Re: Preventing screen capture hot key combinations

On 20/08/2013, at 4:28 PM, "Scott Rossi" wrote: > Ah, perhaps an external would be the way to go then. > > And BTW, nice word of the day: invigilated > Never heard this one before. Sounds a bit like a probe could be involved. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, U

Re: Preventing screen capture hot key combinations

Ah, perhaps an external would be the way to go then. And BTW, nice word of the day: invigilated Never heard this one before. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 8/19/13 11:13 PM, "Terry Judd" wrote: >Hi Scott - it's for running MCQ tests where the question

Re: Preventing screen capture hot key combinations

Hi Scott - it's for running MCQ tests where the questions and responses need to be protected (medical progress testing). The tests will be run in an invigilated environment but we're looking to minimize the potential for copying as much as possible. There is a commercial solution that uses a cus

Re: Preventing screen capture hot key combinations

Even if you could get this to work, I'm not sure what good it would do. If LiveCode is active but is not the foreground application, screenshots would still be possible. There are also probably a dozen third party screen capture tools as well. You might be able to hide the application (or somehow

Preventing screen capture hot key combinations

Is it possible to prevent the system screen capture hot key combinations from operating while a LC app is active? I'm thinking OSX here in particular but I'd need a cross-platform (Mac + Windows) solution. On OSX, I can detect whether the command and shift keys are depressed OK but the system g

community vs commercial for internal distribution of iOS apps

I've been looking at the FAQs, and in particular this question... Can you give me some examples of where I do and don't need a commercial license? ... and I'm still not exactly clear on where I stand. My situation is that I am distributing apps to students within my institution using an iOS Ent

Windows standalone puzzle

So I have a small LC standalone built for Windows on a Mac, used as a utility at work on a dumb PC terminal at my office that is networked to a server. I DL the the utility to my (networked) Windows desktop and it helps me by storing boilerplate text that I can use to paste into the new electron

Re: Unicode in variables

On 8/19/13 5:27 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: If you have to rewrite you code base and there's lots of different lookups involved, maybe an SQLite database would work? The lookups search custom properties and script variables mostly. But I'm not sure that moving the problem to a database would sol

Re: Unicode in variables

On 20/08/2013, at 8:50 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > It drops or alters characters. I'm not sure what you mean. UTF8 can represent all the unicode code points. > The glossary is used a few different ways, and sometimes I need to display > all the keys in a field, to act as an index of terms. So

HTML entities not displaying on Chinese Windows

Hi all, The music history e-book we've been working on for the last couple of years has gotten to the point of having some people in China now translate large parts of it to Chinese. However when they open the compiled version on their Windows machines they see funny characters wherever we use

Re: Unicode in variables

On 8/19/13 4:24 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Jacque why not uniDecode(theKey,"UTF8") in order to use it as a key in the array? It drops or alters characters. The glossary is used a few different ways, and sometimes I need to display all the keys in a field, to act as an index of terms. So it a

Re: Unicode in variables

On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 1:22 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > Thanks, I'll try it. The glossary is only one piece of a much bigger data > set involving a lot of different types of lookups, and this is going to be > a huge pain. I'm going to have to rewrite a large part of the existing code > base. If

Re: Unicode in variables

On 20/08/2013, at 6:41 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > In my experience that's more strict than it needs to be, but if the format of > encoded arrays is any clue there may still be a restriction on having NULL > bytes in a key name. Which would count out utf16. Jacque why not uniDecode(theKey,"UT

Re: Unicode in variables

On 8/19/13 3:41 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Jacque wrote: Basically, I'm storing a glossary. The keys are the glossary terms, some of which are unicode. The definitions are the elements. The user points to a word in a field and I need to retrieve the definition by matching the displayed field text

Re: Unicode in variables

Jacque wrote: Basically, I'm storing a glossary. The keys are the glossary terms, some of which are unicode. The definitions are the elements. The user points to a word in a field and I need to retrieve the definition by matching the displayed field text (which is unicodetext) with the glossary k

Re: Unicode in variables

On Aug 19, 2013, at 2:22 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 8/19/13 3:07 PM, Devin Asay wrote: >> >> Something like this should work: >> User clicks term to look up. >>get the text of the click line -- this will be displayed as UTF16 Sorry, that should have been get the unicodeText of the c

Re: Unicode in variables

On 8/19/13 3:07 PM, Devin Asay wrote: On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:59 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/19/13 2:43 PM, Devin Asay wrote: When I run uniEncode(tData,"UTF8") on it, the high-ascii characters are in the variable watcher as "+" and an unprintable box. Can I assume the real character is in

Re: Unicode in variables

On 8/19/13 3:08 PM, in...@kenjikojima.com wrote: This is unicode array. go to url "http://kenjikojima.com/livecode/download/unicodeArray.livecode"; I hope it helps, Thank you. I will try this if I have to, but the data is very large and stepping through each character would take a long time.

Re: Unicode in variables

This is unicode array. go to url "http://kenjikojima.com/livecode/download/unicodeArray.livecode"; I hope it helps, -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Unicode in variables

On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:59 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 8/19/13 2:43 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > >>> When I run uniEncode(tData,"UTF8") on it, the high-ascii characters >>> are in the variable watcher as "+" and an unprintable box. Can I >>> assume the real character is in there? Will it work for te

Re: Unicode in variables

On 8/19/13 2:43 PM, Devin Asay wrote: When I run uniEncode(tData,"UTF8") on it, the high-ascii characters are in the variable watcher as "+" and an unprintable box. Can I assume the real character is in there? Will it work for text chunking, etc? When I split it into an array, will the keys be i

Re: Unicode in variables

On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 8/19/13 2:15 PM, Devin Asay wrote: >> >> On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> >>> I need to read and process a tab-delimited text file that is in >>> UTF8 format containing unicode. The final goal is to get it into an >>>

Re: Unicode in variables

On 08/19/2013 10:31 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 8/19/13 2:21 PM, Richmond wrote: "LF:Line Feed, U+000A VT: Vertical Tab, U+000B FF: Form Feed, U+000C CR:Carriage Return, U+000D CR+LF: CR (U+000D) followed by LF (U+000A) NEL: Next Line, U+0085 LS:Line Separator, U+2028

Re: Unicode in variables

On 8/19/13 2:21 PM, Richmond wrote: "LF:Line Feed, U+000A VT: Vertical Tab, U+000B FF: Form Feed, U+000C CR:Carriage Return, U+000D CR+LF: CR (U+000D) followed by LF (U+000A) NEL: Next Line, U+0085 LS:Line Separator, U+2028 PS:Paragraph Separator, U+2029" I have a

Re: Unicode in variables

On 8/19/13 2:15 PM, Devin Asay wrote: On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I need to read and process a tab-delimited text file that is in UTF8 format containing unicode. The final goal is to get it into an array with the first tabbed item as the keys, preserving all unicode. The

Re: Unicode in variables

"LF:Line Feed, U+000A VT: Vertical Tab, U+000B FF: Form Feed, U+000C CR:Carriage Return, U+000D CR+LF: CR (U+000D) followed by LF (U+000A) NEL: Next Line, U+0085 LS:Line Separator, U+2028 PS:Paragraph Separator, U+2029" I have a feeling that a search and replace routine s

Re: Unicode in variables

On 08/19/2013 10:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I need to read and process a tab-delimited text file that is in UTF8 format containing unicode. The final goal is to get it into an array with the first tabbed item as the keys, preserving all unicode. There are some HTML format tags in it as well.

Re: Unicode in variables

On Aug 19, 2013, at 1:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > I need to read and process a tab-delimited text file that is in UTF8 format > containing unicode. The final goal is to get it into an array with the first > tabbed item as the keys, preserving all unicode. There are some HTML format > tags i

Unicode in variables

I need to read and process a tab-delimited text file that is in UTF8 format containing unicode. The final goal is to get it into an array with the first tabbed item as the keys, preserving all unicode. There are some HTML format tags in it as well. If I read the file as binfile, carriage retur

How keeping all your eggs in one basket is going to ruin your business.

Faintly moralistic diatribe follows: serious programmers can tune out now. -***--- So; having f**ked up so many times I've lost count, I backup everything onto 3 sets of external hard disks (one which travels with me in my 'hand-bag'), and really super-vital stuff also gets s

Re: A peculiar character substitution problem with URL

On 19 Aug 2013, at 17:04, Jonathan Lynch wrote: > This is just the strangest thing. On some websites - but not all - trying > to get the html of that website using "get url" or "put url" is causing > some characters to be substituted. > > These are not obscure unicode characters. They seem to b

Re: How on-rev is about to ruin our business

Le 19 août 2013 à 11:46, j...@souslelogo.com a écrit : > In my previous post about on-rev reliability, I also mentioned the problem > we had when > one of our accounts was moved from thor to pancake, with that random bug > appearing > in LC scripts that were running fine on thor before the migrat

A peculiar character substitution problem with URL

This is just the strangest thing. On some websites - but not all - trying to get the html of that website using "get url" or "put url" is causing some characters to be substituted. These are not obscure unicode characters. They seem to be characters in the upper ANSI set. For example, on this web

Re: How on-rev is about to ruin our business

I am sorry to hear you are having trouble with on-Rev. I will investigate your specific issue. Our urgent support is running 24/7 and we do resolve the most issues very quickly. In the mean time it is probably useful for you to be aware that we are investing very heavily in the service at the momen

Re: How on-rev is about to ruin our business

jbv wrote: ... > Recently someone praised the on-rev team for reacting quickly > everytime something goes wrong with the servers, but yesterday > mySQL has been down on thor from the early morning and despite > the 2 urgent support requests I've sent, the server went up again > around 4:30pm only.

Re: How on-rev is about to ruin our business

Dear jbv, I am sorry to hear of your pain! We have been experiencing poor quality from on-rev as well. Fortunately, while a real pain, it is only our own company's email and website that is dependent on them -- not clients' websites! I don't know much about the server product, but I seemed t

Re: LC server experience return anyone ?

jbv wrote: Several years ago (before on-rev was available) I had a similar setup using a metacard engine. Things were fine, although we experienced a couple of problems : - communication between the engine and mySQL was quite slow, especially with large amounts of data, and I found out that I'd

Re: Control From Outside

Mike, these tips for implementing CLI support in a standalone may help: -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJour

Re: Tabstops (was IDE Vs MSG box)

Peter Haworth wrote: The original thread touched on a lot of interesting issues regarding tabstops/tabWidths and how they are entered/interpreted. Carrying on form there, is it time to think about adding the functionality of right and centered tabs to tabstops/widths/some other construct, now th

LC server experience return anyone ?

Hi list, I'd need some experience return on the use of LC server. As mentioned in some of my previous posts, due to the numerous problems we met with on-rev servers and random bugs appearing after the migration of one of our accounts from thor to pancake, we are about to gather all our on-rev acco

How on-rev is about to ruin our business

Hi list, This is a follow-up to a previous post of mine in which I was questioning on-rev reliability... Recently someone praised the on-rev team for reacting quickly everytime something goes wrong with the servers, but yesterday mySQL has been down on thor from the early morning and despite the 2