Re: I seem to have missed something

Terry asked: "What about a lower cost ‘player’ application that can run internal stacks/apps but not create or modify them?” You misunderstand me Terry, I think it is perfectly clear to count the use of a stack as a seat given it must use the LC IDE (either desktop or Web.) My confusion is in

Re: Livecode Future

A bit more here (I’m in Oz) $685 at today’s rate. Just under my fortnightly age pension. And for a product that is still to be released! Still has bits that don’t work and who knows what the documentation will be like, if it even exists yet. Paying for things still to come is getting old (especia

Re: Responsive Layout and Opencard (James At The Hales)

Never mind, my error. James ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

SUB-to-SRT updated to convert YouTube transcripts

Hi all, I have just updated the sample stack "sub-to-srt" to now convert YouTube's transcripts (sbv extension) to set files. Perhaps it is age, but I am increasingly finding it difficult to catch all the words spoken in videos. The LivdCode videos posted on YouTube being a case in point. Althou

Re: variable window not applying changes

Double clicking on the line in the variable list only opens a single watcher window. If I do this in my current project I make a change, click "apply" and the previous value (before I made the change) returns! I have since made a test stack to see if the problem persists. It doesn't. Making a c

variable window not applying changes

Hi, I have been tracing a script and while stepping through notice an error in a variable. I double clicked on the value in the variable list at the bottom of the SE window and brought up the variable window. Made the correction and clicked "apply". Nothing happened. This used to work, didn't

Big Sur and Drag and drop

Hi, Just a question to others using Big Sur on their Macs. I have an app which uses drag and drop to place a list of files in a field. I drag the folder containing the files over the list, release the mouse and boom the list of files appear. Today I went to use this app on my main Mac which i

Dash docset for LC now at 1.76, Make_DocSet on Livecode Share updated

I just added the docs from LC 9.04 Stable to the DASH repository. DASH users simply go to the preferences pane and update the user contributed docs. As usual, this release has some additional dictionary entries/mods. I have also updated Make_DocSet on Livecode Share. the previous version someho

Re: Regex replacements (\1, \2) not matching

You can do quite a lot with LC's chunk expressions as well as with the matchtext and matchchunk functions. If you are willing to put a bit of time using these functions and arrays you can pretty much make up for LC's shortcomings in this area. If you have an Indy or Business license of LC the

Re: How to tell if the page displayed in the Browser widget has scrolle

Hi Hermann, Thanks for your patience :-) I did as you suggested but no dice. I added the jsNotify handler to the widget script. I put the jsNotify call into the javascript handlers of the widget. I then checked that they were indeed there, they were. I added the "window.onscroll" function defini

Re: How to tell if the page displayed in the Browser widget has scrolled

Many thanks Hermann. I can follow this (logic wise) as well as the forum links you provided. But I didn't quite follow the implementation. For now I will put it on the "it would be nice but not required" list, else I will not finish. And yes, I will ask on the forum should I have a potentially l

How to tell if the page displayed in the Browser widget has scrolled

Is there a way (are you there Hermann?) of telling if a page being displayed in a browser widget has been scrolled down at all. It doesn't seem there are any widget properties for this. Hermann's solution to changing the font size was I think in effect injecting a javascript function/setting in

Re: How to update a css file when using the Browser widget

hh wrote: > Say you have the font-size declaration in the css for body. > > Then script, for example: > do "document.body.style.fontSize = '110%';" in widget "Browser" Brilliant! Thank you so much Hermann. Putting the script in a button worked like a charm Putting it in the handler that loads t

Re: How to update a css file when using the Browser widget

@brian - yes I am on a Mac. I wondered if it was webkit too. However Safari performs as expected. I load the page in Safari, then change the css and then reload the page in Safari (using the reload button in the address field) and the page reloads using the modified css. @Phil - no joy with th

Re: How to update a css file when using the Browser widget

Further exploring from my previous post. Making a standalone of the stack. Simply reloading the html page still does not use the modified css (as was the case in the IDE) But, deleting the browser widget and recreating it before loading the page and the modified css is recognised. So the deletio

How to update a css file when using the Browser widget

Recently I have been exploring modifying a css file so as to change the appearance of an html file being displayed in the browser widget. Simply, I thought. Load a page that uses a css file. Modify the css file and rewrite it to disk. Re-load the page from before, assuming it would use the new

Docset Reader released and updates to Make Docset and Livecode.Docset

One of my other stacks "Make Docset" produces a Livecode package containing the complete dictionary API as well as all the guides that ship with each version of Livecode. This package can be read by DASH compatible readers that accept user contributed sources. However not all platforms currentl

Re: Interactive Tutorials - Where are they?

Found them. They are (well it is) available via the Start Center. Took me a while as the Start Center doesn't remain on the screen if you have any plugins set to open on start up. James ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Interactive Tutorials - Where are they?

Whatever happened to the interactive tutorial that was introduced with LC 8? I can't seem to find any link/menu item of preference to bring it/them up. I have checked LC 8.1.8 as well and can't find them I deleted my copies of LC pre 8.1 and so had started to download LC 8.0 but it is only down

Re: ?Make Docset? updated to 3.1, DASH docset for LC now at 1.7.1

>From Mike > First of all, thanks a lot for doing this. Dash is now my default way to > access the docs, on both my ipad and mac. I love it. > Second, I have auto-updates turned on for both platforms, but they both > show the LC docs at 1.6.1 I am glad it is useful. I to really like the presenta

LiveCode 1.6.1 docset now available

The "LiveCode 1.6.1" documentation set for Dash and Dash compatible is now available via the normal update mechanism for user contributed docsets. This version was compiled from the 9.01rc2 release of Livecode and includes all the guides for the widgets. James _

"Make Docset" updated to version 2.8

With the release of 9.01 the "Guides" section of the dictionary now includes guide for the widgets. These guides come from documentation within the widget folder (within the Extensions folder of the LC package.) I have now added the code to the "Make Docset" stack on LiveCodeShare to generate

Re: some thoughts on version 9.0.0

My error. Yes the first badge takes you to the now empty behavior button. BUT the second badge does indeed open the script only stack. no bug, just me not moving further along the chain of badges. The badges follow along the chain as advertised. >> On 20 Apr 2018, at 1:41 pm, James At The Ha

Dash LiveCode Docset and "Make Docset" stack updated

The Livecode Dash Docset has been updated to version 1.5 and has been compiled from the LC 9.0.0 rc1 documentation. The "Make Docset" stack on LivecodeShare has been updated to version 2.6 (modified version algorithm to catch fully the LC 9 series.) http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/845/Make

Sub-to-srt updated

The Sub-to-srt stack on Livecode share has now been updated. The interface has been simplified and frame rate conversions can now be applied to converted ssa and sub files. For those who came in late...(apologies to L Falk) Sub-to-srt is a conversion utility ofr subtitles. It will convert eithe

update to Mkvmerger

I have updated Mkvmerger on the livecodeshare. #1 Updated to correct output file error when both lists used. Sorry about that, not sure how that error was left there. #2 Added command to extract first subtitle from file The ability to extract the first subtitle (usually the one I want) from the

Make Docset updated to v2.5, Docset updated to 1.4.2

Hi, Recently I went looking for some LCB details and discovered that the nomenclature for the widget libraries had changed. They are now of type "Module". This meant that the cross referencing for these modules no longer worked and details of their contents were no longer displayed when they w

Update to FMaker utility stack

FMaker - a utility to make folders based on a list. Updated FMaker to use "revCopyFile" rather than when moving files to newly created folder. This means the files do not need to be read into memory to be moved. This speeds up the process considerably, especially if you are moving large files

Dash Docs and Docset Creator updates.

I have just updated the Dash Docset to version 1.2 and the Dash Docset maker (Dash docset creator for LiveCode ) to 2.2 The main change is to include a linked summary of all messages and properties associated with the objec

Re: New Books/Dictionary

For those wanting to read the docs in an i-device Dash for iOS is FREE. I have posted some screenshots on the forum if you want to see how the docs look. http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=29745&p=160713#p160712

mkvMerge - batch processing stack for mkvToolnix

Hi, I have just uploaded a stack "mkvmerge" to livecodeshare. I manipulate lots of video files from different sources. In doing so I have on occassion need to use the main mkv processing app "mkvToolnix". Anyone who has used this app knows how powerful it is. mkvToolnix has a batch file proces

SOLVED Re: HELP - Script debugger out of sync

After i sent my post I wondered if perhaps there were unseen gremlins in the script. I copied it out and pasted into BBEDIT and "Zap(ped) gremlins" (one of my favourite BBEDT commands). Pasted the zapped script back into LC and everything was back in sync. How I ended up with some unseen char

HELP - Script debugger out of sync

I have been modifying one of my utility apps and have hit a strange glitch. While trying to debug the script I find the visual feedback of where I am in the script to be out of sync by, it appears, 4 lines. For those interested in how this looks I have uploaded a video of same. http://www.theha

LiveCode documentation set now available for Dash compatible readers

There is now a documentation set (currently at LC 9 dp 9) available in the "user-contribution" category for Dash compatible readers. The set includes all the Guides and the dictionary (API) entries. Also included in this version are summary listing of all associated entries under their respectiv

FMaker is a utility stack to make folders/directories.

Just uploaded to "sample stacks" (button on toolbar in IDE or FMaker is a utility stack to make folders/directories. It will take a list of files from a directory (or a text file) and create folders with the same names as are in the list. Once loaded: • the l

Update to Dash "docset" creator stack

I have just updated the Make DocSet stack to version 1.8 This adds: • Script colorization in the Syntax and Example sections. • Tidied up some formatting. • Links to terms and other entries now limited to Summary, Changes, Description and Related sections James ___

Dash "Make DocSet" stack version 1.6. and non-Mac Dash readers

The Dash "Make DocSet" stack has been updated to version 1.6. See the details below. Hopefully this will be the final update, although I see Monte has been modifying some doc formats. See below. I have also noticed that Dash like readers exist on other platforms. Some paid for, some free. Give

Version 1.4 of Dash DocSet creator posted

Version 1.4 • format for description section now correct. * correct keyword lookup where multiple exists works again. Note - dependent on a type being included in text as in * Logo copyright info added. I think I have finally covered all the holes. Please let me know if you find either a link n

New "Make Docset" stack uploaded

Uploaded a new revision to "Make DocSet" Any users should download the new version and remake your docset. Please remember to delete the old docset from the list of docsets in the preferences of Dash before loading the new one. Version 1.2 Note: Currently Dash does not recognise "glossary" nor

Re: Livecode docset for Dash

New version of "Make DocSet" uploaded. Changes in version 1.1 • LC icon added. • Table of contents added for Guides. They will appear in the left pane when viewing a guide. James ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Livecode docset for Dash

Hi Bob, Actually I might mean macro. I had entered a snippet called "sw" which was a three case switch template. While coding the stack I went to type "Answer" but couldn't get past "Answ" before the switch statement was inserted. I hadn't realized Dash would pick this up and act on it. My main

Livecode docset for Dash

I have just uploaded a stack "Make DocSet" to revonline that creates a "LiveCode.docset" for use in the documentation/snippet manager Dash https://kapeli.com/dash >From the revOnline entry: "Dash" is a documentation and snippet manager for MacOs and iOS. The MacOS vers

Re: Correct img format for browser widget.

Thank you so much Hermann and Jonathan It took me a little time but I worked out what to do after looking at your suggestions. The fact that setting the htmltext of the browser widget breaks the img URL's makes sense from a security and logical point of view. I then tried Jonathan's technique

Re: Correct img format for browser widget.

hh wrote: > ... Or in case you meant simple HTML load (not canvas2d): > > > where src = "full http-path to image" (local server is running) > or src = "relative path to image" Actually I am not loading a file from a server, I am setting the htmltext of the widget. The file I am loading is act

Re: Widget course

OK, looked at actual widgets and see they have metadata items so I added these and the error disappeared. 1. Seems the minimum requirements for the Extension Builder have changed since the course first written (BTW I am using 8.1.5, when I tried in 9dp7 there were even more errors.) Full of co

Re: GLX apps and 8.15

Hi Monte, Thank you so much for that quick response and solution. I modified the frontscript mainly because my knowledge of GLX's inner workings is limited. Down the track I might venture into the window management routines (to see if I really need them) or even consider moving to Levure, alth

Porridge (was Re: English Like?)

Richard wrote: > For those who like salt in their porridge there's LiveCode, and for > those who prefer sugar, or syrup, or prunes in their porridge > there are other puddings on offer. I actually like both. Couldn't imagine not putting salt in the porridge. Then once it is cooked, add sugar and

Printed dictionary (was Re: send mouseup to control)

In following them discussion on execution contexts Richard wrote: > The executionContexts is documented, though in all fairness that Dict > entry includes a note about not relying on the format of its contents. Normally I would moan to myself about how I would like to look that up but as I am

Re: Writing Extensions

This is why the LiveCode Infinity project had such attraction to me. There were to be fully documented examples. Oh well. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subsc

\"System\" font on Mac - diff between LC 8 and LC 9??

So, in LC8 changes were made to the UI font themes and the System font was one new addition. According to the dictionary... The list of font names includes a set of special-purpose names which automatically select the matching font for the platform. You can use these to request "the font used

\"System\" font on Mac - diff between LC 8 and LC 9?

Hmm. Seems this has been sort of noted but no mention is made of the fix. http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17344 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscri

"System" font on Mac - diff between LC 8 and LC 9??

Could other with a Mac please give this a go to see if my observation is local to my machine alone? Create a new stack in LC8 and place a field. Open the message box and enter... set the htmltext of fld 1 to "this is bold and this is italic" You should see this is bold and this

DPReleases I have missed (was Re: tsNet docs?)

Richard wrote: >I'm running LC v9dp76 Indy on Ubuntu 14.04. And I am only on dp6. James ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists

SVG for HTML5 on Mac

macSVG is a MIT-licensed open-source macOS application for designing and editing Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) content for HTML5 web pages, mobile apps, animation design, and general graphics usage. very nice.

Re: iOS SDK Question

The other way to be sure about your particular case is to visit your account page on the LiveCode site. The login link is in the upper right of the page. When I visit mine I see all my licenses and can tell from the version pop-up associated with each one what is actually licensed. I have 4 >F

Re: iOS SDK Question

On the "pricing" page of the Livecode site, towards the bottom, there is an FAQ. The first question there is indeed what you are asking. The answer given is: "To build closed source apps you must have a valid current Indy, Business or other commercial license. If you do not renew this license your

nabble babble

With the change in how nabble reports posts to the list I have now gone across to google's archive. https://www.mail-archive.com/use-livecode@lists.runrev.com/ Seems just as functional and clearly shows who posted what. To submit to the list I still prefer to use my mail client. To search the list

Re: OSX module file error when building standalone with LC 8 on mac

Solved. I had included an LC9 only widget in my stack. It obviously was not there in LC8 when I went to compile. So it seems... "There was an error while saving the > standalone application > Build failed for MacOSX x86-32: could not > open module file" is telling me the widget module was no wh

OSX module file error when building standalone with LC 8 on mac

I just went to recompile a little utility I have and came across this error. The stack is simple and just gets the user to select file(s) or a folder or a text list to create folders somewhere else. I had compiled a standalone before but now am unable to with LC8. It gets all the way to buildin

Nightly builds

I just noticed one of the benefits to membership of the open source community is access to nightly builds. Can anyone tell me how this is possible? Is it only for the community version? Is there a link or is one expected to make the build oneself? Or is this just smoke and mirrors? James __

Re: Download LC Community: trapped.

Richard wrote: > Most SEO brings people to the .com site, so those on the .org site are > the subset who specifically went there to get the open source edition of > LiveCode. The conversion rate there is understandably much lower than > on the .com site. > > After all, someone at the .com site

Re: MacOS Sierra - Tab Bar showing in Stack and IDE windows?

Check you Dock preferences. When Sierra came out I too was looking forward to this feature having gotten use to tabs in other apps. One app I use quite a lot is Nisus and having tabbed windows rather than multiple windows was going to be a real plus, or so i thought. Sadly tabbed windows was no

OT - video compression HEVC woo cool!

Recently in a discussion on the data grid someone mentioned Trevor's DG presentations at runrev09. Grabbing my revLive09 disks I loaded up the relevant DVD. However I am not a great fan of DVDs these days and thought I would copy onto my hard disk. I also am not that keen on the Mac DVD player s

Subject: Re: Subject - LiveCode - I'm not a very happy Bunny

Richmond wrote: > What this message should tell the people on the mother-ship is that they > need to shout a bit louder about the Open Source version, instead of having a > green button "buried" at the bottom of a scroll-down on the title page. +1 In fact a green button that takes you to a sit

Re: LC 9 has all the improvements of the LC 8.1 series, yes?

Thanks Panos. I thought that the case but just wanted to be sure. James ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailma

LC 9 has all the improvements of the LC 8.1 series, yes?

Just want to confirm that all the LC 9 releases contain the bug fixes and improvements that are in the current LC 8.x rc series. Peter or Ali or anyone? James ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscri

Subject: Re: Subject: Re: What speed advantage comes from a private handler?

> > Oh! I thought private handlers were ones only accessible by handlers in the > same script They are. Perhaps my expression was clumsy. James ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscri

Subject: Re: What speed advantage comes from a private handler?

Monte wrote: > Private handlers are called directly rather than giving all the frontscripts > a chance to handle them. Thanks Monte, The send and despatch restrictions do not apply in the cases I am considering. These are support handlers and functions outside the main handler within a script l

What speed advantage comes from a private handler?

In a reply to a post on loop speed Mark made this aside... > the aData array (also making sure explodeRow is private will help too) Can someone explain why making a handler private speeds up a script? Should I be making more of my handlers private? Really intrigued. James __

Re: Searching text external to Livecode

Richard asked > Maybe the simplest solution for somewhat large collections would be the > free-text indexing built into SQLite. Anyone here know if we have a > means of using that from within LC? Yes and no. The Full text search extension to SQLite is indeed in the current compilation and is

Re: Customize Tree Lists/Indexes

The web address for rTree is http://tapirsoft.on-rev.com/rtree/ It does work in LC 8 although I think there was one or two changes made. I contacted Mats last year to get the modified version. Think it was on mats.wilstr...@tapirsoft.com James ___ us

Re: Re: (Re: Apply an SVG Widget as a single object in a st....)

Firstly sorry about the subject less post and secondly for my double post (seeing I didn't see my first post due to it having no subject. Phew!) Anyway, rjd318 asked... > Ah! What's the library stack that does the svg path conversion? The latest version is included on the last post to this thr

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My app had some 20 or so buttons, each with a carefully drawn and saved png (in multiple sizes) that sorted of looked ok in LC7. Once I moved over to LC8 I immediately went looking for svg icons, modifying them or making my own. Extracted the path (really not that difficult, there is even a libr

[no subject]

My app had some 20 or so buttons, each with a carefully drawn and saved png (in multiple sizes) that sorted of looked ok in LC7. Once I moved over to LC8 I immediately went looking for svg icons, modifying them or making my own. Extracted the path (really not that difficult, there is even a libr

Re: Another way of approaching LC8

I concur with all the previous posters on this. Just jump in. I have been working slowly on an app since V6. Hey, I'm retired and this is something I do to amuse myself. Anyway, I have continued developing this app, adding bits and pieces to it through all of lc6 and lc7. I would occasionally open

Re: Confusion over builds.

Hi Richmond, Sorry about the confusion, Peter was very quick to remove the entries I had referred to. As for leaving things, you are a bit confused. The versions I referred to were in fact "milestones" on GitHub. I was making no comment at all on the download page only the work in progress pag

Re: Confusion over builds.

Thanks for the explanation Peter. James ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Confusion over builds.

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Confusion over builds.

Now that 8 is out,things on GitHub should be simpler, right? No, not really. We still have 8.01rc1 sitting there. We have 802rc1 sitting there. 8.10dp1 AND 8.10dp2 AND 8.10 future? While I really like the action happening I wish we could collapse things a bit and get the different branches consis

Re: Matchchunk and the variables list

Thanks Mark. Missed the parentheses in the notes. James ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-

Matchchunk and the variables list

When I try this put "hello there" into tstring put "llo" into tfind put 0 into ss put 0 into se if matchchunk(tstring,tfind,ss,se) then put tstring&return&ss&return&se end if I expect to get... hello there 3 5 Whereas I get hello there T

VLC and GPL and LC on iOS (was: Re: MergEXT now included with Indy/Business IDE)

In the referenced thread Monte mentioned something about fmpeg and it associated libraries and licensing. Today I was notified of an update the VLC and remembered how that is now available on the App Store. Looking at Videolan's site, VLC is GPL 2. How is it that it can be distributed under Apple

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0

Hmm, does this mean that LC6 and LC7 are now eol. (Apart from bug fixes or will these also cease)? James ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferenc

Standalone (and stack in IDE) getting larger on each launch

I have an app that stores the height of the main stack as a custom property. This main stack is called from a splash stack in the standalone. During preopencard I check the property and set the size of the mainstack accordingly. If there is no cp I set it to a default value. The user can change

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Mark wrote: > > In addition, the Project Browser that I'm usually kicking has a very > nice feature in that if there is a behavior object associated with a > stack or control you will see that indicated to the left of the script > lines, and it also shows the number of lines in the behavior scr

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

I fail to see the inclusion of examples of the syntax to a dictionary entry as bloat. I may be one of only a few but I find many of the dictionary entries opaque to say the least. Ali's example of how one would employ a script only stack as a behavior is a case in point. It immediately makes emp

Re: IMG resize advice wanted

Tom asked > Nice script! The script was present when I previewed the post. Had it between tags. > > 1) What method are you using to embed those images in your field? The text being displayed was xhtml stripped of everything that wasn't needed as it was being displayed in a field using the h

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

> what is the equivalent of > > set the behavior of tNewGroup to the long id of button "Widget" of card > "Behaviors" > > where "the long id of button" points instead to a script only stack? I think it is simply... set the behavior of tNewGroup to stack "myScriptOnlyStack" If you chec

Ah, the power of regex - was: using the SHELL function to GREP a body of text

Recently I asked about using the shell function to access back reference feature of REGEX that I thought I needed to parse an aspect of HTML/XHTML files. Given the response I thought about it some more and realised that the "matchchunk" function with multiple search expressions could, with the ai

Re: leap to future

Soon after HTML5 was released I too remembered Kevin's announcement and wondered why I was not seeing HTML5 in my license. I wrote to support and soon after HTML5 appeared in my license for all LC8's. So I am not sure what to make of the response from support stating they are separate as for me,

Re: updating progress to user during long handler

Ok, so no lockscreens anywhere in the routines being called from start to end. Guess the problem lies elsewhere. I put in a few BEEPs at each 'progressive step and they all fired ok but there was still no update to the text in my splash stack. I am using the glx framework and it might be that it i

updating progress to user during long handler

I have a splash stack that loads and calls the main stack before closing. While the splash is being displayed the preopen handler in my main stack asks for a file to locate. Once located it then loads and processes the file before it takes over. The processing takes some time and I have been tryi

Accessing handler in LC resource stack

Hi, I am using the GLX framework with LC7 and have hit a snag. Its application builder calls a handler in an LC resource stack "revStandaloneSettings.rev" which no longer exists. Looking at the LC package I think it has been replaced by "revsaveasstandalone.livecodescript". How do I address the

Re: Using Imagemagick

IDraw is now called AutoDesk Graphic, http://graphic.com And yes, it is really quite good. James ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Two SQLITE RevBD questions

I am moving my app from LC6 to LC7 (in prep for LC8) and have a couple of questions regarding some changes I have made in the way I use SQLITE. 1. Escaping quotes when using binding variables Originally I was doing the standard INSERT into the DB where I constructed my SQL and then used "revExe

Re: SQLite conundrum - Solved

Luckily one cannot see your red face behind an email. My app keeps master copies of the dbs I use and as a new book is added copies the master to the user's folder, renames it and proceeds to populate it. It has been quite some time since I last read in a book as I have been editing the app usin

SQLite conundrum

I have an array of text values (actually book chapters) that I am adding to a database. The text is a mixture of alphabetic and numerals. For some of it I have line numbers at the beginning of each paragraph. E.g blah blah1. Blah blah more blah.2. Some more blah After I insert this text

Re: Formatting a number with two or more decimal points

You could just use the replace function. function newnum pnum put offset(".",pnum,3) into trem if trem = 0 then --only a single decimal return pnum else --we have more than on decimal, remove good number for later put char 1 to trem+2 of pnum into newnum delete cha

Re: Tab control-multiple cards or hidden groups?

Thanks you all for your thoughtful replies. @Paul Yes this is the direction my thinking has been heading. I think when I first toyed with this I didn't really find the application browser accessible (in a meaningful way to me) and thought multiple groups just too messy. But with the Project Bro

Tab control-multiple cards or hidden groups?

Recently there was some discussion concerning the use of hidden groups with the tab control. An app I am working on currently uses a tab control with five tabs that currently go to different cards. The cards concerned all share a number of other controls responsible for about 60% of their area w

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