Re: 7.0.0 dp 5

2014-05-27 Thread Paul Foraker
When I opened a couple of large stacks I use every day in the stable version of 7.0 CE, both stacks got corrupted on the first save. This happened twice in a row, so I've now gone back to 6.5.2. -- Paul ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: repeat with each

2014-09-22 Thread Paul Foraker
On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: repeat for each word myWord in field Just One put thisWord comma after myNewdata end repeat sort items of myNewData put char 1 to -2 of myNewData into field Just One This loop generates a string

Windows 7 and the plugin

2011-06-11 Thread paul foraker
We have a client with a brand new Windows 7 installation and freshly downloaded Firefox, reporting: Upon following the mailed task link or the link to install the plugin I am prompted to allow access. Regardless of what I do at this point, I subsequently receive a notification There was an error

[OT] 13 essential programming tools for the mobile Web | Mobile Technology - InfoWorld

2011-06-13 Thread Paul Foraker
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mobile-technology/13-essential-programming-tools-the-mobile-web-246 *When it comes to programming for mobile devices, choice quickly becomes dilemma. Do you target the lucrative iPhone market at the expense of Android's rising tide? Do you go native or write code to the

Apostrophe and UPDATE

2013-10-09 Thread Paul Foraker
While building a LiveCode front end to a MySQL database, I ran into the apostrophe-in-the-data problem. My friend O'Byrne cannot get updated. For INSERTs, the variable substitution method works great -- I can post O'Byrne's name as a new record. But, what should I do about UPDATE ? Here's my

Re: Apostrophe and UPDATE

2013-10-09 Thread Paul Foraker
Stephen, escaping the single quote with another quote causes the same error, with the result showing \'\' instead of \'. I tried it with and without variable substitution. Monte, my UPDATE syntax was incorrect. Thanks! In case anyone else needs something like this, here's the code that worked:

Re: Apostrophe and UPDATE

2013-10-09 Thread Paul Foraker
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:32 AM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: Stephen, escaping the single quote with another quote causes the same error, with the result showing \'\' instead of \'. I tried it with and without variable substitution. thanks, Paul. This goes

Re: Apostrophe and UPDATE

2013-10-09 Thread Paul Foraker
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:02 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: You're using the wrong escape. Inside a string, you need a double single quote, not a backslash. It's worth keeping a preSql() function around, like: function preSQL pSQL replace ' with '' in pSQL if pSQL is

Counting Lines

2014-01-12 Thread Paul Foraker
I have a WordPress form on my website that sends me an email when someone fills it out. I've written a stack that parses that email into tab-delimited lines for pasting into a spreadsheet. On the Mac (iMac, 10.7.5), but not on the PC (Vista), LiveCode is discarding a blank line in the data. Here

Problem with iRev refresh

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Foraker
I'm working on a registration page for a training ( www.blueskytrainings.com/register.irev ). I'm having a problem with Safari and Chrome improperly refreshing to a PayPal page. I'm on a Mac. The following code works perfectly in Firefox and Camino. It fails to go to PayPal in Safari and

Re: Problem with iRev refresh

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Foraker
Thank you, Sarah, but that didn't work. Safari and Chrome still fail to reach the PayPal site. Testing some more, I found an odd error using IE on Windows NT. IE also fails to go to PayPal, but instead it puts the following URL onto a blank page:

Re: Problem with iRev refresh

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Foraker
Problem solved (thank you, Cristophe!). Instead of put format(meta http-equiv=\refresh\ content=\0;url= tURL ) into thePlaceToGo put thePlaceToGo which fails on Safari, Chrome and IE. This works perfectly on all tested browsers: -- put format(meta http-equiv=\refresh\ content=\0;url= tURL )

Re: Problem with iRev refresh

2011-03-08 Thread Paul Foraker
Thanks, Alex, yeah, that's obviously an error. Since I got it working the other way, I won't mess with the code now, but I'll know to look more intensely next time. On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 5:20 AM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: I think the quotes are strangely placed in the 'format'

Re: Problem with iRev refresh

2011-03-08 Thread Paul Foraker
On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 3:51 AM, Jan Schenkel janschen...@yahoo.com wrote: Aren't you missing a quote after tURL to close the content attribute? Or is that a typo when you wrote the email? ## put format(meta http-equiv=\refresh\ content=\0;url= tURL \) into thePlaceToGo put thePlaceToGo

Can't close windows

2011-03-24 Thread paul foraker
As of a few weeks ago, I can no longer close stacks by clicking their red close button (Mac OS 10.6.6, LC 4.0.0). I have to use File / Close (Cmd W). Any ideas what might be happening with that? -- Paul ___ use-livecode mailing list

Incredibly slow revlet in Win 7

2011-03-29 Thread paul foraker
I'm having an ongoing issue with a Win 7 user for whom our otherwise snappy revlet runs incredibly slowly. Three to 5 minutes to load the revlet is not uncommon. Once he opened the web page, left his desk, came back 20 minutes later and the revlet just then finished loading. He's running a brand

Re: Incredibly slow revlet in Win 7

2011-03-30 Thread paul foraker
limits on my network. The big time chunk is before the revlet loading page even shows up. Once the revlet starts loading it is only a few seconds until I am ready to login. On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 9:49 PM, paul foraker p...@whitefeather.com wrote: I'm having an ongoing issue with a Win 7 user

Re: Incredibly slow revlet in Win 7

2011-03-30 Thread paul foraker
Thanks, Jacque. On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:49 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: If he's stalling out before your page even loads, it isn't a revlet issue. Sounds more like a DNS issue. What happens if you give him the IP numbers of the URL instead of using the standard named

Error in Windows standalone

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Foraker
I've built a little app that is generating a script error on Windows 7, but not on XP or Mac. On Win 7, the app generates this error message: Executing at 2:58:29 PM Type Object card id 1002 Lineput 'Object' tab the short name of tObject cr after tErrorString HintpreOpenCard I don't

Re: Error in Windows standalone

2011-04-11 Thread Paul Foraker
Seems like if it were the case that the datagrid library did not get included, it would also fail on Win XP, no? It works fine there and on Mac. On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Andrew Kluthe and...@rjdfarm.com wrote: I had this happen on windows 7 when it opened cards with datagrids. The

Re: Error in Windows standalone

2011-04-13 Thread Paul Foraker
if there is no folder tPath then create folder tPath put / pFname .txt after tPath return tPath end actionFile -- Paul On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:06 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 4/11/11 5:27 PM, Paul Foraker wrote: I've built a little app that is generating a script error

Re: Error in Windows standalone

2011-04-14 Thread Paul Foraker
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 3:28 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: I'm still thinking there's a permissions problem somewhere, and that's why the script is causing an error. It also looks like a bug in LiveCode's error reporting for some reason. My user ran a search for the file

Apps stop launching

2011-04-18 Thread Paul Foraker
Over the past several days, I've noticed that my standalone apps will no longer launch. They try to launch and then quit before getting to the first card. These are simple apps that aren't doing anything interesting on launch. I have to go back to the original stack and build a new standalone.

Cannot use Message Box

2011-05-07 Thread paul foraker
Ever since I installed version 4.6.1, the Message Box no longer responds to Return or Enter. I can type in it (both single and multi-line) but cannot execute anything. Weirdly, this also happens now with previous versions. I have made no changes to a utility stack I keep in the back, and this

Re: Cannot use Message Box

2011-05-07 Thread paul foraker
box uses the enter key and not the return key. Try turning on Livecode UI elements in Lists and then search through those stacks. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On May 7, 2011, at 4:59 AM, paul foraker wrote: Ever since I installed version 4.6.1

Re: Cannot use Message Box

2011-05-07 Thread paul foraker
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 5:41 AM, Thomas McGrath III mcgra...@mac.com wrote: This might not help, but the multi line message box uses the enter key and not the return key. Yeah, the Enter key in the multiline box doesn't work either. Try turning on Livecode UI elements in Lists and then

Re: Cannot use Message Box

2011-05-07 Thread paul foraker
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 1:47 PM, paul foraker p...@whitefeather.com wrote: Thanks, I just now tried that. The only stack with returnKey is revRotate and it's in a card script. Turns out that the Find interface does not find all occurrences in the rev stacks. I searched for rawKeyDown

Re: Cannot use Message Box

2011-05-08 Thread paul foraker
In my case, I continue to have the problem (cannot execute from Message Box) after restarting the computer, and launching LiveCode without having launched Chrome. (I wonder if Chrome is doing something without having been launched.) So, I used fast user switching, switched to another user and

Re: Cannot use Message Box

2011-05-08 Thread paul foraker
I too am thinking this Message Box problem is somehow related to problems with the Script Editor. When I open a script, I cannot display the variables. When I click on the Variables tab, I get $Apple_PubSub_Socket_Render displaying for a brief moment and then whichever tab was selected

Re: Incredibly slow revlet in Win 7

2011-05-13 Thread Paul Foraker
All my domains hosted at RunRev return the same IP address: 74.54.153.71, which makes it impossible to enter the IP address instead of, say, beta.4spires.com On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:23 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: There are several web resources, here's one I just found:

Re: Incredibly slow revlet in Win 7

2011-05-13 Thread paul foraker
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:14 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: I think it will be something like: http://74.54.153.71/beta/default.html Put in the actual landing page html or php or whatever for the last item. Nope... Apache doesn't find the page, even with the full path

Re: Cannot use Message Box

2011-05-21 Thread paul foraker
Build 1392 fixed the Chrome variable problem for LC 4.6.1, but no previous version of LC works on my machine in the current user. By not working I mean that I cannot type in the Message Box, and I cannot check the variables in the Script Editor. The workaround for me at the moment is to switch

Checkbox with dash?

2012-12-29 Thread Paul Foraker
The Mac interface guidelines indicate that a checkbox has two states, checked and unchecked. Except when it has a third state, dashed, indicating that not all the conditions are met for checking or unchecking. I have a field states containing a list of the states of the U.S. and a set of

Windows App Can't Find File Menu

2013-01-25 Thread Paul Foraker
A standalone I built on my Mac for both Mac and Windows can't find the custom menus when I run it in Windows. The error message I get on launch: Executing at 10:49:05 AM on Friday, January 25, 2013 Type: Chunk: no such object Object: stack //psf/Home/Desktop/Send AricaNews.exe Line: enable menu

Re: Windows App Can't Find File Menu

2013-01-25 Thread Paul Foraker
Thanks, Bob. I'm not sure I understand. I'm not trying to open a file. It's a button in the stack that can't be found (by the stack itself). On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Robert Sneidar slylab...@me.com wrote: Hmmm... Parallels Shared Folder is what that file is. I wonder, is it mapped to

Google OAuth2 For Native Apps

2013-02-12 Thread Paul Foraker
I see that in 2011 there were some conversations about building a library or two for Google OAuth2. Is there anything available now? -- Paul ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

What's with the spaces?

2013-06-25 Thread Paul Foraker
A couple of days ago, I noticed that when I copied a cell from Excel and pasted it into a field in LiveCode (4.6 and 6.0.2), the data got padded with spaces. Not having time to debug it, I passed the data through a trim() function. Today, a script I use to parse text copied from an email into a

Re: What's with the spaces?

2013-06-25 Thread Paul Foraker
Correction, they're not spaces, but are non-breaking spaces (#160) coming from the email (Gmail account open in Chrome). They are spaces (#32) coming from Excel. On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Paul Foraker p...@whitefeather.com wrote: A couple of days ago, I noticed that when I copied a cell

[OT] Problem with MySQL Insert

2015-03-24 Thread Paul Foraker
In a table in a MySQL database, I need a field displaying a time period corresponding to the half hour period during which a record was posted. The period is in the form HH:MM-HH:MM AM|PM. I have set the field type to VARCHAR(10) and LiveCode is passing the string to the query handler. MySQL is

Re: [OT] Problem with MySQL Insert

2015-03-25 Thread Paul Foraker
, Paul Foraker p...@whitefeather.com wrote: In a table in a MySQL database, I need a field displaying a time period corresponding to the half hour period during which a record was posted. The period is in the form HH:MM-HH:MM AM|PM. I have set the field type to VARCHAR(10) and LiveCode

Re: [OT] Problem with MySQL Insert

2015-03-25 Thread Paul Foraker
Thanks, Mark. On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:27 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Can you confirm that the MySQL syntax you see in the message box is the same as what you entered in Sequel Pro? In Sequel Pro, I wrapped the time period in double quotes. When we tried

Re: [OT] Problem with MySQL Insert

2015-03-25 Thread Paul Foraker
On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Have you tried selecting the data with Livecode (revDataFromQuery)? ​Well, thank you very much. When I checked with revDataFromQuery, I saw the same problem we're seeing in Sequel Pro. That was a clue! Sure enough, our

[OT] Network load analysis

2015-11-24 Thread Paul Foraker
One of my clients needs someone to dig around in his network and find out why he's getting load spikes. Does anyone here know how to do that stuff, or can recommend someone who does? Thanks -- Paul -- White Feather Software www.whitefeather.com ___

LiveCode and Alexa

2016-03-26 Thread Paul Foraker
I have a potential client who wants a Mac desktop app for viewing Alexa results. I see that Alexa has several APIs ( https://aws.amazon.com/tools/?nc1=f_dr) but I can't think of a way for LiveCode to hook into one of those solutions. Anyone have any experience with this? -- Paul

Clipboard pastes into single spreadsheet cell

2017-10-18 Thread Paul Foraker via use-livecode
On a Mac with LC 8.6.1 (Community) Tabs coming from LiveCode are converted to spaces when pasted to a Google spreadsheet, but are not converted when pasting from BBEdit. I'm collecting data into a tab-delimited row (line) and putting it on the Clipboard, then pasting the row into a Google

Re: Clipboard pastes into single spreadsheet cell

2017-10-18 Thread Paul Foraker via use-livecode
Results after copying data from LiveCode (string starts with a tab) 1hooIO16dbbNtjCvISrTzQ== 45539 TEST -- SEND TO PAUL IPST Results after pasting in BBEdit 1hooIO16dbbNtjCvISrTzQ== 45539 TEST -- SEND TO PAUL IPST After copying from BBEdit 1hooIO16dbbNtjCvISrTzQ== 45539 TEST -- SEND TO

Re: Clipboard pastes into single spreadsheet cell

2017-10-19 Thread Paul Foraker via use-livecode
I just checked this in LC 7.1.1, running in High Sierra. It works as expected; the tabs survive into the spreadsheet. -- Paul On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Paul Foraker <p...@whitefeather.com> wrote: > G.W., glad to hear it works OK on a PC. My end user will be using one.

Re: Clipboard pastes into single spreadsheet cell

2017-10-19 Thread Paul Foraker via use-livecode
pasted into a google spreadsheet cell and three cells were filled as > expected. > > Livecode 8.1.6 > windows 7 > firefox 56 > > perhaps it's a mac or browser thing > > > Am 18.10.2017 um 10:27 schrieb Paul Foraker via use-livecode: > >> On a Mac with LC 8.