Re: Transparent browser widgets?

approach used then would work on Mac too. Therefore, it seemed a reasonable thing to record this fact - it gives no indication of when it might get done, if at all (of course, being open-source means that someone who is not us might do it). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~

Re: Transparent browser widgets?

urrently on our near term todo list. 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 subscr

Re: Transparent browser widgets?

d iOS. 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 and manage yo

Re: Transparent browser widgets?

are islands-on-their-own. That being said, CEF does have a windowless mode in more recent versions which might be usable to get a similar effect. However, I'm not sure what would be involved in providing that as a choice. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ htt

Re: SVG widget?

ns.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/SVG_Essentials/Paths 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

Re: WannaCry [OT]

On 2017-05-13 16:53, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: " The WannaCry virus only infects machines running Windows" http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-39896393 Err . . . Linux *cough* Heartbleed *cough* ;) Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.li

Re: WannaCry [OT]

boot record of floppy discs to inject malicious code; and around the same time MS had to do something about AutoRun - which was the source of a great deal of viral infections when people handed around USB sticks without thinking. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@live

Re: Problem placing an image on the clipboard...

The paintcompression global property is rle by default (at least in 6.7.x) - in the ide it gets set to png. So try setting it to png on startup of your standalone. Warmest regards, Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 8 May 2017, at 20:00, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > Using LC 6.7.11

Re: Shell argv

lows you to pass extra arguments to the application which is chosen to open the file. The argument never gets passed. Does anyone know how to pass arguments to argv from the terminal when open a file so I can use the script from a shell command? What exactly are you trying to do? Warmest

Re: Relayering Controls in 9 dp5 problematic?

I think there was a bug in dp5 with respect to relayering... It was either fixed in dp6 or will be in dp7 (when that finally appears!). Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 7 May 2017, at 03:43, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > wrote: > > layout card > make some controls > click on pr

Re: Calling a livecode executable -ui from LC server and get back a result.

It is only editbin.exe you need which might floating around online on its own somewhere... Also I think the subsystem is specified in a byte in the header of a PE executable so could be twizzled with a script that modifies that byte... Probably an easy exercise for anyone who likes poking aroun

Re: Calling a livecode executable -ui from LC server and get back a result.

uit') until I did Ctrl-C. At which point control returned to the console. So - I think the EditBin suggestion will do as you want - and let you create a standalone (built or unbuilt) which runs like a normal console command so you should be able to get its output in shell() or from open

Re: Calling a livecode executable -ui from LC server and get back a result.

nately (as the linked articles mention) it is not possible to change this behavior after the app is launched - the OS decides what to do when it is launched by looking at what SUBSYSTEM is marked in the EXE. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com

Re: Image Caching / defaultfolder weirdness

the structure of your app on disk? Does it work on either platform as it stands? Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Calling a livecode executable -ui from LC server and get back a result.

t... It might... 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 and man

Re: Documentation on Accelerated Rendering

using OpenGL compositor on a recent iDevice at the time. 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

Re: Documentation on Accelerated Rendering

he stack using the normal painter's algorithm into offscreen buffer approach. - When I turn it off, does it dump all the buffers? I think it does. Yes. - What does it do between card changes? Does it keep old buffers until the cache limit is hit? No - the buffer is flushed whe

Re: Make numberFormat even better AND Cognitive Load

3) How to make numberFormat and array keys play nice together They are all distinct issues really, although the numberFormat is involved in all three (at least in some way) :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can c

Re: Primes and primality checking

You can only represent integers up to around 2^53 without losing precision (as they are represented using IEEE doubles) which means the maximum number you can check for primality using this method is around 9007199254740992. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ h

Re: An anomaly in the "read from file" command?

opened yet? Shouldn't LiveCode have gotten fussy about that? The read / write file commands both set 'the result' if there is an error with the operation requested - in this case it would be set to something like 'file not open'. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark W

Re: Make numberFormat even better

to have infinite precision integers?) and (2) make the language more ergonomic when dealing with numeric arrays - allowing to use 'numberFormat' (or whatever) *and* numeric arrays. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create ap

Re: Make numberFormat even better

ve both the classic simplicity and more power, by adding more optional symbols and rules. That is very true - however, this thread has made me question what job does numberFormat *actually* do and in LiveCode it is just a formatting property - in comparison to HyperCard it has 0 effect on arithmetic.

Re: Don't amputate numberFormat (was: affecting array keys???)

tp://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14876 Unfortunately, fixing any three of those without some sort of compatibility mechanism would break large amounts of existing code which is written to code with the issue. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://w

Re: Don't amputate numberFormat (was: affecting array keys???)

Of course, if you don't mean the above, then you might want to elaborate :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.

Re: Subject: Re: Don't amputate numberformat

ar X to Y evaluation. So we end up going back round in a circle... Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. I should say that the above should not be taken as 'this is not possible to do', more that a naive approach to doing it probably isn't going to work so something a little c

Re: Don't amputate numberFormat (was: affecting array keys???)

On 2017-04-22 02:51, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote: Mark Waddingham: I think this is perhaps more evidence that 'numberFormat' should probably be deprecated - or at least marked as 'present for HyperCard compatibility only and shouldn't be used in new code'.

Re: numberFormat affecting array keys???

#x27;. 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 and manage your s

Re: numberFormat affecting array keys???

a certain number of decimal places, it can't faithfully represent it except for a subset of values). My general recommendation is: 1) Don't use numberFormat in new code. 2) Use format() to format your numbers *when you want to display them*. 3) Use round() to control the precision

Re: The selectedObjects - is it a container or not?

ines in no object - which makes no sense) 2) There is a selected object, but it has no idea of a 'text' property so doesn't have anything for 'the number of lines of' to process. Hope this helps! Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://ww

Re: Negative Numbers and NumberFormat

it should and should not do! Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 5 Apr 2017, at 19:56, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode > wrote: > >> On 2017-04-05 20:28, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: >> And here is an oddity again. In the dictionary, there is no mention of >> sp

Re: Negative Numbers and NumberFormat

hould be included in these width calculations I guess is a matter of debate... Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. Apologies for missing your actual point before, I should have read the thread in more detail before posting ;) -- Mark Waddingham ~ m..

Re: Negative Numbers and NumberFormat

On 2017-04-05 19:21, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: The latter bit about 'not being able to do arithmetic' might sound odd but it is a reflection of the finiteness of computers. Just correcting myself: 'finiteness of computers' was the wrong thing to say here -

Re: Negative Numbers and NumberFormat

if you don't do arithmetic on them' - but it is often the case that our programs manipulate numbers without doing anything to them, we just need to know that 'they are numbers'. A good example is the json importers/exporters which exist. They do zero arithmetic - they me

Re: revBrowser

On 2017-04-05 18:18, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: That is a good question - I shall check... Panos dug this out: <https://livecode.com/a-mini-web-browser-in-under-15-minutes-sample-stack-included/> Hope this helps! Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com

Re: revBrowser

parison to a normal control. The browser widget, on the other hand, is as simple as 'drag the widget from the tools palette to your card and set its url property'. The properties are also editable in the Property Inspector. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode

Re: revBrowser

Any reason for revBrowser over the browser widget? ;) 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 subs

Re: Is there a technical difference between a RC and stable release?

ould be no harm in using it in a production release. Indeed, people using RCs in production is actually very helpful for us as it increases general test coverage, increasing the chance of finding any regressions (which actually affect production code) in it. Hope this helps, Mark. -- Mark

Re: Line numbers for soft-wrapped styled text?

e.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19515 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, unsubscrib

Re: Private Repo Services

an tell!) for small teams - I don't know if there are any usage limits, but it certainly seems more than sufficient for my personal use. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps _

Re: Gradients with transparency?

the gradient, the color should be solid red 0.5,255,0,0,127 -> at half way through the gradient, the color should be 50% transparent red. Hope this helps! Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can creat

Re: OMG WTF detailed files BST?

ur app is running on is probably the best thing to try and get now - i.e. the details of the network share and how it is configured in the VM. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps __

Re: Cheesed off by 32xxx

it real numbers which given an integer range up to around 2^24). So, updating the engine to use floats or similar in its co-ordinates for controls is certainly possible, just not a task we've undertaken yet. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://ww

Re: Re Quick Test for Tiemo

older LiveCode versions was a little lacking in this regard, it is more specific in 6.7.x onwards (i.e. it tells you why it doesn't think it is a stack!) :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Ever

Re: OMG WTF detailed files BST?

On 2017-03-31 13:20, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Hi Ben, This might be of interest: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms724290(v=vs.85).aspx On 2017-03-31 12:48, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: The standalone, built from LC 6.7.11, is running on a

Re: OMG WTF detailed files BST?

, which has a volume mounted from a server running an unknown operating system. What is the filesystem of the volume? The above document suggests that FAT stores filetimes in local time and *not* universal time which sounds like it might be the problem... Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark

Re: codePointToNum

ert(10, 16, codepointToNum("§") or you can use format: put format("%x", codepointToNum("§")) The latter is much more flexible e.g.: put format("\\u{%06x}", codepointToNum("§")) Gives the codepoint as the escape sequence for JSON strings (for

Re: could you please make a quick test for me?

. -- 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 and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

ht be. Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. In terms of 1CF7 - it still looks like you might have to use a PUA char for it to have it work on Mac until it becomes widely supported :( -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps _

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

can generally be sorted out with a spanner, a soldering iron and a few vulgar words. Sounds a bit like computers from the 1980's too! (The spanner usually being used to hit the case, rather than actually spanner anything ;)) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@live

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

pleworks and Bryce. I'd point out that TenFourFox is a fork of FireFox and is not a Mozilla project. i.e. A third-party has taken the responsibility for maintaining a fork of an open-source project to ensure there is a variant of FireFox which runs on older systems... Warmest Regards, Ma

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

On 2017-03-27 14:39, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: In regards to your specific requirements, I had a thought on that last night. I think essentially what you want is a way to treat a sequence of codepoints in a field as a sequence of glyph indicies into the current font. So rather than

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

h / baseline in the glyph to position it sequentially. 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 th

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

properly (I think I might have had an old version installed). After removing 'Devawriter' completely (using Font Book) and then reinstalling (by double clicking the latest version) - I get all codepoints appearing as expected. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.

Re: differences between text/imagedata of image in LC6/8 (EDIT)

On 2017-03-24 11:58, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: What works in LC8/9 is 2. set the text of img 2 to the text of img 1 and 3. put img 1 into img 2 Both of these do the same thing - (3) is short hand for (1). I mean (3) is short-hand for (2) here! Mark. -- Mark

Re: differences between text/imagedata of image in LC6/8

ent and attach the decompressed image data to the image object. Then, when the second image's filename is set, it will find the image is already in the cache and just use the decompressed image data attached to that file in the cache. i.e. The two images share the same pixel data

Re: Linux 32bit?

he wrong result because the download is: 'LiveCodeCommunityInstaller-8_1_3-Linux.x64' Yes - indeed - that would be a bug. I've filed a report about it here: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19454 So, hopefully we will get it corrected soon. Warmest Regards,

Re: rawKeyUp/Down give different keys for same char since LC 8

interest, what are you using the rawKey messages for? 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: byteLen()?

cular encoding) is useful since surely you need the byte sequence to search for anyway, in which case the number of bytes is the length of that byte sequence that you already have... Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can c

Re: byteLen()?

't worry, it wouldn't be the default behavior) because if you aren't clear about how you are doing the conversion (i.e. which conversion you are using) it is a potential source of hard to find errors in code. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ htt

Re: "ouch: the beginning of the end"

at might need to be printed to PDF. 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 u

Re: byteLen()?

Hi Richard, No, there is no such function as the byte length is a property of text which has been encoded with a specific encoding, not text in general. the number of bytes in textEncode(tText, kEncoding) Should give you what you need. Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 9 Mar 2

Re: "ouch: the beginning of the end"

s you need and/or a platform which provides the functionality out of the box. (My gut tells me that starting with Mac/iOS due to their built in API support for what you want to do is probably the best first step to take at least then you get a product which works as it needs to to - and like

Re: Windows and OSX 64-bit builds?

is a hard limit of co-ordinate magnitude in LC and thus the size of any object - 32767 pixels on any side of anything. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: AW: Different result in LC 6 to LC 8 when copying field text into Excel?

They are platform-specific - the 'original' win32 ones are here: It looks like Tiemo has discovered a bug in the docs! Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 8 Feb 2017, at 16:17, Richard Gaskin via use

Re: Difference between "html" and "htmlText" in clipboardData?

and does not use any 'legacy' rules to determine what keys appear ('the clipboardData' only allows a single actual datatype, so uses priority rules to determine which you see). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCod

Re: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8?

Am 16.01.2017 um 18:30 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>: Sure - here is how I'd slightly adjust Tiemo's code: *put fld "name" into myName* -- ... *open file myFile for binary write* *write textEncode(myName, "

Re: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8?

F-8 This may or may not be the case. If 'theName' is encoded as UTF8 before being URLEncode, all that needs to be checked is that the PHP (on the other end) is decoding it into a string as UTF-8 before passing it to MySQL. Warmest ega

Re: AW: AW: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8?

ving from 6.7 -> 7.0. You can use the 'utf8' keyword to open utf-8 encoded files; however, you have to deal with urlEncode manually (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, since your server scripts determines what the URL Encoded bytes mean after the '?' - N

Re: AW: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8?

itly decode it as UTF8 on the PHP side (or set a property in PHP which changes the default assumption about URLs - I apologise for not being more accurate here, my knowledge of PHP is a little stale these days!). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingha

Re: Why do I still need MacToISO, when working with UTF-8?

e problem is at the point of LC's communication with PHP, rather than within LC. Thanks in advance! Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livec

Re: Changes to use-livecode list.

15/05/28/solving-the-problem-of-dmarcs-incompatibility-with-mailing-lists-part-1/> Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liveco

Re: Codesigning issue with revxml.bundle in LC 8

doing: xattr -cr myApp Before running codesign and see if it works. This command should clear out any extended attributes on all files in your app bundle. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode

Re: Jumping cursors

es as surrogate pairs . . . Doing so wouldn't do you any good anyway. The bug lies in the processing of the string *after* it has been constructed - whether it is constructed directly from codepoints, or codeunits wouldn't make a difference. I've submitted a PR for a fix to th

Re: Jumping cursors

a completely different purpose). 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, uns

Re: Behaviors and the message path

e path, it seemed sensible that it should do the 'similar' thing in the behavior chain. As currently implemented, it means that you can get a whole list of things to 'do something' on a particular event; should each one pass (just as you can with the 'normal' message p

Re: Any workaround to make a modal stack behave like we were used to?

x27; in to deal with limitations of Chromium. In any case, something LC is doing with its own modals is interacting badly - system modals (e.g. answer file etc.) seem to be unaffected; as are a couple of other apps I tried. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.li

Re: Behaviors and the message path

r chain there is only ever a single real object - the control using the chain - thus there is only one thing that can be the target of message sends. Hope this helps, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps

Re: Clone graphic does not respect dimensions

ffects. 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 and

Re: Is there a mapping table for all rawKeyUp Codes?

*after* the content has been changed you could try using the 'textChanged' message. This is sent after any user editing operation has completed, but before the screen is unlocked and the changes displayed. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ htt

Re: Determine if script is running

The waitDepth tells you how many nested wait calls are (recursively) in progress - that might be useful for what you need. Warmest regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 27 Nov 2016, at 14:08, Mike Kerner wrote: > > If a beginner was asking this question, I would skip the thread and move on

Re: JavaScript + LC HTML5 = LiveCode.js

. Browser JS APIs are rich and diverse, and become more so each year. For most things it will be a case of 'when', and not 'if'. Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Nov 2016, at 20:08, Mark Waddingham wrote: > > The connection could possibly be made by using web sockets I gu

Re: JavaScript + LC HTML5 = LiveCode.js

.967.1625 > Simpsonville, SC 29681 C: 864.908.0337 > SealedAir.com <http://www.sealedair.com/> roger.e.el...@sealedair.com > > > > >> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 2:40 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: >> >> Indeed. >> >> Once we have JS which &#

Re: Draw an adjustable Trapezoid in Livecode - How to change x, y of the 4 corner points of a rect

Check out the editMode property of graphic objects. Warmest regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Nov 2016, at 04:44, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > > I want to be able to draw an adjustable trapezoid in Livecode. > > The regular polygon tool set to 4 sides doesn't allow you to gr

Re: JavaScript + LC HTML5 = LiveCode.js

Indeed. Once we have JS which 'does a similar thing' to answer file (or any other OS related piece of syntax) - hooking it up to that command is relatively straightforward. The hard part is writing the JavaScript implementations of the various OS services we are so used to using directly in LC

Re: Is there a mapping table for all rawKeyUp Codes?

Hi Tiemo, If you search for 'PlatformKeyCode' in this file: https://github.com/livecode/livecode/blob/develop/engine/src/platform.h It should give you what you need. Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Nov 2016, at 16:31, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > > Hello, > > since keyUp

Re: iTunes Connect rejection

false-positive on Apple's part (when statically checking the binary). It *could* be that a name of one of the (public) symbols in the engine is confusing their system. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can c

Re: How can we dynamically create variable names from changing value "x" on a loop?

#x27;, and then using array access in explodeRow to form the aData array (also making sure explodeRow is private will help too). Just my two pence. Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps __

Re: How can we dynamically create variable names from changing value "x" on a loop?

ay not be significantly slower; but it definitely is slower. Ben ___ 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/list

Re: Stack name conflicts resolved?

as stack X of stack Y, it now does not break if you have two substacks with the same name in memory. (However 'the finding the right stack' problem still exists if you have a substack anywhere with the same name as a mainstack). Warmest Regards, Mark.

Re: Updating Text-Script Only Stacks in Run-Time, Message Path Memory

form which means they work well with version control such as git. Certainly, you can edit them in text editors outside the IDE; and for some things that can be more convenient. However doing so is no different from loading a stackfile into an IDE and editing it there. Warmest Regards, Mark.

Re: loss of access to stacks after "save as"

6, at 19:37, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 12:24 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: >> >> I suspect it will be because you are referencing your stacks by (the old) >> filename somewhere else and not name - thus causing the engine to load in >> the old f

Re: loss of access to stacks after "save as"

om my iPhone > On 4 Nov 2016, at 19:15, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 4, 2016 at 12:11 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: >> >> Therefore when you subsequently reference the stack by its old filename >> (in the delete) it will load the old stackfile, thus triggering

Re: loss of access to stacks after "save as"

If you save a stack with a new filename, then that changes it filename property. Therefore when you subsequently reference the stack by its old filename (in the delete) it will load the old stackfile, thus triggering the process that occurs when you try to load a stack into memory when one with

Re: Scripting style: Verbs in function names

27;slice and dice' the functionality. (For example, would it be better to have the concept of a 'mime email object' which you use setters and getters to configure?). Just my two pence. Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can

Re: Secure file download via HTTP

ich are flowing on the network. Hope this helps! 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 subscrib

Re: short name broken?

name 'button'); I'm not sure the empty name should be considered specially. Anyway, it is the way it has always been, as you rightly point out. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps __

Re: Drop Shadow Not Available on SVG widget

cgi?id=18735 I can't think of a reason off the top of my head why they shouldn't be allowed to work - I *think* it is just an oversight. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode:

Re: How to ensure that 'close stack' destroys the stack in RAM?

here is a DataStack.livecode file next to the stack containing that stackFiles line; a reference 'stack DataStack' will *always* resolve and load the stack. Essentially, asking whether 'stack DataStack' or not exists doesn't work, because referencing the stack

Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

On 2016-10-11 11:01, Mark Waddingham wrote: 2) If the defaultStack is changed in a handler called from another handler, should the change propagate back up to the caller? I think (2) is definitely not wanted. If the locality of a change to the defaultStack propagates back to callers, then the

Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

ack changes propagate into callees, not back into callers) necessarily model the current usage that well or not. However, they are (at least) relatively easy to write down and understand (?). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Every

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