Re: Dragging widgets

Graham Samual wrote: But (and there certainly is a ‘but’) there is a danger that the whole LC environment might move away from the very powerful “everyone can code” ideal. It may be simply that this list is preoccupying itself with more arcane stuff that’s outside the comfort zone of most

Re: Dragging widgets

@ Bob: Right: not meant to criticize, but hopefully constructive observation about a specific issue… that's how we evolve, right? "just sayin" that to the eyes of the user (as Quentin said) a widget is a visual object/control on screen, like any other, the expectation that they can enter

Re: Dragging widgets

You are not wrong. SVG *is* an image and ideally, should behave like any graphic object. Also, for the sake of LC future: These are the kind of things that make newbies "run away" from the product.. because they expect things to work, but they don't, the frustration level can be severe an

Re: Script Editor fixable? (was: Configuring a Sublime Text project to notify LiveCode IDE about updates to script only stacks)

Atom is nice, true, but I had a license for ST2 from 2014 and it worked! plus "multiple cursors" and related multi-line handling is awesome, I not seeing that in Atom (maybe there is a package for that…) but, keep us posted on a syntax package updates. On 2/28/17, 4:18 AM, "use-livecode

Re: Script Editor fixable? (was: Configuring a Sublime Text project to notify LiveCode IDE about updates to script only stacks)

Thanks for the thorough reply Trevor. I left Sublime Text when it was "2" years ago…thinking it was an EOL'd tool but here you say "Sublime Text 3" Oh… sweet, my Sublime Text 2 license works! OK I'll try it..since Atom and Visual Studio still don't quite gel for my work flow… On 2/23/17,

Parsing XML Nodes w/Same Tag

My longest running in house production app is an audio transcriber. Very successful little gadget, running in xTalk since 2001 We have over 1,000 XML files from an audio archive of transcripts. Now I'm digging in and getting the data out. I'm not facile with xml routines but did my best with

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-5

@ Bob (who wrote) " Do you suggest that all development and improvement for version 8 and that we all wait for certain bugs to be addressed in the next major release? That would be unfortunate. Already since the earlier versions of 8, there have been marked improvements and bug fixes, such

Re: Reveal in Find on Windows

HH wrote: Yes, you are right, the handler only opens the enclosing folder (or any path item of such a folder path). Actually that's my main use case… But now we have all options… thanks to all. nice to find that I can use launch for both Windows and Mac But has to have a slash on the

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-5

I'm behind here in the overview: Why even continue in 8.* ? What issues are there with 9.* that would make it advisable not to try it for production? BR On 2/23/17, 10:41 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of panagiotis merakos via use-livecode"

Re: Reveal in Find on Windows

er on Windows? tks On 2/22/17, 4:59 PM, "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: OK I studied the doc here: https://support.microsoft.com/

Re: Reveal in Find on Windows

OK I studied the doc here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/130510/command-line-switches-for-windows-explorer and actually the use cases are more often to open a folder but I don't have windows to test does this work to open a folder window on Win32? get shell (”explorer.exe

Re: Script Editor fixable? (was: Configuring a Sublime Text project to notify LiveCode IDE about updates to script only stacks)

going a bit OT here… I've dabbled withj Atom, Visual Studio and also long time ago Sublime… any reason you prefer Sublime? I still keep dropping out back to BBEdit.. but if I could find a nother editor that had comparable tools I would use it. So far, atom and Visual Studio keep falling short…

Re: Reveal in Find on Windows

Thanks Roger! On 2/22/17, 1:54 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Roger Eller via use-livecode" wrote: get shell (”explorer.exe /select,c:\windows\system32\selected_file.txt") Source:

Reveal in Find on Windows

for in house production tools I use an apples script or shell script to reveal a file in the finder how do we do this on windows? BR ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Sets props of multiple objects from msg box

select three fields enter in msg box: set the margins of the selectedObjects to 10,10,10,10 Expected: margins of all three fields should change observed: only the first one registers a change in margins the other two do not. Is this a bug? ___

Re: Deleting stacks on the fly

@ Jacque: I don't think it is ram after all. FYI: on my Nexus 5 I have 1.8 GB RAM and our new app + All of Googles "widgets" that come preloaded take up a mere .8 GB and I have a full GB of RAM free. after proceeding (as we discussed off list with our team) to delete stacks when we move from

Re: Deleting stacks on the fly

equirement, but crashes in Android every time… I have a report in to HQ… On 2/11/17, 8:38 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: I'm trying to opti

Deleting stacks on the fly

I'm trying to optimize for minimal RAM usage on mobile. The app is modular with many stacks that are opened from the mainstack. I had this before in a global library: command portal_GoStack stackName -- goes to the new stack -- closes the current stack # But we want to delete it to clear RAM --

"Deleting" Stacks in Memory - What About Behaviors?

When we delete a main stack, the main stack and all its substacks are removed from memory. But if we delete a stack that has behaviors set from external *_behavior.livecodescript stacks for controls in the "main" (parent?) stack, those behaviors are still in memory. Does it make sense to

Re: Browser Widget Appears to be caching data (JavaScript)?

Are you serving this content yourself from your web server? If so there are "cb" (cache busting) methods already well worked out. e.g. logo.jpg # on disk logo-cb123455678.jpg # in the html code and mod-rewrite handles the translation back to the original image. So you can update "logo.jpg"

Re: Size of Image in RAM

@ Scott: That's not what I get if I open this image in Photoshop. (CC 2017) 575 X 1000 http://wiki.hindu.org/uploads/img37.jpg It is a JPEG, but under the mode menu it shows "RGB/8 Bit" and if I look under indexed colors it says "256" definitely not 16bit (in which case we should see

Size of Image in RAM

I'm trying to optimize for Mobile. Photoshop is playing tricks on me given a 38K jpg; rect 3 X 5 552px w 736 px h 72 dpi (irrelevant for screen) Open in Photoshop: it indicates 1.16M in RAM, but mode is 8 bit… but but the online calculation sites for file size for that rect/bit-depth should

Coding Responsive UI in Livecode

[moved to a new thread] Sample stacks are probably the way to go… with some lightweight "guide on how to hink about it. Like Trevor wrote "slice up your UI into rectangle and groups… go from there." Richard wrote: > A lot of the "flak" I hear about using LC is "but it's not > responsive, at

Re: Drag List Items Up and Down

Thank you all! FYI tmpanel.rev crashes 8.1.3 (at least here on Sierra) On 2/4/17, 11:23 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of AndyP via use-livecode" wrote: Nice addition .. thanks. -

Re: Converting scripts in stacks to script only stack behaviors

@ trevor: OK, understood. In fact we are doing a similar/ almost same thing though calling it "SivaSiva.json" which is read on start up, re the stack files for the components: interesting… We have been adding *all* behaviors for all modules in the main stack, since many of these are reused

Re: JavaScript, Browser Object, VR with Hotspots?

right, you will not be the first one to change file on his own machine think it would magically appear in his browser. time for either a nap or a swim. and "duh" here too… seems the 360 pano in native LC has been a long running topic on the forums already since 2007

Re: Converting scripts in stacks to script only stack behaviors

In line On 2/5/17, 3:41 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Trevor DeVore via use-livecode" wrote: With Levure adding stack files won't cause any conflicts. Each stack is an independent file and the file that

Re: JavaScript, Browser Object, VR with Hotspots?

On 2/5/17, 12:08 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mike Bonner via use-livecode" wrote: Thx for the info. Honestly, all I want is for the example in the dictionary to work for me. (and yes, the javascript

Re: Browser Widget Appears to be caching data (javascript)?

John: Ditto what Bill said…that, keep us all posted! Possibly get a thread going on the multi-media are of the forums? William Prothero: John, this is a very cool project. I hope you get it working. I’d love to be able to use your VR framework. One of my colleagues created a VR

Re: JavaScript, Browser Object, VR with Hotspots?

Actually you can get it here: http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/817/LC-to-JS-Data-Transfer On 2/5/17, 10:28 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> wro

Re: JavaScript, Browser Object, VR with Hotspots?

FYI Mike, Getting those params over to LC is doable… Jonathan wrote me off line.. I will email you a small stack he created that works and perhaps will suffice for your needs. But, beware, you may head into this thinking "Wow, this is so cool. We could do a lot with this." Hold your horses,

Re: Converting scripts in stacks to script only stack behaviors

Ali, thanks for chiming in… in the current app we stayed away from any resizing, the Design passed down from our team which has years of experience in print graphics (but zero in digital UX/UI) would have been a challenge to get responsive. It could be done of course, anything can be done in

Re: Converting scripts in stacks to script only stack behaviors

Trevor, thanks for that intro to the new tools in LC9 I'm already using libraries and behaviors extensively, but still find my self build LC stack binaries with a full stack script or, quite often, 95% of the code in the card script (if the UI can all be done on a single card) The other day

Drag List Items Up and Down

There is a near universal behavior on mobile, varying flavors of color and style but the UX is almost the same everywhere whether it is your contacts, book marks in Safari, or songs on play lists in Spotify. you have a list like this, after each item the common icon is often 2 horizontal bars,

Re: Using a variable for an array name

Peter: FYI multi-dimensional arrays are awesome. I use to be "scared" of them, but in RevIgniter we have all kinds of things like galleriaShow["options"]["width"]["805] and even more… so I had go understand it. And, on top of this you can have an array "inside" a key/value (where the value

Re: Launch URL with LInk Back to LC App

Ralph Thanks, hacking the pList definitely works! I guess Apple doesn't care, right? On 1/30/17, 10:18 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Ralph DiMola via use-livecode" wrote: JLM, Thanks for the

Re: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

Hmm, interesting try this http://wiki.hindu.org/uploads/SivaSivaDiagram.svg # in firefox; chrome; LC browser widget result: Firefox renders the gradients. Chrome and the LC browser widget render some place holder in the same space. On 1/29/17, 11:41 AM, "BNig via use-livecode"

Launch URL with LInk Back to LC App

Use case is: multiple apps and the local mobile browser, all in a navigable ecosystem on small devices. on iOS, you can make an app that does this 1) Open to home screen 2) go to card "Virtual Tours" 3) click on "Gardens" 4) go to another card name "gardens" (just an example) 5) click a button

Re: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

to SKIA (nor do I really know the scope of what that means in terms of future possibilities) I'll do a small test loading these into a browser widget.. On 1/29/17, 11:41 AM, "BNig via use-livecode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote

Re: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

@ Richard. OK, one more SVG example (I believe that's what you were asking for) now you have three http://wiki.hindu.org/uploads/floor-plan.svg # not responsive, but could be http://wiki.hindu.org/uploads/SivaSivaDiagram.svg # not responsive, but could be (though that's not wanted in this

Re: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

as mentioned… it's not responsive, that was just a quick export, would require some tweaking. and the use case envisioned for larger ones is different: use pinch and zoom and swipe to move around and go in on the "map", this means we actually do not want it to scale down to fit…. On

Re: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

I forget to give the URL for a complete web app that I was able to put into a LC browser widget (too heavy for delivery becuase of all the audio content, but good proof of concept for using the brower widget to drive local html5 content in the same package:

Re: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

oops sorry, I was trying to make is responsive and broke something try this now http://wiki.hindu.org/uploads/SivaSivaDiagram.svg On 1/29/17, 8:14 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode"

Re: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

thanks for these tips… I will try again. Svasti Astu, Be Well Brahmanathaswami www.himalayanacademy.com On 1/28/17, 6:20 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of hh via use-livecode" wrote: It's not the LC

Re: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

in via use-livecode" <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > So as not to burden this list which "use" list and not a "complain" > list I have responded to you at length directly. ...ands yet here we are, so we

Re: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

Sure.. try this: go stack url "http://wiki.hindu.org/uploads/SivasHawaiiRevels_v001.livecode; it's so "bad" as it is "just below par" enough to cause others to blink at it. I realize this seems like a challenge but take my word for it. Here in our shop we have several Keynote presentation

Re: Snippet to show status bar on mobile

found it! mobileHideStatusBar mobileShowStatusBar Now I just need to "slide" everything (the entire card/content) down… tks On 1/27/17, 10:19 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode"

Re: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

So as not to burden this list which "use" list and not a "complain" list I have responded to you at length directly. in a word: 1) the graphics rendering layer of LC is behind the graphics rendering layer of the browser 2) an IDE that provides a tool box for super elegant 21st century UI

Re: Community Dictionary (was Re: Delete element from array)

Richard Gaskin wrote: /Documentation/resources/data/api/api.sqlite Oh boy, gonna have fun with that! BR ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

How many devs here would be willing to pitch in $ to cover the cost for HQ to add "deep integration" between the browser widget and Livecode. Currently there is a "wall" between LC and the browser widget. Jonathan Lynch, myself and Andre have been looking into this very closely. There is no way

Re: Script editor chops "end handler" to "nd handler"

FWIW: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19145 On 1/27/17, 4:46 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of panagiotis merakos via use-livecode" wrote: Hi guys, Thanks for spending time on this.

Re: 8.1.3 (RC1) Invoking Script Editor Failing Everywhere

Ooops sorry I should have added that. http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19120 copy of my stack is there, nothing proprietary in it… it does not do any front scripts. but there is definitely something in it that 8.1.3 does not like (and also lcStackBrowser was unhappy with this

Re: Delete element from array

I'm game to play with this… I need it where are these array files? Do we want to change the thread subject to "Dictionary Improvements" On 1/27/17, 6:55 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin via use-livecode"

Snippet to show status bar on mobile

Do we have control over the layer of the native device top status status bar? is it always on topmost layer? if so then we have to dynamically hide and show it if we want to occupy the whole screen OR is it always on the background layer if so then we simply have some objects on higher top

Script editor chops "end handler" to "nd handler"

I have a bug report on this but HQ says they cannot replicate it. Today I think I have a definitive recipe. Can you try and confirm? Symptom: the "e" at the beginning of the last line end of handlers is getting chopped off on closeStack if the environment is "mobile" then scroller_Delete

Re: Run processes/effects simultaneously with a visual effect ?

Ha! Klaus.. Jai Ganesha! Awesome this works (yet to test on mobile) on mouseUp set the effectrate to 500 lock screen for visual effect put the long Id of image "stone" into pHiddenImage put the long Id of image "night" into pVisibleImage show tHiddenImage hide

Re: Delete element from array

Others can please chime in here… I'm not sure exactly why the new dictionary is "irritating" but it is. let's say I want to see all the properties for buttons. I think the old dictionary gave us that option. Now if I click on "association "button" and click type "properties" I get the

Re: 8.1.3 (RC1) Invoking Script Editor Failing Everywhere

Turns out it was one of my plug ins… you can see the bug report where the problem was attributed to the DataGrid Helper… but I don't use the DGH and I had problems with an old old stack I've had for 15 years called "Favorites.livecode" build circa 2000 or earlier and migrating forward over

Run processes/effects simultaneously with a visual effect ?

I'm looking to "dress" up our new app with more elegant visuals. I was using send in time to a handle that changes the blendlevel of small objects… this works well and is none blocking. But someone asked "Why don't you just use dissolve?" Duh.. the dictionary doesn't give the platforms that

Re: Delete element from array

Thank. Yes.. it is there in the dictionary but I glossed over it somehow. Not sure the new dictionary is an improvement of the one we had all these years… @Bernd: is your dictionary plug in working in the latest 8+ versions of LC? On 1/24/17, 5:04 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Phil Davis

Re: Storing and object reference in a var

Edit; get a grip on creating custom visual effect that I can use "all over the place" by creating an external script/text stack - Exactly I'm studying scripts by some "pros" (Jacque, David, Malte-animation engine) in order to get a group on creating custom

Re: Storing and object reference in a var

Exactly I'm studying scripts by some "pros" (Jacque, David, Malte-animation engine) in order to get a group on creating custom visual effect that I can use "all over the place" but creating an external script/text stack I've been doing server side script for so many years, the whole UI coding

Re: Storing and object reference in a var

ha! duh! I need to go body surfing for a day and get away from the code … I'm "losing it" Put "hello" into tTargetField# replace the long id in the var with "hello" sheesh… this get set prop thing has a lot of power, one day I'll wrap my head around it. On 1/24/17, 12:57 PM,

Delete element from array

how do you remove a key from an array? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Storing and object reference in a var

I have scripts supplied by others, that seem to work where the long id of an object is stored in a variable and then you can refer to that object with a single var-name But I can't get this to work put the long id of fld "daily-lesson-text" into tTargetField put "Hello" into tTargetField what

8.1.3 (RC1) Invoking Script Editor Failing Everywhere

I need the updates in 8.1.3 (RC1) so took the leap. IDE is problematic… deleted my prefs before opening… but now -- the point ertool icon does not change from browse to pointer… -- switching to the pointer too and double clicking on a button runs the button script instead of just selecting the

Search and replace Raw unicode html-hex-dec characters

I have *.html files that were extracted from epub documents. At our instruction, the company preparing these epubs was requested to use Unicode throughout and avoid all ANSI chars (i.e. us the Unicode for mdash and not — from the mac keyboard) If I drop these on any browser they are perfectly

setProp does not fire break?

I'm trying to understand some code done for us that was not documented. We are using a lot of text only *.livecodescripts and working with a frame work that is more of an MVC model where we try to keep our binary stacks as free of code as possible i.e. they serve as views and then we call

Re: Documentation on Dispatch

But I found this in a script from an associate: setprop portal_RowNames [headerName] rowNames and it compiles… the first param is a variable inside square braces. Not sure it this is some LC magic or just this programmer's "style" - Bob S: That can only be an element of an array.

Re: Documentation on Dispatch

@ pass by reference Wow! I'm only now learning about this? ….sheesh, this would have solved so many issues I faced in the past! and now pass arrays too. Fantastic. @ Richard: yes "wrap" was the wrong way to state this… "call a function with dispatch" is was I should have said BR PS there is

Documentation on Dispatch

for the documentarians among us. Sometimes you want to do a "remote" call to a function and get data back. At first this appear no possible send | dispatch | do | call BUT: FYI you can wrap a function in Dispatch and the value is returned in the result. this is not documented.

Buildling Standalone for Mac on 8.1.2 - Can't Copy Icons/Resources/Inclusions

We are facing an old bug in various stacks. Some are very old stacks that have moved forward over time from as far back as 5.* with standalone builder (SAB) settings revised along the way until we are up to Sierra and LC 8.1.2 where attempts to make a standalone fail due to an old bug where

Re: Animated Gifs on Other Cards

Good input… off screen or on top card of open window behind the top stack: GIF is still running… Given that we might be instantiating the appearance of these GIFs (icons of buttons) "here and there and everywhere" via some low level back script or lib that was brought into the msg path with

Animated Gifs on Other Cards

if we import an animated gif into a card called "image-resources" which might be e.g. card 3. with repeat set to -1… i.e it is running continuously… When are on Card 1… is that GIF still running and taking up CPU cycles even though it is effectively "hidden" by virtue of being on Card 3? OR

Re: TS Net for Indy vs Business

SFTP var content only? Wow… Strange strategy… Indy should/could be LC's bread and butter.. a product that works may be a better strategy in the long run than providing a crippled option. Reserve business only feature for true enterprise features, not for a simple options that come with any

Re: TS Net for Indy vs Business

t;On Dec 26, 2016, at 9:03 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> wrote: >We need some help. >We know that we can do SFTP with TS-Net external >but >functions that we try to use from an Indy LC return "unlicensed" even when, the docume

TS Net for Indy vs Business

We need some help. We know that we can do SFTP with TS-Net external but functions that we try to use from an Indy LC return "unlicensed" even when, the documentation make not indication that they should fail without the business license. What we need is Documention on what functions and

Copy Folders on Mobile

Is there an easy way to copy a whole folder (plus sub-folders and files) recursively from specialFolderPath("resources") # or "engine" same thing… (right?) to specialFolderPath("documents") # writeable on mobile? We are getting some pecular behavior on Android where setting the browser

Browser Widget - JS - LC -Integration

We are looking for tighter integration and interoperability between LC and HTML5/JS component running in the same stack. See this stack go stack url "http://wiki.hindu.org/uploads/browserwidgetjstester.livecode; What we think we know, assumptions: 1) we can trigger LC commands from javascript

Re: Build standalone for iOS (8.1.2 RC2) First time- fails, second time it works

:51 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Monte Goulding" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of mo...@appisle.net> wrote: >On 14 Dec. 2016, at 2:32 pm, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> wrote: >BUT the main top level loader stack i

Re: Build standalone for iOS (8.1.2 RC2) First time- fails, second time it works

We are working our new mobile app in git hub. The challenge is that we need to use N number of binary files as "views" and at least one loader stack to run the build. Even though we have zero code in the stack script and zero code in the card script (the app is initialized with a behavior for

Pinch and Zoom Browser Widget Content

Create browser widget for mobile app Set remote URL Web page appears perfect but you cannot pinch snd zoom the content Go to same URL on mobile Safari ( iOS ) or Chrome (android) and ypu can pinch in and out to zoom or shrink content How do we get broweer Widget to do that also? .BR

Example Stack with HTML+JS in Browser Widget that Talks to LC

Does anyone have an example of a stack/card with a browser widget that shows some html content with clickable JS objects that then trigger handlers in the native LC code in that stacks card or stack script? i.e. we want to be able to mount some html content aka "widget in a browser window" in

Build standalone for iOS (8.1.2 RC2) First time- fails, second time it works

Peculiar behavior if I save a stack… after some work… touch the standalone settings… where the iOS was off before, check it on, choose my profile and build, I will always get a message that some "arm stuff" cannot be found.. when I run it a second time… it goes through… This is doubling my

Re: Typesetting in LC -- Line Spacing

You are right… in fact I had set Andre on this a few years ago and he started one (robust, complete text/field typesetting layout palette)… We are using Git for our new app. It would be fun to try a new repo for this and let everyone hammer on it… BR On 12/5/16, 10:39 AM, "use-livecode on

Re: Typesetting in LC -- Line Spacing

Wow! If you go to the download page there is this awesome little stack included in the 5.5.0 release called field_features.livecode Message to HQ: You need to bring this forward somehow! at just 96 K why don't you just package it with the other resources and documentation in every distro?

Re: Typesetting in LC -- Line Spacing

" I wish there were a way to search all the release notes at once." ditto that! And it goes back to an older request I had (of course someone will say "you can build that yourself" that the IDE should have a very robust text/layout/typsetting palette… so that newbies coming on board don’t

Typesetting in LC -- Line Spacing

Our design team here has high expectations for typesetting that are not easily implemented in LC… or were not before. But I realize new text styles have been introduced… though I believe thorough docs/tutorials have not been issued so it is a bit opaque. Where are the new text style command

Re: tsNet docs/sample stacks

yes, more docs would help. I don't see any "SFTP" upload example, only "FTPS" upload. The later, I believe, gets into certificates, which I would rather avoid. On 12/1/16, 8:18 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Ben Rubinstein"

HTML 5 Engine Download Again (and again and again?)

I go the promo newsletter, when to HH's site with demos each on says "download only once" but every time I swtich to another one… the engine downloads again. 4 minutes in one case, here with pretty good band width. I don't think I could get anyone to sit/wait through that… Pretty much a

LC 8.1.2 Corrupts Color in JPEG?

I don't ever remembers seeing this before: 1) new stack in LC 8.1.2(RC2) 2) create image "imageToResize" 3) make button on mouseUp Answer file "choose an image" set the filename of img "imageToResize" to it end mouseUp Result: incoming green values in the JPEG are swapped out for red! what we

OT: Image Metadata Tagging Service

Way, way OT: Does anyone know of an image tagging service? Needs to be done by humans looking at images and entering IPTC data that is embedded into the image. use case: take 10,000(s) of images/art add tags, description, category. needs to be embedded in the image itself for full portability

Icon does not appear in iOS on iPhone 6 +

We have an app in development, Yesterday I prepared all the icons and splash screens. The standalone builder was happy with the size of everyone of them. I run a build and 1) the logo does not appear on my iPhone 6 Plus: even though we have a good png at 180 X 180 it is somehow not being

Re: Draw an adjustable Trapezoid in Livecode - How to change x, y of the 4 corner points of a rect

Bernd Thanks for the patience in clarifying all this. I think the dictionary could really use some kind of commenting system. What you are saying here is really important both for future docs as well as possible changes in the terms used in the IDE. But.. here it is buried deep in the

Re: JavaScript + LC HTML5 = LiveCode.js

Actually I have two long running apps (15 years) working exactly has Richard describes. Indeed is has so many advantages. I love being on SKYPE with one of our volunteers who may have a small complaint about the UX or wants to added something to the back end database… I quicklyl fix it and just

Re: JavaScript + LC HTML5 = LiveCode.js

I too never quite understood why the RevWeb Plugin was abandoned. The old issue that users resist such downloads, never, IMHO, really materialized… just look at the kJillion extensions for FireFox or Chrome, there is no end in sight. So the plugin was abandoned, but in the end, hasn't the team

Re: Draw an adjustable Trapezoid in Livecode - How to change x, y of the 4 corner points of a rect

Thanks every one for all the great answers/ideas. That said, @Mark… docs may need clarification 1) create 'regular polygon graphic" with 4 sides 2) name it "trapezoid" 3) make button "set the editMode of grc "trapezoid" to polygon result: nothing happens at all, no change, no option to add

Re: Draw an adjustable Trapezoid in Livecode - How to change x, y of the 4 corner points of a rect

The good news: Right click on the Polygon then choose 'Reshape Polygon' and the points that you require should appear. :-) BR: confirmed.. that works. Now the bad news: Sadly this also revealed the ghost trails seen before when you start to drag the points around. :-( BR:

Draw an adjustable Trapezoid in Livecode - How to change x, y of the 4 corner points of a rect

I want to be able to draw an adjustable trapezoid in Livecode. The regular polygon tool set to 4 sides doesn't allow you to grab any given Similarly, the polygon graphic also doesn't provide grab points for corners of a rect that you can drag and adjust Is this just impossible? or am I

Re: LibraryStack Message

er within it?? On 11/23/16, 12:50 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: ... > on libraryStack > # do more initialization stuff he

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