Re: Close & remove from memory - Engine hang

On 5/7/21 6:39 PM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote: More moderate: An LC print bug won't bother people who never print. Being on linux, I'd love to have print bugs. https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21131 -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com __

Re: Problems with Multiple Monitors

On 5/5/21 8:53 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I'm afraid I can't help with this. A good while ago, I moved to my own centerWindow command that doesn't use screenLoc, but uses the stack's (window's the screen property 9for the line number of the screenRect the stack is on) and the scre

Re: LiveCode DataGrid assistance requested

On 5/4/21 8:26 AM, Brian K. Duck via use-livecode wrote: After adding “Combine array using return,” I can display it as text in a field, but I only get the rows that aren’t array data on their own. So, most of the data is lost. The combine and split commands were written in the dark ages b

Re: What exactly does "put" do on Server?

On 4/20/21 6:01 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Postman shows a single reply to the client from Apache. strace on the server shows each "put" implemented at the system level as a write to stdout. So it looks to me like Apache buffers writes it receives and sends all of it to the c

Re: rant: truewordOffset

On 4/20/21 9:12 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Works fine here too: set the wholeMatches to true put trueWordOffset("BT", "foo btn")   => 0 set the wholeMatches to false put trueWordOffset("BT", "foo btn")   => 2 Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. Remember wholeMatches is a handler-

Re: rant: truewordOffset

On 4/20/21 6:00 AM, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode wrote: Mark Wieder wrote You can't just say put truewordOffset("font", tText) into tOffset because it might encounter "fontTable" first. If I set wholematches to true it works for me Unfortunately not here. Even with wholematches true tr

rant: truewordOffset

I'm also annoyed at truewordOffset. Consider this: you can get an offset in truewords (the number of truewords that occur before the given argument, but you can't get an offset *to* a given trueword. put truewordOffset(tString, tText, tSkip) will give you a value in truewords. And you can pl

Re: lineOffset wildcard

I'll try benchmarking this against Jacque's suggestion of matchChunk. Filter is normally pretty fast, but I'll have to use the regex version, and I'm not sure what the speed implications will be. Benchmark result averages over 10 runs on a 2700-line script: filter lines of script 2612.6ms f

Re: lineOffset wildcard

On 4/19/21 1:02 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On Apr 19, 2021, at 1:47 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: On 4/19/21 11:04 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I don't think lineoffset supports wildcards, but you could do it with match

Re: lineOffset wildcard

On 4/19/21 3:02 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: IOC I guess I did misunderstand after all. Nah... I should have worded it differently to start with. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runr

Re: lineOffset wildcard

On 4/19/21 12:11 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Someone needs to update the dictionary then. wholeMatches Syntax set the wholeMatches to {true | false} Summary Specifies whether the lineOffset, wordOffset, and itemOffset functions search only for entire lines, words, or items. Here

Re: lineOffset wildcard

On 4/19/21 11:13 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Why even embed the function? put "local" & tString & functionName() into tSearchString set wholeMatches to true put lineOffset(tSearchString) into tLine Or am I misunderstanding the problem (again)? :-) Been there. the wholematches does

Re: lineOffset wildcard

On 4/19/21 11:04 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I don't think lineoffset supports wildcards, but you could do it with matchChunk. Ah! matchChunk and the the number of lines of... etc... That should do it. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

lineOffset wildcard

I'm sure I'm missing something simple here but... I need to use a wildcard in the lineOffset function but I can't seem to find the correct invocation. put lineoffset("local*"&tFunctionName, tScript) into tPos always returns zero put lineoffset(tFunctionName, tScript) into tPos of course retur

Re: Positioning object in a loclocked group

On 4/15/21 8:16 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Then the button stays however in the topleft corner of the group. Even moving the button some pixels to right or down does not work. Why, oh, why? :-) Thanks for any insight! Is it any different if you lock messages? -- Mark Wieder

Re: Offtopic: Can anybody create a small DLL for me?

On linux it's very easy sudo arp-scan -l will give you a nice sorted list. -- 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: On the dangers of automated refactoring

On 4/13/21 9:48 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Andre Garzia wrote: > What I didn’t realise was that there was variable shadowing happening > in which handler arguments were named with the same name as script- > local variables, my smart replacing removed those arguments because >

Re: On the dangers of automated refactoring

On 4/13/21 8:37 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I find revRefactor (which adds a Refactoring sub-menu under the Edit menu of the IDE Script Editor) to be a tool that I personally would like to see better integrated into the IDE. Paul - thanks for the kind words there. I took most of yo

Re: On the dangers of automated refactoring

On 4/13/21 3:05 AM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode wrote: What I didn’t realise was that there was variable shadowing happening in which handler arguments were named with the same name as script-local variables Ouch. Don't do that. I end up spending most of my coding life refactoring existing

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.2 RC-4

On 4/13/21 4:48 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: No - its either running as a 32-bit app (if you have installed the 32-bit version of LC) or as a 64-bit app (if you have installed the 64-bit version of LC) - there's no emulation going on - the difference is the processor mode the ex

Re: Intermittent typing delay in script editor.

On 4/8/21 9:52 AM, thompsonmichael--- via use-livecode wrote: LC normally works lightning fast on this setup but over the last couple of years I would occasionally experience a sudden slow down in the script editor for no apparent reason. (Delays of seconds sometimes between typing and the type

Re: Checking the Milliseconds

On 4/7/21 9:38 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: I hear you Sean ..it is pretty interesting These are like gritty details about the engine, and I love learning them. I did not expect less than a microsecond / operation, thats for sure. There are a few other operations I would like to test

Re: "tsnet (1) Received HTTP/0.9 when not allowed"?

On 4/4/21 4:36 AM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode wrote: Are you using the time travel external? HTTP/0.9 has been historical for a long while... Nonetheless, I believe 0.9 is still the lowest common denominator fallback mode when the actual level can't otherwise be determined. -- Mark Wied

Re: How to get the path to the 'My Livecode' or the plugins folder?

On 3/29/21 4:06 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Dear all, is there a way to get the path to the 'My Livecode' or the 'Plugins' folder? Searched now for more than 40 minutes and did not find anything about it? Is there maybe a hidden variable / property available for this? Not well

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 259

On 3/24/21 8:19 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: The question I always ask myself is, will I ever benefit from this again? Additionally, can anyone else ever benefit from this? I think there may be other questions in play as well. Will I learn anything from doing this? Will I have fun e

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 259

On 3/23/21 9:59 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I popped for the book. I already operate somewhat on this level but I learned something as a teenager when teaching myself to play guitar: There are always gaps in knowledge when a person learns that way. I grabbed the book as well. I al

Re: numberformat question

On 3/22/21 9:39 AM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: JS should use exactly the same standard as LC https://www.avioconsulting.com/blog/overcoming-javascript-numeric-precision-issues 2^53, same in JS as LC. IEEE 754 Right. To get any more precision you'll have to stringify the calculatio

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

On 3/16/21 11:47 AM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: If any of that seems useful I can check the codebase for the exact steps. Avoiding crashes is *always* useful. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@li

Re: Setting Creation Date of file to a past date?

Sean- Thanks. I didn't know about SetFile. -- 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

Re: Setting Creation Date of file to a past date?

On 3/14/21 4:41 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Windows unfortunately does not include such a command line tool I am astounded to find there is no touch command for Win. However, there does appear to be a solution for Windows (untested) using commandline options for the copy command

Re: How to escape wildcard chars - and find the offset of a '?' in a URL?

On 3/14/21 9:27 AM, BT via use-livecode wrote: Hi folks, What’s the correct the syntax needed to escape a question mark so that its offset can be found in a URL string? I get zero returned by put offset(“?”, tURL) and put offset( "?\",tURL) and put offset( numToCodepoint(Ux003F),tURL) throws e

Re: ‘Super Sub’ multidimensional arrays

On 3/11/21 4:33 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: > Mark, > Give an example of what would be better, not just hit and run with a > 'That's crap!' comment. Way to make me feel good for all the hard work put > in. THANKS BUDDY! Sean- Not intended to be a 'that's crap' comment. You've go

Re: ‘Super Sub’ multidimensional arrays

On 3/11/21 3:03 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: I hope that all makes sense. Sean- That makes sense, but it's a bad paradigm (IMO) for the same reason that using real data for database indexes is a bad idea unless it just gets written once and doesn't need maintenance. What hap

Re: Livestreaming some LiveCoding right now

On 3/11/21 7:41 AM, Martin Koob via use-livecode wrote: Hi Andre Sound cool, Live LiveCoding. Live LiveCode Coding. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscri

Re: Multidimensional array issue

On 3/9/21 10:02 AM, HENRY LOWE via use-livecode wrote: put "data" into tArray["key1"]["key2"]; answer tArray["key1”] is an array - returns TRUE (so not helpful) Not sure why this isn't helpful. Of course it's an array. And tArray["key1"]["key2"] is *not* an array and contains the value. None

Re: Multidimensional array issue

On 3/8/21 9:16 PM, Phil Davis via use-livecode wrote: When I want to determine whether or not an array element contains non-whitespace, I usually say:     if word 1 of tDataA["item"] is empty then ... (or is NOT empty) The problem with that is that it doesn't differentiate between an empty

Re: Multidimensional array issue

On 3/8/21 4:58 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: Also works, if tArray[“status”] an array -- It's an array if (not (tArray[“status”] an array)) and (tArray[“status”] is not empty) -- it's a value Well, technically "empty" is also a value. Just an... er... empty one. -- Mark Wiede

Re: Multidimensional array issue

On 3/8/21 4:25 PM, HENRY LOWE via use-livecode wrote: My code is trying to do the following: No, I *do* see what you're trying to do. Here... try it for yourself: on mouseUp pMouseBtnNo local tArray put "hello" into tArray["status"] put tArray["status"] is an array into msg # false

Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

On 1/16/21 10:30 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: This report for Linux Mint seems perhaps relevant: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21131 In my comment #13 on that bug report I suggest a workaround. Is that a possible way forward for you? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@

Re: Multidimensional array issue

On 3/8/21 3:46 PM, HENRY LOWE via use-livecode wrote: I have often used the form 'if tArray[“key1”] is empty' to determine whether an array element hold a value but this breaks if tArray[“key1”][“key2”] holds a value. Same here. Not that I've every liked that paradigm, just that it's been t

Re: How do I interpret this Build Error dialog?

On 2/15/21 5:29 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: In Sample Stacks, search for LiveCode Error Lookup. I keep it my Plugins folder. You can paste the whole list of errors into it and it will tell you what they mean. However, usually you only need the first line which is where a break

Re: Close Stack Cleanup

On 2/4/21 6:33 PM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote: The preOpenStack handler is NOT ideal for this type of cleanup. "Literally, to "clear the fields" of a stack." (And now we also know, a "complex" stack.) That is NOT something best done in preOpenStack. A complex stack usually has multi

Re: Close Stack Cleanup

On 2/4/21 4:19 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: NVM I found this bug has already been submitted… IN 2008! LOL! https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4617 Hey Kevin! Looking at that, here's a (completely untested) suggestion: The revIDEHandleCloseStackRequest handler is in the I

Re: Using MySQL on (headless) Linux

On 2/4/21 1:52 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: With all this flexibility in one lean install, for me the pros of LC Server for headless work are clear: ...plus the fact that there's an "include" command in the server, allowing for things like global constants. -- Mark Wieder ah

Re: Smooth scrolling

On 2/1/21 7:10 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: using Kafka's Metamorphosis... ...then you should expect bugs. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subs

Re: Using MySQL on (headless) Linux

On 2/1/21 2:25 PM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: 1. I've not found how to access externals (in this case the database library) without explicitly setting the 'externals' property of the stack to a (generally unreliably) full path before the stack is saved. If you type in the messageb

Re: Using MySQL on (headless) Linux

On 2/1/21 11:15 AM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote: With thanks to friends here who helped me install and start using LC on a headless Linux box. I've now another little problem... my stack tries and fails to connect to a MySQL database. When it attempts to call revOpenDatabase, it th

Re: installing and running LC on 'headless' linux server

On 2/1/21 10:29 AM, kee nethery via use-livecode wrote: Basically I needed a stack to launch and run in the IDE and LiveCode didn’t have a way to do that. ??? on preOpenStack choose pointer tool startMeUp end preOpenStack on startMeUp answer "I'm started" end startMeUp -- Mark Wiede

Re: open secure socket... using certificate

On 1/26/21 6:05 AM, Bernard Devlin via use-livecode wrote: Is it really the case that for the past 6 years LC documentation has been misleading people concerning the implementation of certificates for secure socket connections? Sadly, yes. I notice in the Dictionary the entry for "open sock

Re: Considering work with livecode server

On 1/18/21 2:20 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: Building a single web-based app that avoids the world of all the mobile apps and desktop idiosyncrasies is attractive. I thought mobile stores (Apple, etc) explicitly disallowed apps that were essentially just web browsers to exter

Re: Printing borked for LC Linux?

On 1/16/21 10:30 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Any of you able to print from LC in Linux? You seem surprised that Yet Another Feature is broken on linux. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: LC & Mac M1 Chip

On 1/14/21 1:37 AM, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote: Did somebody say cheese?? Uh oh. Busted. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: disabling a group

On 1/13/21 11:32 AM, jbv via use-livecode wrote: Hi list, I have a group that contains various controls, including graphic objects. When I disable the group, the colors of every object becomes lighter, except for graphics whose colors remain the same. What is the best way to make colors of graphi

Re: move cursor to the end of a line in a field

On 12/23/20 12:57 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: That's the end of the *field* not the *line*. But it would work, because Douglas wrote that it is a single line field. Ah. I just assumed it was a bit of mistyping and should have been "single line of a field" ...and yes, I know

Re: move cursor to the end of a line in a field

On 12/23/20 12:26 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: To improve on my initial suggestion... select after char -1 of field 1 That's the end of the *field* not the *line*. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-l

Re: Debian 10 install failure

On 12/17/20 9:57 AM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: Solved. Debian 10 buster has GTK 3.0 installed but LC needs GTK 2.0. I just ran the following: sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgtk2.0-0 This got me back down to gtk v2 and the installer for LC ran properly. Cool. Maybe has to do

Re: Debian 10 install failure

On 12/17/20 8:29 AM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: Hi all, Continuing my study on Linux alternatives, I've just tried installing LC9.6.2RC onto the latest Debian 10 (buster) build (clean install in Parallels from its add VM page). However, it comes up with an error when installing LC ri

Re: CentOS Death in 2021

On 12/16/20 1:39 AM, Pi Digital via use-livecode wrote: Back to my OP. - What system build of Linux should I best install in Parallels virtual and Server Remote Host for deployment should I run with? Given the choices of potentially having LC IDE running as the ‘live’ software stack on the ser

Re: CentOS Death in 2021

On 12/15/20 3:48 AM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: 2. Stir up trouble. Personally I think that LiveCode central are being a bit @#$%^&* claiming that LiveCode is cross-platform and not saying they support more recent versions than Ubuntu 16.04 and so on. And stirring up trouble means tha

Re: CentOS Death in 2021

On 12/14/20 3:17 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: Hi Mark, Are you able to say what particular bits were broken so I know what to be on the lookout for and assess if these might affect our project? Sure. Here's the PR https://github.com/livecode/livecode/pull/7127 But note that you

Re: CentOS Death in 2021

On 12/13/20 4:20 PM, Pi Digital via use-livecode wrote: Thanks all. These insights are useful. Hery’s explanation of their choice to move to Debian provides a good argument. I had just tried Ubuntu 20.04 in a parallels virtual machine and my server app worked ok. I will try a Debian build too.

Re: Decrypt problem on Windows

On 12/13/20 1:46 AM, Neville Smythe via use-livecode wrote: [I had just recovered strength from fighting the gratuitously different syntax that Windows uses in its implementation of cURL to hit this problem] I don't have an answer to the decryption problem (sorry), but... I use (and have fo

Re: return "error" code from standalone compile

On 12/11/20 3:36 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: The bigger problem with these sorts of issues is how the public web site becomes so different from the ones we have installed. Agreed. I think I wasn't even much aware that an online dictionary existed. I was about to post that I don

Re: return "error" code from standalone compile

On 12/11/20 12:56 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 12/11/20 10:57 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: @ Mark Weider: where did you learn about the quit command supporting an exit code? I just always assumed this was part of the canon. The dictionary entry for "quit

Re: return "error" code from standalone compile

On 12/11/20 10:57 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: @ Mark Weider: where did you learn about the quit command supporting an exit code? The dictionary entry for "quit" Am I missing something here? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

Re: return "error" code from standalone compile

On 12/9/20 5:53 PM, Douglas A. Ruisaard wrote: Beauties! .. thanks! ... should have remembered that! Cool. And where you put it depends on your application. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.run

Re: return "error" code from standalone compile

On 12/9/20 5:32 PM, Douglas A. Ruisaard via use-livecode wrote: On the completion of a stack, can the compiled executable return an error code like the old DOS ErrorLevel value(s)? If so, how do you specify the error code? in the on closeStack call? See the quit command in the dictionary. qu

Re: Will Browser widget ever work on Linux?

On 12/9/20 8:40 AM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote: Yep, it actually feels great to be a Windows-first LiveCoder. I'm not gonna get sucked into religious wars here... Like the field, embedded Browser is a way to deliver and display so many different kinds of content that it should b

Re: Can LC read QR-Code?

On 12/8/20 7:15 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: > - Where is the documentation for QR *decoding* for both iOS and Android? Ah. The QR library is for *generating* QR codes, not for reading them. > - The Dictionary appears in my browser, not in a LiveCode window, >so it appears t

Re: Will Browser widget ever work on Linux?

On 12/8/20 3:12 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: LC also has dropped using the CEF on Windows because reasons. Oops. Have to correct myself here. It's actually OSX where CEF usage was dropped, not Windows. More gory details here <http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=11

Re: Can LC read QR-Code?

On 12/8/20 11:08 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Thanks. I'm familiar with tindyDictionary and admire Bernd's work, but had hoped there would be documentation available on the web. I can download tinyDictionary, or just look at my Mac, so if the only documentation for the QR code re

Re: Will Browser widget ever work on Linux?

On 12/8/20 1:54 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: Hi folks, I need to know whether there are any plans of making the CEF browser work correctly on Linux? I vaguely remember a conversation about it and it seeming like there is very little hope of that. Can anyone confirm? Um. It's complicate

Re: Can LC read QR-Code?

On 12/7/20 6:07 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Where is LC's QR code plugin documented? I have Indy, but LiveCode has no functioning browser widget for Linux, and so it has no Dictionary; instead it opens the Dictionary from the public site, which apparently only documents things

Re: Some sad news

On 12/4/20 4:07 AM, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote: Dear List Folks, I have today received some sad news. Thanks for passing on the news, Heather. Hermann and I met some years ago at one of the Edinburgh conferences and we spent several hours that week talking while walking around town

Re: Google and OpenSource apps

On 11/23/20 10:50 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: The "free" described in the GPL and other open source licenses isn't about money ("gratis") but freedom ("libre"). This ambiguity with "free" is among the many limitations of our language, but few speak Latin so the license was writt

Re: filter

On 11/20/20 3:27 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote: Apologies for barging in, but I am confused by regex generally and in this specific example by the function of the terminal ‘+’ If you are only finding one character, why do you need to specify 'at least one' of one char? Ha! Yeah,

Re: filter

On 11/19/20 9:09 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Mark, Am 19.11.2020 um 18:07 schrieb Mark Wieder via use-livecode : On 11/19/20 7:38 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: I think: filter fld 1 with "[[]*" Should do the trick... As an alternative, filter

Re: filter

On 11/19/20 7:38 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: I think:   filter fld 1 with "[[]*" Should do the trick... As an alternative, filter fld 1 with regex pattern "^\[+" also does the trick. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ us

Re: Delete Menu Item from Option Menu Button

On 11/14/20 4:03 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote: Can someone tell me how to delete a menuItem from an Option Menu button programmatically? Standing by ready to apply dope slap. No dope slap necessary - it's not really obvious. The menuItems are stored as the text of the button, so you

Re: The Most Stupid Question Ever?

On 11/8/20 8:02 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 11/8/20 6:57 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote: Please tell me why this doesn’t work: ...and that is, btw, hardly a stupid question. You want stupid you'll have to get in line after me. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmai

Re: The Most Stupid Question Ever?

On 11/8/20 6:57 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote: Please tell me why this doesn’t work: on mouseUp put "start" wait for 5 seconds put "stop" end mouseUp “start” never appears in the message box and after 5 seconds, “stop” appears The wait command is blocking a

Re: Plotting Equations that Bifurcate

On 11/4/20 3:37 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode wrote: Neil DeGraph Tyson? On Nov 4, 2020, at 3:09 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote: Oooh, I like it! How about VanDeGraph? The Graph is Always Greener. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com __

Re: IOS Screen resizing /EXACT FIT not working as before

On 11/3/20 4:08 PM, Lagi Pittas via use-livecode wrote: Thanks though - every suggestion comes in useful sometime (is that a Dean Martin song?) LOL -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pl

Re: mergeJSON on server problem

On 10/31/20 10:27 AM, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote: I use mergeJSON to move back an forth between json and arrays for web services. It’s currently failing when I fetch json data from another source on the Ubuntu server, while the same code and data works on MacoS - presumably due to some

Re: Script Editor freezes in Windows 10 (was Can't edit scripts in DataGrid group in Windows 10)

On 10/23/20 6:44 AM, Martin Koob via use-livecode wrote: I figured out what caused it. I am using Monte’s lcVCS plugin to keep the project in bitbucket Try Brian Milby's Script Tracker plugin. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livec

Re: POST to https in LC5.0.2 - Error socket closed

On 10/22/20 9:48 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: I don't know what else I can do. Curl is not an option as this will be running as an app on clients Windows machines. But even put url("https:// returns error socket closed so that rules out setting up a server app too. Nothing works!

Re: Websockets

On 10/21/20 7:09 AM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: Hi Livecoders, Does anyone know if there are any plans for introducing websockets to livecode? Or if there are any working 3rd party implementations that are available? its been a lot of years. Thanks, Charles Warwick has something in t

Re: Odd data in message box

On 10/18/20 10:56 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I've seen error lists appear in the message box too I've seen that sometimes as well, but don't have a repeatable recipe. I just always assume it's something screwy with my code. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com __

Re: Odd data in message box

On 10/17/20 10:13 AM, Dan Friedman wrote: 1. Why didn't the debugger throw an error? Instead, it put this error chunk in the message box? Dunno. I can't replicate your experience. Somewhat higher in your stack or in the message path? If I try this on my system with an invalid sTime value

Re: Odd data in message box

On 10/17/20 10:13 AM, Dan Friedman wrote: 2. Where did Jacque get that list of codes? Is there some support docs I don't know about that explain these types of thing? The error texts are in a global property, but there's a definite catch22ness involved because you have to know it's there i

Re: SSL cPanel mySql setup

On 10/16/20 10:14 AM, Pi Digital via use-livecode wrote: The call to the server along with all the credentials had been copy pasted over 900 times inside 700 objects. OMG!!! -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-li

Fwd: Re: Odd data in message box

On 10/16/20 9:57 AM, Dan Friedman wrote: Mark, THANK YOU for the reply... Line 2185 is: put sTime + ((timeOffset*60)*60) into sTime That's what I thought. The error you're getting (see Jacque's annotated list) is pointing to an invalid value for sTime in some iteration of that fun

Re: Odd data in message box

On 10/16/20 8:46 AM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode wrote: There is no problem with this function, and it's producing the correct time. However, when it's all said and done, I get this in the message box: 394,2185,1 what's line 2185 look like? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

Re: Textsize of label of copied btn changes

On 10/13/20 5:54 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: set the textsize of btnRef to the textsize of srcBtnRef Try set the textsize of btnRef to the effective textsize of srcBtnRef -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode maili

Re: Anyone archived the information from http://andregarzia.com/async.irev

On 10/11/20 9:46 AM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: Matthias: Try: https://use-livecode.runrev.narkive.com/faoKGyaT/revserver-tips-spreading-the-load-or-why-wise-developers-use-asynchronous-workflows

Re: Modal stacks cpu usage

On 10/2/20 5:08 PM, Neville Smythe via use-livecode wrote: Looks like Elanor beat me to it Bug 22929 Ian fixed the problem. It's currently awaiting a merge into the next release. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: Slightly OT: downloading Xcode

On 10/4/20 9:35 AM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: And as to "download yourself", all I can say is that while I have tried many, many daft things in my life I have never tried to either download or upload myself . . . Heh. If I ever tried to upload myself I suppose I'd probably try to compr

Re: Slightly OT: downloading Xcode

On 10/3/20 8:09 AM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: I wonder: https://developerinsider.co/download-xcode-and-other-developer-tools-up-to-16-times-faster/ But thanks for the link. That's a very interesting website. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com __

Re: Slightly OT: downloading Xcode

On 10/3/20 8:09 AM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: I wonder: https://developerinsider.co/download-xcode-and-other-developer-tools-up-to-16-times-faster/ Looks interesting, but I'd be wary of anything that does install.sh | bash without checking the source first -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@

TIL: JSON validator

I've been in the DeveloperWeek conference for the last couple of days, and in a morning session today about OpenAPI I learned about an online JSON Schema validator tool. https://www.jsonschemavalidator.net/ Also, this JSON/YAML linter may be of use: https://meta.stoplight.io/docs/spectral/REA

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