Re: Just starting out in iOs and LiveCode

2011-03-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/3/11 4:35 PM, Steve Jones wrote: Greeting! I am a novice LiveCode user, and even more so to the iOS environment. I used RuntimeRevolution for a bit, and before that SuperCard and HyperCard so I am not completely lost. But I did have a question on the best methodology to use for a project I

Re: Just starting out in iOs and LiveCode

2011-03-03 Thread Martin Blackman
I don't know if you are using windows but if you were to open such a file in notepad you wouldnt see the linebreaks, but switch to wordpad and they should appear On 3/3/11 8:26 PM, Gerry wrote: > >> I'm embedding my own item delimiter character in the file for now >> (I'm using "\"). I then cycle

Re: Just starting out in iOs and LiveCode

2011-03-03 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/3/11 8:26 PM, Gerry wrote: I'm embedding my own item delimiter character in the file for now (I'm using "\"). I then cycle through the text and grab each item one by one, putting them into lines of the field. It works, but there must be a better way. Don't do that. Line breaks are preserve

Re: Just starting out in iOs and LiveCode

2011-03-03 Thread Gerry
I'm embedding my own item delimiter character in the file for now (I'm using "\"). I then cycle through the text and grab each item one by one, putting them into lines of the field. It works, but there must be a better way. Is the problem with my .txt file? I save it out of a text editor with Un

Re: Just starting out in iOs and LiveCode

2011-03-03 Thread Gerry
Just trying the put URL thing - pulling down a .txt file with UNIX line breaks, it seems to strip the line breaks out. How to I handle that? g -- photo site: http://gerryorkin.com On Friday, 4 March 2011 at 9:48 AM, Nonsanity wrote: > There are many, many ways to do this. The barest minimum mi

Re: Just starting out in iOs and LiveCode

2011-03-03 Thread Nonsanity
There are many, many ways to do this. The barest minimum might be: put url "http://myserver.org/updatedata/latest.txt"; into latestUpdateData Then work with that data as you wish. Not a web site, though it requires a web host to stick the file on, of course. Though there are plenty of free places

Just starting out in iOs and LiveCode

2011-03-03 Thread Steve Jones
Greeting! I am a novice LiveCode user, and even more so to the iOS environment. I used RuntimeRevolution for a bit, and before that SuperCard and HyperCard so I am not completely lost. But I did have a question on the best methodology to use for a project I have started working on to use as a