LiveCode with unusual input devices

2015-11-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Does anyone have (fairly recent) experience using LiveCode to with unusual input devices - phidgets, PowerMate, MIDI keyboards or controllers, DMX, etc? On either Mac OS X or iOS? What's easy? What works? Are there good externals or libraries I should know about? TIA, Ben __

Setting up Android SDK on Mac OS X 11 El Capitan

2015-11-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Having foolishly updated my machine to 10.11, I've doubled down by deciding to take another look at Android, for the first time in many years. I installed the Android SDK 'shell', and then ran it to install the tools, and immediately said (three times) No Java runtime present, requesti

Re: Setting up Android SDK on Mac OS X 11 El Capitan

2015-11-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 27/11/2015 13:07, Sebastien Nouat wrote: Yes, you need to install the Java 6 to allow Android deployment (that should probably be stated in a cleared way in the error message). That fixed it for me perfectly. Thank you Sebastian, Ben ___ use-li

Re: How would YOU trade data within LC Android app between 2 tablets without INTERNET?

2015-11-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Hi Mark, Two possible answers: a) Use any (err.. virtually) wifi access point to create a network that the devices can be on, then they can communicate directly with each other, even though that access point won't actually be connected to the internet. b) Make it worth Monte's while to port

Animations on iOS

2015-12-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
What are my options for displaying an animation in a portion of the card/screen on iOS? Currently I've tried: 1) making it into a video, in a very limited range of formats, and playing it from an external file using a native control Pros: works, choice of controller etc, plays from a separat

Re: Animations on iOS

2015-12-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
s to put one image on each card and then loop through the cards. This eliminates the load time problem. Good Luck, Rick On Dec 14, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: What are my options for displaying an animation in a portion of the card/screen on iOS? Currently I've tried: 1) making i

Re: Animations on iOS

2015-12-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 14/12/2015 20:58, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 12/14/2015 1:23 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: 2) making it into a GIF on the card, which works quite nicely except that there's an enormous delay going to the card, presumably as the animation is buffered. Pros: can be exactly the size I want;

EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY and El Capitan

2015-12-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Since I 'up'graded to El Capitan (OS X 10.11.1) I've been getting an awful lot of LiveCode quit unexpectedly, with the report namechecking the sinister sounding Exception Note "EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY". This is happening with LC 6.6.2, 6.7.7, 7.1.1, and various 7.1.1 rcs. It generally (always?) happ

Re: EXC_CORPSE_NOTIFY and El Capitan

2015-12-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 18/12/2015 11:09, Mark Waddingham wrote: Could you file a report with the crash logs you are getting so we can take a look? Done, #16627 has 26 crash logs attached. thanks, Ben ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please v

Re: Release 8.0 dictionary

2015-12-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 22/12/2015 12:11, Muaadh Salih wrote: Installed it in Windows 7 Dictionary ( API mode) shows non-scrolling empty screen. ​when choosing "Guide" ​option of the dictionary it shows initial screen but refuse to scroll . Reported and confirmed at http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1664

mobile acceleration/rotation

2016-01-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
H - I've just tried reading the acceleration and rotation sensors. I admit to finding the whole business confusing, but it seems to me that the data accompanying the accelerationChanged message represents the static orientation of the device. At first I thought that the "rotation" and "ac

Re: mobile acceleration/rotation

2016-01-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
s, Ben On 13/01/2016 17:11, Jim MacConnell wrote: Short answer: Gravity. The device can't measure actual acceleration. It measures the forces on sensors in 3 axes. One of those axes will feel force from gravity. That's the 1. Jim -Original Message- From: Ben Rubinstein [mailto

Re: Message watcher in LC 8

2016-01-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 15/01/2016 14:42, Richard Gaskin wrote: The IDE insists on changing the name of the stack file when I do Save As (necessary to maintain compatibility with older versions of LC), and at some point I just gave up manually changing it to match the old URL. Hi Richard, I wouldn't dream of teach

Re: Message watcher in LC 8

2016-01-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 18/01/2016 10:07, Peter TB Brett wrote: Note that in LC 8.0.0 DP 13 and later, the IDE save commands don't use "the stackFileVersion" and save as specific versions directly. You may want to update your toolbar extension to take advantage of this! For example, simply use: save stack "my

exits on suspend (was Re: Davos Day 3)

2016-01-26 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Hi Todd, This is great stuff, thank you for somehow finding time to write up your blog as well as everything else that you're up to! Re the suspending issue... The "${xxx}" syntax in the settings.plist is used by the standalone builder to mark where substitutions go, so it's a clue that ther

Re: exits on suspend (was Re: Davos Day 3)

2016-01-26 Thread Ben Rubinstein
.e. it saves the state of all suspended apps? best, Ben On 26/01/2016 15:24, Thierry Douez wrote: 2016-01-26 11:54 GMT+01:00 Ben Rubinstein : - interestingly, when the stack is not set to exit to suspend, it does not appear to get any of the messages you might expect (i.e. suspend/resume[Stack

clipboard access on mobile (iOS)

2016-02-02 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Hi all, Before I give up; is there anyway to programmatically set the clipboard on iOS? (Extra points for general mobile solution, but right now my need is on iOS.) At this point I'd accept filthy hacks (it's an internal tool). I want to be able to set the clipboard to some text, and can't fi

access user's videos on iOS

2016-02-03 Thread Ben Rubinstein
We an use mobilePickMedia to access the user's audio library, and then play a selected audio file. Is there any mechanism to access the user's video library, on iOS (in particular) or Android? TIA Ben ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lis

Re: Mobile suspend and resume [was: Re: Multiple Mobile Shutdown Messages?]

2016-02-03 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 03/02/2016 13:34, Peter TB Brett wrote: You can track progress of the mobile suspend and resume feature here: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16829 This is good news! Is there any reason not to track progress here http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11845 ? Or should t

Re: [ANN] mergExt releases for iOS 9.2

2016-02-11 Thread Ben Rubinstein
N -1! On 10/02/2016 15:41, Mike Kerner wrote: The other thing that would be nice would be to maybe have the new versions not be marked with the version number. I realize that can be dangerous, but for every app, I have to go into Copy Files for every external and point to the new one.

Re: shadow declarations bug back?

2016-02-11 Thread Ben Rubinstein
FWIW I think the repro case is a little tighter than that: I think it's when execution is stopped from the debugger, *with the variable inspection pane selected*. I won't swear to it... On 11/02/2016 18:40, Peter Haworth wrote: I haven't seen the shadowed variable bug for a long time. I thin

Re: [ANN] mergExt News

2016-02-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
This is great news for LiveCode. Thank you Monte for your incredible work. > exclusively licensed How does that effect existing licensees? Ben On 17/02/2016 11:01, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi LiveCoders and in particular mergExt users! Today I have a rather large announcement to make about mer

"could not find a valid identity to use for the selected profile"

2016-02-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Aaaagh. It was working (I was building an app and deploying it to a device)... now it's not, with the infuriating message from the subject line. Xcode can still build a (different) app and deploy it to the same device. What's changed in the interim? I've added some other devices in the Develo

Re: "could not find a valid identity to use for the selected profile"

2016-02-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 18/02/2016 23:38, panagiotis merakos wrote: Oops Scott was faster :) He usually is! But thank you for pointing me at it too. Ben ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and mana

Re: "could not find a valid identity to use for the selected profile"

2016-02-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
one-td4701088.html> Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 2/18/16, 3:18 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Ben Rubinstein" wrote: Aaaagh. It was working (I was building an app and deploying it to a device)... now it's not, with the infuria

Re: Write to IPTC Core Data of Image Files?

2016-03-10 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 10/03/2016 06:59, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: I asked about this years ago...but the subject is back up here. We would like to engage volunteers to help classify and organize our image archives. This comprises some 1/2 million images, not all of which are significant, but still pre

Re: Write to IPTC Core Data of Image Files?

2016-03-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 11/03/2016 19:53, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: @ Other BR :-) However, we found interesting variations in what could be ready by which applications. I ExifTool looks good, very doable to drive from LC scripts. Yes, I think at the time it was the go-to choice. I wish I could rememb

Re: Looking for parser for Email (MIME)

2016-03-21 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 20/03/2016 10:56, Roland Huettmann wrote: There is no way of just opening and reading such last file into memory, at least not on my computer with limited RAM. Usual text processors also do not open such large files. LiveCode simply does not read such file and "it" remains empty. (There should

Re: Looking for parser for Email (MIME)

2016-03-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 21/03/2016 23:03, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ben Rubinstein wrote: On 20/03/2016 10:56, Roland Huettmann wrote: There is no way of just opening and reading such last file into memory, at least not on my computer with limited RAM. Usual text processors also do not open such large files. LiveCode

Re: iOS deployment question

2016-03-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
FWIW, this really isn't a LiveCode issue. Back when we were doing a lot of iOS app development, submission - which should have been a matter of pressing a few buttons - invariably took many hours of hair tearing - and this in spite of the fact that we were making new submissions virtually every

Sending email over SMTP with STARTTLS (sending email via gmail)

2016-04-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I have a venerable app which does some automated work on a schedule, and emails a report. The app uses Shao Sean's libSmtp, dating back to 2005. It's typically set up using an organisation's internal SMTP server to send email. Now my client has switched to using Google Apps for business, and

Re: SMTP Library that works with Gmail over SSL?

2016-04-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 02/08/2011 20:26, Trevor DeVore wrote: Does anyone have a LiveCode solution that can send HTML email via SMTP using SSL? I need to send email through the Gmail SMTP server and the existing SMTP libraries I've found for LiveCode don't support SSL. Hi Trevor, Did you ever find a solution to t

Re: LiveCode Externals etc (was Re: Rust externals [was: Being a developer after 40])

2016-05-03 Thread Ben Rubinstein
To be precise: LiveCode 2.7.x or later (any edition should do) Visual C++ 2005 – any edition including Express (if you want to build externals on Windows) XCode 2.4.x (if want to build externals on Mac OS X) (At least it exists now - when I last posted to this list in despair (09/10/2015 18:4

Re: LiveCode Externals etc (was Re: Rust externals [was: Being a developer after 40])

2016-05-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thanks Richard! More questions (ideally of course you'd simply point me to the guide I should have read to have answered these for myself)... On 03/05/2016 23:24, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ben Rubinstein wrote: ...is there anyway an explanation of the differences and ^anywhere, obvi

Re: Project Browser

2016-05-24 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 24/05/2016 15:44, Bob Sneidar wrote: Did someone say there was a way to get the application browser back? The project browser in it's current form is a bit unusable. A couple times I attempted to drag-reorder the objects, and instead only succeeded at putting one object into another group.

Artnet

2016-06-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Has anyone worked with Artnet on LiveCode? TIA, Ben ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-liv

Clipboard access on mobile?

2016-06-09 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Is there any way to access the clipboard on mobile yet? My immediate need is just to read the contents of the clipboard , though in principle it would be useful to be able to write it as well. (I've got a small utility, and I'd like it to be able to inspect the clipboard when the app launches

Re: Clipboard access on mobile?

2016-06-09 Thread Ben Rubinstein
> I suspect it would be possible to > more-or-less copy & paste the relevant code Ironically enough. Thanks Peter! Ben On 09/06/2016 11:09, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 09/06/2016 11:01, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Is there any way to access the clipboard on mobile yet? My immediate ne

Access mounted volumes on Windows from LC?

2016-06-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I need to deploy an app to a remote Windows machine which is not under my control. The app needs to inspect a folder on a mounted drive. Traditionally this was just mounted as a letter, e.g. "Z:\" or similar; my app worked fine. But modern Windows systems use volume names, so a folder on suc

Controls on mobile apps - am I missing something?

2016-06-27 Thread Ben Rubinstein
My previous mobile app dabbling had involved entirely custom interfaces. Now I'm trying to create a more straightforward app with a more conventional interface - and I'm getting a horrible dichotomy between the widgets (header bar, navigation bar, switch control, segmented control) and the tradi

Re: Controls on mobile apps - am I missing something?

2016-06-28 Thread Ben Rubinstein
t, when they don't need to. I thought I must have missed a setting for theme or something like it. Ben On 27/06/2016 19:41, Richard Gaskin wrote: Ben Rubinstein wrote: My previous mobile app dabbling had involved entirely custom interfaces. Now I'm trying to create a more straightfor

Re: Access mounted volumes on Windows from LC?

2016-06-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
It wasn't a mistyped path but it was my making a mistake! In my lack of Windows knowledge, I thought that the volume was mounted - but actually that was a server that was 'accessible', but with none of it's volume's mounted. Thanks to everyone for their assistance. Ben On 22/06/2016 17:02

Re: Controls on mobile apps - am I missing something?

2016-06-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 29/06/2016 00:28, Richard Gaskin wrote: People do all sorts of things. Some might even have a 45-degree angled progress bar. Not everything folks might want comes in the tin. :) Yep, but lots of people want horizontal and vertical progress bars, which do come in our tin - they just look..

Re: Access mounted volumes on Windows from LC?

2016-06-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
succeeded in accessing directories using UNC paths. Can you share how you've done this? Many thanks, Ben On 29/06/2016 17:07, Ben Rubinstein wrote: It wasn't a mistyped path but it was my making a mistake! In my lack of Windows knowledge, I thought that the volume was mounted -

Re: Access mounted volumes on Windows from LC?

2016-06-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
was repaired in 6.7.5 and higher. ~Roger On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:37 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: I spoke too soon. With the volume mounted, accessing it by drive letter works (so I assume that this isn't a permissions problem); but using the UNC fails. If I use "answer folder"

Re: Access mounted volumes on Windows from LC?

2016-06-30 Thread Ben Rubinstein
To answer my own question... yes. I've just downloaded 6.7.5 and indeed my test stack now works! Now to see if it has unwanted side effects on my real app... Thanks for shedding this light Roger, it's unlocked the situation for me. Ben On 30/06/2016 15:27, Ben Rubinstein wrote:

Re: Controls on mobile apps - am I missing something?

2016-07-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 30/06/2016 20:25, Richard Gaskin wrote: But while it's easy to write a sentence or two of things describing others to do, it's not quite as easy to actually do the work. Very true! And I realised after I sent my last email that I was sounding like one of those people But: Whil

Re: Access mounted volumes on Windows from LC?

2016-07-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 30/06/2016 19:35, Richard Gaskin wrote: Roger Eller wrote: I never build for Windows in OS X. So I only know when it worked and stopped and worked again on Windows. I do recall some talk about the Mac version still having the issue for a while after 6.7.5. Any potential bug symptoms evide

Re: Controls on mobile apps - am I missing something?

2016-07-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 01/07/2016 17:28, Richard Gaskin wrote: Buttons are already quite good on macOS, as are fields, tabs, progress bars, and most others. Does that mean that these items are drawn by LiveCode, rather than using native API calls? If so, couldn't the iOS default to this macOS "theme" rather tha

Re: Controls on mobile apps - am I missing something?

2016-07-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 02/07/2016 14:57, Mark Waddingham wrote: I'm minded of a well-known proverb: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime" Without suggesting that this detracts from your general remarks, I can't resist pointing out that in my view t

Re: Controls on mobile apps - am I missing something?

2016-07-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 02/07/2016 15:46, Mark Waddingham wrote: I'm really hoping (though I'm not clear if this is true or not) that the Native Field Object is not implemented as another new widget but as a new presentation of the LiveCode field object. A new widget would obviously be better than the using the mobil

portrait upside-down (iOS)

2016-07-11 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Attempting to support portrait upside-down on iOS (specifically iPad); I've set the allowed orientations to portrait and portrait upside-down. Rotating the iPad has no effect. Tracking the orientationChanged message reports landscape left and right, but only "unknown" for the two portrait orient

Re: portrait upside-down (iOS)

2016-07-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thanks Randy, that did it for me too! So what is the effect, if any, of setting the "iPad supported initial orientations" in the standalone settings? On 12/07/2016 00:05, Randy Hengst wrote: Ben, this works for me…. on startUp iphoneSetAllowedOrientations "portrait,portrait upside down"

Re: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
This is very sad news. Kagi has served the industry incredibly well for an incredibly long time. I have some idea of just how hard Kee personally worked in pursuit of this. I wish him the best. Ben On 01/08/2016 09:19, Matthias Rebbe wrote: today i was informed that Kagi has ceased operations

Re: No data in application browser in 8.0.2

2016-08-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 12/08/2016 17:18, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 8:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: 7 is EOL, and the Application Browser is still in v8 as a plugin as it was in v7. Yes, but it doesn't work at the moment. It opens, and displays nothing. FWIW: I'm also a recidivist Application

problem using mergDropbox under 8.1.0. dp 3

2016-08-15 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I was using mergDropbox in iOS 7, before LC acquired the suite. I believe that I also had it working under 8.0.x, before the advent of the inclusions tab in the standalone builder (but can't now be certain - I've decided to stay on the bleeding edge for anything later than 7, and recently purged

plist (was Re: problem using mergDropbox under 8.1.0. dp 3)

2016-08-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein
imagine it? Many thanks, Ben On 15/08/2016 21:28, Monte Goulding wrote: Hmm… you haven’t somehow lost your custom URL from standalone settings have you? Failing that then yes please open a report. On 15 Aug 2016, at 10:44 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: I was using mergDropbox in iOS 7, before L

Re: Icon/SVGs resource

2016-08-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Wow, it really is! NB that to use the icons free there must be a link back to the site. On 16/08/2016 17:48, Richmond wrote: That's a fantastic resource. Thanks 1000 times. Richmond. On 16.08.2016 18:29, m...@jerrydaniels.com wrote: Here's what I use: https://icons8.com Great collections

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 DP-3

2016-08-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 30/07/2016 09:38, Monte Goulding wrote: At the moment we don’t have a facility for turning tsNet off in the event you want to use libURL (not really sure why you would want that but I guess it’s possible). You can turn tsNet off if you want to with `dispatch “revUnloadLibrary" to stack “tsN

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 DP-3

2016-08-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thanks Monte. Is there a way in the build process to include the libURL stack, but not include the tsNet external? Ben On 17/08/2016 00:54, Monte Goulding wrote: On 17 Aug 2016, at 7:08 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Is there any way in dp3 to step back a bit further, and include libURL in a

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 DP-3

2016-08-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
ack is unloaded, tsNet will not be included in any standalone builds that use libURL unless tsNet is selected specifically as an inclusion. Regards, Charles On 17/08/2016 5:51 pm, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Thanks Monte. Is there a way in the build process to include the libURL stack, but not in

Garbage collection (crashing on Windows)

2016-08-17 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Please refresh my memory: is there any way to cause/allow garbage to be collected without ending all script running? I have an app which process large amounts of data. It runs fine on Mac, but on Windows intermittently (but not frequently as the application data source, which fluctuates, is gr

Re: Garbage collection (crashing on Windows)

2016-08-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
g you want to look at doing here is processing data in chunks rather than reading it all in. Cheers Monte On 18 Aug 2016, at 3:52 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Please refresh my memory: is there any way to cause/allow garbage to be collected without ending all script running? I have an app whic

Re: Garbage collection (crashing on Windows)

2016-08-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 18/08/2016 19:09, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: At 3:28 PM +0100 8/18/2016, Ben Rubinstein wrote: The real problem is that the script was written originally 13 years ago, and the basic architecture was to load everything into large global arrays for cleanliness. I've had ugly crashes

Activating old versions of LiveCode

2016-08-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I'm trying to install an old version of LiveCode (4.x or 5.x). So far I've tried with 5.5.5: downloaded, ran installer, however it fails on activation. I'm using the same account (and I'm pretty sure same password) as I was a few years ago when that was the current version and I had a current

Re: Activating old versions of LiveCode

2016-08-19 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Scratch that - problem (at least initial one) was I suspect that it was trying to access the license server at an old address. Then there was a secondary problem with getting an offline activation file. But I persisted, and I won! Apologies for the noise, Ben On 19/08/2016 18:18, Ben

Re: Garbage collection (crashing on Windows)

2016-08-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
iting software - if the windows install being used currently does not use that 'trick', and can be, you'll probably find you get a fair bit of mileage with a bit of computer configuration - rather than coding! Assuming that cannot be done then... On 2016-08-17 19:52, Ben Rubinste

Re: Backwards compatibility or sanity? help

2016-08-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 21/08/2016 00:22, Monte Goulding wrote: On 21 Aug 2016, at 8:57 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > It would appear that the current behavior in v8 is a fix that addresses a previously anomalous handling of delimiters in the case of "is among". That’s my feeling also. We know it impacts a popular

Re: Failed to load external error

2016-09-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Hi Jacque, It might not be this, but it sounds awfully similar to a problem I had, attempting to deploy a standalone built with 8.1.0 dp 3 to Windows. Details here, including a patched version of tsNet.dll which fixed the issue for me: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18205 The b

How to tell the engine version of a Windows standalone?

2016-09-04 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I've been trying to make a very minor mod (replacing a logo!) to an app I built some years ago; but the client has a problem with it that I can't reproduce. The easiest thing would be if the problem was caused by a subtle difference in the version of LC used to compiled the standalone - I made

Re: How to tell the engine version of a Windows standalone?

2016-09-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 04/09/2016 23:19, Colin Holgate wrote: Open with a hex editor, and search for Win32€€€. One of the two matches has the LiveCode version following it. Hi Colin, Thanks for this - looks like an excellent method but AFAICT this only works for more recent versions (i.e. works for LC8, doesn't

Re: How to tell the engine version of a Windows standalone?

2016-09-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Try this.. (should work in a message box) put ".*([0-9]\.[0-9]\.[0-9]).*" into tstring get matchtext(url ("binfile:" & "path/to/standalone.exe", tstring,tMatch) put tMatch Not sure it'll work every time, but it's worked on everything I've

Re: How to tell the engine version of a Windows standalone?

2016-09-05 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thanks Mike - it's already answered my question! Ben On 05/09/2016 18:07, Mike Bonner wrote: Change it to this..put ".*([0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+).*" into tstring for double digit version coverage On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Blimey Mike, that wo

Re: Debugger forgetting soft breakpoints

2016-09-07 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 07/09/2016 00:35, Bob Sneidar wrote: I hesitate to submit a bug report when I cannot reliably reproduce the problem. Again, the app this occurs in has database dependencies, logins etc which would prevent you from seeing the actual problem because you could not get that far. I attempted to

Re: Debugger forgetting soft breakpoints

2016-09-07 Thread Ben Rubinstein
FWIW the script I was playing with last night wasn't using any externals. So I'm not sure that's always implicated. On 07/09/2016 15:44, Bob Sneidar wrote: I think you've nailed it Jacque. The scripts I use indeed make calls to externals, in this case sqlYoga (if you can call a stack in use a

Re: Another scary bug??

2016-09-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
It is still happening in 8.1-rc2. On 07/09/2016 23:09, Bob Sneidar wrote: And now, even scarier, I copied the values out of the field I was testign with, and pasted the value into the code which uses hard coded values and THAT WORKS NOW when a second ago before I pasted the value, it did NOT w

Redpark serial cables

2016-09-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Has anyone used LiveCode on iOS with any of the Redpark serial cables, e.g. http://redpark.com/ttl-serial-cable-c2-ttl/ ? TIA, Ben ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage y

Script Editor focus (was Re: Threading (plus random question)_

2016-09-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
FWIW I use enter to compile, and then close, the Script Editor all the time - hardly ever use the mouse - and have never to the best of my recollection had problems with too many tabs closing. Maybe my keyboard repeat is slower than other peoples? I'm not sure how hard I'd scream if enter to c

Re: Script Editor focus (was Re: Threading (plus random question)_

2016-09-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 08/09/2016 16:14, J. Landman Gay wrote: The "window appears behind" problem happens with the dictionary too when you choose to look up a term using the contextual menu in the script editor. Is there a bug report on this? I'll add a comment. It's not very good, but it will be improved by you

Re: SQL joining from list of values to match single value?

2016-09-08 Thread Ben Rubinstein
This may be one of those unhelpful responses which suggests doing something different instead of answering your question, so apologies in advance - I don't know how to do the thing you're trying to do. But if you have control of the database structure, could you re-engineer to do use a separat

Re: very often "Scripts externally modified" popup

2016-09-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
FWIW I've not noticed this at all (LC 8.1.0 rc2 on Mac OS X 10.11.6). I switch apps a lot (but don't do anything editing scripts externally). Ben On 12/09/2016 11:04, Matthias Rebbe wrote: Hi, am i the only one who is noticing the “Scripts externally modified” popup very very often in LC 8.

Best way to extend IDE (toolbar)?

2016-09-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Since time immemorial, I've had a plugin which attempts/pretends to add additional buttons to the standard toolbar. Actually what it used to do is locate the last button on the toolbar, tell the toolbar to adjust its width to just beyond this, resize itself to be the same height and fit the re

Re: Best way to extend IDE (toolbar)?

2016-09-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Hi Mike, thanks for responding. > Funny you should bring this up, as I spent most of yesterday in the script > editor, which is a bunch of script-only stacks (text files with LC script > in them with the ".livecode" suffix). Do you (does anyone) know where script-only stacks are actually documen

Re: Algoritm for RGB Values for Color Wheel

2016-09-12 Thread Ben Rubinstein
http://www.easyrgb.com/index.php?X=MATH&H=02#text2 followed by http://www.easyrgb.com/index.php?X=MATH&H=16#text16 ? On 12/09/2016 20:49, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: @ Scott: changing constants to constant color1 = "255,0,0" -- red - primary constant color2 = "255,64,0" -- red-orange -

Re: Project Browser Allows you to move a group into another group

2016-09-13 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 13/09/2016 05:31, J. Landman Gay wrote: On September 12, 2016 9:57:40 PM Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: But both the Project Browser and RevApplicationbrowser do not reflect the change. Once in a while they do… but 80% of the time, change of layers are not reflected/updated. Is there a

Re: Copying text from LC Script Editor

2016-09-18 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 17/09/2016 01:56, Monte Goulding wrote: > On 17 Sep 2016, at 10:00 AM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > > It’s not just the SE that has this behaviour, any text from a LC field does the same, with in the IDE and in a standalone, on Mac at least. Yes… perhaps it isn’t what I thought as it looks like it

Export PNG with alpha channel/mask

2016-09-22 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I want to compose an image using a bunch of LC objects, then export a PNG, with an alpha channel containing a mask (ideally > 1 bit, but that part's not critical). The documentation for export snapshot is not very clear. I've tried things like exporting a transparent group containing some obje

reloading iOS provisioning profiles etc

2016-09-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
After adding a new device to my registered set in my Apple developer account, how can I get LC to recognise it? I go through this every now and then, conduct a lot of superstitious rituals, eventually I get there.. but I never know how. I've launched Xcode, used it to build an app to the devi

Yikes - locked out of mergAccessory

2016-09-28 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I've got a subscription to mergExt - hurrah. I've got a Business license - hurrah. I've been hoping to use mergAccessory for something (redpark serial cables). I did a test a couple of weeks ago, got the stack installed on a phone, mergAccessoryNames and mergAccessoryProtocols worked (on an ol

Re: Yikes - locked out of mergAccessory

2016-09-28 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 28/09/2016 11:11, Monte Goulding wrote: please open a bug report and I’ll look into it ASAP. Thanks Monte: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18509 Ben ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

resources-rules: Using older versions of LiveCode to build iOS with older versions of Xcode

2016-09-28 Thread Ben Rubinstein
To try to get round a problem that's preventing me from working in LC 8.1, I thought I'd go back to LC 7.1.2. That requires Xcode 7.2, but fortunately I now keep multiple copies of Xcode zipped up against this eventuality. However, when I try to build the iOS standalone with it, I get a new er

Re: Redpark serial cables

2016-10-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
To answer my own question: yes, this is possible using mergAccessory. On 08/09/2016 10:23, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Has anyone used LiveCode on iOS with any of the Redpark serial cables, e.g. http://redpark.com/ttl-serial-cable-c2-ttl/ ? TIA, Ben

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0 DP 1

2016-10-24 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Could you output the annotations as PDF, and shell out to the command-line version of PDFtk to overlay your annotation PDF on the original PDF? (Disclaimer: I've not done this myself...) On 22/10/2016 22:31, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: You coul

override HTTPS certificate failure

2016-10-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
If an "https" site has a misconfigured certificate, most browsers will tell you what the problem is - and generally give you an option (more or less hidden) to ignore the warning and load the resource anyway. Loading the same resource from LC using libURL, the result is "error application veri

Re: override HTTPS certificate failure

2016-10-25 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thanks Lyn, that's exactly what I needed! I should have spotted it myself in the dictionary, but failed. Many thanks, Ben On 25/10/2016 16:18, Lyn Teyla wrote: Ben Rubinstein wrote: If an "https" site has a misconfigured certificate, most browsers will tell you what the p

Re: override HTTPS certificate failure

2016-10-29 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 27/10/2016 00:19, Charles Warwick wrote: You probably should care about implementing them. I can think of several ways to exploit this situation, especially if your test servers are not on the same private network as the developers who are accessing them. That isn't feasible if the app dev

Zealous 'file format' save notifications

2016-11-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I recently started working with a file from 6.7.11 in 8.1.1. Having carefully set the file format preservation, so that I can continue to work with it back and forth between 6.7.11 and 8.1.1, I now get this message each time I save: The preference to preserve stack file formats is set,

Re: Zealous 'file format' save notifications

2016-11-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
case. The current arrangement has virtually defeated the purpose of allowing the format to be specified - since every save (and some of use autosave mechanisms) will throw up this misleading dialog; and it undermines the value of the dialog itself, since it teaches users not to believe it.

Re: disabled on 10/28 for bounces--to gmail???

2016-11-03 Thread Ben Rubinstein
I was also de-subscribed for excessive bounces - and I'm not using gmail. I wonder whether it was related to the great DYN attack of October 21st? (Probably not - my suspension started on October 28th, and for various reasons it took me a few days to see what was happening and re-subscribe.)

Re: Stack name conflicts resolved?

2016-11-07 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 06/11/2016 20:50, Monte Goulding wrote: On 7 Nov. 2016, at 3:57 am, Mark Wieder wrote: Now rename the second stack to "Untitled 1" The property inspector allows this, but now gets very confused. Ah… well that’s probably a bug. If the IDE can’t handle multiple stacks with the same name

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