Re: Replacing Characters

2014-09-27 Thread Kay C Lan
Assuming tBigList contains your data and it is a tab separated list. set the itemDelimiter to tab repeat for each item tSearchThis in tBigList if (char 3 of tSearchThis = D) then put + into char 3 of tSearchThis end if put tSearchThis tab after tNewList end repeat --remove the trailing tab

Re: Replacing Characters

2014-09-27 Thread JB
Thanks, Kay! The problem is there are no delimiters. It is a string of only chars A to F and there are no spaces etc. John Balgenorth On Sep 26, 2014, at 11:19 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: Assuming tBigList contains your data and it is a tab separated list. set the

Re: Replacing Characters

2014-09-27 Thread JB
Another thing to consider is the characters are not in any specific crder. It could be cfacded or anything else. If is use a repeat for each char and the variable as a counter that resets every three times then I only need to make one pass through to make the changes. But there might be a

Re: Replacing Characters

2014-09-27 Thread Dick Kriesel
On Sep 27, 2014, at 12:23 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: But there might be a faster way. Hi, John. Here's a way that works in under a millisecond on my iMac, and a way to test its speed. command replace_maybe @rString repeat with i = 3 to length( rString ) step 3 if char i

Re: getting a section cross-platform without utf

2014-09-27 Thread Fraser Gordon
On 26/09/2014 21:32, Richmond wrote: On 26/09/14 23:20, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 11:19 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Put numToChar(167) I just tried that on a mac. I think what it gave me was a german esset, the double s that looks like a beta . . .

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 132, Issue 59

2014-09-27 Thread bernd . gottwald
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Re: Replacing Characters

2014-09-27 Thread JB
Hi Dick, That is really nice! Thank you. It works great. John Balgenorth On Sep 27, 2014, at 1:49 AM, Dick Kriesel dick.krie...@mail.com wrote: On Sep 27, 2014, at 12:23 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: But there might be a faster way. Hi, John. Here's a way that works in under a

Re: Regex Help

2014-09-27 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Michael, those are two awesome resources! Thanks. SKIP On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Guys, I have been using these 2 sites lately and they are really a huge help in understanding regex: http://regex101.com/#pcre http://www.regexr.com Give them a

Problem/strange behavior with older version of Mergpop (2.0.7) and Retina screens?

2014-09-27 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, Yesterday I got an e-mail about a problem with one of my apps. I am trying to debug the problem now and maybe anyone can help me. In my app I use MergPop (MergExt) for saving an image. When putting my app through Xcode on my iPad the image is saved nicely using MergPop. But when I

Re: ShellShock - what are you doing?

2014-09-27 Thread Bruce Pokras
Thanks Rick! I guess between Mark's link to localhost which simply gave me a cannot connect error in Safari, and your explanation, this is really a non-issue for the vast majority of OS X users. Regards, Bruce On Sep 27, 2014, at 12:34 AM, Rick Harrison harri...@all-auctions.com wrote: Hi

Re: HTTPProyy

2014-09-27 Thread Bruce Pokras
Mats, Pardon me if I do not understand all of the ramifications of corporate firewalls and proxy servers, but if your app is being used by your client behind his/her corporate firewall aren't the HTTP calls going through the proxy server by default? It that is the case, then you do not need to

Re: getting a section cross-platform without utf

2014-09-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 2:45 AM, Fraser Gordon fraser.gor...@livecode.com wrote: To get a section sign on Mac, you'll need to use numToChar(0xA4). This leads to the next question . . . if I use that character, will a pdf created by livecode be safely readable cross-platform, or am I going to

Re: Regex Help

2014-09-27 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Skip, Not sure what can come before /after the string but here's a start .*/point-.*-landed\.html.* That will find your string with any number of chars before or after it. If you need to check for it at the start of a line, replace .* with a ^ at the start of the regexp. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: ShellShock - what are you doing?

2014-09-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bruce Pokras wrote: this is really a non-issue for the vast majority of OS X users. Most home CLIENT COMPUTERS are probably safe, but many other systems remain vulnerable, and with things like routers those can compromise internally-connected clients. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at ZDNet has

Re: Keeping a group of controls active while using edit tool

2014-09-27 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 8:17 PM, Paul Hibbert paulhibb...@mac.com wrote: Not sure if it's what you are looking for, but if these tool panels are on separate stacks or substacks you could try: Unfortunately, it's just a group of buttons and slider on the same stack. It's purpose is to pop the

Re: ShellShock - what are you doing?

2014-09-27 Thread Richmond
I just upgraded my machine with Ubuntu Studio from 14.04 to 14.10 and see that the BASH is 4.3-9, so, fingers crossed. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: ShellShock - what are you doing?

2014-09-27 Thread Mike Kerner
For Bruce, unless you have your Mac set up as a server, bash should not be available remotely. For Richmond, RedHat just posted their supposedly full batch patch this AM, although the white hats have run into another issue with the parser, today that causes a heap overflow. I'm waiting for them

Re: HTTPProyy

2014-09-27 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Mats Åström matsast...@yahoo.se wrote: having read up on, and tried, most posts with suggestions on how to make LiveCode access the web through a proxy, I'm in a cul-de-sac. It works fine (POST-ing a SOAP web service) without going through a proxy. Although I

Re: HTTPProyy

2014-09-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/26/2014, 4:44 PM, Mats Åström wrote: having read up on, and tried, most posts with suggestions on how to make LiveCode access the web through a proxy, I'm in a cul-de-sac. It works fine (POST-ing a SOAP web service) without going through a proxy. Although I get error timeout when HTTPProxy

HTTPProxy

2014-09-27 Thread Mats Åström
Hi all, having read up on, and tried, most posts with suggestions on how to make LiveCode access the web through a proxy, I'm in a cul-de-sac. It works fine (POST-ing a SOAP web service) without going through a proxy. Although I get error timeout when HTTPProxy is set to my clients proxy

Re: ShellShock - what are you doing?

2014-09-27 Thread Bruce Pokras
Some of the articles about the vulnerability make it sound like every Mac on the planet could be taken over by bad guys. Talk about spreading FUD! On Sep 27, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: For Bruce, unless you have your Mac set up as a server, bash should not

Library Stacks

2014-09-27 Thread Peter Haworth
Using a library stack for the first time and wondering the best practices for where to locate it. Application support folder, same folder as the application using it, somewhere else? Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and

Stack format concerns

2014-09-27 Thread Mark Smith
Now that I have upgraded from 5.5.5 to 6.3.3 are there any stack format issues I need to be aware of? All compatible? I've been thinking Since I have 51 release notes to read between these 2 versions what this calls for is some sort of release note reader/stack that helps organize

Re: ShellShock - what are you doing?

2014-09-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/27/2014, 4:58 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote: Some of the articles about the vulnerability make it sound like every Mac on the planet could be taken over by bad guys. Talk about spreading FUD! Yeah. I think a lot of servers will be in trouble, but fewer consumers than the media makes it out to

Re: ShellShock - what are you doing?

2014-09-27 Thread Mike Kerner
Now we're working on round 3, by the way. There are some more things that are coming out from fuzzing the parser. We'll see what the short and medium-term plans are, but if I read it right, there are probably 3-5 more patches, minimum, coming. On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 11:04 PM, J. Landman Gay

Re: Library Stacks

2014-09-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/27/2014, 6:31 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Using a library stack for the first time and wondering the best practices for where to locate it. Application support folder, same folder as the application using it, somewhere else? I always make them substacks. That way they are always available

How to create a List of My Functions and My Commands

2014-09-27 Thread Kay C Lan
I know how to get a list of LCs inbuilt function and commands but is there a quick way to get all my own handler names that are contained within an entire stack? I can get customProperties[mySet], but I can't find customFunctions or customCommands. At this stage it looks like I have to step

Re: Stack format concerns

2014-09-27 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/27/2014, 8:46 PM, Mark Smith wrote: Now that I have upgraded from 5.5.5 to 6.3.3 are there any stack format issues I need to be aware of? All compatible? Not yet. The next file format change is in 7.0. If you test that version, be sure to save stacks in the older format or keep backups.

Re: How to create a List of My Functions and My Commands

2014-09-27 Thread Dick Kriesel
On Sep 27, 2014, at 8:34 PM, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: At this stage it looks like I have to step through each object, extract each script and then parse out the handler names; which of course is exactly what LC does extremely quickly and efficiently, but not as quick as if