Re: Can Xavvi generate sensible text output as well as code?

My day to day work is in medical education – and assessment specifically. I’m interested in using LLMs to (1) help generate assessment items (well draft versions of them at least) and (2) individualised descriptive feedback based on assessment performance. But, rather than trying to get

Can Xavvi generate sensible text output as well as code?

Let’s say I have a whole lot of input statements/info, some of which is generic but some of which varies according by user. Any thoughts on whether it might be possible to leverage Xavvi to process and combine that info into useful prose summaries for each user in a way that I can’t already do

Re: Pixel 5

I haven’t done any iOS apps for a little while but when I was - using an enterprise developer license - getting iOS apps onto our users’ (students and staff) phones was easy as. The hardest thing was finding a server to host the files (ipa, plist etc.) on. Terry.. From: use-livecode on

Re: Speaking of Filter and Match...

put x after tList2 end if end repeat put char 2 to -2 of tList2 into tList2 # delete the leading and trailing returns If you need to retain line specific formatting in the field though you’ll need a different approach. Terry… Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education

Re: Message box failure in 10.0.0?

Just downloaded and tested and it works ok for me on Monterey. Terry From: use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode Date: Monday, 21 February 2022 at 3:26 pm To: How to use LiveCode Cc: J. Landman Gay Subject: Re: Message box failure in 10.0.0? Thanks for the reply. I

Re: Smile for Christmas.

Surely we should be sending them straight to the US ;) Terry… From: use-livecode on behalf of doc hawk via use-livecode Date: Friday, 17 December 2021 at 1:05 pm To: How to use LiveCode Cc: doc hawk Subject: Re: Smile for Christmas. rick ruminated, >Combining two arrays is nice, but it

Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition

Not sure how this would work - but what if only licensed versions of LC could produce and run distributable/shareable stacks while the free version could only run stacks produced by that particular instance of the app? On 5/9/21, 3:57 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via

Re: Read barcodes on Mac with mergAV?

g via use-livecode" wrote: Hi Terry Sorry to say but mergAV has never supported barcode scanning on macOS Cheers Monte > On 4 Aug 2021, at 4:44 pm, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote: > > So, I’m trying to get mergAV to recognise any sort or barcode

Read barcodes on Mac with mergAV?

So, I’m trying to get mergAV to recognise any sort or barcode on a Mac but when I query mergAVCamBarcodeTypes() it returns empty. Pretty sure this used to work – at least when I last tried it (admittedly probable 3 or 4 years ago) I was at least able to get it to recognise QR codes. Any ideas?

Re: Setting the browser widget user-agent to impersonate Chrome

Never mind - it seems to be working now __ On 7/6/21, 12:43 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode" wrote: I’m trying to get the browser widget to identify itself as Chrome so that I can (attempt to) load a particular site. Is there a trick to how you format

Setting the browser widget user-agent to impersonate Chrome

I’m trying to get the browser widget to identify itself as Chrome so that I can (attempt to) load a particular site. Is there a trick to how you format the user-agent string when you set the widget’s user-agent in its object inspector or should I just be able to enter something along these

Re: Styled text on mobile

Not if you are ok with using a LC field or a browser object to display it, but if you want to use a native single or multi-line text field - then yes. Terry... On 18/07/2020, 15:37, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin via use-livecode" wrote: Am I dreaming the impossible dream?

Re: What the heck? Writing and reading ios files??

On 26/06/2020, 02:40, "use-livecode on behalf of William Prothero via use-livecode" wrote: Jacqueline: Thanks for responding. I am really stuck on this. I can write the file, and get a list of the files I write, but when I try to read the file using the same code to create the

Re: Anyone willing to share a basic webpage template for LC HTML5 apps?

Hi - I've got a couple of HTML5 apps that I want to deploy to students at my uni and was wondering if anyone had a fairly basic starting webpage that I could use rather than the one that LC generates automatically. If possible I'm looking to lose the elements in the top section (LC logo,

Re: FormattedHeight

Could you use a browser instance instead of a field? On 03/05/2020, 03:27, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" wrote: I think the solution has to be in the engine. I'm in trouble. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive

Re: DataGrid question...

This is rough but sort of works... on selectionChanged set the itemDel to tab put word 2 of the selectedLine into tRow put word 2 of the selectedChunk into nChar put length(line 1 to tRow-1 of me) into tStart put char tStart+2 to nChar of me into tText put the number of items in

Re: Hide stack change focus not supported 64bit

You can certainly use AS to query the frontmost application but I'm guessing as soon as you click the button in your app then your app is it. You can also query the application processes - if they are sorted in order from frontmost to 'rearmost' then maybe you could tell the second process in

Re: Powerpoint to LiveCode

Hi Paul - I haven't done it although I have gone the other way, creating content/media with LiveCode and merging it (text, images, audio files) into a PPT template file (which is then converted to Keynote and exported as a video). Anyway, getting access to the screen content/media for each PPT

Re: Nested numeric lists that include number of parent list item

Yeah, this isn't helpful either, but while we're on the shortcomings of ordered lists in Livecode if you render an alphabetically ordered list using htmlText then it is rendered as lowercase irrespective of whether you specify type='A' or type='a'. The only way to guarantee that it is right is

Re: IOS scroller

Brian On Jan 20, 2020, 6:45 PM -0500, Terry Judd via use-livecode , wrote: > I spent a lot of time trying to do this on iOS and gave up (I was working with a per day calendar style scrolling object that you would swipe to change days). It worked some/most of the time but like you say, sc

Re: IOS scroller

I spent a lot of time trying to do this on iOS and gave up (I was working with a per day calendar style scrolling object that you would swipe to change days). It worked some/most of the time but like you say, scrolling seems to override everything else. I even tried disabling scrolling until

Re: mobile dev confusion

Worth trying again I reckon - the Android Virtual Device Manager in Android Studio plays very nicely with LC now. Terry... On 29/12/19, 10:27 am, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" wrote: I remember Panos mentioning that one of the primary reasons for including

Re: LC #48 @TIOBE

TIOBE is obviously measuring a bunch of other things and assigning a fair bit of weight to them - if you compare the Trends data for RUST (#31/0.37%) and LiveCode (#48/0.18%) it's chalk and cheese... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0490j1,%2Fm%2F0dsbpg6 On 11/12/19, 12:55

Re: LC #48 @TIOBE

are | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On December 10, 2019 6:37:17 PM Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote: > Some contrasting data... > > https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y=%2Fm%2F0490j1 > > ?On 11/12/19, 10:17 am, "use-livecode on behalf

Re: LC #48 @TIOBE

Some contrasting data... https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y=%2Fm%2F0490j1 On 11/12/19, 10:17 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Bob Sneidar via use-livecode" wrote: Nothing in space and time is linear. ;-) Bob S > On Dec 7, 2019, at 18:20 ,

Re: iOS simulator not responding

n Gay via use-livecode" wrote: Found it, it was the alpha. When I leave that out, it displays, is editable, and works. Thank you! On 11/26/19 8:16 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote: > I primarily use single line input fields on my apps' login screens.

Re: iOS simulator not responding

iline fields are working, but the single input ones do not. Very strange. Do you have single line inputs? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On November 26, 2019 5:26:05 PM T

Re: iOS simulator not responding

Not sure if it will help, but here's the code I use to create a multiline text control (pControlName) on iOS that 'overlays' an existing LC field (pObj) # create a native multiline text control put the rect of pObj into tRect # shrink the rect by 1 pixel all around to reveal the object's border

Re: Slowdown when printing to PDF in a loop

ith y = 1 to 5put yourPathName && y into jobPathopen printing to pdf (jobPath & ".pdf")print this cardend repeatclose printingend mouseUp You should get five PDF's in a flash. Craig -Original Message- From: Terry Judd via use-livecode To: Ho

Re: Slowdown when printing to PDF in a loop

my iPad > On 24 Oct 2019, at 12:53 am, dunbarx--- via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi. > Are you repeatedly using "open printing to PDF"? > Craig > > > -----Original Message- > From: Terry Judd via use-livecode > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev

Slowdown when printing to PDF in a loop

I'm printing a whole bunch of PDFs (multipage feedback reports generated by populating a series of cards with individualised data - mix of text and graphics) and it starts off fast and then inevitably slows down - a lot. While it might start off printing say 14 reports per minute after a few

Re: Is there a command to display number of seconds as hrs:min:seconds?

Not built-in but... function formatRemainingTime pTime put trunc(pTime/3600) into tHours put pTime mod 3600 into tTimeX put trunc(tTimeX/60) into tMins put tTimeX mod 60 into tSecs if tHours < 10 then put "0" before tHours if tMins < 10 then put "0" before tMins if tSecs < 10

Re: Give a bug a hug

important and they had a vote or two to spare. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On October 8, 2019 12:15:23 AM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: > Terry Judd wrote: >

Re: Give a bug a hug

On 8/10/19, 11:02 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Mark Wieder via use-livecode" wrote: Back in the old days LC/RR had a voting system on bugzilla. You had five votes you could allocate to bug reports, and this gave an indication of how many people were affected by a given bug.

Re: Give a bug a hug

These seem to be bounties for finding critical (mostly security-related) bugs rather than fixing them - hard to see large tech companies outsourcing their security fixes. We already have an established system for reporting bugs, and LC are actively attending to fixing some/most of them. The

Re: LiveCode now #49 at TIOBE Index!

Given that the rankings are based on search query frequencies and that Google searches seem to be the biggest contributor to the data they use I wonder why they don’t just do a series of Google Trends searches to come up with the relative rankings? Terry... Sent from my iPad > On 6 Oct 2019,

Re: LC apps on iOS 13?

That should have read 'hoping' rather than 'assuming' I think ;) On 23/9/19, 7:47 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode" wrote: I was assuming that LC apps would continue to run OK on iOS 13 but I've already received a report from a user with some pretty i

LC apps on iOS 13?

I was assuming that LC apps would continue to run OK on iOS 13 but I've already received a report from a user with some pretty interesting error screens attached. I recall we had some problems when iOS 12 came out because we are using an enterprise developer license to distribute outside of

Re: V9.5 may still have issues

Maker Mac <https://winsignhelper.dermattes.de/> > Am 01.08.2019 um 08:39 schrieb Terry Judd via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>: > > Can't say I've been experiencing too many crashes (I'm currently using 9.0.4 and 9.5.0 dp1) but the problem where the breakpoint d

Re: V9.5 may still have issues

Can't say I've been experiencing too many crashes (I'm currently using 9.0.4 and 9.5.0 dp1) but the problem where the breakpoint dots (and line numbers) don't keep up with or align with the appropriate script line seems to be a very common occurrence in 9.5 (haven't tried the 'stable' version

Re: XML To Array

So admittedly I have modified Trevor's code a bit (mainly so I don't get the @ symbols associated with parameters but also so that instead of ["someNode[1]"] I get ["someNode"][1], but for me that XML snippet creates an array that looks like... ["combine"]["class"] = TV_show

Re: Groups do not receive mouseEnter messages?

Hi Paul - so, you could create a grc object the same size as the group, send it to the back and set its cantSelect property to true. That should give you the behaviour you want as well as preventing your user from selecting the 'background' object in the group that switches to the pointer tool.

Seeking clarification on which Android versions to build against in LC 9.5.0 (dp 1)

OK - so I'm trying out 9.5.0 (dp 1) and am loving the fact that we now have a functional emulator (I'm using Android Studio) that we can use to test Android apps. Thanks dev team! But, I'm not entirely clear which processors I need to build against in order to publish the app. I'm *not*

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.4 RC-3

OK, you're right. Seems like something went astray on that iPad when I restored it from a backup last week. I've just done a factory reset on it and my apps now install just fine under iOS 12.2. Terry... On 2/5/19, 8:39 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode&quo

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.4 RC-3

Really? I ran into trouble a couple of days ago trying to install a couple of my apps onto an iPad that I had recently updated to iOS 12.2 and assumed it wasn't possible. LC 9.0.4 (rc2), Xcode 10.1. Terry... On 2/5/19, 12:49 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Ralph DiMola via use-livecode"

Re: LC application running on lab computers

How about specialFolderPath("temporary") ? Terry... On 28/3/19, 5:46 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode" wrote: I get "can't create that directory (13)” The challenge is to write a pref file to a non-user directory so the file is available to all

Re: Go in Window on Mobile / Not Obeying Purge?

Haven't noticed any problems but the honest answer is that I don't know. How would you go about testing for issues? Terry... On 4/3/19, 5:28 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin via use-livecode" wrote: Terry Judd wrote: > While there don't appear

Re: Go in Window on Mobile / Not Obeying Purge?

While there don't appear to be suspend or resume messages on mobile you can sort of script your own resume message using a timer. If the timer is updated regularly using a send in time approach then the send will be delayed while the app is in the background. If the interval between the current

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.3 RC-1

FWIW I've seen similar issues to this going back a while (I'm on MacOS but not sure what LC versions were involved). No recipe that I could find but restarting LC generally got things moving again. Terry... On 26/2/19, 1:19 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode"

Re: sending email and file with mail client

No worries Tom - glad it was helpful. Terry... Sent from my iPhone > On 19 Feb 2019, at 2:58 pm, Tom Glod via use-livecode > wrote: > > Terry, I learned so much from your answer, thanks for taking the time. > > On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 5:38 PM Terry Judd via use-livecod

suspendStack and resumeStack equivalents on mobile?

Pretty sure this has been covered before but couldn’t locate the email thread. I’m using the ‘Enable background execution’ option on iOS in order to avoid having to use iOS’s guided access feature to lock users (examiners in this) into our app (thereby avoiding any loss of data/state), and

Re: sending email and file with mail client

Hi Hershel - If it's a desktop app then you can control the user's email app using either applescript (MacOS) or VBscript (Windows). I've included some template scripts below to get you started (assuming your users have either Mail or Outlook). I store these in custom properties, use merge to

Re: Replacing GlobalNames with Global Values

Something like... put merge("[[gGlobal1]]*[[gGlobal2]]/[[gGlobal3]]") into tEquation On 12/2/19, 1:58 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Roger Guay via use-livecode" wrote: Granted, this may be too esoteric for me to understand, but I can’t seem to make this do what I want to do

Re: Swipe over native scroller

On 1/31/19 11:03 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: >> Did you try Terry script? Elanor did something similar this in the >> Listen module, it not very refined. Terry put time in it with subtle >> time parameters. I have yet to try it. It here on the list I

Re: Swipe over native scroller

Not much of a workaround I'm afraid, but for a recent app (iOS and Android) I got rid of the native scroller and used the touch messages to both scroll the object and detect the swipes. Terry... On 31/1/19, 10:16 am, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" wrote: Has

Re: iOS simulator issue - LC 9.0.2, Xcode 10.0

Thanks Curry - seems to be working for now at least after a full restart. Command line tools were set to the right version but interestingly although the iOS12 simulator runs, it doesn't show up in the list of installed simulators in the components pane of the Xcode prefs window. Terry...

iOS simulator issue - LC 9.0.2, Xcode 10.0

I’m running LC 9.0.2 on OSX Mojave and can’t get the simulator to run - it launches OK but LC throws an error part way through the test/build process. Unable to start simulator: 634,0,0,unknown C++ exception 573,228,1,revIPhoneSetSimulatorSDK Any ideas? Building direct to a phone works fine

Re: Problem building Android app - 'could not compile service support class' error message

app. Terry... On 23/01/2019 9:59 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode" wrote: Thanks Ralph - so, I enabled the Livecode UI stacks in the pref window and then used the find window to search for the error string (or part of it at least) but no results were r

Re: Problem building Android app - 'could not compile service support class' error message

al Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Terry Judd via use-livecode Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2019 4:02 PM To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Terry Judd Subject: Problem building Android app - 'could not compile service supp

Problem building Android app - 'could not compile service support class' error message

I’m having a problem building/testing an Android app on one of my two development laptops (Macbook Air, LC 9.0.2, OSX Yosemite) – it comes up with the following error message... Unable to build app for testing: could not compile service support class. It seems to work fine on another laptop

Clearing the notification badge value on Android?

On iOS you can clear the notification badge number using iPhoneSetNotificationBadgeValue (by setting it to zero), but how do you achieve the same thing on Android? Terry... ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Opening a url in an external browser on mobile? (ignore - launch works after all)

available there. Thanks, Brian On Jan 21, 2019, 7:11 PM -0600, Terry Judd via use-livecode , wrote: > So (answering my own question) - it seems that I misread the dictionary and that launch is also supported on mobile. > > Terry... > > On 22/01/2019 12:08 pm

Re: Opening a url in an external browser on mobile? (ignore - launch works after all)

So (answering my own question) - it seems that I misread the dictionary and that launch is also supported on mobile. Terry... On 22/01/2019 12:08 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode" wrote: After going to the trouble of implementing a mobile browser w

Opening a url in an external browser on mobile?

After going to the trouble of implementing a mobile browser widget I’ve decided that I’d prefer to open and display the url in the user’s default browser. I’m assuming this is possible (?) but can’t work out how to do it. Any ideas? Terry... ___

Re: How to give swiping precedence over scrolling on mobile?

to grp "backBtn" end if end if end if end if end touchEnd And in the "checklist" script... local pX on mouseDown put the mouseH into pX end mouseDown on mouseUp if abs((the mouseH)-pX) > 50 then exit mouseUp # list selection code end mo

Re: How to give swiping precedence over scrolling on mobile?

tHGroup to sStartHScroll + (sStartX-pTouchX) end if end if end touchMove on touchEnd pTouchID -- code end touchEnd on touchRelease pTouchID -- code end touchRelease I wish there was are easy fi

How to give swiping precedence over scrolling on mobile?

This is a problem that I have run into before and have never been able to solve satisfactorily. I’m using touchStart and touchEnd handlers to detect the direction and speed of a finger movement and if it is within certain bounds (large enough x, small enough y, and fast enough) then the user

Re: .app to .ipa converter and Xcode version for Mojave?

; > On Mon, Dec 10, 2018 at 3:17 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > wrote: > >> I use Jacque's "AirLaunch" >> >> So simple... create the HTML files necessary for others to download. >> >> Works fine under Mojave. >> >&g

Re: .app to .ipa converter and Xcode version for Mojave?

subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > <http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode> > ######## > > be

.app to .ipa converter and Xcode version for Mojave?

I’ve just (perhaps prematurely) upgraded a fairly new Macbook Pro to OS X Mojave and it seems that iTunes 12.6.3 (the last version that let you manage apps) is no longer supported. I have other ways of installing apps onto devices and extracting files from apps on devices but I still need a

Re: Array editing or Validate JSON string?

Hi Bill - I convert the JSON (jsonImport) to an array then use a treeview widget to display it. I then use an actionDoubleClick handler in the widget script to grab the appropriate array element and display it in an ask dialog. The value goes back into the array and I export the array back to

Re: Finding common words and phrases in a large block of text?

tList into tA2[tLength] end repeat return tA2 end getWordAndPhraseCounts On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 4:27 AM Terry Judd via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > OK - was easier than I thought. I have something that works fast enough by &

Re: Finding common words and phrases in a large block of text?

t;use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode" wrote: Hi – I’m looking to analyse some large block of text (journal abstracts from key educational technology journals over a several year period) to find common words and phrases. Finding common words should be easy enou

Finding common words and phrases in a large block of text?

Hi – I’m looking to analyse some large block of text (journal abstracts from key educational technology journals over a several year period) to find common words and phrases. Finding common words should be easy enough but I’m not clear on what approach to take for finding common phrases

Re: App Dead on iOS 12

> On 21 Sep 2018, at 11:48 am, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote: > > Panos did some sleuthing of my console output and it appears that my iOS 12 crashes (which occurred with even the most very basic of stacks/apps) are related to the fact that I use an iOS enterprise

Re: App Dead on iOS 12

Panos did some sleuthing of my console output and it appears that my iOS 12 crashes (which occurred with even the most very basic of stacks/apps) are related to the fact that I use an iOS enterprise developer license to sign/distribute my apps - so not a LC issue as such. Will just have to wait

Re: App Dead on iOS 12

e -> Preferences -> Locations -> Command >> Line Tools and choose "9.4.1" >> >> Hope this helps. >> >> Best, >> Panos >> -- >> >> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 9:13 AM Terry Judd via use-liv

Re: App Dead on iOS 12

ch.com > > > On 9/17/18, 3:51 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode" wrote: > >Yeah - I just updated an iPad to iOS 12 and 2 LC apps that were already installed on it now just show a black screen (with the outlines of

Re: App Dead on iOS 12

g via use-livecode" wrote: > On 18 Sep 2018, at 10:51 am, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote: > > Umm - spoke to soon. How do I do that? I assumed that there would be something in the downloads pane of Xcode that I could install. There is usuall

Re: App Dead on iOS 12

Umm - spoke to soon. How do I do that? I assumed that there would be something in the downloads pane of Xcode that I could install. Terry... On 18/09/2018 10:43 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode" wrote: Thanks Monte. I'll try installing the additional

Re: App Dead on iOS 12

Thanks Monte. I'll try installing the additional component to my old version of XCode in the meantime. Regards, Terry... On 18/09/2018 10:22 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Monte Goulding via use-livecode" wrote: > On 18 Sep 2018, at 10:18 am, Monte Goulding via use-livecode

Re: App Dead on iOS 12

, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode" wrote: Yeah - I just updated an iPad to iOS 12 and 2 LC apps that were already installed on it now just show a black screen (with the outlines of a couple of native fields) after the splash screen. I kinda assumed they

Re: App Dead on iOS 12

Yeah - I just updated an iPad to iOS 12 and 2 LC apps that were already installed on it now just show a black screen (with the outlines of a couple of native fields) after the splash screen. I kinda assumed they would just still work. Terry... On 18/09/2018 7:56 am, "use-livecode on behalf

Re: fullscreenmode and rect of a substack on mobile device ?

On 20/08/2018 5:01 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode" wrote: On 20 Aug 2018, at 4:50 pm, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: > > Terry Judd wrote: > > > Yeah, I've used FSM in combination with scripting in the android

Re: fullscreenmode and rect of a substack on mobile device ?

On 20 Aug 2018, at 4:50 pm, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: > > Terry Judd wrote: > > > Yeah, I've used FSM in combination with scripting in the android > > versions a couple of apps (admittedly they were only designed to work > > in portrait mode) and it

Re: fullscreenmode and rect of a substack on mobile device ?

On 20/08/2018 2:45 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin via use-livecode" wrote: Most of the lengthier discussions I've seen about layout handling here and on the forums stem from attempting to get precise control from FSM. In some cases it may be possible to mix FSM with

Re: "Effective" characters in a line in a field

Check out the formattedText property. Terry... On 17/08/2018 8:39 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode" wrote: Hi, On the subject of chunk references… I want to add a carriage return at the end of every visual line of a paragraph. This would

Re: Determine if device is a tablet

So, iPhones (5 and above) have an aspect ratio of something like 1.78, versus 1.33 for an iPad. Don't know what sort of range you are likely to find with Android devices but perhaps using a value of below 1.4-1.5 to indicate the device is a tablet would work for the majority? Terry... On

Re: Determine if device is a tablet

Can you do it based on the aspect ratio of the screen? I wouldn't have thought that there were many phones that were as 'squat' as a typical tablet. Terry... On 15/08/2018 9:16 am, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" wrote: I need to determine whether the current

Re: Trouble getting Browser Widget to work on iOS

Hi Bill - I had similar problems last week. Assuming you have the browser widget inclusion checked then the other thing to look for is whether there are any mobile scrollers on the screen that overlap with the location of the widget as they appear to interfere with it being rendered. If this is

Re: Browser widget on iOS

on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode Reply-To: How to use LiveCode Date: Wednesday, 18 July 2018 1:52 pm To: How to use LiveCode Cc: Terry Judd Subject: Browser widget on iOS Hi - is there some magic for getting the browser widget to work on iOS? Most of the time it displays nothing in either

Browser widget on iOS

Hi - is there some magic for getting the browser widget to work on iOS? Most of the time it displays nothing in either the simulator or on an actual device (the URL is definitely set) and when it does (not sure what gets the display to work in these situations), it doesn’t scroll and none of

Re: How to dismiss keyboard on mobile

Are you using a native mobile field? If not then... on returnInField focus on nothing exit returnInField end returnInField HTH, Terry... On 11/05/2018 12:41 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode"

Re: Splitting long elements into two lines in an Option Menu

Or perhaps use a form type datagrid - which will allow you to present and select multi-lined option more readily. Regards, Terry... On 27/04/2018 2:33 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of dunbarx via use-livecode"

Question about HTML5 and accessing urls

Hi - I’m updating a HTLM5-based simulation that we use for training assessors. It captures some usage data so that we can confirm a) that someone has attempted it and b) that they completed all the necessary elements. It was built with an older version of LC community (not sure which version)

Re: Features and shortcomings of html5

rectly with their web site. At any rate, thanks for the feedback. On 2/20/18 9:05 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote: > I've converted a couple of interactive simulations to HTML5 and they worked and performed surprisingly well (once I'd removed and coded around a few wai

Re: Features and shortcomings of html5

I've converted a couple of interactive simulations to HTML5 and they worked and performed surprisingly well (once I'd removed and coded around a few wait statements). Multiple cards are fine but I haven't tried switching between stacks. Text display isn't that great out of the box but that

problem with fullscreen option on HTML5 apps

I’ve been trying out the fullscreen option (via the checkbox on the automatically generated HTML page) on a couple of interactive learning apps I’m working on, and while they display nicely it seems to muck up the object coordinates (9.0.0 dp 10/11 – Mac, any browser) so that clicking or

Re: Mac color chooser swatches do not work?

Hi Klaus - the swatches work fine for me (and from memory always have). I'm still on Yosemite (10.10.5) though, so perhaps it's a High Sierra thing? Terry... On 6/12/2017 8:56 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Klaus major-k via use-livecode"

Re: OT : need help understanding why my web page isn't behaving right :-)

Hi Alex – those links work fine for me on Chrome on a Mac. Terry... On 8/11/2017 10:27 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Alex Tweedly via use-livecode" wrote: I just discovered a problem with one of my

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