Re: Calling a livecode executable -ui from LC server and get back a result.

2017-05-05 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Mark, thanks a lot for taking the time to explain things here! Very valuable information! I will certainly give it a try. Just need to install Vis Studio :-) While you are here: would you think, that a call to cURL should work on Windows server? For the life of me I can not get it to, even for

Re: Calling a livecode executable -ui from LC server and get back a result.

2017-05-05 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Hi Roger, indeed, I have considdered that. But I have no experience on how this would behave. Actually what I was trying to do is reducing the involved components, instead of introducing more and more over the course of building the system. LC - Server came natural there, as it would have allow

Re: Calling a livecode executable -ui from LC server and get back a result.

2017-05-05 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Hi Charles, thanks a lot for the information. I am afraid I can not use it in this context, as this is for an Open Source project. For other things this might be an option. Cheers, Malte > Hi Malte, > > If you are able to use the commercial version of LC server, the tsNet > external is suppo

RE: Calling a livecode executable -ui from LC server and get back a result.

2017-05-05 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Thanks Dan, but that is not what I am after… I have a server side liveCode application, which needs to talk to a couple of webservices from time to time. While this works nicely on the desktop, it does not do so on Server, as Server lacks some libURL functionality. First workaround was to shell

Calling a livecode executable -ui from LC server and get back a result.

2017-05-04 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Hi all, has anybody successfully done this? Especially on Windows? I would like to launch a livecode built application from a liveCode server script and get the output back (on a Server that I control) Is that possible? If so, how? I tried a couple of things to no avail: " put the time put

LC Server on Win and CURL

2017-04-06 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Hi all, I wonder if somebody of you can enlighten me here. I am trying to use curl with liveCode Server. No Probs on a Mac, but Windows is behaving strange… set the shellCommand to "cmd“ — mail client might put in wrong quote mark put shell("c:/curl/bin/curl " & quote & "http://google.de“ & quo

Re: [Long] Moving a REST request from Desktop to Server

2017-03-08 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Hi Richard, no, I did not considder using a standalone as a CGI engine. I am in a rather difficult environment with the project (government servers that have ridiculous tests and approval times for changed solutions). On top of that, I would not want to lose the benefit of using liveCode PHP st

[Long] Moving a REST request from Desktop to Server

2017-03-07 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Hi all, I am trying to move a request I do from a desktop app to a liveCode server script and am facing the problem that some of the stuff I use (most of it libURL stuff) is not available on the server. Now I wonder how I could translate it… Scenario is the following: Problem is libURLLastRHHe

Re: Howto read-write-import-export SAP tables

2017-03-02 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Hi Thierry, it might be easier to send IDOCs to SAP, which could either be FIX Record files (if transfered by SAP ALE), or XML (if connector like PO is set up). Check Transaction WE60 to get an XSD. SAP might need a connector to accept the iDOCs (like for Example PO), but with all possible custo

Re: Dumb deployment question

2017-01-26 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Hey Trevor, https://github.com/trevordevore/levure this is looking like a potential winner. I would love to see how involved it is to move an existing application over to the framework. I have a rather big application that uses a couple of substacks which

Re: can't open file on web server

2017-01-26 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Hi Tiemo, did you try the URL directly without using the binfile keyword? put URL „http://www.somServer/someImage.jpg “ into img „myImage“ ? This works here. If you are using either the file or binfile keyword you are indicating file access to the engine, wh

Dumb deployment question

2017-01-25 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Folks, please forgive me. I have not yet deployed with one of the current engines. Las standalone was built using 7 (gnashing my teeth a little bit). Now, I would really like to make the first serious standalone using 8.x (final might be using 9.x). This is still a bit ahead, but I want to prepar

Re: What has changed in MacOS 10.12 in handling code pages?

2017-01-17 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
Hi Tiemo, I do not know what changed, but I see the same. Earliest version to fix this is 6.7.6 as far as I can tell. Cheers, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manag

I'm a stupid GIT

2017-01-07 Thread Malte Brill via use-livecode
I also am a stupid GIT. Way over my head. That said - can’t this be somehow automated so that one could download nightly builds? If it could I would be willing to throw in a couple of Euros to make that happen (to be honest, not before the end of April though and most likely not enough Euros to

Re: Any workaround to make a modal stack behave like we were used to?

2016-12-12 Thread Malte Brill
Ok, I have pinned this down. I created a new user and this did indeed not expose the problem. I then turned to my other user and disabled everything that is launched on startup. (Login items). Once I disabled Spotify in there it works as expected. What gives??? This is rather strange, but I blam

Re: Any workaround to make a modal stack behave like we were used to?

2016-12-11 Thread Malte Brill
This is very strange. I am on X.10.5 Could that be a system setting? I seriously doubt so… Downloading Sierra now to see if that would be different. www.derbrill.de/modal.mov ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livec

Any workaround to make a modal stack behave like we were used to?

2016-12-11 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, see: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14275 To demonstrate what I mean: one stack, two buttons. Button 1 on mouseUp answer "I should be modal, no?“ end mouseUp button 2 on mouseUp put the seconds end mouseUp Click button 1 first and while the answer dialogue is open

Which widgets would YOU want to build? [WAS] Type on an angle

2016-11-20 Thread Malte Brill
I do not want to capture the rotation thread… I went into more details on what is keeping me back from going through the headaches of learning builder at the moment in my previous mail. I think it would be a good idea to desribe what I would be wanting to build (well actually I want to use it,

Re: Type on an angle

2016-11-20 Thread Malte Brill
Sorry for hijacking the thread... TL/DR: Do we have Text input into widgets? How can we get our feet wet easier with that stuff? ——— Richard wrote: > I have maybe two apps across all my computing devices that let me edit > rotated text, but I have dozens that display text in a variety of > f

Re: Could not create movie reference

2016-10-08 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Tiemo, is the file system set to be case sensitive and the filename of the (a) movie in a different spelling (upper / lower case) then your player object refers to? Cheers, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vi

Re: Malte Brill stack

2016-09-21 Thread Malte Brill
in then revolution to code it… http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2005-June/060159.html Cheers, Malte > Hi All, > > Many years ago, Malte Brill posted > a stack (or script) that shows how > to use images within text fields to > simulate a game display board. >

Re: Licensing AGAIN [was: Sharing FontLab Plugin]

2016-07-24 Thread Malte Brill
I tried to follow this thread as closely as I can, however there are some things still not clear to me regarding TEXT ONLY scripts. This is in regards to the fora and this very list. If we are discussing scripts on here, how are we to judge if the person replying used a community version and thu

RE: LiveCode throwing compile errors for a stack which previously worked

2016-06-30 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Francis, check your preferences on the machine that misbehaves. Look if you have strict compile mode set there for the script editor settings. Cheers, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subs

Re: Ho to pay pledge

2016-05-25 Thread Malte Brill
My link worked. First I could not log in. Afterwards I was a little cheesed off that the only option to pay was by credit card. Oh well… Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe a

RE: Downloading thirdparty products

2016-05-18 Thread Malte Brill
Hi, please remember that you always can find the most current version on github: https://github.com/derbrill/animationEngine All the best, Malte > I see my > subscription of AnimationEngine (version 6) but I can not download it. > ___ use-livecod

Re: Should before [handler name] trigger when using send?

2016-03-30 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Ali, > Yes, I think it should work. Is the error saying that the actual `on > resizeControl` handler is not found? that indeed was the case. But only in the standalone (using the 7.1.3 engine) @all: thanks for your replies. I am puzzled by Bernds observations though. Need to test with 8 DP16

Re: HTML5 "Features" Library Substacks and "send ### in time"

2016-02-07 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Brahmanathaswami, I did not have the time to test DP 14 yet, but in DP9 animationEngine worked pretty good (in Firefox). All I had to do was make animationengine a substack of my mainstack. As it relies heaviely on send in time, I can confirm that that used to be working fine at least in DP

Server: post gzipped message and response (loooong post, sorry)

2016-01-18 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, I am struggeling with something that used to work with the 5.x Server engine (on Mac but I need it X-Plat) I am trying to POST compressed XML to Server and reply with compressed XML from there. With the 7.x engines of server this breaks: " into sReply put crlf & "DATA" after sReply

$332 to go on Feature Exchange

2015-12-10 Thread Malte Brill
Just pushed it over the line. :-) ___ 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: Invalid host address

2015-12-06 Thread Malte Brill
Hey Dan, just a quick headup that I see the same thing (Win 7 and 10 though). As soon as a user is logged in as a domain user, local servernames can not be resolved. Connecting to the IP works though. I mentioned this in an earlier thread: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode//2015-N

Re: WMVCore.dll?

2015-12-02 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Mark, > We will probably have to try and weak-link that particular dependency. > Could you file a bug report, and we'll look into it. > Done. #16531 Cheers, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this ur

WMVCore.dll?

2015-12-02 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, I got a strange report from a customer that a LiveCode application can not start due to a missing WMVCore.dll Quick google search brought up that other applications may have the same issue if a Media Pack is not installed. However my app does not even use a player, so 1) why the depend

Re: intersection point of two graphic line segments

2015-11-11 Thread Malte Brill
Hi David, http://www.derbrill.de/animationEngine6.zip ae is dual licensed (GPL3 / commercial) Stack is unlocked and the zip Contains a PDF + some examples. What you will be interested in: lineSegmentIntersectionPoint(x1,y1,x2,y2,x3,y3,x4,y4) get l

Re: A different take on directorywalking

2015-11-11 Thread Malte Brill
f the articles. > > -= Mike > > > > On Nov 11, 2015, 7:54 AM, at 7:54 AM, Malte Brill < > revolution at derbrill.de > > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > as the livecode solutions tend to become rather slow if there is a > > > >

Re: Standalone Internet Access Errors

2015-11-11 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Dan, is this with the 7 engine? If the app launches ok, it can not be blocked in general. However, I have seen similar problems on windows but did not nail it yet. My problems were on the intranet though. The weird thing is, that using the IP address instead of the server name usually resolv

Re: intersection point of two graphic line segments

2015-11-11 Thread Malte Brill
Hi David, > Has anybody dealt with this before I have methods to deal with this in animationEngine. :-) Cheers, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscrip

A different take on directorywalking

2015-11-11 Thread Malte Brill
ap] This returns for example: C:\Users\Malte Brill\Documents\archaeodox\2013-480\dokumentationsschritte\10\2013-480_ds_10_1.JPG C:\Users\Malte Brill\Documents\archaeodox\2013-480\dokumentationsschritte\10\2013-480_ds_10_2.JPG C:\Users\Malte Brill\Documents\archaeodox\2013-480\dokumentationssc

Re: Release 8.0.0 DP 8

2015-11-04 Thread Malte Brill
> At the moment, there are no plans for a backport. It's probably not a good > idea anyway -- adding new features to a "stable" release series is a frequent > cause of regressions and unhappy users. Is it still an external? If so, we could try at our own risk if it would work with 7. As 8 is st

Re: [ANN] animationengine 6

2015-10-13 Thread Malte Brill
@Matthias: I have discussed this internally and we will be sending out upgrade vouchers to all existing customers granting 20% off the purchase. So if any of the existing users does not receive the voucher within the next 48 hours, please feel free to contact me directly. All the best, Malte

[ANN] animationengine 6

2015-10-12 Thread Malte Brill
Alejandro was so kind to compress the contained PDF so it came down from 25 MB to a couple of KB. Thanks Al! I updated the download. @Scott: Thanks for the kind words! @Matthias: ae 6.0 was rather involved in development and as much as I am supportive of the dual licensing thing it rather cann

[ANN] animationengine 6

2015-10-12 Thread Malte Brill
Hi List, please excuse this rather lengthy mail, but I am quite excited... I almost had let this slip, but I just couldn’t. animationEngine turned 10 years old this months! If there is a good time to do an update, then I guess the tenth birthday is an opportunity I can not miss. So without furt

IPV6...

2015-09-29 Thread Malte Brill
Well, I just stumbled upon this: https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=08282015a this might get serious even earlier than I thought… All the best, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.

Re: Was anyone able to successfully make the payment for the plegdge?

2015-09-28 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Matthias, PAYPAL was a bit slow, but my payment went through… Cheers, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.co

Re: Feature Exchange Process

2015-09-28 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Dave, well, my involvement here is nowhere near to what Todd does. :-) And rather selfish too, because I really need that feature. I really hope having at least one of the features funded encourages the people over in Edinburgh to keep this idea alive, because I really think it is the right

Feature Exchange Process

2015-09-28 Thread Malte Brill
Hey folks, not to be bragging or something. But I just decided to cough up the last pennies missing for the postGreSQL feature. I really need that and I want this campaign to fund something. I can not do the same Todd does with Mac 64Bit, but I hope this helps a little. Maybe this inspires some

Re: Release 8.0 DP 5

2015-09-26 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Ali, > One reason the IDE might take slightly longer to start up in 8 because > widget docs are dynamically added to the dictionary. I am not sure if with an added 21 to 30 seconds we can talk about „slightly“… Especially if also Standalones are affected. If you are talking about the added

Re: Release 8.0 DP 5

2015-09-25 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Ralph, > FYI: > IDE Load times Desktop Win XP SP3: > LC 6.7.7==> 9 seconds > LC 7.1 ==> 35 seconds > LC 8.0 dp 5 ==> 40 seconds do you see the same for standalones on Win? Maybe this bug is related: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15876

Re: Localizing the Menubar on OsX (Help menu)

2015-09-20 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Richmond, thanks for the reply. I am running on a german language install of Os X. :-) What is so puzzling is that the button in the menubar only does its magic when its LABEL is Help, which IMHO makes no sense at all. It would make more sense, if the German.lproj folder contained in the sta

Localizing the Menubar on OsX (Help menu)

2015-09-20 Thread Malte Brill
Hi friends. I am seriously puzzled. I got a menubar with a Help button. To localize this and make it appear as „Hilfe“ on german systems I am setting the label of that button. What now puzzles me is that the menu behaves differently according to the label of that button (not the name, which I co

Re: Quick Challenge

2015-08-27 Thread Malte Brill
Hi David, off the top of my head: function text_is_Caps pText set the caseSensitive to true return pText = toUpper(pText) end text_is_Caps Cheers, Malte -- derbrill IT-service Malte Pfaff-Brill Alsenstr. 15, d-24768 Rendsburg Tel: +49 4331-337 640 0 eMail: i...@derbrill.de web: http://ww

Re: Script Editor future (was Re: Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

2015-08-21 Thread Malte Brill
Ali Lloyd wrote: > I don't think that the current script editor should be neglected I think that depends on when 7 will be EOLed. If you plan to have 8 stable by the end of the year and you plan to have a new Script editor there, wasting resources might be indeed a waste. Mike Kerner wrote: >

Re: Business Application Framework

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Brill
> The git IDE integration on the other hand could be a plugin (paid or open > source) or part of the IDE that comes out of the box. It’s where the magic > happens. Stuff like the toolTip on the script line numbers showing the author > and commit message. So I’d rather focus on that stuff. Monte

IPV6 SUPPORT

2015-08-14 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all. I have customers that need to support IPV6 connections. Currently it seems not to be possible to connect to an IPV6 IP via livecode. Anyone else running into the problem? If so, what is the remedy? All the best, Malte ___ use-livecode mai

Re: [YO EDINBURGH!] Microsoft Open-Sources It's Toolkit For Making iOS Apps Run On Win 10

2015-08-10 Thread Malte Brill
> I think the majority of you have iOS devices > because it is what you LIKE, not because it represents what the majority or > even half of the population HAVE. While I agree that feature (and syntax) parity is not (yet) achieved in liveCode (And why on earth do the mobile commands STILL throw er

Re: Active Directory...

2015-08-04 Thread Malte Brill
Thanks Matthias! I would have liked not to have to use Poewrshell (and modules I need to install for it) @Trevor: This looks really good! I will have to try that as soon as I have set up my own Windows server. (Will try before at the customers place though) All the best and thanks a lot! Malte

Active Directory...

2015-08-01 Thread Malte Brill
Hi folks, I need some help (again). Has anybody of you written something to read the active directory info under Win? I would need info on the user(s) and which groups they are in. Request is to have a log in system based on active directory entries. I am totally newbie when it comes to AD, so

Re: OT-ish: Dreamhost and LiveCode?

2015-07-31 Thread Malte Brill
If this is governed via .httaccess it might be a bit tricky, as for one project you might not need font support, but for others you might need it. Would be better to be able to decide this at startup of the script IMHo. Not automatic searching, but maybe setting a property in the startup handler

anyone else having trouble to get to livecode.com?

2015-07-23 Thread Malte Brill
Hi, when I try to access livecode.com I am getting a „too many redirects“ error. Is it just me or is it a general problem? Best, malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscr

Re: Proxies driving me crazy...

2015-07-14 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Mike, thanks for your reply. I tried leaving it alone first. Then the engine picks up the proxy from somewhere but it does not pick up the exceptions it seems, at least not from the registry entry I looked at. Maybe I am looking at the wrong thing. It would be helpful if it were documented

Proxies driving me crazy...

2015-07-14 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, I just came back from a client where an app of mine is forced to either communicate through a proxy, or not, depending on the URL that is being provided. While this used to work in previous versions of the engine under windows, it no longer does: — quotes are taken over by email clien

liveCode and speech to text on mobile devices

2015-06-13 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, I am currently pondering with an idea and would like some input. Has anybody of you used a livecode created app to dictate text into a field on a mobile device? If so, how straightforward was it? Any device / OS recommendations? Thanks in advance, Malte __

Re: Drag and Drop Linux, 7.0.5 64 Bit

2015-06-09 Thread Malte Brill
Now entered in quality: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15482 Cheers, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and ma

Re: Drag and Drop Linux, 7.0.5 64 Bit

2015-06-08 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Richard, > What issues are you seeing? Not finished analyzing yet, but many. No Indicator shown on dragStart DragDrop doesn’t dragMove not sent to group owning the target / not handable in group containing the target dragEnter not handled properly All in all either seriously broken, or some

Drag and Drop Linux, 7.0.5 64 Bit

2015-06-08 Thread Malte Brill
Hi, did anyone of you get Drag and Drop to work in the 7.0.5 64-Bit Linux engine under Ubuntu 14.0.4 (LTS)? If so I would be very interested in learning how. Thanks a lot, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vi

Re: Unused Methods

2015-06-06 Thread Malte Brill
Richard wrote: > > I haven't seen a language with a built-in function for finding orphaned > handlers across a code base I always get jealous when I see the Java collegues work with eclipse… Best, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@list

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Malte Brill
> And thankfully, warts and all, none of the issues with LiveCode are > preventing Trevor, myself, and many others from shipping products made > with it. Out of interest, how many of those have you moved to use the 7 engine? I have no interest in lamenting here. I do admire the job that has been

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Malte Brill
Hey Tiemo, what does the xSortListe function do? What is rather funny that my real life problem childs are also revolving around a live search feature. It might well be that your speed issues (as mine) are related to the sorting part (if you do a sort). My approach is a little diffrent than you

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-29 Thread Malte Brill
I set up a couple of benchmark stacks a while back: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=22072 Bad thing was that the team wanted to see „real live scenarios“ (which most of my benchmark stacks are, just boiled down to the core

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-27 Thread Malte Brill
Mark wrote > You don't need a PC to run Windows or Linux - just Virtual Machines. While this is certainly true, if the users are anything like me they’ll tend to stay in the VMs host OS as much as possible and only leave the comfort zone to switch to a VM whenever it is necessary / unavoidable.

What is required nowadays to get through a Proxy

2015-05-26 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, I vaguely recall that there have been changes to libURL to handle Proxys. I also remember me fighting with those on Windows. As I now need to roll out an update to an app. I would like to know what is required to get through a Proxy on the different Desktop OSes. (knowing for mobile wou

Re: Accursed backdrop

2015-05-26 Thread Malte Brill
I guess this is related to bug #13935 Best, Malte ___ 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-livec

[ANN] animationEngine now on gitHub

2015-05-19 Thread Malte Brill
For those who are interested... https://github.com/derbrill/animationEngine best, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and man

Something like charIndex, but in a variable...

2015-04-30 Thread Malte Brill
Thanks for all the suggestions. Need some time to try them out. I really like Thierrys RegEx approach and the others look promissing too. @Walt: In the real live Scenario I try to colorize Structured Data (e.G. XML, but others too). I need to walk through the whole dataset token by token and re

Something like charIndex, but in a variable...

2015-04-30 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, thanks for the replies so far. The problem with both matchChunk and offset are, that they will return the first occurance of the literal. So in a text like this: orange banana tomato banana tomato orange tomato banana orange on mouseUp local temp,tChar put fld 1 into temp put

Something like charIndex, but in a variable...

2015-04-30 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, I need to find the start and end character of chuncks in a variable. If we are in a field we can use charIndex for that. However, in a variable I have no good idea on how to do something similar to get charIndex(token 7 of line 15 of field „myField“) Any ideas? All the best, Malte

Colorizing XML

2015-04-22 Thread Malte Brill
Hi, I have the need to display XML and colorize it like for example Notepad++ does. Does anybody happen to have written a script that does this already? All the best, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit thi

[ANN] libDate on gitHub

2015-04-02 Thread Malte Brill
Monte: That is extremly interesting! I was not aware that the engine would load plain text files as a stack nowadays. Do you know when that was introduced? Do you know where I can find more information on that?? All the best and thanks a lot, Malte ___

[ANN] libDate on gitHub

2015-04-01 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, trying to get my feet wet with gitHub I have now created a repository for libDate. https://github.com/derbrill/libdate It remains released into the PD. :-) Hope some of you find this useful. All the best, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing lis

Re: extracting the thumbnail from digital photos?

2015-01-30 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Al, sorry to chime in late. I was on the road without any iNet access. The last iteration of the script including numToByte and setting the case sensitive to true indeed does work extracting the thumbnail image. And it is incredibly fast. :-) I still have troubles to see if there is no thumb

Re: extracting the thumbnail from digital photos?

2015-01-22 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Al! Thanks so much for taking the time to look into this and sorry for my late reply. I was on the road without any access to the interwebs the last 3 days. Looking at your script it makes a lot of sense, however, I can not get it to work if the images I have here. The resulting jpeg Data i

Re: Re: extracting the thumbnail from digital photos?

2015-01-18 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Richard, how exactly does this only extract the thumbnail portion of a huge (10 MB) photo from disk and use it in an image object? (I guess I should have made myself clearer, I am talking about the thumbnail image that is stored in the EXIF data of the image). My problem is that it takes "fo

extracting the thumbnail from digital photos?

2015-01-18 Thread Malte Brill
Hi, did anyone of you try to extract a thumbnail image from digital photos and use those in a liveCode app? Reason I am asking is that I want to display downsized versions of digital photos (many, average filesize 10MB) and sizing those down is not pracicable as things stand atm... Did anybod

Re: Repeat With Repeat

2015-01-11 Thread Malte Brill
One of the reasons why I always have strict compile enabled :-) Saves me from shooting my foot (rhyming or not) quite a few times. ;-) All the best, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: set the textstyle is dramatically slower on 7.0.1 than 5.5

2014-12-31 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Bernard, I am afraid 7.x is quite a bit slower in many places... see: http://forums.livecode.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=22072 Most of this has to do with the rewrite of the engine I guess. Add the overhead for unicode... Boils down to I can not make the switch to 7.x just yet, before t

How to debug exit on Signal 11 on Linux

2014-12-22 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, does somebody know how I can provide a useful log for an exit on Signal 11 under Linux for a livecode app? Thanks, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage y

Re: LiveCode 6.6.5 vs 6.7

2014-11-18 Thread Malte Brill
Bonjour Renè, may I interest you in the benchmarking projekt which happens over here: http://forums.livecode.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=22072 It seems that tests on the things that slowed down for you might be very useful. All the best, Malte _

Re: Dreaming up a benchmarking suite of stacks

2014-11-10 Thread Malte Brill
Hi folks, sorry I was quiet about this for a while. I really want / need to push the benchmarking forward. I made 2 initial stacks available here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/uspg0njkwdg7z6x/AABa-ybZ1E_BWIvFf_2O2PfGa?dl=0 If some / any of you want to help / participate I would be really glad. @

Dreaming up a benchmarking suite of stacks

2014-10-28 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, inspired by a post by Geoff, I started thinking that it would be rather cool to have a suite of stacks that lets us benchmark the performance of the different engine versions. I started with a stack that benchmarks graphics rendering performance using different settings. Unfortunately i

Re: User scroll direction preference

2014-09-30 Thread Malte Brill
Hi John, you don't. The Os switches the rawKeyCodes if the preference is changed. All the best, Malte > How do find out what the user preference is? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsub

Re: NOT using a proxy with 6.7 on Windows...

2014-09-05 Thread Malte Brill
Hi, ok, this will be fun to debug :-( What I found out is that the registry is used to make the machines aware of using the proxy. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Internet Settings This has two keys, one for the proxy and one for the exceptions. In the except

Re: Re: NOT using a proxy with 6.7 on Windows...

2014-09-02 Thread Malte Brill
Hey Trevor, what exactly would be needed to troubleshoot? As I do not own the machines this happens on and only can have limited access it will be a little tricky to get information. My suspition is that LC picks up the PROXY information from the registry (which did not work before my engine sw

NOT using a proxy with 6.7 on Windows...

2014-09-02 Thread Malte Brill
Hey all, anyone successfully *not* using a proxy with 6.7 DP9? I have an application that needs to communicate with both LAN and WAN and therefor needs to switch between not using a Proxy (for LAN access) and using a proxy (for WAN access). It used to work fine up to 6.6.2 but with 6.7 DP9 it f

[ANN] libDate update and help request

2014-08-01 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, some of you know that I have been working hard(ly) on a date handling library. I have put some more work into it, in order to get rid of the need to use convert. The library can now parse different date formats without the need to use convert and thus the limitations of the convert comm

Re: Animation Engine: animating points in a polygon?

2014-05-14 Thread Malte Brill
Hey David, the easing functions are your friend here. I am currently travelling, however I will make sure that I set up a little demo as soon as I am back. To get you started, looking at aeEaseInOut put aeEaseInOut(100,200,2000,500,2) where 100 would be the x coordinate of the point at start o

Re: I lost my property inspector

2014-04-30 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Dar, sounds like the IDE is running into an error and hiding it from you. Have you tried put true into gRevDevelopment from the messagebox already? That might bring up some hints. Best, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runre

Re: A weird bug/occurrence

2014-04-08 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Geoff, I happen to see disappearing controls in a standalone from time to time. The funny thing is that a white rectangle seems to be drawn in the space where the control should be. Did you happen to report this as a bug already? All the best, Malte _

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 6.6

2014-03-23 Thread Malte Brill
Hi Peter! no, you are not alone. I have pretty much given up on my Linux endevours until the point we see a 64 Bit engine, not only with working with the IDE under Linux, but also in claiming to suppor Linux for my products. Too many hoops to jump through and with the vanishing of ia32 I have n

Linux 64 Bit builds

2014-03-12 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, does anybody know what the status of Linux 64 Bit builts is? It is becoming more and more difficult to install the 32 Bit compatibility layer. I think there has been quite a bit of work done on that, however it seems not yet possible to build a 64 Bit version. Also, can anybody point o

[ANN] animationEngine 5.1

2014-02-17 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, I am pleased to announce the immediate availability of animationEngine 5.1 http://www.derbrill.de/animationEngine/animationEngine5.1.zip This is a free maintenance release that fixes problems running AE in liveCode 6.6. On top of that we have the first user contribution by Geoff Canyon

Re: rIDE

2014-02-17 Thread Malte Brill
Hey Colin, scaleFactor is my fault. rIDE carries animationEngine with it for demo purposes. A fixed version of animationEngine will be uploaded tonight. Cheers, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

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