Re: Call for a contributor: LC Server enhancement
On 30/03/2019 21:56, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Given that it's taken years to get approval for -f, I'm reluctant to overload the task with too many additional features at the outset, though perhaps as a separate scope of work it may be worth pursuing if we can find someone to implement it. What sorts of things are you building that use specific fonts in generated graphics on the server? In reality, so far, none. In principle - perhaps many, but I wouldn't know :-) My current project is to build a Graphing Library (driven by a specific desktop app that I'm developing for personal/family use). Neither ChartsEngine nor ChartMaker is suitable (they don't support the specific kind of hybrid graph I need), so I'm building an open-source LC Graphing library. There's no reason why it couldn't run on LCServer (and good reason why it might be useful - the app I'm building as the primary use-case could easily be run on the family web-site). So it would generate the graphics inside a group, take a snapshot of that, and include that JPG file in the web site output. The library allows for titles, axis labels, grid/tick labels, a legend, etc. - all of which allow setting of text size, color, font, etc. - so could require specific fonts. Right now it doesn't all work (I'm slowly fighting my through various difficulties in the Server implementation - I think caused by the fact that there are no inherited properties from the card/stack, but more likely caused by my bugs :-), and indeed even the desktop version is incomplete; but I hope to have it ready for beta release sometime this Spring. And then I can get back to actually building the real app that I wanted in the first place :-) Alex. ___ 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-livecode
Re: Call for a contributor: LC Server enhancement
Alex Tweedly wrote: Actually, I think it would also be good (if it's feasible) to have a way to invoke the font-loading from within LCS, so that e.g. a library that did intend to do graphics stuff could request font loading when needed. (Yes, I do have one of those - generates graphs, snapshots them into a JPG file and then includes that in the html output. :-) I often use !# to invoke LC engines, which gives me specific command line options for a given script. But it would be nice to support other ways to invoke the option for some things and not others. Given that it's taken years to get approval for -f, I'm reluctant to overload the task with too many additional features at the outset, though perhaps as a separate scope of work it may be worth pursuing if we can find someone to implement it. What sorts of things are you building that use specific fonts in generated graphics on the server? -- Richard Gaskin LiveCode Community Liaison ___ 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-livecode
Re: Call for a contributor: LC Server enhancement
Matthias Rebbe wrote: >> >> ./livecode-server-community -f >> > > So this would only work when calling the LC Server from the command > line? By what other means is a CGI invoked? > If not, how could the Font loading process be passed when alivecode > server is running on a webserver and the .lc file is called from a web > browser? An interesting option worth proposing as an addition on the feature request page, allowing page-specific overrides. How often do you use LC Server to generate graphics with specific fonts? -- Richard Gaskin LiveCode Community Liaison ___ 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-livecode
Re: Call for a contributor: LC Server enhancement
Could you not do that in your .htaccess file ? (or presumably in more powerful ways if it's a VPS, etc.) "simply" add a rewrite rule that adds the "-f" flag to HTTP requests in general, with an override rule for those few server scripts that might want font initialization. Actually, I think it would also be good (if it's feasible) to have a way to invoke the font-loading from within LCS, so that e.g. a library that did intend to do graphics stuff could request font loading when needed. (Yes, I do have one of those - generates graphs, snapshots them into a JPG file and then includes that in the html output. :-) -- Alex. On 30/03/2019 20:38, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote: ./livecode-server-community -f So this would only work when calling the LC Server from the command line? If not, how could the Font loading process be passed when alivecode server is running on a webserver and the .lc file is called from a web browser? Matthias ___ 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-livecode ___ 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-livecode
Re: Call for a contributor: LC Server enhancement
> > > ./livecode-server-community -f > So this would only work when calling the LC Server from the command line? If not, how could the Font loading process be passed when alivecode server is running on a webserver and the .lc file is called from a web browser? Matthias ___ 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-livecode
