Re: thinking through parsing multi-line database commands with cr in the data

2013-05-26 Thread Dave Probert
Hi, I found that the simplest route for me when working with multi-line field data was to pre-parse the data on storage and post parse it on extraction, by changing the 'cr''s to either another seldom used character or html (eg. ''). So the database code before the INSERT/UPDATE would replace and

Re: Installing 6.0.2 OSS

2013-05-26 Thread René Micout
Hello everybody, Is 6.0.2 commercial or community version ? RM Le 25 mai 2013 à 21:09, Richmond a écrit : > I have just installed LC 6.0.2 OSS on Ubuntu 8.04.3 > > "So what?" I hear you say. > > Because that Ubuntu 8.04 was running on a Pentium III > with 256 MB RAM. > > "So what? How long is

Re: Installing 6.0.2 OSS

2013-05-26 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi René, naturally available in both versions ;D Pierre Le 26 mai 2013 à 11:26, René Micout a écrit : > Hello everybody, > Is 6.0.2 commercial or community version ? > RM > > Le 25 mai 2013 à 21:09, Richmond a écrit : > >> I have just installed LC 6.0.2 OSS on Ubuntu 8.04.3 >> >> "So what?"

Re: AnimationEngine pending messages

2013-05-26 Thread Malte Brill
Hey Tom, Should be adding an aeCancelAllAEMessages command? Sounds like something that could be useful… Cheers, Malte -- derbrill IT-service Malte Pfaff-Brill Tanneneck 2, d-24790 Ostenfeld Tel: +49 4331-337 640 0 eMail: i...@derbrill.de web: http://www.derbrill.de Steuernummer: 28 015 03865 VA

Re: Installing 6.0.2 OSS

2013-05-26 Thread René Micout
Merci Pierre ! Le 26 mai 2013 à 11:31, Pierre Sahores a écrit : > Hi René, > > naturally available in both versions ;D > > Pierre > > Le 26 mai 2013 à 11:26, René Micout a écrit : > >> Hello everybody, >> Is 6.0.2 commercial or community version ? >> RM _

Re: Installing 6.0.2 OSS

2013-05-26 Thread Peter Alcibiades
The other really encouraging thing is that you don't even need anything as 'heavy' as Ubuntu. I haven't checked recently, but the last time I tried, LC ran fine on Slitaz, 150Mb or so? which takes almost no memory or disk space. If you want to make an embedded free system its the way to go. -

Re: AnimationEngine pending messages

2013-05-26 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Malte, All I can say is that when I was working on this project it seemed to be a natural thing to look for. Every time I would go to a new card the same scripts would run and animate "image 1" but If I went to the next card before the current card animation was done it would then build up on t

Re: thinking through parsing multi-line database commands with cr in the data

2013-05-26 Thread Peter Haworth
I'd be inclined to have a handler to execute/buffer the SQL statements based on what type of db is in use. For example you could have a handler dbCommand which took SQL statements as a parameter. If the DB is SQLite, the handler would execute the statement immediately. If some other version of S

curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I can't believe that this one flummoxed me as long as it did. SQLite, like the honeybadger, just don't care . . . I got hung up on a curlyquote. I'll definitely have people pasting in from whatever sources, possibly the wrong one for the platform (ever read from mac or unix a web page written by

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Dar Scott
UTF8 is one of the "languages" of uniEncode and uniDecode functions. Maybe you can convert to and from UTF8 as you need. Or pull unicode out of the field and convert that. Character 213 is the first of a two byte sequence in UTF8, so a bubble-gum and tinfoil solution for that lone character w

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Richmond
On 05/26/2013 08:30 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: I can't believe that this one flummoxed me as long as it did. SQLite, like the honeybadger, just don't care . . . I got hung up on a curlyquote. I'll definitely have people pasting in from whatever sources, possibly the wrong one for the platform (eve

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/26/13 1:13 PM, Richmond wrote: On 05/26/2013 08:30 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: There is no possibility of my application ever being used in an application other than English. Really? For that matter, there is no possibility of it being used in a non-US country. Missouri German. Texas Ger

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Richmond
On 05/26/2013 09:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/26/13 1:13 PM, Richmond wrote: On 05/26/2013 08:30 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: There is no possibility of my application ever being used in an application other than English. Really? For that matter, there is no possibility of it being used in

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Dar Scott
On May 26, 2013, at 12:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On the other hand, he's a US lawyer writing an app for other US lawyers that > concerns US law. These come to mind: Paragraph sign: U+00B6 ¶ Section sign: U+00A7 § And then there are "IP" symbols, currency symbols, Latin ligatures, ... (

Transparent palettes with 6.0.2 on Linux

2013-05-26 Thread Richmond
Just now I had a "funny thing": editing my SCHEDULER stack which I use for timetabling my EFL school I tried to close the stack prefs palette and it turned into a transparent shadow of its former self. Subsequently, trying to open the prefs palette for a textField I ended up with the same 'ghost'

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Richmond
On 05/26/2013 10:12 PM, Dar Scott wrote: On May 26, 2013, at 12:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On the other hand, he's a US lawyer writing an app for other US lawyers that concerns US law. These come to mind: Paragraph sign: U+00B6 ¶ Section sign: U+00A7 § And then there are "IP" symbols, cu

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm not very familiar with postgresql but I'm having a hard time believing that it can't handle UTF-8 encoding. Typically, the character encoding is specified when you create a database or when you create a table within a database, and there are usually admin commands that reveal what encoding is

Re: Dictionary woes

2013-05-26 Thread Björnke von Gierke
weee... I'm not xD On 25.05.2013, at 21:45, Richmond wrote: > Everybody should be really glad that > the dictionary problem that occurred with 6.0.1 > seems to have been sorted out. > > Richmond. > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 05/26/2013 08:30 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> > There is no possibility of my application ever being used in an application >> other than English. >> > > Really? > Really. Unless Congress mandates that Bankruptcies be field in foreign langua

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Dar Scott wrote: > UTF8 is one of the "languages" of uniEncode and uniDecode functions. > Maybe you can convert to and from UTF8 as you need. Or pull unicode out > of the field and convert that. > > Character 213 is the first of a two byte sequence in UTF8, so

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > I don't *think* that two byte codes should be coming out of a normal mac > set to english . . . > Hmm, to narrow this: I just need something that livecode & postgres can agree upon. With the proviso that people are likely to be pasting in

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 3:01 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > Hmm, to narrow this: I just need something that livecode & postgres can > agree upon. With the proviso that people are likely to be pasting into my > livecode fields > Hmm, and it also needs to be something that openoffice can interpret whe

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Dar Scott
I think I may have misunderstood the problem. If your db wants UTF8 and you have Mac, then maybe you can convert Mac to UTF8. If you say a Mac string is UTF8 (when it is not) and something checks, then it will interpret numToChar(213) as the first byte of a two-byte sequence. If the next by

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Dar Scott
I'm guessing that openoffice can do full UTF8, or at least the BMP (the main group of characters). Maybe the easiest thing is to allow full Unicode in your fields. Then convert that to UTF8 and back for the db. I think folks can help with that. Embrace Unicode. An alternative is to tell

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > Embrace Unicode. > I'm still leary about 8 bit rather than 7 bit Heck, I've barely given up on 6 bit. And color displays, well . . . :) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ u

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Dar Scott
Ha! I did start out with 6 bit characters on the CDC 3300, but my sense of identity is with ASCII which I used in my tiny contribution to the computer revolution of the 70s. I coped by leaping over other character considerations right to Unicode. Dar (Grandpa ASCII) On May 26, 2013, at 7:

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread Jerry Jensen
Nobody say EBCDIC or I will be sad. On May 26, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > Ha! I did start out with 6 bit characters on the CDC 3300, but my sense of > identity is with ASCII which I used in my tiny contribution to the computer > revolution of the 70s. > > I coped by leaping over

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

2013-05-26 Thread stephen barncard
Let's go FIVE bit. How about Baudot? On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > Nobody say EBCDIC or I will be sad. > > On May 26, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > > > Ha! I did start out with 6 bit characters on the CDC 3300, but my sense > of identity is with ASCII which I