Re: Using a variable for an array name

2017-02-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Drag List Items Up and Down

2017-02-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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,

Coding Responsive UI in Livecode

2017-02-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-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

2017-02-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: JavaScript, Browser Object, VR with Hotspots?

2017-02-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-02-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: JavaScript, Browser Object, VR with Hotspots?

2017-02-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Browser Widget Appears to be caching data (javascript)?

2017-02-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Converting scripts in stacks to script only stack behaviors

2017-02-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-02-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-02-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ 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

2017-02-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Converting scripts in stacks to script only stack behaviors

2017-02-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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?

2017-02-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: JavaScript, Browser Object, VR with Hotspots?

2017-02-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-02-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ 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

8.1.3 (RC1) Invoking Script Editor Failing Everywhere

2017-01-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Delete element from array

2017-01-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Run processes/effects simultaneously with a visual effect ?

2017-01-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-01-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Snippet to show status bar on mobile

2017-01-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: 8.1.3 (RC1) Invoking Script Editor Failing Everywhere

2017-01-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Delete element from array

2017-01-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Run processes/effects simultaneously with a visual effect ?

2017-01-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: 8.1.3 (RC1) Invoking Script Editor Failing Everywhere

2017-01-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-01-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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"

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

2017-01-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Launch URL with LInk Back to LC App

2017-01-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

2017-01-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Community Dictionary (was Re: Delete element from array)

2017-01-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

2017-01-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Snippet to show status bar on mobile

2017-01-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-01-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

2017-01-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-01-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-01-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ 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

2017-01-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-01-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-01-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Until we hear that HQ is listening or want to know more I'll keep it short 1) SVG requirements rendering this would be a minimum. If here is a way to do it now in LC let me know http://www.himalayanacademy.com/assets/img/khm-logo-full-horizontal.svg resize your browser, it remains perfect!

Re: Browser Widget/HTML5/LC Integration

2017-01-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Bernd It's good to hear there is some progress! thanks for testing. I will look into Peter's files but also hope for the day when this is in the product. @ Richard, No, as you can see they will not display in the widget. But here appears to be hope. I was not aware of the big shift over

Launch URL with LInk Back to LC App

2017-01-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-01-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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"

Re: Storing and object reference in a var

2017-01-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Search and replace Raw unicode html-hex-dec characters

2017-01-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Storing and object reference in a var

2017-01-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Storing and object reference in a var

2017-01-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Delete element from array

2017-01-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Storing and object reference in a var

2017-01-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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,

Reveal in Find on Windows

2017-02-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-02-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Reveal in Find on Windows

2017-02-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-02-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ 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: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-5

2017-02-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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"

Parsing XML Nodes w/Same Tag

2017-02-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Script Editor fixable? (was: Configuring a Sublime Text project to notify LiveCode IDE about updates to script only stacks)

2017-02-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-02-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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:

Re: Reveal in Find on Windows

2017-02-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Reveal in Find on Windows

2017-02-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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/

Deleting stacks on the fly

2017-02-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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 --

Re: Deleting stacks on the fly

2017-02-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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 in Memory - What About Behaviors?

2017-02-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Deleting stacks on the fly

2017-02-16 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ 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: Script Editor fixable? (was: Configuring a Sublime Text project to notify LiveCode IDE about updates to script only stacks)

2017-02-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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,

Re: Dragging widgets

2017-02-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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)

2017-02-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Dragging widgets

2017-02-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ 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

2017-03-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Yes, of course, Hype is nowhere near the scope of LC. my interest is just what you describe: an environment for smooth easy-to-build animation and, if it can also be deployed on a web site without having to load the entire Emscriptem , so much the better. A full graphic mini-novel-story (6

CompositorType Android Performance

2017-03-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
we are having some issues with performance of our new app on Android, moving from one card/stack to another or dynamically updated the interface on the same card…) without navigating to another card or stack) can take 3-5 seconds, Turning on the accelerated rendering of a stack causees it to

setProp does not fire break?

2017-01-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-01-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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.

Documentation on Dispatch

2017-01-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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.

Re: Documentation on Dispatch

2017-01-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ 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

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

2017-01-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Object Selection Handles

2017-03-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Ditto what Dan, Richard, Craig said (letting off just a little steam here too) Ali: "provide examples" Adobe illustrator see: http://wiki.hindu.org/uploads/square-small-selection-handles.jpg Ali: "justification" -- I've been ranting for 2 decades about how LC IDE needs to be optimized for

Re: Extra Title Bar in All Stacks

2017-03-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Now, that's obscure I was in "In Full screen Only" I set to sys prefs → dock → tabs→ "Manually" But second tab title bar still appears on resizeable LC windows. even after rebooting LC Paul Hibbert via use-livecode"

Re: Extra Title Bar in All Stacks

2017-03-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
"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: Now, that's obscure I was in "In Full screen Only" I set to sys prefs → dock → tabs→ "Man

Re: LiveCode's handling of Unicode glyphs being dependent on the underlying OS

2017-03-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Two mangos on these issues from Hawaii. As one of the users of Richmond's program: He and I have been 'at it" for nearly 8 year with his DevaWrite Pro, because the "state of the art" for rendering Sanskrit in the world of fonts is pretty abysmal with respect to some small but mission critical

Stack References When Fired in Backscripts/Libraries

2017-03-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I was (happily) surprised today when in a handler in a library that was put into use on init of the app that a handler in lib_initMyApp.livecodescript # now in the msg hierarchy on bakeBread pDaKin put the name of this stack end bakeBread Then in a top level binary stack name… e.g.

Re: Extra Title Bar in All Stacks

2017-03-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
"System wide" ?? I tried a dozen different apps, include Apple's own Pages, Numbers and Notes etc. *none* of them respond to cmd-shift-T to make tabbed windows… the only "system-wide" is the Finder. Adding an Apple-Mac Only Finder feature to LC that OS X does not even implement this in it's

Re: Extra Title Bar in All Stacks

2017-03-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
de on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Something bizarre started happening this afternoon Mac OSx 10.12.3 Sierra LC 9DP5 Stack are opening with a second title

Re: Extra Title Bar in All Stacks

2017-03-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
and at the card side of the existing stack, without you having to say what size stack you want. > On Mar 25, 2017, at 6:20 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Something bizarre started happening this afternoo

Re: Determining if orientation locked on Android?

2017-03-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I'm not sure about how to test for lock orientation, but there are a number of related but reports, most recently http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19465 Elanor has an interesting test stack there. I suspect it is the same bug. in my case I want the "game" like screens/stacks to

Re: D3 LiveCode Chart Examples

2017-03-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Ditta what Trevor said. Our new app has both binary and livecodescript stacks. In the beginning I was "sloppy" and named some of the script only stacks (libraries, models, behaviors) with extension only ".livecode" in short order there is massive confusion a) about what can and cannot be

Re: D3 LiveCode Chart Examples

2017-03-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Do you mean to say "We do NOT even use pre-built UI cards any more" ?? Wow… that's amazing. And you are not seeing any performance issues? BR On 3/25/17, 10:41 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Todd Fabacher via use-livecode"

Extra Title Bar in All Stacks

2017-03-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Something bizarre started happening this afternoon Mac OSx 10.12.3 Sierra LC 9DP5 Stack are opening with a second title bar underneath the *real* title bar. see http://wiki.hindu.org/uploads/extra-title-var.jpg I deleted my settings, removed all plug-ins, deleted settings again, rebooted…

App Standalone Splash Screens/Icon Deployment

2017-03-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I am wondering how other teams working collaboratively using Git handle their a) Splash screens b) App Icon c) Main Stack Binary Scenario: you have Devs A, B, C, D working on the same app. Very modular with lots of text only scripts. But the main stack used to build the standalone, call it

LC's Future in the Browser - Web Assembly?

2017-03-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
try this in Firefox 52 https://s3.amazonaws.com/mozilla-games/ZenGarden/EpicZenGarden.html " Mozilla celebrated with a demo video of the high-resolution graphics of Zen Garden, and while right now WebAssembly supports compilation from C and C++ (plus some

Re: Problem with converting time

2017-03-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmm, this is odd if you are located in North Carolina…it means your server is off shore, out in the Atlantic, because it is running 3 hours ahead of you. but, unless HostM has now floatilla ISP data center ships, or secret bunkers on the sea floor, something is amiss. Ditto everything Richard

Re: iOS "Invalid Entitlements"

2017-04-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thank you Panos; back on track here. IMHO in future might lead with this solution on any query about entitlements. Assume user has enough experience to use cmd line until further notified. but here's my harrowing tale, in case it is helpful… I went in unusual circles yesterday: I had reverted

Android Build Woes on Mac

2017-03-31 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
last week thinks were flow well in Mac OS X Sierra w LC 9DP5 I could plug in my Nexus 5 via USB, check for Android build in the SB settings and ti would appear in the menu as a test target and I could deploy very fast. in fact that was so much more convenient than iOS builds that I didn't even

Re: Android Build Woes on Mac

2017-04-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
"Oh duh…" you were right… I had deleted my settings in an attempt to see if some corruption there was causing other issues. For some reason LC finds the xCode mobile without going back to the preferences, but not the Android SDK. Now working again, thanks I have it installed in a

Animation External in the Inclusions

2017-04-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I can't find any documentation related to the item referred to as "Animation" included in the list of inclusions Dictionary entries commands like "revPlayAnimation" with association: "animation library" all say: "No longer supported, and included for backwards compatibility only… etc" so,

Re: LC crashing when trying to save a standalone

2017-04-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
interesting I was having exactly this problem this week… slightly different scenario, but smells like the same fishy business. I was working in our branch "nightly" in 9 dp 5 and did something stupid broke stuff… I will spare you the story. I thought "hmm I had this working in 8.1.3" so I

Re: LC crashing when trying to save a standalone

2017-04-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
is the browser widget fix (or whatever change that fixes it) currently in 9dp5? or is that future branch now "behind" 8.1.4rc1? BR On 4/10/17, 9:32 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode"

Re: LiveCode Android Demo

2017-04-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I want to see that also! not the apk, but the code Our current app is "dying" on android. specifically, a mainstack, opening other stacks or a stack with browser widget in it… something that is working perfectly on desktop and iOS is failing miserably on Android. so if anyone has an android

ResumeStack on Mobile

2017-04-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Our new app framework is a "no brainer" MainStack A let’s call the " Home " stack… ala the old Hypercard days. launches, it is the standalone build stack, with the stack fiels and an init script that initializes all the other libraries into the msg path. it serves as an "index" to the app… it

Re: [Blog] Infinite LiveCode Progress

2017-03-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
heather wrote: " Folks, in case any of you missed it, LC9 dp6 has some great new functionality:" Beware: I have been doing "great work" (by that I means squashing bugs and running tests) in 9dp5, but 9dp6 completely trashed the android standalone build (on the phone only… my repository

Composite Set up - PreopenStack "everywhere"

2017-03-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We are using highly modular framework for our new app. Nothing like the IDE itself of course, but we are up to close to 50 *.livecodescript text only scripts divided into behaviors, libraries, models plus about 15 binarie.livecode stacks for modules and "views"…. and growing. I'm trying to

Distinguishing between tap and swipe

2017-03-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mobile: To distinquish tap from swipe, I'm using the abs of the difference of the mouseloc on mousedown and mouseup…. private function _mouseMoved put abs (the mouseV - item 2 of sStartLoc) into someDistance put someDistance >= 10 into someBoolean return someBoolean end _mouseMoved But this is

Re: Remote debugger

2017-03-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I'm very late to this party. Where is the documentation? I set the inclusion, run test target my android → nexus 5 and the dialog opens "Do you want to start remote debugging" I say yes… click through my app on the phone until finally it crashes and quits. Dialog in the IDE opens "Remote

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