New edition of Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner

2019-11-05 Thread Mark via use-livecode
I'm very happy to announce the second edition of my book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner. The previous edition stems from the time of LiveCode 6 and since then many features have been added to --and some removed from-- LiveCode. One of the major changes concerns Unicode. While I

Re: What format is an FDF file?

2018-10-18 Thread Mark via use-livecode
I believe it’s proprietary... https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/fdf_data_exchange.pdf They also offer some api’s... https://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/fdftoolkit.html Mark On Oct 18, 2018, 4:10 PM -0700, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode , wrote: > Hi all. > > Just

Re: pdftk issue solved

2018-10-18 Thread Mark via use-livecode
Looks like the link for pdftk on the pdflabs website has not been updated. The version available from this link works fine for me on Mojave. https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/pdftk_server-2.02-mac_osx-10.11-setup.pkg Mark On Oct 18, 2018, 11:30 AM -0700, Bob Sneidar via

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

2018-10-10 Thread Mark via use-livecode
Have you tried leaving off the output filename? Should dump it to stdout then. Mark On Oct 10, 2018, 10:29 AM -0700, Mark Wieder via use-livecode , wrote: > On 10/10/2018 10:16 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: > > Doesn't seem to work. I enter this syntax in a terminal session: > > > >

Re: Reading PDF Form Data in LiveCode?

2018-10-10 Thread Mark via use-livecode
I have used https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ server version in the past. Mark On Oct 10, 2018, 8:48 AM -0700, Peter Reid via use-livecode , wrote: > Does anyone have any code or suggestions for reading the data from PDF forms? > I have several hundred form fields in 5

Re: Server-side xml validator anyone ?

2018-01-13 Thread Mark via use-livecode
If your XML is UTF8-enconded and your UTF8 data is correct, it will work. Your probably isn't invalid XML but either a problem with the encoding of the entire file or a particular string. The best way to validate XML on your server is to install a little command line utility and use the shell

Re: Finding the 'Applications' folder on a Mac

2018-01-04 Thread Mark via use-livecode
On Mac OS X, user applications are in "~"& $USER & "/Applications" Global applications are in /Applications On Windows, you use specialfolderpath(38). My book has an appendix with all folder numbers and names. Op 04-01-18 om 23:46 schreef Graham Samuel via use-livecode: It looks to me