Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 42

2016-07-19 Thread Monte Goulding
Well the Cosmic Turtle won't be all that happy to hear that... Sent from my iPhone > On 20 Jul 2016, at 5:21 AM, Jim Lambert wrote: > > ‘Global Handler’ is reserved for Atlas. ;) ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Script Only Stacks and Script Locals

2016-07-15 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 16 Jul 2016, at 1:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >>> function getSMediaItemData >>> return sMediaItemData >>> end getSMediaItemData >> >> gmta > > Yeah, and Monte too. Parallel evolution. I think it makes the most sense when any of the following are true: -

Re: Application Transport Security deadline for iOS apps

2016-07-11 Thread Monte Goulding
The browser widget will be blank. Sent from my iPhone > On 12 Jul 2016, at 6:55 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > I wonder what happens if your app allows general browsing with, say, a > browser widget? ___ use-livecode

help wanted!

2016-07-11 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi LiveCoders I have just pushed a patch to the LiveCode docs which changes all 2625 files. The patch does the following: - hard wraps the docs where appropriate/possible to 72 columns (this will make it easier for us to review changes) - fixes a few file name anomalies - removes web as a

Re: Application Transport Security deadline for iOS apps

2016-07-11 Thread Monte Goulding
LiveCode does use UIWebView. I can’t speak for the team but I would think it’s unlikely we would look at altering that until support for iOS 7 is dropped. Down the track with WKWebView having a common api on Mac 10.10 and iOS 8.0 it would make sense to share code when they are our minimum

Re: Script Only Stacks and Script Locals

2016-07-15 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 15 Jul 2016, at 2:21 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > yet to be tested, but interested in caveats > > assume script only stack(s) > > script "backScriptOne" " #saved text only as "backScriptOne.livecodescript" > > with script locals: > > local

Re: Script Only Stacks and Script Locals

2016-07-15 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 16 Jul 2016, at 11:34 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > This is important "news" > > There is no such thing really as "a" backscript, singular. I was always under > the impression that inserting into back would be like concatenating scripts > into one giant

Re: Get fillGradient props

2016-07-08 Thread Monte Goulding
This is all great fuel for the scripting style panel at the conference. Also we have: - strict compilation - being even stricter by also declaring repeat loop iteration variables (I do this) - declaring variables at the top of the handler or in the block they are used. Ali and I do the latter

Re: Get fillGradient props

2016-07-08 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 9 Jul 2016, at 8:33 AM, Dar Scott wrote: > >> - declaring variables at the top of the handler or in the block they are >> used. Ali and I do the latter and Peter B thinks it's poor style because we >> don't have block scoped variables. > > I usually write small handlers

Re: ICO image extraction lib?

2016-07-08 Thread Monte Goulding
I have played with it a couple of times over the years. If you can find a copy of Revolution 2.3.. ish you might find something interesting in the standalone builder script as I had to extract all the bitmaps and rebuild the file in the order the engine needed. Thankfully Mark Waddingham sorted

Re: Get fillGradient props

2016-07-08 Thread Monte Goulding
I think that is much more common than the c thing. Sent from my iPhone > On 9 Jul 2016, at 2:57 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > For now I just name the button with a trailing "behavior" string,, i. e., > "scrollBehavior".

Re: Get fillGradient props

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
You mean widget instances I presume because widgets have their own reverse domain based naming convention/kind. I suspect it would be useful to use some part of the widget name in the instance name of a widget given all widgets are referred to as widget so reading the code it may be hard to

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
-x64) in the new inclusions. > > Appreciate any help you can offer with this. > > JD > >> On Jul 10, 2016, at 6:21 PM, Monte Goulding <mo...@appisle.net> wrote: >> >> >>> On 11 Jul 2016, at 9:17 AM, m...@jerrydaniels.com wrote: >>> >&

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 11 Jul 2016, at 9:17 AM, m...@jerrydaniels.com wrote: > > Does the markdown support tables? I know some do. Tables are optional. There’s parameters to turn on and off support for a heap of things ;-) Cheers Monte ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: screen capture from LC as video?

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 11 Jul 2016, at 12:45 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > > I know that video export from LC isn’t currently possible, and is unlikely to > be on the LC team's development radar, but is this the sort of thing that > could potentially be implemented as an external by

Re: screen capture from LC as video?

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 11 Jul 2016, at 3:23 PM, Monte Goulding <mo...@appisle.net> wrote: > > OK, great. AVFoundation has text to speech so we could do that bit but I’m > not sure about generating an asset from that to include in a video… would > need some research to work out the feasibili

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
back to me on this. > > Best, Jerry > > On Jul 10, 2016, 7:21 PM -0500, Monte Goulding<mo...@appisle.net>, wrote: >> Hi Jerry >> >> It looks like you’ve found a bug in my build tools. I’ll try and get a fix >> in dp-3. For the time being: >> >>

Re: screen capture from LC as video?

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
OK, great. AVFoundation has text to speech so we could do that bit but I’m not sure about generating an asset from that to include in a video… would need some research to work out the feasibility of that. Cheers Monte > On 11 Jul 2016, at 2:46 PM, Terry Judd wrote:

Re: Markdown in 8.1dp2 Mac app builds

2016-07-10 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Jerry It was the same bug as this one and has been fixed for dp-2: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17754 Cheers Monte > On 11 Jul 2016, at 6:33 AM, m...@jerrydaniels.com wrote: > > Anyone know (from experience) whether the LC 8.1dp2 mergEXT markdown stuff > will work in a Mac

Re: Get fillGradient props

2016-07-07 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 8 Jul 2016, at 7:52 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > > I've always thought lowercase "L" is a poor choice to prefix a variable > name. Is it an L? It is a capital i? Is it a pipe? For what it’s worth we use `s` in the team for script locals. There are some older scripts

Re: Get fillGradient props

2016-07-07 Thread Monte Goulding
n a wee little Kevin and his mates had a vision ;-) Cheers Monte > > Thanks > > Alex > > On 07/07/2016 23:16, Monte Goulding wrote: >>> On 8 Jul 2016, at 7:52 AM, Scott Rossi <sc...@tactilemedia.com> wrote: >>> >>> I've always thought lowerca

Re: Play MP3 - What format do you use for mobile?

2016-08-08 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 9 Aug 2016, at 7:23 AM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > > And I’m happy that you did! I never knew of it. Someday I hope to use it, but > not right now. > Also see bug 18161 which is a follow-up to 18160. Eesh. QuickTime is now deprecated. We are implementing cross platform

Re: Play MP3 - What format do you use for mobile?

2016-08-08 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 9 Aug 2016, at 11:44 AM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > > Just checked, it crashes in 8.1 DP3 as well. I’ll add to the bug report. Thanks Cheers Monte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Play MP3 - What format do you use for mobile?

2016-08-08 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 9 Aug 2016, at 9:45 AM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > > It still shouldn’t crash on quit even if an ignoramus like me tries to use it. Yes if you are getting a crash under any circumstances in LiveCode we need a bug report about it so we can track it down but in this case

Re: Play MP3 - What format do you use for mobile?

2016-08-08 Thread Monte Goulding
I doubt if the player object or mobile control can't play a file that mergAV will be any different as all three use the same framework on iOS and Mac. Unless of course we are discussing pre-10.8 Mac. Cheers Monte Sent from my iPhone On 8 Aug 2016, at 4:01 PM, Peter TB Brett

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-06-30 Thread Monte Goulding
I don’t think there’s a bug but it may be appear so depending on how you test the function. For example: get func() — will set it to the return val so don’t do that to test this Additionally the result is district from the value of the function so: put func() is the result — will be false For

Re: Monte Goulding's day off? ; -) the outcome.

2016-07-01 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 1 Jul 2016, at 5:58 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > > 1) Any JSON parser usable from LiveCode Script (right now) should just > return all values as strings - it should check they are well-formed as per > the JSON spec, but not actually attempt to convert or process them

Re: Monte Goulding's day off? ; -) mergJSON - Documented Bug or Feature?

2016-06-29 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Lagi I’m sorry mergJSON isn’t working out for you. It sounds to me like you actually want to represent your numbers as strings in the JSON. In which case mergJSON does have the facility to force things that look like numbers to be strings and things that look like sequentially indexed

Re: TTS for mobile?

2016-06-29 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Nicholas This kid of request was my bread and butter up to joining the LC team. I'm (or I should say the team is) still available but via LiveCode Business Services now. There are some existing options available for iOS but we would need to look at Android in more depth. Cheers Monte

Re: How to find the name of the recent card?

2016-07-02 Thread Monte Goulding
Looking at your report I'm not really sure if the bug is in the recent card or the current card. If preOpenCard is before the card is open then there's a good argument that it's the latter... Of course either may be an anomaly that may be difficult to do anything about. Cheers Monte Sent

Re: Applying scripts that don't compile

2016-07-02 Thread Monte Goulding
> The script editor save handling probably needs some sorting out as at the > moment it will appear to save but the erroring script won’t be applied. I’m > looking into that now. I think in the event the script application couldn’t > happen it should beep at you or something rather than save.

Re: Applying scripts that don't compile

2016-07-02 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 3 Jul 2016, at 10:12 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > Hmmm. > I guess I've gotten so used to the way glx2 works, where saving a stack and > applying/compiling a script are separate actions, that I didn't realize the > IDE's script editor conflated the two. That seems

Re: Applying scripts that don't compile

2016-07-03 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 3 Jul 2016, at 5:48 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > It is possible to save the stack with the script editor frontmost, and the > uncompiled script will be set and saved as-is. I've done that by accident > and, as you say, all the handlers disappeared from the

quirk in group resize behavior

2016-06-20 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Folks One of the recent issues in the IDE caused us to discover/rediscover a quirk in group resize behavior that I think would be worthwhile getting feedback on from the community. I’m personally struggling to come up with a use case for it although there very likely is/was one. Perhaps one

Re: Having major Livecode problems

2016-07-01 Thread Monte Goulding
Did you happen to save the preference files? Creating a bug report with them attached would be helpful. Cheers Monte > On 2 Jul 2016, at 7:01 AM, pink wrote: > > clearing those files did the trick > > my project browser works correctly now, and I haven't crashed all day >

Applying scripts that don't compile

2016-07-01 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Folks I’ve just submitted a patch for review that will mean that if the global gREVDevelopment is true then a script that doesn’t compile won’t actually be set on the object. Previously this check was just for the script editor but because suddenly removing the script of any IDE component

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

2016-08-16 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: ADB in El Capitan

2016-08-15 Thread Monte Goulding
Jacque, I’m not really sure if moving it will fix it (could be something else maybe) but I’m on El Capitan and I use the location recommended for building android from source which is ~/toolchain/android-sdk and it works fine. Cheers Monte > On 16 Aug 2016, at 4:28 AM, J. Landman Gay

Re: problem using mergDropbox under 8.1.0. dp 3

2016-08-15 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 DP-3

2016-08-16 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

loadStack message use cases

2016-08-18 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: TSNet - Previous request not completed

2016-08-21 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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,

Re: Performance issues LC8 versus earlier versions.

2016-08-21 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: loadStack message use cases

2016-08-19 Thread Monte Goulding
d it so far but it would be a brilliant addition > Regards Lagi > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 18 Aug 2016, at 22:35, Monte Goulding <mo...@appisle.net> wrote: >> >> Hi Folks >> >> I’m wondering if anyone with interest could post use cases they can thi

Re: Garbage collection (crashing on Windows)

2016-08-19 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

2016-08-20 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: Garbage collection (crashing on Windows)

2016-08-20 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

2016-08-20 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

2016-08-20 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

2016-08-21 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

2016-08-20 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

2016-08-20 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 21 Aug 2016, at 9:52 AM, Monte Goulding <mo...@appisle.net> 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/sho

Re: Wouldn't it be neat...

2016-08-20 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

2016-08-20 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 47

2016-08-22 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi LiveCoders Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #42 here: http://goo.gl/O4kcw0 This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on

Re: Performance issues LC8 versus earlier versions.

2016-08-24 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 24 Aug 2016, at 9:50 AM, Monte Goulding <mo...@appisle.net> wrote: > > >> On 24 Aug 2016, at 9:06 AM, Monte Goulding <mo...@appisle.net >> <mailto:mo...@appisle.net>> wrote: >> >> After reviewing the code path I see that the

[ANN] This week in LiveCode 49

2016-09-05 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi LiveCoders Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #49 here: http://goo.gl/izsyCN This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and

Re: Debugger forgetting soft breakpoints

2016-09-06 Thread Monte Goulding
ried 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- >

Re: Resolving an imageSource object reference

2016-09-06 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Debugger forgetting soft breakpoints

2016-09-06 Thread Monte Goulding
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=27093=141458=breakpoint#p141458 > > > So annoying. And soft breakpoints could be so powerful: very visible, easy to > find and change.

Re: LineGraph widget

2016-09-01 Thread Monte Goulding
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

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

2016-09-01 Thread Monte Goulding
He probably did mean it that way ;-) Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Sep 2016, at 12:23 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > • Peter challenged me to do better than the new Documentation setup. Maybe > he didn't mean it that way, but that's the way I took it, so I'm going to >

Re: Threading (plus random question)

2016-09-08 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Debugger forgetting soft breakpoints

2016-09-07 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: Another scary bug??

2016-09-07 Thread Monte Goulding
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: Device rotation and browser widget

2016-09-07 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Missing a chance

2016-08-30 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: LC performance change from Win 7 to Win 10

2016-08-30 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: Standard Icons for buttons in version 8.1 Standalones

2016-09-11 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Standard Icons for buttons in version 8.1 Standalones

2016-09-11 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: very often "Scripts externally modified" popup

2016-09-12 Thread Monte Goulding
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

[ANN] This week in LiveCode 50

2016-09-12 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi LiveCoders Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #50 here: http://goo.gl/kXAaNW This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

2016-09-14 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

2016-09-14 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: LiveCode 8.1 and the Filter enhancements...

2016-09-14 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

2016-09-14 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 15 Sep 2016, at 6:11 AM, Monte Goulding <mo...@appisle.net> 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 differen

Re: LiveCode 8.1 and the Filter enhancements...

2016-09-14 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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)

Re: new IDE command for revDocumentationGo?

2016-09-08 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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?

Re: Threading (plus random question)

2016-09-08 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: Threading (plus random question)

2016-09-08 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 9 Sep 2016, at 8:57 AM, Monte Goulding <mo...@appisle.net> 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 r

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

2016-09-08 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 9 Sep 2016, at 5:14 AM, Monte Goulding <mo...@appisle.net> 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.

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

2016-09-08 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Threading (plus random question)

2016-09-08 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: Threading (plus random question)

2016-09-08 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: urlResponse empty in 8.1.0RC1

2016-09-08 Thread Monte Goulding
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 >

Re: Threading (plus random question)

2016-09-09 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Saving script-only stacks

2016-09-12 Thread Monte Goulding
Thanks > On 13 Sep 2016, at 7:40 AM, J. Landman Gay <jac...@hyperactivesw.com> 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 >

Re: Saving script-only stacks

2016-09-12 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: very often "Scripts externally modified" popup

2016-09-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: Saving script-only stacks

2016-09-12 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Saving script-only stacks

2016-09-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

2016-09-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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:

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

2016-09-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

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

2016-09-12 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Android device not recognized

2016-09-12 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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

Re: IDE Script Editor question...

2016-09-23 Thread Monte Goulding
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,

Re: IDE Script Editor question...

2016-09-23 Thread Monte Goulding
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

Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

2016-10-08 Thread Monte Goulding
side effect of the command. > On 9 Oct 2016, at 10:26 AM, Monte Goulding <mo...@appisle.net> 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() ==

Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

2016-10-08 Thread Monte Goulding
> 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.

Re: Understanding 'the defaultStack'

2016-10-08 Thread Monte Goulding
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)

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