Re: On the dangers of automated refactoring

2021-04-14 Thread Peter W A Wood via use-livecode
never used a unit > testing library. > > PS: How’s Red Lang going? :D > >> On 13 Apr 2021, at 12:02, Peter W A Wood via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Hi Andre >> >>> On 13 Apr 2021, at 18:05, Andre Garzia via use-livecode >>> wrote: &g

Re: On the dangers of automated refactoring

2021-04-13 Thread Peter W A Wood via use-livecode
Hi Andre > On 13 Apr 2021, at 18:05, Andre Garzia via use-livecode > wrote: > > We don’t even have unit testing libraries so that we can make sure our code > works as expected. I published a simple unit testing library on GitHub but it din’t get any traction - https://github.com/PeterWAWood/

Re: ...and a challenge

2019-10-05 Thread Peter W A Wood via use-livecode
Colin > On 6 Oct 2019, at 11:34, Colin Holgate via use-livecode > wrote: > > Pi is a reserved work, so I used pie. I haven’t seen this way of producing Pi > before, and in both JavaScript and LivceCode it seems to be instantaneous. I > think it’s a rewording of 4*(1-1/3+1/5-1/7+1/9…) … > se

Re: [OT] Working with Android devices

2018-09-14 Thread Peter W A Wood via use-livecode
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[OT] Working with Android devices

2018-09-14 Thread Peter W A Wood via use-livecode
I have recently got an Android tablet and am seeking advice on how best to work with it in general, not so much with Livecode yet. My main machine is a Mac. I would like to be able to easily swap files with the Android tablet via wifi and to remotely login to it from the Mac. I am hoping that I

Re [OT] Snakey Problem

2018-08-13 Thread Peter W A Wood via use-livecode
Richmond I am no Python expert having only got over Pythonaphobia, which I contracted last century, in the last few months. The standard Python library, which is included in the distribution, includes the TKinter GUI library. When Python starts up, it doesn’t load many of the standard librarie

Re: Livecode Content Management System

2017-12-04 Thread Peter W A Wood via use-livecode
Andre > I am talking beyond the current HTML5 deployment (which I don't own a > license and can't play with) I thought that you can deploy to HTML5 with the community licence. The GPL wouldn’t put you off playing with it, would it? Peter ___ use-livec

Re: Call for Speakers 2018

2017-10-24 Thread Peter W A Wood via use-livecode
On 25 Oct 2017, at 09:34, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: > That sounds like the last nail in the coffin for the actual conferences. Sounds like a great opportunity for you to launch Mark Wieder Event Management Inc. ;-) Peter ___ use-livecode

Re: CouchDB, DayBed, etc.

2017-08-23 Thread Peter W A Wood via use-livecode
Alex > On 23 Aug 2017, at 22:28, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > wrote: > > With the exception of a couple of things that basically scraped data off some > web pages, every app I've done in the last couple of years (all for personal > use by myself or friends - I'm a hobbyist) have shared on

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

2017-06-22 Thread Peter W A Wood via use-livecode
Richard > How can we know which is in use for a given string? > > Suppose I wanted to process a lot of text, so performance is critical. Using > bytes would be optimal, since any chunk type or even Unicode characters may > vary in length. > > So if I wanted to create an index of byte offsets i

Re: Kognition Beta Test - call for volunteers

2017-04-28 Thread Peter W A Wood via use-livecode
Dear Kevin First, congratulations on reaching Beta stage of Kognition. Your description on if it is very intriguing. I think I can offer you an interesting beta test environment. At the moment, I have three primary projects (and a number of smaller ones), the data for each is stored in divers