Re: mobile: pick image without importing?

2018-01-24 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
hh wrote: > Of course sandboxed files only. Getting file locations (or listings) > outside of that is violating privacy. Who is interested in that? App developers who ask the user's permission for access, just like we do for audio and video files which (thankfully) can be referenced without

Re: mobile: pick image without importing?

2018-01-24 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Brian Milby wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 12:16 AM Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Do we have a way to obtain a file path for an image on mobile? >> >> I see mobilePickImage, but it insists on importing a copy of the >> image, and what I'm really after is a reference to the image file. > > I’m not

Re: mobile: pick image without importing?

2018-01-24 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Oh crap! (looks frantically for a roll of masking tape) Bob S > On Jan 24, 2018, at 15:07 , J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 1/24/18 4:27 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote: >> Of course sandboxed files only. Getting file locations (or listings)

Re: mobile: pick image without importing?

2018-01-24 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 1/24/18 4:27 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote: Of course sandboxed files only. Getting file locations (or listings) outside of that is violating privacy. Who is interested in that? :) I'm amazed how many people leave their security webcams unprotected. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: mobile: pick image without importing?

2018-01-24 Thread hh via use-livecode
Of course sandboxed files only. Getting file locations (or listings) outside of that is violating privacy. Who is interested in that? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: mobile: pick image without importing?

2018-01-24 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
On 1/24/18 2:53 PM, hh via use-livecode wrote: Do we have a way to obtain a file path for an image on mobile? I see mobilePickImage, but it insists on importing a copy of the image, and what I'm really after is a reference to the image file. Why not set the defaultFolder and use "the files"?

Re: mobile: pick image without importing?

2018-01-24 Thread hh via use-livecode
> Do we have a way to obtain a file path for an image on mobile? > I see mobilePickImage, but it insists on importing a copy of the > image, and what I'm really after is a reference to the image file. Why not set the defaultFolder and use "the files"? Or use the files()?

Re: mobile: pick image without importing?

2018-01-24 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
I’m not sure this is possible... due to the sandbox you can only see paths of files in a restricted subset of the file system. You should be able to roll your own for the places you can see from the app. Thanks, Brian On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 12:16 AM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <

mobile: pick image without importing?

2018-01-23 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Do we have a way to obtain a file path for an image on mobile? I see mobilePickImage, but it insists on importing a copy of the image, and what I'm really after is a reference to the image file. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile,