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 fo

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 t

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 subscr

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: [[ 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: 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

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: 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 o

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 c

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: 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 leadsheet

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 more

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 other

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 lau

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 prospec

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 fr

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: 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 this

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 Wiede

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 do

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: 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 wi

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 it

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 to

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: 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 t

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 use-livecode@list

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 Web integration is not good enough

On 04/30/2018 03:15 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: Andre, I'm using JSONToArray and ArrayToJSON for round trip with no problems. I'm storing an LC config array in a JSON text file, then later read the file back into an LC array. The only criticism I have is the formatting of the JSON i

Re: Live search box

On 05/01/2018 08:01 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I already have that. I call it FindBar. Oooo... that would have been handy for the last pub crawl. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: LC Web integration is not good enough

On 04/30/2018 06:42 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: ArrayToJSON deals with JSON list differently to JSONExport. ArrayToJSON uses mergJSON which checks if the array keys are a numeric sequence and assumes it’s a list. There is a way to force it to be an object if required. Ah, righ

Re: Informal survey: multiple desktops

On 05/01/2018 08:31 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: I only use Linux for testing (in a VM), so have not used them there. I’m more likely to have a couple Linux VMs open at once. The only thing I would caution there is that multiple VMs tend to use huge amounts of computer resources. Y

Re: Livecode Share

On 05/02/2018 11:13 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Hi all. I'm trying to share a stack for the first time, but I'm having difficulty. I tried the Share This Stack... option in the File menu, but it takes me to a Login, and my Livecode Login doesn't seem to work for this. If I go right

Re: Livecode Share

On 05/02/2018 12:37 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: If you go to "sample stacks" from the livecode bar, on the upper right you can either log in or sign up. Sign up to create an account, at which point you should be good to go. Heh. Mike beat me to it. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail

Sean?

On 05/02/2018 11:14 AM, Lagi Pittas via use-livecode wrote: Hi All I have set it up - but I want to have the money go directly to Sean Ive just read that if I put seans email address in it will send him an invite so he will be the only one able to withdraw funds. I am waiting his acceptance bu

Re: Background Long IDs

On 05/05/2018 05:37 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: put the long id of background ID tObjectID of tStackLongID into tObjectLongID What do you get if you instead try put the long id of control ID tObjectID of tStackLongID into tObjectLongID -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com __

Re: Has Anyone Got A Directory \\\"Walker\\\" Available

On 05/06/2018 02:42 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Did copy-on-write get changed in v9, or is the scope of its effects just more limited than I had understood it to be? I'm still at the point of not trusting copy-on-write yet, but I think you're misinterpreting your results. If I'

slow listserv

Anyone else finding the listserv slow? I just posted a message and it showed up on the list after an hour and a half. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: slow listserv

On 05/06/2018 07:20 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: Anyone else finding the listserv slow? I just posted a message and it showed up on the list after an hour and a half. ...and of course now it's working again. nvm. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmai

Re: Background Long IDs

On 05/08/2018 02:03 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: When you go to a card with a shared group, or (in most cases) reference a shared group against a card, the group is reparented to that card (a group can only ever have one parent at once). If the group is a background then the ord

Re: Sean?

On 05/08/2018 09:13 AM, Dan Brown via use-livecode wrote: I just received word from Sean's family, he is safe and is coping with last week's difficult events Thanks, Dan. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liveco

new library messages

Looking through some of the IDE's library stacks, I see handlers for the messages extensionInitialize and extensionFinalize. From the code in the handlers it seems that these are now standard ways to set up and tear down extension libraries, but I don't see the messages documented anywhere. Can

Re: new library messages

On 05/16/2018 09:22 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: On 17 May 2018, at 1:44 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: Looking through some of the IDE's library stacks, I see handlers for the messages extensionInitialize and extensionFinalize. From the code in the handle

WTF Worldpay?

Still won't accept my credit cards. Is this a brexit thing? -- 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: htt

Re: WTF Worldpay?

On 05/17/2018 01:11 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: It might be a foreign-transaction thing. Some of my cards will not go through worldpay. Eggzackly. Been that way with the LC conferences for years now. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com __

Scott Raney's new thing

I guess not really 'new' since it's been in progress for four years, but this is a recent surfacing of the beta. http://www.matchism.org/ -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit t

Re: Scott Raney's new thing

On 05/17/2018 01:38 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: awesome. is this done using LC? Since it's web-based, I doubt it. In theory it's open source, but I haven't found any links to source code, and I imagine it won't appear until v1.0 is ready. And it'll probably take me that long to read

Re: LC & Java

On 05/21/2018 04:58 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Tom Glod wrote: > I totally meant JavaScript There's a ton of stuff on the web, but sorting the signal from the noise can be hard. I'm still fond of JavaScript: The Good Parts

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

On 05/24/2018 01:46 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 5/24/18 12:35 PM, R.H. via use-livecode wrote: What is now a new problem with 9.0, and a bit of an annoyance, is the fact that the property inspector does not keep the resized value when changing when selecting another control. E

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

On 05/25/2018 12:05 PM, John Burtt via use-livecode wrote: Also fixed is the bug that it was almost impossible to place new controls from the Tools palette to the IDE stack using drag-and-drop. It had been an uncontrollable trial-and-error thing. Often enough I had to try several times to "hit"

Re: Was: URGENT: MergGoogle no longer works on iOS: CLIENTS VERY UNHAPPY

Sean- Others have chimed in quite well here, so I'll just add a few comments. On 05/25/2018 09:07 AM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: > // GoFundMe // > This, too, is overwhelming. A little disturbing too as it was embarked on > by people who know very little about me Mmm... that's wher

Re: Graphing Solution...

On 05/27/2018 07:15 PM, Glen Bojsza via use-livecode wrote: Hi Brian, They are good ideas...I haven't done anything with widgets. How do I get access to the source code? The source file is graph.lcb, and where it's stored depends on what operating system you're working with. /Extensions/co

Re: Is anyone using tsNet external with LCserver?

On 05/29/2018 01:22 AM, Charles Warwick via use-livecode wrote: Hi Matthias, Up until 8.1.10, there was only one version of LC server. It reports itself to the tsNet external as the “Indy” edition. If you use the business edition of tsNet with it, it will fail. Actually the editionType rep

Re: Is anyone using tsNet external with LCserver?

On 05/29/2018 03:41 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Starting from 8.1.9 IIRC, there are two editions of LC commercial server: Indy and Business. You have to login into your account in livecode.com and then you can download the edition that matches your license. For example if you

Re: Windows 10 and LC9.0

On 05/29/2018 08:11 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: This isn't addressed to anyone in particular, but I understand it's frustrating at times that the IDE can be problematic. Let me just say with the humblest of intentions, reporting it here does not help the dev team much. They have a

Re: Is anyone using tsNet external with LCserver?

On 05/29/2018 10:05 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Hi Mark, I think the LiveCodeCommunityPlus Server has no difference from the LiveCodeCommunity Server. Using "Community" instead of "CommunityPlus" in the previous link does work. RE the commercial servers (Indy and Business), y

Re: Is anyone using tsNet external with LCserver?

On 05/29/2018 11:07 AM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Lagi, did you try any of these links listed at that page? I tried 4 and all 4 were correct and a download started. Yeah... most of those are proper rejections from cloudflare. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com __

Re: LC >= 8 no more HC friendly?

On 05/30/2018 07:55 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: I am amazed that LiveCode has remained backward compatible as long as it has. I'm amazed that people still have HyperCard stacks. Last I checked, this was well into 2018. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com _

Re: How to handle a LSAH in user entered filename on mobile?

On 05/31/2018 07:54 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Many years ago I had a gal who used a character that was legal on a Mac, but not on a Windows NTFS volume. She would save her files from a Mac to a Windows file share, and Windows would happily comply, but then she couldn't open her

Re: Devawriter Pro: Fund Raiser Goes Live!

On 05/31/2018 08:18 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote: Read the other two articles, then divide by 2. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsub

Re: Siva Siva App in iOS version 1.2 in now out

On 06/05/2018 09:08 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On June 5, 2018 10:27:50 AM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: And believe me, people really code is different styles! I'll say. It's like handwriting, if you know someone's style you can often determine who wro

Re: Regex (matchChunk) help...

On 06/15/2018 08:45 AM, Glen Bojsza via use-livecode wrote: Any suggestions? filter lotsOfText with "*selkirkst*skyrider1*" -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to su

(somewhat) OT: Bill Atkinson on HC

http://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/18/the-inspiration-for-hypercard/ -- 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 preferenc

Re: Examples of encryption for database access

Bill- Nicely done. For security though, I wouldn't store the encryption keys in either the LC stack or (especially) the php script. In the php script you can set the environment variable on the server and then access it as $encryption_key = .$_ENV["ENCRYPTION_KEY"] Same thing, obviously, f

Re: Examples of encryption for database access

On 06/25/2018 02:17 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: Mark: I’ve been exploring, Googling, and my Web Host Manager to figure out where to set the environmental variables for the security keys. It might be nice if I could set different values for different subdomains on my server, but

Re: Examples of encryption for database access

On 06/25/2018 08:57 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: One thing this misses is that the IV is not another private key/password. It should be random/different for every use of the key. True, but for the purpose of Bill's demo it works fine. For that matter, a 16-bit iv won't get you very

Re: Remote URL Not Available

On 06/27/2018 07:34 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: "it" almost always containa data. e.g contains "404 Page Not Found" I wondering if we have to parse it for all possible errors? Or, if there is just *one* thing that is true, for all "I found the file, here it is" cas

Re: Examples of encryption for database access

On 06/28/2018 09:17 AM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: I understand Mark’s comment about putting the key and IV vector in the .htaccess file. I will do this as soon as I figure out if I’ve destroyed my server by deleting all files in the /etc/httpd directory by mistake (I was trying

Re: Examples of encryption for database access

On 06/28/2018 01:49 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: Random IV means that an attacker can not generate a dictionary in advance. Knowing it at the same time is not an issue since they cypher is not cracked. The other reason is that the IV seeds the AES encryption so that the first block

bitwise shifts gone?

Hmmm... I just noticed that the bitwise shift left and right operators have disappeared from the language. When did this happen? The 'bitwise' modifier is still in the dictionary, but no indication as to how it might still be useful. From this I assume (yeah, I know...) that the engine is sm

Re: bitwise shifts gone?

On 06/30/2018 03:50 AM, hh via use-livecode wrote: Mark, obviously you ask relating to Bob's IPv4 sort problem. A perceptive observation, as always. But when optimising (for speed) the connected formula (1) a + b * 2^8 + c * 2^16 + d * 2^32 using the constants is slightly faster: (2) a +

Re: bitwise shifts gone?

On 06/30/2018 10:03 AM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode wrote: On Jun 30, 2018, at 8:00 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: Indeed. I'm not too upset about the loss of the bitshift operators other than the lack of backward compatibility, but I'm surprised by their demise. In

Re: bitwise shifts gone?

On 06/30/2018 10:27 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I just looked back in dictionaries for older version back to 6.7.11 and there are no shift operators in the dictionary. You have bitAnd, bitOr, bitXor and botNot, but no shifts operators. Are you sure there were ever in the language to

Re: bitwise shifts gone?

On 06/30/2018 10:34 AM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode wrote: And I read about bitor in the 9.0.0 dictionary: the operands are treated as binary between 0 and a signed 32 bit integer (2^32 - 1) max. So bitor wouldn’t do unless it has grown up into the 64 bit world. that's a bit (or 32) disap

Re: Sort IP List

Ralph- Not that I'm doubting your findings, but those both seem mind-bogglingly nonsensical to me. Can you post your test code? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url t

Re: Sort IP List

On 07/02/2018 06:59 AM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: oh yes. message box makes LC slow to a crawl..I've noticed that. i can confirm that. Win 10 LC 9 too. I've seen that too, especially when spewing debugging statements to the messagebox. But not all the time, and nothing I can get a r

Re: When I assume .....

On 07/02/2018 02:55 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: I decided to do a test today and sure enough ... the behavior is identical. They're not identical. The immediate version will invoke TestCommand during the execution of mouseUp. The 'send in time' version will invoke TestCommand after

Re: Script Only Stack Behaviors and Nesting

On 07/02/2018 04:16 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: oic. Well getting the stacks custom property and referencing that is working for me. It's curious then if you can use the sLocal of this me, could you also use the sLocal of button x or stack y?? That would be very cool! That would me

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.1 RC-1

On 07/09/2018 01:41 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Panos wrote: > We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 9.0.1 RC-1. Here (Los Angeles) the download is estimated to take three hours. Could this be a repeat of the CDN issue you'd corrected a few weeks ago? Here it ac

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.1 RC-1

On 07/09/2018 03:27 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 7/9/18 5:11 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 07/09/2018 01:41 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Panos wrote:  > We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 9.0.1 RC-1. Here (Los Angeles) the downl

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.1 RC-1

On 07/09/2018 04:26 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: A speedy 6hrs estimated here in White Salmon, Washington. Guess I’ll have to wait until later this evening. Yah. Once those electrons get hot and swell up not as many of them can fit through the internet tubes any more. Good idea

Re: Docker

On 07/10/2018 02:40 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: Mostly i'm looking to learn how things work, but the end goal is to a) have a front lc based controller (httpd) that can hand off jobs to a pool of docker "processors," and getting a handle on how to dynamically spin up more instances ba

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.1 RC-1

On 07/09/2018 03:45 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: It's the quarks that don't have as far to go, on account of their travelling faster than light. Electrons are the pedestrians of the space time continuum. ...bartender says "we don't serve tachyons in here" A tachyon walks into a bar

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.1 RC-1

On 07/10/2018 10:32 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: > ...bartender says "we don't serve tachyons in here" > > A tachyon walks into a bar... That sounds like a UDP joke, but maybe you didn't get it. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com _

Re: Docker

On 07/11/2018 02:27 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: That is a GREAT idea! Imagine a place where you can get money for all your one sock pairs! They send you a box, shipping is free, and then dwarves managed by troll overlords can match up as best they can all the socks they get! Still

Re: Docker

On 07/11/2018 03:18 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I'm in a strange mood. I got into my car last Sunday and discovered two of my three radio programmable buttons had changed stations. I'm the only person who drives my car, and I always lock it wherever I go. I'm not sure I haven't ent

Re: Docker

On 07/11/2018 05:16 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: They'll be more annoyed that their car isn't where they left it. Of course if they understand sock science, maybe they'll go look for it in the dryer. Shouldn't be a problem. They can just take Bob's car and wonder why the presets got

Re: Property inspector / custom properties - how can i resize the value field

On 07/16/2018 02:00 PM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Hi all, Thank you for the feedback. We are aware of this problematic behavior. There is a bug report about it: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20701 Also https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19880 and by r

android heads up

FYI: I just got notice in another usegroup that Google has restricted the use of "android" as part of the package name. If you are using the "android" as part of your package name or thinking about it for an new app, you probably want to change it now. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: android heads up

On 07/18/2018 10:28 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Damn!  I was about to launch my new malware app, "Android OS Update". I guess I'll have to figure out some other nefarious plan to take over the world ;) I'm sure you'll think of something. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gm

Re: Datagrids and Nested Behaviors

On 07/20/2018 11:43 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I believe I may have mispoken in this thread. Setting the behavior of an object does NOT insert the behavior script in FRONT of the object in the message path. It inserts it in BACK. I know this because I have a selectionChanged handle

Re: drawing a Barcode without a Barcode font

On 07/20/2018 04:31 AM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote: We tried here with iPhone and also with an USB scanner. Both devices scanned the code successfully. I have just finished a program for shipment. It fetches customer and invoice data from the accounting software and creates then the

Re: drawing a Barcode without a Barcode font

On 07/20/2018 03:22 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: Hey Mark (or anyone?) Feel like writing up a widget for this (with lots of comments) as an instructional? (Plus the fact that it'd be a very useful widget in its own right) Heh. I've got a UPC barcode widget, unfortunately there's no w

Re: 64 bit LC

I'm surprised there wasn't an answer before this as well. This subject comes up every few years. The engine bitness won't affect math results. The standard library used for math will fail beyond the scope at both ends and you'll end up doing the math yourself with strings if you need more accu

Re: 64 bit LC

On 07/20/2018 06:47 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: And this one: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12440 I'm not sure what a status of 'hibernated' means. Probably waiting until after something freezes over. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com __

Re: 64 bit LC

On 07/20/2018 06:45 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 7/20/2018 9:20 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: I'm surprised there wasn't an answer before this as well. This subject comes up every few years. The engine bitness won't affect math results. The standard l

Re: 64 bit LC

HP was designing these things before there was math. Sad what has happened to the company. I'd like to blame Fiorina for the mess but she only took a bad thing and made it worse. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: Help with Bug #19550: Add support for symlinks to standalone builder

Brian- Here's the code I use in PowerTools to determine in a cross-platform way whether a filespec is a file or a folder. The Windows code is pretty stupid, just looking at the file extension, but I couldn't think of a better way to figure it out. HTH. /** * -

Re: OT: On-Rev cPanel (port 2083) access blocked by BT Smart Hub router?

On 07/27/2018 09:06 AM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode wrote: Hi folks, Apologies for OT thread - but I’m hoping there may be a UK-based fellow on-rev hosting user, with BT Broadband + Smart Hub, who can confirm whether any router tweaks are needed to access port 2083 (for on-rev cPanel), which

Re: Checking if internet is connected using tsNet?

On 07/27/2018 09:32 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Am 26.07.2018 um 16:40 schrieb Klaus major-k via use-livecode : Hi friends, can we possibly "mis-"use tsNet somehow to check if the current machine has a valid internet connection? And to check if a given URL is valid? Thanks for

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