TMHO it is much better to animate gifs by an own handler (send in
'regular' time intervals, for example every next full second).
Only by that you have full control on the animation speed on different
hardware. I have a lot of gifs whose speed is set to "fastest", not this
perfect on fast machines,
The limitation goes back to the time when routers cost upwards of $200 and
hardly anyone had one. Things are getting better now for some manufacturers
but still not all.
I'm more concerned these days about malware that attacks routers and the
inability to find out if your current one is vulner
Good input… off screen or on top card of open window behind the top stack: GIF
is still running…
Given that we might be instantiating the appearance of these GIFs (icons of
buttons) "here and there and everywhere" via some low level back script or lib
that was brought into the msg path with sta
What is happening is, the Standalone Application Builder is replacing the
reference to the mainstack in the Stack Files section with something else, so
the next time I save as standalone, it doesn't include the mainstack. It
includes something totally different.
The last app I can compile with
Spoke too soon! Unfortunately the compiler is still borked for me, only this
time it's stuck at Loading Settings in the StandAlone Builder Progress window.
Bob S
> On Jan 3, 2017, at 15:44 , Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
> YAY! Offset bug fixed! Bless you LC devs.
>
> Bob S
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On Jan 3, 2017, at 14:54 , J. Landman Gay
mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com>> wrote:
On 1/3/17 3:42 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
My favorite example is wifi routers. They ship with a default password
and login published in the manual, and
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:38 PM, Bob Sneidar
wrote:
> Not sure this helps you but I use Save this stack all the time and I can
> see the stack in the finder append a tilde (~), create a new stack file
> then the file with the tilde goes away. My changes are always there
> afterwards.
>
That's wha
Not sure this helps you but I use Save this stack all the time and I can see
the stack in the finder append a tilde (~), create a new stack file then the
file with the tilde goes away. My changes are always there afterwards.
Bob S
On Jan 3, 2017, at 14:01 , Rick Harrison
mailto:harri...@all-a
I interact with copier interfaces quite a lot and the process of backing up the
data involves going through various pages and typing what I see there into a
text file. I have always thought it would be great to write an app that can do
it for me, but I have never been able to scrape anything mor
the short answer is "yes", but it can be more complicated as it may require
some javascript execution to pull the data from the server. It depends on
the site you are scraping. You can also (possibly) use a service that can
yank that for you.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Bob Sneidar
wrote:
On 1/3/17 3:42 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
My favorite example is wifi routers. They ship with a default password
and login published in the manual, and more than 75% are never changed.
And almost all the routers I've had over the years won't even *let* you
change the login name. It's always "a
On 1/3/17 4:32 PM, hh wrote:
And that's why we need a lot of typical and good examples for
those who wish to use it (JLG:)
"without understanding a single line of the underlying code".
But if it is as with until now shared widgets, then there will be
again less than 64 ...
True, and I did take
Bob Sneidar wrote:
> And redundant backups are just one more vector to your data.
Indeed it is. The old adage "physical access = root" still applies.
I have a friend I met through my local Linux user group who does
security audits. One of the most common sets of problems he finds isn't
with
The big problem since several months:
A lot of people are speaking about what may be done, may be
soon. Not about what can be done, showing working examples.
All 'examples' listed in this thread need LCB and most of them
especially a FFI that may be available, may be soon, may be for
java only. Th
Hi Bob,
That is both a great and terrible story!
One really can’t make this type of
story up either because it’s too bizarre.
Sorry to hear that it was a true one for you!
Thanks for sharing...
Rick
> On Jan 3, 2017, at 4:16 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
> And redundant backups are just one more v
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:01 PM, Rick Harrison
wrote:
> I just tried the save statement from within a stack
> and I too have found that the stack is not getting saved!
> Has anyone reported this as bug? Is there a work around?
>
This one was so bizarre that I need to make sure I wasn't crazy.
N
I just tried the save statement from within a stack
and I too have found that the stack is not getting saved!
Has anyone reported this as bug? Is there a work around?
Thanks,
Rick
> On Dec 30, 2016, at 6:06 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
>
> Just saw it happen.
>
> Apparently, it is simply ignoring
Charles:
It also seems to me like this is a vital feature that could cripple some
applications. I agree with the other posters that the Indy version will
probably be purchased by the great majority of those who purchase licenses. It
“should” be a big market.
Best,
Bill
> Skip Kimpel wrote:
>
On 1/3/17 1:54 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
I wonder how many programmers are going to spend their money on LiveCode
if they are aware that at a certain point they are going to have to
leverage one or more other programming languages to achieve
certain things.
No one needs to learn any other l
Rick Harrison wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Remember that if just one bit/blob on your encrypted hard
> drive becomes unreadable, then you could lose
> everything on that drive. That makes redundant
> backups over time even more important!
That was why I've been putting it off for so long. But so f
Makes sense. There really is no "off screen" to the modern computer.
On Jan 3, 2017, at 13:03 , J. Landman Gay
mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com>> wrote:
Clever. So I got curious, what would happen if the stack is moved offscreen?
Result: it still updates. What happens if you hide the image? Resul
And redundant backups are just one more vector to your data. Really, security
has to be balanced with usability. Absolute security is to never write, type,
speak or otherwise store any information you want to protect, or which might
give clues to any information you want to protect. This is of
Yet another option.
One may use for the 'it-pauses-until-coming-back'-test a gif that
counts in seconds from 0 up to 100:
giphy.com/gifs/TCJTqRAxRbhGU (repeatCount=-1)
Note. If you go to a different window (of LC or not), leaving the
running gif on the top card of its window, then the gif keep
Speaking of which, is it possible to scrape values from web controls like menus
and check boxes?
Bob S
On Jan 3, 2017, at 12:12 , Mike Kerner
mailto:mikeker...@roadrunner.com>> wrote:
I mean if you do web scraping and use LC to analyze the results, a million
is a small number.
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On 1/3/17 2:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
If a GIF is running on another card I really wonder how you determine
that.
Put an animated GIF on a card, and this in the stack script:
on idle
put the currentFrame of img 1 of cd 1
end idle
Then go to another card.
Her
Hi Richard,
Remember that if just one bit/blob on your encrypted hard
drive becomes unreadable, then you could lose
everything on that drive. That makes redundant
backups over time even more important!
Have a great secure NewYear!
Rick
>
> This year I want to take this further. I just turned
Richmond Mathewson wrote:
> If a GIF is running on another card I really wonder how you determine
> that.
Put an animated GIF on a card, and this in the stack script:
on idle
put the currentFrame of img 1 of cd 1
end idle
Then go to another card.
Here, a quick test confirms Jacque's hunch;
Thanks. I've been accused of over-obsessing about performance so often
that it didn't occur to me my comment could be seen as erring the other
way. :)
I've done scraping, but fortunately here the simplest syntax is also the
more efficient.
And even in tasks requiring fewer than a million ite
I mean if you do web scraping and use LC to analyze the results, a million
is a small number.
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 2:34 PM, hh wrote:
> I think he means
>
> 10% of 1/100 of 1,000,000 iterations of a nano-million-dollar are 1 dollar.
>
> > Richard Gaskin wrote:
> > ?
> >> Mike Kerner wrote:
> >
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 3:51 AM JB wrote:
>
>
> L>llLearning C will help even if for some reason
>
With apologies that Twain . . .
*learning* C is easy--I've done it dozens of times.
*remembering* it a few weeks after the project is another story .. .
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Richmond, don't make me pull out my "LC is like a constructor set" analogy
again!!!
Bob S
On Jan 3, 2017, at 11:54 , Richmond Mathewson
mailto:richmondmathew...@gmail.com>> wrote:
This whole thing looks like an awful sort of confession of "F".
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If you knew even the basics of C you could write widgets that could do things
you presently cannot do in LC. At least that is what I think they are saying.
An example? A really robust SMTP module, that knows how to work with modern
encryption. This is not trivial, but thankfully, there are libra
On 1/3/17 9:47 pm, Peter Bogdanoff wrote:
I suppose one way to test, is to go to the card where the GIF is running—does
it start at the beginning every time you go there?
I'm not sure if that would work: as if you left a card while a GIF was
in mid-cycle it might be paused at that frame unt
If a GIF is running on another card I really wonder how you determine that.
Richmond.
On 1/3/17 9:33 pm, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 1/2/17 9:23 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:
When are on Card 1… is that GIF still running and taking up CPU
cycles even though it is effectively "hidden" by v
This whole thing looks like an awful sort of confession of "F".
If LiveCode is what it should be (a comprehensive programming package)
it should not have to
rely on users' knowledge of other programming languages to achieve some
of the things it should
be perfectly capable of doing inwith itse
I suppose one way to test, is to go to the card where the GIF is running—does
it start at the beginning every time you go there?
pb
On Jan 3, 2017, at 11:33 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 1/2/17 9:23 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:
>> When are on Card 1… is that GIF still running and tak
I think he means
10% of 1/100 of 1,000,000 iterations of a nano-million-dollar are 1 dollar.
> Richard Gaskin wrote:
> ?
>> Mike Kerner wrote:
>> > says the guy who doesn't scrape.
>> >
>> > On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> >
>> >> hh wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > I wasn't aware of
On 1/2/17 9:23 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote:
When are on Card 1… is that GIF still running and taking up CPU
cycles even though it is effectively "hidden" by virtue of being on
Card 3?
I don't believe so, LC only draws what is on the current card.
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Jacqueline Landman Gay |
>> JB wrote:
>> The Livecode team imported Apple’s Foundation
>> Framework so you can use its power inside of a
>> stack instead of writing extensions.
> JB wrote also:
> If you want it all prepackaged ask the
> Livecode team to use the samples in
> widgets. They will do what they see
> is financ
Bob Sneidar wrote:
> DON'T CLICK THE LINK!
Amen, brother. A wise default. Click nothing in an email unless you're
certain it is what it claims to be.
This article was eye-opening for me:
The human attack surface, counting it all up
Humans have become the primary attack surface for cyber
Fair enough, except that list servers are supposed to be configured in such a
way so as to get around this. A list server *should* send a separate email to
each user in a list, NOT one email to ALL the users in the list. The latter
will definitely get "DMARC'd" as spam, especially if the address
In reply to this
>> On 12/31/16 9:53 pm, J. Landman Gay wrote:
So far, at least in this round, the people who have been dropped are
using gmail addresses. I've read about issues with gmail before. If
there is a way to whitelist the LiveCode list, that could help. Since
the drops are caused by th
Found this explanation:
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/mailman-users/2015-December/080211.html
It includes this:
Let us say you have 5 users on your list, user1 at aol.com, user2 at
aol.com, user3 at aol.com user4 at aol.com and user5 at aol.com. user1 at
aol.com posts a piece of mail to yo
Folks,
My Apple mail program lets me see the actual link before I click it, by
hovering the mouse over the link and examining the destination. I have gotten
phishing that looks exactly like an email my bank would send. This season I've
gotten many emails trying to alert me to a package that coul
?
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Mike Kerner wrote:
says the guy who doesn't scrape.
On Mon, Jan 2, 2017 at 6:14 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
hh wrote:
> I wasn't aware of that, good to know, "is in"/"contains" is 10%
> faster than "offset() > 0".
But as with many benchmarks, it's
Concerning getting malware and subsequently getting all your cashed and saved
email addresses sent to demonic entities known as "spam houses", I suppose the
moral to this story is... DON'T CLICK THE LINK!
Unless it's from friends and family, in which case... DON'T CLICK THE LINK!
Unless it's
It is possible that someone's list address got harvested and is being actively
used for populating spam headers, in which case Google spam filters would have
no way of discerning that the address or entire server was viable.
Bob S
> On Dec 31, 2016, at 11:55 , Richmond Mathewson
> wrote:
>
Hmmm... all of this may explain why a table in a PDF fillable form breaks the
controls out as columns, not records. So when populating an FDF file, my data
needs to have each column in it's own variable, or else I have to do nested
repeats to place it all correctly.
Bob S
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On Jan 3, 2017, at 07:10 , JB
mailto:sund...@pacifier.com>> wrote:
I did what I could to provide some good
examples to help people learn.
If you are not making any mistakes then
you are not learning anything.
If you are not making any mistakes, it's likely that you don't NEED to learn
anythin
If you have other stacks, then I think if I understand what you mean by, "pull
in other stacks" that there is no way to avoid this. LC will only "compile" the
main stack. The other substacks, libraries etc. will be separate stacks. If you
need to protect these from manipulation or want to obscur
I did what I could to provide some good
examples to help people learn.
If you are not making any mistakes then
you are not learning anything.
If you want it all prepackaged ask the
Livecode team to use the samples in
widgets. They will do what they see
is financially beneficial so your money
spe
> JB wrote:
> Over a year ago they said Foundation was
> imported and you can even use pointers. I
> don’t have anymore info about it.
JB,
thanks. A simple example of an already available foundation
function and a link to a header listing others is here:
http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?p
Hi,
Over a year ago they said Foundation was
imported and you can even use pointers. I
don’t have anymore info about it.
Learning C will help even if for some reason
they are having problems with Foundation.
I am glad the links work. One day links are
there and another they are gone so if you
v
> JB wrote:
> The Livecode team imported Apple’s Foundation
> Framework so you can use its power inside of a
> stack instead of writing extensions. It will be a
> little slower than an extension but in many cases
> the loss of speed will not be noticeable.
JB,
are you speaking about the future,
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