Re: Object layers

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Re: Object layers

On 01/08/2018 10:51 AM, dunbarx via use-livecode wrote: I do get a lot of eye rolling about that. Stuck in the past, you see. Heh. Yeah, but what I had in mind is that aol's email access doesn't handle things like threading, so their technology (or rather their not keeping up to date with it

Re: Do widgets support introspection?

On 01/09/2018 08:25 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote: G.C. wrote: Is there a way, given a widget, to find out programmatically what the relevant properties of the widget are? Only the documented ones. Even the property inspector shows only the "user_visible" ones. The only possibility I can see is

Re: Do widgets support introspection?

On 01/09/2018 09:45 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: Do the built-in widgets come with manifests? Yes. Even the built-in widgets. At least for now, until we get commercial locked widgets. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livec

Re: Do widgets support introspection?

On 01/10/2018 12:57 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Why would 'commercial locked widgets' not have a manifest? (Or some other means to describe their public interface...) Dunno. It's a mystery to me. I'm just working off Ali's comments in the PR. Can you guarantee then that widget

Re: Do widgets support introspection?

On 01/10/2018 09:44 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: I can't guarantee there will be a separate file in the future necessarily, nor something human-readable (the manifest.xml is actually generated mechanically from the data in the compiled module file and combined with the metadata

Re: Do widgets support introspection?

On 01/10/2018 09:56 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Are you sure you didn't confuse 'source file' with 'manifest' - its dealing with no source file in extensions that commit sorts out (also why protected extensions need their docs extracted at build time - there's no source file in

Re: Do widgets support introspection?

On 01/10/2018 12:37 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote: Brian is correct, this is a temporary use of the lcdoc stuff for script libraries to contain info that would be contained in its manifest. Rather than worrying about what information comes from where, it would probably be best to use the

Re: Do widgets support introspection?

On 01/10/2018 01:52 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote: revIDEExtensions gives info on all the installed extensions, user or otherwise (I guess it's the revIDE prefix that makes it sound like it doesn't). Yeah, I got thrown off by that and didn't dig down far enough to see the user extension

Re: Using this list

On 01/11/2018 08:52 AM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode wrote: Howdy! Has anyone written an app to read, manage and reply to posts on this list? Seems combersome (at least they way I’m doing it). I get the list as an eMail in my inbox. If I want to reply, you click “Reply”. Then you have

Re: LC Global schedule is online

On 01/11/2018 12:19 PM, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote: Well, indeed, Mr TBA is currently overworked. Would anyone like to step up and relieve him of the pressure? I have attended several TBA sessions at various conferences over the years, and I can attest to the intriguing and often su

OT: Developer Week SF Bay Area

If anyone is planning on coming to Developer Week 2018 in the Bay Area (3-7 February), more free OPEN passes have opened up. It's moving to Oakland from San Francisco this year, no doubt because nobody can afford San Francisco any more. You must register by 11:59 pm on January 26 (or before we

Re: Streaming video..

On 01/13/2018 12:45 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: Quick question.. I'm attempting to write a program to work with my hdhomerun (networked tv streamer) and think i'm on track.. However, i'm not sure if its possible to tell the player to open a udp connection on port 5000 and wait for the

Re: Mac path to Android SDK?

On 01/15/2018 04:55 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: You also need to install JRE and JDK from the Oracle site. JDK 1.8.0 has been working well for me. Although note that OpenJDK works just as well and avoids the Oracle unpleasantness. http://openjdk.java.net/ -- Mark Wieder ahso

OT: Idiot UX

https://boingboing.net/2018/01/16/bad-design-this-is-the-menu-w.html From the comments: * Acronym stew * Not alphabetized * No clear separation between “production” and “test” messages * Arbitrary classifications * Arbitrary word ordering * No distinction of event severity * Wall of text (should

Re: How do I delete cloned images with the same name all at once?

On 01/17/2018 02:42 PM, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote: Use short name instead of name, this will script will work: Additionally, the way I deal with this is to create a group, then create the control *in the group*. That way all I have to do is delete the group and all the child contro

gradient selectors

Before I log a bug report on this, can anyone confirm that the gradient selectors are working in LC9? Launching either of the selectors from the PI I get a long hang time and no visual feedback. I did manage to get something out of the fill gradient selector once, but the stroke gradient select

Re: gradient selectors

On 01/17/2018 07:43 PM, Paul Hibbert via use-livecode wrote: Both fill and stroke gradients work fine on Mac High Sierra, no delays that I can see and definitely no hang, so it may be a Linux related bug. Thanks for checking, Paul. Yeah, I just confirmed they're working on OSX as well. And no

Re: gradient selectors

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more unicode than you want

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Re: OT - What linux do you recommend for older PCs?

On 01/22/2018 04:31 PM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Hi, so this goes to the Linux experts on this list. I have here an old Asus EeePC 1000H which currently runs with Windows XP and which is not used very often. It has an Intel Atom N270 CPU, 1GB ram and a 160GB harddisk. What Linux

Re: OT - What linux do you recommend for older PCs?

On 01/23/2018 09:45 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: I've been lucky with Linux, in that all but one of my installs went swimmingly right out of the box.  And for that one, Ubuntu discovered the need for a driver for me, and prompted me to click a button to install it. I even have

Re: What Env Variable set when saving standalone?

On 01/24/2018 03:56 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Hi all. I want to prevent going to a modal login stack when I save as standalone, or at least not go modally. Right now I have to change the login stack to TopLevel each and every time I save as standalone and it opens. Is there some

Re: Bug: in 8.18 Stable and 9 Dp11 legacy stack import

Lagi- If I removed and saved I would get a stack corruption on next load , if I left them in after some changes - I would assume additions to the main stack I'm not sure the stack would load saying it couldn't find 2 substacks. When I loaded the stack as a binary the full stack scripts of both s

Re: What Env Variable set when saving standalone?

On 01/25/2018 08:17 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Thanks Mark. I have a mainstack called Forms Generator. In the openStack handler in the card script of that stack, I open modally another substack called Login. This is so that no one can access the app without logging in first. When

Re: What Env Variable set when saving standalone?

On 01/25/2018 01:57 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: You could try it a different way. Save/keep the login stack as toplevel all the time, then in the handler that opens the login stack: if the environment is not "development" then modal "login" else go stack "login" I was just abou

Re: What Env Variable set when saving standalone?

On 01/25/2018 03:31 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Trouble is I DO want to open the login stack modally in development, because it pulls setup information for each user from the Login database, such as custom settings (like local file paths, recent customers list, access level etc). Th

Re: Navigator now supports converting controls to script-only stack behaviors

On 01/25/2018 11:53 AM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: > Any suggestions where to go to figure this out? At the most basic level, > all I need is: > > 1. A "current released version" of Navigator on GitHub. > 2. A work-in-progress version on my computer, in my LiveCode installation. > 3.

Re: What Env Variable set when saving standalone?

On 01/25/2018 05:03 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Oh how the pure have fallen! ;-) That would work but it's s dirty! True, but your stack isn't exactly living in HelloWorldLand. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode ma

Re: Navigator now supports converting controls to script-only stack behaviors

On 01/25/2018 05:25 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: Also: the bug has been fixed. GitHub and the download on my Navigator page have been updated. I also have a separate branch where I'm improving the handlers menu. Woot! Woot indeed. Sounds like you're on a roll. -- Mark Wieder ahso

Re: Crazy script-only stack question

On 01/23/2018 01:15 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 1/23/18 12:27 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: @JLG I thought with "breaktpoint" you could debug SOS behaviors I haven't actually tried that yet. It would be more difficult to avoid debugging when you just want to run th

Re: Crazy script-only stack question

On 01/26/2018 12:42 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: The deal is, if the standalone is anywhere near a running copy of the IDE, remote debugging will kick in and stop the script (assuming the "breakpoint" command works as expected.) To avoid that, you'd need to either quit LC, or res

Re: RevQueryDatabase error in standalone

On 01/29/2018 03:48 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Hi all. Now I'm not even getting to the revOpenDatabase call. Mind you this ONLY happens when I run the standalone. Not in the IDE. This is what I get when I send an email from the crash dialog: Executing at 3:40:49 PM on Monday, Jan

Re: ControlKit and widget "hhControls" v1.0.2

On 02/01/2018 08:39 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote: This is a widget for use with LC 8 (version > 8.1.5), LC 9 is currently (as of 9.0.0-dp11) not supported, sorry. "hhControls" is a widget that lets you *create* a widget that contains controls: One or several of A widget to create widgets! <3

Re: RevQueryDatabase error in standalone

On 02/02/2018 09:37 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: put the short name of pCardID into tCardName I don't think you can do that. Shouldn't that be "card id pCardID"? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-

Re: any tricks to make SHELL non blocking?

On 02/03/2018 02:31 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: If everyone would just get over themselves and start using Linux we could all enjoy named pipes. :) After working on our kitchen plumbing for the last few days, I've got a few choice names for pipes. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@

Re: any tricks to make SHELL non blocking?

On 02/05/2018 12:02 PM, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: disintegrated (and so did that plumber). !!! -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscri

Re: SE: restore default handlers?

On 02/06/2018 02:46 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: Does this do what I think it does!? i.e. make it so rev code can throw errors, be debugged, breakpointed, and stepped through. Yes, it does... but be careful with it. It will also pinpoint all the ugly errors in the IDE stacks. I on

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.9

On 02/09/2018 07:42 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: drop a line if you need a german interpreter. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmOTpIVxji8 -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.co

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.9

On 02/09/2018 07:23 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Could you post the link to this thread here? Sure, you may need to become a forum member before you can read the posting. But I already told you everything he s

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.9

On 02/09/2018 09:07 AM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: ...\Roaming\... Hah! I was listening to Ornette's "Rambling" when that email arrived. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Ple

Re: Inspector - resizable or not?

On 02/13/2018 02:19 PM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Hi Richard, This is probably a bug. We were discussing that with Mark Wieder in this report: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19880 If you are on Ubuntu and have found a reproducible recipe please add it to the report

Re: Livecode.com server down

On 02/14/2018 08:16 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: Hi Sean, I have gone back to using the manual method of activating LC for that very reason. You may want to do this in the near future. LC server downtime should never impact user productivity. Just my 2 cents for the day. Cheers,

Re: Getting current line number of a table field.

On 02/14/2018 08:04 AM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: Try this... on rawkeyup pkey send "getline" to me in 10 millisec pass rawkeyup end rawkeyup command getline put the short name of the focusedobject end getline This gives you the name of the editing field that appears for

Re: Livecode.com server down

On 02/14/2018 08:36 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 02/14/2018 08:16 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: Hi Sean, I have gone back to using the manual method of activating LC for that very reason. You may want to do this in the near future. LC server downtime should never

Re: New Wierd Display Bug

On 02/14/2018 05:06 PM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: sounds like a great time bob :) Yeah. Somebody's been having too much fun. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Livecode.com server down

On 02/14/2018 11:57 PM, Dave Kilroy via use-livecode wrote: > What Heather told me the last time this happened was to: > > a) disconnect your development machine from the internet > b) launch LiveCode (it opens in offline mode) > c) reconnect your development machine to the internet > d) continue

Re: Livecode.com server down

On 02/15/2018 01:47 AM, Kevin Miller via use-livecode wrote: Unfortunately we¹ve been the subject of a spate of sustained, intensive hacking attempts. We had a series of incidents the other week and the last couple of days has been a new round of attempts from a different angle. We¹ve fought them

Re: Livecode.com server down

On 02/15/2018 09:28 AM, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote: Did you check your account to see if it was available? The server was not down last night for more than about 60 seconds (as I well know, being awake for large portions of it). The message you saw sounds like the standard could not

Re: Livecode.com server down

On 02/15/2018 09:27 AM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: It looks like the option to generate offline activation files is version specific, but if it were me I think I'd generate files for the version I was most likely to install and carry them on a usb stick and/or add them to a place I could

Re: Livecode.com server down

On 02/15/2018 01:37 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: I have a USB stick full of off-line activation licences all the way back to 7.1.4 as I have a variety of computers in various places in our flat, and one in our country cottage, that are not internet enabled. ...and here's the

Re: Livecode.com server down

On 02/15/2018 01:35 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: This IS the way the world goes round these days: nobody will accept responisibility for their mistakes. ...backing down a bit on this... The whole LC team has been through a harrowing couple of days dealing with this, and it'

Re: libsodium on LiveCode?

On 02/17/2018 10:53 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: I found a thread from a year ago that mentions libsodium: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/SHA1-cracked-What-are-the-chances-this-will-be-addressed-in-LC-td4712554i20.html I was wondering if anyone had taken a look at what

Re: position of text-curson within field

On 02/19/2018 05:01 PM, Nicolas Cueto via use-livecode wrote: As you can see, the reason I'm interrupting the backspace key is to find out the number of lines in a field after a char is deleted. I would do that differently: local sHowManyLines on backspaceKey send "howManyLinesNow" to me i

xkcd predictions for the 2018 cve list

turns out the cloud is just other people's computers. https://xkcd.com/1957/ ...and there's a tooltip... -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: LiveCode Widget Factory

On 02/22/2018 08:22 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: Poorly worded perhaps. The intent is the license requires user code to be open sourced and un-password protectable while the LC edition/engine itself is not. I must confess I don’t know much about the particulars of the license we

Re: LiveCode Widget Factory

On 02/22/2018 08:53 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: On 23 Feb 2018, at 3:47 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: The licensing is even weirder than that: "This edition only allows you to use commercial extensions (including protected code) purchased through the Liv

Re: widget properties

On 02/24/2018 03:08 PM, Ali Lloyd via use-livecode wrote: The VCS-related use case for an expanded properties property still exists though, as far as I can tell, although 'properties' is kind of a bad name for it. Actually I think it might be better to add 'export' syntax for classic controls. T

Re: Quit Command corrupts standalone (stack called by standalone splash)

On 02/26/2018 05:14 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Knapp Martin wrote: > Richard, could you elaborate on the issues with Dropbox? I first came across it in a search at Google for "dropbox sqlite", looking for tips on making the most of that relationship.  What I found was a long

Re: Quit Command corrupts standalone (stack called by standalone splash)

On 02/26/2018 07:38 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Consider this scenario with stack files, for example: Mark writes a stack, then I open it, then you open it.  You and I are both making changes, and I save mine a few seconds before you save yours. In that scenario, what's on disk

Re: IDE Cursor icon often hangs on windows

On 02/28/2018 07:24 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: If you do file a bug report please post the URL here.  I've seen this with v9 under Ubuntu, but haven't reported it yet as it's intermittent and I haven't yet found a recipe. Same here. I see this all the time. It's annoying and i

Re: building deb packages

On 02/28/2018 11:37 AM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: I decided to see how hard it was to turn LC into a deb package. So far it hasn't been too difficult, the only thing I need to find again is how to have the icon auto update during the install. (as it is, to see the lc icon one must log

Re: [Completely OT] Withdrawal symptoms from Slashdot

On 03/03/2018 04:09 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: Completely off topic, but I need help ;-) For many years now my standard "I have 30 seconds (or minutes) to fill in, what's happening in the world" web site has been slashdot, but it seems to be completely off the air for now. I'm

Re: [Completely OT] Withdrawal symptoms from Slashdot

On 03/03/2018 08:16 PM, Rodney Somerstein via use-livecode wrote: Slashdot is definitely still there. Make sure you are going to https://slashdot.org . I suppose they may have been having a problem the last time you tried the site, but it is definitely up and running right now. Slashdot was h

Re: RevZilla (2.5)

On 03/26/2018 12:05 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: I’ve looked at the code enough to know that any update by someone other than Ken would be a huge task. I was kind of hoping that someone else had already had the itch and scratched it :) It was developed without explicit variable checki

Re: [OT] Web based HyperCard

On 03/27/2018 07:06 AM, Keith Martin via use-livecode wrote: But seriously, while I don't see a hard-nosed practical use for this it is an astounding feat! Better yet, it appears that this may be the Ben Fisher who has been part of the RR/LC community for a dozen or so years. I donated and

Re: variable xref

On 03/27/2018 06:56 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: Has anyone written a script to go through a stack and xref the variables? Yeah, but I didn't find it of much use. Unless you're using a lot of global variables or constants, why would this be useful? ..and notice that this task bec

OT: WebOS resurfaces for the raspberry pi !!!

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Re: Livecode Json Arrays Key Sort

On 03/29/2018 01:25 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: put JSONToArray(tJson) into sColArrayA It is my imagination: Or are the keys of {object set} output as hash order (as per dictionary, required sort them first) https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19698

Re: variable xref

On 03/30/2018 08:56 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: I'd suggest that the language doesn't matter - so 'natural language like' would perhaps be a better term but even then is that really what we mean? A good question to ask here might be "what are the pain points of the language a

Re: do. command. safety. ?

On 04/01/2018 11:40 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Thanks for the examples, Alex and Richard. I did understand the principle behind the caution but I couldn't get any of my tests to produce bad results. Both your examples do that. I think the problem was that I wasn't being imagina

Re: Guessing game

On 04/02/2018 12:28 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: So when is an array not a variable? Why is a raven like a writing-desk? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Guessing game

On 04/02/2018 12:59 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode wrote: I recently was attempting to explain, to a savvy younger programmer new to LC, the concepts of variables being promoted to arrays and multidimensional dictionaries. She gave me the “crazy old man” look. .Jerry Ooo... multidimension

Re: v9 experience grinds to a halt. non-functioning breakpoints.

On 04/03/2018 06:50 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: Did a quick test on Mac/Win10 and both worked as expected on a new test stack. Ditto here on linux. Whew... had me worried for a sec. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode

Re: Guessing game

On 04/03/2018 12:51 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: One could imagine a similar thing being added to the arithmetic commands:   add tLeft to tRight into tResult Would do nothing different from:   put tLeft + tRight into tResult This would just be a different way of expressing t

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0

On 04/04/2018 11:32 AM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode wrote: On Apr 4, 2018, at 10:35 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: @Peter Bogdanoff bogdanoff: Yesterday it took me 3-4 hours to download LC 9. I’m in California. Good to know I'm not the only one. Thanks. Me too in Californ

Re: v9 experience grinds to a halt. non-functioning breakpoints.

On 04/03/2018 08:15 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: There are two other less obvious reasons that the breakpoints might be being ignored: - the breakpoint is in a moveStack or resizeStack handler. Note that in 9.0.1 this will extend to resizeControl also to resolve bug 21017. - the

Re: commandine standalone using 100% of core on doing what?

On 04/05/2018 08:46 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: You may try running the standalone with strace to see the system calls it's making:   strace ./mystandalone I don't think strace is on Windows. I'd recommend Process Lasso for seeing what's going on. https://bitsum.com/ But

Re: Project Browser Goes Blank - How To Refresh

On 04/07/2018 08:30 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: 9.0 gm Project browser always goes "blank" it there keystroke to refresh it? Sometime it requires a reboot… will not refresh, even from the menu. revApplicationOverview , OTHO, always works… so I switch to that until I

ANN: PowerTools 2.0.12

Now that version 9.0 of LiveCode has been released, we're announcing the new build of PowerTools. Upgrades are always free for existing users, and it's still only $40 US for new users. Current registered users: You will need your username and registration code to download the file. If you need

Re: 9.0 Crashes Constantluy

On 04/10/2018 08:47 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: Anyone else having these problem? I was having some similar problems last night. Then I closed LC9, launched 8.1.9, closed that and relaunched 9 and the problems magically disappeared. When I was having trouble I noti

Re: name resolution stinker

On 04/11/2018 09:08 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: put quote & tDataGrid & quote && "of" && tCurrentCard into tGridLongName because you're using the short name of the group. put "group" && quote & tDataGrid & quote && "of" && tCurrentCard into tGridLongName or put the name of grou

Re: name resolution stinker

On 04/11/2018 09:55 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: But the variable tGridLongName resolves to: "dgsites" of card id 1002 of stack "Sites" of stack "/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Livecode Projects/Forms Generator 8/Forms Generator 8.livecode" Exactly. It *should* resolve to group "dgsite

Re: Mobile Native Essentials Widget Pack

On 04/11/2018 09:57 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: But - I have one (or maybe two) "objections" One other quibble: I'm normally reluctant to put down good money on something with a major version of zero. And with no visible upgrade policy or licensing. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@g

Re: Mobile Native Essentials Widget Pack

On 04/11/2018 03:01 PM, Mark Talluto via use-livecode wrote: $49 for the amount of work that went into making these widgets is quite affordable. Yes, these are listed as v .5. They could have labeled them as v 1.0. That leaves everyone the opportunity to find things that need to be fixed or im

Re: Mobile Native Essentials Widget Pack

On 04/11/2018 11:06 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: There's no such thing as "good money". ;-) Good money is the money I used to have. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Mobile Native Essentials Widget Pack

On 04/11/2018 04:56 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: so I guess I need to go read about installing widget extensions ... LOL. The tl;dr is an .lce file is a zip archive. Rename it to .zip and open it the usual way. Extract the .lcb file from the archive, open it with the Extension Bu

Re: Mobile Native Essentials Widget Pack

On 04/11/2018 07:10 PM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote: Use the Extension Manager which is accessed from the Tools menu. There is "+" button. Click it and select the .lce file. Oh, sure, if you want to skip the fun of going the long way around. I bet you also probably stop looking for y

Re: LCB Woes

On 04/12/2018 06:03 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: What language is the library written in? Which platform? I have some code that I’ve started to put together for libSodium, but I have not done much more than reference the calls. Interesting. I started down the libSodium path and gave

Re: LCB Woes

On 04/12/2018 07:37 PM, Pi Digital via use-livecode wrote: Why on earth would you have to type them? Why not for loop them or copy-paste or get LC to give you a 1024 char string of them you can copy-paste in? Odd. Well, yeah, obviously it would be a cut and paste thing. But even so, when deali

The case for not trying to be so English-like

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Re: some thoughts on version 9.0.0

On 04/19/2018 01:15 PM, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode wrote: the number 1 indicates that this is the first behavior. Behaviors can be stacked and then you would have 2,3 or whatever up to ten behaviors. The number of lines is useful for the object but not so much for the behavior. The toolt

Re: some thoughts on version 9.0.0

On 04/19/2018 03:03 PM, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode wrote: actually the problem was that if you use the number of lines of the behaviors and you have a couple of behaviors stacked then the space needed for the behaviors would run into the text. The current solution was the one which used

Re: OpenLanguage: abstract syntax trees

On 04/20/2018 12:10 PM, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote: Yes - I quite distinctly remember having this very discussion with Mark a few years back regarding the Bus Factor. Was clear at that time that a centralised backup was infeasible. I’m glad to say that new additions to the protocol have

Re: Digital Pomegranate

On 04/23/2018 08:12 AM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: I see from the “Radio Free Europe” news that Sarikisian resigned. Great news! Congratulations! And I think equally important is that Sarkisian acknowledged that his reason for resigning that the movement in the street is against

Re: macOS "Recovered files"

On 04/24/2018 09:58 AM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Hi Klaus, i´ve checked here and see the same folders Recovered files(#1……10) with the same content you are describing. In my case there was also a .csv file in that folders. The .csv was created with LC and was stored in temp fold

Re: Open printing to PDF error

On 04/26/2018 09:46 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Presumably the folder exists since it was just selected by the user via the 'answer file' command. I assume that was just a typo, but just in case... you really meant 'answer folder' there, right? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.

Re: Enable/disable Group enables/disables all children

On 04/26/2018 12:18 PM, dunbarx via use-livecode wrote: Does it make it more palatable to think about it the other way around? There should be no real difference: You have a group where one button is already enabled, and one already disabled. By disabling the group, should the enabled button st

Re: Q on Accessing multi-dimension arrays.

On 04/26/2018 10:17 AM, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode wrote: > If I understand correctly that you want then > > - > put "style,hidden" into tPathToHidden > split tPathToHidden by comma > > put "true" into tScriptA[i][tPathToHidden] > > lets you

Re: Hex to Decimal 2s Complement

On 04/27/2018 02:41 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: I should know this - but don't any more :-) So there may be a corner case to fix up - but in general, something like *put*thetextoffld"F"intotemp* put*baseconvert(temp,16,10) intot1* if* t1 > 32767*then* *put*t1-65536intot1* end* *if*

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