Re: button action different on Android

Well, "rather Android ceding time for that sort of thing." While it may not be a LC "problem" ... we need a way to avoid the long press behavior (if that is it is?) and ensure the button responds. N'est ce pas? BR On 5/30/18, 7:15 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-liveco

Re: button action different on Android

I'm seeing similar behavior on the main navigation buttons at bottom of the screen. In SivaSiva app Although it behaves differently, I suspect similar underlying engine issue I have large fingers, Example, the "Home" (a button that takes you back) icon has plenty of touch space. It is on left

How To Become Android Developer

Can someone please update the lesson How to Become an Android Developer? On the Livecode site. 1) Load JAVA SDK – (JDK) – Takes you to JAVA SE 10.0.1 - which I believe in incompatible with LC. java SE 8u171/ 8u172. Works, but there is no mentioned about that the Lesson. Anyway. Got it

Strange error from iOS Standalone Builder

We had our 3-year hardware refresh (sell all old Macs, enterprise wises and get new ones) and I have a new MacBook Pro. It still running High Sierra 10.13.4, just as the old did I set up if iOS with new certificate / provisioning profiles X Code 9.2. / LC9 Run my build on the new machine an

Re: Would Anyone Like a Ring Tone At End of Standalone Built?

Awesome… thanks I think I will *finally* read the entire dictionary, bases in the LC Dict app that was done by someone in China? (in has no name attached to it) Tom… thanks for the "wait" tip. On 5/20/18, 9:23 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode" wrote: You co

Would Anyone Like a Ring Tone At End of Standalone Built?

with Android, it fast enough, but building to iOS … I have enough time to do email… I you use spaces. You won't knon when the build is finished. Would any else like a ring tone when the SA is finished? I wonder if I could hack the IDE to do that.. BR ___

Re: Material Design - any plans to allow more granularity in design?

Given that my rant was open ended… Richard is a little more nuanced, thank you for that… Agreed, a subset of what is "required" to be in the engine to meet modern expectations would help. For the rest, we could build them ourselves. This we cannot build ourselves…. I would put " smooth seaml

What Is Be Best Way to Stop Browser

I am trying to figure a way to stop a browser widget instance from trying check for an internet connection and "stop" and respond to "go previous" button. If anyone has a recipe that, will appreciate it. But questions to go the dictionary. If I look up "browser" I see (in tinyDictonery_0_7_7_6

Re: Material Design - any plans to allow more granularity in design?

My old familiar rant in this issue. I now have a "enternal business license" and we use Livecode for so much in-house stuff… and I have spent $ non-profit money on every offer Kevin has made in ~1999 when he got the company Scott Raney. So I have right to rant (ha) Livecode is so for behin

Re: [BUG] Browser widget implemented without access to localStorage API

So, I'm not only one… How do I create a second instance of LiveCode (or any app for matter) On 5/16/18, 12:10 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Trevor DeVore via use-livecode" wrote: >so then, for now I quit livecode, and reboot everytime will do a build, >nuisance. I alwa

Re: [BUG] Browser widget implemented without access to localStorage API

" So it is probably the case you have changes applied but not saved to disk." I faced this a few weeks ago, so today what I loaded 9 today, I was extra cautious… I made sure a) after stack script editor changes were applied. "green" b) save changes of the stack, of text only stack c) it might

Building in 8.1.10.RC 2 for iOS - Missing Undefined symbols

I just downloaded 8.1.10 RC 2 I have both xCode 9.2 and 9.3 entered in preferences. I get a "green" OK in the standalone preferences. But when I try to build for iOS , I get == [error] Unable to build app for device: linking for arm (arm64) failed with Undefined symbol for architecture ar

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

I found a way! # Set search string field, the on returnKey delete char -1 of me select after word -1 of me # but this does work on android, cursor goes the head of the when hitting return end returnKey # the Search Bottom: on mouseup focus on the mouseControl # above key line, whic

Re: [BUG] Browser widget implemented without access to localStorage API

Andre was working on an HTML% module that is in big app SivaSiva. He pushed to our Git account, and you can check out from here. He was working in LC9. And I wonder if he got the bug I did today (again) I had stopped using 9, but I needed to debug on my phone. So: you save all your scripts, bu

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

Jacque… that backkey does work… (hehe) my handler on backkey # need for android put the effective working screenrect into tScreen if (item 4 of tScreen-item 2 of tScreen) < 650 then # assume keyboard if up pass backKey else if the short name of this stack is "journal"

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

No go on my Pixel Hit return, nothing happens. with is working as expected iOS on inputReturnKey focus on nothing end inputReturnKey I tackle it tomorrow BR Are you using a native mobile field? If not then... on returnInField focus on nothing exit returnInFiel

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

Just tried in minutes ago didn't work. in the field on inputReturnKey focus on nothing end inputReturnKey did not work. Plus there is whole card "raised" on so that bottom is the top of keyboard Mike Kerner wrote: The sequence is return key is pressed focus is removed

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

(banging my head on the wall) "You have read the dictionary! You have to read the dictionary!" ha! Little did I know that: -- Mike Kerner wrote: I personally use *on* inputReturnKey *focus* *on* nothing *end* inputReturnKey BR

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

You can't put that into your other radio buttons on the Search UI panel. You can't put it into the search button (you want the next take makes choices before search) It goes to: create a "Done" control, like in iOS, for the keyboard. how to get the bottom coordinate of the area above keyboard?

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

Well, all good, but still, IMHO, a hack go the https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20456 Maybe should make a separate report. Really… putting this in the field should dismiss the keyboard on returnKey closeField exitField end returnKey They enter text, hit return, keyboard

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

on returnInField focus on nothing end returninfield # when I put that into field itself: does nothing: # on android I get a carriage return in the field on hitting returnkey maybe it has to do with what Jacqueline said " "These are just messages that the engine sends when the focus changes,

How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

On mobile I have a UI (for searching audio) where: 1) user make a text selection (search box) 2) need to dismiss the keyboard (having made the text selection, which remains) 3) so she can choose some other radio buttons: like "Title" or "Sub-title" or "Genre" (this is a audio/music search UI)

Project Browser - Sort Stack Preferences

I was trying the Project Browser's prefs. Sort stacks by layer ascending. It reverts to "Name" … can't keep it stick to "layer" 8.1.10 rc 1 Any else see this? BR ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

Next Behaviors - Scope of Variables

I just implemented by first use of nested behaviors. Marvelous! But it occurred to me right away, that I could use variables which were "local", in the sense that their scope was within the context of the nested arrays. Of course needed to declare the inside the behavior, otherwise you get conf

Re: Getting Orientation Enforced on Phone

Eureka! Montes been busy, but keeping quiet https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19465 BR: just completed test. I tried "go letting" to stack mobileSetAllowedOrientations "portrait,portrait upside down,landscape left,landscape right" just before closing in a

Re: Typesetting Fields

http://livecode.wikia.com/wiki/StyledText Paul Paul, that helps! It does matter the name of array… (could be anything) a long it conforms to styled text that set the styleText of fld "playlist to tPlayListTextArray. that propert

Re: Typesetting Fields

What I would do is set some text in a field to some different styles, then get the styledText of the field and examine the array. Bob S That is also my plan. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: Typesetting Fields

I wonder if the dictionary need helps. Are there paragraph marks missing this example? = For example, take the following content consisting of two paragraphs: Centered Hello World Left-aligned Hello unicodeString This would transpire as the following array: 1 = style = { textAlign

Re: Typesetting Fields

richard wrote You may find the styledText array helpful. = Wow that looks missing, though the dictionary could help with examples…I gonna need an expresso and to some time to figure out how that works! set the styledText of field to styledArray Maybe if someone had some example of wh

Re: Typesetting Fields

to 13 else set the textSize of line x of fld "audioList" to 15 end if end repeat end typeSetAudioList From: Brian Milby Date: Sunday, April 22, 2018 at 5:27 PM To: How LiveCode Cc: Brahma Nathaswami Subject: Re: Typesettin

Re: Typesetting Fields

and I am hoping not to deal bloated htmltext, like using template LESSON [[tChapterNum]] [[tSubtitle]] Until we get scrolling working in a datagrid, (on mobile) and also we want it keep simple, I frequently need to create a runtime list from the database. But the "t

Typesetting Fields

Until we get scrolling working in a datagrid, (on mobile) and also we want it keep simple, I frequently need to create a runtime list from the database. But the "typesetting tools" in Livecode depend on a field being present. e.g. -- set the textAlign of line 1 of field "myField" to right ---

8.1.10 rc1 -- Upgrade MissIng Splash Screen

Oh joy… back at it went Apple's requirements! Upgraded 8.1.10. rc 1 Mac OS X 10.13.3 xCode 9.3 Now, in a standalone, it can't find the icon, even though I checked all the standalone builder app logos and they are all filled. But the phone, iOS, I get a generic app icon, not my app logo. Is a

Re: Get only Pathname of a dragdropped Object

Richard, here is what I use. On the UI I have addition button 1) get files only 2) Go to web page (working a mirror of there we site locally_) This script in a field. on dragEnter set the acceptDrop to true end dragEnter on dragDrop put dragData["files"] into me getList end dragD

Re: Title Case

Mike/Andy that works; not sure how the eye-candy will to take to This Is A Title This is an obscure UI case in which I can't get metadata from the data base, for a given audio that has been downloaded. So these "titles" come file names in the "My Audio" the-guru-chronicles-audiobook_10-Chap

Title Case

What to the simplest way to "sentence case" a create a sentence title in use toUpper to convert to A Create A Sentence Title… BR ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage yo

Re: Has Anyone Got A Directory "Walker" Available

Never mind… I found this in a toolbox. Sent by some ago, by a LiveCode deva For what it's worth : # Filters the strings "." and ".." from a list function filterDots pList local tList put pList into tList filter tList without "." filter tList without ".." return tList end

Has Anyone Got A Directory "Walker" Available

I have directory available this days of Ken Ray, in the on system of set the default folder and get the the files, registered that path. descend recursively to the level… etc. Do anyone has a new one handy they could share using the folder and file function? BR __

Re: Player Controls in Mobile

ly if the player runs out of data - "playing": playback is current underway. - "paused": playback is paused and resumes from the point it was paused. - "interrupted": playback is temporarily interrupted, perhaps because the buffer ran out of conten

Player Controls in Mobile

I am using a default player in mobile. Works fine in iOS. But in Android is look pretty retrograde. In particular, it opens with a 150 px high (or something like that) object with the player control at the bottom. So, I am trying to sort out mobileControlDo, to create have a native player and

On Boot - Run Time Tool vs Pointer Tool

When we boot LC, I typically need to navigate, but the tool end up Pointer tool. I am the only one who needs to change this ever time he boots? Can/Should be a global preference? BR ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please v

Re: Getting Orientation Enforced on Phone

BR: just completed test. I tried "go letting" to stack mobileSetAllowedOrientations "portrait,portrait upside down,landscape left,landscape right" just before closing in and opening the next stack. No go an Android. Next I wondered by the portrait turn up portrait in iOS? Well I look

Re: Getting Orientation Enforced on Phone

Monte: "there is a God in LC Universe!" 9.0.1 I can live with that.. hopefully sooner than later. If you don’t there soon I will be forced to a horrible notice "Please turn phone" and end of change of stacks. Like Ralph said "using wait is madness" (but using wait is for a different pur

Re: Mobile Native Essentials Widget Pack

It not the money, certainly worth it… but it’s that for every widget I have to create a if isMobile() then # use the widget else # development is being on desktop. # then what? End if Maybe I am missing something? Even if developing from mobile on desktop … we need a reasonable re

Getting Orientation Enforced on Phone

# using this method to change stack go cardOrStackObject # e.g go "gems" (or this string) go card 3 of "gems" wait 100 milliseconds with messages close stack oStackName wait 100 milliseconds with messages # don't try to go in same window method ( we used "set the fullscreenmode of this s

Re: 9.0 Crashes Constantluy

I confirmed it this morning, edit script, apply, save, close the stack, I been building Android, so much faster than iOS. Run standlone from the Test menu. then, magically, tragically, the debugger opens showing my old script there! quit LC, reboot, and you script is there… Even quitting LC

9.0 Crashes Constantluy

9.0 gm is the most unstable version in a long time Constantly crash on exit. I set break point, set to debug mode, run script… it does not break that break point… run it again, crash. Scripts are setting, applied "green button" close, saved. Re-opened "what happened to my changes?" Anyone else

Re: RevMail - Status in 9,0

ditto that… I only use it an mobile BR Andrew: I'll probably look at switching my code over from revMail to mobileComposeMail as Brian Milby recommended since I'm only using this in an iOS/Android app. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-l

Re: Android Can't Find Path to Web folder

This worked both iOS/Android There was no need to copy from when web tree to documents folder. The keys were: 1) no "file://" 2) on desktop the "resources" is the one with "lexicon.livecode" which is relative the "/web" in the same directory. But it still requires slash… in web environment sl

Android Can't Find Path to Web folder

I give up! What is the magic that gets the browser widget on Android to see a local html file (it always works in iOS) given the following directory layout myApp.livecode # the standalone is built from this /module lexicon.livecode # with nothing but a browser widget which poi

Re: Project Browser Goes Blank - How To Refresh

Navigator..I have it… 5.5 alpha 1? Is that the latest? PB: It happened midst of "group whacking" But more often I close stack -- its blank after that. I shall try for recipe… Mike Kerner You could also use Navigator a) System b) What are you doing when it goes blank? I've had

RevMail - Status in 9,0

This was working in Standalones for iOS and Android in all versions < 8.* on sendFeedBack revMail "sivas...@hindu.org",,"SivaSiva App Feedback",\ ("Bug reports: " & cr & cr & "Describe what you did: " & cr &cr & "What happened: " & cr &cr & "What you expected to happen: " & cr &cr &cr & "Feature

Project Browser Goes Blank - How To Refresh

9.0 gm Project browser always goes "blank" it there keystroke to refresh it? Sometime it requires a reboot… will not refresh, even from the menu. revApplicationOverview , OTHO, always works… so I switch to that until I have to reboot… BR ___ use-l

Re: Browser Widget Document Download

When I set the widget to the url the PDF displays. When I put the url into a var "put url (tURL) into MyVar" I see some html/javascript in MyVar but no PDF. What I would like to do is download the PDF on both mobile platforms. Is this even possible with LC? BR: can you send the URL? Typically, (

Livecode Json Arrays Key Sort

put JSONToArray(tJson) into sColArrayA It is my imagination: Or are the keys of {object set} output as hash order (as per dictionary, required sort them first) simply delimited by { 1 3 5 6 7 2 4 } but keys of an array output as numeric [{ 1 2 3 4 ]] get always

Re: Qustion abut "the stackfiles"

You the splash get "messed-up" from occasional resave. Don't tell me how, but occasionally the path (which should be relative) becomes absolute lib_calendar libraries/lib_calendar.livecodescript #which it should be becomes lib_calendary /users/brahma/documents/myapp/libraries/lib_calen

Re: Smooth transition between stacks

hide splash stack after opening one time. BR If the splash stack will become the standalone then you can't delete it, since it will contain the LC engine and any scripts that need to run. If you could delete it, the app would quit without warning. __

Re: mouseDown and mouseUp; Being Called Outside the Group

right, the backgroundBehavior it set to "true" Isn't the bug? On 3/16/18, 9:28 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin via use-livecode" wrote: Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > I think this a regression in 8.1.9 > > A behavior, assigned to group, has mouseDown and mous

9.0RC1 Scrolling on Sub-Groups

Look like an exciting release. Scrolling is everything on mobile apps. I am having to hire out develop on HTML5 for this one reason. Hopefully we can integrate with the browser widget. But I don't do HTML5 …I see those in release notes DataGrid 2: Edit Mode and Swipe Actions Create mobile

Installed 9.0 RC1 - Backdrop on by faulf

I read the threadson installing 9.0.RC1 and went ahead and removed old perferences before booting him up. My whole monitor was gray. thinking in was a bug, rebooted Livecode. Same thing, hmm …stopped to think about it, when to backdrop, it was on by default. BR _

mouseDown and mouseUp; Being Called Outside the Group

I think this a regression in 8.1.9 A behavior, assigned to group, has mouseDown and mouseUp handlers The behavior is getting mouseDown and mouseUp handlers, ever when called by a behavior another group that has "pass mouseDown" The two groups not intersecting BR

Re: Standalone Setting Become Corrupt

DUH, the stack file are in property inspector of the stack! I had a bad file listed in the json that we use to load additional stacks files, which prevented this file from loading in the standalone. == Stack files in the application: all dimmed…and they are not copied to standalon

Standalone Setting Become Corrupt

After working in other projects for a few days, with the LiveCode open to the background. 8.1.9 … in SA builder, the Stack File pane is completely dim Stack files in the application: all dimmed…and they are not copied to standalone is their a way out? I download a new version 8.1.9, but that d

Dictionary Entry For TouchMove

I have a group control (made up smaller groups) they I want users to scroll vertically. And the sub-groups, which want the user to scroller horizontally. My current thinking is to turn off scrollers until we get swipe direction, and turn them on, "mid-swipe" simply: how do you know if touchMove

Re: Issues with storage of data in stack

Mark Talluto wrote: If you are interested in seeing other APIs we have found useful, here is a running list. Look under the API dropdown for more ideas. http://canelasoftware.github.io/cassiaDB_docs/ http://canelasoftware.github.io/cassiaDB_docs/ Where does one download the LiveCloud Ma

Re: Bizarre Number Sort of Files Mac

Well the dictionary has this cryptic entry "If you don't specify a sortType, the sortType is text. numbers)" ?? I thought, wrongly so, sort alpha text, ascending, was the default sort line fld "imageIist" # would get you want But the solution was simple sort lines fld "imageList" ascend

Bizarre Number Sort of Files Mac

On Mac, on disk, you will finder files in order _categories.txt _date.txt _title.txt 01-11-04-09-09_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg 01-11-04-09-09_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt 02-02-10-02-03_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.jpg 02-02-10-02-03_2018-Noni-Building-Blessing.txt 03-06-01-10-10_2018-Noni

Horizontal and Portrait Scrolling on Mobile

I am about to embark a mission to solve a design problem in Livecode The model is Spotify. The channels or collections, a single screen with 1) Scrolling labels - not scrolling left with right, maintenance fixed position (left to right) but scrolling top to bottom. 2) "Collections" consisting s

Android Java Virtual Machines

I was using java jdk1.8.0_121.jdk Even though documentation says it should work (any above 1.6 should work) It an attempt of get to jdk1.8.0_152.jdk, I had installed Java 9, inadvertently. To make a long story short, I installed sdkman to manage my Java (very cool, http://sdkman.io/) Any ended

AcceleraterRendering - when to turn off/on

Having a heck a time with our new app on android One stack works fine. But we are going one stack to another, (not in iOS) is a problem. Seems to be subtle issues with one of the follow (although on the surface they seem to be same) 1) it is better to set the acceleratedRendering of this stac

Just Checking in my posts made it

Checking BR ___ 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

AcceleraterRendering - when to turn off

I have a heck a time with our new app on android One stack works fine. But we going one stack to another, (not in iOS) is a problem. Seems to be subtle issues with one the follow (although on the surface they seem to be same) 1) it is better to set the acceleratedRendering of this stack to fal

Re: Segmented Control Bugs?

Thanks, but for now I completely removed it and went back to the "old fashioned" way: three buttons in a group side by side…catch the target. Works like a charm for this use case, not quite as perfect native look and feel on devices, but still looks quite good. Side thoughts on native look and

Use of Serialize Behavior in Script Only Stack

Can some else elucidate this: " This patch adds a 'with behavior' clause to the header of a script only stack. # this is clear The clause is emitted if the stack has a behavior property which references a stack. # this unclear; "references [binary] a stack" When a script-only-stack with such a

Re: Artifacts on screen from closed stacks on Android

"use-livecode on behalf of Bob Sneidar via use-livecode" wrote: I hide background images and then set the background fill of the card to that image id. Not sure if that would help. Bob S >On Jan 28, 2018, at 19:06 , J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wro

Re: Artifacts on screen from closed stacks on Android

J. Landman Gay wrote: We really do need a "redraw card" command, but for now you can force a redraw by either hiding and then showing the offending object, or by resetting it. BR: But we are talking about entire stacks… and the offending object wants to disappear completely acros

Artifacts on screen from closed stacks on Android

We are getting reports (and screen shot and screen videos) from some Android users that show artifacts from a previously opened Stack A, when opening Stack B where Stack A is explicitly closed and has both destroyStack and destroyWindow set to true. In the absence of being able to reproduce th

Re: Feature proposal: mobileActualAllowedOrientations?

J. Landman Gay wrote: If the alternative is to only have a tiny misrepresentation of a landscape-only stack, do we want the behavior changed? How do other apps, like some games, handle this situation? What Ralph said: Android bug… I think the question then becomes "how do other ap

Re: Crazy script-only stack question

Jacque wrote: If you're just using red-dot breakpoints then it isn't as difficult to remove them, you can just use the "remove all breakpoints" menu item. I wonder if a case could be made for the IDE to also search and line in any script that = breakpoint and either comment or delete

Re: Crazy script-only stack question

Not barking up the wrong tree at all, with multi-stack apps very much in the wind…a subject of interest indeed. Agreed with Igor, (ala bug 10275_) not having and a RCS for the binary stacks themselves is a nuisance. But your 5 liner doesn't solve that either. But how does creating a stack and s

Re: Anyone else got two-monitor issues with LC9 on Mac?

Mark wrote: screenRects: the first is primary and the rest are relative to that. Any engine issue will likely be to do with those rects as that is the basis of its display coord to LiveCode coord mapping. with screenrects at 0,0,3440,1440 -1440,0,0,900 tops are aligned… and …hmmm… things

Drag And Drop Rows

I was examining the API for Datagrid2 in 9 dp 11 Swiping looks interesting, but I'm also looking for " drag-to-arrange" for mobile With similar "cool" UI animation behavior where if you drag a sub-mini-group, which comprises a row of a large vertically or horizontal scrolling parent group, th

Re: Anyone else got two-monitor issues with LC9 on Mac?

BR: I'm late to this party, but FWIW Graham wrote: Does anyone else see this or know of any report? BR: yes, all the time, no recipe but it's so bad I don't *ever* put any liveCode stack on my MacBook Pro monitor -- which is designated as the secondary monitor when hooked up to the 31" curved

Re: Creating .ipa now that iTunes has depreciated apps.

Or (shameless promotion) If you have a select group of registered iOS devices in your profile and you don't want to deal with iTunes connect at all for beta testing pay Jacque the reasonable fee for her AirLaunch "be done with it" http://www.hyperactivesw.com/airlaunch/index.html Then enjo

OT: Why I Probably Will Never, Ever Learn HTML%

Maybe it is just age… or whatever. But every time I get the idea of "maybe I might see if I will do something in HTML5" I go to a page like this, I start to get a headache and walk away. https://reactjs.org/docs/integrating-with-other-libraries.html BR _

Re: Local Image Paths in HTML for Browser Widget Fails

Nope… no way. On mobile, there are major issues with certain mobile controls. e.g. scrolling group becomes a mobile scroller on a phone… this "lies on top of everything" and I believe the browser is also generating a mobile control instance as well. I don't understand it 100% (not even 10%) but

Notifying users of Web Delays in Browser Widget

Where 1) we cannot use TSNet to "listen" to the socket being used by the Browser widget 2) We cannot overlay a browser with any kind of control/dialog on mobile (or desktop) 3) the browser widget takes the whole card screen on mobile phone, except bottom nav bar which is native LC control 50p

Re: Local Image Paths in HTML for Browser Widget Fails

@ Mike… thanks… duh! (as he slaps himself on the side of the head) I was mixing up the props the htmltext # with the url this is all static content so all that was needed was, assets /info web-loading.html and then this command setWebURL put path_Assets() & "info/web-l

Local Image Paths in HTML for Browser Widget Fails

I'm trying to send some local html to the browser widget to display a local loading GIF until the page "comes down" from the cloud. This needs to work on mobile too. the directory structure main app folder /assets /img /global-icons ajax_loader_big.gif" /i

Re: Two new videos about using Navigator with LiveCode

Geoff wow this is the tool I've been waiting for! I just fixed a series of fields on 8 cards that carried that old single blank line script that used to be saved in by default… using Navigator it was so easy. FYI" the script handler's for a long script on ly stack are being filtered to show on

Re: Go in Window (not working) Go in A window "working"

FWIW: Seems my error was (not in dict) that I should have been doing put the ID of the topstack into tWindowID go to cardOrStackObject in window id tWindowID Well I've been tinkering testing this for two days… made the mistake of making too many changes, then threw out that branch… went ba

Re: Go in Window (not working) Go in A window "working"

tack oStackName wait 100 milliseconds with messages --go to cardOrStackObject in window tWindowID # where we open the other, new stack first and *then* close the old one. On 1/2/18, 10:31 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mark Waddingham via use-livecode" wrote: On 2018-01-03 05:

Re: Go in Window (not working) Go in A window "working"

Hmmm how simple. go stack in window tID needs to be added to the dictionary… as an example… I did read the entry text description of the Window param, but missed it, still.. lets see if this helps on Android. BR ___ use-livecode mailing

Go in Window (not working) Go in A window "working"

Mark recommends using "go in window" on Mobile, saying this closes stack A while going to open stack B This works on desktop put ("stack " & quote & gems & quote) into tDestination go tDestination # but stack A remains open. but this fails in a backscript put ("stack " & quote & gems & quote)

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

Mark: Wow, yes, it does help! I hope you had a great Christimas and are refreshed ready to face all of us again (smile) Your entire email should be posted to some knowledge base somewhere! As for speed optimization: - Alternate images I will make 1 X images right away for my home "portal"

Re: LC Server - MySQL - update about 2000 rows/records of a table

Ditto what Mike said: " On mysql.. can't you prebuild your multi-command transaction in a variable" I periodically do this kind of thing. assuming the transaction is exactly the same… one way is to build a single SQL query from your data. Assume you need something like this, getting and SQL q

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

Reading this in depth. yes, reallocation of bit map space is beyond the developer's realm… I spotted this too… RGB 565… Anyone using this and getting smaller files sizes ver current jpgs? I'm not seeing this as an option in Photoshop on Mac. How we reduced our Android app’s memory

Re: Dissolve/Transitions Very Costly

So: if the effectRate defaults to 2000 (which is what I'm seeing here on desktop) and you have -- Show image "grand-canyon" with visual effect dissolve very fast --- # theoretically 1/5 of 2000 = 400 milliseconds why is the script profiler saying this line takes 4765 milliseconds top exec

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

This looks very useful . I think we need to wait until HQ weighs in on my bug report. Regardless of the fact that it works on iOS and Oreo, one has to wonder how on earth we can close a stack which is set to destroy on close, turn acceleratedRendering to false (assume previously cached control

Dissolve/Transitions Very Costly

Appropo optimization thread, I'll dig in on specific issues The script profiler is showing this for a script that runs super fast until: 1433 868 show image "gems-image" with visual effect dissolve very fast So this was pertty long but I suppose reasonable enough… then, I ran it again

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