DataGrid2 - Improved Graphics Means What - Exactly?

The DataGrid 2 fund raiser is interesting, not so much for the DataGrid; which I don't use; (Instantiating a small group template multiple times to make a longer grouped control is easy enough and scrolling list fields do the rest, so far there hasn't been a use case yet where Datagrid complexi

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

> On 23 Jun 2017, at 11:19 am, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Monte Goulding wrote: > > >> On 23 Jun 2017, at 10:06 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> > >> How can we know which is in use for a given string? > > > > You shouldn’t need to know. The engine will use native encoding wher

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

Monte Goulding wrote: >> On 23 Jun 2017, at 10:06 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> How can we know which is in use for a given string? > > You shouldn’t need to know. The engine will use native encoding where > possible for efficiency. A lot of the performance improvements between > LC 7 and 8 wer

Re: RIP Dan Shafer

I am so sorry to hear about Dan passing. I met him at a Rev conference in Monterey, California, which he organized. I also purchased three of his Rev PDF books. I still use them when I need help. Dan certainly was great promoter of Rev and would be in a Rev hall of fame if there was one. Se

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

Richard > How can we know which is in use for a given string? > > Suppose I wanted to process a lot of text, so performance is critical. Using > bytes would be optimal, since any chunk type or even Unicode characters may > vary in length. > > So if I wanted to create an index of byte offsets i

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

> On 23 Jun 2017, at 10:06 am, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > How can we know which is in use for a given string? You shouldn’t need to know. The engine will use native encoding where possible for efficiency. A lot of the performance improvements between LC 7 and 8 were using t

Re: RIP Dan Shafer

Sad, many years and few editions of his HC book dogeared on my lap in the early years. jeff ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lis

Re: RIP Dan Shafer

Bummer. He will be missed but it was sure great having him with us. Thank you for letting us know. Bill Vlahos > On Jun 21, 2017, at 8:31 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode > wrote: > > We lost Dan Shafer yesterday. He did a lot for LiveCode. I’m sure anybody who > met him will miss him. > .J

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

Monte Goulding wrote: >> On 23 Jun 2017, at 7:18 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> is that true that UTF-16 gives us two-bytes per char across the >> board? > > That’s true (the 16 means 16 bit) but internally strings may be either > native 8 bit or unicode 16 bit. How can we know which is in use

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

> On 23 Jun 2017, at 7:18 am, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > is that true that UTF-16 gives us two-bytes per char across the board? That’s true (the 16 means 16 bit) but internally strings may be either native 8 bit or unicode 16 bit. It should just be a direct memory copy so i

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

Rick Harrison wrote: >> On Jun 22, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: >> >> On Jun 22, 2017, at 11:03 AM, Rick Harrison wrote: >>> >>> I have a string variable which contains over 2500 characters. >>> I only want to grab the first 1000 characters of that string. >>> Rather than looping 1000 ti

RE: RIP Dan Shafer

It was his book that got me started with Revolution ! Thanks to him i'm hooked , RIP and sorry for the loss. Camm -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lambert via use-livecode Sent: 22 June 2017 19:55 To: use-livecode@list

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

On Jun 22, 2017, at 1:05 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Hi Devin & Mark, Thanks for this solution. Does that statement create an implied loop? I don’t think so. It’s similar to substring functions in other languages. As Mike said, string ch

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

Hi Devin & Mark, Thanks for this solution. Does that statement create an implied loop? It’s great for a one liner though! Rick > On Jun 22, 2017, at 2:17 PM, Mark Talluto via use-livecode > wrote: > > On Jun 22, 2017, at 11:03 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode > wrote: >> >> I have a str

Re: RIP Dan Shafer

But Dan’s excellent work lives on. Jim Lambert ___ 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/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

chunks make me happy. actually, any time i have to parse a hornet's nest of text, this language makes me happy. On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 2:17 PM, Mark Talluto via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On Jun 22, 2017, at 11:03 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode < > use-livecode@li

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

On Jun 22, 2017, at 11:03 AM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: > > I have a string variable which contains over 2500 characters. > I only want to grab the first 1000 characters of that string. > Rather than looping 1000 times to grab each character > is there a way to just grab the first 10

Re: First 1000 characters without loop?

On Jun 22, 2017, at 12:03 PM, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: > > I have a string variable which contains over 2500 characters. > I only want to grab the first 1000 characters of that string. > Rather than looping 1000 times to grab each character > is there a way to just grab the first 10

First 1000 characters without loop?

I have a string variable which contains over 2500 characters. I only want to grab the first 1000 characters of that string. Rather than looping 1000 times to grab each character is there a way to just grab the first 1000 efficiently in one big chunk? Thanks, Rick

Re: Dan Shafer

Here’s his Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/onemindfellowship Not being completely sure it’s the right Dan Shafer, I checked the book mentioned on Facebook, and Amazon shows that book along with all the tech ones. So I think it must be him. _

Re: RIP Dan Shafer

So sorry for confusing these two great individuals in my head. Thank you Mark for correcting my mistake. :( ~Roger On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Mark Schonewille via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Quartam is not by Dan but by Jan Schenkel. > > Let me use this oppor

Re: RIP Dan Shafer

Quartam is not by Dan but by Jan Schenkel. Let me use this opportunity to express my sympathy for Dan's family. Also, there is a fund raiser that might be of interest to readers of this list. https://www.gofundme.com/dans-next-adventure Kind regards, Mark Schonewille http://economy-x-talk.co

Re: RIP Dan Shafer

So sad. What a good guy! Thoughts and prayers to the Shafer family. Devin On Jun 21, 2017, at 9:31 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: We lost Dan Shafer yesterday. He did a lot for LiveCode. I’m sure anybody who met him will miss him. .Jerry

Re: Dan Shafer

Apologies to the list for not clipping the list message copy from my earlier reply :( Bruce Sent from my iPhone ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Dan Shafer

Does anyone have a reference for this? There's nothing on google search Bruce Sent from my iPhone > On Jun 22, 2017, at 6:00 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > Send use-livecode mailing list submissions to >use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe vi

[ANN] Release 8.1.5 RC-2

Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1.5 RC-2. Getting the Release === You can get the release at https://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ or via the automatic updater. Release Contents LiveCode 8.1.5 RC-2 contains 5 bugfixes

Re: RIP Dan Shafer

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:31 PM, Jerry Jensen via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > We lost Dan Shafer yesterday. He did a lot for LiveCode. I’m sure anybody > who met him will miss him. > .Jerry > > I have been learning from Dans books

AW: HD Windows Video Formats

Hi Jeff, I am working with H.264 mp4 videos for both Windows (directShow) and Mac (AVFoundation), compressed with Sorensons squeeze. The drawback is, that Windows 10 doesn't comes with a H.264 codec by default, so my users have to install the codec. I made good experiences with the LAV-Filter code

Re: Exploring A Single File Deploy on Windows

On 2017-06-21 22:47, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Could you expand on this a little bit? StandaloneSaving/Saved are only sent during a build, so I'm not sure how I'd use those to intercept a startup message. Yes but they could be used at standalone building time (probably will requir

Re: Widgets as Buttons

At the risk of looking goofy, why not create an SVG image with a solid border: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/i487s2g27q8hbve/AABn_OVtPJc79uAeGlapQ-Yta?dl=0 Richmond. On 6/22/17 9:18 am, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: It may just be a mobile problem (or maybe just Android) because on desk