Re: Could not compile application class

2014-11-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Nope, only iPhone checked. I went back to 6.6.5 and it compiled fine, so the error only happens in LC6.7 and LC 7. Odd, hopefully its just a one off and will work itself out somehow, its only happening in one app, everything else compiles fine. Thanks Andy > On 13 Nov 2014, at 17:47, N

Could not compile application class

2014-11-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Does anyone have any ideas when I get a messagebox with 'Could not compile application class’ in it when I try to save an app so I can deploy it on an iPhone, and at the same time I get a another window popping up saying I need Java runtime environment. Its frustrating as its only on one app,

Re: mobilePickPhoto - User error, simulator error or Livecode bug?

2014-11-09 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Please ignore this, it’s user error, sorry for taking up your time. Andy > On 9 Nov 2014, at 12:56, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > > Another oddity ive come across while trying to update some old apps. > > The code… > > mobilePickPhoto tSource, tMaxHeight,tMaxHeight > put

mobilePickPhoto - User error, simulator error or Livecode bug?

2014-11-09 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Another oddity ive come across while trying to update some old apps. The code… mobilePickPhoto tSource, tMaxHeight,tMaxHeight put the result into tResult used to work, but now it returns nothing whatever is selected in the simulator, tested with Livecode 6.6.5, 6.7 and 7. Is this somethin

Re: Scaling an app for iPhone 6

2014-11-07 Thread Andrew Henshaw
so this can be investigated. In the meantime Ill leave the splash screen off. > On 7 Nov 2014, at 16:49, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > > With the latest updates, I have gone through an app and stripped it out to > just the single @1x resolution and let Livecode do the work to scale

Scaling an app for iPhone 6

2014-11-07 Thread Andrew Henshaw
With the latest updates, I have gone through an app and stripped it out to just the single @1x resolution and let Livecode do the work to scale it up for the iPhone 5. This works perfectly, with all the images etc all appearing in the right places. However when I test the same on an iPhone 6

Re: Problems with externals when building for iOS8

2014-11-06 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Hi Monte, You were spot on with the including a folder rather than a file. Selecting each external file individually to include seems to work, it was selecting a folder that caused the problem. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.c

Re: Problems with externals when building for iOS8

2014-11-06 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Its all of them Mone, I cant figure it out at all. Last night I wiped my Macbook and reinstalled Yosemite, Livecode and xCode from the appstore, then created a basic app which worked, then added an external (answercolor) and it bombed. I guess I must be doing something wrong somewhere so Ill

Problems with externals when building for iOS8

2014-11-05 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Is anyone having problems with externals when building for iOS8 or 8.1? I seem to be hitting my head against a brick all. I have the latest xCode 6.1 installed, and ive tried building with Livecode 6.5, 6.7 and 7.0 with the same result everytime. Taking a very basic app with just one button

Retina output on a Mac

2014-09-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Apart from compiling with 6.6.2+, is there anything else I need to set to enable retina output on a mac? I dont have retina on my mac, so I used air display and my iPad to test the retina output and that just worked, when I dragged the window onto the iPad retina display is just redrew ans b

Re: Printing on Windows

2014-09-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
reported and > it turn out not to be, than to have it remain undiagnosed. Based on your > description, it sounds like a bug. I'd say report it. > > Sent from my Android tablet > On Sep 13, 2014 12:14 PM, "Andrew Henshaw" wrote: > >> Before I submit this as

Printing on Windows

2014-09-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Before I submit this as a bug, does anyone else have print issues with Windows from LIvecode 6.6.2 onwards? The issue I have is that a text box, formatted as a table prints correctly on a Mac or Linux system, but on Windows it prints as a grey or black box for the whole size of the text box,

Linux (Ubuntu mainly) Installer

2014-08-21 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Does anyone have any suggestions for packaging an app for Linux release. Im a total Linux newbie, I have it on a couple of machines and my app runs fine but I wouldn’t have a clue where to look for the best installer, or how to package it up so it can use the software manager. Does anyone her

Re: Black input boxes in Linux (Ubuntu)

2014-08-20 Thread Andrew Henshaw
/qery.us/3fi > > LiveCode on Facebook: > https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ > > On 8/20/2014 14:05, Andrew Henshaw wrote: >> Thanks Mark, >> >> Do you know of any way to replicate the issue as I cannot seem to do it. >> Ive tried a few builds of Ubuntu

Re: Black input boxes in Linux (Ubuntu)

2014-08-20 Thread Andrew Henshaw
my new book "Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner" > http://qery.us/3fi > > LiveCode on Facebook: > https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ > > On 8/20/2014 10:44, Andrew Henshaw wrote: >> Ive got a user who is running Ubuntu and all the input boxes have a bla

Black input boxes in Linux (Ubuntu)

2014-08-20 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Ive got a user who is running Ubuntu and all the input boxes have a black background so he cannot see what he is entering or selecting. Ive tried an install of the same version of Ubuntu here and its working fine for me. Any ideas what may be causing this and how to work around it?

Re: Dropbox Library Update

2013-09-06 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thanks Guglielmo! On 6 Sep 2013, at 08:58, Guglielmo Braguglia wrote: > Still thanks to the great debugging/fixing work of *Mike Kerner*, a new > version (1.05) of the phxDropboxLib, solving a really obscure issue that > could cause a failure on mobile after writing a file on > "phx_DropboxWr

Re: mergAndroid released!

2013-09-02 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Brilliant, but where can I get them?? Ive just logged into http://www.mergext.com/ and cant see them yet, am I being a little impatient Thanks Andy On 2 Sep 2013, at 05:02, Monte Goulding wrote: > Hi LiveCoders > > The long awaited day has come. With the release of LiveCode 6.1.1 RC 4

Re: Windows 8 Compatibility

2012-11-03 Thread Andrew Henshaw
The current version of livecode and sqlite work fine on the Intel version of Windows 8. If anything id say they zip along quite a bit faster. Andy On 3 Nov 2012, at 16:55, Peter Haworth wrote: > Hi David, > Have you tried any sqlite stuff with LC/W8? I'm not 100% sure but I think > a specia

Re: iPad retina weirdness???

2012-10-25 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Ive seen similar behavior when using an unlock screen command when the screen is not actually locked. If you are using unlock screen command, try adding a check to see if the screen is actually locked. if the screen is locked then -- your unlock screen command end if Hopefully this is the p

Re: Code signing

2012-10-22 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Id recommend trying Appwrapper, it makes like a lot easier and its free for 15 days so you can fully try it. Its pretty complicated now with with Mac App Store wanting one cert, and Mountain Lion direct downloads needing another, and add in sandboxing and retina icons etc and it gets to be a

Re: [ANN] Network interfaces external added to mergExt

2012-10-17 Thread Andrew Henshaw
How does the monthly subscription for MergExt work Monte if you already have an annual subscription, will it start from the end of the current subscription period or do we need to wait until then and activate it then? Andy On 17 Oct 2012, at 03:16, Monte Goulding wrote: > Hi LiveCoders > >

Re: 2 errors uploading to MACOS Store

2012-10-11 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Too late now, but one more thought! Dont forget to take all the languages you dont support out of the resources folder in the app package. If you don't, the app store will say your app is available in all sorts of languages and it doesnt take long before you start getting emails from users w

Re: 2 errors uploading to MACOS Store

2012-10-11 Thread Andrew Henshaw
There is an app called appwrapper which has a 30 day trial, this will automatically do all the signing for the store and bundle in the 1024 icon for you. Its a good little app and can save a lot of time. As for revbrowser, you need to sign it as you did the main package. I keep a folder now

Re: [ANN] Background task execution external for iOS

2012-10-10 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Looks good, and right on time for me!!! Just finishing an app that uses the dropbox external and the biggest pain was the app shutting down on the users request and not completing the dropbox backup. This looks like the external for the job! Andy On 10 Oct 2012, at 04:26, Monte Goulding wr

Testing apps

2012-09-28 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Just a thought thats been brewing and brought to the front of my mind with the recent iPhone launch and the 'apps failing to launch' issues thats affected some apps. Whilst its impossible for us all individually to own and test on every make and model of device, it might be good if we could se

Re: iPad Identifier

2012-09-23 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Why not try testflightapp, they can do it all automatically? The user gets an email asking them if they want to try the app, they then click that on the device, which then sends you their id, you add it to your profile and resign and upload the app and they can then download it, and any fu

Re: how to test in-app purchase

2012-09-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
You just log out of the store on your phone, and then re-log in using your test account (in settings) You then go to your app, and purchase the in-app purchase using your test account. As its in the list, it will let you do it. If it doesnt work, give it 24 hours and try again. It seems to

Re: ads question

2012-08-30 Thread Andrew Henshaw
I think the stats take a while to come though, I had the same problem early on but they should show within 24 hours. Andy On 30 Aug 2012, at 17:13, Andre Garzia wrote: > Folks, > > I've been testing an app here on Android and my mobile ads show fine but my > inner-active dashboard display ze

Re: JSON

2012-08-29 Thread Andrew Henshaw
There is a stack on RevOnline that might help, I use it in an app and it works fine for my needs. http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/82/LibJson-1-0b Andy On 29 Aug 2012, at 13:16, Rod McCall wrote: > Dear All, > > I am currently developing a server application for a car simulator and > part

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Andrew Henshaw
't recall at the moment. > > Didn't know about making a separate account on iTunes connect. Do you go to > the Manage Users tab to create the account? What access does AppAnnie get to > have if I use my current account? > > be well, > randy > - > O

Re: Reviews on the iTunes store...

2012-08-14 Thread Andrew Henshaw
As others have said, reviews only get seen in the store they were left in. Just to add, if you have not seen it already there is quite a good (free) online tool called App Annie. You should set up a separate account on iTunes connect if you do try it so they can only view sales and not give t

Re: The RunRev store

2012-08-06 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thanks Bill, Ive just logged into the runrev store to view orders and it shows no updates are available. Should there be an update there?? Andy On 6 Aug 2012, at 15:34, Bill Vlahos wrote: > Pete, > > My program lcTaskList was just put on the store last Friday. It did take > several months

Re: anyone with mountain lion yet?

2012-07-25 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Yes, I bit the bullet and upgraded my 4 year old mac to Mountain Lion, so far its mostly good. It seems faster than Lion and almost everything is still working. Everything to do with Livecode is fine, the only app I have problems with is Aperture as it wont video clips any more but I guess t

Re: Importing vector graphics for interface

2012-07-25 Thread Andrew Henshaw
That looks exactly like what I need, thanks! Andy On 25 Jul 2012, at 17:51, Richmond wrote: > http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/ > > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscr

Importing vector graphics for interface

2012-07-25 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Ive had a couple of emails from users of my apps that say they look great on a normal Mac, but terrible on the new Macbook Retina. Im guessing this is probably because there are some background images, and when I pasted them into Livecode they switched from vector to a bitmap format so dont s

Re: mergExt pricing changes and free externals

2012-07-14 Thread Andrew Henshaw
It may not be complicated (to you!) but its a huge hole in Livecode for me at the moment! Ive stopped writing for the Mac App Store as its impossible to access files outside of the sandbox without the security scoped bookmarks, if an external existed that allowed it (even though it should be i

Re: mergExt pricing changes and free externals

2012-07-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Brilliant. Ill be renewing anyway just for the iOS stuff, ive just popped the settings control into an app, real timesaver. If you could port the dropbox control so that worked on the desktop as well it would be brilliant! Andy On 13 Jul 2012, at 21:08, Monte Goulding wrote: > It's in the

Re: Epic AppStore Fail

2012-07-05 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Well, that explains all the emails ive had today, I got an app updated last night and its be a pain! On 5 Jul 2012, at 20:01, Mark Wieder wrote: > Urk. Wrong url. Sorry. > > http://www.marco.org/2012/07/04/app-store-corrupt-binaries > > -- > -Mark Wieder > mwie...@ahsoftware.net > > > __

Re: Licensing & selling an Android app

2012-06-02 Thread Andrew Henshaw
aid version of an app at Google, does one need to > repeat the entire application process twice? > > > > On 6/2/2012 4:41 PM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: >> I have an app in both the Google Play and Amazon stores, and find Google is >> the much better option for me. >>

Re: Licensing & selling an Android app

2012-06-02 Thread Andrew Henshaw
I have an app in both the Google Play and Amazon stores, and find Google is the much better option for me. With the Amazon system you have to submit every update for review and then wait. If you want to withdraw a product from sale you have to write to them. With the Google system you can si

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-30 Thread Andrew Henshaw
> Paul > > On 2012-05-30, at 4:09 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > >> Have you tried putting a UK address and card back into your account? I had >> to do that to fix mine. >> >> I now just maintain two accounts at Apple, one for my home in the UK, and >> one for

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-30 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Have you tried putting a UK address and card back into your account? I had to do that to fix mine. I now just maintain two accounts at Apple, one for my home in the UK, and one for my home in the States with each one keeping its own address and card in it. The issue appears to be licensin

Re: Outlet for Mac Apps

2012-05-29 Thread Andrew Henshaw
I think the article may have that wrong, you can sell your apps anywhere you want, the MAS is just another outlet. Quite a few developers seem to be switching to Mac App Store only policies (eg Pixelmator) which is their choice, but ive not seen anywhere that is a requirement unless its chan

Re: Where Do You Save User Prefs?

2012-05-26 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Not sure if its right, but for Windows I always use... specialfolderpath("28") & "/App Name/ This seems to find the right place on different Windows systems and avoids the data ending up in a virtual store. On 27 May 2012, at 03:32, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: > Dear LiveCode Masters, >

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Andrew Henshaw
You can also just use the iPhone simulator on your mac and hit cmd-s and a file appears on your desktop. Ive used these unaltered for the screenshots, they dont carry the network your phone is on and signal strength too :) > > Doesn't the power button + home button on an iOS device make a s

Re: [OT] Apple Rant

2012-05-26 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thats how mine works. Mine also usually says 12 hours to download to begin with, then I check 10 minutes later and its ready to play. One HUGE performance factor ive found is if you use a centralised dns like opendns or unblock-us etc it pretty much destroys the download performance and its h

Re: [OT] Mac App Store (was Gatekeeper)

2012-05-10 Thread Andrew Henshaw
I dont think thats right. Thats the iTunes, or iPhone limit, but it doesnt seem to apply to the MAS. Ive installed on 8 so far and never hit a limit. The issue however is you do need your iTunes username and password to install an app you have purchased, and anyone sharing that may find other

Re: [OT] Mac App Store (was Gatekeeper)

2012-05-10 Thread Andrew Henshaw
be you missed my previous eMail on this list ... :-) > > Please, can you clarify how you *validate* the 'MAS receipt file' from a > LiveCode application ? > > Thanks in advance, > > Regards, > > Guglielmo > > > On 10.05.2012 11:03, Andrew Henshaw

Re: [OT] Mac App Store (was Gatekeeper)

2012-05-10 Thread Andrew Henshaw
nse screen at launch will be rejected* >>> I do that the first time the program is run and the user has to agree to >>> the terms or the program quits. >>> >>> *- Apps may not use update mechanisms outside of the App Store* >>> I have an update check mech

Re: [OT] Gatekeeper

2012-05-10 Thread Andrew Henshaw
<http://www.lcsql.com> > > > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > >> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:37 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: >> >>> The MAS store does not offer a demo or trial version, people just buy >> it. >>> If they want

Re: [OT] Mac App Store (was Gatekeeper)

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew Henshaw
mechanism that checks against my web site. I guess > this also makes me wonder if I can provide a download directly from my web > site if I sell through the app store? > > Pete > lcSQL Software <http://www.lcsql.com> > > > > On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:10 A

Re: [OT] Gatekeeper

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew Henshaw
They keep putting it back, the current deadline is June 1st, after that all new apps and updates will have to be sandboxed, unless of course they put it back again! On 9 May 2012, at 20:00, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Wasn't there a discussion that the sandbox would become mandatory at some > poi

Re: [OT] Gatekeeper

2012-05-09 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Yes it will, ive had an app rejected for writing to the preferences folder. I stick with ~/Library/Application Support/ and just put everything in there. >From June 1st there is also sandboxing to contend with for the Mac App Store, >but I understand sandboxing and the gatekeeper are two tota

Re: [OT] Gatekeeper

2012-05-08 Thread Andrew Henshaw
As far as I was aware all you need to do is sign your apps, if you publish an app to the Mac App Store it already has to be signed. To do this you need the $ 99/year Apple Developer Program, and then you can use a few simple terminal commands to sign an app. It should not affect Livecode at

Re: [OT] - Google Drive

2012-05-04 Thread Andrew Henshaw
I have Google Drive and Dropbox running side by side, they seem to play quite happily together. Id say at the moment Dropbox is slightly quicker at getting the sync done, but Google has the extra free space. Very similar though. Andy On 4 May 2012, at 18:05, Scott Rossi wrote: > At first g

Re: in-App Reviews

2012-04-24 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thats pretty much what I use. I can confirm it does not work in the simulator, but works fine on the device. As part of the other discussion as to how annoying it can be, I wrote a routine that counts up how many times the app has been used and the box is never shown unless the user has been

Re: Working with seconds, what am I missing?

2012-04-23 Thread Andrew Henshaw
you can always correctly determine the local date and time of > a users computer using dateItems. > > HTH > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > >> Trying to work with seconds to avoid format issues with dates in different >> countries I k

Working with seconds, what am I missing?

2012-04-22 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Trying to work with seconds to avoid format issues with dates in different countries I keep running into this issue, and im probably just missing something very obvious! Using the following simple code today (the 22nd April).. put the date into tDate convert tDate to seconds put tDate

Re: MobGui Rotation Problem

2012-04-09 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Have you tried turning the statusbar on and off in Mobgui? That has worked for me. It seems to store the geometry for each, then occasionally does not detect the correct one when the device is rotated. If you turn the setting off and then on again for each card the geometry data is copied to

Re: [ANN] Casey's Solitaire published on Android Market

2012-02-10 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Ill do some digging! On 10 Feb 2012, at 00:20, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 2/9/12 5:54 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > >> My scripts do the same, calling out to another handler for resizing. But >> I did make some changes to lock screen so I bet that's it. I took most >> of them out. I'll try bracket

Re: [ANN] Casey's Solitaire published on Android Market

2012-02-09 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Really frustratingly, ive had this problem before, and I dont have it now so I know its fixable but not how. Ill try to dig round in the time machine backups to see if I can go back to a flashing version, then compare the code to see whats changed, but its definitely fixable and im sure it

Re: Android stats

2012-02-07 Thread Andrew Henshaw
My stats are showing just over 60% of my app users are on Gingerbread, with the rest spread between everything else. The paid apps tend to be more weighted towards the later versions, and the free apps towards the earlier ones, maybe the people with the newer phones are more willing to pay f

Re: Windows Admin vs Standard Users - App startup times

2012-02-07 Thread Andrew Henshaw
> Bob > > > On Feb 7, 2012, at 5:15 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > >> Thanks >> >> Its also easy to test, if you compile the simplest of apps and compile it, >> then switch to a standard user account and run the app it is slow to start. >>

Re: Windows Admin vs Standard Users - App startup times

2012-02-07 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thanks Its also easy to test, if you compile the simplest of apps and compile it, then switch to a standard user account and run the app it is slow to start. If you close the app, the right click on it and select 'run as administrator' to start it again it starts instantly. I cant really t

Windows Admin vs Standard Users - App startup times

2012-02-07 Thread Andrew Henshaw
There was a thread a few days ago about the differences between the Windows Admin and Standard users. This may be related, but can anyone explain (or replicate) why, when a Livecode app is compiled with the UAC Execution Level set to either default, or same as invoker and on a Windows 7 pc,

Re: [TEASER] Dropbox Support Almost Ready

2012-02-02 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Looks good, will it work with iOS too??? That will be very useful! On 2 Feb 2012, at 06:02, Andre Garzia wrote: > Hey Folks, > > Take a look at: > > http://andregarzia.clarify-it.com/d/earp64 > > This is proof of a working Dropbox library. Today, it worked for the > first time and made a su

Re: Falling at the last fence...

2012-01-29 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Sorry about that, back to a computer with a power supply now! Assuming this isnt a simpler certificate issue, and you have installed xCode 3.2.x on Lion then this might help. Apparently 3.2.6 overwrites the productutil app, which is part of the submission process. To fix it (is this is the

Re: Falling at the last fence...

2012-01-29 Thread Andrew Henshaw
It might be a long shot, but I had an issue with a machine upgraded from OS X Snow Leopard to Lion, where xCode 3.x was installed on Snow Leopard, then upgraded to 4.x on Lion. It threw an error whenever I used the loader to send the app to Apple, just as you describe. Im just about to r

Re: looking for new iOS device, anyone recommends iPod Touch?

2012-01-19 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Hi Andre, I lucky enough to have them all, and id agree the original 3G is now too slow. I keep it so I can test the worst case, but its slow. If you have an original iPad however, Id just use that and compile the app as an iPhone only app to force it to emulate the iPhone. Its almost iden

Re: iOS: performance issues with visual effects

2012-01-17 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Have you tried firing it off touchstart instead of touchend or mouseup. I find that gains a little performance. On 17 Jan 2012, at 21:14, William de Smet wrote: > Hi Chris, > > I am experiencing the same thing (iPad 1) here with LC 5.02. > > I just use: > visual effect push left > go cd "st

Re: What are the current LiveCode issues with the Mac App Store?

2012-01-08 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Unfortunately the file dialogue just doesn't work after you sandbox an Mac app. If you monitor the console an error is flagged as the file manager is denied access to the system and when the user then selects anything in the dialogue the returned variable / path is empty. Apart from that, e

Re: What are the current LiveCode issues with the Mac App Store?

2012-01-07 Thread Andrew Henshaw
The only issue Im aware of is the current livecode file dialogue will not work with sandboxed apps, this is required by the store after 1st March. As long as your app doesnt use the file dialogue it should be easy enough to port. There is nothing very obscure, you just have to make sure there

Re: [ANN] iOS Barcode Reader External Demo In App Store

2011-12-20 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Great job, look forward to seeing it on revselect! Any chance you can extend it a little so it can work on a mac desktop as well??? Im getting requests for such a feature, as most have cameras and it would be neat to be able to hold a barcode up there and have that read as well as on iOS.

Re: How do I debug iOS app crashes?

2011-12-19 Thread Andrew Henshaw
You can also add the following to your top stack as it will catch a lot of the errors and give an idea as to where the issue is... on errorDialog pExecutionError, pParseError if item 2 of line 1 of pExecutionError is 0 then answer "An error occurred " & cr & cr & pExecutionEr

Re: Android date pickers and other custom controls.

2011-12-14 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thanks John, The scrollers are superb, I got my first app in the Google Market earlier this week which wouldn't be there without them! Looking forward to trying the code for the date picker!!! Andy On 14 Dec 2011, at 14:33, John Craig wrote: > I've added a couple of features to the android s

Re: ios image file names.

2011-12-11 Thread Andrew Henshaw
If you run the mac console app this will output simulator errors or 'put' messages in your code, or if its a device you can track the messages in xcode. Paths are pretty specific, I find keeping everything lower case really helps. Some really useful code someone posted a while back is using t

Re: Possible to list storage size of images stored within a stack?

2011-12-11 Thread Andrew Henshaw
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Possible to list storage size of images stored within a stack?

2011-12-11 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Is it possible to extract a list of how much space images stored in a stack are using? Im looking at some of my application sizes and figure they must be carrying a lot of large images, but forgotten which I optimised and which were just copy and pasted in! There are quite a few images, so I

Re: When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

2011-12-10 Thread Andrew Henshaw
The chart is ok as its one of Scott Rossis TM gauges so it looks great, but its only basic info in there at the moment. The iPad interface does a lot more and its all coded, I just need to work on the interface to get it over to Android tablers. The original iphone version really was just de

Re: When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

2011-12-10 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thanks Jacqueline, Ill check out the weight screen, I had that problem once, hit back, then forward again and it fixed itself so I thought it was just a glitch somewhere with the scroller not being populated but maybe not!!! Ill check it out! If you want to get further into the app pressin

Re: When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

2011-12-10 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thanks for the feedback Roger. Ill port the iPad interface over to Android for the tablets in the Christmas break as its much more suited to larger devices, a lot of the screens are merged and it works in landscape and portrait, but for now the scaled up version will have to do, I never real

Re: When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

2011-12-10 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thanks again for the details Ben, ive been through them and... - The softbar on the Kindle Fire I hope ive fixed this issue, its difficult to tell without a real device but ive tested on the honeycomb emulator which is similar as it has soft buttons and it seems to work. The problem howeve

Re: When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

2011-12-09 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Thanks again Ben, sorry for replying out of order!! Ill definitely fix the menu bar issue in the morning, but just wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to the icon and reversed portrait modes? Ill try using the set orientations to allow both portrait orientations, maybe that will work

Re: When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

2011-12-09 Thread Andrew Henshaw
instein wrote: > On 08/12/2011 17:25, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > > Ive uploaded an apk of the app via if anyone has a phone and wants to try it > > On 09/12/2011 19:04, Ben Rubinstein (me!) wrote: >> * The Fire has a soft control panel... When using your app, this panel is &

Re: When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

2011-12-08 Thread Andrew Henshaw
app store works, is there a way to specify which devices are supported, or do you find some apps just dont support tablets resolutions, or does everything else just work??? Andy On 8 Dec 2011, at 19:43, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 12/8/11 11:25 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: >> Ive bee

When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

2011-12-08 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Ive been working on a port of an iOS app I wrote earlier in the year to see if for me and my level of programming skills, the Android part of Livecode is up to the job. Ive got an app working now, but only on phones, not tablets yet. Its slightly less functional that the iOS version as th

Windows compiled apps with UAC

2011-11-24 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Im just playing with the Windows 7 Software Logo Toolkit and it throws up a couple of errors or warning when running my app. No problem there, most can be fixed but one relates to the UAC settings. It states the app must be set to include a manifest for 'asInvoker'. Ive set the setting in

Re: Best practice for performance testing

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew Henshaw
compiling the app on a Windows PC, I always compile on Mac so Ill give that a try, thanks Andy On 15 Sep 2011, at 12:52, Roger Eller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Andrew Henshaw wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Ive got an application that quite happily runs along at an a

Best practice for performance testing

2011-09-15 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Hi, Ive got an application that quite happily runs along at an acceptable speed on my Macs, but on Windows systems it seems to struggle. Im trying to pin down the parts of the code that I need to look at so I can work out what is happening. My best guess would be the interaction with the sql

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Most still rotate two ways, ie. landscape and landscape upside down, I think thats enough. On 13 Sep 2011, at 19:50, Scott Rossi wrote: > Recently, Colin Holgate wrote: > >> As Randy picked up, it's iPad apps that have the rule about not locking to >> one >> landscape. All of yours are eit

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Yes, that would be a better option! The other issue you might run into is try your app on a real device and start it 'face up'. It will start in whatever you specify as the initial orientation, and stay that way, even if you pick up the device from being face up, flat on the desk direct to

Re: iOS initial orientation

2011-09-13 Thread Andrew Henshaw
I couldnt figure this one out either, so in the end I load the stack with a black opaque rectangle at the top, and have that hide itself after .2 seconds (the time varies on the app, it depends on how much it has to do in the pre open. Its not really noticeable for the user as they get the s

Password protecting a stack in the distribution

2011-09-11 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Hi, Im wondering if anyone can shed some light on the best way to do this! I have built a library stack which Im including in the distribution and selected the 'encrypt with password' option for both the main stack, and this library stack, however when I compile if I go into the package the .

Re: [ANN] Spell With Kyle

2011-09-05 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Its usually a week. Mine seem to go into review on the 6th day, then depending on how complex they are can be approved in anything from a few hours to a day (or rejected!) Andy On 5 Sep 2011, at 12:13, John Craig wrote: > I've just submitted an app for iPad to the app store - an educational

Re: Error on uploading app to App Store

2011-08-27 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Im having problems getting messages out to the list at the moment, so ill post this to the list and directly to you. I had the same problem when submitting an update to my app a couple of weeks ago. I switched to Snow Leopard running xCode 3.2.6 / SDK 4.3 and recompiled and everything worked

Re: Pages, excel etc in UIWebView

2011-08-26 Thread Andrew Henshaw
It might be a long shot, but ive always used three slashes with file: and its worked fine when loading local javascript content, ie file:///test.pages Andy On 26 Aug 2011, at 14:53, Maarten Koopmans wrote: > Hi, > > I know you can display different file types (see subject) in a > UIwebview.

Re: Sockets Question

2011-08-24 Thread Andrew Henshaw
choosen port by your real server where the > posted message will contains the server's IP address the clients will then be > able to store as a global var for further use. > > HTH, > > Le 24 août 2011 à 18:01, Andrew Henshaw a écrit :

Re: Sockets Question

2011-08-24 Thread Andrew Henshaw
Im afraid that assumes I can program in objective c :) Ive dabbled, but its far beyond me at the moment ! Thanks for the pointers though, maybe it is something I can farm out to rentacoder. Andy On 24 Aug 2011, at 21:21, Maarten Koopmans wrote: > Assuming you're talking iOS, use multicast

Sockets Question

2011-08-24 Thread Andrew Henshaw
I hope someone might have an answer as im just back from vacation and starting to pull my hair out already :) I have an app that I would like to implement a sync feature in. The first step to this would appear to be able to exchange data between the devices using the local network. I have soc

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