Re: Building a Standalone MacOS App in 9.6.1

2021-01-07 Thread Terence Heaford via use-livecode
Hi Panos, That’s just a typo correction by MacOS mail. I actually applied the sudo call as you suggested. I have not replied because as a trial I have now done a full install of Xcode 12.3 from the App Store which as usual asked me to install the additional components. I did this. Now when I

Re: Threads in LC

2021-01-07 Thread JeeJeeStudio via use-livecode
For what i've seen and read is that one can run functions in their own thread, so you assign a thread to it. I'm not very experienced in Python, but that is what i read and i found it interesting. (slowly progressing the motor project with simplepygui and the GPIO)

Re: LC & Mac M1 Chip

2021-01-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I know the mothership does not like to estimate release dates, but does anyone have a sense of when LC 9.6.2 STABLE may be out? And more importantly, whether it will come with 'official' support for the M1 hardware or at least a fix for this apparent M1 specific bug:

Re: Threads in LC

2021-01-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
JeeJeeStudio wrote: > So what i actually meant is multiprocessing, would that give > advantage? Maybe. Does your Pi_gpio_output function use file I/O calls to the virtual file system in /run, or call an LCB or external using a lower-level interface for GPIO? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: LC & Mac M1 Chip

2021-01-07 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Paul: > we have several customer who have said > they are upgrading to M1 laptops Yes; important to support! I'm looking in that direction too. It'll be popular, plus it's what I can afford. Many people in the same boat. (Backstory: Apple's biz model forces Apple to force us to spend on

Re: Threads in LC

2021-01-07 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
Maybe. Maybe not. In spite of all events, this may be the most challenging, nay, inscrutable question I have seen this year. Peter > On Jan 7, 2021, at 3:07 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > JeeJeeStudio wrote: > > > So what i actually meant is multiprocessing, would that

Re: Threads in LC

2021-01-07 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Peter Bogdanoff wrote: > On Jan 7, 2021, at 3:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Maybe. >> >> Does your Pi_gpio_output function use file I/O calls to the virtual >> file system in /run, or call an LCB or external using a lower-level >> interface for GPIO? > > > Maybe. Maybe not. In spite of all

Re: Threads in LC

2021-01-07 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I have thought about this a bit. If what you mean by multiprocessing is that a new process can be spawned while your app can go off and do other things and get notified later that something happened, then this is quite doable. If what you mean is that you want to make the app spawning the

Re: Threads in LC

2021-01-07 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
A little more clearly, ...respond DIRECTLY BACK to the original instances of the apps as opposed to the SPAWNING agent. On Jan 7, 2021, at 5:51 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: The fix for this is of course to have the spawned query agents, let’s