Re: Contractors and open source software

2018-09-04 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 16:07:02 -0700 Mark Talluto via use-livecode wrote: > Public Software. Contractor will inform [company] in advance of incorporating > any open source software into deliverables or services provided to [company] > under this Agreement, provide [company] with an analysis of

Re: Using stackoverflow.com

2018-08-15 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On Wed, 15 Aug 2018 11:10:57 -0700 Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: > And done! Is there a way to tag repositories on GitHub by language, so it's > easy to find all LC repos? https://help.github.com/articles/working-with-tags/ https://github.com/topics/livecode

Re: LiveCode Server on CentOS 6?

2018-08-01 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 07/29/2018 07:56 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: First question (an admittedly ignorant one, but I haven't spent much time in the CentOS community):  Why does their package manager not automatically keep system components current? Second question: If the first question cannot

Re: LiveCode Server on CentOS 6?

2018-08-01 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 08/01/2018 01:45 AM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode wrote: whether the issues are down to glibc version dependencies is beyond me. You can check this by running ldd [/path/to/livecode-server] It will return a list that looks something like this (from my desktop system):

Re: LiveCode Server on CentOS 6?

2018-07-29 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 07/28/2018 05:39 AM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode wrote: Hi Folks, Is anyone running LS Server on CentOS 6? I notice that only version 7 is officially supported and not being a Linux expert, I’d like to know if this server OS would need to be upgraded before attempting anything with LC

Re: LC 9 Dictionary, Linux

2018-06-27 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 06/27/2018 12:17 PM, Warren Samples via use-livecode wrote: On 06/27/2018 03:45 AM, panagiotis merakos wrote: > If your Linux machine is not affected by this issue, then you can do the following to open the Dictionary in a LC stack (as it used to be): > > 1. in the msg box ty

Re: LC 9 Dictionary, Linux

2018-06-27 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 06/27/2018 03:45 AM, panagiotis merakos wrote: > If your Linux machine is not affected by this issue, then you can do the following to open the Dictionary in a LC stack (as it used to be): > > 1. in the msg box type "put 1 into $LIVECODE_USE_CEF" > 2. open the dictionary, it should now open

Re: LC 9 Dictionary, Linux

2018-06-27 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 06/23/2018 07:05 PM, Warren Samples via use-livecode wrote: Hello, I don't recall off the top of my head what the current remaining issue is with the dictionary under Linux. I know there have been a couple or three that have been reported by different people on different distros

LC 9 Dictionary, Linux

2018-06-23 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
Hello, I don't recall off the top of my head what the current remaining issue is with the dictionary under Linux. I know there have been a couple or three that have been reported by different people on different distros. The workaround to open the dictionary in a browser is working pretty

Re: UTF8 on LC server

2018-05-31 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 05/31/2018 06:43 AM, Tim Selander via use-livecode wrote: Is there any way to get LC Server to handle double-byte characters the same way LC desktop does? Tim Selander Tokyo, Japan LC Server serves pages with a default "Content-Type" header of: Content-Type: text/html;

Re: WTF Worldpay?

2018-05-17 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 05/17/2018 03:11 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: It might be a foreign-transaction thing. Some of my cards will not go through worldpay. This is usually because your credit card issuer has decided not to allow transactions to certain locations. You can usually call them and get

Re: Informal survey: multiple desktops

2018-05-01 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 04/30/2018 11:43 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Now that Windows, Mac, and Linux all offer multiple desktop, I'm curious: do you folks use them? FWIW here's how I often work: I tend to open my email client and web browser in workspace 1, then LC on workspace 2.  Spaces 3 and 4

Re: LC server and fonts

2018-03-05 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 03/05/2018 08:59 AM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: If you create a directory called '.fonts' under your user name and install the fonts you want to use in your images in that directory, LiveCode will find them. A quick test shows this to be true using LC Server 8.1.4, but you may have

Re: LC server and fonts

2018-03-05 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 03/02/2018 04:14 AM, jbv via use-livecode wrote: Hello list How can I load ttf font files with LC server, at least version 7.1 available on my on-rev account ? Neither "revFontLoad" nor "start using font file" seem to work... And the list of available fonts returned by "the fontNames" is

Re: any tricks to make SHELL non blocking?

2018-02-06 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 02/06/2018 07:35 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote: You are obviously an expert with the shell/unix. Nothing of the sort, I'm just sharing some information I have collected from other sources and have found to work in this kind of situation :D Warren

Re: any tricks to make SHELL non blocking?

2018-02-06 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 02/05/2018 11:04 PM, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode wrote: I have this open sourced app ffmpeg and I need to copy the first file from a CD, convert it to a wav file, name it, and save it to a file on a hard drive. (the executable is located in the same folder as the stack, hence the ./ )

Re: any tricks to make SHELL non blocking?

2018-02-06 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 02/06/2018 10:25 AM, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: double quotes cause evaluation (for shell variables?), back quote (`) causes contents to execute. You seem to be using ', which is a literal. You have*SPACES* in file names. This*ALWAYS* leads to suffering. Quoting a filename does

Re: Using this list

2018-01-11 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 01/11/2018 10:52 AM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode wrote: I get the list as an eMail in my inbox. If I want to reply, you click “Reply”. Then you have to change the name of the eMail, then copy and paste the text from the thread you want to reply to, then you have to spend some time

Re: lineHeight different Mac vs. Windows

2017-12-31 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 12/31/2017 04:36 PM, Warren Samples via use-livecode wrote: and auto-show scrollbars this should say "or" auto-show scrollbars ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, u

Re: lineHeight different Mac vs. Windows

2017-12-31 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 12/31/2017 03:11 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode wrote: text sometimes flows off the bottom of the field. Changing the font size is too extreme a change and doesn’t fix widows. I’m trying to conceive of a method of somehow creating page metadata that reformats the Windows

Re: Using open process instead of shell

2017-12-24 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 12/24/2017 04:05 PM, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode wrote: All of the commands work great by using the shell command in LC, except for the fact that my app waits until some of the commands have finished. If your concern is bypassing the blocking nature of shell(), then you should be

Re: goofy question about audioClip

2017-12-01 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 11/29/2017 02:27 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: Is there a way to play audioClips in Linux? The tutorial makes no mention of this feature being restricted to some platforms. audioclips work in Linux. I don't know what dependencies you need to satisfy, and you'll have to

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.7 RC-1

2017-09-05 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 09/05/2017 12:06 PM, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote: The Linux version of LiveCode is STILL NOT loading a dictionary. [ I see that that problem has been "solved" in LC 9 dp 8 by simply inactivating the Dictionary button on Linux. ] I have no problems with the dictionary in

Re: $1,000 Bounty For LiveCode Bug 20240

2017-08-14 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 08/14/2017 07:19 PM, Warren Samples via use-livecode wrote: On 08/14/2017 07:07 PM, ** Clarence P Martin ** via use-livecode wrote: The AVI is Blank. It works here. ___ I transcoded Scott's video to m4v and uploaded it for those who who

Re: $1,000 Bounty For LiveCode Bug 20240

2017-08-14 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 08/14/2017 07:07 PM, ** Clarence P Martin ** via use-livecode wrote: The AVI is Blank. It works here. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Using Find with Shell on Mac

2017-08-10 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 08/10/2017 10:46 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: But I beg to be excused. :D It's okay, Bob. Stay curious! Warren ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Using Find with Shell on Mac

2017-08-10 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 08/10/2017 09:36 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: OH RIGHT. I thought you were talking about using this in the terminal. I know about the LC environment variables. Bob S What does this do in Terminal? 'echo $HOME' ___ use-livecode

Re: How do you detect the necessary inclusions?

2017-08-07 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 08/07/2017 11:50 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: So in 8.1.6, if I have search selected, and then I do a build, and then I select manual, the auto-found ones are no longer selected? It doesn't seem to work that way, in my experience, if I understand what you're implying. They are

Re: widget inclusions Linux

2017-07-30 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 07/30/2017 11:33 AM, Warren Samples via use-livecode wrote: I apologize if this is a known (but not to me) issue... I am finding that the BMI Calculator does not work after it has been built as a standalone in 64bit Linux in recent versions of LiveCode. (I haven't tried in any other OS

widget inclusions Linux

2017-07-30 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
I apologize if this is a known (but not to me) issue... I am finding that the BMI Calculator does not work after it has been built as a standalone in 64bit Linux in recent versions of LiveCode. (I haven't tried in any other OS.) It works as expected within the IDE but in a standalone the

Re: AW: [OT]h.264 alternatives

2017-07-24 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 07/24/2017 02:54 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode wrote: Last year I asked Sorenson media if I have to pay license fees, using the h.264 codec and got the following answer from Sorenson: "No, you do not need to pay any license fees to use any codecs included in Squeeze. Sorenson Media

Re: AW: AW: [OT]h.264 alternatives

2017-07-21 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 07/21/2017 04:28 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode wrote: ... and h.264 is not h.264, it depends on the codec being used! I am also using h.264 videos on iOS and Android, but the fun stopped with the first customers, who couldn't play my videos on some Android devices. Obviously my

Re: AW: AW: [OT]h.264 alternatives

2017-07-21 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 07/21/2017 03:45 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode wrote: But I wonder, which codec youtube converts all videos into or other platforms are using so that their videos are almost always compatible with all platforms. There must be any cross-platform codec or the browser video players

Re: Sending an FTP command from one web server to another?

2017-07-18 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 07/18/2017 03:38 AM, Tim Selander via use-livecode wrote: Any ideas why the connection would be refused when coming from on-rev, but not LC desktop? Anyways around this? You might check your hosting account settings to see if there are any user, IP, or geo access restrictions set up.

Re: Refreshing question

2017-07-12 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 07/12/2017 10:11 AM, jbv via use-livecode wrote: Hi guys I have a web page that displays various informations that need to be updated/refreshed every minute. What is the best way to achieve that ? 1- client side : a settimeout in a js script that triggers a LC script on a remote server via

Re: Server Installation

2017-06-27 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 06/27/2017 02:41 PM, Simon Smith via use-livecode wrote: developers need something reliable that they can get up and running quickly and does not require in depth knowledge of Linux to get setup. Perhaps people should be encouraged to consider alternatives to Apache. I suspect that for

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-7

2017-06-16 Thread Warren Samples via use-livecode
On 06/16/2017 08:53 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: Is anyone else seeing that the dictionary is broken or is it again a case of just me? warning: save your work first because you have to force-quit after trying this. http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19895 These

Re: button width on different platforms

2017-01-04 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/04/2017 01:05 PM, Matt Maier wrote: I've got some buttons with text in them. On Windows (where I develop) they look fine. On Linux the buttons are a little bit narrower so the text is cut off. Anyone handled a similar problem? Matt, I would suggest dynamically setting the width of

Re: widget inclusion in standalones 8.0.2

2016-09-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/06/2016 09:29 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 06/09/2016 14:22, Warren Samples wrote: I've looked through a number of release notes but haven't been able to find this information. Is it expected that we have to manually select widgets for inclusion when building standalones in 8.0.2? Hi

widget inclusion in standalones 8.0.2

2016-09-06 Thread Warren Samples
I've looked through a number of release notes but haven't been able to find this information. Is it expected that we have to manually select widgets for inclusion when building standalones in 8.0.2? I'm running Linux, and I note that this happens automatically in 8.1 RC2. Warren

Re: [TOT] Totally Off . . .

2016-08-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/23/2016 05:49 AM, Richmond wrote: My real book (The Complete . . . ) has labelled bookmarks going back to when I was gifted that book in 1999 at the UAE University in Al Ain, UAE, when they, overnight, trashed all their Mac computers and replaced them with IBM compats running Windows Me,

Re: [ANN] lcb-mode v0.1.1: Emacs major mode for LCB source code

2016-08-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/16/2016 08:44 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: Emacs vim Whooboy! Fun time's a startin'! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: SVG Editors, anyone?

2016-08-05 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/05/2016 09:57 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: Having got very interested in LC widgets at the conference, I’m about to start experimenting, but I need to create some SVG graphics based on my own designs. I can’t afford Illustrator - has anyone got any recommendations for a free, or at any

Re: What Newbies Expect

2016-07-07 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/07/2016 07:35 AM, Sri wrote: I am reading this thread on the web and I find two other threads (by Ray Horsley-2) entangled with this one. What is going on? Do others see this? Regards, Sri I see it in my current email client. There are several people on the list wose habit is to

Re: Intel QSV H.264 codec for AVFoundation and DirectShow

2016-07-04 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/04/2016 04:43 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: The x264 codec is a opensource codec and as far as I understand it is not preinstalled on any system and at least on my Mac a x264 video can't be played (perhaps there is a chance to manually install it, what I would like to avoid for my

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-07-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/01/2016 02:49 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I would suggest filing the report. If anyone complains, I'll take the heat. :) It may be that this is something we'll fix as a community effort, but at least having it in the bug DB will give us a central place to share notes and logs as we work

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-07-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/01/2016 11:53 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Warren Samples wrote: > The 64 bit LiveCode IDE fails to open for me under openSUSE Leap > 42.1. ... > The shell prints a backtrace. Would this be helpful to see? Running > LiveCode through strace using some parti

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-07-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/01/2016 10:00 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Warren Samples wrote: ldd doesn't show anything missing. Getting LiveCode to run under Tumbleweed requires no head scratching or additional installation of libs, using the official installation DVD and as well the geckoLinux spin (rolling version

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-06-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/30/2016 03:10 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Warren Samples wrote: > I can't open LiveCode on my Linux machine running the current release > of openSUSE (Leap). I can, however, run it under different release > versions of openSUSE and have it open right now in a virtual machine

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0 DP 2

2016-06-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/30/2016 11:02 AM, Richmond wrote: Still waiting (64-bit, Linux) for the Dictionary. Richmond. I understand your frustration, Richmond. I can't open LiveCode on my Linux machine running the current release of openSUSE (Leap). I can, however, run it under different release versions of

Re: Running Node (or any unix cmd line program) from Shell from a LC Stack

2016-05-08 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/08/2016 04:07 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: It's something about LC now knowing that I have node installed when invoked via shell BR Compare what you get when you run 'echo $PATH' in a terminal to what you get when you run it in LiveCode using shell(). Make sure the directory

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0

2016-05-06 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/05/2016 04:55 PM, Warren Samples wrote: I'm running openSUSE Leap 42.1 here and finding that Livecode 8 will not launch. The installer worked properly. Launching LiveCode displays the splashscreen followed either by a rapid crash (IDE itself never displays) or a permanent hang

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0

2016-05-05 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/04/2016 09:12 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0.0, the first stable release of LiveCode 8. I'm running openSUSE Leap 42.1 here and finding that Livecode 8 will not launch. The installer worked properly. Launching

Re: Indy Licensing

2016-04-13 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/13/2016 12:26 PM, John Dixon wrote: I am surprised that this list has not been flooded with questions and complaints... Have you been away? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: OT(ish): Selling software downloads - sales tax?

2016-03-18 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/17/2016 01:06 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: I have been discussing the sale of a desktop product (developed with LC, obviously) with a colleague. We’re thinking of direct sales...He’s in the US ..sell a low volume of product purely as a download with no physical fulfilment...I am not sure

Re: OS X - how to write to a file associated as a Unix executable

2016-02-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/29/2016 06:09 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: This only works IF the file created is associated with the terminal application. The issue is creating the proper file format so when the chmod creates it as Unix executable. Are you saying that saving a file from TextMate and chmoding it works but

Re: OS X - how to write to a file associated as a Unix executable

2016-02-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/29/2016 06:06 PM, Warren Samples wrote: 'get shell("chomd +x /your/new/file")' Well, that of course won't work jaja. chmod ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, u

Re: OS X - how to write to a file associated as a Unix executable

2016-02-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/29/2016 03:13 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: Hello, I am trying to write the from a text field to a file and then change the file so it is executable. put field "mytest" into URL "binfile:~/race" or put field "mytest" into URL"file:~/race" The file race is created in either case but are

Re: Finding UTC

2016-02-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/21/2016 01:34 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: Thanks to all those who replied - ‘the internet date’ was the answer I needed, since I then didn’t have to get out of my LiveCode comfort zone to do the calculation. I’m thinking of time-stamping some interactions that are going to go through a

Re: Sound, Linux, Embedding

2016-02-17 Thread Warren Samples
On 02/17/2016 03:06 PM, RM wrote: So, after keeping quiet on this for about 5 years . . . I was digging away in some ZIP disks I have access to via a SCSI card in the back of my Linux box [neither my G3 iMac, nor my G5 iMac having SCSI ports] and I chanced upon some "LiveCode" (i.e. Runtime

Re: Java version

2015-11-28 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/28/2015 10:32 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Thanks, but the link in the post there times out so I can't get to it. Could you give a brief synopsis? My main confusion is whether I have two versions installed (and can therfore uninstall 8 entirely) or whether it's version 6 that's triggering

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/25/2015 08:38 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Yes, the release notes appear to be inaccurate. We currently build against: * glibc 2.11 (released Nov 2009) or newer on x86 * glibc 2.13 (released Feb 2011) or newer on x86-64 I will make sure they are updated in time for our next releases. Out

Re: Release 8.0 DP 10

2015-11-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/24/2015 05:46 AM, Ali Lloyd wrote: We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0 DP 10. The release notes provided with this version of Livecode Server say it requires glibc 2.3.6 or later for 32-bit Intel. This seems not to be the case. It won't run in my environment and ldd

Re: Release 8.0.0 DP 8

2015-11-03 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/03/2015 12:06 PM, Richmond wrote: As soon as I clicked on one of the dropDown menus in revMenuBar everything locked up. Richmond. OpenSUSE 64bit with KDE Plasma5. I had no troubles opening this version, but get similar behavior to that which Richmond describes here except that

Re: [OT] Mac/Window duopoly assumptions

2015-10-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/20/2015 12:27 PM, Richmond wrote: P.S. I also use my computer to iron my socks. Maybe you should put another fan or two in it! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Release 6.7.7 / 7.1.0

2015-10-04 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/04/2015 12:50 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Many of the Linux releases seem to misbehave themselves well if one chooses the "Ayn Rand" option [ You Only ]; since the release of the first Community version I have found about 25% of them have "gone wonky" for 'You Only'. Ah, that's a really

Re: list etiquette

2015-09-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/30/2015 02:03 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: That's exactly what you'd want isn't it? If you are not interested in the main topic why on earth would you be interested in a side issue of the main topic? You are not understanding the problem. These "side issues of the main thread" are nothing of

Re: A modest proposal

2015-09-29 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/28/2015 03:23 PM, William Prothero wrote: Folks: I’m putting out what I think is a fantastic idea for an app. It’s much more than I’d be willing to take on, but in the US, I think it could be very big. But, then again, perhaps it exists already. I’d like to use such an app for my aging

list etiquette

2015-09-28 Thread Warren Samples
Hello all, From time to time certain issue of list etiquette have been brought up and discussed. Cross-posting to this and the dev list, top or bottom responding, succinct message copying, and whether or not to leave a message intact while responding or slicing it and responding point by

Re: Linux software suggestions

2015-09-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/22/2015 03:02 PM, AndyP wrote: Photo / Raw editing - DarkTable - Linux only, I've been wanting to play with this for ages. There is also RawTherapee (this is cross platform but not well known to Win/Mac users because they don't "sell" it) http://www.rawtherapee.com/ LightZone is

Re: HTML5 test

2015-09-02 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/01/2015 11:36 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: On Ubuntu Linux, works fine Firefox Chrome and Opera shows this message: Exception thrown, see JavaScript console It works here in Opera 31.0 and Chrome 44.0 (also works in Chromium) in openSUSE 13.2, 64-bit. I wonder what accounts for the

Re: HTML5 test

2015-09-02 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/02/2015 04:31 AM, Fraser Gordon wrote: Opera works - it isn’t one that we’d particularly tried to support at this stage. Keep in mind that Opera now uses the Chrome/Blink rendering and javascript engines, as apparently does Vivaldi. Warren

Re: v8 DP3

2015-08-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/26/2015 11:54 AM, Richmond wrote: I just knocked together a standard stack with one button containing the script: on mouseUp put HELLO end mouseUp before I tried building a standalone, that script did NOT work . . . I built a 64-bit Linux standalone, and it *opened* (the script did

Re: v8 DP3

2015-08-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 08/26/2015 10:23 AM, Richmond wrote: Really excited, now I have a functioning 64-bit system, to dig into this 'puppy'. Richmond. Richmond, Please let me know if you can build a working standalone on your system. I can't get a standalone built in any version of LC8 to open and run on my

atom editor and livecode server files syntax package available

2015-07-03 Thread Warren Samples
For those of you who don't participate in the forums for whatever reason, but are interested in livecode server, forum user ghettocottage has converted the TextMate revigniter-livecode syntax module for the cross-platform Atom Text Editor and made it available to all. You can install it

Re: Edit the script of a stack without opening it

2015-05-23 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/23/2015 06:00 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Messages button in the toolbar Where is this? Did you mean Suppress Messages in the menubar? Craig Under the View menu are options to toggle toolbar text and toolbar icons. Enable one or both of these and you will find Messages right

Re: Server performance issues: Dreamhost only?

2015-01-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/26/2015 03:28 PM, Warren Samples wrote: Have any of you seen order-of-magnitude speed loss when running LiveCode Server on any host other than Dreamhost? Not at webfaction It may be relevant to note that all LC Server versions I have installed are 32bit, including LC 7. webfaction

Re: Server performance issues: Dreamhost only?

2015-01-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/26/2015 01:08 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: We've seen reports of serious performance issues with running LiveCode Server 7.x on Dreamhost. I'm working with Peter Brett at RunRev to try to resolve these, and there's one detail that would be very useful to know: While we see relatively minor

Re: OT: Web Server-side ID3 Tagger

2014-12-16 Thread Warren Samples
On 12/16/2014 12:24 AM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: I need to set the ID3 tags for MP3 files that have already been uploaded to our web server. typically my approach is to create a thin desktop client, which can read our media database from the web server... then I need to send a POST back to my

Re: LC Server on DreamHost?

2014-11-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/21/2014 01:56 PM, Phil Davis wrote: the speed of loading is TERRIBLE with the 7.0.1 LC Linux server. It takes 4.5 seconds for LC to 'execute' a simple page every time. It's not about DNS and a PHP page on the same site loads immediately by comparison. Is this possibly related to other

Re: LC Server on DreamHost?

2014-11-22 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/21/2014 01:56 PM, Phil Davis wrote: I'm glad it isn't just me: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=13983 Phil Davis Phil, Your desktop utility shows a difference of about 8 to 10 times using your URLs and about 4 times using mine when run under 6.6.2. Opening the URLs in a

Re: Livecode Server on Dreamhost fails in Ubuntu upgrade

2014-11-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 11/11/2014 12:42 PM, Phil Davis wrote: One thing I noticed is that script execution speed seems to have gotten dreadfully slow in 64-bit 7.0 - roughly 6x slower. I have a simple script that repeats 5000 times, adding to a counter and populating and sorting a list with seven items. It

Re: Volume Size

2014-10-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/14/2014 04:55 AM, JB wrote: I can get a file size by listing the detailed files and I can get a list of all drives and volumes that are mounted by using the volumes function. Is there a way to get the size of a drive or volume that is returned by using the volumes function? John

Re: Volume Size

2014-10-14 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/14/2014 10:37 PM, JB wrote: The dictionary states, This function always returns empty on Unix systems. So, is Linux a Unix OS? For LiveCode purposes, yes. The dictionary does indicated, by omission of the penguin icon, that 'volumes()' is not supported under Linux. I find the

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

2014-10-01 Thread Warren Samples
On 10/01/2014 08:09 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: But then why is this not the case with Linux? For Linux users who have installed single user, in their HOME directory, the defaultfolder is their HOME directory.. Those who have installed for all users, in /opt, will run into these kinds of issues,

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

2014-09-30 Thread Warren Samples
On 09/30/2014 10:17 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Before I go ahead and submit a bug report I'd like others to test and report their findings. openSUSE, LiveCode 6.6.2 Redirected the output to files. Results are identical, except for the extra file created by running the initial 'find $PWD

Re: SHELL text encoding OS X?

2014-07-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/26/2014 07:44 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: Hi friends, i am currently using some shell commands, mainly mdfind, to get a list of files. But german UMLAUTS etc. are not correctly displayed. i thought the shell output would be UTF8, but unidecode(listoffiles) produces lots of glibberish 8-)

Re: SHELL text encoding OS X?

2014-07-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/26/2014 08:05 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: thank you, but my question was: Anyway, what can I do in LC 6.6.2? ;-) You also wrote this: This even happens with LC 7dp7, but shouldn't right? so it seemed you might be interested in how it's supposed to work there.

Re: LiveCodeServer - Prints shebang line

2014-07-15 Thread Warren Samples
On 07/15/2014 08:46 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi Peter One of the contributions I made just prior to christmas was to handle the shebang and basically put the script into ?lc mode immediately if there's a shebang. I really didn't get much of a chance to experiment with it but it was merged

Re: Nested Repeat loops

2014-06-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/20/2014 08:18 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Wondering if anyone has an elegant way of exiting all the way out of a set of nested repeat loops., e.g: repeat for... repeat for... repeat for repeat for if . then I want to exit out of the outermost repeat

Re: RELEASE LiveCode 6.6.2

2014-06-07 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/07/2014 12:58 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: I'm getting an error that the file isn't found. That error is typically what you get trying to run in a 64 bit environment without the 32 bit libs installed. Do you have other versions of LiveCode running on this particular computer? Warren

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/26/2014 12:53 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: That's what I thought. This urban legend has been batted around lately. Um, what is it you thought? I didn't say I once heard somebody say their friend's uncle told them about a neighbor... urban legend style. It was my own (recent) observation. I

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 10:29 AM, Richmond wrote: Problems: 1. The menubar (Linux) states it it dp 4. 2. Still unable to put an insertion point into the search fields in the Dictionary and RevOnline. 3. Double-clicking on a control in the toolbar does nothing. 4. Unable to switch back and forth

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 11:52 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: or wait for an actual release announcement. Mark, If we assume this is a mislabeled dp4, I suppose it's possible there are problems resolved in the actual dp5 that we can't experience just yet, but the issues he's talking about here have plagued

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 01:58 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: ...which was also not announced... With so many parallel versions and more than one place to track announcements, it's hard to be sure exactly what is current. The fact that there is a public link on the LiveCode site to downloads of versions

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 10:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Warren- Sunday, May 25, 2014, 12:31:34 PM, you wrote: With so many parallel versions and more than one place to track announcements, it's hard to be sure exactly what is current. Ah, ok... maybe I missed something here. You're saying there was a

Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-25 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/25/2014 11:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: That's what the dp and rc designations are for, but it would probably be more clear if there was a statement on the page explaining what those mean, along with appropriate caveats. Final releases should be clearly marked as stable. We're

Re: Unicode

2014-05-11 Thread Warren Samples
On 05/11/2014 10:31 PM, Alain Farmer wrote: Hello, I am using version 6.1.0-rc-1 (Desktop) None of the unicode stuff works [for me]: * set the useUnicode to true * the unicodeText of field * the unicodeFormattedText of field No error messages; just empty. Can anyone give me a clue as to what to

Re: Backdrop in in 6.7.0 dp2 under Lubuntu Linux 13.10

2014-04-26 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/26/2014 12:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Nonetheless, backdrops are working properly in 6.7-dp2 on linux mint 14, and there are no backdrops in dp1, so it does look like the problem is fixed. Also seems to be working fine here in both 6.6.2-rc2 and 6.7.0-dp2 running openSUSE with

Re: 6.6.1 no bueno

2014-04-15 Thread Warren Samples
On 04/14/2014 10:57 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hi all. Release 6.6.1 is no bueno. Try this: Launch 6.6.1. Open a new stack. Drag a combo box into the stack. Double click the combo box to get properties. Do you get the property inspector? I don’t. Now do the same thing, only this time, drag a

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