Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I am sure it is possible. I just don't have the PHP/HTML/Javascript/whatever skills to do that. On 11/5/2019 12:02 PM, Phil Davis via use-livecode wrote: On this issue, isn't it possible to let a web server detect the OS requesting the download? So the server can then do the picking and send

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
On 11/5/19 12:26 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I am sure it is possible. I just don't have the PHP/HTML/Javascript/whatever skills to do that. Me neither. I do it either directly in a .lc server page, or else the .lc page starts using a stackfile that does it. (fiddling around

Re: Learning from scratch - any recommendations?

2019-11-05 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
The person in question is both an adult and has expressed an interest in learning computer science, not natural languages, so most of the discussion here has been irrelevant to your request. Scratch, for example, can be useful for young learners but at higher cognitive development levels is

OT? The Grammar of the Elements

2019-11-05 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
2019 has been designated by UNESCO as the International Year of the Periodic Table, which is IYPT because it wouldn't fit into a TLA. Herein we find: (!) a seven-volume Sanskrit-German dictionary (!) Sanskrit -> 3,959 rules organized into eight chapters.

Android brightness

2019-11-05 Thread Riko Abdul via use-livecode
Hello, I'm making a barcode application. For barcodes to be displayed. android screen brightness reaches 100% so the android screen will be maximum brightness. so the barcode will look very clear even if the android screen is dim. is this possible with livecode? if possible, is a sample code that

Re: server push to desktop client

2019-11-05 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
Thank you Kee! This is extremely helpful. Phil On 11/5/19 12:38 AM, Kee Nethery via use-livecode wrote: Normal data flow is Mac app contacts a central server and sees if there is updated data to acquire. If yes, it acquires it. This is the normal flow because of firewalls and ports. For the

Re: server push to desktop client

2019-11-05 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
Thanks for sharing your insight Richard. Great food for thought. Phil On 11/5/19 12:29 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Phil Davis wrote: > I need to make a desktop app (Mac only for now) that receives pushed > data from a LC server. I've never done this - all the desktop <-> >

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
On this issue, isn't it possible to let a web server detect the OS requesting the download? So the server can then do the picking and send the right version to the requestor? Or maybe the info available to the server about the requesting OS isn't that detailed. Not sure. At least I'm sure I

New edition of Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner

2019-11-05 Thread Mark via use-livecode
I'm very happy to announce the second edition of my book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner. The previous edition stems from the time of LiveCode 6 and since then many features have been added to --and some removed from-- LiveCode. One of the major changes concerns Unicode. While I

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I'm not saying YOUR experience is invalid. I guess I am just saying we have really really really computer naive customers and Apple has gone and complicated things and it creates a support burden for us that we would not have had to expend resources addressing if Apple had not done this.

Catalina & Mojave "Allow/Deny" dialogs

2019-11-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Another "fun" feature of the newer macOS versions is the new Privacy (tab in the Security and Privacy pane of the System Preferences). It seems that running our app generates a number of system dialogs of the form "[[OUR APPLICATION]] wants access to " with "OK" and "Don't Allow" buttons.

Printing issue on Windows confirmed, reported

2019-11-05 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Thanks to a new forum user who provided a handy sample stack, I was able to pin down a recipe for making a very common form of printing on Windows completely unusable: Setting the vGrid or hGrid properties of a field cause the field to be rendered into the print buffer with the entire content

Re: Android mobile audio player

2019-11-05 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hello Jacque, What Android version does your device run? A rough guess is that the problem is security/permissions related. On Android 9+ there is something equivalent to iOS ATS that blocks connections that do not comply with some security standards. You can workaround this by adding a suitable

Re: Thermal printer bluetooth

2019-11-05 Thread General 2018 via use-livecode
Hi , Something we need on LC Mac , LC Android and LC IOS also. Bluetooth and USB works fine on LC Windows using Virtual Com port. Serial over USB. Serial over Bluetooth. Unfortunately no current cross platform solution with LC which would open up solution for all those apps that communicate

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread James At The Hale via use-livecode
LC is not the only app bringing up this alert. The standard way to open non-notarized apps is to right-click (cntl-click) on the app and select “Open” in the resulting menu. You will then be presented with a dialog asking if you really want to open the app. Once you do this LC will open. This is

Re: server push to desktop client

2019-11-05 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
Normal data flow is Mac app contacts a central server and sees if there is updated data to acquire. If yes, it acquires it. This is the normal flow because of firewalls and ports. For the server to really push data to a Mac client, the Mac client has to be a server, with a routable IP address

Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
Hello, I just installed LC Indy 9.5.0. on MacOS 10.15 Catalina I can't start LC Indy. My Mac tells me: "LiveCode Indy 9.5.0 can't be opened, because Apple can't search for malware in this app." This software has to be updated. Probably this was already a question on this list, but I

Re: Thermal printer bluetooth

2019-11-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode
Not sure of the current status but a couple of years ago I had excellent results using the mergBLE extensions - I was able to do both high- and low- level bluetooth things on Mac and on iOS. http://mergext.com/home/mergble/ I can't recall - when Monte joined LiveCode, did the mergExt package

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
One annoyance from Catalina and Notarization for me as a developer: LiveCode 9.x.x supports macOS 10.9 (Mavericks) through 10.15 (Catalina). For our app built on LC9.x.x, we support those versions of macOS as well. However, a Notarized DMG (one way of addressing Apple's Notarization

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
The new recension of MacOS does seem to resemble that island off the coast of California in more ways that just its name: also a bit rocky and hard-going to cultivate anything on its barren slopes. I have certainly had no problems of this sort on MacOS 10.14.6; and I honestly think I'll stay

Re: server push to desktop client

2019-11-05 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Phil Davis wrote: > I need to make a desktop app (Mac only for now) that receives pushed > data from a LC server. I've never done this - all the desktop <-> > server interactions I've programmed have used the traditional client- > server model. So I'm looking for approaches/tips/ideas from

Re: Learning from scratch - any recommendations? [with OT additions]

2019-11-05 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
Interesting stuff. "But writing in LC means that you have to master concepts and algorithms" I wonder which programming language (and I don't mean block-based baby-hits-the-Lego-bricks stuff) does not involve mastering concepts and algorithms. One of the things that has slightly annoyed me

Learning from scratch - any recommendations? [with OT additions]

2019-11-05 Thread Georges Malamoud via use-livecode
>> There are many good reasons to learn another language, ranging from the >> well-proven neurological benefits of multiple languages to the simple common >> courtesy of doing so - but in straightforward "increase in ability to >> communicate" I'm unconvinced that an English speaker gains

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hello Tiemo, This is shown because you are on Catalina and the app is not notarised. You should be able to add this app to the "exceptions" list by going to the System Settings -> Security and Privacy, and then click "Open Anyway" I am still on Mojave, so have not tested this, but it should

Thermal printer bluetooth

2019-11-05 Thread Riko Abdul via use-livecode
Why does LC not support Bluetooth. I want to use a thermal printer for my application. I use LC for Android but I found a problem using Bluetooth for Android. whether LC cannot be used for printers with Bluetooth? Thanks ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
This is not limited to LC. When downloading drivers for MacOS from the Toshiba site, guess what you see? One link for drivers prior to a certain version of the OS, and another for later versions. It may be an annoyance, but it's one everyone is experiencing for any installer. RunRev won't be

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/5/2019 10:41 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: First, your assumption that "it's one everyone is experiencing for any installer" is exactly that, an assumption based on your experiences. The vast majority of our customers are computer novices and anything but the simplest of steps

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
But the installers for drivers and the installer you want to use are not different. And what else does anyone have to go on but their experiences, and other people's experiences? I need to tap into that resource! ;-) Bob S > On Nov 5, 2019, at 08:18 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: >

Re: Android Sleep

2019-11-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
" Is it sleeping when you're interacting with it, or just running with no  interaction?" -- running with no interaction Some "modules" (stacks) in the app guide the user through a practice, let say, e.g. - do A for 5 second, - (there is a countdown timer showing "1,2,3,4,5" on the

Re: Thermal printer bluetooth

2019-11-05 Thread General 2018 via use-livecode
Hi , Could you post a simple example . Write “Hello” to a device using mergBLE ? Regards Camm > On 5 Nov 2019, at 12:19, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode > wrote: > > Not sure of the current status but a couple of years ago I had excellent > results using the mergBLE extensions - I was able