Re: Because LC can't do two things at once.

2015-02-19 Thread kee nethery
What is PDF/A? It’s a TLA I’m unfamiliar with. Kee > On Feb 19, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > Actually, put in PDF/A for #3--without it, I will have no choice but to use > another platform, as it will be mandatory for ECF court filing in a couple > of years. > ___

Re: Because LC can't do two things at once.

2015-02-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:48 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Mike Kerner > wrote: > >> Wow, that's surprising. So what does your list look like - say for the >> top >> 5? Why is multithreading so important to you? >> > > Secure Postgres support > Multithreading or sla

Re: Because LC can't do two things at once.

2015-02-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > Wow, that's surprising. So what does your list look like - say for the top > 5? Why is multithreading so important to you? > Secure Postgres support Multithreading or slave processes Fixing the (*#^%*(m show-stopping bugs in the IDE (shado

Re: More Unicode STuff

2015-02-19 Thread Kay C Lan
On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 2:23 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > > My brain is too fried to figure out why this should be so my plan is to > just always encode/decode stuff when importing/displaying. > Sorry for the slow reply, but I note your other post on your tentative move to LC 7 and the gotchas alo

Re: 7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: From what you've seen, it sounds like the default in 7.0 is to encode the new way, and the dictionary is misleading. Richard G. mentioned on the list that the default was the new encoding. To clarify, the new method is used where it exists. :) It works very much like sta

Re: Vector Export?

2015-02-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
Right, I was talking about bitmaps. All screen exports are some kind of bitmap. If I need a higher resolution I open the file in Graphic Converter or Photoshop and increase the resolution. The PDF idea is interesting, I hadn't thought of that. On February 19, 2015 4:55:35 PM CST, Graham Samue

Re: 7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread Peter Haworth
Sorry, final word on this subject. I loaded the stack, set the stackfileversion to 7.0 and saved the stack. Quit LC 7 and run again. Try to open the stack - spinning beachball of death, have to force quit. Done have any more time to waste on this so back to good old reliable 6.6. On Thu Feb 19

Re: 7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread Peter Haworth
OK, well this is getting really frustrating. I changed my code to check the version and issue the 7 version of arrayencode with the extra parm with a "do" command. I made a copy of the stack for use in LC7 and opened it in LC7. Now I get an error on the arrayencode because the stackfile version

Re: Vector export?

2015-02-19 Thread Terry Judd
David¹s right - PDF export is definitely the way to go. It¹s even good for bitmaps if you use high res images that have been sized down and locked within LC. Terry... On 20/02/2015 9:56 am, "Graham Samuel" wrote: >Ha! Sounds promising. Midnight here, I¹ll investigate tomorrow. Thanks > >Graham

Re: Because LC can't do two things at once.

2015-02-19 Thread Mike Kerner
Wow, that's surprising. So what does your list look like - say for the top 5? Why is multithreading so important to you? On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Mike Kerner > wrote: > > > If you were prioritizing features for LC, would this be o

Re: Vector export?

2015-02-19 Thread Graham Samuel
Ha! Sounds promising. Midnight here, I’ll investigate tomorrow. Thanks Graham > On 19 Feb 2015, at 23:33, dfepst...@comcast.net wrote: > > For high resolution export of vectors: open printing to pdf > > David Epstein ___ use-livecode mailing li

Re: Vector Export?

2015-02-19 Thread Graham Samuel
Sorry Jacque, I don’t understand. Suppose I have say a filled rectangle (‘draw' not ‘paint', thus a vector image). When I export it, I think this ends up as a bitmap with the resolution of the screen it was displayed in while in LC. Is this what you’re seeing? What about a group containing say v

Re: 7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Eric. I guess I'll have to go the "do" route. Your bug report is 13406, I just added a comment to it. On Thu Feb 19 2015 at 2:22:53 PM Eric Corbett wrote: > Hi Peter, > > I forgot about that fact. I just checked some code in a library we use and > indeed the arrayEncode for version 7 is

Re: Vector export?

2015-02-19 Thread dfepstein
For high resolution export of vectors:  open printing to pdf   David Epstein ___ 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/

Re: Because LC can't do two things at once.

2015-02-19 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 10:32 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > If you were prioritizing features for LC, would this be one of your top 5? > It might make my top 10, but I don't know if it would be in my top 5. > I can't see it any lower than my top 2 (the other of which would be postgres ssl support).

Re: 7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread Eric Corbett
Hi Peter, I forgot about that fact. I just checked some code in a library we use and indeed the arrayEncode for version 7 is wrapped in a do statement. I agree about the behavior. Mark W. made some comments to a bug report I submitted explaining the current functionality but I can not find it.

Re: 7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread Peter Haworth
Ho Eric, Spoke too soon. Your code wont compile in versions prior to 7 because of the extra parameter. I guess I could compile it in 7 but that would mean I would have to compile that script in 7 every time I wanted to make a change and there's a lot of handlers in it so high probability of chang

Re: 7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Eric and Jacque. I entered QCC report 14639. I altered my code to do as you suggest Eric. I wonder how this affects how an array variable is stored in a custom property? As I understand it, the variable is automatically array encoded if you do something like "set the cArray of me to tArr

Re: Because LC can't do two things at once.

2015-02-19 Thread Mike Bonner
One of the "work arounds" isn't really, its kind of a standard thing. A game loop. Loop, do these things, do those things, update the screen, loop again. For your "trek to earth" game, this would probably be sufficient. Rather than waiting for an arrow key event, one of the loop steps would be to

Re: 7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/19/2015 2:49 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: The dictionary indicates that if the new parameter, version, is not present then arrays are encoded the old way. None of my calls include the new parameter so not sure how they ended up being inaccessible in pre7 versions. From what you've seen, it so

Re: Vector Export?

2015-02-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/19/2015 10:50 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: Is there any way to export a vector image? What I’m actually trying to do is to export a screenshot that can have a higher resolution than that of the screen, for printing and so on. Other apps can do this, in effect (I mean they can have enlargement an

Re: 7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread Eric Corbett
Additionally, The dictionary may be a bit inaccurate. In LC 7, if there is no version, arrayEncode uses the encoding for the version you are on, LC 7 encoding. So, if LC 8 has different encoding than 7, LC 8 will use LC 8 encoding when no version is specified. Eric On Feb 19, 2015, at 12:49 P

Re: 7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread Eric Corbett
I think what you will have to do is this: Check the LC version; if it’s >= 7 then arrayEncode(tData,6) — force the engine to use the old arrayEncoding else arrayEncode(tData) — older versions can not have the extra parameter end if LiveCode 7 will be smart enough to decode the array either way.

Re: 7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Eric, yes that does indeed help. However, I'm still confused. The dictionary indicates that if the new parameter, version, is not present then arrays are encoded the old way. None of my calls include the new parameter so not sure how they ended up being inaccessible in pre7 versions. I g

Re: 7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread Eric Corbett
Not sure if this helps, but LiveCode 7 uses a different arrayEncoding than previous version due to Unicode. Check the dictionary on how to use arrayEncode in 7 to be able to decode in an earlier version. Eric On Feb 19, 2015, at 12:16 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > I've been careful to create

Re: Problems in On-Rev??

2015-02-19 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
Joseba, on which on-rev server is your account hosted? Diesel, Tio, Pancake or Jasmine? My accounts on the servers canary, pancake and jasmine are working. The on-rev status page at http://on-rev.com/support/server-status/ does not show any malfunction. But if your website is not working then

7.0 Issues

2015-02-19 Thread Peter Haworth
I've been careful to create separate versions of my stack files and Livecode Preferences folder for use when running LC 7. However, it seems there other issues with compatibility. I save the preferences for my application in a file in the /Library/Application Support folder with the following sta

Problems in On-Rev??

2015-02-19 Thread Joseba Aguayo
Is there problems in On-Rev Our website does not work since yesterday!!! Someone else?? Un saludo. Joseba (jagu...@telur.es) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage you

iOS 64-bit support and 1st Gen iPad

2015-02-19 Thread Chris Sheffield
Got a question I’m hoping someone can answer. I’ve done some research, but can’t find what I’m looking for. With LC 6.7.2, we gained 64-bit support for iOS apps. It seems to include 32-bit support as well, since I can install and run an app on my 1st Gen iPad mini running iOS 8.1.3. However, we

Re: Because LC can't do two things at once.

2015-02-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > I wonder WHY Livecode cannot do two things at once . . . There is a difference between concurrency and parallelism which is useful here because LC currently provides a limited form of concurrency for some operations but delivers true parallelism only in the most recent versi

Re: Because LC can't do two things at once.

2015-02-19 Thread Mike Kerner
Well, for anyone who's ever made an application multitasking/multithreading, they'll tell you that there is all sorts of extra complication involved in making it work, and if you've ever written anything for a multithreading environment, it is definitely a lot of extra work (it's worth it, IMHO, bu

Because LC can't do two things at once.

2015-02-19 Thread Richmond
That's a quote from another posting . . . this might be the rock on which Livecode founders. Other languages can do two, or more, things at once . . . I am either too out of touch with other computer languages, or I don't know enough about how computer languages talk to computers (which, de fa

Vector Export?

2015-02-19 Thread Graham Samuel
AFAICS when one does ‘export snapshot’, the result is a bitmap even though the original object or group may have been a vector image or made up of vector images. At least that’s what I’ve seen from experimenting with the ‘export’ features of LC Is there any way to export a vector image? What I’

Re: Faster way to get tabStops?

2015-02-19 Thread Bob Sneidar
Datagrids… GOOD! Bob S > On Feb 19, 2015, at 24:47 , BNig wrote: > > Hi Dan, > > I ran into the same problem and figured that acessing the field and ask for > formattedWidth is slow. > > So I tried to minimize that. > > I took each tab delimited item an stuffed it into an array. For each co

Re: The Future of Animation in LiveCode

2015-02-19 Thread Bjoernke von Gierke
> On 18 Feb 2015, at 01:52, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > If the problem is that LC is just too slow, and the required calculations > continuously or consistently take more time than is elapsed (i.e. we just > keep getting further and further behind), then the problem is performance, > not how/when

Re: Faster way to get tabStops?

2015-02-19 Thread BNig
Thanks Mike, you can load the field with 5000 lines worth of data via the Helper stack -> Examples -> choose 5000 -> click button "fill with n lines of random data", then move the lines by moving the dividers and then control-click into the field. This triggers the recalculation of the column widt

Re: [ANN] R.I.P. Mac Mini

2015-02-19 Thread Richmond
On 19/02/15 03:31, Bob Warren wrote: A few days back I finished doing a few minor corrections to my Unicode "File/Folder/Picture Choosers" for Windows and Linux, and declared them "stable". If you download them, please test them well before distributing them in any way, to make absolutely sure

Re: Faster way to get tabStops?

2015-02-19 Thread Mike Bonner
Wow. Nice Bernd. On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:47 AM, BNig wrote: > Hi Dan, > > I ran into the same problem and figured that acessing the field and ask for > formattedWidth is slow. > > So I tried to minimize that. > > I took each tab delimited item an stuffed it into an array. For each column > one

Re: Faster way to get tabStops?

2015-02-19 Thread BNig
Hi Dan, I ran into the same problem and figured that acessing the field and ask for formattedWidth is slow. So I tried to minimize that. I took each tab delimited item an stuffed it into an array. For each column one key. You end up with each key holding the data of one column worth of data Th