Thanks for all the fish

PowerDebug and PowerTools have now been released into the wild as opensource tools (MIT license). Code is all intact, although the check for update functionality has been commented out for obvious reasons. Have fun. https://github.com/mwieder/PowerDebug https://github.com/mwieder/PowerTools

Re: LC Licensing and Website

On 11/20/23 10:29, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: I can't license LC or login to my LC account on the website. Anyone else having problems? Yep. It's dead. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Oddity in 'currentCard' function?

On 10/26/23 01:44, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Basically, its main use was for changing card (i.e. as a settable property); rather than finding out what card was current (since that was already catered for via interrogating 'this card of this stack'). So basically to stay out of

Re: PolyGrid: UNhilite a row?

On 10/23/23 10:03, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: See here, I have a long list of PDF files and clicking the widget "index" will filter the PDF list with that char. Davy's On

Re: Android ANR (App not responding | Jacque was right :-)

On 9/15/23 13:10, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: Does accordion count? You know the definition of perfect pitch, right? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Android ANR (App not responding | Jacque was right :-)

On 9/15/23 13:50, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I used to be a musician until I looked up one day and discovered that no one was listening. I guess people got used to the idea that music was just supposed to be background noise, and so they treated live musicians the same way. You see

Re: Clipboard Copy Troubles?

On 9/15/23 12:02, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: Heyall, Just wondering if anyone else has experienced issues where livecode stops being able to copy to the clipboard when using copy command from the menu or CTRL C or right click copy Specifically from within the script editor or a variable

Re: Android ANR (App not responding | Jacque was right :-)

On 9/15/23 11:56, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: Mark and Klaus, Wow, folks I didn't know were musicians! I use iReal Pro too. It's great for practice. And, easily transposes. But as a keyboard player, I use the notes of the tune to shape my solos. iReal Pro only has the chords. It's

Re: Android ANR (App not responding | Jacque was right :-)

On 9/15/23 10:13, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: I also own "iReal Pro" for Mac which can output PDF if I need one and I also still own a printed version of the "Real Book I". :-) The only reason I have a 10" tablet is to run iRealPro on it. Hard to imagine

Re: Your scripts as a flowchart

Just want to add that Andreas has been super-responsive to suggestions re adding features and improving things and this tool has gone from being moderately useful to something I can't do without. And is a textbook example in how to incorporate a javascript library into LiveCode. -- Mark

Re: Installing LC on Ubuntu?

On 9/3/23 11:18, harrison--- via use-livecode wrote: Hi there, I have been trying to install LiveCode on the latest “Jellyfish” version of Ubuntu by following the directions provided by LiveCode lesson: https://lessons.livecode.com/m/2571/l/148050-installing-livecode-on-linux I have found

Re: tsNetGet() on android

On 8/6/23 18:04, scott--- via use-livecode wrote: I’m having difficulty using a LiveCode-created android app to read a (4.7 KB) UTF-8 encoded text file off my server. Desktop and iOS versions of the app have no trouble. This is LC 9.6.9 (tsNet version 1.4.9 Business Edition) I don’t actually

Re: Which Livecode/Xcode/macOS/iOS version

On 7/25/23 15:15, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode wrote: Or, click on” Resources" in the main Nav menu then scroll down to “Support" and there’s your FAQ button! Simples! :-) Missing the point though. You need to know it exists somewhere in order to go looking for it. I think a FAQ should be

Re: Which Livecode/Xcode/macOS/iOS version

On 7/25/23 03:55, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote: https://livecode.com/resources/support/ask-a-question/ Top FAQ. There's a FAQ? Why isn't there a link to it on the main web page? This really should be easier to get to for

Re: Shell + Python?

On 7/15/23 10:05, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: So any idea why terminal can find python but LC's shell function can't? Your user context is different from LC's shell context. Try put shell("env | grep PATH") # in the message box and env | grep PATH # in terminal If you want to

Re: Livecode 10.0.0dp5 new reserved words

On 7/11/23 07:56, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 7/11/2023 8:26 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Cases of using 'tExt' is not uncommon - as it is really difficult to see that it is 'text'... Another one (which bit Ali recently) is `pLayer'. I'm sure there are a fair few

Re: Notarizing a Mac app

On 6/12/23 10:28, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: There's a nice little tool available which gives you some information about an app bundle or command line tool or any .dylib and so on. It will tell you which CPU types are supported, if the file was code signed or notarized and much

Re: Android and USB footswitch

On 5/25/23 08:22, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi friends, I'm still an active musician (bass guitar) and am currently playing in four bands. Nowadays bulky music stands on stage are OUT and tablets are IN! So I am considering to create a little app for myself to display PDF

Re: Custom property retrieval incorrect

On 4/27/23 14:18, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Intriguing - my guess is that something in the message path in your IDEs has a getProp cVersion handler. Now it could be something built into the IDE - although I’m not sure what - or it could be a plug-in or extension. An easy way to

Re: Custom property retrieval incorrect

On 4/27/23 12:50, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Anyone seen this? Is there something special about a custom prop named "cVersion"? This used to work fine, but that was about 2 years ago. Verified here. cVersion is weird. I get 1.0.4 on all stacks. I put all the properties for update

Re: GLX2 questions

On 4/20/23 18:36, Douglas A. Ruisaard via use-livecode wrote: Hopefully this note isn't inappropriate for this listing . This message is primarily intended for Mark Wieder. I've just installed GLX2 editor (and Power Debug) and have some questions regarding the Hyperlink and Breadcrumbs aspects

Re: [[ ANN ]] Release 10.0.0 DP-5

On 4/20/23 07:20, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Heh - well if there is a Linux specific issue that we haven't seen but you do - then its not likely to be fixed in dp-6 unless we know what it is :D Well, I've coded around two problems already. I'm currently working on a crashing one

Re: In case any of you missed it...

On 4/20/23 10:49, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: That is interesting... and a bit scary. Just as I was getting my coffee, and before I saw this email, I was thinking that in less than 20 years we will be coding with sensors attached to our heads and driven by AI and reading our minds and

Re: [[ ANN ]] Release 10.0.0 DP-5

I would so like to like this release: script widgets expression constants (finally!) etc... but it's so wonky on linux that I'd have to write up a slew of bug reports. Essentially unusable for me in ways that dp4 behaves. I'm looking forward to dp6. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Sockets (again)

On 4/5/23 08:13, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Thanks Phil. Yes I learned the hard way with my SQL Agent to base64encode anything over sockets. And yes I do append a numtochar(13) coming and going and strip it off before decoding and read until numToChar(13). I don't use cr because I am

Re: Happy Pi Day

On 3/14/23 16:47, Mark Smith via use-livecode wrote: it really was a very melodic tune. Yeah. A bit irrational though. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: LCB development

On 3/14/23 10:08, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: I last dabbled with LCB about five years ago - but now I have a need to get in there again. Are there any tips that you-all can share? In particular: - what if anything is available for debugging LCB widgets? - I've found a reference

LCB stumbling blocks

Every time I start making serious LCB progress another stumbling block rears its head. Putting this project back into mothballs again. From the User Guide: Important: It is not yet possible to write a fully functional native widget on Linux, as there are some issues with event handling and

Re: Sort list alphabetically- ignoring first character if it is a space

On 2/20/23 13:29, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode wrote: ...or to make ChatGPT happy: sort tData ascending by word 1 to -1 of each # ignoring spaces -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Maximum field size

On 1/19/23 07:26, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode wrote: From the User Guide: Maximum length of a line in a field: 65,536 characters storage No more than 32,786 pixels wide for display If you put lines longer above limits then LC will hang/crash The amount of lines a field can hold is a

Back to the ethics of ChatGPT

Time magazine investigative story: ChatGPT pays Kenyan workers $2 an hour to review obscene content https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/ -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Move in Reverse

On 1/17/23 18:35, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote: Sorry for not being clear. I want to first move a grc “X” to the points of a polygon and then reverse direction. I thought there might be some esoteric code for the reverse direction like move grc “X” to the inverse points of grc

Re: Move in Reverse

On 1/17/23 16:34, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: He's moving the graphic object "to" the points of a polygon - i.e. to each in turn. So the movement would be reversed. Doh! Got it. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode

Re: Move in Reverse

On 1/17/23 12:06, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote: Hi all, is there a simple way to move a grc to the points of a polygon in reverse? Or, does one have to manipulate the points list to its inverse? But... why? Don't you end up with the same polygon? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Tab groups broken?

On 1/17/23 01:40, Mark Smith via use-livecode wrote: Hi Geoff, The color scheme has changed. It used to be white on blue for the highlighted tab, and black on white for the others https://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/7574-using-tab-buttons. I tried changing the highlight and background

Re: Standalone riddle

On 1/15/23 19:21, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: How ironic. The stack contains the LC dictionary. I should have asked it. Riddle solved. TBF, that's buried way at the bottom of the dictionary entry. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Standalone riddle

On 1/15/23 15:58, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I think I've figured it out; the files won't be any different. Test builds always include the remote debugger, standalones do not unless you specifically select it in Inclusions. I didn't do that, and I have an errorDialog handler in

Re: Training the AI to write better LiveCode

On 1/14/23 09:30, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 7:22 PM Geoff Canyon wrote: If I were writing it, I'd probably do something like [my code] That might be a bit faster, but probably not as clear. I just checked, and my code is about 20% *slower* and still

Re: Training the AI to write better LiveCode

On 1/14/23 03:35, Beda via use-livecode wrote: It seems to be more inspiring for me than talking to a rubber duck sitting on my desk, at least for simple problems. For harder problems there will be, hopefully for ever, the user forum and this newslist. I am *not* giving up my rubber duck.

Re: Standalone riddle

On 1/13/23 17:53, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: without a full object reference, the current card should be the reference. Heh. I think *should be* is the key phrase there. Looking farther down the list in the error dialog, it references line numbers in the 400-600 range. My scripts

Re: Training the AI to write better LiveCode

On 1/13/23 07:30, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: "AI" has always been a misleading term, for like 40 years. gawd, i'm old. There is pattern matching, tree traversals, bayesian probability, etc. it's definitely not anything like a wiki. it might just be helpful at slogging out a lot of the

Re: Anyone else experience this bug?

On 1/3/23 20:22, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: Hi Folks, I work with 2 completely different codebases every week. On both I and (we) experience hard crashes to desktop, where livecode process just goes poof Usually it is triggered by either a mouseUp or mouseDown ... most likely UP. The bug

Re: megabundle updated

On 1/1/23 08:42, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: Another update published, ten days or so ago With the traditional file name, of course. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Little bit OT - Shouldn't be a Fireside Chat today?

On 12/28/22 08:14, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Hi, this is a question to the subscribers of the Fireside Chat meeting. My calendar shows that today should be a Fireside Chat meeting. Was it rescheduled or so? I tried to join, but Zoom keeps telling me it waits for the host to start

Re: ChatGPT

On 12/18/22 12:15, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: A Twitter thread with ChatGPT botsplaining how 77 is a prime number: https://twitter.com/bellafusari1/status/1603161415678046208 Wait what? "To prove that 77 is a prime number, we can use the theorem that states that if a number is

Re: currentCard vs current card

On 12/16/22 08:56, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Thank you. I may have to switch to TinyDictionary, or, perhaps, LC LTD should just license the work and include all 350 synonyms in the default Dictionary. IMHO, the Dictionary is the one part of the documentation (vs User's Guides,

Re: Another LC9.6.9rc2 regression? This time with Datagrids

On 12/13/22 17:59, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: Running your sample stack, I get an "error in object expression" at line 4793 in handler "_table.CreateHeaders" of stack "RevDataGridLibraryBehaviorsDatGridButtonBehavior". Seems to be because sRes

Re: Another LC9.6.9rc2 regression? This time with Datagrids

Running your sample stack, I get an "error in object expression" at line 4793 in handler "_table.CreateHeaders" of stack "RevDataGridLibraryBehaviorsDatGridButtonBehavior". Seems to be because sResourceStack is empty. Not sure if this is any help. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: [OT} Sunsetting Atom Editor 12/15/2022

On 12/10/22 19:56, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: I don't suppose you've written an LCS Lanuage Extension for VSCode? nvm. I see Ferruslogic has already done it. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: [OT} Sunsetting Atom Editor 12/15/2022

On 12/9/22 03:12, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: If you are doing LiveCode scripting in concert with the IDE / GUI type stuff - then VSCode vs something else pretty much comes down to personal taste :) I don't suppose you've written an LCS Lanuage Extension for VSCode? -- Mark

Re: megabundle updated

On 11/9/22 06:36, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: What? With no notification? They have not announced any of the updates, but there have been several. You have to check the release date on the website to tell if there has been an update, and yes, the changelog.txt (but the I think the date

Re: megabundle updated

On 11/8/22 07:48, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: fyi, there was an update to the summer megabundle posted, yesterday. What? With no notification? I assume the Release Notes (heh) will show what's new. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

Re: Really OT, but i need the help of native English speakers

On 10/31/22 11:36, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: I do not understand what they are asking me. I really don't get it. The question is: Please select the option that best defines your user persona of FastSpring's services. Yeah. I get the impression that whoever wrote that question

Re: Long shot question about OpenCV

On 10/17/22 15:00, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Has anyone out there done any work at wrapping the OpenCV computer vision/image recognition open source library with LCB? You might also be interested in the upcoming OpenCV Face Recognition library.

Re: Long shot question about OpenCV

On 10/17/22 15:00, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Has anyone out there done any work at wrapping the OpenCV computer vision/image recognition open source library with LCB? See https://opencv.org/ I am particularly interested in simple face and/or object recognition in images - something

Re: map widget offline

On 10/5/22 13:53, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: has anyone messed around with using the map widget offline? i was in a hurricane zone, last week, and over the weekend. there was a fair amount of offline time, when having maps loaded into my droid phone would have been useful. the offline

Re: Quick and simple web demos?

On 9/30/22 17:11, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: and the poor indexing/naming makes it tedious to try to find. ...and speaking of poor indexing etc... I was looking for a way to point the svgicon widget to an external svg file and finding that for some reason this isn't built into the

Re: Weird performance issue

On 9/23/22 10:40, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: It may be related to the size of the stack. LC would have to load it all into memory before checking the cards. Also, do the results change if you lock messages? You also do a *lot* of work on both opening the stack and opening the

Re: Excel Lib fail (solved!)

On 9/3/22 20:36, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 9/3/22 10:35, zryip theSlug via use-livecode wrote: Dear Mark, Due to this article, maybe? https://livecode.com/xlsx-lib-a-bonus-library-included-with-excel-library-in-the-megabundle-offer/ Yep. That's it. Thanks. ...and i can now

Re: System Time Zone

On 9/7/22 16:47, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: It's the, "America/Los_Angeles" bit I am trying to find a way to grok. How can I extract that in LC? Isn't there some kind of function that will return the current system's time zone? linux: put the last word of shell("date") osx: put

Re: alumin(i)um

On 9/6/22 13:53, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: So the theoretical substance was dubbed Aluminum first That's "alumium" first. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

alumin(i)um

On 9/6/22 13:19, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: or the way they spell "favourites", or pronounce "Aluminum". Do you see an extra "i" in there? No? It's invisible, that's why. Yeah. About that. The "aluminium" version actually preceded "aluminum" by several years, so if anything the U.S.

Re: Excel Lib fail

On 9/3/22 10:35, zryip theSlug via use-livecode wrote: Dear Mark, Due to this article, maybe? https://livecode.com/xlsx-lib-a-bonus-library-included-with-excel-library-in-the-megabundle-offer/ Yep. That's it. Thanks. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Text to speech

On 9/3/22 16:31, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Oh sure, that's what you will have said last time too. :P Bob... you gonna have some 'splainin to do... -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Excel Lib fail

On 9/3/22 04:56, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Are you looking to remote control LibreOffice? or just write a spreadsheet from Livecode. If writing a spreadhseet, consider Curry's SpreadOut library. It works great for creating .xlsx files in Livecode script. Thanks, but a little bit

Re: Excel Lib fail

On 9/3/22 03:32, zryip theSlug via use-livecode wrote: Dear Mark, Did you try the XLXS Lib instead of the Excel Lib? No, why would I have known to try that? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Excel Lib fail

On 9/2/22 20:12, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Ya I think it uses a Microsoft API. Mac side, probably Applescript. Yep. Fortunately LibreOffice is pretty easy to automate from python. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode

Excel Lib fail

/sigh Got all excited about using the Excel Library for a new spreadsheet project and then discovered it doesn't work on linux, *only* works with actual Excel, not LibreOffice. Yes, I do realize it says "Excel" and not "spreadsheet". So it's off to python to do my spreadsheet automation.

Re: lcb missing manual

On 9/2/22 16:54, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: Did a simple test with 819kb json file: - JSON Library / LCB 5400 ms - PhotonJSON / LCS 400 ms - mergJSON / extension 250 ms That's impressive. Monte's external is written in C, so that's as close to bare metal as we're gonna get. --

Re: lcb missing manual

On 9/2/22 10:43, Jacques Clavel via use-livecode wrote: You can write exactly the same functions, commands in LCB than in LCS Um, no. There are quite a few pain points trying to determine the differences in what is supported and what is different. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Livecode / Github

On 9/1/22 18:47, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: Mark, this is the same bug that you already filed: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23910 Hah! Forgot about that one. Same root cause but different symptoms, since it also results in a complete failure of the Plugins feature

Re: Livecode / Github

Got it figured out. It just doesn't work on linux. On OSX when executing scEnabledPlugin I get the error A stack with the same name as ... Before loading /Users//Documents/My LiveCode/SmartCrumbsVCW/extensions... what do you want to do with stack: /Users//Downloads/smartCrumbs/... So it

Re: Livecode / Github

On 9/1/22 15:55, Pi Digital via use-livecode wrote: LC9.6.7? 9.6.9rc1 -- 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

Re: Livecode / Github

On 9/1/22 15:16, Pi Digital via use-livecode wrote: Here are the steps Yep. Exactly what I did. Oh well. ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Livecode / Github

On 9/1/22 11:25, Sean Cole via use-livecode wrote: By the way, here is an update to the plugin code: Sean- good news that you got it working. How in the world did you manage that? I went through what I think are the right steps: scCreatePlugin "","" edit and save plugin code

Re: propertyChanged message

On 9/1/22 12:25, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Hi all. I would like to see a propertyChanged message implemented that gets sent to any object when any of it's properties change. There could even be two messages, one for built-in properies and another for custom properties. Imagine

Re: Livecode / Github

On 8/31/22 03:00, Sean Cole via use-livecode wrote: LC Team: :-) It would be REALLY handy if proper errors were thrown when one occurs that can help us easily understand what the issues are. Also, if prior to release documentation were gone through to make sure they are legible. And if plugins

Re: Livecode / Github

On 8/31/22 07:58, Sean Cole via use-livecode wrote: Thanks for the confirmation, Brian. I tried again from the message box. With a stack this large it takes about 10 seconds before the mainStack disappears for exporting and then reappears 1 min later. About 4-8 mins after that it truely

Re: Livecode / Github

On 8/30/22 19:36, Sean Cole via use-livecode wrote: just another 96 stacks to go. Looks like I'll set up an automation script. Ouch! I think the library would do well to check the password status and allow entering and cacheing the password as necessary. Too bad it's closed source so we

Re: the script of with line numbers?

On 8/29/22 16:11, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: It could reduce a trouble should step to include the line numbers programmatically in the error report. No a huge priority in the scheme of things, but a "nice to have" sort of thing. Does that answer the "why?" Somewhat. If you already

Re: the script of with line numbers?

On 8/29/22 14:36, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Is there a way (an existing function or command in the language or IDE) to get the script of an object WITH the line numbers as you see them in the IDE script editor? While some clever solutions have been posted, I gotta ask WHY? -- Mark

Re: Livecode / Github

On 8/29/22 12:22, Pi Digital via use-livecode wrote: Look at the guide in the guide section of the dictionary app. It formats okay (although I’m going through and rewriting the grammar to send for an update). Thanks, Sean. Yeah - that does format much better in a browser. -- Mark Wieder

Re: Livecode / Github

On 8/29/22 10:53, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: I used Magic Palette to do the export. It should create the folder structure next to the stack file that was the topstack in the IDE. Ah. OK - So I had to look up the filename of the stack first. Would have been nice if the nonexistent log

Re: Livecode / Github

On 8/28/22 20:45, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: If you want to see what the JSON export looks like for a fairly small stack, you can view this: https://github.com/bwmilby/SvgIconTool/blob/main/smartcrumbs/SvgIconTool.livecode.sc/stackFileProperties.json Unfortunately you will need to

Re: lcb missing manual

On 8/28/22 11:06, Mike Kerner wrote: the lcb documentation, especially in the api widget is ungreat. the good news is that as long as there is an oss repo version of LC, you can hunt for some of the information that is missing. AND, at least for now, you can still find much of it in the LC

Re: lcb missing manual

On 8/28/22 09:58, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: things for lcb that are supposedly documented, but i can't find: * editor types (e.g. com.livecode.pi.number) * other metadata definitions for properties, widgets, etc.) ...things that we use in LCS but aren't available in LCB: colornames

Re: Livecode performance problem

On 8/19/22 16:03, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: It's probably a lot of text. The engine has to start from the beginning of every string then scan through for every cr or lf or cr/lf or whatever counts as a line break, until if finds the nth one. The more lines, the longer the scan takes

Re: Livecode performance problem

On 8/19/22 16:31, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: to trim about another 15% off the time (for my sample data, 24ms down to 20ms.) Nice. Note, of course, that we're all going on the assumption that all four fields contain the same number of lines. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Livecode performance problem

On 8/19/22 15:07, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Off the top of my head: split v1 by tab split v2 by tab split v3 by tab split v4 by tab put the keys of v1 into tKeyList sort tKeyList ascending numeric repeat for each line tKey in tKeyList put tKey & tab & v1 [tKey] & tab & v2 [tKey]

Re: polylist toys

On 8/18/22 10:40, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: after hitting the link, again, I got 1_0_21 The error is the same: executing at 1:39:25 PM LCB Error Unable to get image geometry. Object PolyList LCB File E:/Projects/GitHub/LiveCode-LTD/summer-mega-bundle/src/PolyList/PolyList.lcb

Re: polylist toys

On 8/18/22 10:36, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: I am not aware of a place to check the version/date. I received a link for the download, and I don't see the download as a separate item in my account It's hidden under "Third Party". Scroll down and there's something like "livecode

Re: polylist toys

On 8/18/22 09:34, Steven Crighton via use-livecode wrote: Hi Mike, I just tested the lazy load example and hit populate and clicked around etc and could not trigger an error. Can you let me know what the error was? See my previous email. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: polylist toys

On 8/18/22 07:42, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: fiddling with polylist examples, and i noticed in the "lazyLoadOnlineImage" example that I can trigger an error just by opening it and tapping "populate" can anyone else confirm? Yep. The polylist continually throws ridiculous errors at

Re: issue related to Print.PrintSupport.Source.dll

On 8/17/22 15:02, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: We had one instance where the user didn't have a printer at all, but just deleting the Epson driver fixed it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: the effective width of a stack?

On 8/17/22 10:38, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I'd appreciate any pointers to where effective width or effective height of a stack is documented. You can't use "effective" with custom properties either. https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23557 You *can* set the effective

Re: Polygrid sorting (problems)

On 8/15/22 16:43, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 8/15/22 16:22, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: I haven't tried csvdata or tsvdata (they're not listed in the dictionary, so I'd tend to avoid them if possible. I do see tsvData in the dictionary, but I'm getting weird errors

Re: Polygrid sorting (problems)

On 8/15/22 16:22, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: I haven't tried csvdata or tsvdata (they're not listed in the dictionary, so I'd tend to avoid them if possible. I do see tsvData in the dictionary, but I'm getting weird errors thrown from the widget when I try to use it. May still be

Re: Polygrid sorting

On 8/15/22 13:12, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: So I see that the Summer Bundle of widgets in the store has a note that says "Latest update 1.0.19: 11 August 2022" However, the Download button says "Version 1.0.0". Does anyone know how to update the widget set to 1.0.19 or how to update

Re: A web app launcher with responsive design

On 8/13/22 17:16, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: On 13/08/2022 20:24, Andreas Bergendal via use-livecode wrote: Friends, I have done wonderful things with LC10 web deployment! I’m excited to share with you the fruits of this week's extensive research and testing! Wow. Thanks

Re: How to use addEventListener for browser window resizing in web deployment?

On 8/6/22 04:44, Andreas Bergendal via use-livecode wrote: and Ali Lloyd’s cool WordLC app: https://alilloyd.livecodehosting.com/wordlc/wordlc.html Unfortunately that throws a divide-by-zero error at line 461 in computeGridFieldWidth when I try to resize the window. -- Mark Wieder

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