Re: Text with accented characters

2018-06-03 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
For what it's worth glyph 226 (Hex E2) in Unicode has a â (a circumflex), and glyph 232 (Hex E8) has a è ( e grave): so your initial font seems Unicode compliant Here's a good place to check this sort of thing: https://www.unicode.org/charts/ (this is, in some respects, my spiritual home on

Re: SQL Help

2018-06-03 Thread Erik Beugelaar via use-livecode
Group by Get Outlook for Android On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 7:45 PM +0200, "Bob Sneidar via use-livecode" wrote: That will only return the maximum value, not the record itself. Bob S > On Jun 1, 2018, at 20:01 , prothero--- via use-livecode wrote: > > I’m thinking something

Re: Text with accented characters

2018-06-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
This would be typical of importing Mac/Win Type 1 fonts or ANSI only True Type. The range ANSI characters (128-255) varies depending on the platform which it was input from; add to the caveat introduce by the "native" program (Quark, InDesign, Pages, MSWord, Outlook, PDF). In theory Livecode ha

Re: Text with accented characters

2018-06-03 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
Hi David, From the LC dictionary: Important: As of version 7.0 the numToChar and charToNum functions have been deprecated. They will continue to work as in previous versions but should not be used with Unicode text as unexpected results may occur. If working with Unicode text use the numToCode

Text with accented characters

2018-06-03 Thread David Epstein via use-livecode
I am importing some text where certain characters do not look right. When I test their charToNum values I get, for example, 226 and 232. 226 is shown as a comma, but should be a lower case a with a circumflex, and 232 is shown as an upper case e with an umlaut but should be a lower case e with

Re: Creating a PSD from Livecode Script?

2018-06-03 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill via use-livecode
Hi Tom, > could a command line call to another program like image magic save you a > bunch of work? I guess so. Never did that either though. :-) Any experts in that area? Cheers, Malte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Plea

Re: Creating a PSD from Livecode Script?

2018-06-03 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
hhmmm...its definately possible...you would just have to study the psd file format and create the proper file headers and append the image data in the format that it needs. ...i've never seen anyone try it. . Could a command line call to another program like image magic save you a bunch of work

Re: SQL Help

2018-06-03 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
That will only return the maximum value, not the record itself. Bob S > On Jun 1, 2018, at 20:01 , prothero--- via use-livecode > wrote: > > I’m thinking something like: > > Select max(“iStoreGrp”) from “valveFlowsA” where (“valveNum”=n1 AND > “meterNum”=n2) > > Then I have to sort out ho

Creating a PSD from Livecode Script?

2018-06-03 Thread Malte Pfaff-Brill via use-livecode
Hi All! I would like to be able to create a Photoshop (layered, preferably also with Layer groups) .psd file from LiveCode Script, using image data in a stack. Has anybody of you tried that before or might know how to get started? Any pointers much appreciated. Cheers, Malte

Looking at LiveCode askew.

2018-06-03 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
Here's something: https://www.slant.co/versus/119/130/~livecode_vs_visual-basic Hmm: I thought this might actually be a detailed comparison, but it's nothing of the sort, just based on some ranking. And, having waded knee-deep in Visual BASIC as it was in 2003, I don't need rankings to work o