Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.2 RC-3

2021-03-16 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
That nonsense about extra monitors seems to be a MacOS 11 "thing". I generally have 2 powered USB hubs connected via my USB-C to HDMI monitor things: if they are connected when I start up no video signal is sent to either my right or my left monitor, only to the central one. If, having started

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.2 RC-3

2021-03-16 Thread Håkan Liljegren via use-livecode
Thanks to everyone testing this! Trashing the prefs didn’t help, trashing all files in the ”Application support”-folder didn’t help! But, I tried to unplug my second monitor… Started LC and then, everything worked! Plugged the monitor back again, end now, it works! Now I can even click the

Re: Emtying browser widget cache?

2021-03-16 Thread Håkan Liljegren via use-livecode
Thanks! Works like a charm! Should have thought about that, myself. Teaching web design for nearly two decades, and still missed the obvious… :-Håkan On 15 Mar 2021, 21:21 +0100, How to use LiveCode , wrote: > > do "location.reload()" in widget "myBrowser" > > Kind regards, > Panos

[ANN] New Book: Development Oriented Development

2021-03-16 Thread Andre Garzia via use-livecode
Hi Friends, I'm quite happy to announce the initial release of my new LiveCode eBook. This is a companion book to the previous "LiveCode Advanced Application Architecture" eBook that dives further into making LiveCode IDE a comfortable place for your development workflow. "Development Oriented

revXMLTree can't find the node it just provided?

2021-03-16 Thread BT via use-livecode
Hi folks, Please can anyone explain what I’m doing wrong here - it seems the revXML library can’t finding the node it has just identified… 1. Create an XML tree to represent some HTML... put revXMLCreateTree(tHTML, false, true, false) into tTreeId 2. Isolate the section of interest by building

LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
LC Bugathon continues Recently I ran into this bug, which Trevor already reported: "Unable to paste images copied from Microsoft Word on Windows" https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21906 Copying an image directly (not inline with text) fails. The clipboarddata contains nulls,

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 3/16/21 11:47 AM, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: If any of that seems useful I can check the codebase for the exact steps. Avoiding crashes is *always* useful. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: [ANN] New Book: Development Oriented Development

2021-03-16 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
Hi Andre I had to get this one. The title alone intrigued me. But looking at the contents I know I need it to grow further. I'm looking forward to getting your insights. I'll start tonight. All the very best Sean Pi > On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 14:11, Andre Garzia via use-livecode < >

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
Sean: > put the keys of the rawclipboarddata Yes, I have a little clipboard browser stack for that. There are regular, full, and raw keys. Joy awaits > or any other CF_, it crashes out of LC altogether I had that joyful experience earlier today, with my test stack. You gotta love it,

Re: [ANN] New Book: Development Oriented Development

2021-03-16 Thread Andre Garzia via use-livecode
Dear Roland, I haven't updated that book in a long time. What I did was switch stores to payhip. In that purchase URL, you'll notice that my name as an author is a link. If you click it, you're redirected to my payhip store at: https://payhip.com/aagarzia Which has the other book for sale as

[ANN] New Book: Development Oriented Development

2021-03-16 Thread R.H. via use-livecode
Hi Andre I have purchased your new book and downloaded the three versions (very clever in three formats!). https://payhip.com/b/18eH With me is also your other book published first. Somewhere I read that you updated that version. Can I download that somewhere as well? Or is there some update

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
Curry, even asking it to only return char 1 of rawclipboarddata["CF_BITMAP"] crashes it so any attempt to read that data triggers an exception. Remarkable. :D Sean On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 18:16, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > Sean: > > > put the

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
Curry, The issue here is that MS Word controls how that clipboard data is transferred. As an example Open the taskmanager In Word, copy an image into the clipboard In LC message box type lock the clipboard; put the keys of the rawclipboarddata Returns something like: Art::GVML

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
Hey guys. There are a few issues around windows clipboard and images. I ran into them ALOT when i worked on the Toolbox application. I (reported bug also). https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21543 This probably won't help. but there were times when I had to figure out which

Re: LC Bug: Copying an Image fails

2021-03-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 3/16/2021 2:38 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: even asking it to only return char 1 of rawclipboarddata["CF_BITMAP"] crashes it so any attempt to read that data triggers an exception. I would consider this a serious LC bug. Regardless of what crap another application puts on the

Re: [ANN] New Book: Development Oriented Development

2021-03-16 Thread Lagi Pittas via use-livecode
HI Andre, Didn't even read the whole post just went to the link and bought it - now for some bedtime reading Lagi On Tue, 16 Mar 2021 at 14:11, Andre Garzia via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi Friends, > > I'm quite happy to announce the initial release of my new

Re: [ANN] New Book: Development Oriented Development

2021-03-16 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
Hi Andre, A good and somewhat unique topic. Might come in handy for me in the next few months especially. I look forward to learning from your book. All the best On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 10:11 AM Andre Garzia via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi Friends, > > I'm quite