Re: One day left

2014-07-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
Late to the party as usual, but I'm in too, since just before breakfast. Never been any good at web apps, as the combination HTML+CSS+JavaScript gives me headaches. So long live the RunRev team for letting me build them in LiveCode :-) Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library

Re: custom stack resize contro

2011-05-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
to try :) Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Naive Response 666

2011-06-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
that this was not yours to give away. Shame on you, Richmond! Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) ___ use-livecode

Re: Naive Response 666

2011-06-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- On Sat, 6/4/11, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Jan Schenkel wrote: The fact that it is 'some sort of GNU license' doesn't mean that you're free to do as you please and 'steal' them for your own collections. I find it appalling

Re: Is it possible to get rid of The Save Stack Dialog?

2011-06-05 Thread Jan Schenkel
, you'll have to update your backscript, but that's the way the cookie crumbles :-) HTH, Jan Schenkel. Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld

Re: [ANN] DropTools Palette - Makes using and distributing custom controls a breeze

2011-06-05 Thread Jan Schenkel
the last five weeks and now have a really great LiveCode add-on called DropTools Palette. Great news, Ken - I've been looking forward to this since you showed it at the conference! Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both

Re: Local files in revBrowser

2011-06-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
, here's a blog entry from MS HQ which should be of interest: http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2006/12/06/file-uris-in-windows.aspx HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La

[ANN] Quartam PDF Library 1.1.2 Available

2011-06-13 Thread Jan Schenkel
, inserting pages, compression, experimental support for including EPS files, as well as support for LiveCode Server and On-Rev. It is released as open source under a dual license (GNU Affero General Public License / Commercial License). Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode

Re: UDP, multicast

2011-06-14 Thread Jan Schenkel
that lacks a Java runtime (iOS) but it's a great feature for any desktop application. HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld

Re: a color picker widget?

2011-07-06 Thread Jan Schenkel
the mouse), but a conventional interface for choosing a color would be best... Thanks for any pointers, Slava Hi Slava, If you don't mind a modal dialog box, you can use the 'answer color' command. HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we

Re: previous page button of browser opening on-rev server page

2011-07-26 Thread Jan Schenkel
1998 14:18:41 GMT put the long time ? HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) - Original Message - From: paolo mazza mazzapaoloit...@gmail.com

Re: AW: Need advice with Lion permission changes

2011-08-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
, and then the separate elevated process can write to those places. Note that you should only use those places for 'support' files, not database files or anything of the sort. Those you should proably put somewhere in /users/shared or something. HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode

Re: [Server] create stack trouble

2011-08-07 Thread Jan Schenkel
- it's what the things were built for :-) Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) - Original Message - From: Martin Koob mk...@rogers.com To: use-revolut

Email issues at quartam.com

2011-08-16 Thread Jan Schenkel
awaiting a reply, do not hesitate to resend it to this yahoo.com email address, or the regular quartam.com email addresses, or both. My apologies for any inconvenience, as a result of the delays caused by this mishap. Best regards, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode

Re: Confused about storing arrays in a custom property

2011-08-22 Thread Jan Schenkel
You could 'base64Encode' the binary data before storing it, and base64decode it after retrieval from the database. That way you don't have to worry about BINARY, and can store it in a CLOB.   HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow

Re: Confused about storing arrays in a custom property

2011-08-23 Thread Jan Schenkel
. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) - Original Message - From: Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Cc

Re: Heads up, don't use secure as a handler name

2011-09-12 Thread Jan Schenkel
picky than previous iterations. At any rate, it might be good to file a documentation bug, and suggest that 'secure' gets a separate entry, a bit like the 'effective' keyword.   HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we

Experimental listRegistry function

2011-09-21 Thread Jan Schenkel
or suggestions? TIA, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Counting and numbering duplicates in a list

2011-09-28 Thread Jan Schenkel
] return after pOutput       end if    end repeat    delete char -1 of pOutput end Dupend## HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) - Original

Re: 295 png import images

2011-10-12 Thread Jan Schenkel
mouseUp ## When I click the button, I can go find an image file and the button gets it as a shiny new icon :-) HTH, Jan. Jan Schenkel = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld

Re: Formatting ChordPro music charts

2011-11-07 Thread Jan Schenkel
of tPrintText -- no trailing return end ChordProPrintText ## HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) From: Mark Stuart mfstu

Re: Formatting ChordPro music charts

2011-11-08 Thread Jan Schenkel
Yes it would - that's how most guitar tab music sites will display it. Otherwise it's a little trickier to figure out the string width and insert appropriate 1 pixel wide spaces.   Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow

Re: Formatting ChordPro music charts

2011-11-10 Thread Jan Schenkel
  put tChords return tLyrics return after tPrintText    end repeat    return char 1 to -2 of tPrintText -- no trailing return end ChordProPrintText ## Cheers, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser

Re: Repeat until (mouseDoulbeUp?)

2011-11-22 Thread Jan Schenkel
EnableOtherControls ## If you're interested, you can always read the blogpost that I wrote about this last year: http://quartam.blogspot.com/2010/03/but-waiting-makes-me-curious.html HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow

Re: mySQL integer types

2012-01-16 Thread Jan Schenkel
INT(64) is a 64-bits integer, so 8 instead of 64 bytes :-) Still, that limit should keep you safe for some time to come... Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La

Re: Icons in dialogs on Win 7

2012-01-25 Thread Jan Schenkel
' removed it in version 4.0. http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9421 Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) From: Klaus

[ANN] Quartam PDF Library 1.1.3 Available

2012-01-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
Server and On-Rev. It is released as open source under a dual license (GNU Affero General Public License / Commercial License). Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La

Re: Compiled app using a LOT of processing power

2012-02-01 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi Bob, There's a property for that :-) set the repeatCount of image SpinningImage to 0 -- stop looping HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld

[ANN] Quartam Color Library 1.0.0 Available as Open Source

2012-02-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
/libqrtcolor_100_xplatform.zip Jan Schenkel. = Quartam developer tools for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time.  (La Rochefoucauld) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Problem with pasting from a Rev App to Pages..

2012-05-06 Thread Jan Schenkel
statement ## HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) From: Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com To: use-livecode

ReleaseStack message

2012-05-21 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi all, Is there any way to figure out which script issued a 'stop using' command on a library stack? I looked at 'the executionContexts' from within a 'releaseStack' message handler, but that only contained one line about the handler itself. Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Jan Schenkel

Re: ReleaseStack message

2012-05-21 Thread Jan Schenkel
he's experiencing. Hopefully we'll then find the sneaky script that issues a 'stop using' behind our backs :-) Cheers, Jan Schenkel.   = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La

Re: ReleaseStack message

2012-05-23 Thread Jan Schenkel
to wait and see. Thanks for the hint! Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) - Original Message - From: Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com

Re: this me?

2013-08-07 Thread Jan Schenkel
Here are my suggestions: - self - myself - this object The nerd inside wanted to suggest 'ego' and 'id' but that would have been over the top ;-) Jan Schenkel.   = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish

Re: Any ideas on working out number of characters(approx) that can be entered into a field

2013-08-26 Thread Jan Schenkel
Because the physical split may happen in the middle of a logical line, if the field is set to wrap. The 'pageRanges' mirrors the 'pageHeights' property in its logic to find out which chunk of the field represents a page. Jan Schenkel.   = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode

Re: Wildcards ???

2013-08-26 Thread Jan Schenkel
See the documentation for the 'filter' command. In its current incarnation, that command uses 'wildcard' expressions to decide which lines to retain and which to discard. HTH, Jan Schenkel   = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both

Re: multiple arguments for filter?

2013-08-26 Thread Jan Schenkel
with A and each ends with Z filter items of tList where word 2 of each contains 123 or char 3 of each is in abcd filter tList by MyLogicalFunction(each) That's the beauty of open source: now we can add features to the engine if we pull up our sleeves... Cheers, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports

Re: blur a background

2013-08-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
that fiddles with imageData. HTH, Jan Schenkel.   = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time.  (La Rochefoucauld) From: Chris Sheffield cmsheffi...@icloud.com To: How

Re: There should be a unique option on sort . . .

2014-01-08 Thread Jan Schenkel
at it… Cheers, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) On Sat, 1/4/14, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Subject

Re: There should be a unique option on sort . . .

2014-01-08 Thread Jan Schenkel
, with little performance penalty. But a future version of the engine could optimise the one-liner by parallelising the operations… Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La

Re: Figuring out the correct height / width of scrollbars under Linux

2014-01-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
calls, make sure to let me know as I'd love to find the theme colors data :-) HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld

Re: Figuring out the correct height / width of scrollbars under Linux

2014-01-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
Thank you for pointing me in that direction, Thierry. I probably used the wrong search term last time I went looking, but I was afraid I'd have to dip down into C/C++ land and write an external. Cheers, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we

Re: pageHeights ignores new line properties in fields?

2014-01-16 Thread Jan Schenkel
is in file https://github.com/runrev/livecode/blob/master/engine/src/paragraf.cpp The following methods are at the core of these property value calculations: - Boolean MCParagraph::pageheight(...) - Boolean MCParagraph::pagerange(...) And neither look at the paragraph attributes... Best regards, Jan

Re: Resize Stack Differences on Mac and Windows

2014-01-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
specifically turn 'liveResizing' on. HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) On Wed, 1/29/14, Ray r

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-10 Thread Jan Schenkel
to maintain than planned. Best regards, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time.  (La Rochefoucauld) On Mon, 2/10/14, Tim Selander selan

Re: Crowd Funding Enhancements

2014-02-11 Thread Jan Schenkel
report. Cheers, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) On Mon, 2/10/14, Tim Selander selan...@tkf.att.ne.jp wrote

Re: Encryption / Encoding Differences between IDE and OS X Standalone

2014-02-19 Thread Jan Schenkel
to work. HTH, Jan Schenkel = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) On Wed, 2/19/14, Peter W A Wood peterwaw...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Encryption / Encoding Differences between IDE and OS X Standalone

2014-02-19 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi Jacque, As long as the same encryption algorithm is available on both sides, it should just work. Though to avoid encoding issues when crossing platforms/architectures, it might be best to base64encode your encrypted data before sending it over the wire. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports

Re: SQLite revOpenDatabase() and Relative File Paths

2014-02-20 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi Kay, Untested, but does it work if you put a period before the relative path? get revOpenDatabase(sqlite,./Folder Name/mySQLite.db,,,) Otherwise the operating system may think you're trying to open a dataabse on a volume called 'Folder Name' HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF

Re: before vs on in behavior scripts

2014-03-20 Thread Jan Schenkel
it :) Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) On Tue, 3/18/14, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: Subject: Re

Re: new at size clause in export snapshot

2014-03-28 Thread Jan Schenkel
showed that the following variant compiles and works: ## export snapshot from tObj at size tWidth, tHeight to tData as PNG ## In other words, you should go to the Quality Center and file a report. RunRev needs to either update the dictionary or the parser code :-) HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam

Re: new at size clause in export snapshot

2014-03-28 Thread Jan Schenkel
* the height of tObj into tHeight put 4 * the width of tObj into tWidth export snapshot from tObj at size tWidth, tHeight to tData as PNG put tData into image 1 end mouseUp ## Click on the button and the image gets set without any issues. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library

More: How to make a square topped, round rect bottomed graphic?

2010-12-02 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- On Thu, 12/2/10, Jan Schenkel janschen...@yahoo.com wrote: In theory, if you have two inner 'rectangle' groups, you have enough to cover all situations, including diagonally opposing round corners, simply by changing the rect of their clipping groups. Beacause all inner overlay graphics

Re: LineSize

2010-12-05 Thread Jan Schenkel
of the graphic is (101-99) = 2. My preferred methd of updating a line graphic is setting the 'points' property, and letting the engine update the 'rectangle' acordingly. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more

Re: PDF ?

2010-12-05 Thread Jan Schenkel
from it as a background on top of which you draw additional elements. In that scenario I'm not even really tweaking the content, and this is presenting its own gotchas... Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser

Re: varargs best practice?

2010-12-07 Thread Jan Schenkel
delete char -1 of tOutput return tOutput end doCommand ## Clicking the button produced an answer box with the text: ## Hello from doCommand Verb: alpha Params: beta,gamma ## So I guess it works :-) HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we

Re: PDF ?

2010-12-07 Thread Jan Schenkel
? Unfortunately, my code is not yet mature enough - for this sort of situation, I'd use iText (open source / AGPL) if you don't mind having a dependency on Java. Let me see if I can put together an example and post it on my blog sometime this week. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library

Re: varargs best practice?

2010-12-07 Thread Jan Schenkel
that I concoct - the sort of thing only an engineer could appreciate ;-) Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld

Re: Maximize A Stack

2010-12-07 Thread Jan Schenkel
IDE to leave room for its menubar and tools stack. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) ___ use

Re: extract by delimiter

2010-12-28 Thread Jan Schenkel
Ken Ray's stsXmlLib: http://www.sonsothunder.com/products/xmllib/xmllib.htm HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld

Re: Join many PDF into one

2010-12-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
can use Java and the iText library to do just that - see my blog post: http://quartam.blogspot.com/2010/12/concatenating-pdf-files.html HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time

RE: ResizeControl

2010-12-31 Thread Jan Schenkel
for a 'liveResizing' property for groups (#2807) - but I recently closed it, as the new way it works since version 3.5, was exactly what I was after :-) The docs should be updated at least, if such a 'liveResizing' property isn't desirable. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library

Re: Groups - Lock Size and Position

2011-01-16 Thread Jan Schenkel
manager, then please ignore :-) Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: Printing and RevBrowser

2011-01-16 Thread Jan Schenkel
Horsley LinkIt! Software Hi Ray, The revBrowser printing mechanism is completely separate from LiveCode's built-in scriptable printing mechanism. It is provided by the underlying web browser, over which we unfortunately don't have much control. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF

Re: Datagrams: or how to avoid tRev(or)

2011-01-16 Thread Jan Schenkel
that takes care of the registration and discovery of services. When I find the time, I'll write up a blog post... Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld

Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

2011-01-16 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- On Sun, 1/16/11, David Bovill da...@vaudevillecourt.tv wrote: On 16 January 2011 13:29, Jan Schenkel janschen...@yahoo.com wrote: It does look like we have have little choice if we want strong protection. Like you, I'm leaning towards the xGPL licenses, combined with a closed

Re: Datagrams: or how to avoid tRev(or)

2011-01-16 Thread Jan Schenkel
--- On Sun, 1/16/11, David Bovill da...@vaudevillecourt.tv wrote: On 16 January 2011 15:51, Jan Schenkel janschen...@yahoo.com wrote: For a Java project at work, I've been using JmDNS to enable service discovery over a LAN: http://jmdns.sourceforge.net/ Since it's pure Java it works

Re: An idea on multithreading implementation

2011-01-24 Thread Jan Schenkel
good workhorse and responsive to sizeable group of users. Frankly, I wish they'd extend the callback mechanism to file, process and database read/write operations, before implementing full multi-threading. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we

Re: RevBrowserPrint Problems

2011-01-25 Thread Jan Schenkel
to point out the obviously interesting ones) on how the browser decides to print - and it won't work silently either. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld

Re: Answer file with type BMPf?

2011-01-27 Thread Jan Schenkel
I'm afraid that putting it into the image control may fail. Try this instead:    set the fileName of img foto1 to it if the result is not empty then answer error the result HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow

Re: can grouping help me rezising objects?

2011-02-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
the new size. Combined with behavior scripts, groups are a powerful method of compositing custom controls that are very close to regular engine controls. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish

Some more thoughts on multithreading

2011-02-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
and executes that. It wouldn't be a perfect solution, but fairly easy to comprehend and use for us mere scripting portals - much easier than having to worry about synchronized access to mutable state, managing locks, etc. And now I'll leave the floor open to your thoughts again :-) Jan Schenkel

Re: RTF documents as templates

2011-02-21 Thread Jan Schenkel
to merge to empty placeholder tags.) Did you declare the variable first using the 'local' command? By definition, if the engine encounters what looks like a variable name that hasn't been declared, it assumes you want a variable 'tAddress2' with content tAddress2 Jan Schenkel. = Quartam

Locale aware formatting

2011-03-06 Thread Jan Schenkel
-in-livecode.html The most interesting part of this approach is that it also offers support for formatting content in a locale other than the system locale. Applicable if your application is used by a French user to send an invoice to a German-speaking customer, for instance. HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam

Re: Problem with iRev refresh

2011-03-08 Thread Jan Schenkel
=\refresh\ content=\0;url= tURL \) into thePlaceToGo put thePlaceToGo ## Some source ssuggest that you should use both a redirect, and a meta refresh tag to make sure everything works on all browsers. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow

Re: why one char in UTF8 (3 bytes) converted to UTF16 becomes 6 bytes?

2011-03-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
to and from files, databases, etc. in another encoding should be as transparent as possible. Just my 2 cents, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld

Re: why one char in UTF8 (3 bytes) converted to UTF16 becomes 6 bytes?

2011-03-30 Thread Jan Schenkel
eat more memory if your data stays in the ASCII range, but most character sets will fit happily into two bytes - and for the ones that do require 4 bytes instead of 2, you only need to check every other byte. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com

[ANN] Quartam PDF Library goes open source

2011-04-21 Thread Jan Schenkel
in! http://downloads.quartam.com/qrtpdflib_110_xplatform.zip Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) ___ use-livecode

Re: At the airport, NeXT stop usa

2011-04-24 Thread Jan Schenkel
on Monday? Hi Colin, I'll be on that flight - after flying the Atlantic Pond arriving in Chicago O'Hare around 1PM, so we could meet up way before the flight :) Cheers, Jan. Jan Schenkel = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser

Re: Approach to PDF input within LC

2011-05-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
, I can think of a way to extract JPG images, but that would not suffice for other types of images in the PDF file. Could be a cool project if someone wants to tackle adding it to the open source project ;-) Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com

Re: perhapse..

2011-05-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
a gray or white area though, so use this technioque sparingly However, if you want to resize this based on other parameters, I wish you the best of luck with JavaScript and HTML DOM fiddling ;-) HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow

[ANN] Quartam PDF Library 1.1.1 Available

2011-05-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
, experimental support for including EPS files, as well as support for LiveCode Server and On-Rev. It is released as open source under a dual license (GNU Affero General Public License / Commercial License). Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we

Re: Push notifications on the desktop?

2012-06-06 Thread Jan Schenkel
socket communication. I wrote a LiveCode library a few years back, and it worked quite well. But I haven't yet gotten around to finishing it. If you're interested in going this way, I'll dust it off and send you a copy. Maybe this summer I'll find some time to publish it as open source. Jan Schenkel

Re: HiliteColor reset

2012-06-11 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi Hugh, The docs only say you can set the hiliteColor of an object to empty to let the inheritance rules apply. There's no way to reset the global hiliteColor property that way. This means you'll have to 'store' it before use and 'restore' it afterwards. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports

Re: Upgrade to Lion on 15 inch laptop pro forces resize of stacks

2012-06-13 Thread Jan Schenkel
Don't forget to include the 'windowBoundingRect' global property: http://docs.runrev.com/Property/windowBoundingRect HTH, Jan Schenkel.   = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La

Re: Gradients (was Re: Table field)

2012-06-26 Thread Jan Schenkel
   resetthetemplateGraphic    return tGraphicLongId end CreateTwoColorGraphic ## Then click the button, and you'll get a graphic named Peter in the specified rectangle, with the two colors each taking up half of the height of the graphic, even when you resize it. HTH, Jan Schenkel.   = Quartam Reports

Re: Gradients (was Re: Table field)

2012-06-26 Thread Jan Schenkel
   return tGraphicLongId end CreateTwoColorGraphic ## Jan.   = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld) - Original Message - From: Jan Schenkel janschen...@yahoo.com To: How

Re: Communication stack/card - webpage in revbrowser

2012-07-04 Thread Jan Schenkel
I'd say JavaScript in the HTML page and then use the revBrowssrCallScript and revBrowserExecuteScript functions to trigger the JavaScript functions. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish

Re: PDF Forms

2012-07-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
/concatenating-pdf-files.html http://quartam.blogspot.com/2010/12/stamping-pdf-files.html Just shout if you decide to go down this path and need a hand. Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same

HTTP authentication configuration with on-rev

2012-08-05 Thread Jan Schenkel
authentication support and provide an online demo for it. Thanks in advance, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld

Re: HTTP authentication configuration with on-rev

2012-08-08 Thread Jan Schenkel
Well, I have one part solved: cPanel allows configuration of Basic authentication. Can anyone help with the setup of Digest authentication? TIA, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish

Re: revAddXMLNode - how to specify a parent node if multiple?

2012-08-08 Thread Jan Schenkel
: ## ?xml version=1.0? products   productidentifierb2211/b221/productidentifier   productidentifierb2212/b221/productidentifier   productidentifierb2213/b221/productidentifier /products ## HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older

Re: Jan Schenkel - Please contact me privately!

2012-10-10 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi Charles, I had signed off early yesterday, and didn't see your emails until this morning. Looking into it now... Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La Rochefoucauld

[ANN] Quartam PDF Library 1.1.4 Available

2012-10-18 Thread Jan Schenkel
, clipping, text box fitting, inserting pages, compression, experimental support for including EPS files, as well as support for LiveCode Server and On-Rev. It is released as open source under a dual license (GNU Affero General Public License / Commercial License). Jan Schenkel.  = Quartam Reports

Re: Scripting shades of colors?

2012-10-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
and download, just visit http://www.quartam.com HTH, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time.  (La Rochefoucauld) From: Michael Kristensen michael-kristen

Re: Scripting shades of colors?

2012-10-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
-- On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 10:22 AM PDT Richard Gaskin wrote: Jan Schenkel wrote: You might be interested in Quartam Color Library for LiveCode - a free / open source software project available under the commercial-friendly LGPL license. Is it LGPL or Affero

Re: Send a message when the mouse hilites text on an option menu, possible ?

2012-11-02 Thread Jan Schenkel
or by means of a separate palette or modeless stack). The downside of this approach is that: - you would have to script the menu stack to take into account variable choice lists - your menu won't look like a standard menu unless you spend quite some time to make it look 'right' HTH, Jan Schenkel

Re: Non-blocking URL commands

2012-11-18 Thread Jan Schenkel
. And it is by no means feature-complete; I've been experimenting with authentication but that stuff isn't ready just yet. If you find it useful, and wish to collaborate on its development, join the Quartam forums at http://forums.quartam.com Cheers, Jan Schenkel.   = Quartam Reports PDF

Re: Non-blocking URL commands

2012-11-18 Thread Jan Schenkel
Yup, it should work pretty much the same and is called (rather unimaginatively): qrtHTTP_SetSSLVerification [true|false] HTH, Jan Schenkel.  = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La

Re: Badge in answer modal?

2012-11-19 Thread Jan Schenkel
Actually, 'gRevSmallAppIcon' has been broken since LiveCode 4.0 - see http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9421. Jan Schenkel.   = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we grow older, we grow both wiser and more foolish at the same time. (La

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