[SERVER] Is it possible to run a stack on LC-Server and interact with it ?

Hi All After reading the revUp article Cool Cat Server from David Williams some time ago here: http://newsletters.livecode.com/november/issue160/newsletter1.php I was wondering if it is possible to take a snapshot of a stack running on a server and directly interact with the snapshot from

Re: Sending Terminal Command (Python) Using LiveCode?

Hello John Yes this is possible, I do this all the time ! The way I use it: Create a stack with a field, put the whole python script (can have multiple lines) into the field. Replace place holders (replace %NAME% with Peter etc.) in the field, and then put field into a variable and execute it

Re: Major Bug in 6.7

Hello Chipp I made a bug report already ! Cheers Rolf Am 05.11.2014 um 12:00 schrieb use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com: When building a standalone, command-Q *or* selecting *Quit* from the menubar won?t quit the app. Try it in a simple stack: 1. Create Stack 2. Save as

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

Hello all I now see these crashes with 7.0.1-RC4 on OS X as well. Unfortunately no recipe yet. The stack is very simple 1 button and 1 image, all I can say is that when I click on the stack after the crash it would not load this stack again (corrupted). No crashes with 7.0.1-RC2

Problem with umlautes (non ASCII chars) in Windows

I need to get the Computername from a Windows PC, but if the computername contains non ASCII chars I get odd characters. Also, the global variable (%Computername%) from inside LiveCode does not display non ASCII chars correctly. I also tried to use the CMD with the command hostname, which

openStack called from subStack - why ?

After years of coding, today I discovered for the first time while debugging that an openStack handler in a mainStack gets also called when a subStack of it is opened ! I put this into the stackScript of the MainStack: global varMainStackName on openStack put the short name of this stack into

Re: openStack called from subStack - why ?

the ground of the message path! Jacques Le 20 avr. 2012 à 10:15, Rolf Kocherhans a écrit : After years of coding, today I discovered for the first time while debugging that an openStack handler in a mainStack gets also called when a subStack of it is opened ! I put

Re: [ANN] Little plugin stack uploaded to RevOnline (Andre Garzia)

Hello Mark Andre I try for weeks, to upload to revOnline, I have great stuff which I like to share ! I created a [Ticket#201205091326] two weeks ago with support about the problem ! They wrote back - but their answer leaves me in the wind…. I don't think I can post it here because it was

Re: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

This is absolutely right: The Kickstarter campaign was all about modernizing LC. It's a clear choice to me: drop 10.5 support. As others have said, people who want to maintain their old systems can use old versions of LC. Thanks, Tom Bodine There are many of us waiting for major new

LiveCode 6.6 very slow on Retina MacBookPro

Hello all I noticed that LiveCode 6.6 is very slow on MacBooks with Retina display on everything I do with it. My latest project-stack has a size of 500kb with about 10 bg buttons on it and 3 bg fields. When I click onto a button to edit the script in 6.6 on Retina MacBook, I can count to two

Re: LiveCode 6.6 very slow on Retina MacBookPro

@Trevor Thanks for pointing me and others to this great article from Mark ! Take a look at this blog post from Mark Waddingham which provides some background and the solution that is being worked on: http://livecode.com/blog/2014/03/18/hi-speed-hidpi/ -- Trevor DeVore As it stands

[OT] Apple publishes six free e-books for developers

If you develop for iOS and missed this, have a look :-) http://www.macworld.com/article/156499/2010/12/apple_developer_ebooks.html Cheers Rolf ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

Hello Tim Yes ! We probably all have ! My last try was yesterday ! This is the response I got one months ago: Ticket#201205091326 Hello Rolf, Hopefully I will be tackling this issue with revOnline soon, but unfortunately I can't give you any estimate or assurances

[ANN] New custom control OS X Lion async png progress bar (on RevOnline)

I was also testing RevOnline with a Stack (157K) and the upload worked :-) ! LiveCode does not give us the nice blue animated progress bar Lion has, the one we have - is only static ! I never liked this, animated progress bars make the user believe that the waiting time is up to 11% shorter.

Shell is now also blocking animated gif's ?

In the past I used a lot of shell commands. I have always used a animated gif's to show that the app is still running, because the shell blocked LiveCode but not animated gif's. With the new version of LiveCode 5.5.1 this seems not to work anymore ! LiveCode is now blocked totally, not even

[TEASER] Kochi Mini SVN a very simple Script-Level Version Control System for LiveCode

Hello LiveCoder's Just a little teaser of a tool I made. Recently there was a lot of talk on both lists about Script-Level Version Control. I have created a plugin that just fits into that niche and it's just about ready for prime time ! Are you interested ? Check it out at

Send a message when the mouse hilites text on an option menu, possible ?

I have an option menu with say 3 entries. When I click the onto the option menu, I can see all 3. When I hover up and down, the one which I am over is hilited. Is it possible to do something with this hilite ? I like to show some additional info about the hilited position. In my case the 3

[ANN] Free Kochi Mini SVN a very simple Version Control System” for LiveCode

I'm happy to announce the availability of Kochi Mini SVN, it is totally free ! Kochi Mini SVN is a very, very, simple Script-Level Version Control System for LiveCode, built directly into the LiveCode Script Editor. As a LiveCode enthusiast I have always wanted to have a simple to use

Re: about the GPL version, and password protection...

Am I right that this also means that password protected plugins like, for example, the great tmControl from Scott Rossi will NOT work with the free version ? Cheers Rolf ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

revBrowserOpenCef revBrowserAddJavaScriptHandler

Hello All I am experimenting with the new revBrowserOpenCef command and specially with the command revBrowserAddJavaScriptHandler to trigger a LiveCode script from a webpage. There is not much info on this online ! I tried all the examples I could find but nothing works so far with LiveCode

Re: [ANN] modified Table Field 0_2_2

Hello Bernd Your new TableField looks very clean and very tidy, thanks for it ! Everyone who doesn’t like DataGrid should have a look at it ! Cheers Rolf Dear list, here is a new version of modTableField. It is a way to display tabular data in a table view. --

Re: [ANN] Yosemite Styles Window Plugin (free)

Hello Everyone… I totally forgot to mention… To create custom shape windows in general is easy, but it is not easy to create custom shape windows which retain their shape on their corners while resizing ! If you use a fixed picture as windowShape and enlarge the window then the whole window

[ANN] Yosemite Styles Window Plugin (free)

inside LiveCode (with the button: Sample Stacks) or from here: http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/791/Yosemite-Style-Window-Creator Regards Rolf Kocherhans Bernd Niggemann ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Change position of answer dialog as sheet

Is it possible to change the location of an „answer dialog as sheet“ on OS X ? I know that we can change the loc of a normal dialog box (preOpenStack), but can we also do the same with a dialog box opened as sheet respectively a stack opened as sheet ? I would like to move the dialog box/stack

BAF and other things - I am confused...

I didn’t wanna chime in into all those discussions, but I am totally confused by the LiveCode mothership recently, and I have to now. I am confused with the new BAF License and all the talk about SVN. It is very clear to me that SVN does make a lot of sense to everyone. Therefore I programmed a

Indy doubles in price because of HTML5 export ?

To all at LiveCode Do I read and interpret your announcement (Fireworks for HTML5) correctly ? There are now two Indy license types, one with HTML5 and one without ? I had a (what was called Enterprise License) for many, many years with all Deployment options intakt - this recently got

Re: App Browser versus Project Browser

+1 from me Cheers Rolf > Agreed that satisfying everybody will never happen, but I would argue that > the dual-pane approach of the Application Browser can display more > information in a single view than the Project Browser. IMO, accessing > multiple stacks is more efficient using this

iOS - Prevent screen from dimming

Hello All Is it possible to prevent the screen from dimming (iOS) after the user does nothing for a while ? This is necessary is you for instance show the speed reading from a GPS signal on the Mobile Device. Cheers Rolf ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Script-only stacks [was: Re: Script Editor future]

I have done this already in 2012 with my plugin: > With this arrangement, using git and external editors becomes easier to > integrate with the added benefit that one could implement a 2 save option, > saving a GUI version and a script only version of your stacks to different > locations at the

Re: Release: 8.0 DP4... also, HTML5

@ Fraser > Am 01.09.2015 um 17:47 schrieb use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com: > >> I am asking this because I could not get it to work form my Desktop OS >> using it without a WebServer. > > Some browsers (Chrome in particular, but all of them to some degree) have > restrictive policies in

Re: HTML5 test

On all my Systems I only get the -hair- cursor, no arrow or hand cursor ! Does anyone see other cursors ? Cheers Rolf ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: HTML5 test

The color change is consistent in all Browsers on OS X. I did quite a lot of testing today and found that Graphic Objects created with LiveCode have correct colors, but imported pictures (any kind gif,png etc.) are all wrong. > Am 01.09.2015 um 17:47 schrieb

HTML5 "get URL"

I am experimenting with the „get URL“ command on a HTML5 WebApp. I can’t get it to work at all :-( The get URL command can be used in 3 ways with file - ftp or http urls, I guess the HTML5 get URL command is not used for ftp or http because the relay on LibURL (just a guess). Therefore I

Re: Release: 8.0 DP4... also, HTML5

Does “get URL“ work from everywhere or only on a Server when I am hosting the LCWebApp ? > Am 31.08.2015 um 18:55 schrieb use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com: > > - no networking except ?get url? I am asking this because I could not get it to work form my Desktop OS using it without a

RE: Where can I find the latest "Release Notes for Mobile"

Thanks Colin & Richmond for the links. I was after the newest version of - what was once called „iOS-specific engine features“ in the PDF file - this has been renamed to: "Mobile Specific Engine Features“ and can now be found online here:

Where can I find the latest "Release Notes for Mobile"

Where can I find the latest Release Notes for the mobile platform ? The latest I can find is: LiveCodeNotes-5_5_5-iOS.pdf from here: http://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ That version is very old ! I am sure there must be newer one somwhere (for LC

Re: Question About Resolution Independence

Sorry that was a typo just on the eMail ! The stack has a size of 1024*768 pixels. @ Richmond this size is suggested on a movie about Resolution Independence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idctzDFoGj8=youtu.be I think that that Colin could be correct with his suggestion of using:

Question About Resolution Independence

I am experimenting with "Resolution Independence" and different screen sizes for developing on the mobile platform (iOS). When I set "iPod,iPhone,iPad" in the "Build for" settings in the "Standalone Application Settings" I always get an 1X or 2X at the bottom/right of a real iPad (with Retina

Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

In LiveCode 8 I can no longer download Stacks (click Sample Stacks) from the online sample stack portal, the download/upload stack called „Sample Stacks“ is replaced with a link to http://livecodeshare.runrev.com. Will that stay, or is a better or different download Stack, for the final version

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

> Am 20.03.2016 um 07:10 schrieb Richard Gaskin: > > For the short term I believe the best solution *might* be to put > RevOnline back in place as it's been for years. But I say "might" > because I don't know the reasoning behind it, and "why" is always > critically important to learn when

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

Hello Elanor & Peter There is a misunderstanding :-( ! I did not ask how I can download stack, I know very well of the existence of the webpage and I have seen Download Buttons before - thanks ?! My question was if the download environment within LiveCode wich is now gone in the 8 line, will

Re: Application Transport Security deadline for iOS apps

What does ATS mean for people using on-rev ? I am not at all familiar with this subject, therefor I have a couple of questions: Will it be a per person thing, do I have to install a cert just for me ? Or will LiveCode do this for all users ? Or will this be implemented into the cPanel ? > >

Re: OT: https <> http | WAS Application Transport Security deadline for iOS apps

If I do the same I land on artisansofscotland.com :-( My original page: www.kangaroo.on-rev.com If I go here: https://www.kangaroo.on-rev.com I land here: https://artisansofscotland.com Whats going on ? > Am 12.07.2016 um 12:00 schrieb use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com: > > Hi

Question about script-only stacks

There seems a lot of hype recently about script-only stacks. I agree that they are cool vor GIT and work perfectly, but it came to my mind - how are you go about it when you want to protect your scripts. Are they also encrypted by a password when you compile a stack, and if not what would be the

Is this broken (set the cursor to watch)

Is it just me, or are all "set the cursor to xx“ broken ? -> I use LC 9.5 on macOS Regards Rolf ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

HiDPI scaling on HTML5 works great !

Hello All For all doing HTML5 stuff, try the new 9.6.3 RC-1 Release, finally it can now do HiDPI scaling ! The stacks on webpages now look beautiful ! Thanks to all who made this happen ! Cheers Rolf ___ use-livecode mailing list

WebAssembly and HiDPI scaling for HTML5 when ?

Hello LiveCode Engineers I am very patiently waiting for HiDPI scaling and WebAssembly to be incorporated into HTML5 in LiveCode. Looking at the Git pages it seems to be already ready for a very long time ? https://github.com/livecode/livecode/milestone/193 Do you have an estimate when you

Re: [ANN] Release 10.0.0 DP-1

First of all thanks for the WebAssembly HTML5 implementation. This is really great stuff ! I already played with it a lot and found that some things work better others don't. For instance all my URL stuff (loading a stack on same domain) is unfortunately not working anymore. Also, all the

Re: All Versions of LC crashing in Sonoma

@Matthias and the Mothership, My Apple Developer account expired several years ago, and I'm facing a critical issue with one of my LiveCode Apps, Clarify, developed by Trevor DeVore. This app is extremely important to me. Unfortunately, Clarify is no longer actively developed and has started