Re: OSX File Extension

2019-09-08 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_filename_extensions https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_formats On 8.09.19 8:48, Kee Nethery via use-livecode wrote: I seem to recall a Wikipedia article that lists all of the file extensions not file types but file extensions. You might want to loo

Re: OT: Catalina - the end of ad hoc & in-house development?

2019-09-08 Thread Rick Harrison via use-livecode
That may be exactly what happens next if the big guys continue with their nonsense. More developers will rebel and leave their platforms altogether in favor of Linux. Just my 2 cents. :-) Rick > On Sep 8, 2019, at 2:55 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > If you want a develope

9.5 on Windows seems terribly unable to deal with fields full of text?

2019-09-08 Thread Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
The ide seems slow in general, but put the contents of a 1 mb 80k line file, and the message box disables the IDE, with multi-second delays. Examine that value as a variable, and similarly but to a lesser extent things slow down. I remember having no trouble doing things like this in 8, maybe ev

Re: 9.5 on Windows seems terribly unable to deal with fields full of text?

2019-09-08 Thread Geoff Canyon via use-livecode
Just running a script with large variables, no viewers open, and setting a breakpoint took 20 seconds. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: OT: Catalina - the end of ad hoc & in-house development?

2019-09-08 Thread prothero--- via use-livecode
Folks, With respect, I agree with Paul’s comments. We live in an online environment where we are faced, on a daily basis, with criminal activity. The worst of it can cost us financially, but even major players like Amazon record our behaviors and choices, for their profit, with disclosure statem

Re: OT: Catalina - the end of ad hoc & in-house development?

2019-09-08 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
At which point, if Apple and Microsoft have any brain at all, they'll wake up and Linux will, finally, achieve what has always been one of its reasons for being: to stop the smugness of a duopoly that has dominated the computer world far, far too long. Richmond. On 8.09.19 17:10, Rick Harrison v

Re: OT: Catalina - the end of ad hoc & in-house development?

2019-09-08 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
This reminds me of the arguments that the British government have used to set up a surveillance society. Richmond. On 8.09.19 17:37, prothero--- via use-livecode wrote: Folks, With respect, I agree with Paul’s comments. We live in an online environment where we are faced, on a daily basis, wi

Re: OT: Catalina - the end of ad hoc & in-house development?

2019-09-08 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I don't think any of us are happy about the contortions we increasingly need to go through to get apps into the app stores or out to the public. Keeping up with Apple is even harder for the LC team. But Apple sells privacy and safety as its primary distinctive feature. There are instances wher

Re: OT: Catalina - the end of ad hoc & in-house development?

2019-09-08 Thread Antti Ilola via use-livecode
And then, when everybody use Linux, where do you think the bad guys is going to put their efforts. Antti su 8.9.2019 klo 17.11 Rick Harrison via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> kirjoitti: > That may be exactly what happens next if the big guys continue with their > nonsense. > More

Re: OT: Catalina - the end of ad hoc & in-house development?

2019-09-08 Thread Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode
Maybe developers should have been pushing for code signing some time ago—on their own terms. > On Sep 8, 2019, at 8:10 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode > wrote: > > That may be exactly what happens next if the big guys continue with their > nonsense. > More developers will rebel and leave

livecode in terminal ; path in linux as alternative to bash?

2019-09-08 Thread Eric A. Engle via use-livecode
I am learning bash (bourne again shell) on linux; i would like to know if it is possible to 1) invoke livecode from the command line 2) how to install livcode into my path 3) whether livecode can be used as an alternative to bash? I http://lexflex.com free full text online law reviews, cases &