Re: Beeing a developer after 40

2016-05-15 Thread Bruce Pokras
Started my love of programming with a course in Fortran IV in college about 1972. Borrowed my older brother’s Commadore Vic 20 and learned Basic from its documentation. Later purchased a Mac SE from my brother that came with the full version of HyperCard. Still going strong, but with LiveCode no

Re: Beeing a developer after 40

2016-05-16 Thread Bruce Pokras
Started my love of programming with a course in Fortran IV in college about 1972. Borrowed my older brother’s Commadore Vic 20 and learned Basic from its documentation. Later purchased a Mac SE from my brother that came with the full version of HyperCard. Still going strong, but with LiveCode no

Re: Status of on-rev restore?

2015-05-02 Thread Bruce Pokras
I spoke to Heather. The problem was not individualized. It was the entire Pancake array. > On May 2, 2015, at 3:59 PM, Dave Kilroy wrote: > > Mark, Andy maybe go back to on-rev.com and make another urgent report? It may > be that Heather and David think there are no more bad accounts... > > >

Re: Status of on-rev restore?

2015-05-06 Thread Bruce Pokras
ion. > > Thank you, > Marc Siskin > > On May 2, 2015, at 9:20 PM, Bruce Pokras > mailto:bruc...@comcast.net>> wrote: > > I spoke to Heather. The problem was not individualized. It was the entire > Pancake array. > > On May 2, 2015, at 3:59 PM, Dave Kil

Livecode and "Extended Validation" SSL certificates

2015-07-10 Thread Bruce Pokras
he old SSL certificates, but does not with the EV certificates? Regards, Bruce Pokras ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.c

Re: Livecode and "Extended Validation" SSL certificates

2015-07-11 Thread Bruce Pokras
> On Jul 11, 2015, at 9:26 AM, Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > Bruce Pokras wrote: > >> Recently, the app's requests for the access token kept resulting in >> an error message. I tried a lot of differnt work-arounds. Nothing >> helped. >> >> I

Re: Livecode and "Extended Validation" SSL certificates and recursionlimit mystery!

2015-07-13 Thread Bruce Pokras
> On Jul 11, 2015, at 4:58 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote: > > >> On Jul 11, 2015, at 9:26 AM, Richard Gaskin >> wrote: >> >> Bruce Pokras wrote: >> >>> Recently, the app's requests for the access token kept resulting in >>> an

Re: recursionlimit mystery!

2015-07-14 Thread Bruce Pokras
> On Jul 14, 2015, at 2:57 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > On 7/13/2015 9:23 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote: >> The first time I opened the stack in 7.0.6 that had been developed >> under 6.0.2 I received an error message related to the “openstack” >> command in the stack scr

Re: recursionlimit mystery!

2015-07-15 Thread Bruce Pokras
I have an app called “Forward Citation Generator" that looks for so-called “forward citations” of a patent, i.e., patents that issue _after_ the target patent that cite the target patent. It looks for forward citations of the target patent, then looks for forward citations of that 1st generation

Re: recursionlimit mystery!

2015-07-29 Thread Bruce Pokras
effect. They confirm that this is a bug. No promise on the timing of a fix, though. > On Jul 14, 2015, at 2:57 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > On 7/13/2015 9:23 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote: >> The first time I opened the stack in 7.0.6 that had been developed >> under 6.0.2 I rece

Saving Russian text to a file?

2015-09-27 Thread Bruce Pokras
be. Is there a particular way in which I should be saving the text to file? Thanks. Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software www.blazingdawn.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: "ShellShock" - what are you doing?

2014-09-26 Thread Bruce Pokras
ess users have actively turned on special, advanced Unix services." Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software www.blazingdawn.com On Sep 25, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > Here's the full explanation from RedHat, > https://access.redhat.com/articles/1200223 > > which is

Re: "ShellShock" - what are you doing?

2014-09-27 Thread Bruce Pokras
> Ok, that’s my 2 cents for the day. Let’s hope the patching geniuses > get the job done soon! > > Cheers, > > Rick > > > > > On Sep 26, 2014, at 5:33 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote: > >> Can anyone explain exactly what this means? What are those "special,

Re: HTTPProyy

2014-09-27 Thread Bruce Pokras
ed to do anything special. I use one of my apps at my day job for a Fortune 100 company. I know that nothing going out in the normal course via HTTP can avoid our proxy server, yet I do not do anything special to my scripts to use the app. Regards, Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Sof

Re: "ShellShock" - what are you doing?

2014-09-27 Thread Bruce Pokras
Some of the articles about the vulnerability make it sound like every Mac on the planet could be taken over by bad guys. Talk about spreading FUD! On Sep 27, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > For Bruce, unless you have your Mac set up as a server, bash should not be > available remotely.

Re: HTTPProxy

2014-09-30 Thread Bruce Pokras
I had an issue with my app at one corporate location at which I worked. I assumed that the proxy was not allowing a strange app to access the web. So I fixed it by setting the httpHeaders so that it looked like Runrev (it was that long ago!) was actually Internet Explorer. While at your client's

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

2014-09-30 Thread Bruce Pokras
PDFTK works fine under Windows using shell commands from Livecode. That is how my Patent Grabber app combines individual patent pages into a single PDF. Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software www.blazingdawn.com On Sep 30, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:39

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

2014-10-01 Thread Bruce Pokras
Distribute PDFTK??? My instructions for Patent Grabber simply tell Windows users where they can download it themselves. Much less complicated that way. Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software www.blazingdawn.com On Sep 30, 2014, at 10:39 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:34

Re: revWeb revlets broken in Firefox 4.0?

2011-05-09 Thread Bruce Pokras
Firefox 4.0.1 runs my revlet fine, but only in 32-bit mode. When I went to my revlet page (www.familyizer.com), I was immediately alerted that it could not run the revlet until I switched Firefox to 32-bit mode. Then the revlet ran without any problems. I am on Snow Leopard 10.6.4. Bruce

Re: [Android] Why so quiet? Who's developing Android apps?

2011-07-10 Thread Bruce Pokras
As soon as it gets web access . . . Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software On Jul 9, 2011, at 12:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/9/11 10:16 AM, Roger Eller wrote: >> Just wondering if I am alone... echo... echo... ;-) >> >> What are your plans or aspirations regarding the

Re: on-rev client

2011-07-26 Thread Bruce Pokras
I had the same problem this past weekend. I ended up doing my edits with a text editor. Then on Sunday (after a reboot, but that might have been a coincidence) the client started uploading again. It was weird. On Jul 24, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Erik Schwartz wrote: > I'll take a look around. I have

Path to start using a stack in On-Rev?

2011-07-29 Thread Bruce Pokras
uot;respond" in the stack file's stack script, but so far no response in the .irev page when it is supposed to run the command "put respond()". Am I missing something completely? Regards, Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software _

Re: Path to start using a stack in On-Rev?

2011-07-30 Thread Bruce Pokras
c > > within that page you can use either > > put "good stuff here" > ?> > > or > > > put "good stuff here" > > ?> > > The file name seems to be the determining factor. > > Mike > > > > > > --- On

Re: [server] using STACKS within ON-REV

2011-08-01 Thread Bruce Pokras
On Aug 1, 2011, at 9:01 PM, Robert Mann wrote: > index.lc > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/file/n3711139/index.lc > index.lc > Nothing but a blank page in Safari on Snow Leopard 10.6.4. Was that link supposed to perform some action? _

Any way to show progress while an ON-REV page is processing a script?

2011-08-06 Thread Bruce Pokras
the .lc or .irev page is processing the patent numbers? I have tried a couple of things, such as having a separate "put" command for each patent, but nothing is displayed until all of the patents have been processed. Regards, Bruce Pokras Blazing Daw

Re: Any way to show progress while an ON-REV page is processing a script?

2011-08-08 Thread Bruce Pokras
mat, > but the whole list is different each time. When I started out it took about 6 > seconds from button click to the list appearing. After setting up a poor > man's index and retooling a few loops I've gotten the return trip down to > about 50 milliseconds -- good enough

Re: [OT] Gatekeeper

2012-05-07 Thread Bruce Pokras
Why is this "[OT}"? Won't Apple's use of Gatekeeper affect Livecode apps for OS X? I would hate it if every person who wants to try my software would get a message from Gatekeeper that "this might be malware. Are really you sure that you want to run it?" Are Livecode apps that are complied for

Help needed: Shell script stopped working in Mountain Lion!

2012-08-26 Thread Bruce Pokras
combines multiple PDF pages into a single PDF file) works fine. I think that should rule out this being a Mountain Lion security issue as a result of my application being unsigned, right??? Everything is going on in the Documents folder. Any insights would be greatly appreciated. My 2006 iMac cannot run

Re: Help needed: Shell script stopped working in Mountain Lion!

2012-08-26 Thread Bruce Pokras
g, then convert was just a symlink >> for cupsfilter. >> >> >> https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man8/cupsfilter.8.html >> >> >> Regards, >> >> Matthias >> >> >> Am 26.08.2

Shell script to convert TIFF to PDF under Mountain Lion

2012-08-30 Thread Bruce Pokras
do is use: put "/usr/sbin/cupsfilter" into tConvertApp get shell(tConvertApp && "-i image/tiff " & quote & tiffFile & quote) and "it" should contain the data from which you can excise and save your PDF file. Regards, Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Sof

Re: Shell script to convert TIFF to PDF under Mountain Lion

2012-09-01 Thread Bruce Pokras
nder mountain lion? > > -- > Kind regards, > > Mark Schonewille > Economy-x-Talk > Http://economy-x-talk.com > > Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link > http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com > > > Op 31 aug. 2012 o

Message path weirdness - Mac v. Windows

2012-09-16 Thread Bruce Pokras
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Re: Join many PDF into one

2010-12-30 Thread Bruce Pokras
The shell command using Python still works fine in Snow Leopard. The error for "CGPDFDocumentGetMediaBox" does not cause a problem. On Dec 27, 2010, at 9:15 AM, Martin Koob wrote: > > I found a page that explains how Automator actually joins PDFs and it > explains how to use the same method. >

Re: Join many PDF into one

2010-12-31 Thread Bruce Pokras
I have been seeing that message for four years now. When you think about it, there is no add-on to computers that is guaranteed to work in the next OS release. 'Tis better to release and fix than to never have released at all! Happy New Year! Bruce On Dec 31, 2010, at 5:17 AM, JosepM wrote:

Re: Another bizarre Apple patent troll case, in which Runtime Revolution plays a bit part

2013-06-03 Thread Bruce Pokras
The patent is RE43,318 which is a reissue of 6,920,619. The first few claims will give you an idea of what is covered: 1. A system for manipulating images comprising a screen upon which an image is displayed; and a computer coupled to the screen, the computer causing the images to be manipulat

Functions running in IDE, but not running in standalone

2020-07-19 Thread Bruce Pokras via use-livecode
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Re: Functions running in IDE, but not running in standalone

2020-07-20 Thread Bruce Pokras via use-livecode
e, > > did you already try the RemoteDebugger to debug your standalone? > > http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/698439-using-the-remote-debugger > > > > - > Matthias Rebbe > Life Is Too Short For Boring Code > >> Am 19.07.2020 um 20:17 schrieb Bruce Pokras via use-livecode &

Re: Functions running in IDE, but not running in standalone

2020-07-20 Thread Bruce Pokras via use-livecode
;> wrote: > > Bruce, > > did you already try the RemoteDebugger to debug your standalone? > > http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/698439-using-the-remote-debugger > <http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4071/l/698439-using-the-remote-debugger> > > > >

Re: Functions running in IDE, but not running in standalone

2020-07-20 Thread Bruce Pokras via use-livecode
t did you also include SSL&Encryption in >> StandaloneSettings. >> If i recall it correctly then SSL&Encryption is needed for https. >> >> Regards, >> >> - >> Matthias Rebbe >> Life Is Too Short For Boring Code >> >>> Am 20.

Re: Functions running in IDE, but not running in standalone

2020-07-21 Thread Bruce Pokras via use-livecode
ngs in the stack before saving, but forgot to add "pass > savestackrequest". > The interesting part was, that the standalone was created and although all > included externals were added to the standalone, the standalone was not able > to communicate with th

Re: Functions running in IDE, but not running in standalone

2020-07-23 Thread Bruce Pokras via use-livecode
to stack tsnetliburl > in the message box > > > - > Matthias Rebbe > Life Is Too Short For Boring Code > >> Am 21.07.2020 um 17:28 schrieb Bruce Pokras via use-livecode >> : >> >> Matthias, >> >> Thanks very much for your interest in hel

Re: Functions running in IDE, but not running in standalone

2020-07-25 Thread Bruce Pokras via use-livecode
happens. Regards, Bruce > On Jul 23, 2020, at 5:30 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode > wrote: > > > >> Am 23.07.2020 um 23:16 schrieb Bruce Pokras via use-livecode >> : >> >> Matthias, >> >> Thanks so much for all of your advice.

US Patent and Trademark Office tsNet error problem

2021-05-20 Thread Bruce Pokras via use-livecode
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Bruce Pokras #1: run with libURLsetSSLverification false Connection #7 to host patft.uspto.gov left intact Issue another request to this URL: 'https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2Fsearch-adv.ht

Re: US Patent and Trademark Office tsNet error problem

2021-07-01 Thread Bruce Pokras via use-livecode
y. Unfortunately, building tsNet to use OpenSSL on Mac would > mean that it no longer uses the OS X certificate store for verifying SSL > certificates. > > Regards, > > Charles > <<< > > So maybe Charles can help, maybe with a custom build of

Replacetext taking forever under 8.1.7

2017-11-23 Thread Bruce Pokras via use-livecode
chball, although the replacetext action eventually finishes (after 20 minutes), and the script then runs to completion. Any ideas about causes and cures for this issue? Regards, Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software www.blazingdawn.com <http://www.blazingdawn.com/> __

Re: [ANN] XLSX Library ready for a test - Looking for testers

2017-03-03 Thread Bruce Pokras via use-livecode
Hello Zryip, Worked flawlessly on my old Excel for Mac 2011. Looking forward to the final version because I may have some applications for it. Regards, Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software www.blazingdawn.com <http://www.blazingdawn.com/> > On Nov 30, 2016, at 6:36 PM, zryip theSl