[kind of OT] Robots

2012-12-13 Thread Terry Vogelaar
I remember I have seen a video where Kevin Miller and someone else demonstrate a home made robot that is programmable using LiveCode. But I cannot find that video. I would be very interested in such a robot. Where can I find the parts/software? With kind regards, Terry Vogelaar ___

Strict Compile Mode Utility

2012-12-13 Thread Peter Haworth
A few weeks back, I switched over to using Strict Compile Mode in all my applications. SInce very few of my scripts declared any local variables, it was a time consuming task to get them all to compile error free. I ended up writing a utility to help with the task and am making is available free

Re: revBrowser with LC 5.5.x - is someone getting this working?

2012-12-13 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi Matthias: Apparently it's a Mac tech limitation and/or bug. In one of my projects that required revBrowser & backdrop I used a crazy hack of dynamically setting up a full-screen window as a fake backdrop and changing the main stack to palette to prevent the main stack from slipping behind the

Re: revBrowser with LC 5.5.x - is someone getting this working?

2012-12-13 Thread Robert Sneidar
It's my humble opinion (and some may disagree) that the browser api in LC leaves much to be desired. Still, it's fine for a simple browser. I would like to see a browser object, perhaps something that ties into a local browser program but embedded, so it would be running inside an actual browser

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread Mark Talluto
On Dec 13, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > I expect the external won't care about the hardware as long as there's an ip > network. > > On 14/12/2012, at 8:42 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: > >> I am not sure about bluetooth and the sockets external under development. >> Monte will have to

Re: revBrowser with LC 5.5.x - is someone getting this working?

2012-12-13 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi again, after visiting the Runrev Quality Center i found the solution. If a backdrop is set then the browser window content is not shown on Mac OS X. As soon as i disable backdrop the browser content is shown. @Runrev: Why is this not mentioned in the release notes? ! Matthias Am 13.12.20

revBrowser with LC 5.5.x - is someone getting this working?

2012-12-13 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi all, i am trying to get revBrowser to run with LC 5.5.x, but w/o success. I even tried the browser sample, also w/o success. The browser rect stays empty. Loading the url seems to work, at least the browserdocumentcomplete message is sent. Is anyone out there who is using revBrowser succ

Re: ZLib DEFLATE

2012-12-13 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Jan, I forgot to wrote: Decompress function (Deflate) in Livecode does not care at all about the gzip's crc32, but will truncate or append binary data to fit the decompressed data length as stated in the last four bytes of the gzip binary string... This means that you could create an invali

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread Monte Goulding
I expect the external won't care about the hardware as long as there's an ip network. On 14/12/2012, at 8:42 AM, Mark Talluto wrote: > I am not sure about bluetooth and the sockets external under development. > Monte will have to chime in on that. I am expecting to be able to access the > wi

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread Monte Goulding
All I can say is if you know where to look after an iOS sdk external is compiled you will see that some work has been done to implement android externals and java interface etc. So... it's still in the hopefully soon bot don't hold your breath category. On 14/12/2012, at 8:23 AM, Andrew Kluthe

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread Mark Talluto
On Dec 13, 2012, at 12:05 PM, JOHN PATTEN wrote: > Hi Mark… > > Hmmm? So it would appear if we wanted to make the ability for devices to > discover each other, say via bluetooth, and we may use Android devices, we'd > be best going after the socket external as opposed to the Game Center > ext

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread Nicolas Cueto
> Sorry to interject, but is there any kind of vague time frame for > android externals that runrev has talked about? There's already been enough vagueness on this. Android SDK here yesterday ... pretty please! -- Nicolas Cueto ___ use-livecode mailin

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Sorry to interject, but is there any kind of vague time frame for android externals that runrev has talked about? We are hesitant to start using livecode on android for ambitious projects until we know monte has provided the correct weapons to slay many of the unknown dragons lurking in the android

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread Monte Goulding
Unfortunately this is where you need the sockets external because right now you can't accept connections (like a server). So at the moment it's just for finding desktop apps. On 14/12/2012, at 7:31 AM, JOHN PATTEN wrote: > Thanks Monte… > > I'm not familiar with Bonjour other than for the usu

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread JOHN PATTEN
Thanks Monte… I'm not familiar with Bonjour other than for the usual finding printers and OS stuff. I hadn't thought of using Bonjour to allow IOS devices to discover other iOS devices. This seems like a good direction to experiment in. Any example stacks floating around that demonstrate a sim

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread Monte Goulding
On 14/12/2012, at 7:05 AM, JOHN PATTEN wrote: > Hi Mark… > > Hmmm? So it would appear if we wanted to make the ability for devices to > discover each other, say via bluetooth, and we may use Android devices, we'd > be best going after the socket external as opposed to the Game Center > exter

Re: ZLib DEFLATE

2012-12-13 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Jan, Jan Schenkel wrote > [snip] > I now need the other way around: a way to inflate data that was deflated. If you want to decompress data that it's compatible with the deflate implementation used by Livecode in gzip compress, then you could "build" a gzip compressed string: >From the Dicti

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread JOHN PATTEN
Hi Mark… Hmmm? So it would appear if we wanted to make the ability for devices to discover each other, say via bluetooth, and we may use Android devices, we'd be best going after the socket external as opposed to the Game Center external. I'm guessing with the socket external there would be a

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread Mark Talluto
On Dec 13, 2012, at 9:27 AM, JOHN PATTEN wrote: > The sockets project sparked an idea and a question… > > Is is possible to create a LiveCode mobile app that while running, in > foreground or background, can sense via bluetooth when a similar app is > running on another iOS device? > > I'm th

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread Monte Goulding
Actually that exact function along with messaging is coming in the Game Center external. I'm not sure when it will be released but the funders have it. I'll probably hold off release of crowd funded externals for a while as an extra bonus to the funders. It's still open to funding by the way bec

Re: Mobile sockets crowd funding opportunity

2012-12-13 Thread JOHN PATTEN
The sockets project sparked an idea and a question… Is is possible to create a LiveCode mobile app that while running, in foreground or background, can sense via bluetooth when a similar app is running on another iOS device? I'm thinking in terms of a game like environment, where iOS mobile dev