Re: unresponsive sequential post requests - libURL problem?

2012-02-29 Thread Terry Judd
On 01/03/2012, at 01:59 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Are these posts all going to the same server? Do you see something like "error, the previous request is not complete" or similar? How many posts are we talking about? Hi Andrew - yes - all to the same server and yes - I often see the 'previous req

Re: unresponsive sequential post requests - libURL problem?

2012-02-29 Thread Andre Garzia
Are these posts all going to the same server? Do you see something like "error, the previous request is not complete" or similar? How many posts are we talking about? On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > Hi guys (Dave hopefully you're not too far away) - earlier on I asked > abou

Re: revBrowser Internet Explorer

2012-02-29 Thread DeeCee
Hey Chip, like you, I do believe this is the scenario that you are running up against. I just did a test using (http://whatsmyuseragent.com) and it reported correctly when I tried it with my standard Internet Explorer 9.0 browser, yet when I did the same using the revBrowser control, it showed ver

unresponsive sequential post requests - libURL problem?

2012-02-29 Thread Terry Judd
Hi guys (Dave hopefully you're not too far away) - earlier on I asked about explicitly closing sockets to try and prevent Livecode becoming unresponsive following repeated post (over https) requests. Dave Cragg suggested setting the httpHeaders to "Connection: close header". This helped somewhat

Re: Was Re: when to close a socket?

2012-02-29 Thread Terry Judd
On 01/03/2012, at 09:44 AM, Terry Judd wrote: Thanks - I'll give that a go. Sent from my iPhone On 01/03/2012, at 9:14 AM, "Bjoernke von Gierke" mailto:b...@mac.com>> wrote: Preferences -> Composing -> Increase quote level (just below "Quote the text of the original message") On 29.02.2012,

Re: Was Re: when to close a socket?

2012-02-29 Thread Terry Judd
Thanks - I'll give that a go. Sent from my iPhone On 01/03/2012, at 9:14 AM, "Bjoernke von Gierke" wrote: > Preferences -> Composing -> Increase quote level > > (just below "Quote the text of the original message") > > > On 29.02.2012, at 23:01, Terry Judd wrote: > >> You can probably blame

Re: Was Re: when to close a socket?

2012-02-29 Thread Bjoernke von Gierke
Preferences -> Composing -> Increase quote level (just below "Quote the text of the original message") On 29.02.2012, at 23:01, Terry Judd wrote: > You can probably blame Apple mail for that. > > Terry... > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 01/03/2012, at 8:46 AM, "Bob Sneidar" wrote: > >> Not

Was Re: when to close a socket?

2012-02-29 Thread Terry Judd
You can probably blame Apple mail for that. Terry... Sent from my iPhone On 01/03/2012, at 8:46 AM, "Bob Sneidar" wrote: > Not to be too critical, but it is nearly impossible for me to read this as a > thread when prior conversations are not "quoted" in some way to distinguish > them from th

Re: when to close a socket?

2012-02-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
Not to be too critical, but it is nearly impossible for me to read this as a thread when prior conversations are not "quoted" in some way to distinguish them from the actual post. My mind gives up trying. Bob On Feb 29, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Terry Judd wrote: > > On 01/03/2012, at 12:19 AM, Da

[ANN] Quartam Color Library 1.0.0 Available as Open Source

2012-02-29 Thread Jan Schenkel
Quartam Color Library 1.0.0 Available as Open Source Today, February 29th 2012, Quartam Software is proud to announce the release of Quartam Color Library for LiveCode version 1.0.0, as open source under a dual license. Quartam Color Library for LiveCode helps developers manage color schemes,

Re: revBrowser Internet Explorer

2012-02-29 Thread Chip Thomas
Yes, I believe you're right! I believe I'm seeing the revBrowser.dll rather than the main browser. Is that the only option? On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:14 PM, DeeCee wrote: > Maybe the other Chip (Chipp Walters) can answer this correctly since he did > the initial development work on the origin

Linux: determine compositing?

2012-02-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
In Ubuntu, the Unity will render using its full "3D" effects or step down to a less intensive "2D" version on systems with weaker graphics cards. I need to do the same with one of my apps that uses blendLevel on stacks, in which systems unable to run with the rich compositing needed for blendL

Re: when to close a socket?

2012-02-29 Thread Terry Judd
On 01/03/2012, at 12:19 AM, Dave Cragg wrote: On 29 Feb 2012, at 09:49, Terry Judd wrote: Hi guys - we have a reasonably complex Livecode app that makes lots of server requests - typically initiated by posting data to php routines on a secure (https) server. Generally things work well but oc

Re: when to close a socket?

2012-02-29 Thread Terry Judd
On 29/02/2012, at 11:33 PM, Bjoernke von Gierke wrote: If you're using libURL, then that one should close the sockets for you, and amassing of unclosed sockets would be a bug in there. On the other hand, if you made the sockets yourself from scratch, they're not closed (note that the remote ho

Re: Livecode blows a Raspberry?

2012-02-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Ken Corey wrote: > On 29/02/2012 16:30, Richmond wrote: >> That would be great fun: >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190918 > > I've got one on order, and it's meant to be arriving the 16th > of April. I'll certainly be trying out LiveCode apps on it! Unfortunately that won't be poss

Re: Livecode blows a Raspberry?

2012-02-29 Thread Ken Corey
On 29/02/2012 17:37, Bjoernke von Gierke wrote: You can't, unless you install android, as there's no ARM livecode linux. Sadly, I woke up too late to buy one, they sold out before midday :( Now there's a shame! The RPi would be the *perfect* target for a rapid IDE environment. Hrm...Maybe it

Re: Livecode blows a Raspberry?

2012-02-29 Thread Bjoernke von Gierke
You can't, unless you install android, as there's no ARM livecode linux. Sadly, I woke up too late to buy one, they sold out before midday :( On 29.02.2012, at 18:22, Ken Corey wrote: > On 29/02/2012 16:30, Richmond wrote: >> That would be great fun: >> >> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/29/12 9:44 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: Casey's solitaire now shows as working on kindle fire. Grats! Great! Thanks for letting me know. I didn't get any private notification about it. It didn't take too long for them to vet it either. So, total time from submission to acceptance = 3 business

Re: Livecode blows a Raspberry?

2012-02-29 Thread Ken Corey
On 29/02/2012 16:30, Richmond wrote: That would be great fun: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190918 I've got one on order, and it's meant to be arriving the 16th of April. I'll certainly be trying out LiveCode apps on it! -Ken ___ use-li

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/29/12 5:30 AM, Roger Eller wrote: Since the Fire has no hardware buttons, that's probably at least partially why they test it separately. Gotta ensure the user has a means to go back home. Also their dev page lists a whole bunch of things your app can't use, mostly hardware features that

Re: Script Editor Conundrum

2012-02-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
I assumed we were getting the script first, so this implied the process of getting the script, putting cr & the newscript after it, and then setting the script to it. Sorry for the confusion. Bob On Feb 29, 2012, at 8:14 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 02/29/2012 06:06 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> I w

Re: Sound loops in iOS

2012-02-29 Thread Tim Jones
Voila! Ask and ye shall receive (okay, so I'm getting boring with the cliches :-) ). Tim On Feb 29, 2012, at 9:38 AM, John Dixon wrote: > Graham... > > I have found that to get around the 'ldelay' when using > 'iphonePlaySoundOnChannel' in your stack for the first time is to play a > short

RE: Sound loops in iOS

2012-02-29 Thread John Dixon
Graham... I have found that to get around the 'ldelay' when using 'iphonePlaySoundOnChannel' in your stack for the first time is to play a short file containing 'silence' in say the openStack handler... the response of issuing the 'iphonePlaySoundOnChannel' command seems to be fine after that

Re: Mr. Thierry's debugger gadget

2012-02-29 Thread Pete
I reported this to support. They acknowledge it is a bug and have entered at QCC as bug# 10041. I just voted for it. Pete On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 6:21 PM, wrote: > This was a thread last year. Goes back to 3.X at least. It seems like it > is exactly what is is called for, but has no effect. I

Re: Sound loops in iOS

2012-02-29 Thread Tim Jones
So that seems to be the question to ask - Do any of the RR folks know of a way to properly preload sounds for a sound channel to alleviate this delay? Tim On Feb 29, 2012, at 9:08 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > For those that are interested, RunRev Support has acknowledged that the > 'looping' op

Livecode blows a Raspberry?

2012-02-29 Thread Richmond
That would be great fun: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17190918 How about RunRev offering a cheapo, cut-down version for the Raspberry??? That would get Livecode back in educationalists sight way quick! Richmond Mathewson. ___ use-livecode ma

Re: Script Editor Conundrum

2012-02-29 Thread Richmond
On 02/29/2012 06:06 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I would say AFTER in case there is something there already, and I would put cr& field "NEWSCRIPT" to make sure you are not putting anything on the same line as the last line of a script. Well, as I pointed out a couple of hours ago; one should use S

RE: Sound loops in iOS

2012-02-29 Thread Graham Samuel
For those that are interested, RunRev Support has acknowledged that the 'looping' option doesn't work in iOS 'play' statements in LC 5.0.2. They say: This is a bug, we have reported this to the Quality Control Center. The bug report number is 10039. You can also track the bug here: http://qual

Re: Script Editor Conundrum

2012-02-29 Thread Bob Sneidar
I would say AFTER in case there is something there already, and I would put cr & field "NEWSCRIPT" to make sure you are not putting anything on the same line as the last line of a script. Bob On Feb 29, 2012, at 12:24 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 02/29/2012 05:59 AM, Cal Horner wrote: >> Over th

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-29 Thread Mike Bonner
Casey's solitaire now shows as working on kindle fire. Grats! ___ 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/u

Re: Script Editor Conundrum

2012-02-29 Thread Richmond
On 02/29/2012 03:51 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: Richmond. No. See my earlier post. A script is a property, not a container. Craig You are quite right; and I was quite sleepy this morning when I wrote that nonsense. However, try this: set the script of btn "XX" to field "BIGSURPRISE"

Re: Script Editor Conundrum

2012-02-29 Thread dunbarx
Richmond. No. See my earlier post. A script is a property, not a container. Craig -Original Message- From: Richmond To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Wed, Feb 29, 2012 3:26 am Subject: Re: Script Editor Conundrum On 02/29/2012 05:59 AM, Cal Horner wrote: > Over the years I have cre

Re: when to close a socket?

2012-02-29 Thread Dave Cragg
On 29 Feb 2012, at 09:49, Terry Judd wrote: > Hi guys - we have a reasonably complex Livecode app that makes lots of server > requests - typically initiated by posting data to php routines on a secure > (https) server. Generally things work well but occasionally things go awry > and we start

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-29 Thread Colin Holgate
The strip at the bottom is permanent, only built in OS apps seem to be allowed to hide that. So, anyone can get to the home button. But, you're still right. Amazon will reject an app if your design doesn't allow for that 20 pixel overlap at the bottom. On Feb 29, 2012, at 6:30 AM, Roger Eller

Re: when to close a socket?

2012-02-29 Thread Bjoernke von Gierke
I'm pretty sure that sockets do not close themselves automatically. "the socketTimeoutInterval" (and "the socketTimeout" message) is weirdly named, in that it doesn't do anything beyond tell you that time has passed, and does not actually act or closes anything. It just repeats infinitely, as lo

Re: [iOS] Ask password not encrypted?

2012-02-29 Thread Bjoernke von Gierke
for unencrypted password, you use the "clear" modifier. ask password clear "Enter your secrets:" put it On 28.02.2012, at 17:56, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > Hi Jaqi, > > There have got to be dozens of LC users out there who are in the same boat as > I am; so here goes: > > Why are strings encr

Re: Casey flies to the Amazon

2012-02-29 Thread Roger Eller
Since the Fire has no hardware buttons, that's probably at least partially why they test it separately. Gotta ensure the user has a means to go back home. ~Roger On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 11:34 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Kindle Fire is Android 2.3.4, and its screen is 1024x600, so, it's beyond >

when to close a socket?

2012-02-29 Thread Terry Judd
Hi guys - we have a reasonably complex Livecode app that makes lots of server requests - typically initiated by posting data to php routines on a secure (https) server. Generally things work well but occasionally things go awry and we start seeing slowdowns and odd errors (including the dreaded

Re: Script Editor Conundrum

2012-02-29 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, i remember to have read about that template days ago, but cannot find the original posting anymore. Could someone please tell me under what topic/subject this was posted to the list? Regards, Matthias Am 29.02.2012 um 04:59 schrieb Cal Horner: > An example would be the > ask/answer dial

Re: Script Editor Conundrum

2012-02-29 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi Cal, Sarah Reichelt made a little tool called funkey. This tool let the user assing code snippets to function keys. The user then can insert the script into the script editor by pressing the function key. You can download it from here http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?category=Plugin HTH

Re: Ask file: can I force the user to use an extension?

2012-02-29 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks to Ken and Paul. I am in fact using Ken's solution, but I am worried that it looks odd to the user (a school pupil or teacher). I understand the idea of modifying the name the person has chosen (you get this for example when trying to do more than one download of the same file in a browse

Re: Script Editor Conundrum

2012-02-29 Thread Richmond
On 02/29/2012 05:59 AM, Cal Horner wrote: Over the years I have created a lot of plug-ins. Some templates are for the interface and many templates are for scripts. An example would be the ask/answer dialog template. I have always cut and pasted the scripts into the script editor. Simply because