Re: Dispatch

2022-08-03 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
it is not "unhandled" then... or if it is "passed" then... or if it is "handled" then... and note that you can dispatch functions as well a commands, and the return value of the function will be in the result if "it" is not "unhandled". -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@g

Re: Dispatch

2022-08-03 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
nabled then the command will be handled. If not then there's no downside to calling the feature because it won't cause a runtime error. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url t

Re: wait 0 with messages

2022-07-31 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 7/31/22 12:14, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 7/31/22 12:04 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: I don't think "wait 0" by itself does anything useful. Make a stack with two buttons. Running the script in the first button will prevent mouseUp events in button 2

Re: wait 0 with messages

2022-07-30 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 7/30/22 19:02, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: So Mark, Your understanding is that 'wait 0' (WITHOUT with messages) would allow OS events like a screen redraw, USB drive insertion/removal, etc. but NOT livecode engine events in the queue like mouseDown, mouseUp, resumeStack, etc

Re: wait 0 with messages

2022-07-30 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
process any pending instructions. The "with messages" statement in effect yields control to the event loop to check if any "send in time" messages have timed out and are pending or to handle other tasks that may have accumulated (mouse or keyboard events, etc).

Re: Debugging libraries

2022-07-19 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 7/19/22 15:48, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Thanks for the reply Mark, I did that (after declaring the global first) but breakpoints did not break! But then I discovered that the error was that I was calling a function as a command. ...and as a hint the glx2 script editor will pop

Re: Debugging libraries

2022-07-19 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 7/19/22 15:48, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Thanks for the reply Mark, I did that (after declaring the global first) but breakpoints did not break! But then I discovered that the error was that I was calling a function as a command. Shouldn't that have thrown a runtime error

Re: Debugging libraries

2022-07-19 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
tem stacks (starting with "rev" or plugins). And remember to set it false afterwards. If you're trying to debug a library that's been password-protected, though, it won't help. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode maili

Re: Tree Widget: hilitedValue?

2022-07-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
use an array as an element specifier. Has that been around the whole time, or was it added in recent years? I added it before 6.0 - probably in 4.5 or 5. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 226, Issue 8

2022-07-09 Thread Mark Clark via use-livecode
Hey, saw your post this am and much appreciated. I sent a request to support as well. Thanks for the assist and confirmation! Mark It seems that each time I sign up for the bug tracker and or forums my main livecode.com <http://livecode.com/> password gets mangled. Been happening for

Re: Encrypted Data over Sockets

2022-07-09 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
as the binary equivalents. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman

Re: Encrypted Data over Sockets

2022-07-08 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 7/8/22 17:47, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: But, an encoded array is STILL binary data. So any issues with "read until linefeed" will still exist. Try sending a header with number of bytes, followed by the bytes. Yeah. What he said. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...

Re: Encrypted Data over Sockets

2022-07-08 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
. Curiously, if I just send and receive plain text it works every time. Not sure what "looks like" an encoded array should mean. When you encode an array you get binary data. You can't treat it like text. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com _

Re: Encrypted Data over Sockets

2022-07-08 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
, start by sending a header that contains the data length. Extract that and then read that many bytes. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

MegaBundle whatnot

2022-07-08 Thread Mark Clark via use-livecode
license whatever that maps to now). So, np figure it out later, selected business license and LC starts but the enhancements still show unlicensed. Is there something manual I’m missing? TIA, Mark (on digest mode) ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: On API keys...

2022-06-24 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 6/24/22 10:04, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: The only way to use these keys is from server scripts running on a server which you do your best to maintain the security of. Ideally these keys should be stored in files which are only readable by specific users - usually the web

On API keys...

2022-06-24 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
everyone install an app update with the new one in. Anyway, that's probably more than Tom probably needed to know (or perhaps knew already), but hopefully it is helpful (at least for those who have to deal with API keys and such things!). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m

Re: {OT} Are there any ffmpeg "experts" on this list?

2022-06-24 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
- although the APIs, while similar, do require different code. However, if you are using ffmpeg for things other than concatenating tracks/movies (i.e. the features those libraries provide) then the separate code needed wouldn't be worth it to save inclusion of ffmpeg. Warmest Regards, Mark

Re: How to color a "cell"?

2022-06-23 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-06-23 23:54, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Thanks Mark - works. I could have sworn I'd tried "line" earlier when attempting to set the backgroundColor, and when it failed was when I switched to trying "paragraph". But it works now so I don't mind be

Re: How to color a "cell"?

2022-06-23 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
IIRC you need to use ‘line’ to set ‘paragraph‘ properties of fields… Sent from my iPhone > On 23 Jun 2022, at 19:29, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Craig wrote: > > > Richard wrote: > >> I had hoped the paragraph-level formatting options introduced in > >> v5.x would help, but

Re: M1 Macs and LC 9.6.8 RCs and 10.0.0 RCs

2022-06-21 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-06-21 12:18, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Am 21.06.2022 um 11:56 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode : Why? First, it's more convenient for the developer. I think the end user is more important (in this case) ;) The Intel only and Apple only builds are smaller ins

Re: M1 Macs and LC 9.6.8 RCs and 10.0.0 RCs

2022-06-21 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
binaries mean that when a user upgrades their machine, their apps they already have (backed up, more than likely, and re-imaged on the new machine) will continue to take advantage of their hardware. Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. I should point out that Apple architecture support

Re: M1 Macs and LC 9.6.8 RCs and 10.0.0 RCs

2022-06-20 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
as checked or not when the user hasn't explicitly prodded it in the past (which obviously they won't have done for new apps / those which didn't have the option before!). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps

Re: Referencing Livecode

2022-06-17 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
I think in this instance, probably asking support would be the best bet. > On 16 Jun 2022, at 2:31 pm, David V Glasgow via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I am writing a paper for publication (I hope) describing analysis of internet > predator messages achieved using Livecode. > >

Re: char as word boundary

2022-06-13 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ly on the cards. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-10 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
was going to get a prize or something. Bob S -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-10 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-06-09 20:54, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote: Mark. Gong the other way, is your task made much simpler by losing “converOctals”? I assume so, or the issue would never have come up. Are there other similar language elements that also are on the block? I'm not sure it makes things

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-09 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 6/9/22 05:44, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: So I'm currently sitting here about to embark on fixing <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23653> (which is the final thing to sort out before being able to merge my constant expression patch) and I was re

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-09 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-06-09 16:33, Devin Asay via use-livecode wrote: Wait, you said three questions. But no. What are those two hard problems of computer science again? ;) -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-09 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
> On 9 Jun 2022, at 1:44 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > > So I'm currently sitting here about to embark on fixing > <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23653> (which is the final > thing to sort out before being able to merge my c

Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-09 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
iguous at parse time, it doesn't require a runtime property set to true in order for the engine to convert the string to a number correctly. Please let me know your thoughts :) Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. In the scheme of 'breaking changes' - we've already made a number of them for 10 a

Re: Generating Random numbers to conform a distribution

2022-06-08 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
tTarget repeat for each item tS in tSource put tC * tS + tK & comma after tTarget end repeat return tTarget end randomNumbers Hope this helps! Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode:

Re: Generating Random numbers to conform a distribution

2022-06-07 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
white noise generator too. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman

Re: Case sensitivity in Livecode ??

2022-06-07 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
command onto what I expect that command to do in the server context. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscriptio

Re: Case sensitivity in Livecode ??

2022-06-07 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 6/7/22 10:55, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: I don't buy the 'cognitively different' argument Mark- Thanks for the longish explanations there. I think we'll just have to disagree on the cognitive thing then - I normally would expect functions to return the result of some action

Re: Case sensitivity in Livecode ??

2022-06-07 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-06-07 17:16, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: 1. Because it's a function, not a constant. put gkMyMagicValue() into tVar is cognitively different from put gkMyMagicValue into tVar Something like 17 is a trivial case. Something more like real world usage would be constant

Re: Case sensitivity in Livecode ??

2022-06-07 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 6/7/22 00:18, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: How is that any better than putting something like this in a library or back script:     function gkMyMagicValue     return 17     end gkMyMagicValue Including the global declaration its the same number of lines (indeed less

Re: Case sensitivity in Livecode ??

2022-06-07 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
nd gkMyMagicValue Including the global declaration its the same number of lines (indeed less, as you'd need to put a global declaration in every script which wanted to use said global constant...). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http

Re: Reporting Apple Silicon anomalies (Re: [[ ANN ]] Release 9.6.8 RC-1)

2022-06-06 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
that the discrepancy is between Apple and Intel architectures :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Substacks

2022-06-05 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
econd time. If the (badly-named) destroyStack property of the substack is set to false (the default) then the substack will still be in memory and your preOpenStack handler will be triggered at its current card setting. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com _

Re: Case sensitivity in Livecode ??

2022-06-01 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
like: constant kPiBy2 = pi / 2 constant kPiBy2Squared = kPiBy2 * kPiBy2 constant kPiBy2String = format("%f", kPiBy2) local sPiMap = { "pi-by-2": kPiBy2, "pi-by-2-sq": kPiBy2Squared } Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. Amusingly, your question came

MrSign'n'Notarize

2022-05-31 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
-enhancer!!). Cheers, Mark ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Android,iOS stay in background?

2022-05-31 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
Hi Tom, You can “suspend” iOS apps by putting them into the background, where they are maintained in a sort of “hibernated” state, ready to go when you open them again, and you can detect this. But it is also possible to “unload” them from memory by swiping up on apps that you can see lurking

Re: Substacks

2022-05-28 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
to “mainstack” or close this stack it always closes (quit) everything. Need “mainstack” to reappear/remain ? Looked at docs and other posts. But stuck no doubt I have missed something. Do you have a closeStack handler in the script of the mainstack? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: A test, move along

2022-05-27 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 5/27/22 16:03, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote: As a professor, I’ll grade it a B-. I thought that was a pessimistic blood type. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Formatting code in word

2022-05-24 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
not check spelling or grammar” for that format. > You can also select the newly pasted text and then do the same procedure > (Select language and check the do not check checkbox). > > :-Håkan > >> On 24 May 2022, at 13:00, Mark Smith via use-livecode >> mailto

Formatting code in word

2022-05-24 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
not know how to turn that off. Just wondering if you’ve found a better way for distributing code in word docs. Thanks! Mark ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Set HTMLText and Get Effective HTMLText

2022-05-18 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-05-18 17:43, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: I wish it worked with variables though because execution would be faster. If variables could manipulate styled text (aka htmlText) then they wouldn't be any faster than fields ;) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 224, Issue 9, Re: Decrypting (and encrypting) Large files

2022-05-11 Thread Mark Clark via use-livecode
milliseconds required to encrypt in 5632 runs: 45918 memory utilization 45.7 MB Total milliseconds required to decrypt in 5632 runs: 41725 Thanks all, if anyone would like to check out the gcm flavor from a Mac I’d like to know if you get different (better) results. I’m on 11.6.4, btw. Mark

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 224, Issue 8

2022-05-10 Thread Mark Clark via use-livecode
of the stack) was 44-45MB during both operations. I’ll bump up the byte range and see how that compares. Thanks, Mark > On May 10, 2022, at 11:00 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com > <mailto:use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > there is no way to

Re: Error: Unable to install app - Mac OS 11.5.2 , Xcode 13.2 (13C90), LC 9.6.7 en iOS 15.2

2022-05-09 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
Thanks for letting us know William. Glad the cleanup did the trick. Mark > On May 9, 2022, at 9:00 AM, William de Smet via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi there, > > Thanks for answering my questions. > First off all I downloaded a newer version of Xcode 13.2.1 yesterday b

Decrypting (and encrypting) Large files

2022-05-08 Thread Mark Clark via use-livecode
manageable chunk into memory, decrypting a portion, writing that to disk and repeat. But that seems too simple. Think we need AES 256. Any shared experience much appreciated. Thanks all, Mark ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Error: Unable to install app - Mac OS 11.5.2 , Xcode 13.2 (13C90), LC 9.6.7 en iOS 15.2

2022-05-08 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
and iPhone” setting, and it installed and ran just fine on my iPad. I tried with both the Test button in LC and installing the app with Xcode and in both cases it worked ok, so that can’t be the problem. Do let us know if you track down the cause. Cheers, Mark > On May 7, 2022, at 9:06 AM, Will

Re: devcon 2022 recap

2022-04-29 Thread Mark Talluto via use-livecode
Hi Bob, I am happy to say that Richard Gaskin is our first 3rd party provider. He wants to make connections for many things external. Databases is top on the list the last time we spoke. I’ll ping him to chime in with more details. Best regards, Mark Talluto appli.io <https://appli

Re: devcon 2022 recap

2022-04-28 Thread Mark Talluto via use-livecode
the goals of our suite soon. When they announce, I am confident they will clearly articulate the value proposition. If anyone has Appli questions, please feel free to write us at he...@appli.io. -Mark Talluto > On Apr 28, 2022, at 2:03 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: >

Re: devcon 2022 recap

2022-04-28 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
e scripting provides. I think what I saw in Mark's keynote is the ability in appli do some coding, just not to any extent the deep capabilities of LiveCode. Thus "low code". -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-live

Re: devcon 2022 recap

2022-04-28 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
, and that's good for everybody. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman

Re: devcon 2022 recap

2022-04-28 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
bal/global2022/> Same here. I misjudged the time so I overslept and missed Mark Waddingham's keynote but I'll catch it on the rebound. I do think Appli gives LC what's been missing to draw in new users, so check out Mark Talluto's keynote on day 3 for the details. And I highly recommend Craig Ne

Re: devcon 2022 recap

2022-04-28 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
be looking forward to watching them post-conf when Heather has a chance to upload them. There were a lot of very forward looking sessions from Kevin and company, and Mark Talluto had an interesting take on app development presented during his plenary (Appli.io <http://appli.io/>). Lots of ideas I

Re: devcon 2022 recap

2022-04-28 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
Mike, check out the LC blog posts for summaries of Days 1 and 2, not sure if a day 3 will be posted (https://livecode.com/reporting-on-day-1-of-the-livecode-conference/). > On 28 Apr 2022, at 14:44, Mike Kerner via use-livecode > wrote: > > I am stuck in a time sink. I missed just about all

ANN: PowerTools 2.2.0

2022-04-27 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
for LCB widgets and LCS group controls * Organize widgets into folders * Supports file links cross-platform As always, PowerTools registrations will never expire, so you always have access to the latest versions. <https://www.ahsoftware.net/PowerTools/PowerTools.lc> -- Mark Wieder a

ANN: PowerDebug 2.3

2022-04-22 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
Hi- It's been some three years since a major new release of PowerDebug, and with the 2022 LiveCode conference right around the corner, I think it's time to release PowerDebug 2.3. NOTE: in order to get responsive speed out of this thing, it's now only backwards-compatible to LiveCode 8.0.

Re: widget properties

2022-04-06 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
m in the first place. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Widget properties

2022-04-06 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
uld go a long way to making that happen. Adding to that is the incoming LCS widget architecture, so I'm not putting deep learning time into something I'll just have to unlearn when the next wave hits. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-li

Re: drawingSvgCompileIcon(pIconName) always BLACK

2022-04-06 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
/replace of (e.g.) #ABCDEF with currentColor. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Flash Talks - 3 slots remaining

2022-04-05 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
t... fancy pancakes. *Almost* hated to eat mine. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.

Re: Flash Talks - 3 slots remaining

2022-04-05 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
gadget is no longer supported. All right - now I'm hooked. Looking forward to you talking about the LC interface to the real world. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Flash Talks - 3 slots remaining

2022-04-05 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 4/5/22 10:36, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote: But I do use LC to control three very different machines in our shop. Would it be of any interest to anyone to see one of these in operation? Add me to the list of interested folks. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Confirm sort container order...

2022-03-30 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
umber and depth sort numeric tProfiles by item 4 of each # depth sort numeric tProfiles by item 1 of each # line number sort tProfiles by item 2 of each # handler sort tProfiles by item 3 of each # group by object I just get this, but my mind is confusing me today. Yeah. Not exactly intuiti

Re: Thank you

2022-03-30 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 3/30/22 12:16, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: No question is too silly. Gimme some time... I'm sure I can come up with something. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Weird Standalone Builder issue

2022-03-25 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
macOS exes would be in a different place (because they need to be!) so it wouldn't resolve that - but at least you wouldn't have been 'surprised' by what you found! Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode

Re: Empty Externals folder neccessary to run windows exe successfully?

2022-03-21 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 3/21/22 13:04, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Hi Panos, in the bug report you link to a pull request which was removed for some reasons. Nice fix. I think *all* pull requests were orphaned when the opensource product was removed. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Empty Externals folder neccessary to run windows exe successfully?

2022-03-21 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 3/21/22 09:08, panagiotis m via use-livecode wrote: Hello all, There is a bug report about it: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20223 From *five years ago*. Status 'awaiting merge' Pull request in 2019 removed from the 9.6.0 milesone and still 'waiting for review' -- Mark

Re: (area used by) Keyboard in iOS 15.x

2022-03-20 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
r all coordinates, and therefore can’t really be depended on. Since I am only interested in portrait (at the moment), I will do some further testing to see if I can get reasonable results for most devices using this orientation (including inserting hard coded values where necessary). All the best,

Re: debugging javascript in html5

2022-03-18 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
, rather than debugging JS executed from the engine running the browser) - but I can't see why it wouldn't work. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode

Re: debugging javascript in html5

2022-03-18 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ndlers as tail calls - i.e. as the last thing on a handler. Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. The web engine is (essentially) the running the LC script 'as JavaScript' so the same limitation does not apply - calling LC handlers from JS in the web engine is synchronous. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...

Re: 10.0.0-dp-2 html5 and liburlLastRHHeaders()

2022-03-18 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
- if you could post to a bug report, then we will look into whether that is the case, or there is something else going on. Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. We are hoping to move to the async version of XMLHttpRequest now that we can wait - so that might well be the solution. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m

Re: :MEMORY: databases and Windows

2022-03-17 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
the filename passed and ':memory:'. So, I suggest using ':memory:' as stated by SQLite and all will be well :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use

Re: 10.0.0-dp-2 html5 and liburlLastRHHeaders()

2022-03-17 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
requests I think...) Anyway, file a bug with an example if you can and we'll take a look. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: Problems with Filter?

2022-03-12 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
put "*THIS*FIND*" into tTarget put "abcdef" into tLargeTextString filter tLargeTextString with tTarget set the itemDelimiter to "THIS" put item 2 of tLargeTextString into tSubString set the itemDelimiter to "FIND" put item 1 of tSubStrin

Re: Problems with Filter?

2022-03-12 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 3/12/22 12:06, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: Hi Mark, matchText works fine. That doesn’t explain why “filter” doesn’t work though. Yes. It does. Filter won't give you a substring. You can use filter to get the whole line of text, but you'll still have to dig out the substring

Re: Problems with Filter?

2022-03-12 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
tchtext(tLargeTextString, ".*THIS(.*)FIND.*", tText) into tFound? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preference

Re: Trying to run standalone (headless) on Linux (Ubuntu) - failed at first hurdle

2022-03-10 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
mint which is based on Ubuntu 20. So you should be fine as long as you don't need printing or browsers or the new chart widget or... -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-08 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
Apart from searching I am sure it will provide many other great learning opportunities as well. Looking forward to seeing how it all pans out. Mark > On Mar 6, 2022, at 8:18 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 3/6/22 9:40 AM, William Prothero via use-livecode wr

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 222, Issue 8

2022-03-07 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
rather than cherry. Consequentially I realize my confusion is due to a limitation of what these characters mean to regex. Can anyone clarify for me what the “.” and “*” are doing to change the filter? Thanks > On Mar 7, 2022, at 11:05 AM, Mark Smith wrote: > > I am not an expert

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 222, Issue 8

2022-03-07 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
ents using “without regex pattern” and using “a.*” as the argument returned “cherry” so at least whatever it is doing it is consistent. Mark > On Mar 7, 2022, at 8:58 AM, Quentin Long via use-livecode > wrote: > > sez j. landman gay: >> Interesting idea. There ar

Re: A question about the compiler to come

2022-03-04 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
I also asked about building widgets from LC script. The response was, this could be a step along that path. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 4, 2022, at 2:54 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode > wrote: > > It's nice that aCompileIt!/Double-XX replacement is finally coming to > LiveCode, maybe,

Re: Speed up a slow loop

2022-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ts it is something else either on your phone, or in your code which your phone doesn't like I think. Warmst Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: RIP David Boggs

2022-03-01 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
. That's the New York *Post*. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: RIP David Boggs

2022-03-01 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 3/1/22 10:26, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode wrote: Paywall Opened without a paywall for me. That last quote is a keeper. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Have we lost the Oracle driver?

2022-03-01 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
. If the revLicenseInfo does say professional then something odd has happened somewhere which will need to look into more deeply! Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps

Re: How to install XCode essentials only for LiveCode builds

2022-03-01 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
Thanks for the clarification Panos. Much appreciated. Mark > On Mar 1, 2022, at 2:14 PM, panagiotis m via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hello all, > > Note that this is necessary for building standalone for **macOS**. The > version of the downloaded command line

Re: How to install XCode essentials only for LiveCode builds

2022-02-28 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
How do you know which version you are getting with this? Or is it always just “the latest”? > On Feb 28, 2022, at 8:10 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 2/28/22 1:42 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: >> We do not have to install the complete (ca. 16 GB) Xcode package

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.7 RC-1

2022-02-25 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 2/25/22 11:41, panagiotis m via use-livecode wrote: > @Mark Wieder > > Did you manage to activate this version? Finally after enough trial and error, yes. Both linux and osx. I do have a followup question for support though. > PS: > *>>>>I'm guessing this did

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.7 RC-1

2022-02-25 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 2/25/22 10:16, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Oddly, I was able to download the Pro version but I am not licensed for it. No big deal, but it seems to be a departure from previous experience. I'm guessing this didn't get much testing before release. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.7 RC-1

2022-02-25 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
Can't activate the license, though. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com

Re: Chart widget and axes which are time values.

2022-02-22 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
desktop manager, but after restarting that it looks nice. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: resetall?

2022-02-22 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 2/22/22 00:52, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Can you clarify what you mean by the 'socket seems to not be responding'? Sure. Here you go. I'm communicating between a standalone and a stack in the IDE. I've tried this with 9.6.3, 9.6.6, and 10.0.0-rc2 with the same results, so I

Re: resetall?

2022-02-22 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-02-21 20:17, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 2/21/22 10:37, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Put another way - if you have done 'close socket i', then it is then it should be logically impossible for i to be in the openSockets immediately afterwards. Ah. Sorry - after

Re: Loading a LONG list with images

2022-02-22 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
r (caching the results alongside the original image on the server). For maximum fidelity you want the width/height * the device pixel scale (which can vary from 1 to 3 these days). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can c

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