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