Re: Sample stacks / revOnline [was: Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition]

2021-10-04 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I could have sired a child who was just now graduating high school! :-) Bob S > On Oct 3, 2021, at 09:16 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 9/30/21 7:02 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: > >> - a "require" or "include" mechanism for dependencies in libraries > > LOL. Th

Re: Sample stacks / revOnline [was: Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition]

2021-10-03 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 9/30/21 7:02 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:  - a "require" or "include" mechanism for dependencies in libraries LOL. That request is now some 17 years old. https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1712 -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com _

Re: Sample stacks / revOnline [was: Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition]

2021-09-30 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
They're only used for uploading or editing stacks that you want to share. (Oh, now that I think about it, maybe also to rate a stack from someone else). I thought about just removing those buttons from the plugin (IMHO, the upload/edit functions are fine as they are), but then I thought someon

Re: Sample stacks / revOnline [was: Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition]

2021-09-30 Thread Roger Guay via use-livecode
This is really nice and fast, Alex. Thanks again for doing this as I’ve always felt that LC’s Sample Stacks is a great and often overlooked resource save for it’s interface. I note that "Log In" and "Sign Up" do not work. Is there any value in those items? Roger > On Sep 30, 2021, at 10:05 AM,

Re: Sample stacks / revOnline [was: Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition]

2021-09-30 Thread Roger Guay via use-livecode
Ah, it worked this time. I thought one might need your plugin to find your plugin…. Thanks, Roger > On Sep 30, 2021, at 10:05 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hmmm ... not sure why. > > Easy way : https://www.tweedly.org/Downloads/samplestacks.livecode > > Or: start the IDE,

Re: Sample stacks / revOnline [was: Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition]

2021-09-30 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
Hmmm ... not sure why. Easy way : https://www.tweedly.org/Downloads/samplestacks.livecode Or: start the IDE, and  in the toolbar (4th or so from the right) is "Sample Stacks". Then  - select "View as: List"  - select "All" on left hand side  - select "Sort by: Date"  - then reverse order

Re: Sample stacks / revOnline [was: Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition]

2021-09-30 Thread Roger Guay via use-livecode
There’s an old joke about a tourist in Maine asking a local for directions and an old farmer says “You can’t get theya from hereya”. Roger > On Sep 30, 2021, at 8:17 AM, Roger Guay via use-livecode > wrote: > > This sounds absolutely wonderful, Alex, except I can’t find it as you > described

Re: Sample stacks / revOnline [was: Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition]

2021-09-30 Thread Roger Guay via use-livecode
This sounds absolutely wonderful, Alex, except I can’t find it as you described. Roger > On Sep 30, 2021, at 7:27 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode > wrote: > > > On 30/09/2021 15:02, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: >> On 06/09/2021 15:14, Kevin Miller via use-livecode wrote: >> >>> U

Re: Sample stacks / revOnline [was: Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition]

2021-09-30 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
On 30/09/2021 15:02, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: On 06/09/2021 15:14, Kevin Miller via use-livecode wrote: Upgrading this could be a very useful project. There is a lot of content in there but it has the issues you list. So I had a look at what could be done just within the IDE for

Re: Sample stacks / revOnline [was: Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition]

2021-09-30 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
On 06/09/2021 15:14, Kevin Miller via use-livecode wrote: Upgrading this could be a very useful project. There is a lot of content in there but it has the issues you list. Kind regards, Kevin Some of these issues can easily be tackled as a community effort / project - but it's not clear to

Re: Sample stacks / revOnline [was: Re: Suggestion: Non-Appbuilding Community Edition]

2021-09-06 Thread Kevin Miller via use-livecode
Upgrading this could be a very useful project. There is a lot of content in there but it has the issues you list. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Develop Yourself On 06/09/2021, 14:11, "use-livecode on behalf of Alex Tweedly via use-

Re: Sample Stacks tab in IDE is not functional

2020-04-12 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
kee nethery wrote: > Am unable to search and get results. > > 9.5.1 on MacOS Indy Edition Build 15505 > > Have gone to web site and it too is unresponsive. > > In specific I’d like to get a stack that can read or parse a QR code. Confirmed here in v9.6dp3. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Syste

Re: Sample Stacks

2018-09-06 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
hh wrote: > Jacques LG wrote: >> We can upload zip files to Sample Stacks? ... > > No. Unfortunate. Hopefully that will be changed soon. Zip is a common foundation for many compound document types. > But you can, of course, use a stack container for zips. I used to do that, but ever since

Re: sample stacks from conference?

2018-01-19 Thread Heather Laine via use-livecode
Check your mail... Heather Laine Customer Services Manager LiveCode Ltd www.livecode.com > On 19 Jan 2018, at 14:53, Tom Glod via use-livecode > wrote: > > Does anyone know where the sample stacks from the LC Global Conference can > be found? > > Cheers > ___

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-21 Thread Rolf Kocherhans
> Am 20.03.2016 um 07:10 schrieb Richard Gaskin: > > For the short term I believe the best solution *might* be to put > RevOnline back in place as it's been for years. But I say "might" > because I don't know the reasoning behind it, and "why" is always > critically important to learn when que

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-21 Thread elanor
the Menu Bar and Start Center. http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17192 Thanks Elanor -Original Message- From: J. Landman Gay Sent: Saturday, March 19, 2016 7:01 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ? I'm not sure, I didn

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-20 Thread Rolf Kocherhans
Hello Elanor & Peter There is a misunderstanding :-( ! I did not ask how I can download stack, I know very well of the existence of the webpage and I have seen Download Buttons before - thanks ?! My question was if the download environment within LiveCode wich is now gone in the 8 line, will ret

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-20 Thread -hh
I didn't look into the scripts. There is another stack "revonlinelibrary". Is it also needed and then found? J. Landman Gay wrote > On 3/18/2016 9:24 AM, -hh wrote: >> I prefer also the "old" stack (of Elanor?), so I use on LC 8 the >> following, what is at least 10 times faster than 'livecodesh

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: > On 03/18/2016 07:24 AM, -hh wrote: >> Salut Rolf and Peter, >> >> I prefer also the "old" stack (of Elanor?), so I use on LC 8 the >> following, what is at least 10 times faster than 'livecodeshare'. >> >> on mouseUp >>put specialFolderPath("engine") into p >>set itemd

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-19 Thread J. Landman Gay
I'm not sure, I didn't try it. You could start without it and if it doesn't work, move the library too. On 3/18/2016 3:33 PM, -hh wrote: I didn't look into the scripts. There is another stack "revonlinelibrary". Is it also needed and then found? J. Landman Gay wrote On 3/18/2016 9:24 AM, -hh

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-19 Thread -hh
Salut Rolf and Peter, I prefer also the "old" stack (of Elanor?), so I use on LC 8 the following, what is at least 10 times faster than 'livecodeshare'. on mouseUp put specialFolderPath("engine") into p set itemdel to slash put "Tools/Toolset/palettes/revonline.rev" into last item of p se

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-19 Thread -hh
> Richard G. wrote: > For the short term I believe the best solution *might* be to put > RevOnline back in place as it's been for years. But I say "might" > because I don't know the reasoning behind it, and "why" is always > critically important to learn when questioning a "what". Yes, agreed,

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 18/03/2016 20:26, Richard Gaskin wrote: Separate from the question of security is a larger one: Is a stack repository even something we need/want the core dev team to be tasked with maintaining? R's CRAN, Python's PyPI, Perls CPAN, and others are all maintained by the communities of those la

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-19 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/18/2016 07:24 AM, -hh wrote: Salut Rolf and Peter, I prefer also the "old" stack (of Elanor?), so I use on LC 8 the following, what is at least 10 times faster than 'livecodeshare'. on mouseUp put specialFolderPath("engine") into p set itemdel to slash put "Tools/Toolset/palettes

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Hermann wrote: This has become a theoretical issue about crossing bridges that we may never reach, projects of 2019-2021? In my reading I see very much the opposite - here's what Peter wrote: As far as I know, we plan to introduce a package management system (with all of the capabilit

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 18/03/2016 22:21, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Peter TB Brett wrote: >> >> > As far as I know, we plan to introduce a package management system >> > (with all of the capabilities that one might expect, such as >> > version management, dependency management, checksums, >>

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-19 Thread -hh
This has become a theoretical issue about crossing bridges that we may never reach, projects of 2019-2021? RevOnline (the stack) was a nice tool, not really updated. Obviously and sadly it seems to be in the waiting room for the virtual trash, replaced by a slow website, although there are curren

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-19 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 18/03/2016 22:21, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: > As far as I know, we plan to introduce a package management system > (with all of the capabilities that one might expect, such as version > management, dependency management, checksums, cryptographic > signatures, etc. etc.)

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/18/2016 9:24 AM, -hh wrote: I prefer also the "old" stack (of Elanor?), so I use on LC 8 the following, what is at least 10 times faster than 'livecodeshare'. on mouseUp put specialFolderPath("engine") into p set itemdel to slash put "Tools/Toolset/palettes/revonline.rev" into last

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-18 Thread Monte Goulding
So the argument against a Zip based format is mainly the fact that zip support is via an external? The compressed arrayEncode format would still need somewhere to save it as a file. The biggest issue I can see with it is non-LiveCode engine based build tools will be more complicated to implement

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
A bit ago I wrote: One small request if I may: please oh please don't make it yet another Zio-based format. I doubt you'd do that, as Zio-based formats only exist on planets in the Star Trek universe. Of course that's a typo. I meant "Zip-based". -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: > So the argument against a Zip based format is mainly the fact that > zip support is via an external? Not entirely, but yes, the cumbersome calls needed to work with Zip and the next to drag the revZip externals around are a part of it. > The compressed arrayEncode form

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: > Do you mean Zip based? I googled Zio and found nothing. Yep - see subsequent message. > Perhaps it's just me but I expected the package manager to be an IDE > thing and the standalone builder to provide options for deployment. I would imagine so, but ultimately it will pr

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-18 Thread Monte Goulding
Do you mean Zip based? I googled Zio and found nothing. Perhaps it's just me but I expected the package manager to be an IDE thing and the standalone builder to provide options for deployment. Sent from my iPhone > On 19 Mar 2016, at 9:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > One small request if I m

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-18 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 18/03/2016 10:27, Rolf Kocherhans wrote: In LiveCode 8 I can no longer download Stacks (click Sample Stacks) from the online sample stack portal, the download/upload stack called „Sample Stacks“ is replaced with a link to http://livecodeshare.runrev.com. Will that stay, or is a better or di

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter TB Brett wrote: On 18/03/2016 20:26, Richard Gaskin wrote: Separate from the question of security is a larger one: Is a stack repository even something we need/want the core dev team to be tasked with maintaining? R's CRAN, Python's PyPI, Perls CPAN, and others are all maintained by the

Re: Sample Stacks Stack in Livecode 8 - Gone ?

2016-03-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter TB Brett wrote: > As far as I know, we plan to introduce a package management system > (with all of the capabilities that one might expect, such as version > management, dependency management, checksums, cryptographic > signatures, etc. etc.) as part of the delayed Extension Store feature.