Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

> On 9 Oct 2016, at 10:51 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto > wrote: > > OK, thar seems like a bug to me. If the only stacks open are palettes, for > example, then go should make the target stack the topStack (and hence the > defaultStack, since no stacks of lower mode are open). Thinking on this some

Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

> On 9 Oct 2016, at 10:51 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto > wrote: > > OK, thar seems like a bug to me. If the only stacks open are palettes, for > example, then go should make the target stack the topStack (and hence the > defaultStack, since no stacks of lower mode are open). I can’t help thinking

Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

side effect of the command. > On 9 Oct 2016, at 10:26 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > Hi Folks > > I just had a look into the source and here’s the but in the go command > causing confusion: > >if (t_stack->getmode() == WM_TOP_LEVEL || t_stack->getmo

Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

Hi Folks I just had a look into the source and here’s the but in the go command causing confusion: if (t_stack->getmode() == WM_TOP_LEVEL || t_stack->getmode() == WM_TOP_LEVEL_LOCKED) MCdefaultstackptr = t_stack; What this means is that unless the mode of the stack is topLevel (1)

Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

> On 9 Oct 2016, at 10:15 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto > wrote: > > (I don't claim this makes actual sense, mind you) What about this: go invisible stack do some stuff depending on the defaultstack being changed to the stack show stack ___ use-liveco

Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

> On 9 Oct 2016, at 9:09 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > > Monte, thanks for that, but even your expert intervention this doesn't quite > say what the rules actually are. I think the Dictionary should be revised to > give a complete account. Expert intervention might be overestimating things a bi

Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

> On 9 Oct 2016, at 7:22 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > The rule Dr. Raney gave me is that the defaultStack is the topmost visible > stack of the lowest mode. ^ that’s pretty close but there are some other things that come into play. It’s a bit of a slippeyr fish. The defaultStack is set when

Re: iTunesConnect & Bitcode Auto-Recompilation

We do not have bitcode enabled for LiveCode builds. Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone > On 4 Oct. 2016, at 3:42 am, Dave Kilroy wrote: > > Hi > > Has anyone enabled this with a LiveCode app yet on iTunesConnect? In the > Bitcode Auto-Recompilation section it states: > > "Occasionally, we ma

Re: tsNET and Proxies

> On 3 Oct 2016, at 4:00 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > Selecting internet as an inclusion should *automatically* select internet > permissions for all platforms. Is there really a use case for selecting > inclusion of the internet library but not allowing its use? Yes I think we should have some

Re: Get a Hacktoberfest t-shirt

Hi Folks I just wanted to point out this is not just about contributing to the LiveCode repositories although you are more than welcome. You can contribute to anything on GitHub to earn your shirt. So go add that API you want in revIgniter or that extra property you’d like on one of Trevor’s wi

Re: LC 8.1.1. rc1 thinks I'm rich!

Graham Does your stack either not handle startup or pass startup? In either of those cases the home stack startup script is probably being run again. So there’s an easy workaround for you: don’t pass startup or make sure you handle it. But it would be good if you also reported this because unar

Re: Yikes - locked out of mergAccessory

Hmm… I presume you are using Business to build the standalone? If so then please open a bug report and I’ll look into it ASAP. > On 28 Sep 2016, at 8:05 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > > I've got a subscription to mergExt - hurrah. > > I've got a Business license - hurrah. > > I've been hoping to

Re: IDE Script Editor question...

A feature request is a good idea. A pull request is a great one... Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Sep 2016, at 12:01 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Feel like putting in a feature request for this? I would use it often, and if > it's in the IDE then we don't have to edit every version update. ___

Re: IDE Script Editor question...

Yes, presuming there's no difference between the content of the script editor and the compiled script. Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Sep 2016, at 9:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > It would still seem, though, that by changing the algo to use the line > offsets obtainable from revAvailableHandl

Re: IDE Script Editor question...

No it's scripted Sent from my iPhone > On 24 Sep 2016, at 7:42 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > with a call to _internal ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscri

Re: Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

> On 23 Sep 2016, at 8:35 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > >> On 23 Sep 2016, at 8:15 AM, Roger Eller > <mailto:roger.e.el...@sealedair.com>> wrote: >> >> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18465 >> <http://quality.livecode.com/sho

Re: Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

> On 23 Sep 2016, at 8:15 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > > http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18465 > Thanks for that report. It addresses the example in the mouseUp docs but I still feel there’s a deeper issue we need to resolve here with

Re: Only one navigation bar widget?

You should be able to use as many as you like. Please open a bug report with a sample stack demonstrating the issue if that’s not the case. Cheers Monte > On 23 Sep 2016, at 7:38 AM, William Prothero wrote: > > Folks: > I was trying to use a second navigation bar widget on my app, to control

Re: Syntax: mouseUp mouseButtonNumber

> On 23 Sep 2016, at 7:27 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > > Thanks Mike! I don't think the docs could have been any muddier. ;) We are happy to accept pull requests on the docs Roger if you can think or a way/where to clarify it. It seems more of a fundamental misunderstanding of what parameters a

Re: Should merge suppress errors

> On 22 Sep 2016, at 8:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Either way, seems worth exploring, either refining the behavior of the > token's documentation. I personally don’t see any harm in throwing a general merge evaluation error and it would be relatively easy to implement. It would be signif

Re: Should merge suppress errors

> On 22 Sep 2016, at 6:51 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Interesting. If merge is indeed thwarting normal error handling then that > may be related. Has merge ever thrown errors on invalid expressions? It seems to be deliberately implemented so it doesn’t and I don’t recall it ever doing ot

Re: Random topic: What script font do you like/use?

> On 21 Sep 2016, at 11:31 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto > wrote: > > Source Code Pro is appealing. We are contemplating bundling this with LiveCode as the default it seems to be suitably licensed. Hack is also a pretty nice open source font http://sourcefoundry.org/hack/

Re: Copying text from LC Script Editor

> On 17 Sep 2016, at 10:00 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > > It’s not just the SE that has this behaviour, any text from a LC field does > the same, with in the IDE and in a standalone, on Mac at least. Yes… perhaps it isn’t what I thought as it looks like it works fine in 6.7. Is there an open bug

Re: Copying text from LC Script Editor

> On 17 Sep 2016, at 5:28 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > My hunch is that it's a line-ending translation issue. I’m wondering if it’s a html issue. What LiveCode uses as a paragraph `` is more like a `` as in LiveCode it’s represented by a single line break with no vertical whitespace in most

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 12:22 PM, Roger Eller wrote: > > Sweet! Can this external be used in a Windows standalone? It supports all of LiveCode’s platforms and is dual licensed for community users too. Cheers Monte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-li

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 12:13 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > >"Actually if I just let the jsonExport and jsonImport do the work… it's > valid json… except that what's on disk is all on a single line." > > Python to the rescue: this works as a text filter in BBEdit It’s probably

Re: LiveCode 8.1 and the Filter enhancements...

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 9:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Would it be worthwhile considering some form of XQuery for that so we could > do ranges and other nifty things? Hi Richard I considered adding patterns as array paths (a numerically indexed array of keys) but I don’t think that’s as fle

Re: LiveCode 8.1 and the Filter enhancements...

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 7:06 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote: > > For those using LC 8.1, and have tried the new filter command's support > for arrays, I have a question: > > I see you can filter by keys or elements from the documentations, which > is great, but I don's see how I would do another common ite

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 7:18 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > FYI, further tests with jsonImport/Export round trips, reading and writing: > > jsonImport > jsonExport > > are > > a) not in the dictionary for > b) round trip does not support any formatting (no indentation or ver

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 6:11 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > I'll check but I'm pretty sure the default preference is 15. There was a bug > where setting it to 0 didn't function right and there was also a regression > when the new menubar was made a different prefere

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

I'll check but I'm pretty sure the default preference is 15. There was a bug where setting it to 0 didn't function right and there was also a regression when the new menubar was made a different preference was used. Sent from my iPhone > On 15 Sep 2016, at 4:11 AM, Terence Heaford wrote: > >

Re: Project Browser Allows you to move a group into another group

> On 13 Sep 2016, at 12:56 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > also… if we change the layer of a group from the property inspector, eg. the > card has 32 layers of objects and you want to move a group on layer 19 to the > top. > > You can set the layer of group 19 to 35 (in the prope

Re: Project Browser Allows you to move a group into another group

I think you should be able to both relayer within the group and drag an object out of a group into its parent group or card so it sounds like there’s an issue there. > On 13 Sep 2016, at 12:08 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > the Project Browser is much improved an very stable now…

Re: Android device not recognized

> On 13 Sep 2016, at 8:17 AM, panagiotis merakos wrote: > > If the device name is shown but it is dimmed, could it be the case that you > have not selected to build for Android? The other option would be if the mode of your stack is not 1 or it’s not the topStack. Cheers Monte __

Re: Saving script-only stacks

Thanks > On 13 Sep 2016, at 7:40 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > On 9/12/16 4:17 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: >> Everything needs a report so it can be tracked for testing. > > http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18375 > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: very often "Scripts externally modified" popup

> On 13 Sep 2016, at 1:11 AM, Matthias Rebbe > wrote: > > Is this a known behaviour or should i file a bug? I’m not aware of it as a known issue Cheers Monte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subsc

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

> On 13 Sep 2016, at 7:23 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > this seems "hacky" but can now order the keys because they default to numeric > index It is not hacky. It is the way you represent sequences in JSON. The hacky part is the pipe delimiter. Try: "colorwheel": [

Re: Saving script-only stacks

Everything needs a report so it can be tracked for testing. Sent from my iPhone > On 13 Sep 2016, at 7:07 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > I didn't open a report, I thought the behavior was either intentional or > unavoidable. If you're submitting a fix anyway, probably no need for a > report, r

Re: Saving script-only stacks

> On 13 Sep 2016, at 6:29 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> Actually this should be resolved in RC 2. I presume you are still seeing it >> there? > > Yup. Sorry Jacque I was pretty certain we had identified and sorted that out but I can see we haven’t. Have you opened a report? It’s a fairly e

Re: Saving script-only stacks

Actually this should be resolved in RC 2. I presume you are still seeing it there? Sent from my iPhone > On 13 Sep 2016, at 6:01 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Or I could just live with it. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: very often "Scripts externally modified" popup

If you have a reliable recipe then please open a report. Thanks Monte Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Sep 2016, at 8:04 PM, Matthias Rebbe > wrote: > > This is driving me crazy. So is anyone else noticing this and i should submit > it as a bug or is there something on my side what i can change

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Re: Standard Icons for buttons in version 8.1 Standalones

> On 12 Sep 2016, at 12:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > It does allow you to choose from "this stack". I agree that it needs a > rethink, but I'm leery of having it accept any open stack. If you happen to > have stacks open that are unrelated to your project, it would be easy for > users to

Re: Standard Icons for buttons in version 8.1 Standalones

Sounds like a bug to me (could you please open a report) although I’ve got to admit the icon picker needs a rethink. It probably should just allow you to pick any loaded stack that has 1 or more image objects. Cheers Monte > On 12 Sep 2016, at 11:03 AM, Richard Burkett > wrote: > > When I b

Re: Threading (plus random question)

I think this would require a complete rewrite of the script editor so it's not going to be on the agenda for a while. Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone > On 9 Sep 2016, at 4:39 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > Code folding in the SE! Collapse all handlers and functions… _

Re: Threading (plus random question)

> On 9 Sep 2016, at 8:57 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > I’m not actually sure if it makes any difference if you use colorization or > not. The mutated lines still get tokenized as you type. I’ll check on that > but regardless we need it to have reasonable performance

Re: Threading (plus random question)

> On 9 Sep 2016, at 8:53 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > I don't use colorization, but typing in the SE isn't nearly as snappy as > typing in any other field. It's gotten better since v7, but not quite up to > v6 speeds. I’m not actually sure if it makes any difference if you use colorization

Re: Script Editor focus (was Re: Threading (plus random question)_

> On 9 Sep 2016, at 5:14 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > Actually that annoys me too. I've had multiple times where I thought the it > didn't open but actually it was just behind a stack. I'll see if I can find > some time to look into that. Easily fixed: https:

Re: new IDE command for revDocumentationGo?

> On 9 Sep 2016, at 7:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > In IDE < 8.0 the revDocumentationGo command could be used to open the > Dictionary to a specific entry, e.g.: > >revDocumentationGo “securityPermissions" > > What is the current command for this in v8.0? revIDEGoToLCSDictionaryEntry

Re: Threading (plus random question)

> On 9 Sep 2016, at 5:38 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Speaking of: I dislike being overwhelmed with too many Prefs settings as > much as teams hate the technical debt they impose, but - > > I wonder if it makes sense to add some sort of option to stop the real-time > reformatting so I can

Re: urlResponse empty in 8.1.0RC1

Please open a bug report as this sounds like a tsNet regression. Thanks Monte Sent from my iPhone > On 9 Sep 2016, at 12:35 AM, pink wrote: > > I am using CouchDB in 8.1 and here is my problem: > > these are the two crucial commands for putting a document into CouchDB > put tJson into

Re: Threading (plus random question)

I have plans for to use those for in/outdent which they are commonly used for. Particularly in multiline comments but also when auto format is off. Sent from my iPhone > On 9 Sep 2016, at 2:40 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Personally I prefer SuperCard's Cmd-[ and Cmd-] _

Re: Script Editor focus (was Re: Threading (plus random question)_

Actually that annoys me too. I've had multiple times where I thought the it didn't open but actually it was just behind a stack. I'll see if I can find some time to look into that. Sent from my iPhone > On 8 Sep 2016, at 11:47 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > > To hijack the thread a little (more)

Re: Threading (plus random question)

I wonder how many people would scream if we removed the enter closes an applied tab feature? Keep enter to apply though. Sent from my iPhone > On 8 Sep 2016, at 10:58 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > > Open the editor, make a change, > tap enter twice and the change is applied and gone _

Re: Device rotation and browser widget

Hmm... Have you tried wrapping the resizestack handler in try and putting any error or otherwise logging the message Sent from my iPhone > On 8 Sep 2016, at 8:35 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > For a mobile app, I am trying to get a card containing a browser widget to > rotate and resize/reposi

Re: Another scary bug??

Thanks Bob Lots of parts of the engine that deal with strings have two code paths. One for native encoding and one for unicode. This is an attempt to maintain as close to pre LC 7 performance as possible. I suspect based on your description that the bug only impacts the native encoding side of

Re: Debugger forgetting soft breakpoints

> On 8 Sep 2016, at 6:08 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Sorry, false flag. A script error was aborting the script. The break I saw > was the error line. In my defense, the error was hard to spot. But I'm > embarrassed anyway. > > Fixing the error restored normal debugging. Yay, because nobody

Re: Debugger forgetting soft breakpoints

d it with another stack with lots of stuff in it, that I know I had to > include hard breakpoints for any stability at all, and cannot get it to fail. > > > It is well known there are ghosts in LC. > > > Craig > > > > -Original Message- > From: Mont

Re: Debugger forgetting soft breakpoints

Is there a bug report about this? > On 7 Sep 2016, at 7:22 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > > See forum post: > > > http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=27093&p=141458&hilit=breakpoint#p141458 > > > So annoying. And soft breakpoints could be so powerful: very visible, easy to > find an

Re: Resolving an imageSource object reference

You could use the resolve image command. It was my first open source contribution a few years ago ;-) Sent from my iPhone > On 7 Sep 2016, at 5:38 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto > wrote: > > Before I do it, has anybody done this already? > Or has a built-in way to get the object been added at some p

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Re: LineGraph widget

That’s cool. Playing with the Line Chart is fun ;-) I would say if the chart crosses between positive and negative on the Y axis we should have a 0 line. I’d generally rather see the Y axis move to a rounded range that makes sense for the data and an option to set the range and step size of the

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

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Re: Missing a chance

> On 31 Aug 2016, at 6:57 AM, Iphonelagi wrote: > > Why do we say RR has to spend more on marketing? > They have a marketing person and somebody looking after the website > Seems like they are doing the minimum at work and that's it. > Am I being harsh or just stating the obvious it doesn't cos

Re: LC performance change from Win 7 to Win 10

> On 31 Aug 2016, at 8:35 AM, tbodine wrote: > > I recently upgraded to Win10 on my PC workstation. When I use LC 7.1.1 (my > mainstay version on this machine for a long time now), it's like it is stuck > in a bog. There was a big push in the LiveCode 8 dp cycle to try to get LiveCode closer t

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Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 7:40 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Monte Goulding wrote: > > >> On 26 Aug 2016, at 7:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> > >> You'll also want to use those properties for any getters as well, > >> given that they are gl

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 7:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > You'll also want to use those properties for any getters as well, given that > they are global and perhaps settable by third-party plugins. Here’s where the problems settle in. By using revIDESetPreference anything that has subscribed to

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 6:39 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > If they are deprecated they may be removed so it might be time to move any > code that depends on these to use revIDEGetPreference. After reading the report I’m not really sure if they are depre

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 6:41 AM, panagiotis merakos wrote: > > Could we probably set them on startup? > > put revIDEGetPreference("cScriptEditor,editor,font") into scriptTextFont > put revIDEGetPreference("cScriptEditor,editor,fontSize") into scriptTextSize Something would need to subscribe to id

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 6:33 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Any chance we can have the scriptTextFont and scriptTextSize global > properties reinstated as the mechanism for that? If they are deprecated they may be removed so it might be time to move any code that depends on these to use revIDEGet

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 6:23 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > All I know, right now, is that the app crashes on startup. I haven't > gotten much further than trying it in 8.0.2 and 8.1 rc1 In the simulator or on a device? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liv

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 3:29 AM, Richmond wrote: > > Personally I find the teeny-weeny font size in the messageBox a bother: and I > have had the font in the > scriptEditor set to 18 for the last 10 years. I’ll add that too as they should use the same font + size.

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 3:18 AM, Richmond wrote: > > It might not be a bad idea to put that into the documentation. Why? I’m in the midst of fixing it ;-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, uns

Re: Performance issues LC8 versus earlier versions.

> On 25 Aug 2016, at 5:49 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > That is wonderful - thanks Monte. > btw - I opened a bug report to keep track of it, and so you'd have somewhere > to hang the change on to - 18254 FYI I have also added the length check to non-binary strings to speed up comparisons of tho

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 6:15 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > Rats. I found an ios crash that appears to be a regression from 8.0.2... Can you provide some more detail? We currently know about and will have a fix for a crash using 64 bit simulators + tsNet. Cheers Monte _

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 2:15 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > Hopefully, soon, we'll get script color printing back, too. Mike unfortunately the issue with script color printing on Mac is not just isolated to the IDE as it is color printing after setting the htmlText or styleText to something with col

Re: Performance issues LC8 versus earlier versions.

> On 24 Aug 2016, at 9:50 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > >> On 24 Aug 2016, at 9:06 AM, Monte Goulding > <mailto:mo...@appisle.net>> wrote: >> >> After reviewing the code path I see that there is an attempt made to parse >> the binary value into a

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

> On 24 Aug 2016, at 10:39 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > As does this situation where combine/split doesn't round-trip That’s a good one! http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18259 ___ use-liveco

Re: Performance issues LC8 versus earlier versions.

> On 24 Aug 2016, at 9:06 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > After reviewing the code path I see that there is an attempt made to parse > the binary value into a number to try and compare numerically before doing > the binary comparison. It may be we can change the order here and

Re: Performance issues LC8 versus earlier versions.

> On 24 Aug 2016, at 8:23 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > On 22/08/2016 15:47, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Alex Tweedly wrote: >> >> > Would caseSensitive make it faster ? >> >> In theory yes, since it avoids having to run the internal equivalent of >> toLower on each thing being compared. >> > But

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Re: TSNet - Previous request not completed

> On 22 Aug 2016, at 3:38 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Using an Indy license, I'm getting a lot of "previous request not completed" > errors when trying to POST to a server. In the past, connectivity would > eventually resume when a new request was sent. With TSNet, no more requests > will e

Re: Performance issues LC8 versus earlier versions.

Hi Alex It is always good to have them in the bug db so when know what people are running into. I know there was a big push during the LC 8 DP phase to try and get performance closer to LC 6. Actually after looking into this I wouldn't mind seeing your benchmark script as I can’t really see ho

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

Hmm... I've got to say I'm a little on the ignorant side of things with regard to RTL text in LiveCode but my understanding is it's only a field thing and any chunk references are always LTR. Happy to be educated though! Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone > On 21 Aug 2016, at 6:06 PM, hh wrote

Re: Wouldn't it be neat...

Wouldn't it be better if typing quote when you have more than an insertion point quoted around the selection? Sent from my iPhone > On 21 Aug 2016, at 12:38 PM, Roger Guay wrote: > > If one could double-click a word in the script editor and then simply click a > button to put it in quotes? Ha

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

> On 21 Aug 2016, at 9:52 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > Oh yay…. this behavior persists in LiveCode 8. There is an ANOMALY report on this: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16588 <http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

> On 21 Aug 2016, at 9:46 AM, hh wrote: > > Why is the number of items or having the property "item" > of a string dependent of the writing/reading direction > of the string? Hmm… I’ll answer your question with a question: Which item is item 1? Cheers Monte __

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

> On 21 Aug 2016, at 9:38 AM, Randy Hengst wrote: > > This doesn’t totally fit with the conversation, and I assume the Team knows > this but… SORT assumes that a trailing comma indicates an empty item Oh yay…. this behavior persists in LiveCode 8. __

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

> On 21 Aug 2016, at 8:57 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > It would appear that the current behavior in v8 is a fix that addresses a > previously anomalous handling of delimiters in the case of "is among". That’s my feeling also. We know it impacts a popular library (Animation Engine), however,

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

> On 21 Aug 2016, at 8:47 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > The current behavior for Trevor's test is consistent with item counts. If we > change it we open up that can of worms about delimiters all over again, and > undo Mark's thinking on this. Yes the point is there’s a legacy of `is among` be

Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

Hi LiveCoders The team is in a quandary about the following bug: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18145 The issue is in LiveCode 6.7 and below `is among` was essentially implemented incorrectly meaning that you could get results li

Re: Garbage collection (crashing on Windows)

> On 21 Aug 2016, at 2:33 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > In that case, what are the several second pauses in the IDE, particularly > the editor (versions 5 & 7, maybe others) Do you happen to have bug report numbers for these pauses because they can probably be fixed? I’ve recently done some work

Re: Garbage collection (crashing on Windows)

Mark you could use the split command here if you don’t mind numerically indexed arrays. > On 20 Aug 2016, at 9:07 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: > > command createArray > local tListOfRecordIDs, tTableID > > put fld "recordID data" into tListOfRecordIDs > put uuid() into tTableID > >

Re: loadStack message use cases

far but it would be a brilliant addition > Regards Lagi > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 18 Aug 2016, at 22:35, Monte Goulding wrote: >> >> Hi Folks >> >> I’m wondering if anyone with interest could post use cases they can think of >> for a l

loadStack message use cases

Hi Folks I’m wondering if anyone with interest could post use cases they can think of for a loadStack message to the following bug report. This would be a message sent to a stack before preOpeStack when the stack is first loaded into memory. It’s possible that the only use cases are for the IDE

Re: Garbage collection (crashing on Windows)

There are certainly a number of tricks you can use to reduce the memory usage of your app. One interesting one I learnt recently after an internal discussion was because LiveCode copies values that have multiple reference when they are mutated and custom properties are arrays linked to the objec

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 DP-3

> On 17 Aug 2016, at 7:08 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > Is there any way in dp3 to step back a bit further, and include libURL in a > standalone without including tsNet? At the moment (and perhaps this will be the long term recommendation rather than any preferences) for projects that don’t want

Re: plist (was Re: problem using mergDropbox under 8.1.0. dp 3)

> On 16 Aug 2016, at 7:48 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > > I have a vague memory that LC has introduced a way to make incremental > changes to the plist, rather than just overriding the generated one > completely - but I can't find any reference to this anywhere. Did I imagine > it? You did… we

Re: problem using mergDropbox under 8.1.0. dp 3

Hmm… you haven’t somehow lost your custom URL from standalone settings have you? Failing that then yes please open a report. > On 15 Aug 2016, at 10:44 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: > > I was using mergDropbox in iOS 7, before LC acquired the suite. I believe > that I also had it working under 8.0

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