Re: LC 9.6.0 DP2

2020-02-17 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
"Richmond as Dodo with ruffled feathers." Discuss. ;-) Banging on about endless upgrades is pretty pointless because, unless one lives in a cave, one already knows about that. What might be better is to offer the OP a practical solution to their problem. Richmond. On 18.02.20 0:21, Richard

Re: OT: Apple Alumni Reunion?

2020-02-17 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 2/17/20 7:37 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote: I have a ticket. Didn’t yet figure out where I will stay, but I have a plane ticket too. For anyone completely puzzled, it’s an Apple reunion where it’s only open to employees from the first 10 years, roughly speaking. The cut off is 19

Re: OT: Apple Alumni Reunion?

2020-02-17 Thread Colin Holgate via use-livecode
I have a ticket. Didn’t yet figure out where I will stay, but I have a plane ticket too. For anyone completely puzzled, it’s an Apple reunion where it’s only open to employees from the first 10 years, roughly speaking. The cut off is 1988. I worked at Apple Computer UK from October 1987 to end

OT: Apple Alumni Reunion?

2020-02-17 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
Just curious: anyone else here thinking about going to the Apple Alumni Reunion in May? -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your s

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-02-17 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
H - you're doing that on 'standalonesaved'. Isn't that too late ?  Shouldn't it be on 'savingstandalone' ? (I've not made a standalone on years, far less ever used either of those handlers, but based on their names, that seems like a possible idea :-) Alex. On 17/02/2020 22:57, Kaveh Baz

Re: Translate metadata to field content

2020-02-17 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
There’s the formattedStyledText property which is like the formattedText but in the form of a style array. If you sum the number of chars in each run up until you find your tag, then you can should be able to use the formattedheight of char 1 up to the summed index to get the vscroll you need.

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-02-17 Thread Kaveh Bazargan via use-livecode
> > >> >> > Sounds great Jacqueline. I will give it a go. :-) > Hi Jacqueline I tried but could not make it work. I have posted a minimal stack on the forum in case you get time to comment. https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=33678&p=188122#p188122 Thanks. I have learnt a lot alread

Re: Translate metadata to field content

2020-02-17 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Thanks, I'll save that for someday. In this case though, the text is wrapped and there are anchors scattered around inside paragraphs. Unless someone else has an idea it looks like I'm going to have to extract lookup tables. That's going to be quite a job. On 2/17/20 3:59 PM, Richard Gaskin via

Re: LC 9.6.0 DP2

2020-02-17 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Richmond wrote: > Yeah, yeah, yeah . . . sick of that stuff about endless upgrades; and, > frankly banging on about them does not really help anyone who asks the > sort of question the OP asked. The OP asked about using the latest version of LiveCode on an OS that was EOL'd many years ago. I r

Re: Translate metadata to field content

2020-02-17 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay wrote: I'm still working on htmltext in a field. There are anchors that indicate positions elsewhere in the file. A browser will automatically find and scroll to the right place in the text. I need to reproduce that. Is there a way to translate an anchor like "#12345" to the loc

Re: Invalid Image File / Original Image Size

2020-02-17 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
Hi Ralph, Certainly Klaus's approach will work. Here is another that works. As you know, image files have "signatures" in their headers to identify what kind of files they are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_file_signatures (the "ISO 8859-1" column) Once you know the signatures

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 213

2020-02-17 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 #213 here: http://bit.ly/37zEpoQ This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and around

Re: Invalid Image File / Original Image Size

2020-02-17 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Ralph, > Am 17.02.2020 um 22:08 schrieb Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > : > > What's the best way to know if I set the filename of an image control and > the file is either not an image or in an unsupported format? I'm getting > https links to unknown images so I check images before app deplo

Invalid Image File / Original Image Size

2020-02-17 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
What's the best way to know if I set the filename of an image control and the file is either not an image or in an unsupported format? I'm getting https links to unknown images so I check images before app deployment. After resizing an image is there a way to know the original dimensions? Just won

Translate metadata to field content

2020-02-17 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I'm still working on htmltext in a field. There are anchors that indicate positions elsewhere in the file. A browser will automatically find and scroll to the right place in the text. I need to reproduce that. Is there a way to translate an anchor like "#12345" to the location in the visible fi

Re: LC 9.6.0 DP2

2020-02-17 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
Yeah, yeah, yeah . . . sick of that stuff about endless upgrades; and, frankly banging on about them does not really help anyone who asks the sort of question the OP asked. There is a simple fact that some people round "these parts" as well as elsewhere overlook . . . Not everyone has oddles

Re: LC 9.6.0 DP2

2020-02-17 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Charles Szasz wrote: > Has anyone noticed that LC 9.6.0 DP2 creates 32 bit Windows > standalones that are not compatible with Windows XP? The Release Notes list these Win version as compatible with LC 9.6dp2: - Windows 7 (both 32-bit and 64-bit) - Windows Server 2008 - Windows 8.x (Desktop) - Wi

Re: DiffPatch question

2020-02-17 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
If you want to efficiently store all changes to a file.  This is what Git does. The other advantage is that user C could also perform an edit to A.  You could apply the AC diff on top of B to get a combined update.  (Also what Git does) Thanks, Brian On Feb 17, 2020, 2:58 PM -0500, Richard Gaski

DiffPatch question

2020-02-17 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Consider this scenario: I'm writing text A, and another team member has revised it in text B. I can get a list of changes from A to B with DiffCompare. Cool. Then with DiffPatch I can apply that diff listing to A to make it like the revised B. What is the advantage of using DiffPatch over s

LC 9.6.0 DP2

2020-02-17 Thread Charles Szasz via use-livecode
Has anyone noticed that LC 9.6.0 DP2 creates 32 bit Windows standalones that are not compatible with Windows XP? The standalones did not have the screen resolution checkbox checked. Sent from my iPad ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: curl in LiveCode

2020-02-17 Thread Andrew Bell via use-livecode
Thank you Matthias! I figured it was possible and I might be close. Hopefully the archive of this thread will be useful for someone in the future. --Andrew Bell Subject: Re: curl in LiveCode Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Hi again, rereading my post i noticed th

Re: LC Server - HTTP response code 500: permission denied error

2020-02-17 Thread Martin Koob via use-livecode
Hi Ralf Been on holiday so was not able to follow up on this. I added the index.lc segment in the URL and when connecting to the API on the existing server that works. When I connect to the new server on the new host I still get the message. lscgid: execve():/home/videolinkwell/sites/api.vide

Re: LC Server - HTTP response code 500: permission denied error

2020-02-17 Thread Martin Koob via use-livecode
Hi Ralf Thanks for your response. I’ve been on holiday so was not able to follow up on this. I added the index.lc segment in the URL and when connecting to the API on the existing server that works. When I connect to the new server on the new host I still get the message. 'lscgid: execve()

Re: Progressive Web App (PWA)

2020-02-17 Thread Ingar Roggen via use-livecode
I see, «progressive»… > 16. feb. 2020 kl. 22:33 skrev doc hawk via use-livecode > : > > > On Feb 16, 2020, at 5:15 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: >> >> "A progressive web application is a type of application software delivered >> through the web, built using common web technologi