Re: Livecode Content Management System

2017-12-04 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
So many interesting, thoughtful and thought-provoking responses - I am overwhelmed. Thank you. I can't reply to each of them - flooding the list with 24 responses would be somewhat anti-social :-), so I'll arbitrarily pick the most recent (as I type) and respond to it, with responses to variou

Re: Livecode Content Management System

2017-12-04 Thread Peter W A Wood via use-livecode
Andre > I am talking beyond the current HTML5 deployment (which I don't own a > license and can't play with) I thought that you can deploy to HTML5 with the community licence. The GPL wouldn’t put you off playing with it, would it? Peter ___ use-livec

Naive Player Questions

2017-12-04 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Hi - perhaps due to not picking the right search terms in the documentation, I am confused about playing audio files in LC 8. What I want seems quite simple to me: I want the user to click a button which will cause a single MP3 file to play. While it plays I may or may not want to switch cards o

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.8

2017-12-04 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
and don't update xcode... On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:24 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Dear List Members, > > We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1.8 Stable. By > "Stable", we mean that no reported regressions have been introduced

Re: Why is node.js faster than LC server?

2017-12-04 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
jonathandlynch wrote: > Hi Richard and Andre - thanks for your replies. I was the one who > mentioned millions of users at the same time, not out of drunkenness > but because I wanted to understand the upper limits of these systems. Scaling is a fascinating problem. I found the C10k problem a g

Re: Why is node.js faster than LC server?

2017-12-04 Thread Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode
Hi Richard and Andre - thanks for your replies. I was the one who mentioned millions of users at the same time, not out of drunkenness but because I wanted to understand the upper limits of these systems. I also found a thread discussing this idea from a few years ago that Richard was part of.

Re: Why is node.js faster than LC server?

2017-12-04 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Andre Garzia wrote: > On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: ... >> I don't even think we'd need tsNet for that. Sockets should suffice >> for communicating between backend services, and using the "with >> messages" option makes them async; indeed that single-thre

RE: Livecode Content Management System

2017-12-04 Thread Erik Beugelaar -Solidit via use-livecode
FWIW in this discussion: Digital Pome Granate has published on GitHub a LC to WordPress 2.0 API layer, see https://github.com/digitalpomegranate/livecode-wp-restapi, so you have already the option to develop the structure of a website in WordPress using their CMS capabilities (theme, menu, users, r

Re: LiveCodeStars

2017-12-04 Thread hh via use-livecode
> Bob S. wrote: > Cool, but it moves so fast I read about 1/10th of the text and > I am exaggerating. :-) Your machine's CPU/GPU combination is from next generation. Though I removed a small bug (that made LC 9 run 30% too fast). Now you could play with the param d of "hhAnim". The fact is that

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.8

2017-12-04 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Congratulations! Richmond. On 4/12/17 5:24 pm, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Dear List Members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1.8 Stable. By "Stable", we mean that no reported regressions have been introduced in 8.1.8, compared to the previous Stable release

Re: Livecode Content Management System

2017-12-04 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Andre Garzia work: > So far, most of our web efforts have been "PHP-inspired", as in our > server engine behaves like PHP and our frameworks look and feel like > PHP frameworks. Thank you for bringing that up. There are a great many design decisions with the LC Server CGI that do mirror the PH

Re: Why is node.js faster than LC server?

2017-12-04 Thread Andre Garzia via use-livecode
IMHO opinions it is not fair to compar NodeJS and LC Server on merits of performance because they are really different beasts, I will try to digress a little about why I think this below. NodeJS is the union of two things, one of which is the lightning fast JS Engine from Google called V8 and the

ColorChooser for LC 6/7/8/9 on MacOS 10.13

2017-12-04 Thread hh via use-livecode
Recently, there were several neat stacks on "Sample Stacks" that use LC 8/9 (a newer stackfileversion) and would be also useful on LC 6/7. The main reason for that, if not using widgets, was probably that on MacOS 10.13, using LC 6/7, closing the colorChooser ("answer color") **CRASHES** LiveCode

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.8

2017-12-04 Thread Andre Garzia via use-livecode
huahuaahuahuahu you're all just too awesome! Panos, thanks a lot for the link :D On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 2:12 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi Panos, > > > Am 04.12.2017 um 17:06 schrieb panagiotis merakos via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runr

Re: LiveCodeStars

2017-12-04 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Cool, but it moves so fast I read about 1/10th of the text and I am exaggerating. :-) Bob S > On Dec 3, 2017, at 15:53 , hh via use-livecode > wrote: > > My end-of-this-year gift to the community is dedicated to the LC Team, > especially to the makers of the browser widget. > > **LiveCodeSt

Re: Why is node.js faster than LC server?

2017-12-04 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
jonathandlynch wrote: > Thinking about this further... > > Could we set up LiveCode to run on a VPS, so it is always live and > listening to a port. When a request comes in, it would use TSnet to > send an asynchronous request to a local database. When TSnet gets the > callback, it passes the dat

tsNet and proxy servers? Charles?

2017-12-04 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB via use-livecode
Hello, I am using very simple "put URL myUrl.php into myResult". Since Version 8 (and still in 8.1.4) I have again and again institutional customers like schools or government networks with proxys and firewalls, where the tsNet doesn't succeed to connect to myServer thru the proxys with different

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.8

2017-12-04 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Panos, > Am 04.12.2017 um 17:06 schrieb panagiotis merakos via use-livecode > : > > Hi Andre, > > Sorry, I should have included a direct link to the Release Notes (I usually > do :) ) > > http://livecodestatic.com/downloads/livecode/8_1_8/LiveCodeNotes-8_1_8.pdf you exspected a laborious s

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.8

2017-12-04 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi Andre, Sorry, I should have included a direct link to the Release Notes (I usually do :) ) http://livecodestatic.com/downloads/livecode/8_1_8/LiveCodeNotes-8_1_8.pdf Best, Panos -- On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 3:43 PM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I like

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.8

2017-12-04 Thread Andre Garzia via use-livecode
I like these emails a lot but I would like them even more if they contained a direct link to the release notes :D On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 1:24 PM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Dear List Members, > > We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode

[ANN] Release 8.1.8

2017-12-04 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Dear List Members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1.8 Stable. By "Stable", we mean that no reported regressions have been introduced in 8.1.8, compared to the previous Stable release. LiveCode 8.1.8 contains 36 bug fixes and new features, compared to LiveCode 8.1.7. You can

Re: Livecode Content Management System

2017-12-04 Thread Mike Bonner via use-livecode
While not exactly a CMS, I used LC as a paypal button code generator (encrypted buttons using openssl as the basis.) My little program generates a complete paypal button for each item and stores it in an sqlite database. It also takes an image drop and generates 2 sizes for the gallery I use. A

Re: Livecode Content Management System

2017-12-04 Thread Andre Garzia via use-livecode
Taking a tangential line of thought in this thread, I think there is value in exploring "more focused" or "less flexible" solutions than complete CMSs to gauge the feasibility of a CMS project. Specially if it is something like David said that leverages the Desktop value of LC while spewing out sta

Re: Why is node.js faster than LC server?

2017-12-04 Thread Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode
Thinking about this further... Could we set up LiveCode to run on a VPS, so it is always live and listening to a port. When a request comes in, it would use TSnet to send an asynchronous request to a local database. When TSnet gets the callback, it passes the data back to LC, which processes it

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 109

2017-12-04 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi all, Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #109 here: https://goo.gl/kYEVvD This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and around

Why is node.js faster than LC server?

2017-12-04 Thread Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode
In looking at node.js it seems that two things stand out - LC server waits for the database to send a reply, rather than setting an event listener, and perhaps node.js launches faster when a request comes in? Is this accurate? Could LC server be modified to run as fast as node? I would love to

Re: Livecode Content Management System

2017-12-04 Thread David Bovill via use-livecode
I don't see much value in building a CMS or CMS front end. There is value in a CMS, but not I'd saying in making another CMS. Build on revIgniter as Dave says? On 3 December 2017 at 12:57, Dave Kilroy via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi Alex > > My instinct would be to b