Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 259

2021-03-23 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I read it today too and it was inspiring, which was the whole point really. A couple of the footnotes made me laugh. I already make a lot of my own tools and plugins but I did get some ideas from the book. I immediately set about updating one of my tools and got stuck. So the next question

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 259

2021-03-23 Thread scott--- via use-livecode
Jacque, I just followed a lesson to accomplish the same thing. Were you using LibURL or tsNet? I was successful using tsNet but not yet when trying to do it with LibURL. I was hoping to have both methods available so that the stack would also work with the community version when I shared it…

Re: XCode 12.4 not working with LiveCode

2021-03-23 Thread William de Smet via use-livecode
Hi André, I use xcode 12.1 with LC 9.6.2 (rc 3) Greetings, William > Op 23 mrt. 2021 om 10:52 heeft Andre Garzia via use-livecode > het volgende geschreven: > > Hi Folks, > > I have XCode 12.4 here and I don't seem to be able to select it on the > LiveCode preferences. It complains about

Re: XCode 12.4 not working with LiveCode

2021-03-23 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hello Andre, Building with Xcode 12.4 is not supported yet - you need to download Xcode 12.1 if you are on MacOS Catalina+. Support for Xcode 12.4 is coming in LC 9.6.3 RC-1 Kind regards, Panos -- On Tue, 23 Mar 2021 at 11:52, Andre Garzia via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>

XCode 12.4 not working with LiveCode

2021-03-23 Thread Andre Garzia via use-livecode
Hi Folks, I have XCode 12.4 here and I don't seem to be able to select it on the LiveCode preferences. It complains about not having the iOS SDK needed but I think it does, or at least it has the correct simulators. Anyone have any clue how to make it work? I'm not running a beta version or

Re: XCode 12.4 not working with LiveCode

2021-03-23 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
Andre, according the release notes of LC 9.6.2 RC3 the following Xcode versions are supported Xcode 8.2 on MacOS X 10.11 Xcode 9.2 on MacOS 10.12 (Note: You need to upgrade to 10.12.6) Xcode 10.1 on MacOS 10.13 (Note: You need to upgrade to 10.13.4) Xcode 11.3 on MacOS 10.14 (Note: You need to

Re: numberformat question

2021-03-23 Thread Andreas Bergendal via use-livecode
A few years back I needed calculation to a precision of 300 decimals. I found a js solution by -hh in the forum, which solved my need: https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=93=29018=30 It runs in a browser widget, with easy input

Re: [ANN] New Book: Development Oriented Development

2021-03-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I have a system whereby I have a popup menu when right-clicking a data grid. In the menu, I can enter the name of a database table to link the data grid to, and another for afterward dropping a label / field combination as a group onto the card which itself is then linked to a column in that

Re: [ANN] New Book: Development Oriented Development

2021-03-23 Thread Andre Garzia via use-livecode
Hi Martin, Thanks a ton for the kind words and feedback. Your message makes me quite happy because what you're describing is exactly the kind of experience that I wanted to encourage when I wrote that book. Let us know how your plugin writing goes :-) oh, I'm also interested in feedback for part

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 259

2021-03-23 Thread Andre Garzia via use-livecode
Hey Panos, Thanks for including the message about my new book in the newsletter. Thanks a ton :-) Best A On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 at 20:30, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 259

2021-03-23 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 3/23/21 9:59 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I popped for the book. I already operate somewhat on this level but I learned something as a teenager when teaching myself to play guitar: There are always gaps in knowledge when a person learns that way. I grabbed the book as well. I

Re: numberformat question

2021-03-23 Thread jbv via use-livecode
Thank you. I will take a close look at it. Meanwhile I have finetuned my LC script : it returns the same results as the js script, and according to my tests, solves 1000 cubic equations in roughly 0.8 second. Le 2021-03-23 07:14, Andreas Bergendal via use-livecode a écrit : A few years back I

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 259

2021-03-23 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I popped for the book. I already operate somewhat on this level but I learned something as a teenager when teaching myself to play guitar: There are always gaps in knowledge when a person learns that way. Bob S On Mar 23, 2021, at 7:57 AM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode

Re: A question for LC and Windows 10 experts

2021-03-23 Thread matthias rebbe via use-livecode
Hi jbv, i have several apps running on Windows 10 (and before that on Vista) that run unattended. Not all on the same machine, but up to 3 standalones per machine. Some standalones are running in the background and the repeating tasks are executed using the "sendto ... in seconds"

Re: A question for LC and Windows 10 experts

2021-03-23 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
I can confirm that as long as your code does not crash, a lc stack will run indefinitely. Even sleep/awake cycles do not disturb it. However, the last time I tried to run a lc stack with the 'windowless' mode... i forget what flag it is ... -ui maybe? I suddenly had full cpu usage on that core,

A question for LC and Windows 10 experts

2021-03-23 Thread jbv via use-livecode
Hi list, I have a request from a client to sync an accounting software running on a PC under Windows 10 and a database on a remote server. Below is a short description of the solution I have imagined, and I would welcome opinions & critics from other list members, as I'm not really familiar with

Re: [ANN] This Week in LiveCode 259

2021-03-23 Thread scott--- via use-livecode
I finished reading Andre’s book last night. Always happy to read his musings about Livecode development! -- Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web https://elementarysoftware.com/ email sc...@elementarysoftware.com booth1-360-734-4701