Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/28/14, 10:21 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Mar 28, 2014, at 8:17 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: My app puts up a dialog if the user has been idle too long. I've received a report that on Windows, if the computer goes to sleep while the dialog is displayed, it is impossible to click any of the but

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-28 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 28, 2014, at 8:17 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > My app puts up a dialog if the user has been idle too long. I've received a > report that on Windows, if the computer goes to sleep while the dialog is > displayed, it is impossible to click any of the buttons when the machine > wakes up, an

Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
My app puts up a dialog if the user has been idle too long. I've received a report that on Windows, if the computer goes to sleep while the dialog is displayed, it is impossible to click any of the buttons when the machine wakes up, and the only way out is to force-quit the app. Has anyone dea

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 28, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Richard Miller wrote: > If I understand what you are saying, you are suggesting that my LC app send > out the results of its search to a central server, which then handles the > emailing. This is what I wanted to do originally, and how I first developed > this app.

Re: multi-line constants? (for RSA keys)

2014-03-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/28/14, 6:47 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: It is my understanding (somewhat limited I admit) that any code you do not want others to have access to should be put in the mainstack of a compiled application. If you have any substacks they will of course be accessible by anyone with a little know how.

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Miller
This solution looks promising. Used the following as an applescript. Worked perfectly. Just requires that each Mac have a working version of Mail installed. - set recipientName to "Richard" set recipientAddress to "rdmil...@together.net" set theSubject to "Type your subject

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Miller
If I understand what you are saying, you are suggesting that my LC app send out the results of its search to a central server, which then handles the emailing. This is what I wanted to do originally, and how I first developed this app. What I have since been told by one client (who has about 10

Re: 7.0 Issues

2014-03-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Not sure about the inserting of pages, but you can store and “reassemble” a pdf by opening it as read binary, reading it into a variable, then saving the variable either as a property or stored in a database, or even encrypted in a file on the HD. (Not sure what the app would be for that…) I’ve

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
What he said - only I'd run a LC Server script instead of a PHP script :-) You could even run that LCServer script on your own site, as a service for all the different businesses that will use the program, and thus simplify setup for them. -- Alex. On 28/03/2014 22:07, Mark Talluto wrote:

Re: multi-line constants? (for RSA keys)

2014-03-28 Thread Bob Sneidar
Not if the custom prop is in the mainstack of a compiled application. It is my understanding (somewhat limited I admit) that any code you do not want others to have access to should be put in the mainstack of a compiled application. If you have any substacks they will of course be accessible by

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Earthednet-wp
Richard, I implemented a php script to send mail to me, with some diagnostic information, when my Director program threw a script error. I am not at my desktop, so can't tell you the exact way to find it, but I am sure you can google it. You just post your message and destination to the php scri

Local Notifications not showing banner while app open

2014-03-28 Thread Stephen MacLean
Hi All, Just want to check that I'm not missing something... I create a local notification. It doesn't display the banner while the app is open, but is in the notification center if I pull it down. Is this normal? If it is, how do I get that banner displayed? iMessage would be the example. You

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC (Side Issue)

2014-03-28 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 28, 2014, at 3:46 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: > Sort of off topic on this, but if you try to paste code from the script > editor, all the formatting is passed as well, and this can take quite a bit > of room. It will usually prevent your message getting through to this list. > > > al

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC (Side Issue)

2014-03-28 Thread dunbarx
Sort of off topic on this, but if you try to paste code from the script editor, all the formatting is passed as well, and this can take quite a bit of room. It will usually prevent your message getting through to this list. always run a small utility tied to one of my Fkeys: function makeP

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Mark Talluto
Richard, I understand the need to develop this type of application. You are going to want to run a php script on your server and have your mac app call the php script and send the needed parameters. This will keep things quite so the individual working on that system is not bothered by applica

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Miller
The challenge with this approach is that my app could be used by hundreds of businesses, from very small to very large. Whatever the solution is, it can't be complex for the business to implement. On 3/28/14 5:53 PM, Pradeep Saxena wrote: Richard, We as developer are always open to various

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread kee nethery
I data collect on an internal app used in my business. I have a web server with a web page that logs all connections to it. The user app will POST to the server and that data goes into the log. I can review the logs and do stats on the app usage and such. Since it is all internal users, they all

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Miller
There is no intention to "hide" anything. It's a background maintenance program. On 3/28/14 5:53 PM, John Dixon wrote: If all this is so innocent, why hide it from the person using the Mac ? Have you heard yourselves !? Jacque Landman-Gay wrote :- I think I'd just try it. Presumably since

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Miller
I tried "sendemail" from my own laptop from within Terminal, but can't get it to work. Anyone know how to configure a Mac to enable this? On 3/28/14 5:45 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/28/14, 3:53 PM, Richard Miller wrote: I thought about using the built-in OSX "sendemail" command from a She

RE: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread John Dixon
If all this is so innocent, why hide it from the person using the Mac ? Have you heard yourselves !? Jacque Landman-Gay wrote :- I think I'd just try it. Presumably since the machines are set up by the company, they could also enable whatever is required as needed. It's their property and their

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Pradeep Saxena
Richard, We as developer are always open to various viewpoints. Here is the solution I had implemented long time back on similar lines at a fortune 10 company (without LC) but should do the job to your expectation: -Have an additional database server (mysql/oracle) in your corporate env.  -send

Re: new "at size" clause in export snapshot

2014-03-28 Thread Jan Schenkel
That's odd, I tested it earlier on a Windows machine, and again just now on a Mac, with LC 6.6 Here's my recipe: - create a new stack - drag an image and a button on it - set the button script to: ## on mouseUp local tObj, tData, tHeight, tWidth put the long id of me into tObj put 4 * th

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Skip Kimpel
Yes, quite the harsh remarks :) > On Mar 28, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Richard Miller wrote: > > Fascinating responses here. Quite a spin folks are putting on my message > without even asking first. > > The program is looking for signs of system failure on the Mac, before drives > crash or other prob

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/28/14, 3:53 PM, Richard Miller wrote: I thought about using the built-in OSX "sendemail" command from a Shell script, but I have read that that command will often not work on a given Mac unless the Mac has been set up to allow it to work. Not sure what is involved to make this command work.

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Alex Tweedly
Might it be easier to access a URL rather than send an email ? Have a server somewhere which can gather the data included and email it along to wherever it needs to go ? (Or, to put it another way, I don't know how to directly answer your question :-) -- Alex. On 28/03/2014 20:53, Richard M

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Miller
Fascinating responses here. Quite a spin folks are putting on my message without even asking first. The program is looking for signs of system failure on the Mac, before drives crash or other problems get out of hand. Nothing to do with the user. On 3/28/14 5:23 PM, stephen barncard wrote:

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread stephen barncard
secret collection is the devil. sqb *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:17 PM, John Dixon wrote: > Not nice...:-( > > > > Richard Miller wrote: > > > > I have a Mac-only LC program that runs invisibly in the background. This > is > > us

Re: new "at size" clause in export snapshot

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
Thanks, Jan. Making that change at least allowed my script to compile. Unfortunately, I got a run-time error. So something is still up. However, import snapshot works. I just had to take an extra step to deal with the created image. I’ll get a bug report submitted asap. Thanks, Chris On Mar 2

RE: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread John Dixon
Not nice...:-( > Richard Miller wrote: > > I have a Mac-only LC program that runs invisibly in the background. This is > used in a corporate environment, so the actual user of the Mac computer will > not likely even know it is running. It is designed to collect certain data > and send it to man

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Miller
Hugh, This is for a corporate application. The owners of the business will install and control this app. The data it is reporting only has to do with the health of the Mac it is running on. It's a maintenance program. Richard On 3/28/14 5:10 PM, FlexibleLearning.com wrote: Let me get this

RE: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
Let me get this straight... You not only have a clandestine app running invisible to the User, but you also want to invisibly collect (presumably User) data and then email the data without the User knowing? Frankly I am not surprised you are finding it hard to get a Mac to cooperate. Sounds like h

Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Miller
I have a Mac-only LC program that runs invisibly in the background. This is used in a corporate environment, so the actual user of the Mac computer will not likely even know it is running. It is designed to collect certain data and send it to management. I have not yet found a reliable way for

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/28/14, 1:57 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: Sadly, I don't know what sequence of events leads to the weird behavior and therefore cannot post a bug report. Any other suggestions? Hard to say since I haven't seen it. How do you access the script? I always use the contextual menu in

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:40 AM, wrote: > Sorry to all of you "true blue" LC fans. > This is exactly why I am so hesitant to "upgrade" once I have a LC version > that only has minimal problems. > I *NEED* the scaling on desktops of 6.6. A full page of output is too tall for 768 high pixel scree

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread larry
Thank you Jacqueline. As I said, if I shut down LC and restart, then it behaves properly. So apparently, I did something within LC to cause the weird behavior - and since you don't do the "incorrect" things that I do, you haven't seen it ever happen. But it happens to me quite often. Sadly,

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/28/14, 1:32 PM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: If you read my post again, I said "Application Browser" and you say "Use the Application Browser instead." I guess you read it too quickly. Sorry, you're right. The "radio button" part made me think you meant the image preview displayed i

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread larry
If you read my post again, I said "Application Browser" and you say "Use the Application Browser instead." I guess you read it too quickly. - Original Message - From: "J. Landman Gay" To: "How to use LiveCode" Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 12:23 PM Subject: Re: debugger gone wild in

Re: new "at size" clause in export snapshot

2014-03-28 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi Chris, It turns out to be a difference between the syntax as described in the dictionary, and the actual parser implementation. The MCExport::parse method in cmdsf.cpp is written such that the 'at size' clause needs to come after the 'from' clause and before the 'to' clause. A quick test sho

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/28/14, 11:25 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: I open the Application Browser and click on a radio button that is part of a group, because I want to open the script of that button. LC opens the script of some other random object (no kidding!) and I have to shut down LC and reopen my pr

RE: new "at size" clause in export snapshot

2014-03-28 Thread John Dixon
Chris... I have had a problem with 'import snapshot'... everything is good under LC 6.5.2 but the same script would not work under 6.6... I spoke to support about it and the asked me to submit a bug report, which I duly did... they have now confirmed it as a bug I did notice however, that ther

Re: new "at size" clause in export snapshot

2014-03-28 Thread Thierry Douez
2014-03-28 18:59 GMT+01:00 Chris Sheffield : > Has anybody tried out the new “at size” clause in the export snapshot command > introduced in LC 6.6? I can’t get it to work. In fact, my script won’t even > compile if I include it. > > export snapshot from tObj to tData as PNG at size tWidt

Re: new "at size" clause in export snapshot

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
Actually, the release notes do show an example using import snapshot. I might be able to use that instead, but my call to export snapshot is set up exactly the same way, so not sure why it won’t work… On Mar 28, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Chris Sheffield wrote: > Has anybody tried out the new “at size

new "at size" clause in export snapshot

2014-03-28 Thread Chris Sheffield
Has anybody tried out the new “at size” clause in the export snapshot command introduced in LC 6.6? I can’t get it to work. In fact, my script won’t even compile if I include it. export snapshot from tObj to tData as PNG at size tWidth, tHeight I’ve tried various uses of parentheses and

debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread Dr. Hawkins
After using 6.6 a few days, my debugger has gone wild. When I opened this morning, it seems to have forgotten the message box history, opened project browser instead of stack browser, and turned the icons on the toolbar back on. THis morning, the debugger stops for breakpoints, but step over/into

Re: [OT] Friday Fun

2014-03-28 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:26 AM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D < matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de> wrote: > oh, nice. Something like the ascii art long time ago. > The return of aalib? :) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mai

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > THis morning, the debugger stops for breakpoints, but step over/into is > treated as "run" instead of a step. > This has also survived deleting Library/Preferences/RunRev -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > With the stack in memory, what do you get when you open the message box and > type "put the breakpoints"? > group id 1016 of card id 1002 of stack "/Applications/LiveCode 6.6.app/Contents/Tools/Toolset/revlibrary.rev",500 On Fri, Mar 28, 201

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread Mark Wieder
Dr. Hawkins writes: > I don't know whether this would be something in the preference files, or in > the stack, or . . . With the stack in memory, what do you get when you open the message box and type "put the breakpoints"? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com _

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/28/14, 10:00 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: THis morning, the debugger stops for breakpoints, but step over/into is treated as "run" instead of a step. This has also survived deleting Library/Preferences/RunRev Did you quit LiveCode befor

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread larry
Sorry to all of you "true blue" LC fans. This is exactly why I am so hesitant to "upgrade" once I have a LC version that only has minimal problems. - Original Message - From: "Dr. Hawkins" To: "How to use LiveCode" Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 8:48 AM Subject: debugger gone wild in

RELEASE: LiveCode 6.7 DP1

2014-03-28 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Dear LiveCode User, We are pleased to announce the preview release of LiveCode 6.7.0 DP1. The primary focus of this release is cocoa support. This required us to re-port LiveCode to the newer Mac platform API's (cocoa). As a result, there may be some instabilities on Mac OS. Once again, thanks to

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
larry wrote: To further explain: I'm using 6.1.1 (rc 4) and I just had this happen for the upteenth time: I open the Application Browser and click on a radio button that is part of a group, because I want to open the script of that button. LC opens the script of some other random object (no kid

Re: debugger gone wild in 6.6

2014-03-28 Thread larry
To further explain: I'm using 6.1.1 (rc 4) and I just had this happen for the upteenth time: I open the Application Browser and click on a radio button that is part of a group, because I want to open the script of that button. LC opens the script of some other random object (no kidding!) and I

Re: Import SVG

2014-03-28 Thread Mark Schonewille
Terry, Why not an image object? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book "Programming Liv

Import SVG (was: Re: Print margins)

2014-03-28 Thread Terry Vogelaar
Thank you, Terence and Mark. It works fine when I print a card. But unfortunately I cannot get printMargins to work with revBrowserPrint. Also, revBrowserPrint seems to have nothing to do with open printing and close printing. It operates entirely separate from normal printing, apparently. That

Re: unsubscribe

2014-03-28 Thread Colin Holgate
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Re: [OT] Friday Fun

2014-03-28 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
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Re: [OT] Friday Fun

2014-03-28 Thread Thierry Douez
> Yes, that's it -- TypoPainter. AFAIK, it requires Photoshop. So, if you have Photoshop and $5, go for it :) Regards, Thierry >>If you don't have photoshop, <--- WRONG ! >>here is the latest mightydeals offer which does that: >> >>http://www.mightydeals.com/deal/typo-painter.html?ref=awn

Re: [OT] Friday Fun

2014-03-28 Thread Scott Rossi
Yes, that's it -- TypoPainter. AFAIK, it requires Photoshop. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 3/28/14 2:34 AM, "Thierry Douez" wrote: >Hi, > > >Oups, sorry for the empty previous mail. > >If you don't have photoshop, >here is the latest mightydeals offe

Re: [OT] Friday Fun

2014-03-28 Thread Thierry Douez
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Re: [OT] Friday Fun

2014-03-28 Thread Thierry Douez
Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com Maker of sunnYperl - sunnYmidi - sunnYmage 2014-03-28 10:26 GMT+01:00 Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D : > Hi Scott, > > oh, nice. Something like the ascii art long time ago. > > Would you share with us the name of that p

Re: [OT] Friday Fun

2014-03-28 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Hi Scott, oh, nice. Something like the ascii art long time ago. Would you share with us the name of that plugin? Regards, Matthias Am 28.03.2014 um 09:56 schrieb Scott Rossi : > Playing with a new Photoshop filter. > > Look carefully and you may find two editions of our fearless leader. >

[OT] Friday Fun

2014-03-28 Thread Scott Rossi
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Re: unsubscribe

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