then any button you set will have those properties. I think it is a local property, so will only apply within the script where you set it. Bernard On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 10:46 PM, Sivakatirswami ka...@hindu.org

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-06 Thread Bernard Devlin
The difference might be explained due to Livecode setting a smaller cache size than other applications. http://web.utk.edu/~jplyon/sqlite/SQLite_optimization_FAQ.html http://www.sqlite.org/pragma.html#pragma_cache_size I don't know if the cache size is under one's control with sqlite. I know it

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-06 Thread Bernard Devlin
I notice from things discussed on the Valentina list that they recommend using API methods rather than SQL calls, because the former will be faster due to less overhead. So these different ways of interacting with a sqlite database might well represent an application using the sqlite API.

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
Ruslan, you might need to include some information about why someone might prefer to learn the Valentina API (accessible from V4REV) by citing some features of Valentina that are superior or unavailable in sqlite e.g. encryption, full-text searching (I'm not sure if the latter has been enabled

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
Would something like SWIG help with the construction of LC externals? I confess to not knowing anything about externals, and almost nothing about C. But I've used some products which are cross-platform and provide interfaces in many different languages. At their base they use SWIG (or something

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
Probably helps if I provide a link: http://www.swig.org/ On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Bernard Devlin bdrun...@gmail.com wrote: Would something like SWIG help with the construction of LC externals? I confess to not knowing anything about externals, and almost nothing about C.  But I've used

Re: Serious Question about the list...

2012-03-20 Thread Bernard Devlin
The mailing lists predate the forum by many years. Some people who used the mailing list complained they preferred a forum, so RunRev obliged and provided the forum. It's not that one discussion mechanism is officially sanctioned by RunRev, although I suspect new users find the forum before the

Re: Need an example of how to use try and catch

2012-03-22 Thread Bernard Devlin
I have been using the try/catch idiom for years. I like the structure it gives my code - visually it makes it very clear where I am expecting problematic sections to be. I rarely use 'finally'. However the problem has always been with interpreting the error codes that arise. For years I got

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

2012-03-23 Thread Bernard Devlin
But I don't think RealStudio can build for mobile devices like iOS or Android. The two companies seem to be betting on different futures. I wasn't particularly interested in the mobile space myself, but seeing the astronomical growth in that area, I have to think I am wrong and RunRev were right.

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

2012-03-23 Thread Bernard Devlin
Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.7 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/za On 23 mrt 2012, at 11:57, Bernard Devlin wrote: But I don't think RealStudio can build for mobile devices like iOS or Android.  The two companies seem

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

2012-03-23 Thread Bernard Devlin
Hi Mark, you might not have said that such decisions are wrong, but with finite resources, decisions must be made. Some decisions will turn out to be the wrong decisions. About 3 years ago RealBasic and Livecode looked like they were going in the same direction; they've now branched off in

Re: Collisions

2012-03-25 Thread Bernard Devlin
I'm not the developer of Animation Engine (it's way beyond my maths). It has a demo version, so I'd recommend trying it out. It has some tools to demonstrate to you its own capabilities. http://www.derbrill.de/developers.php I've used it to animate features in non-game apps, but I've barely

Re: near feature parity

2012-04-02 Thread Bernard Devlin
I gave up on LiveCode on Linux some years ago. Last week I downloaded and installed one of the v5.x installers from my LiveCode account, and installed it on Mint Linux. As soon as I started LiveCode, it hung. Luckily, as it started, the LiveCode window was smaller than the monitor - as even

Re: Linux application crashes

2012-04-13 Thread Bernard Devlin
This sounds similar. http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7257 Not saying it is the same bug. Just your description triggered a familiar odour. Bernard On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Glen Bojsza gboj...@gmail.com wrote: My latest update / feedback on the issue... I tried monitoring

Re: [OT] nice views from my city

2012-04-13 Thread Bernard Devlin
I saw this man on TV discussing the Brazilian olympic project a couple of weeks ago. He looked very pleased with himself. Of course, the programme that was talking up Rio de Janeiro didn't mention that the mayor not only lived in another city, but in another country! That really would have

Re: [OT] nice views from my city

2012-04-16 Thread Bernard Devlin
That makes me so, so envious. At least I look out on a park (which is good for living in a city centre). But I so want to live by the sea on the west coast of somewhere (preferably somewhere warmer than Britain). If it wasn't for my other half insisting on living in the city centre, I'd sell up

Re: [OT] nice views from my city

2012-04-17 Thread Bernard Devlin
It's really quite nice. I walk around the city and marvel at how many people basically look out onto tarmac or brick. After living with a view for so long, I can't imagine not having one. But most people don't (at least not in cities). Another reason to count one's blessings. Bernard On Tue,

Re: Google alerts

2012-05-24 Thread Bernard Devlin
I'm glad to see this Colin (and I don't consider myself to be a beginner after decades of programming). But part of me doesn't want the big, wide world to know about Livecode. I guess that a fairly major publisher has taken an interest in Livecode shows that they think it has an edge when it

Re: what should be done with MobGUI?

2012-05-25 Thread Bernard Devlin
I was just thinking the same thought yesterday. Bernard On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 2:24 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: So, if John has stopped developing MobGUI, or got tied up long term on other projects, would it be possible for RunRev to take it in house?

Re: [PREVIEW] Task LIst Plugin (lcTaskList) for LiveCode

2012-05-25 Thread Bernard Devlin
I thought that ListMagic stopped working with Livecode some versions back. It's news to me that people are still able to work with it. I can't remember the details but I will see if I have it lying around and will try to use it again and see if it caused crashes for me. Bernard On Fri, May 25,

Re: Webifying livecode is a real mystery to me

2012-05-25 Thread Bernard Devlin
Bravo, Igor. This is exactly how I see it. But thanks to Andre and the others for making really good points. (I'd never heard of AngularJS, so I'm going to look into it). I'd bet 99.99% of developers have never heard of Livecode. Without a massive advertising campaign, I don't see them

Re: xml files with LC

2012-05-25 Thread Bernard Devlin
I will show the list my secret shame of Invented Anywhere But Here syndrome (the opposite of NIH). Trevor has provided some handlers that convert xml data to LC arrays. By miles it is the easiest way to explore the structure of a XML document, and once one is familiar with the structure through

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