Re: Archives restored

2025-04-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Well, at least for me the weird formatting issue (= sign before line breaks below) is still present. On 4/25/2025 11:29 AM, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote: Dear list members, I'm pleased to say our list archives have been restored. I am also = hopeful that the weird formatting issues we'

Re: Script execution error using 'the fontNames'

2025-04-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Typo - that was supposed to be Windows 10 (but, the 9 and 0 are really close on my keyboard and my fingers seem to grow bigger and the keys smaller as the years go by!) On 4/15/2025 1:43 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Are you from the future? (There is no Windows 19) LOL! Bob S _

Script execution error using 'the fontNames'

2025-04-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
With the assorted list problems, I hope this get posted in a readable form. On Windows 19, in a Standalone built on Livecode 9.6.3, the following line: put the fontNames into tFonts Is generating the following execution error: put: error in expression:  (Line 5789, column 1) This code works -

Re: XPDF Documentation

2025-04-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
To put XPDF in selection more, use XPDFViewer_ChooseMouseMode "Document1",pMode -- "browse", "selection", "image" To select a range of text on (or across) page(s), use XPDFViewer_Select "Document1",item 1 of tPDFPageRef,item 2 of tPDFPageRef,item 3 of tPDFPageRef,item 4 of tPDFPageRef See

Re: XPDF Documentation

2025-03-21 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
t XPDF was done by = another developer and cannot be modified. I could be mistaken though. How u= nfortunate, and short sighted though. The one thing someone would want from= a form is not the form but the data it contained.=20 Bob S On Mar 21, 2025, at 6:56 AM, Paul Dupuis via us

Re: Datagrid again

2025-03-19 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
If there is no data to be displayed, we hide the Datagrid itself and show a simple bordered locked field (with large type) saying "No Data Selected" Suggested alternative. I am not sure the headers can be hidden as part of the Datagrid. You would want to consult the Datagid documentation with

Re: Cannot access forum?

2025-03-17 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
It's just so sad that some person or persons feel that trying to take down someone else's web service is somehow a way to (a) make money OR (b) get revenge OR (c) just be an a$$hole OR all of the above :-( On 3/17/2025 12:22 PM, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote: Just a heads up, the forums

Re: Cannot access forum?

2025-03-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I'm also getting the following when trying forums.livecode.com Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource.Server unable to read htaccess file, denying access to be safe Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the req

Re: Popup Button bug??

2025-01-27 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Is this new and occurring on macOS Sequoia? I ask as I have some popup (and other) menu weirdness happening that is new to Sequoia. On 1/27/2025 12:17 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Hi all. I have the command: popup pMenuButton at pLocation pMenuButton contains: button “mnuLocatio

Re: MacOS compatibility

2025-01-10 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Sequoia compatibility is a little more complicated For example, if you build you app for Intel, Rosetta is not preinstalled on Sequoia, and when someone first runs your Intel macOS app, they will be prompted to download Rosetta. if they decline - or as happened to us - the download was interru

Re: Window layering screwed / Problems with (ask and answer) dialogs

2024-12-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
FYI I just created a test stack with a check box (on mouseUp set the raiseWindows to the hilite of me end mouseUp) and a button (on mouseUp answer "Answer Dialog" end mouseUp) and tried it under LC 9.6.12 and 9.6.13 in the IDE on Windows 11 (latest version/updates) on an HP Pavilion (i7, 16GB

Re: Window layering screwed

2024-12-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I am running Windows 11 with the latest updates on an HP Pavilion laptop with a i7 processor and 16GB of RAM. I have no window layering issues under LC9.6.13, LC 10.0.0, or LC 10.0.1rc3. On 12/8/2024 4:01 AM, Hugh Senior via use-livecode wrote: After years of working as expected, now any stac

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

2024-12-04 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 12/3/2024 3:10 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2024-11-30 16:16, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: We have a confirmed report of a customer experience a repeatable hard crash of out application on macOS Sequoia (15.1.1) when trying to invoke a right-click context menu. We

macOS Sequoia (v15) and popup menu bugs?

2024-11-30 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
We have a confirmed report of a customer experience a repeatable hard crash of out application on macOS Sequoia (15.1.1) when trying to invoke a right-click context menu. We implement context menus by a Frontscript that looks at mouseDown, and, if it is a mouseDown with the right modifiers for

Re: Scrollbar color

2024-10-22 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
In Livecode (9.6.13 is what I used), click on the "Sample Stacks" icon in the toolbar. In the Sample Stacks window that comes up, search for "Scrollbar" (across all Stacks). he first one that comes up is a stack (by Oliver Kenyon) to make custom scrollbars. I have not ever had a need for a cust

Re: Scrollbar color

2024-10-19 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
See https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=7762 Scrollbars and sliders are essentially the same object. This enhancement request/bug has been logged since 2009. I think the same request for scrollbars is also in the Quality Center bugzilla database and goes back even farther, but I didn

Re: How to check if a group contains a specific control ?

2024-08-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/23/2024 7:45 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi jbv, Am 23.08.2024 um 13:27 schrieb jbv via use-livecode : Hi list, Is there a quick way to check if a group contains a specific control, something like : if there is a fld "xyz" in grp "abc" of this cd I tried many things but it

Re: Extracting test scores from a PDF

2024-08-17 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/17/2024 12:24 PM, Charles Szasz via use-livecode wrote: I came a web app that can extract test scores from a PDF and insert them into an app. Can LC do the same thing? I assume you mean can a programmer write an app in Livecode to extract test scores from a PDF and do something with th

Re: Live LiveCode Create demo

2024-08-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Just speaking for myself. I use substacks for different windows (modal or nonmodal) in my application. A substack rarely has more than one card, which has the controls for that window laid out the way I want them. Also, substacks can just be script libraries or other sorts of libraries (icons,

Re: A Windows weirdness

2024-08-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I'm guessing here: Paths on local Windows systems are typically driveletter:folder\folder\...\file.extension Window scan use UNC paths, such as: |\\Server2\Share\Test\Foo.txt| || When we had our first customer who was extensively using UNC paths, our software broke until we updated it to allo

Cell colorization in a table in Livecode...

2024-08-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
My second color question of the day. We current have a analytical view in our app which shows a table of frequencies. The number of rows and columns are driven by user data and can becomes a large number (I've heard all the arguments that users should not ever view tables of hundreds of rows b

Re: Best way to convert color values

2024-08-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
pplies to the different color formats. Fairly simple to roll your own, depending on how comprehensive you need it. Craig On Aug 7, 2024, at 12:04 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: You have RGB colors (0-255,0-255,0-255), Hex colors (#00 - #FF

Best way to convert color values

2024-08-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
You have RGB colors (0-255,0-255,0-255), Hex colors (#00 - #FF) and named colors ("blue") in Livecode Any built in way (via some trick) to convert between color value formats? I can always write a routine to convert RGB to Hex and Hex to RGB, but I am wondering if there is some clever

Re: By popular demand - Extend access to LC Classic IDEs BEYOND 2027!

2024-08-02 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
+100 also On 8/2/2024 2:04 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Yup. +100 On Aug 2, 2024, at 10:45 AM, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote: Please take this off list. This thread is not helpful and its time for it to stop. ___ use-livecode

Re: Proposed update to datagrid library

2024-07-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
My Datagrid skills are not great, but i thought the thedgIndexes ofgroup"DataGrid" The Dictionary says "Returns the internal list of indexes in the order in which they appear in the data grid" You also have the dgIndexOfLine[pLine] to get the index of the line (hilited line or next line or whate

Re: Date and time format question

2024-07-29 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/29/2024 6:14 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Simpler than that: on mouseUp put "Mon, 29 Jul 2024 15:49:52 -0400" into tDateTime put word -1 of tDateTime into tOffset -- delete last word of tDateTime convert tDateTime to seconds put (tOffset / 100) *60 *60 into tO

Re: Date and time format question

2024-07-29 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
st word of tDateTime convert tDateTime to seconds put (tOffset / 100) *60 *60 into tOffset add tOffset to tDateTime convert tDateTime to long date and long time put tDateTime end mouseUp Bob S On Jul 29, 2024, at 3:02 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: dateItems does not contain th

Re: Date and time format question

2024-07-29 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ormat("%2u",item 5 of it) &":"& format("%2u",item 6 of it) &"Z" after tTimestamp -- the time in new format   return tTimestamp end refiXMLTimestamp On 7/29/2024 5:37 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Convert it to dateitems, then back a

Re: Date and time format question

2024-07-29 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Follow up question/request: put the internet date into tTimestamp -- stores something like Mon, 29 Jul 2024 16:49:52 -0400, where the -0400 is the time zone offset Anyone have some already written code to convert this to a time in GMT (i.e where the time zone offset is +, i.e. Mon, 29 Jul

Re: Date and time format question

2024-07-29 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Thank you all (and especially Curry for confirming what I though the Z was for) On 7/29/2024 3:44 PM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote: ... 'Utc date and time values uses "Z" (which stands for zero offset) to represent UTC.' (MS) Best wishes, Curry Kenworthy Radically Innovative Chr

Date and time format question

2024-07-29 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have an export routine I am writing and it expects timestamps in the following format: 2018-03-27T17:46:39Z I can output LC dates and times in any format, but I personally have not seen this format before. The "T" is obviously just a delimited between the data and time, but my question is t

Re: Community edition

2024-07-29 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Because of a change Apple made in Sonoma, only LC 6.9.11 and higher will work on that and future macOSes On 7/29/2024 9:45 AM, Heriberto Torrado via use-livecode wrote: Hi Tim, Yes, that could be the problem. All computers I've tested livecode run MacOs Sonoma. Best, Hery On 7/27/24 02:57

Re: fwGestalt() function

2024-07-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
With due credit to Richard for the original, you might want to update it for today's disk sizes, This adds GB and TB function Bytes2Size n   set the numberformat to "0.#"   if n < 1024 then     put n &" bytes" into n   else     put n / 1024 into n     if n < 1024 then   put n &" KB" into n  

Re: .mp4 support in browser widget--Windows

2024-07-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
As customers once had to download and install Quicktime for Windows to use a wide variety of media in Revolution/Livecode Standalones under Windows (XP, 7, 8.x, 10, 11), when QT for Win became obsolete, we just switched to directing customers to download and install LAV Filters instead. They do

Re: .mp4 support in browser widget--Windows

2024-07-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
filters install? On Jul 7, 2024, at 8:10 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Windows 11 will have the issue. Livecode on Windows 10 or 11 uses DirectShow. Try the LAV Filters to get the formats you want. .mp4 is fine, I am not sure about .mp5 support. See the LAV Filters read me and docume

Re: .mp4 support in browser widget--Windows

2024-07-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
, Paul. So, Windows 11 shouldn’t have this issue? On Jul 7, 2024, at 1:58 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Livecode on Windows (9.x.x and 10.x.x) still uses DirectShow for the video (vs the Microsoft Media Foundation (MMF), the current standard. DirectShow was always limited in the

Re: .mp4 support in browser widget--Windows

2024-07-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Livecode on Windows (9.x.x and 10.x.x) still uses DirectShow for the video (vs the Microsoft Media Foundation (MMF), the current standard. DirectShow was always limited in the number of codec for various audio and video formats it supported natively. I stringly recommend for macOS Windows parit

Re: url no longer working as expected

2024-06-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
wrote: Did you try that in the message box? Bob S On Jun 28, 2024, at 10:50 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I get a response from Yahoos that is an html page with a 404 information as part of it. This happens under LC 9.6.12 and 9.6.11 I think this is Yahoo Finance not being able t

Re: url no longer working as expected

2024-06-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I get a response from Yahoos that is an html page with a 404 information as part of it. This happens under LC 9.6.12 and 9.6.11 I think this is Yahoo Finance not being able to detect the browser type and intentionally returning a 404 as a method of deterring screen scraping. On 6/28/2024 1:

Re: eMail attachment: best practice?

2024-06-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
-using-the-tsnet-external Am 25.06.2024 um 22:35 schrieb Paul Dupuis via use-livecode : Under a specific condition, my app creates an email with some pre-populated information using revMail: revMail address, [ccAddress, [mailSubject, [messageBody]]] So, my call is: revMail tSupportEmail, , "

Re: eMail attachment: best practice?

2024-06-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
via use-livecode wrote: 2) My more important question is how does one create an email with an attached file? I see no feature of revMail to include an attachment. Is there some other way? If there is no way to add an attachment, what might the best practice for sending the contents and

eMail attachment: best practice?

2024-06-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Under a specific condition, my app creates an email with some pre-populated information using revMail: revMail address, [ccAddress, [mailSubject, [messageBody]]] So, my call is: revMail tSupportEmail, , "Diagnostic Report Information", tEmailBody Where tSupportEmail contains a valid email addr

Re: Survey: Would you buy one or more widgets from the PRO PACK separately?

2024-06-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Of those listed, I would pay for (if I needed to, but I have the full LC that includes extensions) the PDF Viewer and, possibly, tsNet PRO I do not develop for mobile, so mobile widgets are not of any immediate interest. On 6/14/2024 2:19 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi friends

Re: Pop Combo Menu

2024-06-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 6/12/2024 3:01 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: *click*at(rightofbtn1- 5,topofbtn1+ 5) Sorry that line of code is: (paste of formatted text messed it up) click at (right of btn 1 - 5,top of btn 1 + 5) ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: Pop Combo Menu

2024-06-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 6/12/2024 2:20 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Hi all. I have a Combo Menu button. I want to have it “pop” open and show the options via script, but I cannot find a command to do that. Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists

Re: LiveCode on Social Media

2024-06-04 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I followed this one for a little while: https://www.reddit.com/r/livecode/ It was not very active, and, like many Reddit groups, prone to SPAM. Reddit, in general, does have a large developer community. On 6/3/2024 7:22 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: For LC support nothing beats t

Re: Place Phone Call MacOS

2024-05-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
FYI: launch url "tel:[phone number]" Works in LC on Windows 11 as well if you have paired your Android or iPhone with Windows. On 5/24/2024 12:28 PM, Andreas Bergendal via use-livecode wrote: There is. The url type is ”tel”. launch url "tel:[phone number]” (Works in the IDE at least, can’t

Re: somehow OT, but somehow not - no price information anymore on Livecode website

2024-05-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Pricing still seems to be available for Student and Educational plans: For example, at https://livecode.com/education-plans/ under the "Buy a LiveCode Subscription" there is a link for "View Pricing Options" (https://livecode.com/education-plans/#pricingoptions) It is just Pros & Business the

Re: Saving data in standalone

2024-05-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ecode wrote: I did not explicitly mention that any and all of the attached stacks are savable. Craig On May 16, 2024, at 1:31 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 5/16/2024 12:58 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: save that stack under a customer file extension That should have sa

Re: Saving data in standalone

2024-05-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 5/16/2024 12:58 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: save that stack under a customer file extension That should have said "custom file extension" ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Saving data in standalone

2024-05-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
My suggestion would be to have your Standalone create a new stack with the user's work and save that stack under a customer file extension for your app. You can not actually save data in a standalone. you must save it to some source outside of the standalone - and stack, a text file, a binary

Re: Livecode startup messages...

2024-05-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ilds. Regards, Matthias Am 03.05.2024 um 20:16 schrieb Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>: I had not searched the forums, but I just did for "Waiting for printer" and "printer connections" and neither phrase turned up anything rela

Re: Livecode startup messages...

2024-05-03 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
; returns 38 screens of forum messages! Good suggestion though. Thank you. On 5/3/2024 1:43 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: I think this has come up before, but I forget the resolution. Did you search the forums? Bob S On May 3, 2024, at 10:40 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-liveco

Livecode startup messages...

2024-05-03 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
When LC 9.6.11 or 9.6.12rc1 starts up OR (more importantly to me) Standalones build with either of those versions starts up, on Windows 11, there is a dialog that appear stating "Waiting for printer connections..." This dialog may appear on earlier versions - I forget if I had seen it previou

Re: Help converting python one-liner...

2024-04-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ome issue with raw base64 encoding in json? On Wed, 24 Apr 2024 at 19:26, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: On 4/24/2024 1:43 PM, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote: I'm trying to base64 encode an image and include it into a json file to post to an ap

Re: Help converting python one-liner...

2024-04-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 4/24/2024 1:43 PM, David Bovill via use-livecode wrote: I'm trying to base64 encode an image and include it into a json file to post to an api. The python code that accomplishes this is: image1_data = base64.b64encode(httpx.get(image1_url).content).decode("utf-8") When I try to follow the lo

Re: Windows on ARM...

2024-04-10 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ARM. -- Paul On 4/10/2024 2:11 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2024-04-09 20:03, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Mothership people (or anyone in the community that may know this): Microsoft is expected to port and release Windows running on ARM chips (Surface lapto

Re: Windows on ARM...

2024-04-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Mothership people (or anyone in the community that may know this): Microsoft is expected to port and release Windows running on ARM chips (Surface laptops will use the Snapdragon X Elite processors from Qualcomm

Windows on ARM...

2024-04-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Mothership people (or anyone in the community that may know this): Microsoft is expected to port and release Windows running on ARM chips (Surface laptops will use the Snapdragon X Elite processors from Qualcomm) this year. Announcement expected May 20, shipping - who knows when, but likely th

Re: Revisiting Lock Screen

2024-03-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
In our app, we have a lot of handlers (internal APIs) that get called by other handlers and, as multiple developers are involved, knowing what is calling what takes some effort. To address the issue of screen locks, we adopted a coding standard as follows: If a handler should lock the screen,

Dropping file on an LC standalone...

2024-03-21 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
My question is what message is triggered when a file is dropped on a running LC standdalone on Windows On Windows, if the APP is started by dropping a file on it, the file name is available to any handler in the startup sequence via the $1 special variable. i.e. IF teh variable $1 contains a f

Re: PDF widget print quality

2024-02-21 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I'm not sure it is possible. Livecode's printing tends to be card based and at card resolution, typically 72 dpi. I recall seeing some efforts on the lists and forums to make an object 4 times bigger (75 dpi x 4 = 300 dpi) so that when it is printed to a 300dpi printer is is a higher resolutio

Re: polygrid formatted column width

2024-02-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
You have the dataWidth of the polygrid for the formattedWidth of the widget (to be wide enough to display all data), but what I think you want is some equivalent of the fomattedWidth of each column. I don't believe any such property exists in the polygrid. It would be like setting the columnWid

Re: Manipulating PDF's

2024-02-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
If you just need a person to view a particular spot in a PDF, using the PDF widget in Livecode would be easier than trying to manipulate an arbitrary PDF viewer. If there is a way to adjust the scroll, it is probably PDF viewer specific and you'd need to know whether the user is using Apple Pre

Re: Latest PolyGrid

2024-02-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
1_0_33 is the version I am running as well. I had not seen any announcement or email about a .34 release. Now I think I will try to avoid it and wait for .35! On 2/13/2024 11:45 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi all, yesterday I installed the latest version of "livecode_enhancement

AW: Re: macOS window maximization weirdness

2024-02-10 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
hy macOS should receive a desktopChanged message on window maximization when Windows does not? Paul Dupuis Researchware On 1/15/2024 6:16 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I have a standalone, built with Livecode 9.6.11 STABLE, where for some windows (stacks) on certain macOS versions, maximizing

Re: Mousedown in Application Menubar Messages

2024-02-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I've not experienced any problems with the menubar group receiving a mouseDown message to adjust the menus based on context before they appear (LC versions up to 9.6.11 on macOS and Windows) A long time back, I did have an unnecessary  'wait 0 with messages' in my mouseDown handler and had ins

Re: Regex brain failure...

2024-02-03 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
; to make it work just for test. On Sat, 3 Feb 2024 at 21:13, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Never mind. The correct pattern is: ^\d+?\t.\tnontraditional field\tText\t2,319\tInterview 1\.txt$ There is a column with a space in it between the number column (1st column)

Re: Regex brain failure...

2024-02-03 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
to figure out why that is! On 2/3/2024 1:36 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I have a (reduced) example set of data in a variable "tCaseCodes" that is tab delimited set of lines below: 1         I am making a high salary    Text    2,319    Interview 1.txt 2         nontraditi

Regex brain failure...

2024-02-03 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a (reduced) example set of data in a variable "tCaseCodes" that is tab delimited set of lines below: 1         I am making a high salary    Text    2,319    Interview 1.txt 2         nontraditional field    Text    2,319    Interview 1.txt 3         gets married and stays married    Text 

Re: macOS window maximization weirdness

2024-01-19 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
 That is probably (hopefully) going to be a good place to start since you have good and bad placement in the same handler. Brian Milby br...@milby7.com On Jan 19, 2024, at 1:30 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: So , for any one interested, here are screenshots of what is happening

Re: macOS window maximization weirdness

2024-01-19 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
So , for any one interested, here are screenshots of what is happening. The "Autocode" window (stack) and the "Search Sources" window (stack) are two example of the windows that do NOT maximize correctly. Many other resizable windows do so just fine and windows with both fewer and more controls

Re: Bug 23507 - LC Clipboard Polling Failure

2024-01-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Ralph, Thanks for the tip. As I did into this problem, I'll give that a try. I'm just getting tired of Apple and/or Livecode changing things so that code that DID work is then discovered NOT working any more. I have very limited time and resources and I'd like to spend MORE of it making new

macOS window maximization weirdness

2024-01-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a standalone, built with Livecode 9.6.11 STABLE, where for some windows (stacks) on certain macOS versions, maximizing the window results in no controls being drawn or most controls being drawn incorrectly. It is not every resizable window (stack) in my app, just some. It is not every v

Re: Embedded PDFs in Windows Menu

2023-12-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I'm not sure exactly what you are talking about? Are you asking about launching a PDF from a menu item under a "Windows" menu? On 12/31/2023 9:41 AM, Charles Szasz via use-livecode wrote: I have found that a method I use (proposed by LC tech support a few years ago to embed PDFs in a Windows

Re: Message Sent when Resizing Widgets: Workaround

2023-12-29 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Bob, This is nice trick (and code) to use an overlayed button to get a widget to respond to standard messages. Impressive! I really think that Livecode Ltd. needs to prioritize adding a set of "standard" object messages to every current widget to address these 3 bugs (and their generalizatio

Re: Should I upgrade to Xcode 15.0 or 15.1?

2023-12-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
both 15 and 15.1? i've been holding off on updating to sonoma On Sat, Dec 16, 2023 at 1:55 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: For the purposes of notarization of macOS apps, I have seen no difference between Xcode 15 and 15.1 under Sonoma on a ma

Re: Should I upgrade to Xcode 15.0 or 15.1?

2023-12-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
For the purposes of notarization of macOS apps, I have seen no difference between Xcode 15 and 15.1 under Sonoma on a macBook Air (M1 processor) I don't developer iOS apps though, nor do I use Xcode for anything other than code signing, notarization, and stapling of macOS desktop apps On 12

Re: Which is faster...

2023-12-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
And that is THE DEFINITIVE answer! Wow! Thank you. On 12/15/2023 10:00 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2023-12-14 21:22, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Which is faster or more efficient (from an engine performance perspective)? To retrieve an array from a property? As in

Re: Which is faster...

2023-12-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 12/14/2023 5:25 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode wrote: Anything to distract me from my day job. Glad I could help! And thank you for the confirming benchmarks! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to s

Re: Which is faster...

2023-12-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
, at 1:22 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Which is faster or more efficient (from an engine performance perspective)? To retrieve an array from a property? As in: command someHandler -- in an objects script get the cMyArray from me -- cMyArray is some multi-dimensional array ... end

Which is faster...

2023-12-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Which is faster or more efficient (from an engine performance perspective)? To retrieve an array from a property? As in: command someHandler -- in an objects script   get the cMyArray from me -- cMyArray is some multi-dimensional array   ... end someHandler OR To retrieve an array from a script

Re: Get rid of the remote debugger

2023-12-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
For what it's worth, I sometime get these errors. I develop on Windows 11 (x64) using LC 9.6.11 and do not develop for mobile or web, so no remote debugging. I do not want to get rid of (remove) or turn off script debugging. I use the script debugger all the time. There is some recipe, that I

Re: greying out columns in a dataGrid

2023-11-30 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/30/2023 4:41 PM, Hershel F via use-livecode wrote: sorry my mistake. does not have to be greyed out should be a gray color. or to rephrase the question properly, how the change the color to gray? Ah! I am pretty sure it can be done, but I do not know how to do it exactly. By guess is tha

Re: greying out columns in a dataGrid

2023-11-30 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Usually, you do not disable or grey-out columns in a Datagrid, but make them invisible (hide or show the column) if they are not applicable to some view you want. On 11/30/2023 4:04 PM, Hershel F via use-livecode wrote: Hi all how is it done to grey out a column or multiple columns in data gri

Re: resizeControl wishes...

2023-11-30 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/30/2023 2:20 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: Groups get the message when resize happens by script. Other objects only receive the message when resized by hand. Brian Milby br...@milby7.com Except, the "PowerButton" widget actually receives "resizeControl" just as a group does w

Re: resizeControl wishes...

2023-11-30 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Thank you Richard. I see what the issue for me was. Groups do indeed receive a resizeControl message automatically if the rect is changed by script. However, the message (resizeControl) use seems inconsistent. For example, while a group does received the resizeControl message, a field does no

resizeControl wishes...

2023-11-30 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
resizeControl is sent "only sent when the user resizes a control by dragging its handles. It is not sent if a handler changes the size of a control by changing its properties (width, height, and so on)." Does anyone else really really wish that resizeControl was set when the control's size is

Re: Possible enhancement request

2023-11-27 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/2/2023 11:20 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi friends, before I post an enhancment request to the "Qualtiy Center", I wanted to hear your opinions about this. Wouldn't it be great if ALL widgets would receive and handle at least a mouseup (and mousedown) meassage? I have alw

Re: Launch does not work in Windows

2023-11-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/17/2023 4:24 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Hi all. Given: tTextEditorPath = "C:/Program Files/Windows NT/Accessories/wordpad.exe” tFilePath = "C:/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Installs/The Whole Child/Cerritos/25528/Old Copier Settings.txt” The command: launch tFilePath with tTex

What to set the clipboardData to for exchanging styled text with a 3rd party app

2023-11-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Hivemind, Recommendation as to what is best to set the clipboardData property to, when you want to copy styled text from a field to the clipboard for exchange with a 3rd party (any 3rd party) application that supports some form of styled text, that can include text in multiple languages (i.e.

Re: Top things you are waiting for ....

2023-11-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/12/2023 3:42 AM, jbv via use-livecode wrote: My top priority : "rev" libraries (revXML, revZIP, perhaps others) to be fully Unicode compatible. I'll add the shell() function, which is not Unicode compatible on Windows (https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22334) ___

Re: Windows maximization on desktops

2023-11-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/9/2023 5:38 PM, ambassador--- via use-livecode wrote: Paul Dupuis wrote: Is there a message sent when a user click the maximize icon (macOS and Windows) in the titlebar of a window? As others have pointed out, resizeStack is sent. And by definition, wouldn't the windowBoundingRect be th

Re: Finally success with code signing Windows standalones withe the new eToken certificates under macOS using jarsigner

2023-11-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/9/2023 4:25 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Phew, after searching, reading and trying many days i was finally able to code sign my first Windows standalone under macOS today with this new eToken certificates using jarsigner. Congratulations! Code signing on any platform appears

Re: Windows maximization on desktops

2023-11-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
t; message should be sent. Kind regards, Panos -- On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 at 18:08, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Is there a message sent when a user click the maximize icon (macOS and Windows) in the titlebar of a window? "iconifyStack" is

Windows maximization on desktops

2023-11-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Is there a message sent when a user click the maximize icon (macOS and Windows) in the titlebar of a window? "iconifyStack" is sent for minimization, and "unIconifyStack" is sent when a minimizaed stack is expanded (from the Windows taskbar or Apple dock). However, I can't seem to find an equi

Re: Subtitle and the future of the Player control

2023-11-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
There are a lot more details to really assess a best choice here (unless your questions is rhetorical). Is this a planned web app, desktop app (which platforms) or a mobile app? I assume from the javascript player comment that you are looking to build this as a web app? What video file formats

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

2023-11-03 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Hi Bernd, You do make a good point about the documentation regarding custom properties. Assuming people read the documentation. At the same time, you used to be able to use commas in custom property names. As Curry noted, Livecode even used to use them in the standalone setting properties, so

Re: Crashing on M2 Mac

2023-11-03 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode Date: Thursday, November 2, 2023 at 3:23 PM To: Paul Dupuis via use-livecode Cc: Peter Bogdanoff Subject: Crashing on M2 Mac A user is reporting crashing on his M2 Sonoma Mac. This was a build of LC 9.6.10, with both Intel and Apple chosen in the Standalone set

Re: Crashing on M2 Mac

2023-11-02 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/2/2023 6:33 PM, Dan Friedman via use-livecode wrote: Peter, I recently discovered (from one of my own apps) that a Mac app built with 9.6.10 running on Sonoma crashes when the convert command is called. I rebuilt the app in 10.0.0 (dp 6) and the app no longer crashes. Hope that helps!

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