Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

2017-08-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Well thanks to all of you urging me to stay away from re-processing the array but going back to the dbase. I Looked back at my code and realized that I *had* set it up to be re-usable, I just forgot how well I had done that I have this function in the behavior_Listen which is attached to the

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

2017-08-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Alex, thanks, this is very helpful 1) put x into aFilteredPlayListIndex[z] (there's no need to replicate all the data when the array will continue to exist, just keep the indices you want). awesome… I think I could increment the z from 1 up and then my clickline number will still work. 2)

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

2017-08-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: >2) "create an in-memory SQLite Database." > > this is news! Where do we find docs on this? right now the SQLite data base is in > > specialFolderPath("documents")/jnanam.sqlite &

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

2017-08-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
did you see the pitch for business upgrade? scroll down.. there some new thing that give you time on processes On 8/23/17, 9:28 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin via use-livecode" wrote: > I

Native Mobile Radio Buttons - Focus on Entry Field on Mobile

2017-08-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
OK I successfully built a little custom Control which is a searchform that dynamically changes out some options depending on the class of audio being viewed by the user.. Pretty straight forward, a search fields, some radio buttons for what to search in and then two other sets of radio

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

2017-08-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Bob, Mike, thanks…"use the dbase" good thought The reason we use the array is once we load that into a local than I use the click line number of the song list (titles in a simple list field) to get the data for that particular song. click on line 9 get use everything we need from

Search Values of Array in "One Go"

2017-08-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We use these arrays with media metadata that is extracted from our database of media metadata. The dbase was originally designed for lots of columns so that "there is nothing we cannot know about a media item" incorporating DCIM columns and also W3C media metadata initiative's recommended

Re: Parent of Target

2017-08-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
OH! "This sends the message down the normal message path starting at the object containing the script. " And here I've been thinking that a target was required for specificity, because of this in the dictionary: "If no target is specified, the message is sent to ' me '. In the

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

2017-08-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Mark Waddingham Awesome! thanks, I will test this later… Yes, my solution, at the urging of our Cohorts of the Round Table LiveCode Data Diggers, who earlier said "Don't go looking for your needles in arrays." ( I just reformulated the SQL quaryand passed it back "up" to the stack script

Filtering, Search and Fields on Mobile

2017-08-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
In our new app I just exposed *all* the audio on our web site in different playlists. you can now download and play off line. beta users begged me… done! YAY! Some some playlist (posted to a mobile scrolling field) are 900 lines long and you can't find anything BOO! Later I will implement

Re: Parent of Target

2017-08-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Back at it here with attempst to make "generic" behaviors as text only stacks that can serve as slaves "all over the place" So this is all about the calling context/target. I wonder If I am working too hard here, may be useful to have the calling context ready for a dispatch, to parse the

Re: TSNet error 6

2017-09-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Ralph I'm just about to implement this in our new app. I was only checking on init and some other navigation points in the app, but it's clear now we have to check *everytime* we call the server. because, as you say, use can walk from his desk (wifi) to outside (drop to bad 3G) and then out

Re: Segmented Control Bugs?

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

Re: [ANN] Release 8.2.0 DP-2

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

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

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

iOS 11.0.3 No Sound? Mobile player broken?

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

OT: The future of Digital Dev/Design/Prototyping

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

Testing Bandwidth with new TSNet Functions

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

IDE breaks down over time

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

Re: IDE breaks down over time

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

Re: Versions of LC and Xcode

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

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

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

Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

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

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.9 RC-1

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

Re: Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

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

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

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

Re: Versions of LC and Xcode

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

Timer on Auto complete

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

Re: Script Editor problem

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

Stop the Spinner Widget

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

Tab alignment in fields

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

Image Offset in Frame

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

Re: Image Offset in Frame

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

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

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

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

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

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

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

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

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

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

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

Re: read larger data streams over sockets - broken?

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

Re: Map Widget Futures

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

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

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

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

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

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

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

Re: Naive Player Questions

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

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

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

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

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

Re: Map Widget Futures

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

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

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

The Detailed and Long files

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

Re: Script Editor problem

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

Map Widget Futures

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

Re: Naive Player Questions

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

Re: Relative Paths in Property Inspector

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

Re: Radio button scaling

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

Re: Relative Paths in Property Inspector

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

Relative Paths in Property Inspector

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

Re: Relative Paths in Property Inspector

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

How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

2018-05-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2018-04-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

2018-05-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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,

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

2018-05-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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,

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

2018-05-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2018-05-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

2018-05-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2018-05-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
(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

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

2018-05-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Would Anyone Like a Ring Tone At End of Standalone Built?

2018-05-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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"

What Is Be Best Way to Stop Browser

2018-05-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2018-05-16 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

2018-05-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Material Design - any plans to allow more granularity in design?

2018-05-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2018-05-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2018-05-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
" 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

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

2018-05-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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,

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

2018-05-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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,

Anything LiveCode Can Learn From GO

2018-06-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
https://medium.com/exploring-code/why-should-you-learn-go-f607681fad65 BR ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Android won't quit

2018-06-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Well, thanks Ralph snaky explanation, I am gonna opt out. Call it a feature "will not implement" and tell beta testers "This goes against Android OS. If want quit the app, use the Android "Force Quit" Even on iOS they have double click home and swipe up Jacque said: "I want to wipe the

Re: Anything LiveCode Can Learn From GO

2018-06-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I wasn't thinking about high language per se. but more from an engine point of view, specifically use of "Goroutines" "But, most of the modern programming languages(like Java, Python etc.) are from the ’90s single threaded environment. Most of those programming languages supports

Re: Best practise approach for artwork for iOS and Android?

2018-06-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Other replied on resolution. I'll reply as to content. You may not have the option, but there is a "safe zone" for landscape and portrait. We recently hire an artist to do a kid's story. She was asked to put "sky" the top and "grass" and the bottom and significant elements in "safe zone"

Re: Android won't quit

2018-06-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Argh. I thought I solved in this in my app. But LO... it appears to quit... but is actually not quitting... it leaves a "corrupt" stack on the phone (android) and when you try to restart it, it opens to splash screen stack, but no messages are firing. It is "stuck" ; does not appear to user

Re: 8.1.10 Reporting the ScreenSize of a iPhone7: 0,0,375,667

2018-06-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
18, 2018 at 4:25 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: I have a 750 X 1134 in the iPhone 6 "slot" But LC 8.1.10 still be reports that the screenrect is 0,0,375,667 " Correct... the 6/7/8 are all the same size, the

Re: Multiple Monitors ; However, LC IDE want a 0,0,X X working rect.

2018-06-16 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
un 15, 2018, at 12:22 , Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: > > There on old LED Cinema display that was not worth seeing (slightly dimmed) and I tried hooked it up my may book program on with the 32inch LG curved display, this giving three monitors. > The effe

Re: 8.1.10 Reporting the ScreenSize of a iPhone7: 0,0,375,667

2018-06-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
't get included when the post was written). I have not looked at this code in a while though. Thanks, Brian On Sun, Jun 17, 2018 at 10:03 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: > [my early post in pending due to length. I put the stack scr

Re: Listfield Questions

2018-06-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
More ideas/solution. ON arrowkey send postImage to me in 0 seconds pass arrowkey END arrowkey ON postImage put the hilitedline of fld "FileList" into gLastLine put the hilitedtext of fld "FileList"into fld "currentImage" showPhoto (the hilitedtext of fld "FileList") END postImage

Re: 8.1.10 Reporting the ScreenSize of a iPhone7: 0,0,375,667

2018-06-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I have a 750 X 1134 in the iPhone 6 "slot" But LC 8.1.10 still be reports that the screenrect is 0,0,375,667 " Correct... the 6/7/8 are all the same size, the plus sizes are also the same. X is also available as a size." Hmmm

Re: 8.1.10 Reporting the ScreenSize of a iPhone7: 0,0,375,667

2018-06-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Right, we know that, or so I thought... but Panos said, "mysteriously" "If your device is iPhone7 Plus, then you have to put the appropriate splash screens in the "iPhone 6 Plus Portrait" and "iPhone 6 Plus Lscape" slots in the standalone iOS settings." I deem this a bug, continue to comment

Re: Best practise approach for artwork for iOS and Android?

2018-06-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
This work for a few images, but let's say that your app has 100's images. Your package / SA has limits. I found it easy to settle on a routine. Images 400 X 400 or less I produce at 800 X 800 and run them the TinyJPG and get optimized. So the 2X size work well, in fact in "mandatory" on small

Multiple Monitors ; However, LC IDE want a 0,0,X X working rect.

2018-06-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
There on old LED Cinema display that was not worth seeing (slightly dimmed) and I tried hooked it up my may book program on with the 32inch LG curved display, this giving three monitors. The effective working screenrect(s) are as follows 0,455,3440,1872 # Display 1 the LG

8.1.1 Reporting the ScreenSize of a iPhone7: 0,0,375,667

2018-06-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
[my early post in pending due to length. I put the stack script in it. Better to give the stack} Hmm. Trying to a little responsive design (works on any device/mobile screen size) 1) Make a very stack with a widget "body" as browser that fill the whole screen but for 50 at the bottom 2) Fill

Strange error from iOS Standalone Builder

2018-05-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

How To Become Android Developer

2018-05-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: button action different on Android

2018-05-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Will the Same Preferences Work Behind 8.1.10 VS. 9.0

2018-05-31 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Setting aside the xcode-select you have to do in the terminal to go on 9.2 and 9.3 and back again. Will the LC preferences remain uncorrupted going from on to the other? I need features in 8.1.10 but also need to debug on the phone itself (with 9) How soon is 9.1 * coming? BR

Re: Text with accented characters

2018-06-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
This would be typical of importing Mac/Win Type 1 fonts or ANSI only True Type. The range ANSI characters (128-255) varies depending on the platform which it was input from; add to the caveat introduce by the "native" program (Quark, InDesign, Pages, MSWord, Outlook, PDF). In theory Livecode

Re: How To Become Android Developer

2018-06-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
FOR WHAT ITS WORTH: It turns out I was working too hard. The folder "android-sdk-macosx" which is assembled online by the "tools." I could not get it work. But I had jdk1.8.0_172.jdk. installed So: 1) turns out that folder "android-sdk-macosx" in completely independent of the system. BUT

Siva Siva App in iOS version 1.2 in now out

2018-06-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
It been many moons. I finally got a new version SivaSiva out the door to iOS. I want to especially thank an unsung hero that is busy in Edinburgh helping with support requests for business. Elanor Buchanan! Yay! She responsible is for the new "Listen" touch code for the new audio screen. With

Re: button action different on Android

2018-05-31 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Mastering TS Net

2018-07-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
downloading to a file regardless of the protocol being used. If you can’t quite find an example lesson that answers what you need, let me know and I will get one organised. Regards, Charles > On 2 Jul 2018, at 1:19 am, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-li

Remote URL Not Available

2018-06-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Our app has contains content "in the package" and content streamed from "the cloud" It’s a bit new to me dealing with TsNet, latency issues, timeout, and to give the user feedback on status… it's a challenge…So 1 question at a time: How do you determine that a URL is not available *before*

Re: Remote URL Not Available

2018-06-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Bob.. For years if been keeping a ping.txt file on the server. It contains "true" which tell me the server is available. Interesting enough, apple does the almost the thing. That suffices for the server. I agree that there in no way " to check if a page is *going* to be available"

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