Re: [Server] create stack trouble

jan wrote: Storing data is an enticing idea, but flawed: stacks are not a multi-user data storage infrastructure. You are of course right for multi-user scenarios. but I beg to differ in cases where a) the data is read only for web delivery or for the majority of users b) the "editors" ar

Re: Another Docu question

I second that... ditto here. exactly same problem. My folder-file layout looks like: My Livecode /Plugins /BvG Docu BvG Docu 4.6.3.sqlite BvG Docu 4.6.4-dp-1.sqlite BvG Docu 2.rev bvg_docu_2.rev I will get a message on start up that the same stac

LiveCode.tv event needs you

I mean you specifically. To continue the livecode.tv event, we need presenters. please consider doing a tutorial, or introduce a stack that you made, or a commercial project where you used LiveCode. See also here: http://livecode.tv/participate/ In addition, I will not have as much time as the

Re: Ideal Unicode?

On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Kee Nethery wrote: > In my perfect programming world ... > > I'd want all characters all the time for any place characters are displayed > to be displayed and entered as unicode characters and represented as UTF8 > bytes. > > If the display version has "割劥" I'd wa

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

Ah, so the "internet date" is not really the internet date at all it's just whatever the computer's current date is in internet format. Interesting, didn't know that. Pete Molly's Revenge On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > The Internet Date r

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

The Internet Date returns the date and time, along with the current time zone set in your preferences. If the user changes his date and time manually though, it will faithfully return whatever the user enters. Querying a time server on the internet will always return the real date and time. Su

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

I missed the beginning of this thread so I'm probably missing the point here, but what's wrong with using the LC "internet date"? Pete Molly's Revenge On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I may have sent you a version that was bugged. This is th

Re: Exporting vector images

Sounds like it was made to code printing rip servers since they were mostly Unix based, widely used alongside Mac computers and utilized postscript. Mike "J. Landman Gay" wrote: >On 8/15/11 3:39 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > If I remember right, EPS was intended for 'nix only, and only

Re: Another Docu question

Right. I use dropfolder for my Livecode user settings, that's why I brought it up. On 15 August 2011 15:12, Pete wrote: > Yep, checked it and it points to ~/Documents/Livecode. I think that's > right > - you don't point to the Plugins folder directly but the folder containing > the Plugins fol

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

I may have sent you a version that was bugged. This is the final one I came up with: function realTime theFormat, useOffset if useOffset is empty then put false into useOffset put "http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl"; into theURL get url theURL put it into theResult filter

Re: Another Docu question

Yep, checked it and it points to ~/Documents/Livecode. I think that's right - you don't point to the Plugins folder directly but the folder containing the Plugins folder, right? Pete Molly's Revenge On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 12:16 PM, stephen barncard < stephenrevo

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

In my testing, the convert command fails with the date as given by the webpage, because the date lacks the year. Hence the need to insert the year first. And there needs to be no comma in the date. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Aug 15, 2011, at

Re: Exporting vector images

What does the PDF library do with text? Convert it to raster? You can find out. Export to PDF and then open it with a PDF editor. See if you can select the text itself. If the text is selectable, it hasn't done a conversion. If the text is a bunch of vector objects however, you may be in busines

Re: Ideal Unicode?

Hi Kee, No, this isn't crazy at all. In fact, this is pretty standard amongst nowadays software products, particularly text editors. Most programming environments are capable of doing this. The availability of both char and byte in the LiveCode language indicates that RunRev plans to do the sam

Ideal Unicode?

In my perfect programming world ... I'd want all characters all the time for any place characters are displayed to be displayed and entered as unicode characters and represented as UTF8 bytes. If the display version has "割劥" I'd want the language to recognize those as two characters and as 6 by

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

Thanks Stephen, I too came across this one today. Looks pretty easy to parse. Gregory On Mon, Aug 15, 2011, at 3:45 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Message: 14 > Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:57:24 -0700 > From: stephen barncard > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: Re: Grabbi

Re: [OT] Blasted Flash

There are no plot surprises in Planet of the Apes movie to give away. It is exactly a perfect prequel to the original Charlton Heston movie. I liked Cowboys and Aliens better. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this u

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

Thanks for this, Bob. I did some more poking around myself and this seems to work. Not too difficult remove the HTML. on mouseUp put url ("http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl";) end mouseUp On Mon, Aug 15, 2011, at 3:45 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Message:

Re: Exporting vector images

Copy/Pasting Unicode text into Open Office Draw or Office Libre Draw allows the textbox to be exported as either EPS or SVG. All of these observations are really tangential as one cannot EXPORT text as a vector image directly from Livecode. ___ use-

Re: Exporting vector images

If I either type or copy/paste some Unicode text into Inkscape it can pump out a vector image of the text "there-and-then". As Inkscape is Open Source, presumably, those who know what they are doing (and I don't) can pick up the vectorisation code from Inkscape's source code and, possibly, inte

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

I suppose I could do that and then do a conversion coming and going. Bob On Aug 15, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Warren Samples wrote: > On Monday, August 15, 2011 12:31:25 PM Bob Sneidar wrote: >> This interests me, because while I could depend on the system time I >> suppose, to datetimestamp entries

Re: Exporting vector images

Richmond, have a look at this: http://www.stone.com/PStill/PStill.html They have a Windows and a linux version as well I think, although it may be someone else who distributes it. I saw the link for how a developer can use their API to include functionality in their application. This combined wi

Re: Exporting vector images

On 8/15/11 3:39 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: If I remember right, EPS was intended for 'nix only, and only in MetaCard, and only for very early versions of both. I didn't know it ever worked at all on Macs. Why, exactly, was that possibility dropped? Don't know, but I think it stopped befor

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

On Monday, August 15, 2011 12:31:25 PM Bob Sneidar wrote: > This interests me, because while I could depend on the system time I suppose, > to datetimestamp entries in an SQL tab But wouldn't it be simpler, and smarter, to let the db create and store store its own timestamp as the insert is made

Re: Exporting vector images

On 08/15/2011 11:34 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/15/11 3:21 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 08/15/2011 11:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/15/11 3:04 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: If you are feeling really warped you can download the Mac version of Metecard 2.2.5 from Tucows: this requires

Re: Exporting vector images

On 8/15/11 3:21 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: On 08/15/2011 11:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/15/11 3:04 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: If you are feeling really warped you can download the Mac version of Metecard 2.2.5 from Tucows: this requires Mac OS 9 or less. This will allow you to impo

Re: Exporting vector images

On 08/15/2011 11:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/15/11 3:04 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: If you are feeling really warped you can download the Mac version of Metecard 2.2.5 from Tucows: this requires Mac OS 9 or less. This will allow you to import EPS images; they will be invisible in the MC

Re: Exporting vector images

On 8/15/11 3:04 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: If you are feeling really warped you can download the Mac version of Metecard 2.2.5 from Tucows: this requires Mac OS 9 or less. This will allow you to import EPS images; they will be invisible in the MC stack. Save the stack and open in Livecode; y

Re: Exporting vector images

And the only posters to this list would be from the UK, Asia, South America or Africa (did I miss anyone?) :-) Bob On Aug 15, 2011, at 12:57 PM, John Dixon wrote: > If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he > would be robbed of one half of his existence. ~Ale

Re: Exporting vector images

If you are feeling really warped you can download the Mac version of Metecard 2.2.5 from Tucows: this requires Mac OS 9 or less. This will allow you to import EPS images; they will be invisible in the MC stack. Save the stack and open in Livecode; you can then access the EPS file; although a

RE: Exporting vector images

> From: b...@twft.com > I am going to go out on a limb here and say that RunRev was approached by > Adobe and asked to "pony up" some exorbitant sum in order to continue to work > with EPS, which offer was refused. But I am only surmising, as removing > working functionality from an applica

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

Maybe a little more concise: function realTime theFormat breakpoint put "http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl"; into theURL get url theURL put it into theResult filter theResult with "*UTC*" replace "" with empty in theResult put word 1 to 3 of theResult into the

Re: Unicode woes

Hey Richmond, maybe these might come in handy: setprop cUTF8Text pUTF8String if word 1 of the name of the target<>"field" and word 1 of the name of the target<>"button" then if "dev" is in the environment then throw "cUTF8Text: Target is not a field or Button" en

Re: Exporting vector images

On 08/15/2011 10:38 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I am going to go out on a limb here and say that RunRev was approached by Adobe and asked to "pony up" some exorbitant sum in order to continue to work with EPS, which offer was refused. But I am only surmising, as removing working functionality from a

Re: Exporting vector images

I am going to go out on a limb here and say that RunRev was approached by Adobe and asked to "pony up" some exorbitant sum in order to continue to work with EPS, which offer was refused. But I am only surmising, as removing working functionality from an application is not typically something any

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

Beat me to the punch! Bob On Aug 15, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: > I'll try sending this again, revised (third time -- someone let me know > please if it's getting through). It returns the time fast enough (with a > speedy connection) to be within a second or so.

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

Looks like only the time zones applicable to the US, however a simple table of time zones and their +/- relation to Universal Time could easily make this into a capable International Time function, once you knew the user's current time zone. This interests me, because while I *could* depend on

Re: Exporting vector images

On 08/15/2011 09:19 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Short of writing one in C, I am not sure how you are going to do that. Bob On Aug 15, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: As far as I remember Fontographer (I own the Mac Classic version!) is quite capable of exporting glyphs as some s

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

Oh hey there you go! But that was not the URL originally posted. Bob On Aug 15, 2011, at 11:57 AM, stephen barncard wrote: > Bob, I don't see a "ton of html" at > http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl > It's just about as simple as it could be presented. It took just a few lines > of Liv

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

All good advice, except I'd like to add a couple often overlooked points. There is a difference between "knowing" and "knowing how to find out". I have IT guys working for me who are constantly asking me questions about how to do things. A simple Google query produces the results they were looki

Re: Another Docu question

make sure Livecode prefs is pointing at the right user folder. On 15 August 2011 10:47, Pete wrote: > Thanks but still getting the same problem. the plugin does work after is > has rebuilt the database but it still rebuilds it every time I start LC. > > I installed the stack in my LC plugins fo

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

I'll try sending this again, revised (third time -- someone let me know please if it's getting through). It returns the time fast enough (with a speedy connection) to be within a second or so. -- You can fetch the time from the U.S. Naval Observatory atomic clock. This assumes

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

it's UDP. One could use sockets in Livecode. Probably pretty easy to make a Time Server LIb here's the poop from the time people http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.cfm On 15 August 2011 11:57, stephen barncard wrote: > Bob, I don't see a "to

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

Bob, I don't see a "ton of html" at http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl It's just about as simple as it could be presented. It took just a few lines of Livecode to scrape. Determine AM and PM and one could even translate to 24 hour clock. There's about a half second of latency. I just see

Re: Exporting vector images

Short of writing one in C, I am not sure how you are going to do that. Bob On Aug 15, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote: > As far as I remember Fontographer (I own the Mac Classic version!) is > quite capable of exporting glyphs as some sort of vector file . . . > > . . . wait

Re: [OT] advice as to whether this is a scam?

On 08/15/2011 09:12 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Before or after the Javascript "takes advantage of" his virgin operating system? ;-) LOL! Bob That's not even funny as I have just spent the last half hour trying to get a certain rubber object over my MacMini . . . :) ___

Re: [OT] advice as to whether this is a scam?

Before or after the Javascript "takes advantage of" his virgin operating system? ;-) LOL! Bob On Aug 13, 2011, at 9:50 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Richmond wrote: > >> Should I or shouldn't I? >> Please advise. > > Here's what you do. Fill out the form as completely as you can, providing the

Re: What to Do Since FTP No Longer Supported in Mac OSX Lion?

They do not make the rack mounted server hardware anymore. All client and server software (which is still available) still have a built in FTP server. I thought it very surprising that Apple removed the server daemon from the client! I rather believe it was just the GUI and it can still be enabl

Re: [On-Rev] Using Shell to Manipulate SQL

If you are going to supply the functionality in your application of creating a new schema, you will need to get the user to supply credentials with create privileges for the database. Using root in a shell will not get you around this. Use "CREATE SCHEMA IF NOT EXISTS " and once you have your s

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

You're right - your knowledge of your own requirements and the way you work makes if a good tool. That knowledge is the equivalent of the problem analysis/design work. I guess the word "hobbyist' is what is annoying folks here. I never think of that as a pejorative term, after all Jobs and Wozni

Re: Another Docu question

Thanks but still getting the same problem. the plugin does work after is has rebuilt the database but it still rebuilds it every time I start LC. I installed the stack in my LC plugins folder (~/Documents/Livecode/Plugins) After running it I see the following files: - BvG Docu 2.rev - bvg_docu_

Re: Exporting vector images

As far as I remember Fontographer (I own the Mac Classic version!) is quite capable of exporting glyphs as some sort of vector file . . . . . . wait a minute while I turn on my Mac . . fire up the Classic environment . . . and so on . . . Ar, har, har . . . It can export chars as EPS doc

RE: [OT] Internet Censorship

> You can take the word hobbyist as you please, it wasn't meant > as a demeaning term. And yes, there is crappy stuff produced > by people who are "real" > programmers (whatever that means). And yes, both groups of > people probably never had a course in UI design or DB design > - that's the w

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

Maybe I'm biased, but I think that the most user-friendly apps are those produced by the people who use them. I'm not a dispassionate observer, though -- my own practice management stack is miles ahead of anything else I've seen but then I designed it for just the way I think and work, and I've

Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet

This returns a ton of html, from which the date time can be filtered using "*", but since it takes about 30 seconds to run, and returns 32 entries, I am not sure how useful this would for him, if he wanted an exact time (within a second or two). Time servers are NTP:\\ aren't they? Looks like

AW: Lion trouble with quicktime video snapshot

wow, good to know! But I don't know if you have a separate installer of Quicktime on the Lion installer? Does anybody know? Googeling about Quicktime issues with Lion, you see quite some concerning third party tools like Better Touch Tool with affect on Quicktime. My only "third party tool" is LC.

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

You can take the word hobbyist as you please, it wasn't meant as a demeaning term. And yes, there is crappy stuff produced by people who are "real" programmers (whatever that means). And yes, both groups of people probably never had a course in UI design or DB design - that's the whole point. Wri

Re: Version Tracking

Yes I looked at this, but we need other things like accounting, multiple sites, room scheduling etc, features which when I looked, were not available. Also, the ability to customize it specifically to our needs is what is really driving this project. Bob On Aug 12, 2011, at 9:52 PM, Mark Wie

Re: Lion trouble with quicktime video snapshot

Hi Tiemo, Am 15.08.2011 um 18:47 schrieb Tiemo Hollmann TB: > Hi Klaus, I know, but I have cured weird quicktime problems with reinstalls > of the same version not only once. That’s why I am looking for 10.1. > And since I read the chance to create an image of the Lion download only > BEFORE you

AW: Lion trouble with quicktime video snapshot

Hi Klaus, I know, but I have cured weird quicktime problems with reinstalls of the same version not only once. That’s why I am looking for 10.1. And since I read the chance to create an image of the Lion download only BEFORE you install Lion, AFTER I have installed Lion, I don't have a Lion install

Re: [OT] Internet Censorship

Do you mean to say that Aliens are running some of the radio stations?? Come to think of it, that explains a lot... Bob On Aug 12, 2011, at 10:02 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: >> If one is only listening to terrestrial radio ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Exporting vector images

On 08/15/2011 07:13 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I should mention that Microsoft plans to end support for Visual Basic scripting soon, so if you have access to an XP machine, I suggest converting all the glyphs yourself and storing them in a folder in your project. Then it may be possible to use the

Re: Exporting vector images

On 08/15/2011 07:07 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=50004&lngWId=1 Bob Oh, dear, HARAM, TABOO, SHIBBOLETH, Visual Basic . . . :( Especially on Mac and Linux. ___ use-livecode mailing lis

Re: Exporting vector images

I should mention that Microsoft plans to end support for Visual Basic scripting soon, so if you have access to an XP machine, I suggest converting all the glyphs yourself and storing them in a folder in your project. Then it may be possible to use the previous stack supplied as the means to conv

Re: Unicode woes

On 08/13/2011 05:04 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Richmond, It doesn't work because the first char actually gets the first byte and thus you only get the first half of the first character. This might work, depending on the textFont setting and maybe writing direction: on mouseUp set

Re: Exporting vector images

http://www.planet-source-code.com/vb/scripts/ShowCode.asp?txtCodeId=50004&lngWId=1 Bob On Aug 12, 2011, at 9:12 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Hi Richmond, > > > Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote: >> >> This super stack exports Vector graphics as vector graphics >> (wow, that sounds a bit circular),

Re: Another Docu question

does the docu work? if yes, it should not show that message. if it doesn't work, most likely something got saved weirdly, try to reinstall it. On 12 Aug 2011, at 19:25, Pete wrote: > I just downloaded the latest version of bvg Docu. Now every time I start > LC, I get a message that there is no

Re: Lion trouble with quicktime video snapshot

Hi Tiemo, Am 15.08.2011 um 17:18 schrieb Tiemo Hollmann TB: > I looked for the current Quicktime 10.1 Download for Lion to give a new > install a try, but neither in apple downloads, nore in the AppStore I found > any hint about Quicktime 10.1 for Lion. > Has anybody seen QT 10.1 for download for

Re: BvG Docu

The docu stack is installed into your user add ons. you can change behaviour of that by going to "Plugin Settings" in the "Plugin" menu item of the "Development" menu. There's a choice that allows you to only start the docu when you chose it from the plugin menu. To uninstall the docu stack com

AW: Lion trouble with quicktime video snapshot

I looked for the current Quicktime 10.1 Download for Lion to give a new install a try, but neither in apple downloads, nore in the AppStore I found any hint about Quicktime 10.1 for Lion. Has anybody seen QT 10.1 for download for Mac or knows, what apple has done with it? Thanks Tiemo > -Ursp

AW: player object problem on Win7

A good part of my support cases are related to corrupted Quicktime installations... Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- > boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Nicolas Cueto > Gesendet: Montag, 15. August 2011 13:42 > An:

Re: player object problem on Win7

On 08/15/2011 02:41 PM, Nicolas Cueto wrote: Well, QuickTime was the problem. Installed it and now my stack/standalone works. This is why many of us have been requesting for years that the RunRev folks license a media player technology that could be included in the engine, rather than relyi

Re: player object problem on Win7

Well, QuickTime was the problem. Installed it and now my stack/standalone works. > This is why many of us have been requesting for years that the RunRev folks >license a media player technology that could be included in the engine, rather >than relying on QuickTime. Count me in on that request.

[livecodeServer] new header error

Hello, please, could anybody confirm that "put new header" is broken with the latest version of the server engine? I get a "can't find handler (header)" error. "put header" still works, though. Ralf ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists

Lion trouble with quicktime video snapshot

Hello, a major feature of my software is taking snapshots from build in videos. Running on Lion this snapshot feature is corrupted. I don't get anymore a snapshot of my video, but irregular colors or patterns. One time the snapshot is grey blurred, one time plain blue or plain black. Always diffe

Re: [OT] advice as to whether this is a scam?

Just to say a "Big Thank You" to one and all on this one, I am pretty green behind the ears when it comes to this sort of thing. Thanks again, Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subs

Re: Unicode woes

On 08/13/2011 05:04 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Richmond, It doesn't work because the first char actually gets the first byte and thus you only get the first half of the first character. This might work, depending on the textFont setting and maybe writing direction: on mouseUp set