Re: Encoding Arrays with File Paths

2025-02-24 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
x27;read until' and 'read for' commands allow this. Reading what is available is still useful though - as it allows data to be processed in chunks as it arrives. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.live

Re: Encoding Arrays with File Paths

2025-02-20 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
y tweaking that will make it work for the much larger file as well as the smaller one :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list us

Re: Encoding Arrays with File Paths

2025-02-19 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
the problem as the engine won't be doing any (native) encoding translation when you pass the data to decrypt on a different platform. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___

Re: macOS Sequoia (v15) and popup menu bugs?

2024-12-04 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
cipe. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your s

Re: macOS Sequoia (v15) and popup menu bugs?

2024-12-03 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ucture / modification of the popup menu which is causing a problem (I realize you can't test this is context, but it would give us some insight into making a recipe). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.live

Re: Problems with (ask and answer) dialogs with LC 10 on Windows 11

2024-12-03 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
help. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your s

Re: How to determine if a text file is UTF8 ?

2024-10-29 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
th return in tText I'd estimate this probably 99% reliable - in order for a native encoded file to *also* be valid UTF-8 is quite unlikely as for that to be the case you'd need some very strange sequences of non-ascii characters (which tend to always be surrounded by ASCII - e.g. accented

Re: What video formats work on Windows?

2024-10-14 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
gain it is dependent on codec... However, I've just tested a sample mp4 in Windows and macOS - and it *sounds* like they do a similar thing - so for mp4 at least we appear to have almost complete parity. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.

Re: What video formats work on Windows?

2024-10-14 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
e box compared to Direct Show - in particular mp4. Also, things like taking a snapshot of the player, and alwaysBuffer should now work too. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing T

Re: Still problems with creating the neccessary file for keystore reset (Lengthy mail)

2024-08-27 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
, signing-keystore=android_upload.keystore, --signing-key-alias=upload-key-alias, --rsa-aes, -encryption, --encryption-key-path=upload_certificate.pem] java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid argument: signing-keystore=android_upload.keystore Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Wadd

Re: Issues with (64bit?) Windows MySQL driver

2024-08-16 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
only change made was to remove the admin privileges of the user account, and have now reversed that change; however, this problem has remained since. Another problem that arrived at the same time, reported here as "a windows weirdness", seems (per Paul Dupuis and Mark Waddingham) to be

Re: Problems with revSetSpeechVoice

2024-08-15 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ice2 -- No dice, always reverts back to the "default" voice on my Mac. Did you try: -- put textencode(tVoice,"utf8") into tVoice2 revSetSpeechVoice tVoice2 ------ Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livec

Re: A Windows weirdness

2024-08-14 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
not 100% sure (I'll do some experimentation later on). What version of Windows does the afflicted machine have? Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-l

Re: Export snapshot - is it usable on LiveCode web apps?

2024-08-08 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
he size of the rect/object if 'at size' is not specified). In contrast, the 'external' form has to ask the OS for the given rectangle of the actual screen's framebuffer. Hope this helps, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.

Re: crop image

2024-07-25 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
file:" & myFile) Hope this helps. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: Slow stack problem

2024-06-29 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
Chunk): ASCII 300 lines - 2ms / 11ms ASCII 3000 lines - 19ms / 101ms ASCII 1 lines - 69ms / 336ms UNICODE 300 lines - 7ms / 12ms UNICODE 3000 lines - 52ms / 108ms UNICODE 1 lines - 170ms / 359ms Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livec

Re: Slow stack problem

2024-06-28 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
d repeat This should do exactly the same thing but SUBSTANTIALLY faster whether your fff variable contains native or unicode characters. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___

Re: Windows on ARM...

2024-04-09 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
thing to remember is that Microsoft are not forcing a processor transition unlike Apple have done twice now (in the last two decades) - I fully expect that Windows on ARM will support Intel executables indefinitely, just like x86-64 Windows continues to support x86 executables. Warmest Regards,

Re: disabled buttons still receive events, they just process them, later?

2024-02-21 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
It’s because of the wait - ‘blocking’ waits (those which aren’t ‘with messages’) queue any (low level) events so they are handled at the next wait (in this case the global one the engine does implicitly when there are no handlers executing). Flushing events after the wait as Jacque suggests wil

Re: AW: Re: macOS window maximization weirdness

2024-02-12 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
be sent from script somehow). -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your sub

Re: Which is faster...

2023-12-15 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
at value (the same, to be fair, is true of calling functions which return fixed values and accessing array elements - especially ones on paths longer than one). Hope this helps, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___

Re: Property Inspector bug for keys with commas in the key name

2023-11-05 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
Indeed you can indirect through a variable - but you can’t do, e.g: get the foo,bar,baz of me Which was my point :) Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. Of course an obvious syntactic extension would be allowing quoting of the property keyword: the “foo,bar,baz” of me. Sent from my iPhone > On 5 Nov

Re: Property Inspector bug for keys with commas in the key name

2023-11-05 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
rather than a string). Feel free to file a bug report about it and we'll put it on the list to look at. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use

Re: Crashing on M2 Mac

2023-11-03 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
Dan, could you file a bug with the offending line of code which crashed ios17 with 9.6.10… Just so we can check it isn’t still there in 9.6.11 :) Thanks! Mark Sent from my iPhone > On 3 Nov 2023, at 16:48, Dan Friedman via use-livecode > wrote: > > To all, > > Oops! I am mistaken…. It wa

Re: decrypt error junk

2023-11-01 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
able to generate a 'bad decrypt' message - so by all means file a bug/send a test stack to support and we can at least advise on that (and potentially update the docs). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing

Re: Modify timeout for shell function

2023-11-01 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
s of "The process ... exceeded the timeout of 10 seconds" - then there are various results relating to Laravel - which is a PHP framework. So are you shell'ing to PHP? If so my guess is that whatever PHP script you are running is using sub-processes too, and has a process timeout s

Re: Filter with wildcards

2023-10-30 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
The filter command has had a ‘with[out] regex’ form for a long time - so I’d use a regex instead :) (I’m pretty sure [ ] is a set of characters to match, rather than a list of sub strings, in wildcard expressions) Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone > On 30 Oct 2023, at 17:19, David G

Re: Oddity in 'currentCard' function?

2023-10-26 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2023-10-25 13:57, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 10/25/2023 12:34 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: If you want to do stuff with the current card of a stack, then don't use the currentCard property - 'this card of stack ...' *is* a chunk reference and

Re: Oddity in 'currentCard' function?

2023-10-26 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ing them returns the 'text' of the object. Most things *don't* expect an object reference - places that do are where an object needs to be acted on, rather than a value being needed. For example: set the X of put exists() put there is an answer Warmest Rega

Re: Oddity in 'currentCard' function?

2023-10-24 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
: put the long id of this card of stack ... into tCardId Of course, if you really want to use the currentCard (for whatever reason), then you need to make sure all your cards have names (which to be fair, is a good habit to get into - as is naming all objects with some, unique, name!).

Re: OS X document icon missing

2023-10-19 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
spect that is the problem :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubs

Re: Livecode 10dp6 and web fonts

2023-10-03 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
roperties!). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscrib

Re: Android ANR (App not responding | Jacque was right :-)

2023-09-15 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
appen? e.g. an network request, something to initialize etc.? Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. If you send your app's source to supp...@livecode.com with a rough outline of where to look for startup code etc. then Panos and I can take a quick look and see if we can see anything which may be causing yo

Re: Sorting by item ... of each and item ... of each

2023-09-03 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
Here the sortkey is defined so that the text sort of the sort keys is that same as sorting first by sub-section number and then by section number. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things

Re: Pasting text and images together?

2023-09-02 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
You could poke around the raw clipboard data - this is platform specific (in terms of the keys) but gives a complete reflection of the system clipboard: lock clipboard put the keys of the rawClipboardData unlock clipboard This will dump what raw data types are present - then you can fetch using

Re: is strictly a name

2023-09-01 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
name => true end repeat There might be a few other places where you could see a name rather than a string, but as mentioned above - its unlikely that 99.9% of people would ever need to worry about it :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode

Re: [[ ANN ]] Release 9.6.10 RC-1

2023-08-20 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
. The SQLite JSON support was included in dbsqlite in 9.0.3 - https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21821 Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode

Re: Detecting when resizeStack is completed

2023-08-18 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
the result into sPendingResizeId end resizeStack on _doResizeStack pWidth, pHeight lock screen ... do relayout ... unlock screen end _doResizeStack ``` This defers the relayout code until a resize stack message has not been sent for the timeout interval. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark

Re: Linux filenames in LC Server

2023-08-16 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
downside is that you would not be able to manipulate files on the server which had badly encoded utf-8 names. However, that seems like an extreme edge case; and one which you could work around by just setting the LANG env var to a native encoding and put appropriate code in your app to deal wit

Re: Browser widget: "Navigation request cancelled"

2023-08-15 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
e upcoming 10-dp-6. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and m

Re: Linux filenames in LC Server

2023-08-15 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
HP7 I believe it handles unicode transparently a bit like LC does, so I'll see if I can see what PHP7+ uses to determine the system encoding. Indeed, it might do no harm at all to just assume UTF-8 encoding for Linux in the engine if the locale vars are not set (which appears to be

Re: Linux filenames in LC Server

2023-08-14 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2023-08-14 12:30, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: So assuming that the defaultFolder is accessible in your above script (as a read-only folder would also cause the same error) then there does appear to be something up here... Okay so I'm pretty sure the linux server engine is

Re: Linux filenames in LC Server

2023-08-14 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
g) filename was normalized differently (thus resulting in the file not being found). So assuming that the defaultFolder is accessible in your above script (as a read-only folder would also cause the same error) then there does appear to be something up here... Warmest Regards, Mark

Re: Linux filenames in LC Server

2023-08-14 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
uot;NFD" (decomposed). Warmest Regards, Mark. P.S. For all the gory details about Unicode normalization forms see - https://unicode.org/reports/tr15/ -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___

Re: LC 9.6.9 App uses too much memory!

2023-08-14 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
recipe and attach (or send to supp...@livecode.com if its sensitive) the stack and recipe for reproducing the problem so we can take a look. Thanks in advance, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things

Re: charIndex property

2023-07-27 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
. Sent from my iPhone > On 27 Jul 2023, at 21:23, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 7/27/2023 4:31 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: >>> On 2023-07-26 18:02, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: >>> If I have some text in a field, I can use

Re: LC on Sonoma beta

2023-07-27 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
le to find out! Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: charIndex property

2023-07-27 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
first char of the specified word (which is what charIndex gives you in a field) is that +1. The above should work for both +ve and -ve indices, and the obvious changes will make it work for other string chunks (i.e. change 'Word' for ). Hope this helps! Warmest Regards, Mark. --

Re: Livecode 10.0.0dp5 new reserved words

2023-07-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2023-07-11 13:26, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Anyway, we'll try and figure out what has changed to cause the change in behavior - at the very least we can go back and add a 'breaking change' warning to the release note for the change which caused the issue. Okay

Re: Livecode 10.0.0dp5 new reserved words

2023-07-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ntly) is `pLayer'. I'm sure there are a fair few other examples. Anyway, we'll try and figure out what has changed to cause the change in behavior - at the very least we can go back and add a 'breaking change' warning to the release note for the change which caused the

Re: Livecode 10.0.0dp5 new reserved words

2023-07-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ut could be a (necessary, but unrealized) side-effect of another change we've made internally. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailin

Re: Different default bg color of stacks Mac/Win

2023-05-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2023-05-11 15:51, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Mark, Am 11.05.2023 um 16:49 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode : On 2023-05-11 15:45, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: See screenshot of a stack with two OPAQUE (and white) text fields created on Mac and opened on

Re: generate an Array using value for naming the keys?

2023-05-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
as the structure of the string can be seen immediately without having to wade through quotes and ampersands :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode m

Re: Different default bg color of stacks Mac/Win

2023-05-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
a bug, should I create a report for that? Not a bug - the default is to use 'native' themes on desktop platforms, and that also influences the background color of a stack. If you don't want that - then you need to explicitly set the background color. Warmest Regards, Mark. -

Re: generate an Array using value for naming the keys?

2023-05-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
& tMiddlePart & "_" & tSuffix] into tMiddlePartSuffixValue Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Custom property retrieval incorrect

2023-04-28 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
rop handlers from those libraries - hopefully an update will go out next week :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.

Re: Problem using AppleScript of "system events" to click a location on screen

2023-04-27 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
You didn’t mention the kind of mac you are running and whether either the standalone or ide is running in rosetta or not :) To be fair, that part was about the exec error rather than the expected outcome though… The reason you are seeing the effect you are when not doing the request from a sep

Re: Weird window behavior

2023-04-27 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
Levure framework. > --- > Marty Knapp > >> On Apr 27, 2023, at 9:39 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >>> On 2023-04-19 19:25, Marty Knapp via use-livecode wrote: >>> Ever since I updated to Ventura on my Mac I've had this wei

Re: Custom property retrieval incorrect

2023-04-27 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
Intriguing - my guess is that something in the message path in your IDEs has a getProp cVersion handler. Now it could be something built into the IDE - although I’m not sure what - or it could be a plug-in or extension. An easy way to find out is to temporarily rename the ‘My LiveCode’ folder a

Re: Weird window behavior

2023-04-27 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24199 (I think at least) - which has now reduced to being due to the backdrop - https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24200. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode:

Re: Problem using AppleScript of "system events" to click a location on screen

2023-04-27 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
? Are you using an Apple architecture mac? If so, is the IDE running under Rosetta, and the standalone native, or vice-versa (or both the same)? -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-liv

Re: more then 1 browser widget in a web standalone?

2023-04-24 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
website is just refusing to be embedded - indeed if you go to: https://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_iframe_height_width Then change the src to the website above then it won't work there either. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~

Re: Android 13?

2023-04-23 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
use a custom manifest) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscrib

Re: Android 13?

2023-04-23 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
9 - so also contains the updates to Android (and iOS) version targets. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: [[ ANN ]] Release 10.0.0 DP-5

2023-04-20 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ocal tFoo = empty => tFoo = "empty" and not ""). The fix to both is to quote the offending token. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ us

Re: Which sqlite?

2023-04-17 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
lso appear in a subsequent 10dp. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, u

Re: 9.6.9 iOS compile error

2023-04-13 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ensure that the arm64 key is always present. Sorry for the inconvenience. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runr

Re: Unable to load Preferences LC 9.6.9rc3 and Levure 9.0.5

2023-04-10 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
e other day, I did notice that Levure has an LCB extension which can do preferences stuff on macOS - bypassing the need for an external, but I couldn't see how you opt to use that instead of the external). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.

Re: running platform-native by default

2023-03-24 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
tin). In 9.6.9-rc-3 (which is, hopefully, imminent!), we'll be removing the experimental tag from the arm64 slice and make the priority the default - i.e. on arm macs LC and its standalones will run using the native (arm64) architecture by default. Warmest Regards,

Re: ChatGPT examples

2023-01-20 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
n any less time than O(N*log N) - so the revised algorithm is O(N*log N) as you have to sort the input for it to be able to scan linearly. :D Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things ___

Re: Standalone riddle

2023-01-20 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
st. (The remote debugger adds and removes itself from an internal list of things to include when using test as the preference/option changes). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Build Amazing Things

Re: Lock screen and animated gif

2022-12-21 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
handler is called. The way pending messages are dispatched is such that it will only restore the defautlStack if it is the same as the stack it was when the handler was entered. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can c

Re: Lock screen and animated gif

2022-12-20 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
e only guarantee with pending messages is that they will be sent as close to the requested time as possible - so for code to explicitly rely on a pending message being dispatched at a specific 'wait for messages' would be so tied to timings of things as to be so fragil

Re: [OT} Sunsetting Atom Editor 12/15/2022

2022-12-09 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ons with online services for development through terminal stuff - e.g. stripe comes to mind. If you are doing LiveCode scripting in concert with the IDE / GUI type stuff - then VSCode vs something else pretty much comes down to personal taste :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m.

Re: Crash on launching LC server version > 9.6.7 using terminal

2022-12-08 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
.6.8) are not affected. It would be nice if someone had a recipe to solve the issue. See this forum post for details of how to resolve: https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=37437 Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveC

Re: [OT} Sunsetting Atom Editor 12/15/2022

2022-12-08 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
gards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription prefer

Re: RANT (Mild): revZIP library

2022-10-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
windows exe? I wonder if its just a limitation of the library we use when compiled for 32-bit archs... Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode

Re: PDF Printing

2022-10-04 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
the same as choosing 'Save As PDF' from the printer dialog). Hope this helps! Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runr

Re: LC converts phone number to scientific notation

2022-09-09 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
item on the todo list to improve that behavior). For example, the variable viewer in the SE is a treeview widget, so if a variable holds a number that will display in scientific notation if it has above a certain number of significant digits. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~

Re: Livecode SQLite

2022-08-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
on features (perhaps not JSON related) included in more recent versions? If you file a bug report with what examples of what isn't working, then we'll look into updating to the latest version of the library. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.

Re: Tree Widget: hilitedValue?

2022-07-11 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
use an array as an element specifier. Has that been around the whole time, or was it added in recent years? I added it before 6.0 - probably in 4.5 or 5. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps

On API keys...

2022-06-24 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
2) If your API key is compromised (or you do need to change it, for whatever reason) you can do so without having to have everyone install an app update with the new one in. Anyway, that's probably more than Tom probably needed to know (or perhaps knew already), but hopefully it i

Re: {OT} Are there any ffmpeg "experts" on this list?

2022-06-24 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
rds, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription prefere

Re: How to color a "cell"?

2022-06-23 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
;line' - the properties appear on the 'p' tags, and they have an effect on a per (wrapped) paragraph basis. When set on *all other string chunks* (which reduce to char chunks) - the properties appear as runs in the 'p' tags, and they have an effect on runs of text.

Re: How to color a "cell"?

2022-06-23 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
IIRC you need to use ‘line’ to set ‘paragraph‘ properties of fields… Sent from my iPhone > On 23 Jun 2022, at 19:29, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Craig wrote: > > > Richard wrote: > >> I had hoped the paragraph-level formatting options introduced in > >> v5.x would help, but

Re: M1 Macs and LC 9.6.8 RCs and 10.0.0 RCs

2022-06-21 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-06-21 12:18, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Am 21.06.2022 um 11:56 schrieb Mark Waddingham via use-livecode : Why? First, it's more convenient for the developer. I think the end user is more important (in this case) ;) The Intel only and Apple only builds are smalle

Re: M1 Macs and LC 9.6.8 RCs and 10.0.0 RCs

2022-06-21 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
is related to macOS High Sierra - 10.13 - and below *not* supported arm64 slices in some of the command-line tools the S/B uses) - and I fully expect the experimental tag to be removed by final release of 10 (and the corresponding 9.6.x maintenance release just after that). -- Mark Waddingham

Re: M1 Macs and LC 9.6.8 RCs and 10.0.0 RCs

2022-06-20 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
w the Rosetta box as checked or not when the user hasn't explicitly prodded it in the past (which obviously they won't have done for new apps / those which didn't have the option before!). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/

Re: char as word boundary

2022-06-13 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
ally* do (taking into account what it would be most useful in the widest possible circumstances) is definitely on the cards. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps __

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-10 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
msg' and environment variable globals as reference parameters to handlers *not* removing 'msg' or environment variables in general! Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps _

Re: Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-09 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-06-09 16:33, Devin Asay via use-livecode wrote: Wait, you said three questions. But no. What are those two hard problems of computer science again? ;) -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps

Would anyone miss convertOctals?

2022-06-09 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
already made a number of them for 10 already, and my gut tells me removing convertOctals is likely to cause less consternation than those we already have - but I could be wrong! -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps _

Re: Generating Random numbers to conform a distribution

2022-06-07 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
- tC * tSMean into tK local tTarget repeat for each item tS in tSource put tC * tS + tK & comma after tTarget end repeat return tTarget end randomNumbers Hope this helps! Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~

Re: Case sensitivity in Livecode ??

2022-06-07 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
d be helpful is, instead of just going 'can we have global constants', propose problems you need to solve / would like to solve and use-cases you have encountered where the existing xTalky feature set is not sufficient to solve it in some reasonably elegant fashion without 'global consta

Re: Case sensitivity in Livecode ??

2022-06-07 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
yMagicValue return 17 end gkMyMagicValue Including the global declaration its the same number of lines (indeed less, as you'd need to put a global declaration in every script which wanted to use said global constant...). Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Ma

Re: Reporting Apple Silicon anomalies (Re: [[ ANN ]] Release 9.6.8 RC-1)

2022-06-06 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
discrepancy is between Apple and Intel architectures :) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Case sensitivity in Livecode ??

2022-06-01 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
uestion came up on exactly the same day I 'finished' my patch for the above - it now awaits review which may result in it not being quite finished ;) -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps

Re: Set HTMLText and Get Effective HTMLText

2022-05-18 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2022-05-18 17:43, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote: I wish it worked with variables though because execution would be faster. If variables could manipulate styled text (aka htmlText) then they wouldn't be any faster than fields ;) Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingha

Re: drawingSvgCompileIcon(pIconName) always BLACK

2022-04-06 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
the editor and then just doing a global find/replace of (e.g.) #ABCDEF with currentColor. Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: Weird Standalone Builder issue

2022-03-25 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
do what you want as the macOS exes would be in a different place (because they need to be!) so it wouldn't resolve that - but at least you wouldn't have been 'surprised' by what you found! Warmest Regards, Mark. -- Mark Wadding

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