Re: SQLite and Android "Database Error:Unable to open the database file"

Try PRAGMA integrity_check and PRAGMA foreign_key_check. Pete lcSQL Software On May 29, 2015 11:20 PM, "Ralph DiMola" wrote: > I am getting the dreaded and extremely unhelpful "Database Error:Unable to > open the database file". This only happens on Android. Works in the IDE on > either Mac or P

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Most of our c# stuff is still .Net ;) I've come to really like more staticly typed development ( one thing I love about lcb stuff I've messed with) and now I can do all my js and node work in the same ide. I never thought I'd say it, but visual studio and c# and .net is growing on me. Particularly

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On 05/29/2015 07:28 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: And yes, since montes effort on lcvcs and the new flat file lcb libraries, VCS support is being addressed. I'm excited to build something great. But unfortunately, even after the transition and this new stuff is continuing to wow us I don't think I'll

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Exactly Trevor and Richard. I agree strongly with both sentiments. There is great promise in what's coming up but what we have now, I think, is still in transition. And yes, since montes effort on lcvcs and the new flat file lcb libraries, VCS support is being addressed. I'm excited to build somet

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Andrew Kluthe wrote: > I think the decision boiled down to just wanting more mainstream > processes for development and being able to find programmers we > didn't have to train from scratch. So the decision was made to become > a .Net shop... Ah yes, that's a conversation I know well. Some of t

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Dr. Hawkins writes: > Several years ago (ok, it's really decades), Byte had a standard test suite > to compare compilers. > > Then they hit a compiler that recognized nothing was done with the > information, and optimized the entire suite out . . . produced something > that executed in 0 . . . >

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Earlier today I jumped in briefly on this thread to confirm I had also experienced slower performance and on the same hand I'd like to jump back in now in full agreement with Trevor. Coincidentally, just yesterday I was railing on to my wife (an excellent listener) about the old Hypercard days

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:12 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > ... > > It's not really an excuse to sit back and wait for someone else to find out > the bugs as it is the hard reality of some people's situations. > > In short, the request for us to invest this much time in helping them > figure it out i

SQLite and Android "Database Error:Unable to open the database file"

I am getting the dreaded and extremely unhelpful "Database Error:Unable to open the database file". This only happens on Android. Works in the IDE on either Mac or PC. Works on iOS. Fails only with some queries. Other queries work just fine. This started after I added some data. If I just add ad

Re: Button icons

Hi Richmond, > Am 29.05.2015 um 22:09 schrieb Richmond : > > On 29/05/15 17:33, Klaus major-k wrote: >> Hi RIchmond, >> >>> Am 29.05.2015 um 16:28 schrieb Richmond : >>> >>> So, I have a stack with one button and an image "Blob.png", >>> >>> But none of these scripts inside the button work: >>

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Boy I was your man. I know Foxpro and Livecode well. I actually expanded some SBT modules and when I got really good, I wrote my own new ones. Too bad, Ida come on board. Bob S On May 29, 2015, at 13:54 , Andrew Kluthe mailto:and...@ctech.me>> wrote: I was hired to convert legacy visual foxp

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

I'd still like to do other work in LC (less scale, less risk) but for things like industrial control systems, warehouse management, etc. where there are thousands or millions of dollars on the line, I guess it isn't that 7.0 is really that bad as much as it was the wrong tool for us at the wrong ti

Re: [OT] how to make a folder be a jar file

Thank you both. I did figure out the issue. When you make the folder back into a jar file you need to compress the subfolders, not the main folder. So, my steps were all good, except for that last part. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@list

RE: [OT] how to make a folder be a jar file

Colin, I ran into this a few years ago when I cracked open an epub and re-zipping /re-naming it back to .ePub. I believe it was either the type of compression selected or trailing nulls in the recompressed file(or both?). Are the sizes of the original compressed file the same as the uncompresse

Re: [OT] how to make a folder be a jar file

Perhaps try using Terminal to create the JAR file? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10125639/how-to-create-a-jar-file-using- the-terminal They make mention of a manifest file in the JAR. Assuming your archive has this file and the archive works as expected before editing? (Never done any of

Re: [OT] how to make a folder be a jar file

On 29/05/15 23:13, Colin Holgate wrote: I have a need to edit a single character in a class file inside a jar file. My steps are: rename the file to .zip expand it use a hex editor to make the single character change compress the folder rename back to jar The jar file I get is seen to be bad.

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Andrew Kluthe wrote: > I totally understand what you're talking about there, but between > a full time gig, very young children, and freelance work at night. > I just don't know where I'd find the time to be effective at giving > them the level of detail that they need. I hear you. The only rea

[OT] how to make a folder be a jar file

I have a need to edit a single character in a class file inside a jar file. My steps are: rename the file to .zip expand it use a hex editor to make the single character change compress the folder rename back to jar The jar file I get is seen to be bad. If I leave out the class editing, and jus

Re: Button icons

On 29/05/15 17:33, Klaus major-k wrote: Hi RIchmond, Am 29.05.2015 um 16:28 schrieb Richmond : So, I have a stack with one button and an image "Blob.png", But none of these scripts inside the button work: on mouseUp set the icon of me to img 1003 end mouseUp on mouseUp set the icon of m

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Of note, the only things wrong with the prototypes we did were that the reports (pulling large amounts of data from a server, processing it, generating html reports and outputting it) were noticeably slower (not like what is often reported on this list, but slow enough for someone to notice its slo

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Not a bad option for some, then. Unfortunately, decisions like that on the software in question are over my head. They have decided they would rather I just do it in something more mainstream, than spend time in that way. I fought tooth and nail to get permission to do it in livecode. It works, it

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On 2015-05-29 21:12, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Thanks for the reply, Richard. I totally understand what you're talking about there, but between a full time gig, very young children, and freelance work at night. I just don't know where I'd find the time to be effective at giving them the level of

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Thanks for the reply, Richard. I totally understand what you're talking about there, but between a full time gig, very young children, and freelance work at night. I just don't know where I'd find the time to be effective at giving them the level of detail that they need. I can't give them the act

Re: Split by row

On 5/29/2015 1:44 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Not that it matters, but it seems to me if you set the rowDelimiter to LF and then used split by return thinking you meant it to use LF as the delimiter, you would be surprised at the result. I think (and I don’t know this for sure) that if you had the row

Re: [ANNOUNCE] "language-livecode" 0.3.0 for Atom editor

On 2015-05-29 18:42, stephen barncard wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: highlighting and indentation support for editing LiveCode Builder (.lcb) source files. Has anyone made a Livecode server package for this editor? Not yet! If someone felt like working o

Re: Split by row

Not that it matters, but it seems to me if you set the rowDelimiter to LF and then used split by return thinking you meant it to use LF as the delimiter, you would be surprised at the result. I think (and I don’t know this for sure) that if you had the rowDelimiter set to LF and your document co

Re: Split by row

On 5/28/2015 8:58 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: I think "split by row" is the same as "split by return" provided the rowDelimiter is a return. If that property is something else, I do not see how it is different than "split by primaryDelimiter". I don't see any difference either. Either I'm missi

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Tiemo Hollmann wrote: > Testing my stacks in LC 7.0.5 , they show such a poor performance. > E.g. plain repeat loops with 20,000 records which take a fraction > of a second in LC 6, last up to 10 seconds in LC 7, which is more > than unacceptable for me / my clients on old poor machines. Can you

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > The important thing here (which reinforces me saying 'real world > scenarios' are important) is that if my goal was to optimise the engine to > make simpleArrayTest fast then I could. Indeed, it would be possible to > make it take virtuall

Re: Button icons

I go one better. I set the source of the button to a graphic file on the disk, so that I can change the icon simply by dropping another of the same size and name in the Images folder for that project. This way if someone does not like my interface, I can have someone design better looking elemen

Re: IDE: find a string in a field

Your being too kind. That damnably insidious godawful excuse for a user interface ribbon is what I think you meant. Bob S On May 28, 2015, at 14:30 , Mark Wieder mailto:mwie...@ahsoftware.net>> wrote: Richard Gaskin writes: One man's "awkward" is another man's "context-aware". Yup. That's

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Andrew Kluthe wrote: > I guess I've just been hanging back from upgrading the important > stuff until I stop seeing emails like these on the list. There is some performance degradation with v7, but improved in recent builds and often the difference may be measurable but not noticeable. There'

Re: that odd text property that preserves formatting on copy (like sharedText)

On 2015-05-27 17:28, Dr. Hawkins wrote: hours into this, I remember fighting and solving it before . . As I copy groups from one stack to another, some of the fields lose their custom properties and text formatting, but not their text. It seems to me that there was a field property that isn't

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Tiemo Hollmann TB writes: > How do you handle this performance issue in your projects? What works for me is building a 64-bit 6.7x engine from source. The only time I venture into LC7 land is to check compatibility. Otherwise it's too unstable, slow, and buggy for me to work with. And creates hu

Re: [ANNOUNCE] "language-livecode" 0.3.0 for Atom editor

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:54 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > highlighting and indentation support for editing LiveCode Builder (.lcb) > source files. Has anyone made a Livecode server package for this editor? -- Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words _

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

(once more, it took my quad core i5 ten or fifteen minutes to build a standalone yesterday). Do you have 'search for required inclusions' turned on? If so - try turning it off and see if you get a performance improvement. Not knowing the structure of the app you are trying to build I can't say

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Bad thing was that the team wanted to see „real live scenarios“ (which most of my benchmark stacks are, just boiled down to the core of the problems as I found them). Yes - 'real world scenarios' are important - posting a small piece of code and running it 10,000 times just tells you how long t

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > As a personal rule of thumb, I don't use anything post-6.x.x for anything > but trying out the bleeding edge features. I have no choice; I absolutely need the adjustable scaling on the desktop. So I deal with performance by a lot of screa

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

I set up a couple of benchmark stacks a while back: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=22072 Bad thing was that the team wanted to see „real live scenarios“ (which most of my benchmark stacks are, just boiled down to the core

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

As a personal rule of thumb, I don't use anything post-6.x.x for anything but trying out the bleeding edge features. Most of my critical stuff uses 5.5 due to previous performance concerns before they even officially rolled out 7. It seems to be a lot better now, but I guess I've just been hanging

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

I'll throw in my two cents here confirming that I've seen a slow down moving from 6.5.2 to 7.0.2(rc 2). On 5/29/2015 4:22 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Roger Eller wrote: LC 6.5.2 is my daily driver on Win7. I've been using 6.7.x -- do you see a substantial diffe

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

I only made it to 6.6.5 and some of the 7.x ones before I reverted to my most stable experience (on Windows anyway). On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:22 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Roger Eller > wrote: > > > LC 6.5.2 is my daily driver on Win7. > > > I've been using 6

Re: Button icons

Also…set the icon of me to the ID of image “myIconImage" be well, randy Randy Hengst www.classroomFocusedSoftware.com > On May 29, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Klaus major-k wrote: > > Hi RIchmond, > >> Am 29.05.2015 um 16:28 schrieb Richmond : >> >> So, I have a stack with one button and an ima

Re: Button icons

Hi RIchmond, > Am 29.05.2015 um 16:28 schrieb Richmond : > > So, I have a stack with one button and an image "Blob.png", > > But none of these scripts inside the button work: > > on mouseUp > set the icon of me to img 1003 > end mouseUp > > on mouseUp > set the icon of me to img ID 1003 > en

Button icons

So, I have a stack with one button and an image "Blob.png", But none of these scripts inside the button work: on mouseUp set the icon of me to img 1003 end mouseUp on mouseUp set the icon of me to img ID 1003 end mouseUp on mouseUp set the icon of me to img "Blob.png" end mouseUp LiveCo

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:58 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > LC 6.5.2 is my daily driver on Win7. I've been using 6.7.x -- do you see a substantial difference between 6.5.2 and that? gc ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visi

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

LC 6.5.2 is my daily driver on Win7. All the new versions seem sluggish. I don't see how LC 8 can be optimized already since it is only a developer preview, which I would never trust for production work. ~Roger On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hello, > > I am produc

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > I am producing with LC 6.5.2 on a very fast Win 7 machine. > > Testing my stacks in LC 7.0.5 , they show such a poor performance. E.g. > plain repeat loops with 20,000 records which take a fraction of a second in > LC 6, last up to 10 se

How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

Hello, I am producing with LC 6.5.2 on a very fast Win 7 machine. Testing my stacks in LC 7.0.5 , they show such a poor performance. E.g. plain repeat loops with 20,000 records which take a fraction of a second in LC 6, last up to 10 seconds in LC 7, which is more than unacceptable for me / my cl

[ANNOUNCE] "language-livecode" 0.3.0 for Atom editor

Hi all, == Atom language-livecode package 0.3.0 == The "language-livecode" package for the Atom editor (https://atom.io/) provides syntax highlighting and indentation support for editing LiveCode Builder (.lcb) source files. == Installation Install the "language-livecode" package from

AW: How to open/show a modal stack at a defined position

Hi Dave, doing it at preopenstack is much smarter! Thanks Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Dave Kilroy Gesendet: Donnerstag, 28. Mai 2015 15:41 An: use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com Betreff: Re: How to open/show