Engine: Socket limit?

2019-04-25 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
A forum user has an interesting use case involving sockets on a server that needs to handle thousands of connections: https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=32515#p179090 He's discovered that livecode/engine/src/opensslsocket.cpp sets a limit on sockets size to 16 bits. He's wonderi

Re: Seeking philosophical guidance on library interface design

2019-04-25 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
On 26/04/2019 00:27, Quentin Long via use-livecode wrote: Hmmm… Seems like this library is intended for a summat limited subset of graph-styles. There are pie charts, radar charts, etc ad nauseum, and it's not clear to me how this library caan cope with any of those "non-standard" types of grap

Re: Seeking philosophical guidance on library interface design

2019-04-25 Thread Quentin Long via use-livecode
Hmmm… Seems like this library is intended for a summat limited subset of graph-styles. There are pie charts, radar charts, etc ad nauseum, and it's not clear to me how this library caan cope with any of those "non-standard" types of graph. As well, it's unclear to me how this library will deal w

LC904rc2 Project Browser error?

2019-04-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I find that in the project browser under LC904rc2 (Windows 10), I can not relayer groups. Button, fields, etc, all relayer fine by drag and drop within the hierarchical list of the project browser, but not groups. Is this a bug or a lack of RTFM on my part to figure out how it is supposed to w

Re: Seeking philosophical guidance on library interface design.

2019-04-25 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
On 25/04/2019 19:07, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode wrote: I like the use of an array. Add the ability to set the default array, allowing named arrays. Or supply base arrays that one could use to make a plot parameter array. Yeah, it should be easy and potentially useful to have some

Re: Seeking philosophical guidance on library interface design.

2019-04-25 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
Sorry, but .. what is C ? Current plan is kind of  B-  i.e. the default is to try to apply some simple guesswork to make a "reasonable" looking result, but with a simple way (e.g. put TRUE into myArray["NoGuessing"] ) to prevent any such attempt and ave a minimal, undecorated graph. -- A

Re: Seeking philosophical guidance on library interface design.

2019-04-25 Thread Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode
Coming in late... For bread-and-butter code, B. For software development, A. But, really, my response is C. Dar > On Apr 23, 2019, at 5:01 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I'm building a library (which I plan to release as Open Source), and I'm > having troubl

Re: Seeking philosophical guidance on library interface design.

2019-04-25 Thread Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode
I like the use of an array. Add the ability to set the default array, allowing named arrays. Or supply base arrays that one could use to make a plot parameter array. -- Dar Scott Mad Scientist darzLab > On Apr 23, 2019, at 9:00 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Using named va

Re: Seeking philosophical guidance on library interface design.

2019-04-25 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
I did really well - I got two typos into a very short example ...  the description shoudl have said lineDel, not itemDel, and it should have been set to ":", not ";" My fault for taking the *real* example out of the demo app, and cutting it down while typing the email. itemDel and lineDel ar