Webby URL search and scrape question

ords from a URL using Livecode 'remotely' or do I need to use a browser to visit? Thanks in advance for any advice or thoughts Cheers David G -- David Glasgow Consultant Forensic & Clinical Psychologist Honorary Professor, Nottingham Trent University Sexual Offences, Crime

Re: Filter with wildcards

> On 1 Nov 2023, at 11:24 pm, Neville Smythe > wrote: > > But I suspect you should allow for the required strings to be followed by > punctuation or be at the end of the line, things which are hard to do with a > simple LC wildcard search, at least in a single filter. When I originally w

Re: Filter with wildcards

, > > Mark. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 30 Oct 2023, at 17:19, David Glasgow via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> I am doing the above and struggling with an oddity that I can’t find >> guidance on on Livecode or wider w

Filter with wildcards

t want). If I put a single space after the brackets the first bracketed string is ignored and the filter only finds “with u “ Hope someone can help me stop pulling my baffled face Cheers David Glasgow ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lis

Re: Creating 'read only' text files

k that outputs small text files. Each includes a hash value >> referencing part of itself that can be checked subsequently, so any change >> to the text can be flagged. >> >> Is there a way I can easily create read-only files (Mac & Win) to discourage >> acci

Re: Sort list alphabetically- ignoring first character if it is a space

Of course!!! And indeed a bonus that we can keep happy our AI overlords-to-be. > On 20 Feb 2023, at 10:11 pm, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 2/20/23 13:29, Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode wrote: > > ...or to make ChatGPT happy: > > sort tData ascending by word 1 to -1 of each

scripted Show tooltip not a thing?

ip of me isn’t a thing. I appreciate that I could show and hide an ordinary field, but I wondered if I have overlooked a suitable message and/or syntax that will enable what I want. Best Wishes, David Glasgow Honorary Professor, Nottingham Trent University (SOCAMRU) Consultant Forensic &

screen resolution and stack height

(if so, which), or just setting the stack height to what I need? I remember 1280×800 was common for quite a while, but is it still? I Googled about a bit, but the interweb was full of contradictory advice. (Imagine that!) Best Wishes, David Glasgow

On the subject of things with the same short name... ('identical' groups which behave differently)

hesitant about 'the rect of the long name of me’, but as I keep saying, it seems to works perfectly in one case. Que pasa? ( Mac 10.13.6 and LC 9.6, if that makes a difference.) Best Wishes, David Glasgow Consultant Forensic & Clinical Psychologist Carlton Glasgow Partnership Direct

Re: valueDiff for arrays?

Maybe 'strain' could be a culinary synonym? ;-) Best wishes David Glasgow Sent from my iPad via iBrain & iFingers LinkedIn > On 5 Aug 2018, at 16:36, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > This is getting pretty contorted and is becoming less like natural

Re: URGENT: MergGoogle no longer works on iOS: CLIENTS VERY UNHAPPY

It was a single problem, but the poor fellow was in hock up to the ears and out of time. If there is anything positive here it is the response of the community. No lectures on what he should have done different, just genuine concern and an astonishingly quick fix. Best wishes David

"Aphasia" (was Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 171, Issue 44)

e specific without more information, and my advice would be to speak with a neuropsychologist before coding. You could spend a lot of time comparing wavs and coming up with a solution to the wrong problem. Best wishes David Glasgow Sent from my iBrain via iFingers & iPad LinkedIn > O

Re: How to stop LoveCode running in Edit mode

It has to be "live" to rhyme with hive. Because every now and then everything on a card wriggles about and jumps while you're trying to work. Sent from my iBrain via iFingers & iPad i-psych.co.uk LinkedIn > On 24 Sep 2016, at 03:09, Kay C Lan wrote: > > 8 days and no one actually a

Re: Random topic: What script font do you like/use?

I use Trebuchet MS. It looks a bit different, doesn't look like an MS font, and seems similar on Mac & Win. Sent from my iBrain via iFingers & iPad i-psych.co.uk LinkedIn > On 21 Sep 2016, at 02:31, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto > wrote: > > I've used Andale Mono by preference, but I don't have the

Probably not an LC issue, but…. DLL woes

ems - but it is still intriguing and puzzling that these particular errors are triggered by an LC standalone loading an encrypted text file. Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partnership i-psych.co.uk LinkedIn ___ use-livecode mail

Re: Become a man with staying power

On 3 Mar 2012, at 6:00 pm, Richmond wrote: > the ultimate Sanskrit input system; and working hard towards the finishing > line. Colonel Pickering would be proud of you! ;-) Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partnership i-psych.co.uk Li

Re: moving and scaling an image

On 10 Feb 2012, at 6:00 pm, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Subject: Re: moving and scaling an image > Reply-To: How to use LiveCode > > Hi David, > > David Glasgow wrote >> >> Thanks to all the help with this. >> I ended up with a script that created sequent

Re: moving and scaling an image

move me to item 1 of the loc of me & "," & tend end embiggen The move after the repeat loop corrects the location overshoot because of the change in graphic size. I had to chuckle, because this kludge actually looks like a nice little 'bounce' a la iOS. Ha! Thanks again,

Re: moving and scaling an image

should forget about the move command, and just shuffle off to the destination shrinking as we go. I am surprised at how smooth it is. Just out of interest, I disabled the unwiggle line of your script, but was a bit disappointed not to see any obvious wiggle. Cheers, David Glasgow __

Re: moving and scaling an image

On 9 Feb 2012, at 2:57 pm, Ken Corey wrote: > From: Ken Corey > Date: 9 February 2012 10:54:06 am GMT > To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Subject: Re: moving and scaling an image > Reply-To: How to use LiveCode > > > On 09/02/2012 08:40, David Glasgow wrote: >&g

moving and scaling an image

'pushed away' should shrink into the distance, and ones 'pulled' closer should embiggen. Any suggestions how this could best be achieved? The eventual destination of this may well be iPad, so any special considerations there would be welcome. Ch

standalones onto iOS procedure

whether I have not got the provisioning right. I did try to see if this issue had been discussed on the list, but I only found other nasty provisioning related difficulties. Any help out there? Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partnership i-psych.co.uk LinkedIn

Re: [OT] Text analysis and author, anyone done it?

ors The International Association of Forensic Linguistics <http://www.iafl.org> do stuff on disputed authorship. I recall there was a summer school a couple of years back that had someone on computer assisted authorship analysis. Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partnership i-ps

OT Re: group name persisting

On 22 Jun 2011, at 3:48 pm, Nicolas Cueto wrote: > But all I got in return for my discomfort were stinky > fingers. BTW, wasn't that the title of a Stones album? You are close. But for LiveCoders, there was the remix "Stacky Fingers" Best Wishes, David Gl

Re: Weird cursor freeze

uldn't identify anything running that would do anything with the cursor. Your script wrapped in a screen locked quick push to and and pop from another card sorted it out. Why? Gallic shrug. Cheers! Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partn

Weird cursor freeze

.5 Could it be a problem with the mac cursor stack? If so, how should I set about exploring that possibility? This is ruining a nice days scripting that I have been looking forward to for weeks, so any help would be gratefully received. Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partner

Screen objects absolute size

possible to obtain the properties of the physical screen, I would have to think about dynamically scaling objects. Is this one of those things that sounds as though it should be easy but isn't? Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partnership i-psych.

Re: mouseup/mouseDoubleU

On 1 Feb 2011, at 11:13 pm, Jacqueline Landman Gay wrote: > Buttons are pretty universally one-click objects. ...except when you are calling a lift (elevator). ;-) Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partnership i-psych.co.uk ___

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 88, Issue 22

me off list) Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partnership i-psych.co.uk ___ 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: Blend level scale query

rson > on another machine achieving the same thing is actually experiencing the same > task and demonstrating the same perceptual skill. > > > > Best Wishes, > > David Glasgow > Carlton Glasgow Partnership > > i-psych.co.uk _

Re: Blend level scale query

say LC blendlevel 25, could it be said another person on another machine achieving the same thing is actually experiencing the same task and demonstrating the same perceptual skill. Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partnership i-psych.co.uk ___