Re: [ANN] Facebook Lib

2014-05-02 Thread Gerry Orkin
Got mine - works so well and I can't wait till the mobile version. Gerry On 2 May 2014, at 8:18 am, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Hey Folks, I've issued free orders to all those that contributed back then. Please send feedback once you receive yours. Cheers On Thu,

Re: iOS Provisioning Profiles - Dev vs. Production

2014-05-06 Thread Gerry Orkin
Dan Is this the first release of the app? I had a situation where updates to an existing version were fine but new installs hung for users. Turned out that I'd introduced a bug that only affected users who didn't already have one of the files I copy from the binary to the device when the app

Re: iOS: Check for Internet Connection?

2014-05-22 Thread Gerry Orkin
There are commands for this. See the dictionary for iphoneSetReachabilityTarget and reachabilityChanged. This is what I do. Start with this at the top of your stack script: global internetAvailable Then on openstack call this: iphoneSetReachabilityTarget google.com Have this in

Re: iOS: Check for Internet Connection?

2014-05-23 Thread Gerry Orkin
Happy I could help :) g On 23 May 2014, at 1:30 pm, Rick Harrison harri...@all-auctions.com wrote: This is exactly what I need! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: [ANN] tmControl2 First Release

2014-06-01 Thread Gerry Orkin
Just in time for iOS 8! Just kidding - I doubt the UI will change much in the new version. tmControl looks great - when I start my next project I'll give it try. Gerry On 1 Jun 2014, at 5:45 pm, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: It's many long months, dozens of nights without sleep,

Re: [ANN] tmControl2 First Release

2014-06-01 Thread Gerry Orkin
Bloody hell...ok ok, I'll get it sooner then :) g On 1 Jun 2014, at 6:06 pm, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: I neglected mention the new-release discount is available for 1 week. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: [ANN] tmControl2 First Release

2014-06-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
And worth every penny. I think I'll still roll my own scrollers and table lists etc but for everything else this beats MobGUI in terms of depth and flexibility. Still a little buggy (something this sophisticated is bound to have a few problems in early releases) and the documentation/video

Re: tmControl2 Demo Update

2014-06-07 Thread Gerry Orkin
Can you list for us all the files that should have been included? g On 8 Jun 2014, at 9:56 am, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: Hello All: With help from another list member, I was able to determine that I the server I use was misconfigured and delivering an incomplete set of

Weird data grid behaviour

2014-06-07 Thread Gerry Orkin
Weirdness going on here with LC commercial 6.5.2 and all versions up to 6.6.2: 1) I drag a new data grid onto a stack 2) in the object inspector I make the datagrid a form datagrid (not strictly relevant as the problem happens with table datagrids too) 3) in the datagrid templates substack I see

Re: Weird data grid behaviour

2014-06-08 Thread Gerry Orkin
theSlug wrote: 1 to 6: This is the normal behavior for all the datagrids: So weird. I've been using datagrids for a few years and never noticed this...in fact i've just looked at a couple of old projects and the datagrid template stacks only have 1 card in them...id 1002. - You have placed

Re: Weird data grid behaviour

2014-06-09 Thread Gerry Orkin
Apologies...it is id 1005, not id 1002 that I have in every template. And I've never to my recollection deleted any cards from the template stack. g On 9 Jun 2014, at 6:23 pm, zryip theSlug zryip.thes...@gmail.com wrote: A thing I doesn't understand: how are you customizing the row template

Re: Mobile Styled Text

2014-06-18 Thread Gerry Orkin
No. g On 18 Jun 2014, at 4:04 am, Dan Friedman d...@clearvisiontech.com wrote: I'm wondering... Is it possible to display and edit multi-styled text (font sizes, colors, justifications, etc.) in a native multiline control? Thanks! -Dan ___

Milliseconds - minutes and seconds

2014-06-27 Thread Gerry Orkin
Hi all I'm playing an .mp3 file in iOS and saving the elapsed playing time (in milliseconds as reported by the native player) into an sqlite database as it plays. That's working fine. I'm now struggling to convert those milliseconds into a MM:SS format for real time display. Anyone done that?

Re: Milliseconds - minutes and seconds

2014-06-28 Thread Gerry Orkin
Perfect :) Many thanks. A real d'oh moment happening here :) g On 28 Jun 2014, at 2:45 pm, Peter W A Wood peterwaw...@gmail.com wrote: Is this any help? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Can You Really Install an iOS App outside of Apple's App Store?

2014-07-04 Thread Gerry Orkin
Kinda sorta. In iOS 8 if you want to somewhat misuse the service (it's meant for beta testing) you can use TestFlight and install onto 1000 devices. https://developer.apple.com/support/appstore/TestFlight/ Gerry On 3 Jul 2014, at 8:39 am, Ralph DiMola rdim...@evergreeninfo.net wrote: Apple

Re: Has anyone got the browserLoadRequest message to work?

2014-07-30 Thread Gerry Orkin
I've successfully used browserLoadRequested but I've never heard of browserLoadRequest. I think you may be missing an ed. Gerry On 30 Jul 2014, at 1:33 pm, Terry Judd terry.j...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: OK - I ditched the browserLoadRequest message and just went with trapping the

Re: Has anyone got the browserLoadRequest message to work?

2014-07-31 Thread Gerry Orkin
Oh! So they are. D'oh. Either way, I use it with no problems. g On 30 Jul 2014, at 5:17 pm, Terry Judd terry.j...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: Hi Gerry - they’re definitely both in my version of the dictionary (LC 6.6.2). ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: LC interface code

2014-08-07 Thread Gerry Orkin
app.net is in suspended animation... I wouldn't build anything on it. g On 7 Aug 2014, at 2:33 pm, Skip Kimpel skiplon...@gmail.com wrote: I see that app.net does... Now I'm intrigued. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: [ANN] MobGUI plugin : mobile development aid

2011-06-09 Thread Gerry Orkin
On 10/06/2011, at 9:11 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: Be careful, all of the controls in the MobGUI plugin are only iPhone3GS and maybe they might work for iPad but not iPhone4 Retina display. Sure, but they are easy to resize. I agree that'd be great if the controls took account of the

Re: Handling 'suspend' in iOS apps

2011-06-14 Thread Gerry Orkin
I just save all the stuff I need to to .txt files every time the app quits, and reload it on startup. For my situation that provides the neatest way to implement the suspension and resumption of an app. In your case perhaps you can save the data then ask if they want it restored when they open

Re: Pinch Zooming an image in iOS

2011-07-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
I imagine you could display the image in a browser. Web pages and .pdfs in browser controls are pinch-zoomable - can't see why a .jpg wouldn't be too. What is currently the best version of OSX iOS which to work with? Um, what? :) Gerry On 04/07/2011, at 1:35 PM, Chipp Walters wrote:

Re: LiveCode mySQL calls and iOs?

2011-07-09 Thread Gerry Orkin
John MySQL is supported in LC on iOS. However tapping in to MySQL databases from mobile devices introduces a bunch of access and security issues, so rather than using the MySQL commands I use .php files on my MySQL server to do my SELECTs and INSERTs. I run them from my iOS app using url http

Re: Mac OS X Lion

2011-07-20 Thread Gerry Orkin
When I try to test an iOS standalone I get an error message: Unknow deployment platform. Any ideas? Gerry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Lion Xcode 3.2.6

2011-07-21 Thread Gerry Orkin
4.0? It's broken in 4.1 for me. Gerry On 21/07/2011, at 7:12 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: I have no trouble building standalones for iOS with XCode 4. It may be unspupported but it works. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Lion Xcode 3.2.6

2011-07-21 Thread Gerry Orkin
I wonder if I can downgrade? g On 21/07/2011, at 8:08 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Oh, I see, Gerry, I am using XCode 4.0.2 at the moment. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Lion Xcode 3.2.6

2011-07-21 Thread Gerry Orkin
Mark Sorry, I have been asking about this on a couple of lists, and lost track of where the conversation was up to here…my problem is in getting the simulator running. I can save iOS standalones, but I can't test them. The Test button works but gives me the error Unknown deployment platform

Re: Lion Xcode 3.2.6

2011-07-21 Thread Gerry Orkin
Mark, the error is occurring with 4.6.1, 4.6.2 and 4.6.3. In each case I made sure that the target platform was selected in the standalone settings. Cheers Gerry On 21/07/2011, at 9:38 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Usually, that error appears if you haven't selected a platform in the

Re:

2011-07-25 Thread Gerry Orkin
I keep things simple by using these two routines that might work for you: on writefile fileTowrite,dataTowrite set the defaultFolder to specialFolderPath(Documents) put dataTowrite into URL ((file:fileTowrite.txt)) end writefile function readFromFile whatFile set the defaultFolder to

Re: I need to import photo's in an app? How?

2011-07-25 Thread Gerry Orkin
I'm just a beginner and this is the first time I use the mailinglist. I'm working on an app and I want to make it possible for the user to import photo's saved on his/her iPod/iPad. Look at page 21 of the iOS User Guide. This code: iPhonePickPhoto library, 300,400 ...will show the

Re: I need to import photo's in an app? How?

2011-07-25 Thread Gerry Orkin
Er, it's http://lessons.runrev.com :) g On 25/07/2011, at 7:36 PM, William de Smet wrote: http://lesson.runrev.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: [OT] Unboxing the Acer Android Tablet

2011-08-02 Thread Gerry Orkin
I think it can, if it's jailbroken. Gerry On 02/08/2011, at 4:35 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: iPad certainly can't do THAT. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: sqlite mySQl hassles...

2011-08-26 Thread Gerry Orkin
Is the mySQL database set up to allow access from the device? I believe you need to set the remote client IP address for mySQL installs, for security reasons - if it's a typical virtual host install, it'll probably be set to allow access from your desktop machine (the machine you most likely

Re: sqlite mySQl hassles...

2011-08-26 Thread Gerry Orkin
Is the mySQL database set up to allow access from the device? I believe you need to set the remote client IP address for mySQL installs, for security reasons - if it's a typical virtual host install, it'll probably be set to allow access from your desktop machine (the machine you most likely

Re: Blocking in iOS and libUrlDownloadToFile

2011-09-07 Thread Gerry Orkin
You have to prevent the user from interrupting the download - I do that by showing a transparent rect over the whole screen so they can't interact with the app until the download is done. I think by blocking they mean you can't request another download until this one is complete. Gerry On

Re: Brush Tool in iOS

2011-09-12 Thread Gerry Orkin
Randy wrote: Well, that is very cool. So elegant :) Thanks John! Gerry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread Gerry Orkin
Nope, it's still missing the return! Weird. Gerry On 15/09/2011, at 10:19 AM, John Dixon wrote: put file:// specialFolderPath(documents) slash docs.html into tURLreplace space with 20% in tURLiphoneControlSet sBrowserID, url, tURL ___

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread Gerry Orkin
Mine works with 2, but oddly, if I remove the %20 replace it doesn't. Here's an example: put file:// specialFolderPath(Documents)/hearts.html into localURL replace with %20 in localURL iphoneControlSet sHeartsScrollerId, url, localURL Gerry On 15/09/2011, at 11:59 AM, J. Landman Gay

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-14 Thread Gerry Orkin
Loading a local file does NOT work in the simulator. My script, which is similar to all your examples, works great on my real live iPad. D'oh. I knew that from my own bitter experience loading local .pdfs. Sorry, should have remembered :( Gerry

Re: Loading a local file into a UIWebView control

2011-09-15 Thread Gerry Orkin
I'm running the latest version of the simulator and with LC 4.6.4 it now works, but with 4.6.3 and earlier it doesn't. Gerry -- http://gerryorkin.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: mobGUI user discussion?

2011-09-16 Thread Gerry Orkin
There's a forum area in the LiveCode forums dedicated to MobGUI. Gerry -- Sent from my iPhone. On 17/09/2011, at 6:47 AM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote: Where is the right place for mobGUI user discussion? Dar ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: OS X Finder Search Question

2011-09-25 Thread Gerry Orkin
It's easy to search for System and System-related files and folders (like the Library folder and it's sub-folders) in OS X Lion and Snow Leopard (and perhaps earlier): In the Finder press Command-F to open a search window. From the Kind pop-up menu, choose Other…. Find

Re: Can iOS store info in stacks?

2011-09-26 Thread Gerry Orkin
Yes - but only in stacks you copy to the device from the app bundle, because you'll need to save the stack to preserve the data and you can't modify the app bundle after it's installed. So you have a stub stack that contains your main stack in the Copy Files pane of the app, and on first launch

Re: Can iOS store info in stacks?

2011-09-26 Thread Gerry Orkin
Bill wrote: Is this stack something I could manually replace from an external source? Yes. But I don't think Dixie's idea is very practical - you as the developer can do what he suggests, and your users can add files to the device through iTunes, but that isn't very convenient. On the other

Re: scrolling text field for iOS

2011-09-30 Thread Gerry Orkin
http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=54t=8419sid=bf0fce69c0385b78e776bf617b2dc5b0 On 30/09/2011, at 4:58 PM, paolo mazza wrote: Hi all, I set up a finger scrolling text field for an iOS application taking into consideration that the content of the text field change according to the

Re: Get a Mobile Unique ID iOS and Android

2011-10-04 Thread Gerry Orkin
As of iOS 5 Apple have depreciated the UDID. I expect RunRev will remove the ability to read USIDs in a future update. Gerry -- Sent from my iPhone. On 05/10/2011, at 12:26 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: You could ask the user for their number. I would bet that it's not

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-04 Thread Gerry Orkin
Chipp wrote: it was pretty well known there was SUPPOSED to be a 4 and a 5, only they just announced the 4. Supposed to be? According to whom? Apple, or the zillions of blogs and pundits and analysts? Don't blame Apple for not meeting your ill-informed expectations :) Gerry

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
Chipp If parts of your messages are off limits for a response then help me by marking them as such :) There's nothing personal about my comments. We are ALL ill-informed when it comes to speculation about unannounced products. There's all sorts of noise and nonsense in the lead up, some of it

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
You and your wife are a very small sample. But I'm glad you found a phone that works for you (so have I - it's an iPhone). And honestly, arguing for the superiority of a phone based on the numbers sold is just bad science. Lot's of factors (personal preference, carrier choice, cost, product

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
Chipp wrote: here is the only way I know how to simply add a folder to my photos collection: 1. Dock my iPad/iPhone to my desktop computer Really? This is how I do it: 1) Open Photos app on the device 2) Touch the Albums button 3) Touch the Add button 4) Name the album 2. Wait for it to

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
Chipp In what way is your refusal to keep your iOS devices (and knowledge of their capabilities) up-to-date a problem with the iPhone? By your own measure iOS is (apparently) broken, and yet you refuse to fix the problem because if it ain't broke, don't fix it? And it well might be a feature

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
Set up to do that on iOS took me less than an hour, and it takes a new ad hoc user about 10 minutes to add themselves to the distribution group once I've issued an invite. Actually distributing an ad hoc build takes me...oh...5 minutes? A huge pain, I agree... Gerry On 06/10/2011, at 8:57

Re: Jobs Passed Away

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
Yup. Apple just announced the news. Gerry -- Sent from my iPhone. On 06/10/2011, at 10:47 AM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: Our local news just broadcast that Steve Jobs passed away recently. Anybody else see this news? Sad, came across a TED talk he apparently gave several

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
I don't use enterprise distribution so I can't comment on that - it does sound a pain, and I'm not defending it - read my message again. My point was that your problems with that have NO bearing on whether the iPhone is or is not a better choice for typical users. As for my method of

Re: new iPhone 4s

2011-10-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
How are you updating your apps? Do you users automatically receive updates every time they launch their app? Yes. I have about 45 users using a custom app that downloads updates from my own server on startup. The mechanism took a day or two to work out but it works flawlessly. I have

Re: Photo album

2011-10-06 Thread Gerry Orkin
Use a browser control to display the photos. Gerry On 07/10/2011, at 12:44 PM, Sergio Schvarstein wrote: Hi, I need to do exactly what the photo album does on the iPhone and incorporate all 4 gestures on a single image: Pinch, zoom, drag and swipe. I have gone through the multi

Re: Photo album

2011-10-08 Thread Gerry Orkin
it or any other way for getting this result ? __ Sergio Schvarstein __ El 07/10/2011, a las 05:06, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com escribió: From: Gerry Orkin gerry.or...@gmail.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode

Re: Photo album

2011-10-09 Thread Gerry Orkin
Sergio (and everyone else :)) The demo stack is at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/67170/examples/gallerydemo.zip. It includes a folder of images and html/css files that are bundled with the app engine but copied out to the Documents folder when you first run the stack in the simulator. The code then

Re: is runrev.com down?

2011-10-09 Thread Gerry Orkin
The store part of the RunRev site is giving me errors (I can't get to it at all) and I can't activate a licence. g On 10/10/2011, at 2:54 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: The RunRev website is not opening for me, anyone sees it? ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: How do I save preferences for iOS apps?

2011-10-24 Thread Gerry Orkin
Just save it out as a text file into the Documents or cache folder. g On 25/10/2011, at 11:23 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote: I want to save preferences in an iOS application. Is the best way to do that to save a plist for the app? If so, is there a standard method for doing it?

Re: available space iOS

2011-11-03 Thread Gerry Orkin
I don't think we can... g On 03/11/2011, at 2:25 PM, ddas wrote: How do I check for available space on iOS? Regards, Debdoot ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Access contacts on iOS?

2011-11-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
Does anyone know if there's any way to access the Contacts on iOS? There isn't (yet?) a way to do that. Not sure if there ever will be, unless the iCloud API provides one. Gerry -- http://gerryorkin.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Mobile apps: Where to store web service login details

2011-11-10 Thread Gerry Orkin
Thanks Andre, I did look at special folders but it appears the only location on iOS and Android with read/write access is the 'documents' special folder. The iOS release notes list these locations as valid for files: home – the (unique) folder containing the application bundle and its

Re: [ANN] iOS Barcode Reader External Demo In App Store

2011-12-19 Thread Gerry Orkin
Monte Works perfectly for me! Great work, and smart move to push it through the store to check compliance. I'm lining up to purchase this :) Gerry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: [ANN] iOS Barcode Reader External Demo In App Store

2011-12-20 Thread Gerry Orkin
QR codes scan almost instantly - Code 128 take a fair bit longer. QR suits my immediate purpose so I'm fine with that, but is there any reason Code 128 takes so much longer? Gerry On 20/12/2011, at 1:11 PM, Gerry Orkin wrote: Monte Works perfectly for me! Great work, and smart move

Re: Launcher stacks on iOS etc.

2011-12-28 Thread Gerry Orkin
I do, because my apps have to to go to different stacks depending on the running environment. My launcher handles that and also initialises SQLite databases. Using a launcher also lets me store files that need to be copied to the device in one place, rather than in multiple places, given that

Re: Take a picture iPhone camera

2012-01-02 Thread Gerry Orkin
Paolo It's in the release notes for iOS. Look for Photo album and camera support and Saving photos to the users album. Gerry On 03/01/2012, at 1:47 PM, Paolo Mazza wrote: Hi All, New year, new question! How to Take a picture (and save the image in the pictures folder) using the

Re: looking for new iOS device, anyone recommends iPod Touch?

2012-01-18 Thread Gerry Orkin
I use one (and an iPhone 4s). The touch doesn't have a GPS chip - otherwise it's a great testing device for the price :) g On 19/01/2012, at 11:52 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: So I am thinking about buying an iPod Touch to serve as my testing device for iOS. Anyone here has some feedback or

Re: iOS: multiline (UITextView) control weirdness

2012-01-27 Thread Gerry Orkin
It's roll your own unfortunately. Shouldn't be too hat to code - just do a repeat loop through all your controls subtracting the right amount from the second item in their loc. so the opposite wen finished editing. Gerry -- Sent from my iPhone. On 28/01/2012, at 3:28 AM, Chris Sheffield

Re: Does 'quit' have a place in iOS apps?

2012-02-19 Thread Gerry Orkin
LC iOS apps don't stay alive when you quit them with the Home button. You can save and restore things to give the impressions of a quit and resume, but the app itself is killed when you quit. In my experience the on shutdown command is the best place to put stuff you want to do when the app

Re: Does 'quit' have a place in iOS apps?

2012-02-19 Thread Gerry Orkin
Yup, LC apps can't take advantage of background functioning...yet. Hopefully that will change in a future release. Gerry On 20/02/2012, at 12:12 PM, Ken Ray wrote: I assume is the case with LC apps. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: How to manage user alerts from apps when in the background

2012-02-20 Thread Gerry Orkin
I think the LC team were going to look into push notifications. So you might have this ability in the future. Gerry On 20/02/2012, at 6:49 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: Can LiveCode alert the user of things such as inbound message when the app is in the background?

Re: iOS And XML Image Results Download in the Background?

2012-02-21 Thread Gerry Orkin
Yep, this is do-able. Have a look at this post on the forums: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=49t=8934start=15#p43063 . That's an example of an iOS app that downloads another stack from the internet and then goes to that stack. You have a different use case but the method of

Re: iPhone audio calls

2012-02-21 Thread Gerry Orkin
I can't think of a better method... g On 21/02/2012, at 10:49 PM, Richard MacLemale wrote: Is that the best method, or would there be a better way? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Swipe lag

2012-02-23 Thread Gerry Orkin
I don't think you need to do a lock screen for this - try visual effect push right go previous card Gerry On 24/02/2012, at 5:38 AM, Devin Asay wrote: Has anyone else seen this? Is there a better way to respond to swipe gestures? ___ use-livecode

Re: Cheap Android Tablet

2012-02-25 Thread Gerry Orkin
But possibly under a different name... g On 25/02/2012, at 8:10 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote: Looking at the Sumvision site, it looks like they are based in China. I'd be surprised if their products were not sold in the US. ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: [iOS] Suspending and quitting

2012-03-03 Thread Gerry Orkin
I'm pretty sure you can't suppress the splash screen. As for the best place to run your code for saving the current state of the app...I use the shutdown message. Gerry -- Sent from my iPhone. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: [iOS] Suspending and quitting

2012-03-03 Thread Gerry Orkin
Oh right, sorry...misunderstood. No, you can't tell the method by which the user has switched or quit from an app, as far as I've been able to tell. But it's probably not a big issue - I don't think the average user uses the task list method of switching to other apps. Gerry On 04/03/2012,

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-03 Thread Gerry Orkin
It could be the difference in the time taken to display the returned records? I've found SQLite in LC to be pretty fast in searching large data sets. Gerry On 04/03/2012, at 10:00 AM, Jérôme Rosat wrote: Do you have any ideas to improve performance?

Re: [iOS] Suspending and quitting

2012-03-03 Thread Gerry Orkin
Dar Scott wrote: I think you almost always suspend unless the user pushed a button on the app to quit. I can't point to any guidelines. LC iOS apps don't suspend - they only quit. We might get the ability to suspend them in the future, but we don't have it right now. I've never seen an

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Gerry Orkin
Tim Jones wrote: I agree that the higher pixel density will provide for more comfortable reading, but it also means that we'll now need to add still another screen size to the three that we already must check for (iPhone, iPhone Retina, and iPad). I know! Horrendous! Android would never

Re: Is this possible on iOS?

2012-04-10 Thread Gerry Orkin
Yes. Gerry On 10/04/2012, at 3:47 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: But is it possible to save out a stack from the app locally, allowing it to be saved periodically and loaded locally at startup? ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Is this possible on iOS?

2012-04-10 Thread Gerry Orkin
(Documents) /yourStackOnDevice.livecode)) go stack specialFolderPath(Documents) /yourStackOnDevice.livecode end if Gerry On 10/04/2012, at 5:12 PM, Gerry Orkin wrote: Yes. Gerry On 10/04/2012, at 3:47 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: But is it possible to save out a stack from the app

Re: [OT] nice views from my city

2012-04-16 Thread Gerry Orkin
Andre wrote: (prettiest bay ever). It is very pretty :) My bay looks like this (2mb file): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/67170/examples/skiesmatrix.jpg Gerry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: [OT] nice views from my city

2012-04-16 Thread Gerry Orkin
Yep, Norfolk Island pines. I was in Melbourne this past weekend. Nice weather :) Gerry On 16/04/2012, at 4:28 PM, Terry Judd wrote: Are they Norfolk pines along the sea-front? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Datagrid in scroller on iOS update speed?

2012-05-01 Thread Gerry Orkin
Turn on accelerated rendering :) on preopenstack if the environment is mobile then set the acceleratedRendering of this stack to true end preopenstack Gerry On 01/05/2012, at 4:03 PM, Ken Corey wrote: Are there any tricks for improving the speed of datagrids in scrollers I should

Re: what should be done with MobGUI?

2012-05-25 Thread Gerry Orkin
Is MobGUI abandonware? Does anyone know if John is working on updates? Cheers Gerry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: delete Url on mobile

2013-07-29 Thread Gerry Orkin
On iOS at least you can't change the binary at run time in any way. Apple won't allow it. g On 30/07/2013, at 12:19 PM, Thomas McGrath III mcgra...@mac.com wrote: Can you delete a file on mobile if it is in the engine folder? delete URL (file: specialFolderPath(engine) / tName) Tom

Re: [ANN] mApp 1.0.1

2013-07-29 Thread Gerry Orkin
Monte, thanks. Is there documentation for mApp? g On 30/07/2013, at 9:52 AM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Hi Folks I normally don't spam this list with maintenance release announcements but this is a fairly critical one for mApp users wanting to work on LC 6.1+. It

Re: Scrolling group on iPad

2013-08-04 Thread Gerry Orkin
Data grids are not all that complex once you get the hang of them. But I'm guessing that the link to online images is your weak spot. Can't they be located in the device? Gerry On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 7:48 PM, Jim sims s...@ezpzapps.com wrote: The iPad app has a set of groups like this:

Re: Prepare image usage

2013-08-04 Thread Gerry Orkin
prepare image file http://yourserver.com/logos/logo.jpg;... ...should do it. Assuming of course that it works on online images... Gerry On 05/08/2013, at 3:28 PM, Jim sims s...@ezpzapps.com wrote: I have 100 thumbnail images on a server that I want to use and reuse, in a very quick display

Re: Prepare image usage

2013-08-04 Thread Gerry Orkin
on my experience with other kinds of data it should. Gerry On 05/08/2013, at 3:45 PM, Gerry Orkin gerry.or...@gmail.com wrote: prepare image file http://yourserver.com/logos/logo.jpg;... ...should do it. Assuming of course that it works on online images

Re: Prepare image usage

2013-08-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
I might have missed something but why not download the images the first time the app ever loads (and store them locally)? As I understand it you'll need to do that for all the images only the first time it loads, and then from time to time just download updates? Once downloaded you could cache

Re: Prepare image usage

2013-08-05 Thread Gerry Orkin
So i can use: get URL tFile and then save to a folder inside the ipad app. Yep. I'd probably .zip a folder with the initial thumbnails that gets downloaded and expanded the first time your app runs. Expand them into a thumbnails folder that you create inside the Documents folder on the device.

Looking for a couple of testers for a word game

2013-08-15 Thread Gerry Orkin
Hi all Any volunteers care to give me feedback on an iOS word game that's nearing release? Please email me off list :) Thanks in advance! Gerry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: iPhoneControls group close

2013-09-07 Thread Gerry Orkin
That will delete the group from the stack - is that what the OP wanted?? On 05/09/2013, at 11:18 AM, Thomas McGrath III mcgra...@mac.com wrote: Go to the main Stack where the offending group is being shown in the IDE and select Remove Group from the Object Menu. That should do it.

Re: Google's SPAM filters [was Re: Finding the calling code/object/script?]

2013-09-07 Thread Gerry Orkin
I have been thinking that the list was dead - until I saw 216 messages that have been filtered into my gmail spam folder.  Ugh.  Gerry — Sent from Mailbox for iPad On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 7:57 AM, Nicolas Cueto nicon...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug

Re: iPhoneControls group close

2013-09-07 Thread Gerry Orkin
McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Sep 7, 2013, at 2:12 AM, Gerry Orkin gerry.or...@gmail.com wrote: That will delete the group from the stack - is that what the OP wanted?? On 05/09/2013, at 11:18 AM, Thomas McGrath III mcgra...@mac.com wrote: Go to the main

Re: iPhoneControls group close

2013-09-07 Thread Gerry Orkin
Can you show us the code you use to create the browser control? Gerry On 08/09/2013, at 9:23 AM, Vaughn Clement vclem...@gmail.com wrote: The browser group is the name of the group object that I am using to display the Google or MapQuest web site.

Re: iPhoneControls group close

2013-09-08 Thread Gerry Orkin
Vaughn Tom beat me to it re the rect you are using and the delete control stuff. However I think Tom is wrong about his second delete example since you haven't given the browser control a name when you create it. Do that this way: iphoneControlCreate browser, mapbrowser That way you can

Re: Apple Safari 6.1 issues warning

2013-09-09 Thread Gerry Orkin
Is that a pig I see flying past the window? Gerry On 08/09/2013, at 5:49 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that IF people voted with their feet and moved over to Linux and other alternatives en masse this would bring pressure to bear on Microsoft, Apple and

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