Re: Application disappears unexpectedly (goes into background)

HI Jacqueline, thanks and sorry for the delay in responding... xmas etc! Yes, there are no hide (nor set visible to false) of windows though there is of some controls. But not related to any relevant scripts. Any other ideas? :-) cheers Alan > On 23 Dec 2023, at 3:30 am, jac...@hyperactivesw.

Application disappears unexpectedly (goes into background)

I've got a MacOS LC standalone that opens a stackfile external to the application. Whenever I click inside one of the stack windows which doesn't have current focus, all the stack windows disappear and reappear only when I switch to another application and back again. Activating a stack window b

Re: Has anyone experimented with using Python within LC?

:-) For example, interfacing to machine learning (& associated) libraries for creating + running ML models (in my test case). > On 23 Jul 2023, at 1:30 am, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > Probably not much, but there are a lot of libraries that exist for python > that you might

Re: Has anyone experimented with using Python within LC?

Hi Geoff Sorry for not replying earlier but looks like you've got it sorted. I did a bit on this years ago and am contemplating it again. Just looked for my old stack and see this script for running a python script and putting the output into the "output" fld: on runPythonScript pScript pu

Re: Workaround for regular Crash setting (audio) file of player?

Hi David This rings a distant bell... not sure, but can you try set the filename of me to empty and then set the filename of me to audioFile to see if that makes a difference? HTH, cheers Alan ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runre

Re: Bard AI

Nice one. Great to see Bard in action. Taking this as inspiration (and hoping this doesn't start Bard v chatGPT v ? wars), I asked chatGPT to "write me a sonnet about LiveCode". Upon the canvas of the digital sphere, LiveCode emerges, a beacon of grace, Translating thoughts to scripts that

Re: Referencing Livecode

Hi David In a couple of my publications, I described developing apps with Livecode and referred to www.livecode.org and www.livecode.com, but didn't include anything in the references as there was nothing (AFAICS at that time) that would satisfy scientific publication standards. See: https://w

Re: Audio Control on Mobile?

Hi Dan, Check out mobilePlaySoundOnChannel in the dictionary and the related commands linked to it. Don't think there's a player command for mobile, though I may have missed it...! HTH cheers, Alan > On 15 May 2022, at 1:30 am, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > Date: Fri, 13

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 222, Issue 27

Yes, you should textencode() to UTF when storing and textdecode() when reading - at least doing that on mobile worked for me. cheers Alan > On 19 Mar 2022, at 8:01 am, Paul Dupuis via > use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > > On 3/18/2022 12:18 PM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode wrote

Re: A question/survey of sorts for users of Navigator

Sounds interesting Geoff. The ability to customise your own actions on objects would be great - I think we all get annoyed with some of the clunkiness of repeated actions (and no doubt we don't use all the existing capabilities of LC..), so your addition to Navigator sounds very worthwhile! che

Re: Ideas on iOS GPS tracking needed

Hi Graham Are you checking the horizontal accuracy of each reading? (It's part of the array of data with your lat-longs, as well as speed, etc - though not on every phone). If not, try that and see if the anomalous readings are hugely out. From my experience, that's normally the case. If so,

get URL results in tsneterr(6) on Android, previously worked ok

Hi all Am re-building an app that's been running fine for over 2 years now and when attempting to get a URL I always get the error "tsneterr: (6)" contained in it with "could not resolve host" as the result. When I try the same code in the IDE it works as expected. I didn't previously include

Re: LC9.6 Android EXIF image data issue

Thanks Mark and Monte for the info. Had already stopped using the width/height specs and for photos from the library we had been getting EXIF info and still do in many cases (I think - more testing needed!), but as we can't do anything about what the OS gives us, I'll just slightly change the m

Re: LC9.6 Android EXIF image data issue

idth and height parameters > but if those parameters aren?t used it might be there (depending on what the > camera app does). > > Cheers > > Monte > >> On 13 May 2020, at 11:39 am, Alan Stenhouse via use-livecode >> mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>

LC9.6 Android EXIF image data issue

There seems to be an issue with getting EXIF data from images using mobilePickPhoto on Android (well, at least new Samsung mobile phones). I *think* this is a new bug with LC 9.6, but as I don't have a relevant phone to test with, it's sorta difficult to check further. Particularly as we couldn

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 200, Issue 5

Hi Graham Have you tried it walking around outside in varying locations? Have you tried different devices and/or OS versions? You could try sharing it with a friend using Diawi or similar and see what they get. Also try restarting your phone to see if that helps. As you move around the country

Re: Detecting full Mobile Sensor activation

, my ideal would be to show the user that I’ve started the sensor > acquisition and tell them when it’s succeeded or failed. I feel it has to be > possible, but perhaps not with LC. > > Graham > > >> On 26 Apr 2020, at 02:47, Alan Stenhouse > <mailto:alanstenho...@h

Re: Detecting full Mobile Sensor activation

Hi Graham Some ideas, from experience: 1. Start your sensor on openStack or as soon as possible. 2. Ignore locationChanged messages with empty location or if "horizontal accuracy" is outside a threshold of x metres. 3. Just set a flag or other mechanism when you want to start and stop tracking

Re: Problem simulating a location

Hi Graham IIRC, mobileSensorReading() returns an array so you need to check the keys of the array. Perhaps: if tSensorData["latitude"] is empty then HTH cheers Alan > On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 14:38:56,Graham Samuel > wrote: > > > I?m trying to use the 10.2 XCode s

Re: iOS scrollers

Hi Jacque, Does putting a CR at the end of the field contents help? Before making the mobile scroller etc. I think that was a workaround I came up with ages ago for the same (/similar?) problem. But could be that I'm misunderstanding your issue... cheers Alan On 2 Dec 2019, at 3:30 am, J. La

Re: put img into img after import snapshot

Hi Dan Try putting a wait 50 millisecs (more or less?) after the import - pretty sure that's what I ended up with on mobile for the same issue. Not sure if it'd be device-dependent though - probably would be...? HTH cheers Alan > On 2 Dec 2019, at 3:30 am,Dan Friedman wrote: > This works pe

Re: mobilePickPhoto and Galaxy Note 8

Hi Dan This is a confirmed bug, see (+ subscribe to) it at: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22054 cheers Alan On 24 Aug 2019, at 8:52 am,Dan Friedman mailto:d...@clearvisiontech.com>> wrote: Greetings! I am using mobilePickPhoto to take a photo. On all Apple devices it's worki

Re: load app to ios device for testing??

Hi Panos Thanks for clarifying this. Now I'm wondering when exactly this changed as it definitely used to work in the Indy edition. On the brights side, thanks to you (+ Scott), I won't have to try Scott's 4th suggestion as to which color chicken to sacrifice...! :-) cheers Alan On 11 Aug 20

Re: load app to ios device for testing??

is an awesome addition) Did you select the correct platform in ?Standalone Application Settings?? Is "Mobile Support? configured correctly in LC Preferences? ? Scott Morrow On Aug 9, 2019, at 12:42 AM, Alan Stenhouse via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Jus

load app to ios device for testing??

Just wondering how we can download an ios build to our own local device for testing these days? It used to be easy with iTunes to just attach your phone and download the app to the connected device inside iTunes, but that no longer seems possible (though possibly I'm missing something?). I als

Re: Question for LCB FFI workshop attendees at upcoming conference

openCV (open source Computer Vision) perhaps? https://github.com/opencv/ Sadly not attending this year though! cheers Alan On 7 May 2019, at08:35:21,Trevor DeVore mailto:li...@mangomultimedia.com>> wrote: This is for anyone who plans on attending my workshop on using FFI in LCB at the confe

Logging for mobile simulator on iOS?

Asked this on the forums with no response, so trying here...: Opening the "System Log" from the Debug menu in the mobile simulator opens the system log but it doesn't seem like any of our usual log messages appear there now. I think this changed some time ago but don't remember what (if any) t

LC7.1 Screen update problem on iOS?

Hi all Running my current app using LC 7.1 on iOS Simulator 8.2 for iPad - I get problems with the screen not updating while it runs properly under LC 7.0.6 on the same simulator. Even just simple icon highlights don't actually appear on touch. Weird. Had anyone else noticed screen update prob

ios Scroller not passing touches to list field on iPhone6?

ing in simulator 8.2 on OSX 10.9.5. cheers Alan :-) -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual talking metronome EV-Point - Find your nearest Electric Vehicle Recharge Station. Re-Collections - Make your family hist

Core Image effects on iOS?

Is it possible to use Core Image effects on iOS? Any example stacks? cheers Alan ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev

Re: [ANN] LiveCode Blog (mostly)

Marvellous work as always Scott - thanks! :-) On 30 Oct 2015, at 12:00 pm, Scott Rossi wrote: > Hi All: > > I started taking some past demos, articles, and techniques and put them > into a blog which you might find interesting. http://tactilemedia.com/blog/ > > My hope is to eventually have all

Re: Options for playing mp3 on iOS

-- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual talking metronome EV-Point - Find your nearest Electric Vehicle Recharge Station. Re-Collections - Make your family history come to life. Every picture tells your story. On 29 Oct 2015, at 12

Re: LaunchServicesError error 0 - simulator

Please ignore the last message - this seems to now be resolved. Not totally sure why though… Sorry for the disturbance… :-) cheers Alan On 26 Oct 2015, at 5:09 pm, Alan Stenhouse wrote: > After installing LC 6.7.8 RC1 and testing an app under it, I now find that > opening the same

LaunchServicesError error 0 - simulator

After installing LC 6.7.8 RC1 and testing an app under it, I now find that opening the same app in LC 6.7.6 and attempting to run it on the simulator 8.2 results in the error “Unable to start simulation: The operation couldn’t be completed. (LaunchServicesError error 0.)” The app previously ra

Re: mobileControlSet "fontname" parameter

ad > whether the fontName property of native controls passes through the fontmap. > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 12 Oct 2015, at 19:44, Alan Stenhouse wrote: >> >> Thanks John + Scott. >> >> So, that does

Re: mobileControlSet "fontname" parameter

Thanks John + Scott. So, that doesn’t seem to be any clearer - 2 conflicting reports. I’ve also tried setting it to the display fontname and that works - but only when the postscript name is the same, AFAICS. I was testing on the simulator with iOS 8.2 and on device with iOS 7. The fontmap was

mobileControlSet "fontname" parameter

not, anyone come up with a good way of handling it (other than just keeping our own mapping table for font names in our app)? LC 6.7.6 cheers Alan -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual talking metronome EV-Point - Find your

Re: Using Social Media

Hi Dan For FB + Twitter I use one of Monte’s externals (mergext.com) - either mergSocial or mergPop I think. Can post both pic + text. Would be keen to hear of any Instagram solution! cheers Alan On 1 Sep 2015, at 5:47 pm, Dan Friedman wrote: > 3) Post that photo to the user's Facebook, Ins

iOS scrolling groups problem?

I have a problem with an iOS scroller on a group. It seems to somehow make the app non-reactive (locked up) after some resizeStack messages where I change the layout from portrait to landscape. I *suspect* that it may be when setting the vScroll of the group - but not totally sure and so far ha

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

The uncomment keyboard shortcut has never worked for me either, would love if it did. Interestingly, after someone posted about holding open the menu and then trying it, it does work. Haven’t investigated further though. Wonder if it’s possibly related to having multiple keyboard languages ava

Re: Card colo(u)rs

I just tried this on LC 6.6.5 and it all works as expected - i.e. with no bug. The only comment I’d say is to be aware that the inspector changes back to the stack inspector after adding a new card, so be careful to open the card inspector each time. No doubt you all did this already… cheers A

Re: hide / show oddities ?

the layerMode and it didn’t seem to help). HTH someone. cheers Alan -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual talking metronome EV-Point - Find your nearest Electric Vehicle Recharge Station. Re-Collections - Make your family

ANN: Re-Collections iOS app now available - FREE for a limited time

G’day all! Just wanted to let you know I’ve just released another iOS app called “Re-Collections”, made in LiveCode. It’s going for free the first few days so if you’re interested you can get it at: https://itunes.apple.com/app/re-collections/id948329642?mt=8&uo=4 or learn more about it on th

Re: Mobile cloud storage

Has anyone used this external miCloud? Would like to have a look but Maarten’s website seems to no longer exist… http://maartenkoopmans.com/micloud Anyone heard from him lately or used the external? Is it available somewhere else? cheers Alan On 4 Feb 2015, at 11:42 pm, use-livecode-requ...

Re: Overlap detection?

; - (Equivalent to using an alpha value of 255) Specifies that the intersect is calculated using only pixels that are completely opaque. HTH! cheers Alan -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual talking metronome EV-P

Release notes DB - was Re: Mac Menu Bar Apps

+1 +5 actually! On 21 Jan 2015, at 6:23 pm, Peter Haworth wrote: > It sure would be nice if there was a searchable database of all the LC > release notes :-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscri

mobilePickMedia and mobilePlaySoundOnChannel question

I'm attempting to play some music on iPad after selecting it with mobilePickMedia. Selecting it is fine and returns a line in the form: ipod-library://item/item.mp3?id=-3639534672740601105 Now, later on I try to play this using mobilePlaySoundOnChannel but I get the error: "could not play sou

Re: [OT] baby

Wow, congratulations Monte + Rebecca on the new addition! (Hmm, sounds like an app name there…!) :-) cheers Alan :-) On 28/11/2014, at 12:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Hi Folks > > We just had a baby so I won't be able to get to mergExt related questions for > a few

Re: hide / show oddities ?

Possibly mismatched lock screen / unlock screen ? (Though still seems very weird and sounds like a bug). On 27/11/2014, at 11:52 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > From: Alex Tweedly > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: hide / show oddities ? > Message-ID: <5475bd91.6090...@tw

Re: how are variables passed from functions?

Definitely bug. This is incorrect behaviour. On 15/11/2014, at 12:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > On 11/14/2014, 5:28 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> I guess what I am saying is that since test1 did not*explicitly* >> return anything, the mouseUp handler should put nothing in the

Re: Has anyone got the browserLoadRequest message to work?

correctly. --- HTH cheers Alan -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual talking metronome EV-Point - Find your nearest Electric Vehicle Recharge Station. On 30/07/2014, at 12:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote

Re: iOS: Scrolling a native scroller via script problem

Gerry, check out the dgVScroll property of datagrids - this will be what you want to set I believe. HTH cheers Alan On 21/07/2014, at 12:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > I have a data grid that I'm scrolling in iOS using a native scroller. > > I use this card script to

Re: sending a PDF mail attachment in iOS7

Hi Scott, William Did you try setting the MIME type for the attachment to "application/pdf" instead of just "pdf"? i.e. put "application/pdf" into aAttachments[1]["type"] Worth a try though I admit that I haven't used this yet (but with other

Re: New chunks

Wouldn't it be simple to set the itemDel to tab put item 1 of line x of fld y into tDate Granted, slightly more work, but since itemDel changes are limited to only the local handler, it's not too big a deal, is it? Or am I missing something else? Re: the change to "word" - I'd love for it to

Re: Recording Audio on Mobile devices?

Hi again John Ah, correction - mergMicrophone does also work on the simulator! My mistake - sorry! cheers Alan On 08/03/2014, at 12:30 PM, Alan Stenhouse wrote: > Hi John > > Monte's mergMicrophone works fine on the device, but not on the Simulator. > And should be easy

Re: Recording Audio on Mobile devices?

Hi John Monte's mergMicrophone works fine on the device, but not on the Simulator. And should be easy to limit it time-wise - just send a stop message in 20s when you start recording. HTH cheers Alan -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: Beat

Re: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

On 26/02/2014, at 9:26 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Good idea with the forum post. We may find others in the community who > have the time and interest to devote to maintaining a PPC build while > the core team and RunRev keeps their attention on their own ROI. Exactly! Since the current ope

Re: Localization on iOS

Hi Ender, Exactly this does it. Just create an empty folder called, I think for Turkish, tr.lproj Now use the copy file pane in the Standalone settings inside Livecode to copy that to your project. If you have your phone in Turkish then the iOS dialogs etc should now appear in Turkish. If yo

Re: Localization on iOS

) etc HTH. cheers Alan -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual talking metronome EV-Point - Find your nearest Electric Vehicle Recharge Station. On 24/02/2014, at 12:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > F

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 124, Issue 44

Hi Ender I can't imagine that once you build your standalone that there will be any change at all to the IDs inside it - that shouldn't be possible - unless you're opening a separate stack/data file and modifying that? If it is a "datafile" that you're including/modifying and you're creating so

Re: SQL (this AND that), OR (that AND theOther)

HTH cheers Alan -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual talking metronome EV-Point - Find your nearest Electric Vehicle Recharge Station. On 09/10/2013, at 4:57 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > Having

Re: PDF to Image Conversion

Alan -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual talking metronome EV-Point - Find your nearest Electric Vehicle Recharge Station. On 08/10/2013, at 12:11 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > This seems like such an o

Re: Answer Dialog location

G'day Cal Quote from the online docs: --- The position and appearance of the dialog box varies between platforms. On Mac OS systems, the dialog box is centered on the screen; on Unix and Windows systems, the dialog box is centered over the active window. On Windows systems, the buttons are show

Re: Custom Properties

Perhaps they're under a different custom property set? Did you check in the Custom Properties inspector if there's any other property sets that you could choose? (There's a popup under the scrolling field of custom properties). Can you paste in the command you're using to set one of these proper

iOS error: external revDB not found for device

seen this error and is there a solution? (I've tried replacing the revDB file with that of an older version, which didn't seem to work). Thanks for any pointers! cheers Alan -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual t

Re: matching empty/uninitialized database entries

where dType IS NULL is what you should use for testing NULL. However using <> should also work so something else is also going on there from the sounds of it. Can you post the code perhaps? HTH cheers Alan On 18/06/2013, at 12:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: > After inse

Re: Getting Kanji from a .csv file

Hi Phil, Howard Actually, Kanji is normally read from top to bottom, right to left... but thankfully most of probably don't have to deal with it like that... :-) Another of Devin's useful articles on Unicode is this lesson: http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4067/l/20441 The function below might be u

Re: first steps in iOS, native scroll a datagrid

king as you expect. Another thing to do in iOS for debugging - use some "put" statements which will output the statement to the /var/log/system.log file, when using the simulator. HTH, good luck! cheers Alan -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Stor

Droptools not working?

Using LC 5.5.5 + OSX 10.6.8, but it happens in 5.5.3 too. Thanks in advance for any suggestions! cheers Alan :-) -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual talking metronome; EV-Point - Find your nearest Electric Vehicle R

Re: mApp Framework problems

No worries Monte - was hoping that maybe someone else had been using it and perhaps had come across the same thing. I'll keep looking at it and see if I can work it out... and pass on any solutions if I can. Hope you guys enjoyed Paris! :-) Have a good trip home! cheers Alan -- Alan Sten

mApp Framework problems

quot;] of my main UI stack is empty, thus resulting in this error. Strange. If anyone has ideas I'm keen to learn... or else I'll start again and see if I can somehow replicate. Thanks for any help! cheers Alan :-) p.s. Very much looking forward to that high-priority item on the develo

Re: Strange compile error

Hi Pete Did you try putting brackets around the variable? cheers Alan -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual talking metronome; EV-Point - Find your nearest Electric Vehicle Recharge Station

Re: List of photos in iOS album?

iPhonePickPhoto returns an image, doesn't it? Or is there some way to return a list of all the names/paths of photos in the album? cheers Alan > Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 14:53:09 +0100 > From: John Dixon > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: RE: List of photos in iOS album? > > > iphonePickPhot

List of photos in iOS album?

Is it possible to get a list of photos in an iOS album? Searched and couldn't find a solution and couldn't see that Monte's externals solved it either - but maybe I missed something? cheers Alan ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 114, Issue 37

want to use the import command in a script to import an image from a file > of the user's choice. The catch is that I want the resulting image to end > up in a group and, unlike the create command, the import command doesn't > have a way to specify a group. -- Alan Stenhouse ala

Re: SQLite data storage

; > Just brainstorming here. Would love to hear opinions, especially if someone > out there is a SQLite guru. :-) > > Thanks, > Chris > -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak -

kickstarter for iPhone app

Just in case anyone wants to follow the progress of the LiveCode kickstarter project while away from their desk, there is an app for kickstarter available (for the last week or so) at: https://itunes.apple.com/app/id596961532 Hoping we make it over the next days! cheers Alan -- Alan

Re: 1001 things to do with LiveCode - only 400 page views per day

e group as I have a "cunning plan" to be back down there in the not-too-distant future... cheers Alan ;-) -- Alan Stenhouse alanstenho...@hotmail.com Check out our apps on the App Store: BeatSpeak - the multilingual talking metronome; EV-Point - Find