Re: drawing a Barcode without a Barcode font

2018-07-26 Thread Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
I was extremely lucky to spend 3 days as the guest of Dr Agnes and Dr Jackson He at their home in Long Island about 10 weeks ago: http://spie.org/profile/Duanfeng.He-10918?SSO=1 Jackson is best described as the "Barcode King". Richmond. On 26/7/2018 11:32 pm, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrot

Re: drawing a Barcode without a Barcode font

2018-07-26 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
It doesn't surprise me that the optical scanning on the iphone is performing differently than the ccd or laser scanner on the conveyor are. The laser/ccd is only going to scan in the 600-650 nm wavelength, which is both good and bad. The overall width of the barcode shouldn't matter to the scanner

Re: Storing Images for use by Custom Controls

2018-07-26 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Yes that is exactly it. And because of that, if LC does not "see" that first group before the copy, then the images will not display correctly. If the images are in the same stack, then there is no problem, you can make copies of the group as much as you want, but suppose you copied the group fr

Checking if internet is connected using tsNet?

2018-07-26 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi friends, can we possibly "mis-"use tsNet somehow to check if the current machine has a valid internet connection? And to check if a given URL is valid? Thanks for any hints! Best Klaus -- Klaus Major http://www.major-k.de kl...@major-k.de ___

Re: Browser Widget question

2018-07-26 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Panos: Thanks, that cleared up one of my problems. I have two buttons, each of which launches a different URL. The http one launches first. This works as expected when I, for test purposes, block ATS. The second button launches an https site, but when I do “set the URL of widget “Browser” to “

Re: Storing Images for use by Custom Controls

2018-07-26 Thread Simon Knight via use-livecode
Hi Stephen, Why lose the quotes, the texts are literals and not variables. Simon > On 25 Jul 2018, at 21:41, Stephen Barncard via use-livecode > wrote: > > ose the quotes inside the brackets?? > > sqb > > -- > Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -

Re: Storing Images for use by Custom Controls

2018-07-26 Thread Simon Knight via use-livecode
Bob, The reason I went for the array rather than a naming convention such as you suggest is because I have no idea how Livecode resolves the names. I have an impression that it looks at the stack and works its way up through the images in ID order. The upshot is that a button in a copy of the

Re: Browser Widget question

2018-07-26 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
Hi Bill, On iOS http URL are blocked by ATS (App Transport Security). You can disable ATS in the iOS standalone settings, but it is not recommended. Another way is to add a whitelist of URLs that should not be blocked by ATS. This requires using a custom plist. Best, Panos -- On Thu, Jul 26, 20