Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

Peter Brigham MD wrote: > As you can see, the section titles and commands consist of doubled > letters. I encountered this as I was trying to read the man for ls on the server machine [On-Rev]... the text file I obtained was almost unreadable! Nonetheless, "doubled" chars are interpreted as *

Re: Adding To Zip File

Warren- Friday, January 7, 2011, 10:09:44 PM, you wrote: > I can't thank you enough! I have been banging my head against the wall for > hours trying to figure this out. ...and now you have to fix the wall. I hate it when that happens... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net __

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

I'm with you. In fact I believe if you don't lock your car, you should have it stolen. And anyone stupid enough to never lock their house deserves to be robbed at gunpoint and pistol whipped. And don't get me started about if you're so stupid to not know how to program in Objective-C... Chipp

Re: Adding To Zip File

Mark, I can't thank you enough! I have been banging my head against the wall for hours trying to figure this out. Appreciate your help! Warren On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 12:05 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Warren- > > Friday, January 7, 2011, 9:58:05 PM, you wrote: > > > I tried changing it to: > > >

Re: Adding To Zip File

Warren- Friday, January 7, 2011, 9:58:05 PM, you wrote: > I tried changing it to: > put "t" into ttest > revZipAddItemWithData > "c:/Users/Warren/Desktop/NewSpinner/wdk.zip", > "text.txt", ttest > answer the result > ...still the same error. try revZipAdd

Re: Adding To Zip File

Mark, I tried changing it to: put "t" into ttest revZipAddItemWithData "c:/Users/Warren/Desktop/NewSpinner/wdk.zip", "text.txt", ttest answer the result ...still the same error. Warren On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:52 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Warren- > > Friday, Janua

Re: Adding To Zip File

Warren- Friday, January 7, 2011, 9:21:11 PM, you wrote: >revZipAddItemWithData "c:/Users/Warren/Desktop/software/wdk.zip", > "text.txt", "This is a test" Do you really have a variable called "This is a test"? -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net __

Adding To Zip File

I am trying to add data to a zip file. I keep getting a "ziperr, illegal variable" on the revZipAddItemWithData command. The open and close results are empty...and the zip file is not getting created. revZipOpenArchive "c:/Users/Warren/Desktop/software/wdk.zip", "update" answer the result

Re: Humor: xkcd- How To Write Good Code

On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Kurt- > > Friday, January 7, 2011, 5:18:06 PM, you wrote: > >> http://xkcd.com/844/ > > LOL. But all seriousness aside, I think the "Throw it all out and > start over" step is the best refactoring process there is. My code > becomes so much clean

Re: Humor: xkcd- How To Write Good Code

Kurt- Friday, January 7, 2011, 5:18:06 PM, you wrote: > http://xkcd.com/844/ LOL. But all seriousness aside, I think the "Throw it all out and start over" step is the best refactoring process there is. My code becomes so much cleaner when I've already thought out the issues and don't have to dea

Re: Control Keys still not working - FIXED

I assumed as much; just hadn't gotten back to trying that out. I still have a few minor things to do with the menus, such as disabling ones that are not applicable under certain circumstances. I think the most difficult adjustment will be allowing for use of arrow keys to navigate from menu to m

[OT] Lest We Forget

Folks it's been far too long since I've been able to be frequent this List; life is way way too busy. But sometimes when life's too busy you do need to stop, step back and remember what's important. This morning I realised that it was the anniversary of Bill Marriott's passing. I understand that K

Re: Control Keys still not working - FIXED

On 1/7/11 5:30 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Jacqui, Richard, Thanks for your replies. One additional change along with building the Windows version by itself works perfectly,except for the Control Q, which I'm sure I'll figure out - eventually. You don't need to build separately. The standalon

Humor: xkcd- How To Write Good Code

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Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

David Bovill wrote: > The main issue for us here is about mixing code projects together > in ways in which the code can be used in clear ways for commercial > and non-commercial projects - removing the uncertainty. Let's just > make sure the code bases can be mixed together. If someone uses a > "

Re: Audioclips: can't get at the data?

*Wait a minute - David, you are on to something. THIS WORKS!* *I exported as scripted and opened the resultant file in Amadeus Pro RAW (default params) - and got a cogent waveform - my sound!! It was even at the same speed. 16 bit 44.1k* * * *on* mouseUp *play* ac "shutShortQ.aif" *c

Re: Control Keys still not working - FIXED

Jacqui, Richard, Thanks for your replies. One additional change along with building the Windows version by itself works perfectly, except for the Control Q, which I'm sure I'll figure out - eventually. There were several problems; mostly based on my original assumption that I needed to do it al

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

I agree that a lot of people use crappy passwords. It is my somewhat controversial opinion however, given that this is the 21st century, that those people really deserve to lose everything they protect with such passwords. It reminds me of Spaceballs, where the combination to the airlock on Drui

Re: Control Keys still not working

On 1/7/11 4:22 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: I finally tested my app on a real PC and the control keys still do not work. The alt key mnemonics worked and the arrow keys worked, but not the Control Keys. You only need two handlers, a commandKey handler and an optionKey handler. On Macs, these w

Major Problems with Find/Replace

I just got done using the FInd and Replace dialog (from the Edit menu) to make some wholesale changes to custom property names and any references to them in scripts. It looks like the script changes worked OK but there are some major problems with the custom property name changes in the contro

Re: Control Keys still not working

Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > I finally tested my app on a real PC and the control keys still do > not work. The alt key mnemonics worked and the arrow keys worked, > but not the Control Keys. You're using a commandKeyDown handler as Jacque suggested, yes? Post your code and we can fix it. Contro

Windows standalone - revBrowser DLL

Developing on a Mac, I have a small application that opens a substack with a revBrowser instance rendering in-memory html. The standalone on the mac runs as expected. When I execute the windows standalone Windows2000 under Parallels, the primary stack seems to display fine, but the revBrowser wi

Control Keys still not working

I finally tested my app on a real PC and the control keys still do not work. The alt key mnemonics worked and the arrow keys worked, but not the Control Keys. I've tried various other solutions, including building ONLY the Windows version, rather than MacOSX AND Windows at the same time. Also a

Re: HTTPS without DLL external

I wrote: Maybe someone can save me some testing time. If I try to send to an https URL and the revsecurity.dll is not in the right location next to the exe on Windows, will I get an error? Will it try to send anyway? Can I just check the result? What happens? For the curious, I ran some tests

Re: Audioclips: can't get at the data?

NB - filed this as a bug report - vote for this: - http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=9280 On 7 January 2011 22:07, David Bovill wrote: > No - I don't think it will work as an export format - as it is an internal > object representation format for LiveCode. > > It is not ide

Re: Audioclips: can't get at the data?

No - I don't think it will work as an export format - as it is an internal object representation format for LiveCode. It is not ideal, but it works for my use - which is simply to export the stack to a text representation in GIT for later import. I guess there will be no way to convert it to a pla

Re: Audioclips: can't get at the data?

Doesn't work for me either. I export a WAV file with suffix ".wav", get a file of the correct size, but it's not openable in QT or audio editor. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Klaus on-rev wrote: > Hi David, > >> Just found one :) >> >> copy audio

Re: Audioclips: can't get at the data?

Hi David, > Just found one :) > > copy audioclip 1 >> > put clipboarddata ["objects"] into url ("binfile:" & someFile) does not work for me! A small 1 secs aif audiclip results in a 5:30 empty audio file. Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major.on-rev.com _

Re: Audioclips: can't get at the data?

Just found one :) copy audioclip 1 > put clipboarddata ["objects"] into url ("binfile:" & someFile) > On 7 January 2011 19:39, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, David Bovill wrote: > > > I've not used audioclips before, but having imported one, is there anyway > to > > get at the data so it can be

Live LiveCode Code event #5

Dearest Developers For the first time this year, the live madness returns. This time I (Bjoernke) will start the show, and I'll be showing off a plugin I have made for the IDE. It allows me to edit the text of label fields by double clicking them (pointer mode only). http://livecode.tv/bvg/ Af

Re: Audioclips: can't get at the data?

Recently, David Bovill wrote: > I've not used audioclips before, but having imported one, is there anyway to > get at the data so it can be exported? For videoclips I use the following: > > put the text of videoclip 1 into someData > > but the corresponding line for audioclips fails (as does "p

Re: [OT] Why is Brazil like Bulgaria?

Just got back from 5 days holiday in the Rhodopes; usual stuff; snow, log-fires, long country walks, no Livecode, high-class red wine out of earthen-ware jugs, biography of Leonardo da Vinci . . . err . . . *ISBN:* 9780141035338***Pages :* 640 *Published :* 06 Sep 2007 *Publisher :* Penguin

Re: Front Scripts

Thanks Richard, I knew it would be something simple! Pete Haworth On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Peter Haworth wrote: > > I just realized that the stacks that I insert as front scripts are > > included in the Contents of a standalone application on a Mac. > > I may decide t

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

Sure, but 10 attempts might well be enough to skim 50,000 accounts if you'd harvested, say, a million email addresses? I'm just suggesting that the percentage shot here may be harvesting through the mass stupidity of human-kind, rather than complex technology. I think it was Einstein who said t

Re: Front Scripts

Peter Haworth wrote: > I just realized that the stacks that I insert as front scripts are > included in the Contents of a standalone application on a Mac. > I may decide to package some of those scripts and try to sell them > in the future but this makes them available to anyone who takes the > ti

Front Scripts

I just realized that the stacks that I insert as front scripts are included in the Contents of a standalone application on a Mac. I may decide to package some of those scripts and try to sell them in the future but this makes them available to anyone who takes the time to look at the contents o

Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

On 7 January 2011 16:25, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > One of the reasons so many developers like the Creative Commons license is > that there are many flavors to cover a broader range of specific usage > rights than GPL, and certainly X11, affords. > > The goals of sharing code can cover a broad spe

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

I'm willing to bet that you will disable your account for a period of time if you type in the wrong username/password 10 times. Every reputable web site that requires security does this now to foil brute force bots. I cannot believe Apple would overlook that issue. Bob On Jan 7, 2011, at 10:

Re: HTTPS without DLL external

On 1/6/11 11:58 PM, Devin Asay wrote: This happened to me just yesterday in a Rev standalone on Win XP. I was opening a stack that used https from a launcher-type standalone that lacked the dll. I tried to post data to an https URL, and I got nothing--empty-- back. No error message or even an

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

...I still wonder whether this is evidence of Apple security being compromised (big problem for all) versus a simple numbers game exploiting user stupidity/laziness (more fool them). A web-crawler captures publicly listed email addresses, these then get tested as iTunes logins, coupled with th

Re: Connecting to a MySQL database at a hosting provider

normally you'd create a php (or other scripted server side language) interface that queries the sql backend, or makes updates to it. But instead of outputting formatted html, you simply output machine parse-able content, like a tab delimited list, or xml. Then you can access the data, just as yo

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

Good point but "Insuffisant", as we would say - doors closed - in sarkoland ... ;-) Le 7 janv. 2011 à 17:51, Bob Sneidar a écrit : > Your login credentials are not in your cookie. > > Bob > > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: > >> Good reminder, Richard ! Done. >> >> I not

Connecting to a MySQL database at a hosting provider

Hi, I' writing an iPad app. I want the app to get some shared data from a MySQL database. I've seen scripts for that and locally they all work great. However, I've got three websites, each with a different hosting provider, and they all have installed MySQL in such a way that you can only acces

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

I think hacking is a term that is used loosely to mean any kind of security compromise. It's used mostly by the media who are communicating with a market that in the lowest common denominator would not be able to define the difference between a hack and a crack, or a virus and a trojan. That is

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

Maybe but is there actual proof of hacking - or could this be the far more likely human trait of stupidity? Perhaps these 50,000 accounts just belong to the numpties whose password = 'password', '12345' or similar? On 7 Jan 2011, at 16:57, Colin Holgate wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:50 A

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

I think that means it would take it that long to produce the unencypted passwords for every conceivable hash to produce a lookup table, and even so, there is no database in existence that could store it. Bob On Jan 7, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:50 AM, B

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

On Jan 7, 2011, at 11:50 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > The same password in AES-256 would take 1.2 million years. >From Wikipedia: A device that could check a billion billion (1018) AES keys per second would in theory require about 3×1051 years to exhaust the 256-bit key space. __

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

Your login credentials are not in your cookie. Bob On Jan 7, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: > Good reminder, Richard ! Done. > > I noticed that we are not automatically disconnected when we quit the (Mac) > App Store (probably some kind of cookie around) as long as we don't > explic

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that these people got a trojan on a Windows machine which logged their keyboard while the users were accessing their iTunes accounts. Otherwise I think it would have been a whole helluvalot more. Everything Apple does with security is AES based. I hav

Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

Hmmm... not seeing the scrolling list... Bob On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:39 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > I just uploaded a new version of Shell Command Help to RevOnline. > > New features added just now (thanks to suggestions on this list): > > * You can pick your command from the scrolling list of co

Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

Awesome Phil! Now do the same thing for Applescript! LOL! AHH HAHA HAHAHA HAHAH AAHHH! Seriously though, do you have some kind of Paypal account I can donate to your cause? No sense doing all this for nothing... Bob On Jan 6, 2011, at 11:39 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > I just uploaded a new versi

Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

I'm simply going to ignore this post and hope it goes away. ;-) Bob On Jan 6, 2011, at 6:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Mike Bonner wrote: > >> Is there a manpath? > > Yes, Robert Bly wrote about it in "Iron John". > > ;) > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World > LiveCode training and consul

Re: Problems Opening an EXCEL text file

Sounds like a refresh issue. Bob On Jan 7, 2011, at 4:10 AM, Ian McKnight wrote: > A click on the target field made the list appear as it should! While my > table only contains 90 lines of 3 items I'm at a loss to explain this. > However, it is working as it should. > > Thanks > > On 7 Janua

Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

David Bovill wrote: The most important things to do with regard to licenses is to avoid incompatibility and proliferation of licenses as this prevents people remixing code from various projects. I'd strongly encourage you to use a GPL compatible license

Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

The most important things to do with regard to licenses is to avoid incompatibility and proliferation of licenses as this prevents people remixing code from various projects. I'd strongly encourage you to use a GPL compatible license

Re: [OT] time to change your iTunes password?

Good reminder, Richard ! Done. I noticed that we are not automatically disconnected when we quit the (Mac) App Store (probably some kind of cookie around) as long as we don't explicitly pick-up the Store -> Disconnect menu item before quitting. Best regards, Pierre Le 7 janv. 2011 à 16:14, R

Re: Audioclips: can't get at the data?

Hi David and Mark, > Hi David, > > I always forget which one is broken, but you can get the text of either > videoclips or audioclips. well, apparently the export of audioclips is the broken one :-) > -- > Best regards, > > Mark Schonewille > > Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineer

Re: Audioclips: can't get at the data?

Hi David, I always forget which one is broken, but you can get the text of either videoclips or audioclips. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: D

Audioclips: can't get at the data?

I've not used audioclips before, but having imported one, is there anyway to get at the data so it can be exported? For videoclips I use the following: put the text of videoclip 1 into someData but the corresponding line for audioclips fails (as does "put audioclip 1"), and as the data is not re

[OT] time to change your iTunes password?

While only 50,000 of the several million accounts have been hacked, it may be good to err on the safe side and review the recent transactions for your account and update the password; I just did both here. Hacked iTunes accounts sold online

Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

On Jan 7, 2011, at 2:39 AM, Phil Davis wrote: I just uploaded a new version of Shell Command Help to RevOnline. New features added just now (thanks to suggestions on this list): * You can pick your command from the scrolling list of commands! * You can adjust the width of the list as neede

Re: iOS: displaying LiveCode App thru VGA-out adapter

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: > Having just learnt that not all Apps are displayable on a > monitor/projector connected to an iPhone/iPad thru Apple's VGA-out > adapter, how would I configure my LiveCode-built App so that it is > displayable? > A few months ago I was told

Re: RevOnline: New version of Shell Command Help

On Jan 6, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: Closest thing I know of would be apropos. Not a complete list, but a more 'targeted' list. Could implement a search box that returns an apropos list (on mac and linux) and use that for a clickable. On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Peter Brigham

Re: iOS: displaying LiveCode App thru VGA-out adapter

Nicolas, I don't know if this is possible right now but check the screenrects and see if there is a second monitor available. That is how we do on the desktop but I believe on an iDevice is probably different. On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: > Having just learnt that not a

iOS: displaying LiveCode App thru VGA-out adapter

Having just learnt that not all Apps are displayable on a monitor/projector connected to an iPhone/iPad thru Apple's VGA-out adapter, how would I configure my LiveCode-built App so that it is displayable? These are in-house Apps that I install directly rather than thru an AppStore download/purchas

Re: Problems Opening an EXCEL text file

A click on the target field made the list appear as it should! While my table only contains 90 lines of 3 items I'm at a loss to explain this. However, it is working as it should. Thanks On 7 January 2011 10:46, Ian McKnight wrote: > Hi > > I have a table of data held in a table in EXCEL and I

Problems Opening an EXCEL text file

Hi I have a table of data held in a table in EXCEL and I want to import it into a field in a LC stack. I saved the file from EXECL as a tab delimited text file and used the following handler * on* mouseUp *answer* file "choose" with *type* "text|txt|TXT" *if* it is empty or it is *cancel* *the

Re: Getting a public IP address when connected to a router

Bob Sneidar wrote: > But you still have to teach him how to make everything the way you like it. :-) I just went that way... When whois* reports that the connection originates from my ADSL node, I consider that it's me (and it is in a log, so I can verify it) :-) * I downloaded "man whois" (

Re: iOS revMail Attachment?

Last I asked, there was not one. Please add, otherwise there's little chance ov ever getting an image out of your app. On Thursday, January 6, 2011, Scott Rossi wrote: > Another iOS question -- any way to send an image attachment using revMail? > > Or an alternate option, send HTML mail or HTML t