Re: Nightly builds

Same question.. Where do members find the nightly builds? On Thu, Mar 9, 2017 at 8:14 PM, James Hale via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I just noticed one of the benefits to membership of the open source > community is access to nightly builds. > > Can anyone tell me how t

Re: Passing Variables in a non-CGI LC Server?

Ah k. Still not sure what you mean about how its installed, but if you are hitting lc server script pages directly in the browser through a web server, that part most likely doesn't matter. (otherwise i'm sure you'll correct me) It sounds like you need to use session management. If all your pag

Re: Passing Variables in a non-CGI LC Server?

Ok. The problem with "start session" is most likely trying to write the session file to a place without write permissions. Make sure you set the sessionsavepath to a place you can write to. Having said that.. I can't make it work. I can get past start session, all the way to stop session, no tro

Re: Passing Variables in a non-CGI LC Server?

ck Harrison via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Well I’m glad to see I’m not alone here in not > being able to get “start session” to work. > Now we can enjoy being in the soup together! LOL > > Rick > > > On Apr 7, 2017, at 1:5

Re: Sort on two sortTypes

do 2 consecutive sorts.. First by item 3 then by item 2 datetime Alternatively, you might be able to use a function sort to do it, but I'd have to really think about how to accomplish it that way, and its too early. Basically though, a sort using a function looks like the following example.. (if

Re: Passing Variables in a non-CGI LC Server?

17 at 12:54 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Hi Mike, >> >> Well I’m glad to see I’m not alone here in not >> being able to get “start session” to work. >> Now we can enjoy being in the soup together! LOL &

Re: Downloads - Immodest Proposal

I too am not well off, but in order to "help within my means" I am paying for membership. Its not much, but far better than 0. The only thing I want to find out now is where to get nightly builds from. (a perk of membership, yet no info that I can locate on how to actually find them) On Fri, Apr

Re: Standard icons included in standalone

It should be possible to add the image library as a plugin. Copy the stack in question (for example from: C:\Program Files (x86)\RunRev\LiveCode Community 9.0 (dp 5)\Toolset\palettes\revimagelibrary.rev to your plugins folder at which point you can use the old method and import any of the required

Re: Error connecting to SQLlite in iOS

Unless things have changed, when you add files using the copy files pane of the standalone settings, when sent to ios or android they end up in the engine folder. (I think? Or somewhere in that hierarchy) You would need to check for the existence of the file in documents on app startup and if it d

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

This, yes please. --There are still use-cases for both numberFormat and format, but there are so many precedents in other tools for defining display format --in the object used for display that I think when that's what's needed it would be the simplest to learn. On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 11:21 AM, R

Re: Will LiveCode run an x86 android device?

I don't think you can build for x86 android but i'm not positive. On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 1:12 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I don't think LiveCode (the development environment) will work on > Android of any sort: but it should develop standalon

Re: Getting a Google MAP

Since its a static map, its returned in image format (note the png at the beginning) You should be able to: put URL " https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/staticmap?center=Berkeley,CA&zoom=14&size=400x400&key=AIzaSyCO423QzwaEEBmiw4XjPKzz4Tcg_5bjHv4"; into img "myImage" and viola. have the map appe

Re: Getting a Google MAP

If you do a second call to the geocode api you can get the info you need. https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=Berkeley,+CA&zoom=14&size=400x400 There appear to be 2 location sections. One contains the bounds of the request, the other contains the bounds of the viewport IE z

Re: Getting a Google MAP

heres a link to the geocode api information: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/intro I'm not sure my interpretation of the viewport is accurate, but even if you just use the center point and do the calculations, and ignore the rest of the data, it should work. On Fri, Apr

Re: Getting a Google MAP

te: > Mike: > OMG, I LOVE YOU! Fantastic, this is just what I need. I hope I meet you > some day so I can buy you dinner. Let me know if you get by Santa Barbara, > or Portland area. > > Best, > Bill > > > > On Apr 28, 2017, at 10:56 AM, Mike Bonner via use-livec

Re: Getting a Google MAP

ke that would give me this info, > but I can’t find it. > > Best, > Bill > > > On Apr 28, 2017, at 1:49 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > I’m willing. Hermann has been generous with good ideas too. >

Re: looking for a smart approach to "sort" an array

It might be easiest to just have a single separate key that contains the user sorted list, then use the data of that key itself to access the rest of the array. So if you have 5 keys, word1,word2,word3,word4,word5, but the user orders them in reverse, your sorted words single key would contain wor

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

Is there a specific reason you need to use a built exe for this? lc server can use stack files (start using path/to/stack) as well as "include"ing or "require"ing extra script files, so unless you're using functionality only available in the desktop version of lc, you might be able to bypass the n

Re: looking for a smart approach to "sort" an array

Bob, can you do a custom sort using order by with sqlite? I did some digging and see a way, but for this purpose it seems complicated and I'm wondering if there is something better than what I found. Basically what I found was this.. ORDER BY CASE ID WHEN 4 THEN 0 WHEN 3 THEN 1 WHEN

Re: looking for a smart approach to "sort" an array

True, wasn't sure the field would still be available. I think the O.P. mentioned rebuilding the list in user order at a later time (as in from a later program run) by loading the array data from a file. By storing the list from the field as part of the array data, it carries the user index along

Re: looking for a smart approach to "sort" an array

Wasn't my post originally, but the gist of the problem was, how does one get data back out of an array based on a custom sorted list of words that are used as main array key back out of the array in the desired sequence. IE there is a list of words in a field. And an array that has extra informat

Re: looking for a smart approach to "sort" an array

Cool stuff! Didn't know you could hide things with tab, and will have to look at metadata now. Thanks! On Sat, May 6, 2017 at 1:30 PM, Jim Lambert via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > Jacque wrote: > > I've done this often, it's a nice clean solution. And now that we ca

Re: mySQL connection fine in LiveCode but error in standalone

I'm wondering if the mySql db driver is being included. If you view the package contents then drill down to Contents/MacOS/Externals/database_drivers is there a dbmysql.bundle folder? Another thing to check would be WHEN do you try to open the database? If you do it in preopenstack, you might be

Re: Shell argv

Seems to me, if its the compiled version, you shouldn't need to use "open" at all. a simple get shell("path/to/executable argument1 argument2") If I understand what I read about "open" enough, it expects a file, that will be opened in another app, like in Marks example. (whatever.c opens xcode)

Re: Shell argv

roperly in the Terminal so I could use similar > code with the Shell. > > JB > > > > On May 8, 2017, at 11:45 AM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > Seems to me, if its the compiled version, you shouldn't nee

Re: poking around near the end of a string

if char -2 to -1 of MNOSE = "$W" should work. LAST doesn't return a numeric value (as far as I can tell) so you can't subtract from it, if you do you get strange results In addition, the order matters. You're putting the last char first, and the second to last char last (if you were allowed to u

Re: poking around near the end of a string

Ends with.. How did I not know about that? On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > if char -2 to -1 of MNOSE = "$W" should work. > > LAST doesn't return a numeric value (as far as I can tell) so you can't > subtract from it, if you do you get strange results > > In addition, the or

G4

trying this again since it seems the list is back up... I have an old g4 mac laptop running tiger. I was wondering if anyone had a copy of rev media out there (the one you could install and use but not build standalones) that they could share with me, so i can mess around on it? Assuming this is

Re: G4

Oh cool! Thanks for the tip! On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 9:31 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 2017-05-23 17:27, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: > >> trying this again since it seems the list is back up... >> >&g

Re: Email Working?

The list did indeed go boom, but yes its back now. On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 3:32 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > Yesterday, I couldn’t get any messages > from this list at all, and anything I sent > kept bouncing. Is everything working >

Re: LC Server - Upload Large Images?

I wonder if the file is being created read only (is it possible there is a umask set on that folder that does this?) at which point renaming it, deleting, or whatever wouldn't work, but reading it and creating a copy (put url into url) would work. I'd be looking at the permissions of those newly

Re: Uploading Image - Livecode Tutorial Example? Sessions?

Theres another issue with on-rev. Even if you set the sessionSavePath, it won't work due to the default version of LC on on-rev. You need to override the version using an .htaccess file, but i've not managed to actually get that to work for me. Looking for the link that tells you how to do this.

Re: Uploading Image - Livecode Tutorial Example? Sessions?

> > On May 26, 2017, at 9:52 AM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > Theres another issue with on-rev. Even if you set the sessionSavePath, > it > > won't work due to the default version of LC on on-rev. You need to

Re: Uploading Image - Livecode Tutorial Example? Sessions?

> HTH, > > Matthias > > > Matthias Rebbe > +49 5741 31 > ‌matthiasrebbe.eu <http://matthiasrebbe.eu/>‌ > > > > > Am 26.05.2017 um 18:52 schrieb Mike Bonner via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode@lists.runr

Re: Uploading Image - Livecode Tutorial Example? Sessions?

purchase of a current commercial LC > license they install a version of choice of a commercial license of LC > server account wide. No need to install it for every domain / domain folder. > > Matthias > > > > Am 26.05.2017 um 20:12 schrieb Mike Bonner via use-livecode &

Re: Very naive URL question

You can embed a username and password in the request, I believe the form is ftp://*username*:*password*@hostname/.. this can be dangerous though, so i'm not sure you should necessarily do that. If you can set up a read only ftp account, that might be ok. In this case though, you're placing a file

Re: Very naive URL question

ut why Transmit > puts a different version of the URL onto the clipboard, without ‘www’ and > repeating the domain name. Could be a bug I suppose - but probably not. > > Still puzzled. I must be doing something **really** stupid. > > Graham > > > > On 27 May 2017, at 16:3

Re: File - read from EOF

I think you need to do the following First get the length in bytes of the file get the number of bytes in url ("binfile:" & yourfile) I have a file that I just did this on and there are 289558088 bytes Then you can either start reading at byte -whatever to -1 to grab the last part, adjusting the

Re: File - read from EOF

Thanks for letting me know the limitations of the method I offered. Now that you point it out, it makes sense since it'd be rather tough to do a count of something that isn't entirely accessible beginning to end. The detailed files method is definitely better. I guess one could go read a file by

Re: Param Naming - Object by Reference Best Practices

try.. put "graphic" & quote & "portal-title.bkgnd" into pObject As it is, you end up with pObject containg: graphic portal-title-bkgnd.. Meaning portal MINUS title MINUS bkgnd (since its unquited) and the engine fails because its confused about what to do with it. Quoting the name of the graphic

Re: Param Naming - Object by Reference Best Practices

Forgot the trailing "quote" after "portal-title-bkgnd" so it would actually be put "graphic" & quote & "portal-title-bkgnd" & quote into pObject On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 3:49 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > try.. > put "graphic" & quote & "portal-title.bkgnd" into pObject > > As it is, you end up with p

Re: Regex help...

Not sure regex can do what you want, or if it can its far far over my head. Would it work instead to use lc script to parse? If you repeat through your data (each line form, with tLine as the current line and pPage as the page to be looked for...) you can use a one liner like this to build a list

Re: Regex help...

Wow, the perl way is pretty darn cool. On Mon, Jun 5, 2017 at 2:06 AM, Thierry Douez via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi Paul, > > > AFAIK you need to deal with an hybrid approach (regex + livecode) > > So, here is one way to do it: > > >put 3 into pPage > >repea

Re: [ANN] Introducing Remote DB Lib

GREAT! Love your library already, this makes it that much better. Thank you! On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Remember to send me feedback! :D :D :D > > > > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:19 PM, Skip Kimpel via use-livecode < > us

interacting with youtube

I have a quick question.. when playing youtube videos in the browser widget (or revbrowser) is there a way to interact with youtube and grab the amount of time left before the vid completes (or general length or whatever)? ___ use-livecode mailing list us

Re: Mac PPC

I have a little macbook g4 running 10.4.11 and after going through the release notes, chose livecode 6.5.2 (the last version of lc that specifically says it will work with a macos that old) the machine has 1.25g of mem, and runs like a champ. On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:47 AM, Richmond Mathewson v

Re: Mac PPC

. > > This really does say something very positive indeed about Linux. > > Richmond. > > On 6/14/17 8:31 pm, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: > >> I have a little macbook g4 running 10.4.11 and after going through the >> release notes, chose livecode 6.5.2 (the las

Re: Mac PPC

< use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I think you will find that WINE enables you to play most Windows games: > > https://appdb.winehq.org/ > > or you could just set your rig up to dual-boot. > > Richmond. > > > On 6/14/17 10:40 pm, Mike Bonner via use-liveco

Re: Server Installation

Not sure i'm on the exact same version and setup of apache, but on a droplet I just set up, these are the steps I took to get it working. First I enabled actions a2enmod actions you need to do this as root, or have sudo privelages, with sudo it would be sudo a2enmod actions Also enable cgi.. sudo

Re: LiveCode Server - Html, Quotes & JS?

Theres a couple things I do... For items like an href that are pretty predictable, I have a stack file with a template that can be used with merge. So I'd have [[tUrl]] in a property and merge that sucker in. (could use a description in a variable rather than a 2nd tUrl if you'd like put "http://

Re: Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

Perhaps a different direction here? I think it would be helpful to me as a perpetual newbie to have the option to insert common scripts on demand. Maybe a context sensitive dropdown with a mouseup framework for buttons, for fields, textchanged, keyup, keydown. Maybe backed by a personal snippet l

Re: Display PDF in Browser Widget Error?

couldn't you also.. put quote & it & quote into tFile On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:24 PM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > @Roger > > Nice! > > This code works with filenames with spaces, too: > > on mouseUp > > local tFile > > answer file "Please choos

Re: Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

Cool! thanks Monte! On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 5:48 PM, Mark Talluto via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On Jun 21, 2017, at 4:40 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > Hi Guys > > > > I have done _some_ work on an autocomplete

Re: Determining left or right movement in a mouseMove handler

You do need to track the last location... here is a stack that does what you want. (script could be better i'm sure, but its a starting point.. ) https://www.dropbox.com/s/y6du5nmz5diiv0f/movedir.livecode?dl=0 Basically I put 4 square graphics on screen, top, bottom, right, and left position. T

Re: Server Installation

>>When I teach I feel it's important to include WHY in addition to HOW. This. I can't tell you how often I've helped people out (non-paid) and right in the middle of an explanation of why, what things can go wrong, and how to fix them.. they interrupt and say.. "But that's what i have you for, can

Re: synonyms

Even easier would be to just pass a single string like so.. myhandler "type=blue,name=fred,something=234" And use split split pVar by comma and "=" ending up with an array keyed by name. On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 5:41 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > He

Re: Did queryRegistry break?

listRegistry still seems to work, though when I list HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\ SERIALCOMM is there. (seems like it should be) If I ignore serialcomm and try queryRegistry on one of the subkeys returned by listRegistry, its still a no-go. Does indeed look like its broken. On Wed, J

Re: Did queryRegistry break?

One can use the shell to do this.. *get* shell("reg query HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\HARDWARE\DEVICEMAP\KeyboardClass") I used KeyboardClass because SERIALCOMM doesn't exist for me. (windows 10) but at least when i tried it I got back a helpful message telling me that it doesn't exist. On Wed, Jun 28, 2

Re: How to get the number of lines of a fld referenced by long ID in a variable.

Change it to "the number of lines in the text of pfield" and it should work. On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 8:59 PM, dunbarx via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi. > > You need a "do" construction to, er, deconstruct the "contents" of the > variable to the object reference of tha

Re: synonyms

The thing about passing in as an array is.. its just a different form of name value pairs, so it sidesteps the whole issue. On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:11 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > No, what I meant was Richard's fourth method, described in > > >>

Re: synonyms

p the name value pairs after the fact.) It just seems simpler to me to use arrays from the start. On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 10:31 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 29/06/2017 17:17, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: > >> The thing abo

Re: Feature Race: Pick Your Project

Can't pay, get this message... Error Detected Error Message The certificate has expired. Please use a valid certificate. The certificate has expired. Please use a valid certificate. On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 1:24 PM, Heather Laine via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > We had a

Re: Division by Zero Error

I use the try/catch/finally method mark mentions if there is a chance of divide by 0 errors. That way, no need to predict, just try it, and if theres an error, respond accordingly. On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 1:08 AM, hh via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > -- d0 is what you jud

Re: Set the tooltip of a datagrid

There should be a couple ways.. Assuming the tooltip data and the displayed data are already associated, you can do as suggested and pass in the popop information as part of the dgdata.. Then in the fillindata you 'set the tooltip of field 1 of me to ... the data that was passed in with the array.

Re: Set the tooltip of a datagrid

> > if tCount = 1 and not tHasHeader then put tColumnKey & > tab after line 1 of tValue > put aArrayRecord [tColumnKey] & tab after tValue > end repeat > > put cr into last char of tValue >

Re: Set the tooltip of a datagrid

Are you sure you need that line at all? Seems like once the tooltip is set, it will show up after the tooltipdelay has passed. At least it did for me in my quicky experiment. On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Okay now my pro

Re: intersect . . . invisible images

The invisible man still had to worry about opening doors and bumping into things. His shin could intercept painfully with the corner of a coffee table whether visible or not. On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 10:19 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I'm not sure

Re: "Silly" fun for the weekend

Heres my take. https://www.dropbox.com/s/c40jiwn36lrohgy/Ant%20Maze.livecode?dl=0 On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 2:45 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Anyone who is bored/at a loose end/slightly bonkers > can fool around with my "exam" for my kids: > > ht

Re: intersect . . . invisible images

known as "The situation that H.G.Wells > didn't think about too > carefully." > > Things get even more difficult in further generation with the 5% visible > descendant, > the 95% visible distant cousin and so forth. > > Richmond. > > > On 7/14/17 7:38

Re: "Silly" fun for the weekend

ped if I > had wanted to. I can use this! > > > > On 7/14/17, 7:01 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mike Bonner via > use-livecode" use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Heres my take. > https://www.dropbox.com/s/c40jiwn36lrohgy/Ant%20Maze.livecode

Re: intersect . . . invisible images

I think part of the problem might be the connection with the quantum here. Even if the sock is located momentarily, there is no telling how fast or what direction it is actually going. There is also the question of quantum "spin" which would seem to indicate that the washer is a co-culprit in the

Re: IntelliSense - Intelligent code completion for LiveCode

http://www.aslugontheroad.com/download/category/5-open-sources On Thu, Jul 20, 2017 at 9:11 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Except there is no option to download it anywhere I can see on the site. > > Bob S > > > > On Jul 19, 2017, at 13:18 , Matthias R

Re: How can I scrape text from a web page that is generated by javascript?

If you need buy, sell and spot prices you can use this.. -- spot price get url https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/spot?currency=USD -- buy price get url https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/buy?currency=USD -- sell price get url https://api.coinbase.com/v2/prices/sell?currency=USD Data is returned a

Re: How can I scrape text from a web page that is generated by javascript?

Ah, nevermind. Only works for spot, but if you look at the api and get an authentication key, then you should be able to request all kinds of information through oath2 On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 7:05 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > If you need buy, sell and spot prices you can use this.. > -- spot price >

Re: How can I scrape text from a web page that is generated by javascript?

Something like autoit can probably be set up to automate things. Set up an autoit script that does the scrape, then use os scheduling tools to run the script as often as you like. I haven't done it in windows in a while, but I think "at" is deprecated. Can't recall whats replaced it. On Mon, Ju

Re: CEF Browser - what is wrong with my script

Other than the invalid form of the url, its working for me here (in the ide, windows 10, 9.0 dp7) I end up with a blank browser because it doesn't know how to handle the part of the url, removing that correctly brings up the livecode site. Sounds like something in the e

Re: Taking quotes on building LC external for RethinkDB

Mark W.. I know it shouldn't be this difficult, but would you mind sending your handshake code? I'm probably overthinking but can't figure out how to get it to work. On Sat, Aug 5, 2017 at 11:21 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 08/05/2017 01:36 PM, M

Re: Sorting out the sheep from the goats

Repeat for each char tchar intVar if tChar is among the items of "a,e,i,o,u" then -- its a vowel else -- its not a vowel. end if end repeat On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 11:42 AM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Yes, here's "Mr Sanskrit" asking what

Re: Sorting out the sheep from the goats

typo, first line should be repeat for each char tChar in tVar -- where tvar has your string On Mon, Aug 7, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Repeat for each char tchar intVar > if tChar is among the items of "a,e,i,o,u" then > -- its a vowel > else >-- its not a vowel. > end if > >

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