Help converting python one-liner...

2024-04-25 Thread Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode
Hi David, Are you sure that sImage contains the data you want? What happens if instead of: put url imageUrl into sImage you do: put url("binfile:" & imageURL) into sImage Kind regards Bernd ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev

Re: Help converting python one-liner...

2024-04-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Well the good news (I suppose) is that base64Decode seems to ignore the carriage returns in the encoded string. The bad news (for me) is that it means my intermittence issue had nothing to do with the carriage returns. Bob S > On Apr 25, 2024, at 8:09 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrot

Re: Help converting python one-liner...

2024-04-25 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Wha THAT may be why I was getting intermittent success with a socket based file transfer utility I developed! I wonder what base64Decode does with a base64Encoded string if you remove the carriage returns first? I’m going to have to research that. Bob S > On Apr 25, 2024, at 7:57 AM,

Re: Help converting python one-liner...

2024-04-25 Thread Andreas Bergendal via use-livecode
The problem may be that base64 encoding inserts line breaks after every 76 chars (a remnant from terminal monitor width restrictions, apparently). I ran into this a while ago, and cleaning the encoded string with “replace cr with empty in tString” solved it for me. I don’t think any textEncode/Deco