Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I am going thru Aravind's reports. His phone is top of the line Android… Samsung Galaxy A7 (3GB RAM) 7.0 Nougat, It appears that 8.1.9 RC 1 did not fix all the Android rendering issues… yes, the problem of leaving the app via home or app switch and coming back to the app, yes, that is

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Andy (cc support) Yes, I used tinyPng I have paid for their 50 image at a time option, awesome tool, I think we will get a site license of photoshop plug in… The home card(s) (navigation "portals) on the app are one big parent scrolling parent group with some subgroups. max 8 "rows) with

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
t aren't tightly optimized. You might see what can be pared down there. Big job, I know, with a project this large. On 12/26/17 11:04 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: >Our new SivaSiva app expects a lot of horse power. If we want to optimize for smaller de

Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Our new SivaSiva app expects a lot of horse power. If we want to optimize for smaller devices, I'm not sure where to begin. We can't really shrink graphics below 55k png for small thumbs… so if we have 8 of these on a card and a hero image around 200 K… we are talking about ~700K image data on

Re: [ANN] SivaSiva App on Google Play

2017-12-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Andy for the review. all your observations will be taken into account, we were wrestling sooo long with the core rendering issues that I wasted a lot of time testing instead of working on refinements, for which the list is very long. I will look at your screen recordings in depth… And

[ANN] SivaSiva App on Google Play

2017-12-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jai Ganesha! My new Pixel arrived the day before Pancha Ganapati amidst a 72 hour solo code sprint, working with the new 8.1.9 to get an Android version done. At the last minute I solved rendering issues on Android (not happening on Desktop or iOS) and with a little help from Jacque, today

Re: Android package installer hangs (Oreo)

2017-12-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I tried building for Android on 9.0 dp 11 yesterday and got some weird font mapping issues. Pixel arrived (wow! iOS, seems a bit primitive now…) used, unlocked, (looks brand new) no sim… I got wi-fi. immediate prompted me to upgrade to 8.1, which I did. in LC 8.1.9 I can't see it in the test

Re: Remote Debugging on iOS

2017-12-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
jacque wrote: Remote debugging doesn't work with script-only stacks (I had to ask here on the list myself a while back.) The breakpoint has to be saved with the standalone, and script-only stacks don't have properties so breakpoints can't be saved. Hmm OK, so that means we have

Remote Debugging on iOS

2017-12-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I made a few changes to a stack that was some working, and still works on desktop, but hangs on iOS. I think I even have recipe for the UX/UI tapping-navigation across handlers/stacks/screens that will cause the app to crash in iOS. I used to only dev test SA's on Android because if it worked

Re: TS Net Documentation

2017-12-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
7, 11:56 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Check out /Contents/Tools/Ext/tsNet.../api.lcdoc for all the tsNet things in

Re: TS Net Documentation

2017-12-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Ali Lloyd wrote: Check out /Contents/Tools/Ext/tsNet.../api.lcdoc for all the tsNet things in one file - hopefully that's roughly what you're looking for Happy Winter Solstice to the team! Yes, Ali, that’s perfect… "awesome" simple plain text… BR

Editing library script with TSNet "running"

2017-12-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
If I try to edit handlers in a global backscript that has some TSNet callback handlers… I always get stack "lib_SivaSiva": execution error at line 1547 (Object: can't set scxript while it is executing), char 1 I have no way now to change this script, except to exit, quit LC and edit by hand,

TS Net Documentation

2017-12-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
an old theme "I want a printed dictionary…" As I peruse the dictionary TSNet is *huge* and complex…. Hunt and peck for what you have no clue will serve your needs gets tiring. Sometimes good old-fashioned "study for your exams" approach is a better way to go. And no, I don't want anything

Re: Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

2017-12-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Well, what we see in iTunes connect "90 crashes" is not reflected in xCode for the same app which only shows what appears to be, 6 reports. The only option offered is for me to symbolicate these and then I was able to get these six report out as text files, zipped and sent to you view support

Re: Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

2017-12-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
FWIW I learned why iTunes connect show 90 crashes, but xcode only give me 6: That's because they only offer the crash files from the past two weeks. I guess this makes sense in a way… crashes from previous builds may not be that relevant. On 12/19/17, 11:22 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of

Re: Versions of LC and Xcode

2017-12-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Mike and Ralph Hmmm I jumped the gun… downloaded Xcode 9.0, then woke up this morning to find 8.1.9 RC1 as a Winter Solstice Candy Box from Scotland (Nandri/Mahalo!) 8.1.9 RC1 will let us use xCode 9.2 now… but saving a specific path to a specific xCode version could be useful… On

Re: At this point, what's the shortest path to an iOS/Android app?

2017-12-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jacque: You will recall this was HQ's "hack" offered to us in the mix of hacks in our attempts to solve rendering issues on Android (which never did work in the end) where the stack being opened had AcceleratedRendering set to true… waiting *seemed* to help in some scenarios. With the fix in

Re: Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

2017-12-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
For several early builds I was including iPad in SA settings but iPad users couldn't open because I did not include a splash screen to exact rect/spec. (SA builder did not object either…) I note the devices in some the of the crash report show "iPad 4th Generation Model" I wonder if the

Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

2017-12-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
One app report 90 crashes in iTunes connect among users who have opted in. How can we analyze these to make improvements? in xCode we can set our account preferences then go Window -- Organizer -- Crashes and xCode will fetch data for the app you have up … if click on the iOS app for your

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.9 RC-1

2017-12-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jai Ganesha! Yay! The SivaSiva app can now "go live" -- we have been keeping it under wraps until Android was working. So this is *huge* for us. Thank you so much! Have a great Christmas… BR Panos: Various crashes related to the acceleratedRendering property are now fixed

Re: Versions of LC and Xcode

2017-12-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmmm I seem to have gotten myself into the same fix as Ben. " Now that I have updated to LC 9.0 DP-10 and LC 8.1.8 stable, nothing can build (except 8.1.6 stable - which unfortunately doesn't like the widgets in my stack!)." I'm on High Sierra 10.13.6, Xcode 9.1 and LC is telling me I don't

Re: At this point, what's the shortest path to an iOS/Android app?

2017-12-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Geoff IMHO your shortest path will be a) forget about fully responsive, in terms of trying to emulate html5 web design. IMHO this whole "must be responsive" is a huge sidetrack from content development…someone spends days and days and ends up with a few pix and a little bit of text and "it's

Timer on Auto complete

2017-12-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@monte I'm giving 9 dp 10 a workout. Since I'm building some stuff from ground zero, I'm finding the auto complete is very useful. So useful in fact that it’s a bit irritating when the suggested list is dismissed so quickly. Is there a way to keep the suggestions list

Tab alignment in fields

2017-12-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
very old dumb question: If you set tab stops for a field, Is there a way to set the alignment for one stop/column? e.g. have all the numbers in the final column on the right align vertically to the decimal point or left?? I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but just checking if I missed

Stop the Spinner Widget

2017-12-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
8.1.8 Tried some animated GIF spinner "loaders", look horrible when layered cards with color… all "pixelated" edges. Downloaded 9 dp10 since the spinner is not available in 8.1.8 pulled out the new spinner widget. lovely! Of course we can hide/show, but can we stop it? …. Like we do with

Re: Script Editor problem

2017-12-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay Start Center can be set in Preferences to show on every startup. It lists the last used stacks. If you use a utility frequently it will be there. The most current projects you've worked on will also be there. 9 dp 10 set pref to open on start up… reboot…"nada" BR

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
overhead to leaving this call back be live "24-7-365" in the app or not… but this way we could turn it on and off if that is better practice. BR On 12/8/17, 5:08 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runre

The Detailed and Long files

2017-12-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
it was a huge step to do away with the defaultfolder requirement to get a file list put files(somePath) is wonderful but, "u" …we are still forced to change the defaultFolder to get the detailed|long files Is it too much to ask for these file info functions to also work "out of the box"

Re: Script Editor problem

2017-12-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mike Kerner wrote: *set* the rect of stack "revNewScriptEditor 1" to the 50,50,900,900 Ditto Mike's solution: this happens so regularly that I just have to up arrow through my cmds in the msg box to find the above. Bit of a nuisance though. BR

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-08 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
been downloaded. Result==>" else answer "File'"&&&"has been downloaded but is too small==>"&&"Result==>" -- this was before I had the 404 check delete file Get_Path("Updates") end if

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-08 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Charles Warwick wrote: Sorry for the confusion, tsNet does handle the ‘load’ function, effectively using its own asynchronous functions to replicate standard libUrl behaviour. BR: wow. That's magic! so this means we can just proceed "as usual" with using load [URL] url [with message

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-08 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Awesome Ralph: Looks like we need to crowd fund Charles for documentation (smile) You are about 3 days ahead of me… can you post some code snippets of your methods? On 12/7/17, 1:54 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Ralph DiMola via use-livecode"

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Charles…we have enough to go on now. well, almost if I read you right "load" is not handled by TSNet (since that is libURL's own asynchronous operation?) www.himalayanacademy.com Get the SivaSiva App today (for iPhone and iPad)

Re: LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

2017-12-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Replying to your original post/surveyr. Not exactly sure what you are looking for… and this is just story telling that may not be directly relevant but perhaps helpful to lurkers so here goes at Himalayan academy.com We use RevIgniter for everything on our site except the blog…

Re: Map Widget Futures

2017-12-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Ali I'm clearly "out of my depth" here… after looking at the Google Maps model. looking at: com.google.android.gms.maps.model I think see why you are talking about overlays, as these comprise "model classes" GroundOverlay A ground overlay is an image that is fixed to a map.

Re: read larger data streams over sockets - broken?

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
May not mean anything for your use case, but I have built an in-house revision control system for InDesign documents… it's been in use for several years after the death of Adobe VersionCue (which was a night mare anyway) our team loves it: super simple, never fails, we never lose data, ever.

Re: Map Widget Futures

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks for replying Ali I wasn't thinking of overlays, though that could be useful and would obviously be an early enhancment request. message path: Presumably "markers" are in the msg path… i.e. like buttons, and would respond to mouseup/down/touch. That would suffice for my V1 vision of use

Re: Naive Player Questions

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Richmond wrote: NO: a player does not "demand" an external file as my example stack demonstrates: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9v2juqqu7ojb83v/Carrot%20Player.livecode.zip?dl=0 The player in that stack plays an embedded mp3 file. Does not play here (Mac OS X) of

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Matthias Rebbe wrote: The connection ID is only used/needed when you use the asynchronous commands of tsNet. The synchronous commands like tsNetUploadSync or tsNetFileUploadSync or others (they are ending with Sync) do not use connectionIDs. And i assume that put URL and get URL are

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Still searching… let's break this down a bit Almost TSNet functions and commands require a connectionID. In some instances these are aribitrary strings assigned by the dev on the initial call, then used later. but what if we use the simple libURL commands? get url

Map Widget Futures

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I'm not sure if the news from LiveCode Global is under any kind of NDA… Since I have a business license, we could pose this directly to HQ, but seems useful to share.. hope that is OK and I have this quesiton What is the binary format of the map "object" that the engine or map widget can now

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
tool: push this URL to a browser widget in your mobile app. http://www.bandwidthplace.com and walk around different locations and check your bandwidth… someone might cook up a native LC widget for this purpose. BR On 12/5/17, 9:19 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanat

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Charles (and anyone else) using tsNetSetTimeouts 30, 0, 30, 6, 30, 1000 I need to implement this in our app… "minimum amount of data…" is obviously different from "no connection whatsoever" Your example assumes that for this use case, 30 seconds is acceptable. That may well be

Re: Naive Player Questions

2017-12-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Panos wrote: You can do that by checking "the playmate of player 1". If it is 0, then the player does not play "playmate" ?? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: IDE breaks down over time

2017-11-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Paul very helpful! BR It’s here if anybody wants it: http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/813/LC-Menu-Shortcuts - It’s not perfect, but it works if you are careful with the shortcuts that you choose. BEWARE - I've only tested on Mac, so I don’t know how well it will work with

IDE breaks down over time

2017-11-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I am building new UI… not a drop of code.. it's all about drawing controls, grouping, setting rects and RGB values etc.forground background colors, setting alpha etc. after about 30 minutes in 9.0.0-dp-9 the IDE seems to get very confused. (OS X) If I work in the project browser, or

Re: Image Offset in Frame

2017-11-16 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Alejandro: Thanks.. very clear… @paul hibbert Thanks for the reminder on Scott's masking stack.. .that's what was sticking my mind that I could not find… I downloaded hist stack again. but it seems we don't even need a graphic on top of the image or have to concern ourselves with these

Image Offset in Frame

2017-11-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
His is probably covered somewhere, but I can't find it. In CSS we can position in image in frame with an offset like -20,-20 In most layout programs you can move the image around inside the frame. How can we do that with an image in LiveCode? I can use crop, but this is permanent BR

Testing Bandwidth with new TSNet Functions

2017-11-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Someone suggested we could test bandwidth by getting the milliseconds before calling a ping.txt file on our server (contains one word "true") and then check the milliseconds after getting the result and we might use this to determine if the bandwidth was sufficient for streaming content from

Specialty Fonts on Mobile -- OK? or Stay Away?

2017-11-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We have a new UI/UX designer working in Sketch/Invision/Zeplin which is a marvelous universe for design collaboration, and getting from her designs to a card layout in LC is easy enough. But she has chosen to use a font called KohinoorDevanagari which not only has Devanagari script but a

Re: Relative Paths in Property Inspector

2017-10-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@Mike I tried to duplicate your 3rd case. Are you on Mac OS X? if I create a stack, place and img in an adjacent image folder and move to the server ("Chola") in the next room… set the img filename to img/tiger.jpg it works @brian ./img/tiger.jpg also works… but really doesn't get us

Re: Relative Paths in Property Inspector

2017-10-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Brian: good question. Now that I think of it… maybe both would be good? Option 1: If the pref is on, then the check box is checked by default in the PI; otherwise it's not. This allows the user to use full path. Option 2: no check box in PI, just a pref because: assumes no use cases there are

Re: Radio button scaling

2017-10-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Christer I have had some success with a) create icon in a vector program b) no gradients! c) set background as transparent d) save as PNG at the largest size you might need. e) scale down (never up) dynamically run time before display. whether it is "non-smooth" will vary depending on the

Re: Relative Paths in Property Inspector

2017-10-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
BR: are you keeping your stacks next to the images? like this ~/Dropbox/Pet Project/animals.livecode ~/Dropbox/Pet Project/img/dangerous-pets/tiger.jpg and if you set the image filename to "img/dangerous-pets/tiger.jpg" it fails? -- Mike Kerner wrote: it is related. As soon

Relative Paths in Property Inspector

2017-10-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Backstory: Sometime back in a round with HQ we got the engine to "remember" relative path settings for the filenames of images/players etc.. such that it would not default to full path from root on the drive which makes the path unique to that user and no longer portable… so "relativity" go

OT: The future of Digital Dev/Design/Prototyping

2017-10-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
https://www.invisionapp.com/studio?utm_campaign=studio Dumps to Swift Of course as soon as the dev gets beyond the visual layer and deeper content requirements surface, this kind of tool hits the wall. But the UI/UX for developing the views is pretty powerful. Something similar that would

iOS 11.0.3 No Sound? Mobile player broken?

2017-10-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We are getting reports from iOS users that after their recent upgrade to iOS 11.0.3 "After updating my iPhone this past weekend I've discovered that the sound is not working on either of your two apps." Now, this can't be a Livecode problem because one app is made with LC and the with

Re: [ANN] Release 8.2.0 DP-2

2017-10-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks for the update Mark… you have our app on Git, so if you can make it work on Android, sometime in November, that will be great! We will keep pushing on content. Getting a proper rendering on opening and closing stacks is the key missing factor on Android. On 10/12/17, 8:45 AM,

Re: Autocompletion of quotes on LC 8.2,0 DP-1

2017-10-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Bill P. wrote: I find that, for the autocompletion of quotes in the new editor, that I’m deleting them as often as I use them. It’s nice to see the text red when quotes are not completed, but ….. I can live with it, but for me, it’s not an improvement. I found this also, but wondered then

Re: [ANN] Release 8.2.0 DP-2

2017-10-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Panos any hope for this big issue of acceleratedRendering breaking a multi-stack app framework on Android which is currently holding our app "hostage" (cannot deploy on Android) These are all, pretty much the same issue: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16736

Re: Grouping Controls in selectGroupedControls mode

2017-10-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Mark As one who is constantly switching from Indesign (editorial work for our magazine) and Livecode My testimony is I can't tell you often I "bark" at indesign "why on earth can't I change the properties of a single object in a group without ungrouping! like we can do in Livecode!" So what

Re: Segmented Control Bugs?

2017-10-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
LC team: Thanks for getting the docs fixed… can we go back on point? Bug still stands The segmented still seems to be "globally enabled" and "hears" the hilitedChanged msg from "across the universe" -- when card is opened even though no handler is checking that property -- even from a top

Re: Segmented Control Bugs?

2017-10-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I may be blind today… been tracing code for three days… see all props listed in the API guide https://www.dropbox.com/s/tpo38y5q491w0hr/seg-control-props.jpeg?dl=0 "hiliteChanged" does not appear among them. On 10/3/17, 5:53 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of panagiotis merakos via

Re: Segmented Control Bugs?

2017-10-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmm the bug I have is a bit different… appears in both 8 and 9 I "deprecated" the control by moving it to -2000,-2000 and used the "old-fashioned way" of three buttons in group/get the target and go. save… went off for some other work.. came back Then every time the stack opens, the script

Segmented Control Bugs?

2017-10-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Anyone experiencing any anomalies with the segmented control Scenario Added to stack in 8.1.7 (or earlier) open stacks in 9.0.0 dp9 save open in 8.2.0dp1 control is blank. shut down LC open again in 9.0.0dp9 it appears again, but has a bug.. it seems to be catching a mouse down message when

Re: Dismiss Keyboard on Mobile

2017-09-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmm. that nice "DONE" option is only for iOS iPhoneSetKeyboardReturnKey J. Landman Gay wrote: See " mobilesetkeyboardtype". ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Dismiss Keyboard on Mobile

2017-09-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Yes peruising the dictionary in the little cool app made by someone in Asia… LC dictionary.. and looking through all the mobileControlCreate input options and saw that focus was the key. And this app has a nice keyboard with the word "DONE" in blue, in the place where the return key is (at

Re: AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

2017-09-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Well …"exactly" And that is what we want to clarify if stack A is open and contents for its front card are buffered. Now open stack B on top of stack A with Accelerated Rendering on.. Just then… before we close Stack, for n number of milliseconds we have buffered objects for 2 different

Dismiss Keyboard on Mobile

2017-09-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I have a drop down search panel with radio buttons and a search field. the search string field is grouped with the search icon (magnify glass icon) this small group of two objects has behavior attached. When the user hits the search icon, the string and readio buttons all form and run a dbase

Re: AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

2017-09-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
It's not set for "everything" only scrolling groups. How can it be drawing too much? if there is only one scrolling group on the card and all other cards, stacks etc are closed or not in view, how does having the layermode set in an unopened stack start to "draw too much" ?? Jonathan Lynch

Re: AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

2017-09-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jonathan: The layermode of the scrolling groups is preset to "scrolling" The question is about the sequence as it relates to visual layer rendering Open Stack A, turn on acceleratedRendering Open Stack B, which also turns on its "own" acceleratedRendering Close Stack A, *after* having open B

AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

2017-09-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We continue struggle with our app on Android and between mobile controls being instantiated or deleted + oddities with acceleratedRendering, + remote bugging not *really* working, it's a bit of a fishing expedition when everything works on desktop and iOS. A complete document on accelerated

Re: IPad Mini reports "not supported

2017-09-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Surprise, at least this is new news for some of us: assuming the device supports one or another, all those services are indeed actually available, whether you check those boxes or not or so I'm told via another grapevine. ergo: you only want to check them in the SA builder if your app really,

Re: Beacons and Bluetooth

2017-09-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Lagi: yes this is really bigger than we see. Probably need a whole forum area dedicated to NFC, Bluetooth Comms. FWIW I talked with Jacque about this yesterday. NFC in the form of "within 4-5 cm" is available now on Android if you have Indy or business. Maybe by next year for iOS… the

Re: A modest proposal for a new property

2017-09-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
marvelous, very important thread…in mobile, it's all about the touch msg… yes "all of the above" the enhancement request to allow margins for widgets stands as still useful but plays directly into the other scenarios described here. And though separate "desires," they do over lap e.g. As it

Offset Referenced Image Data

2017-09-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I put this enhancement request in if anyone is interested http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20473 in brief " We need the ability to have an image object "mask" referenced image data by setting the offsets of the image, common use case is "I need this in a square" But don't want to

Re: A modest proposal for a new property

2017-09-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Though this is not a universal solution… but related.. FWIW we have an enhancement request in for widgets to allow us to set their margins. The entire area of a widget is its "hit box" (term from Unity) So all we need it to be able to set margins. Typical use case might be to have a 24 X 24

Re: Developing Methods: Creating Scrolling groups larger than screen rect

2017-09-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Wow… great tip. That dictionary entry is a small 'gold nugget" These groups have their locklocation set to true. So, duh.. obviously part of the problem was: " If a group's boundingRect is empty and its lockLocation is false, when you drag an object toward the boundary of the group, the group

Re: IPad Mini reports "not supported

2017-09-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
No idea why - but maybe that list will help you see whether it's splash screen sizes or resolution sizes, or what -- Alex. P.S. I had to remove the app from my iPad to get the store to show me the Compatibility list again. On 25/09/2017 01:16, Sannyasin Brahman

Re: Developing Methods: Creating Scrolling groups larger than screen rect

2017-09-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jacque in the new branch newPortalNav2.. I changed that… all controls are assigned initial numeric prefix 1_ 2_ I stole that idea from your photo index ( and the IDE started to calm down or rather I think I found a WYSIWIG method. e.g.Tall vertical scrolling group whose formatted Height

IPad Mini reports "not supported

2017-09-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
New app has IPad set in SA builder Accepted by Apple went live I have screen shots for iPad on the store But iPad mini users report "Not compatible with this device" Why not? Missing splash screen? Via mobile phone ___ use-livecode mailing list

Developing Methods: Creating Scrolling groups larger than screen rect

2017-09-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Workin in 9.0.0 DP9 now. Old issues of editing groups seems to have gotten worse. selections lines around objects continue to appear even if you have select a different object, now the selection dashed lines remain on the previously selected object and it's as if we shift selected two object,

Re: Script Editor Autocomplete Optional?

2017-09-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Monte Respond to your previous "disheartened" don't be! Just downloaded 9.0.0 DP9 For all the gorilla dust around this new feature which I had not actually see yet, I was wondering.. But now, wow this is awesome! How often to I set an itemdelimiter? sheesh "like all the time" and auto

Re: Setting the acceleratedRendering to true on startup on

2017-09-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Dan, yes this could be really helpful Almost all (but one) use cases in our app framework are simply to facilitate either a scrolling field or a scrolling group. If we are looking for some consistent "algorithm" for this, which I am, so we don't have so much mental-re-estate consumed every

Re: Setting the acceleratedRendering to true on startup on Android 7 and Android 8

2017-09-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Not only that… but I think we have other stacks where the wait is applied before accelerated rendering and it is stills stopping on exit/resume. I'm deep into refactoring… will get around to deploy again on devices in a day or so… will report back again then. J. Landman wrote: It's kind

How to offset placement of referenced images?

2017-09-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We need to occasionally Offset referenced images in their frame. place a large image into a small rect; move that image internally so that a given area of the composition is focused/centered in the image area. I thought I knew how to do that, but today the method escapes me. Is it possible?

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Panos you are awesome… appreciate the responsiveness. @ Richard. OK, downloading now.. I'm in. moving dev in 9 DP9. BR On 9/22/17, 2:30 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of panagiotis merakos via use-livecode"

Re: Scrolling Groups on Mobile - Show a little of what is below

2017-09-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
done http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20445 please add as you think useful. On 9/21/17, 11:51 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" wrote: >Would be super if we could

Re: Scrolling Groups on Mobile - Show a little of what is below

2017-09-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I've seen that also, though it looks cool initially, I'm not sure a regular user of the app would want to have that "noise" every time they go to that screen it it were a "home" screen. But it's a good option for some use cases, for sure. But following on Jacque's essay on user testing and

Re: SivaSiva iOS App Approved - Android Issues/AcceleratedRendering issues

2017-09-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jonathan Right -- Excellent. Thanks. I missed that before.. and yes I had this same experience and asked myself "What happened?" OK I'll have to go back and look that up, well work doing. Agreed. I guess was testing so much in Android, I forgot that apple actually closes. Would be nice to

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I'm naïve about how these branches work. Probably need a firmware update in my brain on this whole "future" versions thing. I had to "regress' to 8.1.7 RC1 because 8.2 DP 1 because the IDE melted down pretty rapidly. You wrote: " When v9 goes final v8 will no longer be maintained" Yes, of

Re: Scrolling Groups on Mobile - Show a little of what is below

2017-09-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Yes… that's my plan… all I have to do is shrink the rows by 15 pixels vertically and the 4th one will pull up at the bottom of the screen. A bit tedious, but can do this with some toolbox scripts… so , not too hard. Actually now that I have 24 objects = 3 each for 8 rows (each one has a bkgrnd

Scrolling Groups on Mobile - Show a little of what is below

2017-09-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
FYI this is a tip that came from Jacque, but I had to experience it "live" myself. Alex though it useful to share… On a busy day here (we have 100 plus visitors daily) I will go outside and get complete strangers to download the new app and watch them as they go thru initial install and

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
all mute 1) using 9. that old doesn’t' work for us.. We have got too much vested in 8.* that works well, can't risk it. 2) 45 minutes into using 8.2.0 DP1 I had so many issues and problems that I was force to abandon that too. Simple things like setting Select Grouped to true and then

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Perhaps this answers the question. Looking at the download table/release notes. 9.0.0 DP 8 is 3 months behind… last updated July 13. Doesn't this mean all the fixes to bugs in 8.2 DP1 are still bugs in 9.0.0 DP8 ? BR Wrote: So what about 9.0.0 DP8 are you happy with this? Anything you

Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Now that we have the app in the iOS app store… with one big bug pending on the Android version… I am working on the first 'fixes" and upgrades for V1.1 of the app. Again, as is often the case for many of us through the years, I have a case of "choice paralysis" with respect to what would be

Re: SivaSiva iOS App Approved - Android Issues/AcceleratedRendering issues

2017-09-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jonathan I'm not sure exactly what this "stay in sleep mode" gets us… but yes, it's an interesting option. if we use this hack, would the audio continue to play when the user goes out ? Why are you recommending it? --- "imagery" Yes, with 400,000 still images on our in-house server and

SivaSiva iOS App Approved - Android Issues/AcceleratedRendering issues

2017-09-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We are very happy to announce that Apple approved SivaSiva App V1 and it is now available at the app store. search for "SivaSiva" all one word. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spiritual-workout/id1271260502?mt=8 But we still have problems with the Android version. you can download RC7 for

Re: Android Audio Playback & Recording

2017-09-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mahala Ali! OT a bit… but how do we do this on iOS ? use MergAV? I'm only seeing ref to Video recording… we should refer to this, mergAVAudioSessionSetCategory # and all the other mergMicrophone* # commands and functions, right? BR On 9/15/17, 1:53 AM, "Ali Lloyd via use-livecode"

Re: Android Audio Playback & Recording

2017-09-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Peter Reid wrote: 1. Find a way of getting the Fire/Android to play an arbitrary sound clip (typically less than 2-3 secs). I've gone for WAV format initially but I can easily make them something else (MP3, AAC, OGG, etc). ANY IDEAS for this? BR: Did you try the mobile player and play

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