Re: Textsize of label of copied btn changes

2020-10-19 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
ELS Prothero wrote: > Yes, if my memory doesn’t fail me, it was in italic. Hmmm, I guess I > was supposed to know that meant it wasn’t set and the value shown was > a default? Yes, more or less, though to be precise it's not so much default per se as inherited. As Jacque noted yesterday,

Re: Textsize of label of copied btn changes

2020-10-19 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
ELS Prothero wrote: > Yes, I realize that. However, when I first created the button, on the > source card, I expected that the text size and font would be what was > displayed in the ide. However, none were actually set. Confusing for > one who trusts that the ide displays the actual properties

Re: SSL cPanel mySql setup

2020-10-19 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Neville Smythe wrote: On 19 Oct 2020, at 3:00 am, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com wrote: Dreamhost never did install LC ... but several of us have made it work. Just get the right server executable and permissions. I could never get it work account wide but it rocked for individual

Re: Textsize of label of copied btn changes

2020-10-18 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
the textsize from the fields that I had already imported. I’d have to call it a bug, I guess?? Best, Bill William A. Prothero https://earthlearningsolutions.org On Oct 13, 2020, at 10:59 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: William Prothero wrote: > I am copying a button from

Re: SSL cPanel mySql setup

2020-10-18 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Neville Smythe wrote: > So I need some middleware. LC Server would have been ideal, but > Dreamhost no longer install it ;-(. I particularly could have used > LC Server to drive mailman distribution list > subscription/unsubscription tasks from the database for which I do > not have a good

Re: SSL cPanel mySql setup

2020-10-18 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Sean Cole wrote: Since then I've added DocuSign, MS DynamicsCRM integration Are you at liberty to describe what that integration involved? Specifically, do you use MS' REST API? And if so, how were you able to set up the app registration in Azure for successful authentication? I have a

Re: Odd data in message box

2020-10-18 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
at hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On October 17, 2020 4:06:03 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/17/20 12:13 PM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode wrote: Where did Jacque get that list of codes? From a plugin Richard and I wrote

Re: Odd data in message box

2020-10-17 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay wrote: On 10/17/20 12:13 PM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode wrote: Where did Jacque get that list of codes? From a plugin Richard and I wrote some years ago. It dynamically loads the error list based on the version of LC you're using. You can look up individual codes, or paste

Re: Interface Resolution

2020-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
These workarounds are great for helping John get back to work right away, but if the IDE isn't respecting Windows' resolution that would be a bug and I hope someone's reported it. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web

Re: Textsize of label of copied btn changes

2020-10-15 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
William Prothero wrote: > After the button is copied to the destination card, I do: > > set the textsize of btnRef to the textsize of srcBtnRef > the contents of btnRef is: > > btn "doNext2" of card "WhatsTheMystery-2" of stack "/Users/AfilePath > /PlateTectonics.livecode" > > srcBtnRef is

Re: Textsize of label of copied btn changes

2020-10-13 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
William Prothero wrote: > I am copying a button from one card to another. The font size of the > label changes from that of the original to a large font and I can’t > figure out how to change the textsize of the label. I keep getting an > error. set the textSize of btn "SoAndSo" to 14 The

Re: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
he performance under control rather than apps breaking for 2 pixels over the limit. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdimola at evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin v

Re: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
essage- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-bounces at lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin via use-livecode Ralph DiMola wrote: > I just ran head first into this. Could someone explain why other than > moving from an int16 to an int32 this is such a challenge? This

Re: Canvas Limited to 32767

2020-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Ralph DiMola wrote: > I just ran head first into this. Could someone explain why other than > moving from an int16 to an int32 this is such a challenge? This should > have been addressed during the refactoring of the engine. Is this for the weird recommended mobile workaround of putting a text

Re: Modal stacks cpu usage

2020-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Neville Smythe wrote: > Typically LC cpu usage shows about 34% (presumably of 1 core). When > a modal stack is opened it immediately ramps up to 99% ; the fan kicks > in, and if left for a while the OS boosts the kernel_task daemon which > I have been told is a protection device to prevent

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

2020-09-25 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
The shell command "net use" should return a list of currently available network volumes. In LC: put shell("net use") -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web

Back to School: Raspberry Pi fork?

2020-09-24 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
I had yet another conversation this morning with a colleague who would love to use LC in his school district, but the two crasher bugs prevent him from doing so. Now he's had no choice but to start looking into kid-friendly Python environments. We have that conversation every year. This was

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-23 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
the extra work). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems J. Landman Gay wrote: On 9/23/20 1:26 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: My only suggestion was to change how the existing munger works to satisfy the two problem areas identified: that names not be too long, and that any munger

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-23 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
the necessity of a lookup table as an intermediary. Bob S On Sep 23, 2020, at 11:26 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: If I understand her problem correctly, file identification need only be in one direction. As far as I can tell from the description, everything that needs to determine

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-23 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
If I understand her problem correctly, file identification need only be in one direction. As far as I can tell from the description, everything that needs to determine which file to access does so by using a string from which the hashed file name can be derived. That she already has a

Re: Converting from unicode to ASCII

2020-09-23 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay write: > I'm looking for a way to create non-unicode file names > based on the string that comes out of the database. Ah, public clouds... Amazon's S3 docs say just encoding in UTF-8 should suffice, but then they also list a lot of characters they consider "special", but common

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

2020-09-21 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > Vedas > A Random Selection > of Sutras > > gets turned around. It becomes > > Vedas > A Random Selection > of Sutras > > ?? where does the font size becomes "34" . HtmlText is not HTML. It was added to the engine as a convenient way to use HTML-like

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-09-03 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
ot like there aren't multiple independent projects going on that couldn't make this effort better. Some of those are: Navigator Baker's Assistant Any of Bernd's proposed SE updates On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 12:21 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-09-02 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mike Kerner wrote: > there isn't any reason why we can't have a fork of the ide that > doesn't sit around waiting for themuns to say "ok". I've considered this myself, but maintaining something as complex as LC's IDE is no small task. In fact, I'm finding it less time consuming to replace

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-26 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay wrote: > Any bugs you found are certainly based in fact, as you've shown. That an anomaly is evident is known. The cause and possible remedies, however, remain open questions. Though I briefly dabbled in sending hand-written Postscript to my laser printer back in the day (who

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-25 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Sean Cole wrote: > Spelling it out to you, here are all of the related bug reports. > Confirmed bug reports. Confirmed they are bugs. Bugs that Can and > Should be fixed. It won't take 10s of 1000s of $ as whatshisface > Gaskin made it seem. Embedding a replacement font rendering subsystem to

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-25 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Sean Cole wrote: > I assume (dangerously) from your reply that you do not have to make > real world applications for corporate branded customers. Where design > has been done by a branding team with a 12 - 120 page Production > guide). Someone like the BBC A good way to analyze a problem is

Re: Cross Platform Font Layout - current workarounds

2020-08-24 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Sean Cole wrote: > What is the current 'workaround' everyone is using when creating a > cross-platform app to make sure that all text appears the same > regardless of platform? Particularly between Windows and Mac for > me at the moment. Font metrics will differ between OSes because the

Re: ProtonMail vs Apple

2020-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Brian Milby wrote: "Microsoft can do what it likes with THEIR *platform*! if YOU _choose_ not to agree with their policies for use on THEIR platform, YOU can _choose_ to go elsewhere." Absolutely... on THEIR *XBox* platform. Microsoft leveraged anti-competitive practices to squeeze out

Re: ProtonMail vs Apple

2020-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Lagi Pittas wrote: > I didn't mean no marketing - it's like the folks that buy books about > the law of attraction and sit on their fata arses visualizing a BMW. > > You can sit in your chair visualizing all you want but the BMW, and > bigger house won't come to you if you don't get off your

Re: Layers in PBrowser

2020-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Sean Cole wrote: Richard Watch my videos I posted using Dropbox. It’s madness. And it’s been CONFIRMED and NOT FIXED for a very long time There was more than one video, and several others also reported being unable to reproduce the issue, so my question for Tom was seeking clarity on

Re: ProtonMail vs Apple

2020-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Sean Cole wrote: > It's all a pointless debate. Apple can do what it likes with THEIR > *platform*! if YOU _choose_ not to agree with their policies for use > on THEIR platform, YOU can _choose_ to go elsewhere. > > The same or similar issues come up with ALL brands! Google, Samsung, > Nike, AT,

Re: ProtonMail vs Apple

2020-08-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Lagi Pittas wrote: If you sell a $10,000 worth in the second year you get $8500 without having to spend as much on advertising. Oh? The app store is a directory, not a substitute for marketing. Simply having one of a few million indistiguishably-uniform records in a database is

Re: Layers in PBrowser

2020-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Tom, I'm among the several here who have been unable to reproduce the original issue discussed here, at least as I understood it. Perhaps I misunderstand it. What is the recipe for the bug you're referring to? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Tom Glod wote: Yikes.. I have a

Re: More Standalone Building Weirdness...

2020-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
The Standalone Builder really needs to be a separate process. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.com

Re: ProtonMail vs Apple

2020-08-08 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Two thoughts on this, possibly worth pondering: 1. The definition of "antitrust" may be outdated. Antitrust regs kick in when one company has undue control over an industry. What exactly is "undue"? What exactly is an "industry"? In a world where "products" and "industries" and "platforms"

Re: Integrating Desktop or mobile application with LMS using LTI 1.3

2020-08-05 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Martin Koob wrote: > Thanks for the responses. I am still actively working on this. > > I have hired a summer intern. Molly, to work on this. She has been > getting up to speed on LiveCode and LTI 1.3 and now she is turning her > attention to working on a proof of concept stack to connect

Re: Has anyone created a specialised mobile keyboard?

2020-08-04 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
I would encourage you to consider very carefully the standard keyboard layouts provided by the OS before embarking on a custom one. It's not only a lot of work to make a keyboard, but the common ones are very good, with Swype-like behavior, word prediction, and other things that can be

Re: ProtonMail vs Apple

2020-08-04 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
JeeJeeStudio wrote: > 1 positive thing then on a thing we don't have in LC and now also is > removed...the possibility to put ads in your LC created mobile app... "Possible" is a big word. It covers nearly everything. It's possible to use LC Build to support ad network APIs. It's also

Q re monetization via ads

2020-07-31 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
How many LC devs have earned more than $500 from in-app ads? Outside of LC, anyone know what percentage of indy shops with small or zero marketing budgets have earned more than $1,000 on ads? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile,

Help me understand infinity

2020-07-29 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
In the v9.6.1RC1 Release Notes there's this: Infinity constant The constant infinity has been added to the language in this release. As a result, theunquoted literal infinity is now reserved. Any existing uses of it should be quoted, as otherwiseit will resolve to the floating

Re: Object naming

2020-07-27 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Previous message (by thread): Object naming Next message (by thread): Object naming Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] On 27/07/2020 16:33, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: There are many ways to refer to things. The simplest is to use unambiguous names

Re: Object naming

2020-07-27 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
There are many ways to refer to things. The simplest is to use unambiguous names for things that matter. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Alex Tweedly wrote: I think my head is melting :-) I have a group called 'A'. Inside A, there is a rect called "R" and also a group called "B"

Re: ANN: FieldGroup - a simple rich text editor field.

2020-07-23 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Alex Tweedly wrote: On 23/07/2020 17:20, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: https://www.tweedly.org/downloads/FieldGroupsample.livecode Thanks for posting this, Alex. Super cool. I didn't find license info in the package - did I miss it? What license is this distributed under? Sorry

Re: ANN: FieldGroup - a simple rich text editor field.

2020-07-23 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Alex Tweedly wrote: I'd like to announce the Beta (i.e. v0.1) release of my simple rich text field. Currently it's not on Github or anywhere sensible - it's just on my own download site (see URL at end of this email). I'd be happy if anyone finds it useful, and / or has feedback that might

Re: Using OAuth2 with Microsoft API services

2020-07-22 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
A moment ago I wrote: Mark Wieder wrote: On 7/22/20 9:26 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: I've run into a snag in which the OAuth2 redirect URI does not seem to be called when used to authenticate for Microsoft API services such as Dynamics 365. Before getting into details

Re: Using OAuth2 with Microsoft API services

2020-07-22 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Wieder wrote: On 7/22/20 9:26 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: I've run into a snag in which the OAuth2 redirect URI does not seem to be called when used to authenticate for Microsoft API services such as Dynamics 365. Before getting into details (there are many) it would

Using OAuth2 with Microsoft API services

2020-07-22 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
I've run into a snag in which the OAuth2 redirect URI does not seem to be called when used to authenticate for Microsoft API services such as Dynamics 365. Before getting into details (there are many) it would be helpful to know whether anyone here has successfully use LiveCode's OAuth2

Re: Tab Buttons Mac vs. Win

2020-07-18 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Stephen Barncard wrote: > If in 1975 I hadn't gotten pissed off at the Grateful Dead and > taken off to LA... Probably too off-topic for this list, but that sounds like a story worth hearing. Perhaps over a beer after the madness ends and travel resumes... -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: Styled text on mobile

2020-07-18 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay wrote: > It's possible. For a LiveCode field, note that the font has to have > a font variant for each style. Some time ago LC stopped supporting > artificially altered font styles. The native system font on each > mobile OS supports all styles. > > Or do you mean something else?

Re: Tab Buttons Mac vs. Win

2020-07-17 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Bob Sneidar wrote: > I would LOVE to find out how Livecode for Mac draws those beautiful > tab buttons so I can duplicate it on Windows, because DAYAM are the > Windows ones ugly! Around the turn of the century I wrote to Bruce Tognazzini, back when he was still taking email questions. I

Styled text on mobile

2020-07-17 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Am I dreaming the impossible dream? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Live code server with Debian 8 Jesse

2020-07-13 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Good tutorial, Heriberto: > I use Livecode server on several Linux machines: > > Centos 7 / 8 and Ubuntu 14/16/18. > > I didn't need 32bits libraries. > > I created a brief installation tuto in my blog: > > https://www.hermanotemblon.com/instalacion-de-livecode-server-en-ubuntu/ > > It is in

Re: Web help needed

2020-07-12 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Bill Prothero wrote: > Sorry if this is off, but what about just transferring them with ftp? FTP is good enough for a small number of files. But for automating large numbers of file transfers rsync is hard to beat, a much smarter tool making things much more efficient. By default, rsync

Re: Web help needed

2020-07-11 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mike Doub wrote: > I need to move hundreds of files from my desktop Mac to my server. > I’m looking for advise as to how best to do this. rsync -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web

Re: Livecode Community Site

2020-07-08 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Alex Tweedly wrote: > On 08/07/2020 06:30, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: > >> LC Ltd loves guest content in their blog, > > Really ? There's been *one* guest blog post in the last 2 years - > maybe they need to push harder for contributions. You can lead a ho

Re: Livecode Community Site

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Tom Glod wrote: > I feel like nothing out there, LC related, feels like its maintained > of kept up to date. True dat, though there are a few. LiveCode Journal has been fallow too long for a couple reasons: it's a lot of work to keep fresh content flowing, and ultimately I found that content

Re: WebSites made using Livecode.

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Andre Garzia wrote: > In my own personal and subjective experience, LiveCode shines when you > are building desktop applications, or combining desktop applications > with server-side solutions. With LiveCode you can have a webapp doing > server-side LC server and an HTML5 front-end, while still

Re: [off-topic-ish] do you prefer LC-related content as books or video courses?

2020-07-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Andre Garzia wrote: > I'm just not exactly sure if you prefer to consume content in book > format or video format. I've been pondering this myself with some content I've been putting together for the LC community, an EDU-leaning beginner's guide and one on networking. Given the power and

Re: OAuth2 on Win10: not returning to my app

2020-07-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Thanks for confirming my hunch about the redirect URI. I've passed along a localhost string to the Azure admin with a port specifier that matches the one I'm passing into the lib. Still no go - same result, no browser widget close. One possible issue: the admin tells me the Azure admin UI

Re: Message watcher and selectionChanged

2020-07-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Talluto wrote: > You might try Richard Gaskin’s ‘Flight Recorder’. I use it all the > time. > You can get it from his site at: > https://www.fourthworld.com/livecode/index.html > > I have a modified version that includes a performance boost that I am > not sure are part of the original

Re: WebSites made using Livecode.

2020-07-02 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Heriberto Torrado wrote: > I am trying to convince a customer to create their next website > with LiveCode Server instead PHP. The client asks me what other > popular sites are created with LiveCode server. If you're dealing with the sort who goes only by popularity, nothing else matters.

Re: slow loading & navigation to card containing large field

2020-07-01 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
David V Glasgow wrote: > Loading the plain text list of URLs from file is slowish, but more > importantly, for some time gives no indication that the file is > loading. Are you reading the file as text or binary? I would imagine reading as binary would be more efficient since it's a straight

OAuth2 on Win10: not returning to my app

2020-06-29 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
I've been working with the Oauth2 lib included with v9 (superhandy, team, thanks!), and I've run into a snag: When I call it, the browser widgets opens and goes to the authentication provider (in this case Office 365), and authentication seems to work well. However, at that point I'd expect

Re: OFFLIST Re: Animation Engine: speed tips

2020-06-29 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
D'oh! My bad, I'd meant to not take up list space with this. But we all love Malte, and maybe he won't mind taking a moment to let us know what he's working on lately. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Colin wrote: We’re all curious! On Jun 29, 2020, at 9:26 AM, Richard Gaskin via

OFFLIST Re: Animation Engine: speed tips

2020-06-29 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
On the use-livecode list you wrote: > Hey Alex, > > Public Domain it is. I’ve set it free couple. of years back, as I am > essentially no longer writing code. :-) Still following LiveCodes > progress with interest though. :-) > > Cheers, > > Malte If you're no coding, what are you up to these

Re: How many objects (IDs) can be generated by script?

2020-06-26 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Heriberto Torrado wrote: > 4 Billions is a lot, but I think it could be possible to reach it > using some kind of automation tool. I'm thinking about a stock > exchange app or something that uses many changes and/or math > calculations and it is displayed on a real time on a created field > at

Re: How many objects (IDs) can be generated by script?

2020-06-26 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Heriberto Torrado wrote: > I read this thread, but it's old and it is not very clear to me. > > http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?t=22112 > > I have the same problem than "Havanna". > > About six years ago I developed a Livecode desktop app for my company. > Several employees open and

Re: What the heck? Writing and reading ios files??

2020-06-25 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Ralph DiMola wrote: > I did not know that. I thought all DNS was case insensitive not just > the TLD. I never seen it to the contrary. > > The Unicode thing is scary though. It validates my surfing habits. I > never use email links. If I get an email from say my bank I always > type the URL into

Re: Chromebook apps?

2020-06-22 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
William de Smet wrote: I am a longtime user of Chromebooks in education and most 'cheap' Chromebooks' come with only 4 GB RAM. The Chrome browser itself uses a lot of RAM already and my experience with Android apps on Chromebooks is that they are slow (lack of available RAM) or sometimes not

Re: Chromebook apps?

2020-06-22 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
John McKenzie wrote: Could you not just deploy a Linux desktop Livecode app to a Chromebook? ChromeOS is a Linux distribution, if admittedly a stripped down one, after all. Alas, while ChromeOS is based on the Linux kernel, everything above the kernel is different (desktop manager,

Re: Chromebook apps?

2020-06-22 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
William Prothero wrote: > Probably HTML5 would be better, ultimately. But, I look at the HTML5 > postings, limitations, and quirks and it would most likely require me > to become an expert in javascript and various server technologies that > put me over the interest level that would be required.

Re: Linux OAuth2 (was Browser Widget on Linux: how can it become possible to use?)

2020-06-20 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Brian Milby wrote: I think it should be relatively easy to fix the OAuth2 library such that it works on Linux. Currently it does use the browser widget for a better user experience, but it should be able to launch the URL and use the system's default browser. Is there any interest in a PR for

Re: Browser Widget on Linux: how can it become possible to use?

2020-06-09 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Wieder wrote: On 6/7/20 1:17 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: What is needed to make the Browser widget work in LC's Linux engine? http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=4=33805=189397=CEF#p189397 Sounds like the Browser widget is completely DOA in LC for Linux. I hope

Browser Widget on Linux: how can it become possible to use?

2020-06-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
The Browser widget doesn't work on Linux, and hasn't for a good many years. Possibly related, I recently discovered that the OAuth authentication window so completely hangs LiveCode that a force-reboot is required (yes, bug report forthcoming, when I have time and temperament for that sort of

Re: Times ARE changing

2020-06-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Richmond wrote: > If some of these types who go on endlessly about anything that might > be vaguely construed as 'racist' were capable of slightly more subtle > thought they might examine intentions: after all if we all judged > people on what they looked like most of us would be out of a job and

Re: What have I done now ? (aka CR and LF confusion)

2020-05-28 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Alex Tweedly wrote: > Re. a PR to change it, it does seem it will run into concerns about > backward compatability. Is it likely to succeed to propose a new > URL-type - maybe "textfile". What exactly does the PR do? If it changes default Mac line endings from CR to LF, thumbs up. macOS is a

Re: lc vs macos vs xc vs ios table

2020-05-26 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
So many discussions of which build goes with which version of this component and that OS and workarounds for chains of dependencies... Is this really as good as it gets when using a non-Apple dev tool? Anyone here build iOS apps in anything other than LC or XCode - is everything out there

Re: Enabling "About MyApp"

2020-05-22 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
r guide... >> >> On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 00:42, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote: >> >>> GEORGE WOOD wrote: >>> >>>> How can I activate the "About MyApp" under the Apple menu? &

Re: Enabling "About MyApp"

2020-05-22 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
> This should be in the user guide... > > On Tue, 12 May 2020 at 00:42, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> GEORGE WOOD wrote: >> >> > How can I activate the "About MyApp" under the Apple menu? >> >> O

Re: About box equivalent for mobile apps?

2020-05-22 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Graham Samuel wrote: > In desktop apps, at least on the Mac, one has an “About” box where > you can put acknowledgements of the use of copyright material and > any other info like the version number of the app. There isn’t such > a provision in a mobile app, is there? Is there any convention for

Re: Obtaining URL to latest Stable LC Server

2020-05-21 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Ralph DiMola wrote: I use the commercial server so I can use password encrypted stacks. I have an app that the customer required encryption of all data and source code. The library stack is in the iOS app/APK is also used on the backend server. I don't want to have to strip the passcode from

Re: Obtaining URL to latest Stable LC Server

2020-05-21 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
-2020 om 18:21 schreef Richard Gaskin via use-livecode: JeeJeeStudio wrote: > Op 20-5-2020 om 21:18 schreef Richard Gaskin via use-livecode: >> It would be helpful to have a convenient way to obtain the URL to the >> latest stable version of LC Server, to automate deployments. >&g

Re: Obtaining URL to latest Stable LC Server

2020-05-21 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
JeeJeeStudio wrote: > Op 20-5-2020 om 21:18 schreef Richard Gaskin via use-livecode: >> It would be helpful to have a convenient way to obtain the URL to the >> latest stable version of LC Server, to automate deployments. >> >> I don't believe the company provides t

Obtaining URL to latest Stable LC Server

2020-05-20 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
It would be helpful to have a convenient way to obtain the URL to the latest stable version of LC Server, to automate deployments. I don't believe the company provides that, do they? Without a company-maintained URL, I suppose one could write a function that relies on a scraper for the

Re: Changing text properties in a field via the IDE

2020-05-19 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Graham Samuel wrote: > Well, I am happy to be wrong, so I repeated exactly what you did, of > course using my own bit of styled text. It didn’t work - partly > because I can only select the text in the field itself in ‘run’ mode, > but I can only see the Inspector in ‘edit’ mode. When I switch

Re: Changing text properties in a field via the IDE

2020-05-19 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Graham Samuel wrote: > To an ordinary LC developer, if you can change the properties of the > initial text (to a different size for example) without overtly > selecting it, then the same behaviour can be expected from the IDE > when trying to change text you’ve pasted in. It may or may not be >

Re: Changing text properties in a field via the IDE

2020-05-18 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Graham Samuel wrote: > I’m using LC 9.6.0 rc1 on a Mac. Just now I did something very simple > that didn’t work. I created a label field, opened the Property > Inspector for the field and changed its text - that worked. Then I > attempted to change the font size - that didn’t work. The

Re: Atom Editor Help

2020-05-15 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Peter Reid wrote: > ...several of the LiveCode staff use the Atom text editor. That may explain the state of LC's Script Editor. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web

Re: Open printing to pdf

2020-05-13 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
GEORGE WOOD wrote: > Here is on example of what I tried: > > on mouseup > put “⁩/Desktop⁩/test files/Test.pdf” into temp > open printing to pdf temp > print cd 1 from (topleft of cd 1) to (bottomright of cd 1) > close printing > put the result > end mouseup "the result" returns exception

Re: Enabling "About MyApp"

2020-05-11 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
GEORGE WOOD wrote: > How can I activate the "About MyApp" under the Apple menu? On other OSes the "About" item is usually the last item in the Help menu. If you put your About item there, you'll find that when LC automatically translates its menu objects for the Mac menu bar it'll move your

Re: Recommended (simple) Linux distro for Livecode server home dev/test?

2020-05-09 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Keith Clarke wrote: > Hi folks, > Which distro(s) would you recommend for a Linux newbie as the easiest > way to repurpose an old PC, Mac Laptop or Mini to host Livecode Server > for lightweight ‘LAMP/LAML' dev/test dabbling? > > I’ve never had a Linux desktop machine and server-wise, never had

Re: I need some DataGrid performance help

2020-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Waddingham wrote: On 2020-05-06 17:36, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: A while back Mark Waddingham reviewed the situation and decided that getProp and setProp were indeed more rightly in the category of custom messages rather than system messages, and as such should ideally

Re: HTML Platform

2020-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
David Bovill wrote: > WASM support is very important to Livecode future. It will address > most of the problems of current HTML5 deployment WASM will definitely benefit the two most visible issues, load time and performance. Performance is an unqualified benefit, but with load time the

Re: HTML Platform

2020-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Pi Digital wrote: > Richard wrote: >> But most apps that might make good candidates for LC's HTML export >> have characteristics that lend themselves very well to not doing HTML >> at all, instead using a one-time download of an LC standalone which >> then downloads and runs stack files (a

Re: HTML Platform

2020-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Erik Beugelaar wrote: > It would be great if a lesson comes available how to create streaming > apps with LC. Thank you for your interest. I'll do that, but it'll have to wait until I finish some client projects first. In the meantime, the beauty of this approach is its simplicity. Like

Re: I need some DataGrid performance help

2020-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
zryip theSlug wrote: > datagrids are using virtual properties, so you can't lock the > messages. Reminds me: we have a request to do away with that,since it complicates a lot of otherwise-powerful-and-simple things we can do with custom controls. A while back Mark Waddingham reviewed the

Re: HTML Platform

2020-05-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Wieder wrote: On 5/5/20 4:47 PM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote: >> I don't use HTML deployment myself, but thought I would mention that >> there has been some emscripten activity in GitHub lately. Looks like >> WebAssembly (WASM) support is being added. ... > > Yeah, I saw the github

Re: Most obscure HC question

2020-05-04 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Paul McClernan wrote: > That old HC stack that removes the HC engine leaving only a stack file > is here: > https://archive.org/details/hypercard_standalone-stripper-232 From the link: This stack 'deconverts' HyperCard standalone applications into stacks by removing the 'stock' standalone

Re: FormattedHeight

2020-05-03 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 5/2/20 8:20 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: >> LiveCode is nearly unmatched for making desktop apps, but for >> mobile development there are so many unfinished edges it's barely >> a contender for anyone not already heavily investe

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