Re: DataGrid question...

2020-03-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/26/2020 9:54 AM, zryip theSlug via use-livecode wrote: Paul, I have somewhere a stack demonstrating how to use a second datagrid with the columns to freeze and how to synchronize this second datagrid with the main datagrid when the rows are scrolled. If you may interested I can share it.

Re: DataGrid question...

2020-03-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/26/2020 4:31 PM, zryip theSlug via use-livecode wrote: The "Freeze pane" stack is available here: https://www.aslugontheroad.com/download/category/4-lab It demonstrates how to scroll, select and sort two datagrids synchronizaly.  Thank you. That is really a helpful time saver. All I need

Re: Its very quiet

2020-03-27 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/27/2020 11:16 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: All I am doing right now is working in Livecode! Very refreshing. How about we all chime in on what we are currently working on? I'm working on implementing a frozen left column pane "Datagrid" based on the code zryip theSlug kindly p

Re: Cross-platform Bluetooth and Speech to text

2020-03-27 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/27/2020 1:38 PM, R.H. via use-livecode wrote: Cross-platform Speech to Text Has anybody ever implemented "speech to text" (not TTS)? It should be possible with the browser widget using web API's: Microsoft Cognitive Serrvices, IBM Watson, Speechmatics...? But ideally, it would not depend on

specialFolderPath, Microsoft Window, and 64 bits

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On Windows, the SpecialFolderPath function can use Constant Special Item ID List (CSIDL) values, but since Windows Vista, developer were supposed to switch to using the Microsoft Known Folder ID system instead (I just learned this, so there's that!) (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows

Re: specialFolderPath, Microsoft Window, and 64 bits

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/31/2020 11:24 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Isn’t the defaultFolder the app folder when you launch it? Yes, but I am interested in where OTHER applications have been installed (a specific other application that could have ts 32 bit OR its 64 bit version installed) _

Re: specialFolderPath, Microsoft Window, and 64 bits

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/31/2020 8:37 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Under LiveCode 9.x.x (up to 9.6.0dp3) I can see no way to obtain the 64bit application installation folder using SpecialFolderPath? Does anyone know if this is correct or am I missing something? So answering my own question, as of

Re: specialFolderPath, Microsoft Window, and 64 bits

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/31/2020 12:12 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2020-03-31 17:07, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 3/31/2020 8:37 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Under LiveCode 9.x.x (up to 9.6.0dp3) I can see no way to obtain the 64bit application installation folder using

Re: specialFolderPath, Microsoft Window, and 64 bits

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/31/2020 12:26 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: The Windows Registry uses HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths as the path to the installation folder for all installed applications. put queryRegistry("HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Cu

Re: specialFolderPath, Microsoft Window, and 64 bits

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/31/2020 12:54 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Well that certainly complicates things! :-) Yea! Our application is used by researchers in Academia, and more are shifting to served application for distance learning, especially with the pandemic. We know we work under Citrix App

Re: specialFolderPath, Microsoft Window, and 64 bits

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/31/2020 1:13 PM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote: Paul, I had a similar situation recently where I needed to get some DPI information about the monitors that wasn't available through my LC main application. I ended up writing a simple command line tool in Visual Studio that used the W

AW: specialFolderPath, Microsoft Window, and 64 bits

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
So, I think I may have answered by own question. IF my app is 32 bit THEN    specialFolderPath(38) returns the 32 bit app folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\)   and    specialFolderPath(42) returns the 32 bit app folder (C:\Program Files (x86)\) IF my app is 64 bit THEN    specialFolderPath(38)

Answer dialog enhancement...

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Here is another attempt to not reinvent the wheel: We, like a lot of people, use: answer [/iconType/]/prompt/[with/button1/[or/buttons/]] [titled/windowTitle/] [as sheet] And we use the various iconTypes to who error, warning, or informational icons. We have a lot of these that are caution d

Re: Answer dialog enhancement...

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/31/2020 6:10 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: The answer dialog is simply a stack in and of itself if I am not mistaken. I’m wondering if you couldn’t find that stack and clone it for your own purposes… Bob S Yes. That is easy enough. Turn on "Show IDE Stacks in List" from the "V

Re: Answer dialog enhancement...

2020-03-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/31/2020 7:12 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Seems like most if not all this code has been done already in the dialog itself. I’ll look into it because I wanted at one point to make an enhanced answer dialog as well. Bob S I'm thinking that if I need to roll my own, then my appr

AW: Answer dialog enhancement...

2020-04-01 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
So I have a working mechanism to add a "Don't Ask Again" check box to the existing standard Answer Dialog on the fly. I offer it up to the community for anyone who needs it and for anyone who may want to improve the code. The scripts are below. There is a sample usage you can place in a clickab

Re: DataGrid question: Suggestions for further enhancements

2020-04-02 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 4/2/2020 10:35 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: As far as I am concerned, datagrids make table fields obsolete. I agree. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Maximum field height?

2020-04-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 4/5/2020 1:16 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I have a field that reports a formattedheight of 125396. I want to extend it to full height for use inside an enclosing scrolling group. But when I try to set the height to the formattedHeight, I get an error: Value is not a number.

Re: Maximum field height?

2020-04-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 4/5/2020 10:48 PM, JB via use-livecode wrote: The question is why don’t they make them compatible? Is their some kind of FCC regulation that prevents Apple from using phone apps on the desktop? Back in the HyperCard days there was hyperDialer and I really liked it a lot but I think the compa

Re: LC equivalent of php utf8_encode and utf8_decode ?

2020-04-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 4/13/2020 9:07 AM, jbv via use-livecode wrote: Hello list, Suddenly I'm having a blank : what is the LC equivalent of utf8_encode and utf8_decode in php for a string ? Thanks in advance jbv ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.co

Re: What is a real?

2020-04-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 4/25/2020 10:40 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Apparently nothing is a real. Neither is anything strictly a real. I have never heard a more philosophical statement in all my life ;-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev

OT: How to graph a specific data set?

2020-05-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
This is NOT a "How to do this in LiveCode" question. I have a data set (below), produced by a LiveCode program and the data is exported to Excel. I am trying to figure out: 1) What the "best" style of graph to visualize this data is? I thought perhaps a "Bubble Chart" but  - in Excel at leas

Re: OT: How to graph a specific data set?

2020-05-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 5/5/2020 11:17 AM, Prothero-ELS via use-livecode wrote: Paul, The first question I have is: “what are you trying to communicate with your chart?” The answer to that question will point to a charting strategy. Bill I am trying to visually call attention to those intersections with high occu

I need some DataGrid performance help

2020-05-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a datagid operation that should be fast that is taking a long time and I don't understand why. I use a datagrid to display a table of data as part of an analysis. The columns are file names and the rows are selected phrases found in those files. The first column is the list of phrases (

Re: I need some DataGrid performance help

2020-05-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 5/6/2020 6:55 AM, Pi Digital via use-livecode wrote: What handler do you have this code? From what you are saying it seems it’s deploying this formatting script every time it redraws which itself is very inefficient and unnecessary. It should only have to deal with the data itself ideally.

Re: I need some DataGrid performance help

2020-05-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 5/6/2020 7:58 AM, zryip theSlug via use-livecode wrote: After each call to a column property such as dgColumnWidth, the datagrid is resized (header, column, rectangles, etc) This I did not know. Thank you. Instead of having them in the loop, prepare the column size, columns label, etc and

Re: I need some DataGrid performance help

2020-05-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 5/6/2020 1:53 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: In reality, 'lock messages' is a sledge-hammer and like a sledge-hammer it can cause fallout if not wielded carefully. Slightly off topic, but I have run into time where I wish I could lock a specific message or set of messages. So

AW: Re: I need some DataGrid performance help

2020-05-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Reduced to a consistent 1.5 to 2 minutes by revising the setting of datagrid column properties the columns themselves, widths, and alignments set all at one. Tooltips, sort type and sort direction set in a loop in revised code. I still do not understand why in the original code, when 1st set

Drawing a blank on simple code...

2020-05-19 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a set of custom properties in stack "X", a lot of which begin with "options_" I want to loop through them and get the values, so I have:   local tDisplayList   put the customKeys of stack "X" into tProperties   filter lines of tProperties with "options_*"   if tProperties is empty then e

AW: Drawing a blank on simple code...

2020-05-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 5/19/2020 6:46 PM, Phil Davis via use-livecode wrote: You're almost there Paul! On 5/19/20 2:18 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I have a set of custom properties in stack "X", a lot of which begin with "options_" So I assume these are members of a cust

Re: ADA Compliency

2020-05-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 5/26/2020 6:56 PM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode wrote: Has anyone done anything in regards to ADA compliancy in mobile apps built with LiveCode? Using the apple or android accessibility tools such as Screen reading, for example. I have been periodically looking at assistive technologi

Unicode and languages

2020-06-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
In all the added stuff the LC7 and higher Unicode engine includes, is there any way to determine the LANGUAGE of a range of text? USE-CASE We have a tool that helps researchers transcribe text from digital media. It is used internationally. We have added spell checking using lclSpell form Liv

Re: Unicode and languages

2020-06-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 6/5/2020 1:46 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2020-06-05 18:15, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I don't even know if language exists in the IBM Unicode engine as some exportable property a future version of LiveCode could expose. Any clever ideas or thoughts on

Possible Catalina problem...

2020-06-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
We have run into a possible problem. Researchware makes two applications, HyperRESEARCH and HyperTRANSCRIBE. We have new forthcoming versions of both built on LiveCode 9.5.1. These two applications are code signed and the DMG is code signed, notarized, and stapled for Catalina. They both work

Re: Possible Catalina problem...

2020-06-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
standalones created frome the IDE with no signing etc. If you like, I can test your apps on my MacBook with Catalina in order to check if the problems are replicable. CU, Torsten Am 08.06.2020 um 16:55 schrieb Paul Dupuis via use-livecode : We have run into a possible problem. Researchware makes

Catalina Entitlements or Permissions (was Possible Catalina problem)

2020-06-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
We're having some macOS Catalina permissions/entitlements issues We have applications that we deliver for Catalina where the application (LiveCode standalone) is code-signed. It is then packaged in an installers (LiveCode standalone) and the installer is code signed. That is then placed in a D

Re: Catalina Entitlements or Permissions (was Possible Catalina problem)

2020-06-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ecessary entitlements, and include it in the params passed to the codesign command. See this report for more details: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22660 Kind regards, Panos -- On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 14:56, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

Re: Catalina Entitlements or Permissions (was Possible Catalina problem)

2020-06-17 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ch to Mark Talluto's suggestion to use AppWrapper! On 6/16/2020 6:28 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Hi Panos, Thank you very much. The discussion in the bug entry answered  lot of my questions. I have one last thing I hope you or someone can point me two, which is a list of Apple macOS

Re: Platform Divergence

2020-06-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
We make and sell a desktop application (Windows and macOS) for a niche research market. I expect when Apple does their migration to a common processor and OS, Apple Developer's will have to go through all of Apple hoops for all their platforms.Most of our customer don't care about UI widget ani

Mora Catalina permissions woes....

2020-06-29 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
List Folks: A head up of a Catalina issue: If your code signed Standalone is trying to access stacks that are OUTSIDE the app bundle under Catalina, sometimes Catalina will not properly detect your apps need for access. You will not get an "App wants access to blah blah: Allow or Deny" dialogs

Re: Ansi-Pantsy

2020-06-30 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 6/30/2020 5:18 AM, Richmond via use-livecode wrote: Why does fontLanguage return ANSI for English language fonts instead of romething like 'Roman'? There is a fundamental mismatch between 'ANSI' and Unicode. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing lis

Building a Windows standalone without tsNet?

2020-08-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a very simple stack that I want to build a Windows standalone for (.exe). I do not use any internet/networking related commands or functions in my scripts The standalone builder for LC9.6.0 insists on including the "Externals" folder with tsNet dll in it. Can some one remind me how I

Re: Building a Windows standalone without tsNet?

2020-08-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
tup of the Standalone itself? Enable: dispatch "revloadlibrary" to stack tsnetliburl Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Paul Dupuis v

Re: Building a Windows standalone without tsNet?

2020-08-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Paul Dupuis via use-livecode Sent: Wednesday, August 12, 2020 11:40 AM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Paul Dupuis Subject: Building a Windows standalone without tsNet? I have a very simple stack that I want to build a Windows standalo

More Standalone Building Weirdness...

2020-08-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a stack that when I build into a Windows Standalone (only Windows) in LC 9.6.0 under Windows, the dialog that says "Attaching Engine..." never finishes. The Standalone gets built and runs properly, but the "Attaching engine..." dialog in the building process never finishes (waiting over

Re: More Standalone Building Weirdness...

2020-08-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ere is a stack "revStandaloneProgress" and \ the mode of stack "revStandaloneProgress" > 0 then exit closeStack end if --- lock messages quit --triggers shutdownrequestmessage, if not handled then it hangs pass closeStac

Old stack will not save or save as...

2020-08-19 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a really old stack (the file ends in .mc for Metacard) When I open it in LiveCode, the save and save as are disabled in the File menu. This us under Windows and the same in LC 4.6.4, LC 6.7.11 and in LC 9.6.0, the Save and Save As are enabled, but when I select the stack and try to Save

Re: Old stack will not save or save as...

2020-08-19 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/19/2020 12:02 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Just a shot in the dark, suppress messages before opening? Good guess, but no winner. However, your suggestion did put me on to the answer. The stack was set to "modeless". If I execute in the message box save stack "XYZ" as "C:/U

Re: Playing movies in LC_ Docs??

2020-08-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Yes, there is a lot of information that circulates on the forums or lists or in people's head that probably should be in the LC documentation In the LC9.x.x series, the Player supports any audio or video formats supported by Apple Video Foundation (AVF) on macOS - google the apple developer do

formattedRect, formattedLeft, formattedWidth of chunks

2020-09-01 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Just a heads up to anyone else out there who may be having VERY hard to track down crashes in LC 9.x.x. The following functions: formattedRect, formattedLeft, formattedWidth when operating on chunk expressions (i.e. char X to Y of field Z) can cause an engine crash for certain field content.

Re: formattedRect, formattedLeft, formattedWidth of chunks

2020-09-01 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On Sep 1, 2020, at 6:25 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: formattedWidth ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: text manipulation with Chinese characters (unicode): guide?

2020-09-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
As mentions, Unicode in a field just works (there is a known issue with Thai word breaks and another with printing Hindi) If you want to get Chinese (traditional or simplified) into a field, you can: 1)  get the text from a Utf8 ot utf16 text file and textDecode it i.e put url ("file:"&filep

Re: sudo apt-get install livecode

2020-09-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 9/13/2020 10:39 PM, Eric A. Engle via use-livecode wrote: I just get tired of downloading the silly installer app etc. why isn't it in a repo? any way i will google it but if there is a terminal command line interface set of commands which will gksudo aptitude livecode OR SIMILAR please t

Re: How do we set layers for groups

2020-09-17 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
see the 'relayer' command in the dictionary On 9/17/2020 2:34 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: if the layer of fld "checkHtml" > 3 then set the layer of fld "checkHtml" to 3 else set the layer of fld "checkHtml" to 20 end if # do no

Re: HOw to get htmltext from the field to display in another field

2020-09-17 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
OR set the text of fld "Dest" to the htmText of fld "Src" IF you want to see what the htmlText (i.e. the tags) of fld "Src"actually is. On 9/17/2020 3:31 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: BR, set the htmltext of fld "Dest" to the htmlText of fld "Src" Ralph DiMola IT Director Ever

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-22 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 9/22/2020 6:58 PM, Devin Asay via use-livecode wrote: But it that doesn’t help, and if nobody ever sees the filenames, why not just loop through the string and delete anything that’s not in ASCII range? Well, if the name is in Chinese,  you would delete the entire name. ___

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 9/22/2020 6:48 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I have a stack with an index. When a user clicks a line, a handler uses the clicktext to create a file name which is always the clicktext plus the ".livecode" extension. The stack is then downloaded from an AWS server and displayed.

Accessing files on a local network file server - BEST PRACTICE?

2020-09-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
This question may have an obvious answer, but I am brain dead today, so here goes: I have a app installed with some customers in a Windows network environment. They have all their laptops set so that their Home directories are on a local network server. So, where as on a local laptop, specia

Re: Accessing files on a local network file server - BEST PRACTICE?

2020-09-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 9/25/2020 2:42 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I know very little about Windows network addresses, but from the example you gave, I'd check to see if (slash-delimited) item 1 of the path is a single letter followed by a colon. Thanks for thought. In a Windows server environmen

Re: Accessing files on a local network file server - BEST PRACTICE?

2020-09-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Thanks Bob, Yes, the error messages you get on a failed file open are pretty generic. I am thinking that whether Mac or Win, the key is to check for whether there is a folder: /volumes/mountpoint/ (osx) or //server/mountpoint/ (win) For a given path tPath, I can tell if it is a windows serve

Re: Accessing files on a local network file server - BEST PRACTICE?

2020-09-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Well, at least you have a server to test it on. Thank you. I am trying to resurrect a Windows 2003 Server VM and a Windows 7 VM configured to have it's home directory on the server. I just got both to run (finally) yesterday and just (at the end of teh day today) figured out what the admin pas

Re: How to delete cards but card 1

2020-09-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
repeat with i = the number of cards down to 2   delete card i end repeat On 9/28/2020 9:02 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: repeat forever go last card delete this card end repeat I have tried everything in the manual ?? BR _

Re: Problem an Repeat Loop

2020-09-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 9/28/2020 8:42 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: repeat with x = 2 to sTotalSceneCount put line x of sImageList into tPath go to card x set the filename of sStoryImage to tPath set the itemDelimiter to “|” put item x of sQuo

Re: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
You would think with 32K px at 72px/inch being like 450 inches that the 32K limit would not be an issue, but I have run into it as well I have written a custom graph (like a bar graph for example sake) that is generally fine with most customer data. However, on one customer data set it started

Re: formattedwidth/height does not work with some fonts

2020-10-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
It is different symptoms from this bug (https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22882) but it could be related in the code? I recommend filing a bug report and I will be happy to add a note connecting the two bugs. The more issues found surrounding "the formattedWhatever" functions, the

Re: Bug: jumping stack windows (when supress messages is off)

2020-10-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Window 10 has a snap to feature on by default that will try to snap any window of any application to the edges and resize it to have the screen (or perhaps other options) if the windows is being dragged and the mouse moves close to a screen edge. I have not explored the feature fully, so I am n

Re: Bug: jumping stack windows (when supress messages is off)

2020-10-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/9/2020 10:23 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Window 10 has a snap to feature on by default that will try to snap any window of any application to the edges and resize it to have the screen (or perhaps other options) if the windows is being dragged and the mouse moves close to a

Re: Bug: jumping stack windows (when supress messages is off)

2020-10-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/work-with-app-windows-mchlp2469/mac Could it just be macOS's windows alignment feature? On 10/11/2020 8:28 AM, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote: Hi Bernd, the bug is not to do with the standard window snap. This is unresponsive try to any mouse click

Slightly OT: Windows Code Signing

2020-10-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
My Windows Code signing cert for signing LiveCode standalones has expired. I purchased it from instantsll.com (3 year) which has become sectigo.com and it appears that they never moved over old accounts since my prior username, email, and password do not work nor does the email work for passwo

Re: Slightly OT: Windows Code Signing

2020-10-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
did the complete purchase process on my Windows 10 VM. Regards, Matthias - Matthias Rebbe Life Is Too Short For Boring Code Am 26.10.2020 um 18:32 schrieb Paul Dupuis via use-livecode : My Windows Code signing cert for signing LiveCode standalones has expired. I purchased it from instants

Re: Code Signing and Kernel Mode drivers

2020-11-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
The basic windows code signing cert works fine. You do not need the more expensive "EV" certificate. On 11/8/2020 12:58 PM, General 2018 via use-livecode wrote: Hi , Are the standard Livecode .dll that are included with the standalone Kernel mode drivers ?? The reason for asking is that code

Re: Windows startup issue

2020-11-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
The first things is to determine what the error codes mean. I forget off teh top of my head, but I things of the first 2 numbers one is a line number and the other an error code? Hopefully someone can chime in who knows for sure. Knowing the errors will tell you more about what the likely caus

Re: Windows startup issue

2020-11-10 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/10/2020 2:14 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 11/9/20 3:54 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >> And WTH happened to LC's error reporting dialog? > > Standalones have always reported this way on both desktop and mobile. > It is up to the develop

Re: Windows startup issue

2020-11-10 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/10/2020 7:45 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: But Paul's suggestion that standalones include the entire error list isn't a bad one, though I'd like it to be optional. Users don't care what the descriptions are and I can look them up, but some might want those included. I imag

Re: Reading key values in info.plist file iOS or Mac using XML library?

2020-11-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have an on standaloneSaved handler that reads and writes an updated info.plist for my standalone that adds additional document types since the standalone builder only allows a single document type. On 11/12/2020 7:30 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Hi, does anyone know if it is p

Re: Reading key values in info.plist file iOS or Mac using XML library?

2020-11-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/12/2020 8:32 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Are you using the xml library for that? Anyway, would you like to share your handler? Yes, and yes (below). tDocTypes contains a cr delimited list of addition document types to add to the pList file. Also, the old use of uniEncode/

Re: Big Sur bugs

2020-11-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
So Big Sur was released on the 12th. It is not our in user's hands. Does anyone (or LiveCode corporate) have any update about Big Sur compatibility? We have customer's inquiring. We can not afford the time to jump through Apple's hoops for any of their beta versions. Now that the release is ou

Re: Big Sur bugs

2020-11-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
d and are to be tested in our pre-release build. There are another 2 cosmetic bugs, and one that seems to affect only the new ARM Macs. These bugfixes are expected to appear in the upcoming release of LC 9.6.2 RC-1. Kind regards, Panos -- On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 at 17:05, Paul Dupuis via us

Re: Big Sur bugs

2020-11-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/15/2020 11:27 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: But just enter -> Big Sur in the search field on the page and hit RETURN!:-) Thank you! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, uns

Re: Big Sur bugs

2020-11-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Has any experienced any problems playing back media (.mp3 audio files or .mp4 video) under macOS Big Sur? I just ran into an issue where none of my media is playing (at all) in a LC9.6.1 built stand-alone under Big Sur. ___ use-livecode mailing lis

Re: Big Sur bugs

2020-11-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I just filed bug https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22986 Media is dead under Big Sur On 11/18/2020 1:06 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Has any experienced any problems playing back media (.mp3 audio files or .mp4 video) under macOS Big Sur? I just ran into an issue where

Re: Big Sur bugs

2020-11-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ew Silicon (ARM) Mac? I am curious to see if other folks can reproduce this bug. Kind regards, Panos -- On Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 20:58, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: I just filed bug https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22986

Re: Big Sur bugs

2020-11-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Jacque, Thank you! My blood pressure is already going down to more normal levels. I will work on the assumtion it is a VM issue for now and set up a partitioned Big Sur install. On 11/18/2020 3:07 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 11/18/20 12:06 PM, Paul Dupuis via use

Re: Getting a real number from scientific notation

2020-11-22 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
So, if you want to concert form scientific notation to a real number, you can use the "format" function (see dictionary). Example: putformat("%1.0f",4.21911E+11) -- outputs 42191100 Is that shat yo are looking for? On 11/22/2020 3:30 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Please, this

Re: Getting a real number from scientific notation

2020-11-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
All this is why I prefer format() over numberFormat. The function is more versatile and you get exactly what you specify with less guess work. On 11/23/2020 6:52 PM, Roger Guay via use-livecode wrote: Yaknow, this whole thing is confusing. Turns out you don’t even need to set the numberFormat.

LC9.6.2rc build issues?

2020-11-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
So, I have a large applications. Under 9.6.1 STABLE I open the main stack and build the standalone (Windows and macOS) without issue. I just tried it under 9.6.2rc1 and I get an infinite loop of "duplicate stacks" errors and it keeps trying to reload the app over and over?!?!? I had to force q

Re: LC9.6.2rc build issues?

2020-11-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
startup) and then build the standalones using 962rc1 and it worked. I have to try making changes again and see if I can get the issue to repeat itself. On 11/24/2020 8:44 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: So, I have a large applications. Under 9.6.1 STABLE I open the main stack and build

Re: LC9.6.2rc build issues?

2020-11-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/24/2020 8:54 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I have to try making changes again and see if I can get the issue to repeat itself. Now trying to repeat the build issue in LC962rc1, I made an edit to a button script. Applied the change, closed the substack window (getting

Re: Slow performance on Big Sur

2020-12-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 12/14/2020 2:04 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: My client is running Big Sur and says that changing cards in a stack causes a very slow, stuttering display. The background image appears in chunks and text in the fields comes in as sequential pieces. The order of the display varies

Re: Encoding puzzle

2020-12-29 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 12/29/2020 6:07 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Original text: Révéler l'archéologie LC urlEncoded string: R%8Ev%8Eler+l%27arch%8Eologie URLEncode(textEncode(,"UTF8")) -> gets you a properly URL encoded string where the server is expecting UTF8

Re: LC & Mac M1 Chip

2020-12-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
You need to be on macOS Big Sur for the new hardware (I think). There are bugs in LC vs Big Sur that are only fixed in LC 9.6.2rc1 so you probably want to rebuild any Standalones using that version of LC On 12/30/2020 10:29 PM, John Balgenorth via use-livecode wrote: Should any LC standalone

Re: LC & Mac M1 Chip

2020-12-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
displayed "as sheet" These bugs are resent under Big Sur (regardless of whether you are on the M1 chip or Intel) in LC 9.6.1 and are fixed in 9.6.2rc1 Again, search the https://quality.livecode.com/ for "big sur" for details JB On Dec 31, 2020, at 5:15 AM, Paul Dupuis via

Re: Building a Standalone MacOS App in 9.6.1

2021-01-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
macOS Catalina or Big Sur apps have to be code signed AND notarized. You must have the command line tools installed and there is a non-trivial number of commands you have to execute to prepare you app for code signing, then code sign it, and then notarize it, including obtaining an app specific

Re: Building a Standalone MacOS App in 9.6.1

2021-01-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 1/6/2021 10:17 AM, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode wrote: 6. jan. 2021 kl. 15:48 skrev Paul Dupuis via use-livecode : macOS Catalina or Big Sur apps have to be code signed AND notarized. You must have the command line tools installed and there is a non-trivial number of commands you have

Re: LC & Mac M1 Chip

2021-01-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I know the mothership does not like to estimate release dates, but does anyone have a sense of when LC 9.6.2 STABLE may be out? And more importantly, whether it will come with 'official' support for the M1 hardware or at least a fix for this apparent M1 specific bug: https://quality.livecode.co

Re: LC & Mac M1 Chip

2021-01-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Andre and Panos, Thank you both. That given us some confidence we can release under LC 9.6.2rc1 so that customers can go ahead with their M! Big Sur systems as they want to. On 1/8/2021 6:46 AM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode wrote: Hi Panos, Just updated https://quality.livecode.com/show_

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.2 RC-2

2021-01-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 1/14/2021 5:53 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote: I paid for the Windows version of SuperCard that was advertised in MacUser for some considerable time in the ?mid 90s. I waited, and waited, and waited…. Me too! ___ use-livecode maili

Re: lock screen

2021-01-22 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
When I have a handler that needs to lock the screen I will often do the following begins handler put the lockScreen into tPreserveLockScreen if not tPreserveLockScreen then lock screen ... code ... if not tPreserveLockScreen then unlock screen end handler Code in our main LC app is large enou

Comments for Properties in the Property Inspector?

2021-01-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Random Thought of the Day: Does anyone else wish that custom properties had an optional comment field that could be viewed in the Property Inspector (PI)? I realize you can always comment properties in the code where you use them, but I find myself often in the PI looking at a Property that h

Re: Stack check-out/check-in

2021-01-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
If the could storage the stack is on has write access, the easiest mechanism is a file based flag. When the stack is launched, if checks: if there is a file then   -- the stack is already open, so exit else    put empty into URL ("file:"&) -- creates a empty file to mark as open end and  wh

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