Re: Stacks and Sub Stacks

2019-09-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks for answers of "how to get a list of all stacks?" put revLoadedStacks() put the mainstack stacksinuse all good! But, they return different resultsvery interesting... stackInUse does not include some stacks reported by "revLoaderStacks()" both lists have their use cases... but the

Re: Hactoberfest is coming...

2019-09-27 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
click on the "start hacking" button in the page and you can sign up. i don't know what it will do for people who don't already have a github account, but here's what I got: [image: Hacktoberfest 2019] You’re officially registered for Hacktoberfest 2019! So we wanted to send you everything yo

Mobile scroller misaligned

2019-09-27 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I must be doing something wrong, I still can't get a mobile scroller to align at anything other than zero. It fails on scrollers placed over either images or scrolling fields. I have a list field with a lot of lines, grouped, with the group shorter than the field. On mobile (Android in my ca

Re: LC Garbage Collection?

2019-09-27 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
I think "large" is dependent on context. I've used LSON files larger than 100 MB, but I don't know that I would recommend that for all possible use cases. The bug DB link in this post suggests that size of a given array isn't necessarily a problem or not a problem, it all depends on what spe

Re: LC Garbage Collection?

2019-09-27 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Do we have a ballpark idea of what "large" might be? Is it more like a gigabyte or a few hundred megabytes or...? I know it will be variable and depend on other factors, but it would be nice to have a general idea. On 9/26/19 11:12 PM, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode wrote: I don't think

Language convenience rant...

2019-09-27 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Assume I have a function guessTextEncoding that returns the various possible encoding for a text file. If the file is MacRoman and my app is running on OSX (Platform() = "MacOS") I can use: put URL ("file:"&tFile) into tText put textDecode(tText,"Native") into ... destination OR put textDecode(t