playing mp4 videos without QT-player?

Hi, up to now, I am using .mov videos with the LC player object to play videos on Win and Mac. More and more often I have customers on windows who have real pain to get the QT-player installed so that LC accepts it. Up to now I don't have a recipe for thoses failed installation to get them easily

existing Double-opt in subscription solution with livecode-server?

Hi, for a livecode-server project i am in need of an e-mail subscription form with double opt-in feature. Has someone already done this and would share her/his experiences/routines? Regards, Matthias ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: existing Double-opt in subscription solution with livecode-server?

Hi Matthias, What's a double opt-in feature? I have made several subscription forms, mailing lists and news letter systems, sometimes using MySQL, sometimes local text files. Can you be more specific? I guess you're going to need a database. I use PHP and not LC Server. -- Best regards, Mar

Re: existing Double-opt in subscription solution with livecode-server?

Hi Mark, double opt-in means, the user gets an email after subscribing to confirm that she/he really wants to subscribe and that no one else just added her/his email address just for fun. This shall avoid legal actions against the newsletter sender. I do not know if this is only a german probl

Re: existing Double-opt in subscription solution with livecode-server?

Mark, the double opt-in feature is when the subscriber also receives a link to his/her email address that must be clicked. Typically the link will expire in 7 days. Once the link is clicked they have opted-in to receive your list, etc. If the link isn't clicked and expires the user is never conf

Re: existing Double-opt in subscription solution with livecode-server?

Hi Matthias, I get it. A simple link in the e-mail is sufficient. I'd expect LC Server to be able to send an e-mail from the shell if no other command is available. The link should run a brief script that updates a field in your database. Your hosting account should have a mail command line

Re: existing Double-opt in subscription solution with livecode-server?

Hi Mark, thanks for the offer. I will play/try a little bit and come back to you if i get stuck. Regards, Matthias Am 03.06.2013 um 13:18 schrieb Mark Schonewille : > Hi Matthias, > > I get it. A simple link in the e-mail is sufficient. I'd expect LC Server to > be able to send an e-mail fr

Re: Graphic tools - works in IDE, fails in Standalone

Hi Al Thanks very much for your offer - I will look at the stuff later today. In fact it turns out my problem is quite complex - I had made some mistakes confusing paint (image) tools with vector (graphic) tools - not too hard to do if you just skim-read the LC Dictionary, especially if like me

Mainstack/substack challenge

I've included a Livecode 5.54 stack to demonstrate the problem (also tried it in Windows version 6.01). This concept of moving some clipboard data from a substack to mainstack is critical to what I am wanting to do. Kudos to anyone who can make this work. The problem: Using the included st

Re: playing mp4 videos without QT-player?

Tiemo Hollmann wrote: I didn't follow all the details of the kickstarter roadmap for LC, but are there any plans to replace the QT-player with some more handsome "native" player or any alternatives for win and mac for one single video format? Yes - see "Reworked Multimedia Support: £441,000" h

AW: playing mp4 videos without QT-player?

Hi Richard, "Reworked Multimedia Support" sounds promising. So I'll be annoyed at QT for another period and will wait for a new solution. Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag > von Richard Gaskin > Gesendet: Mont

Re: dealing with these *huge* pdf files generated

On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Yes, checkboxes are bitmap... > and if there are a lot of them > this explains all the bloat. > Many pages have a single checkbox. The first page, with lots of them, actually implemented them as fields and X's. I believe that there is o

Re: existing Double-opt in subscription solution with livecode-server?

On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:54 AM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > What's a double opt-in feature? The "double" in double opt-in is advertiser-speak for actually having to opt-in by a known user action, typically responding to a mail that could have been triggered by

Detect Name of Button on Mouse Click

When I dynamically create objects, I typically set the behavior of the templateButton to point to a button on another card. That button contains the script for my new buttons. So, on another card, create a button that contains something like this... on mouseup switch the label of the target

Re: Graphic tools - works in IDE, fails in Standalone: getting desperate

I'm still in bad trouble on this despite help from the mother ship, who pointed out that when I started this thread, I was mixing the creation of paint ('image') and vector ('graphic') objects. I corrected my mistakes, and built a mini-app that has drawing tools chosen in a palette. The actual

Re: Mainstack/substack challenge

Hi Tony, I think your problem may be the 'traversalOn' property, if I'm correct in understanding where the problem lies this should work (it worked OK for my test)… Group your fields on the substack and set the 'traversalOn' property to false, then use this as the card script… on openCard

Re: Graphic tools - works in IDE, fails in Standalone: getting desperate

Here's a card script that almost does what you need: global latestoval,latestovalloc on mousedown lock screen set the style of the templateGraphic to oval put the mouseloc into latestovalloc new graphic put the number of graphics into latestoval set the backcolor of graphic lat

Re: Monochrome Woes

On 06/02/2013 10:08 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richmond- How about copying the revapplicationoverview.rev from the 5.x Toolset set directory into the community version? Does that fix things for you? For those who are interested, the icons for LC 6.0.2 are stored in the revGeneralIcons stack. R

First App rejected for odd reasons

I just tried to upload a free app to the Apple App Store and was immediately rejected. I have seen some people get some of these warning but I got four reasons and the Binary was rejected as invalid. I am not using Push notification. I am not accessing the UDID. The project is large because it h

Re: Graphic tools - works in IDE, fails in Standalone: getting desperate

Hi Colin - thanks for that. I see that you ingeniously avoid choosing the graphic tool (I hadn't thought of using 'new graphic'). I will see if I can adapt it so the user had freedom to drag in all directions, and have rectangles, polygons and so on. Have you any idea what could have stopped my

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

You need to use 5.5.5 to get past the UDID problem, and the other errors are not ones that will stop it from being approved. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your su

Re: Graphic tools - works in IDE, fails in Standalone: getting desperate

I think that behind the scenes the IDE has the equivalent of what I'm doing, and that without a mousestilldown approach it will behave just like it does when you do a brief click in the IDE. On Jun 3, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: > >Have you any idea what could have stopped my origi

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Tom, To get rid of the UDID issue, you'll need to install and use the latest LC 5.5.5 update. It fixes that problem. The push notification entitlement issue is a non-issue. Your app can get approved even with that warning. As for the executable size, I wasn't really aware of any limits, so I f

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Colin, Thanks for getting back to me. My app crashes on a device with 5.5.5 so I went back to 5.5.4 Also, the Non-PIE goes away by building for iOS 4.3 or later. I had the default 3.1.3 or Later selected so I changed that. I will see what the rejection is for this new upload and then try the 5.

Re: AW: playing mp4 videos without QT-player?

Hi Tiemo, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote > "Reworked Multimedia Support" sounds promising. > So I'll be annoyed at QT for another period and > will wait for a new solution. Hopefully, they will implement a VLC external: https://www.videolan.org/license/ Have a nice week! Al -- View this message in

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Chris, I just replied to Colin about the Non-PIE issue but the gist was to build for iOS 4.3 or later. If I update to get rid of the UDID issue I will see if I still get the other errors and if so then I will try and build with references instead of embedded images. Thanks Tom -- Tom McGra

Moaning

http://livecode.com/about/blog/ Last posting was 28 March I'm moaning because I believe that those of us who contributed should be kept informed, and we are not being! Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Hi Tom, Have you removed the old app completely from your device? This may be necessary before you can get your app running with LC 5.5.5. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtal

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Hi. You need to update to 5.5.5 to avoid 2 of these errors: UDID, and non-PIE. Get it from the Livecode site. On 3 Jun 2013, at 18:25, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > I just tried to upload a free app to the Apple App Store and was immediately > rejected. I have seen some people get some of these w

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Chris, I just reduced all of my embedded images to 1024 instead of 2048 which should have changed the size of the app somewhat. But I am getting only a 6 meg reduction from 387 down to 381 Is there a way to recover the space used by those images? I tried to compact this stack but no change (bes

Re: Graphic tools - works in IDE, fails in Standalone: getting desperate

Hi Graham, Graham Samuel-4 wrote > Hi Colin - thanks for that. I see that you ingeniously avoid choosing the > graphic tool (I hadn't thought of using 'new graphic'). I will see if I > can adapt it so the user had freedom to drag in all directions, and have > rectangles, polygons and so on. > Hav

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Paul, I am now trying to build with 5.5.5 and I still got all four errors. Checking again now. Tom -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Jun 3, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Paul Maguire wrote: > Hi. > > You need to update to 5.5.5 to avoid 2 of these errors: UDID, and non-

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Ok, after upgrading to 5.5.5 and changing the iOS to 5.0 and above I am still getting a Binary rejection for Three of the four reasons: Invalid Executable Size - Your app's executable file 'GospelOfMark.app/GospelOfMark' is a size of 243446992 bytes, which exceeds the maximum allowed size of 80

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Interesting. What else do you have in there that's making the executable so large? Embedded sounds possibly? If so, again, I would recommend removing them from your stack and referencing them by filename instead. On Jun 3, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > Chris, > > I just redu

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Can you make the images referenced from a URL, or must they be included in the app? ~Roger On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 2:17 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > Ok, after upgrading to 5.5.5 and changing the iOS to 5.0 and above I am > still getting a Binary rejection for Three of the four reasons: > > In

Re: [mobile] how to implement side-to-side swiping of a vertically scrolling group

On 5/31/13 11:03 PM, Terry Judd wrote: I have a vertical scrolling group (day-per-view calendar object) that I want to be able to navigate back or forwards a day by using a horizontal swipe. I have this working reasonably well but because the group is scrolling the swipe needs to be more or less

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Roger, I was hoping to have to avoid that. It seems that 80 MB is the max limit which seems crazy to me. I can't seem to reclaim any of the memory from reducing from 2048 down to 1024 and that bother me. I was hoping to find out why that is happening. But I will have to rewrite this to referenc

Re: Graphic tools - works in IDE, fails in Standalone: getting desperate

I don't think that's the whole story, since I have built a sample app that works as a standalone, using a palette to pick specific graphic tools and then quite happily allowing the user to draw them. The issue for me is that I have somehow prevented drawing (i.e. creating graphic objects) on a p

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

The file size will be based on the JPEG settings more than just the image size. If you have an external folder of your images, how big is the folder if the JPEG quality is 60% instead of 80%? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.co

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Colin, This were all PNG files. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Jun 3, 2013, at 2:31 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > The file size will be based on the JPEG settings more than just the image > size. If you have an external folder of your images, how big is the fo

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Sh_t, what is the address that I want to link these images to in the engine: ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/ma

Re: Graphic tools - works in IDE, fails in Standalone: getting desperate

I never have used StackRunner although I admire Ken for many reasons: but it takes less than a minute to create a standalone and start it on my development machine (an iMac), so what would the real advantage be? At my current stage of testing, I need to know that the ultimate user will be able

mobile image gallery / slider - web or standalone based?

Hi, what would be the best way to create a mobile image gallery with slider effect. I have to include an image gallery in an mobile app (ios and android). Would it be better to realize that image gallery slider (swiping with the finger) as web based thing with jqtouch and use a native browser t

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Well, you'll need to change that! On Jun 3, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > >Colin, This were all PNG files. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subs

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

I wonder if there's something else going on with the size limitation.  I routinely download games that are 300, 400, 500MB in size all the time (even more sometimes). Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design Original message Subject: Re: First App re

Re: Moaning

Yeah, I don't tend to moan very often, since it doesn't tend to achieve anything, but I'm sorta dissapointed as long time user of runrev and a supporter on the kickstarter campaign that I have no idea what to expect and when. For my amount (150) the description was this: £70 Reward Tier + 10 TEMP

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Scott, If I'm understanding correctly, the limitation is on the actual executable inside the app bundle, not the entire app bundle. I too have downloading very large apps in the past, but I'm pretty sure these all have their resources external to the executable. That's why my suggestion was to

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

I just got finished changing the filename of each image to the referenced image and added them to the copy files pane. Then saved the app. Then ran through to make sure each was changed from an image to a referenced image. The .livecode got down to 195 MB but the binary is now larger at 400 MB.

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Tom, What's the actual executable size inside the app bundle? Drill into the app bundle and check that. You may be okay, even if the new binary (bundle) size is larger. On Jun 3, 2013, at 1:36 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > I just got finished changing the filename of each image to the refe

Re: How Long is a Sound [Without Using Quicktime]?

Thanks Phil but I usually need everything to run at least on both Windows and Mac. On May 31, 2013, at 12:14 PM, Phil Davis wrote: > On 5/31/13 2:16 AM, Ray Horsley wrote: >> You might be right Jackie. I'm not sure how to guess how many desktop >> systems there are without Quicktime installed

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Oops, sorry. Just re-read your message and you stated your stack file is now 195 MB, which is probably about the size of your executable, plus a few MBs for the engine. Hmm, I'm stumped. Not really sure what else to suggest. This does seem like a silly limitation. I admit, though, I've never se

Re: Moaning

Just working on an update as it happens...will post this week. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can code On 03/06/2013 18:44, "Richmond" wrote: >http://livecode.com/about/blog/ > >Last posting was 28 March > >I'm moaning becaus

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

Another thought. In the standalone settings, are you building a universal binary? I may be wrong about this (can anyone verify?), but if you're building for iOS 5 or later, you should be perfectly safe selecting armv7 only and building for that, since any devices capable of running iOS 5 and abo

Ready for Lift Off - With LiveCode Commercial

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Just for fun, I clicked on the button "Upgrade Now" in your LiveCode "Ready for LiftOff - With LiveCode Commercial", although I am a fervent and everyday user of LiveCode for FUN, and I wouldn't dare to enter the commercial field against some of the brilliant forum "afi

JSON

OK, So I have some developers creating a server solution for my Push needs and they wanted me to send them JSON posts but I had never done that before and asked here on the list a few days ago about the JSON library. Well they said they can now remove the need for JSON and provide me a new API f

Re: JSON

Hi Tom, If you don't need to send any binary data (that includes unicode text) then you have no need for JSON (or XML for that matter). You'll need to make sure that everybody understands what type of data you're going to use, though, and what the record and item delimiters are. -- Best rega

Re: JSON

Thanks Mark, That's just the kind of advice I was looking for. Tom -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Jun 3, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Tom, > > If you don't need to send any binary data (that includes unicode text) then > you have no nee

Is Snapshot Possible with Two Monitors?

I'm running into a variety of issues designing a standalone which will import PDF's. If quicktime isn't installed it seems impossible and even if the user installs it (Windows) it often doesn't work for certain PDF's. With this in mind I thought I'd let users open their PDF's in whatever progra

Re: Another bizarre Apple patent troll case, in which Runtime Revolution plays a bit part

Kee wrote: > Wondering what the lawyer patented and how it was different from state of the > art 1993. I believe the patent was awarded for the utility and novelty of gestures. Actually touching an object on the screen and flinging it away to delete it. Touch screen interaction then was usually

Re: Is Snapshot Possible with Two Monitors?

Hi Ray, Snapshots don't work with secondary monitors. You can make snapshots of the main screen only. Perhaps you can use a command line utility instead. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twi

Re: Is Snapshot Possible with Two Monitors?

Thanks Mark. Do you know of a way for me to detect more than one monitor so I could warn users? On Jun 3, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Ray, > > Snapshots don't work with secondary monitors. You can make snapshots of the > main screen only. Perhaps you can use a command line

Re: JSON

Thomas McGrath III writes: > have is "Is it better to go the JSON route from within a Livecode Mobile app or should I go for the easy way out Is this a trick question? The easy way out is *always* better . Do you have a lot of data to push? Any binary data? Do you need to receive JSON data as w

Re: Is Snapshot Possible with Two Monitors?

There might be a more elegant way but the screenrects (must use the plural form) contains one line per monitor connected. Pete lcSQL Software On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Ray Horsley wrote: > Thanks Mark. Do you know of a way for me to detect more than one monitor >

Mark's book

Just when I thought Mark's book would not arrive before I left town for the summer, there in my mailbox was my copy. I only had time to take a brief glance through it, but it looks great. Mark, thanks for taking the time to write this book! Now that the first printing has sold out, I hope yo

Re: First App rejected for odd reasons

If you have a large executable but Apple reports it as very large but not as large as you think it is, there might be a field overflow for size. That overflow might set bits in the header that look like flags and can cause extraneous rejection messages. That is, a bug in xcode or maybe LiveCod

Re: Another bizarre Apple patent troll case, in which Runtime Revolution plays a bit part

The patent is RE43,318 which is a reissue of 6,920,619. The first few claims will give you an idea of what is covered: 1. A system for manipulating images comprising a screen upon which an image is displayed; and a computer coupled to the screen, the computer causing the images to be manipulat

Re: JSON

Mark, The data is very simple with no binary at all. I won't need to receive any back. So… -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Jun 3, 2013, at 6:20 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Thomas McGrath III writes: > >> have is "Is it better to go the JSON route from within

Re: Is Snapshot Possible with Two Monitors?

You can import snapshots from secondary and tertiary monitors using the working screenRects: on mouseUp put line 1 of the working screenRects into tRect import snapshot from rectangle tRect end mouseUp on mouseUp put line 2 of the working screenRects into tRect import snapsho

Re: JSON

On 04/06/2013, at 12:14 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > The data is very simple with no binary at all. I won't need to receive any > back. So… Tom... JSON is no more complicated to write or difficult to read than a query string... If you are comfortable with one or the other then use that...

Re: Is Snapshot Possible with Two Monitors?

This will also work: on mouseUp import snapshot from rectangle ( line 2 of the working screenRects) end mouseUp -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com mcgra...@mac.com On Jun 3, 2013, at 10:22 PM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: > You can import snapshots from secondary and tertiary mo

Re: Another bizarre Apple patent troll case, in which Runtime Revolution plays a bit part

Bruce wrote: > The patent is RE43,318 which is a reissue of 6,920,619. The first few claims > will give you an idea of what is covered: > > 1. A system for manipulating images comprising a screen upon which an image > is displayed; and a computer coupled to the screen, the computer causing the

Re: Another bizarre Apple patent troll case, in which Runtime Revolution plays a bit part

I can't track it down right now, but while I was at Apple (1987-1992) someone did a "throwing Finder", where you could grab files and throw them to the trash. Someone tried to sue everyone who had made a CD-ROM once, I think that failed. Hopefully this one will fail too. On Jun 3, 2013, at 11:

Re: JSON

Tom- Monday, June 3, 2013, 7:14:37 PM, you wrote: > Mark, > The data is very simple with no binary at all. I won't need to receive any > back. So… Well, what you want to push to the server depends on the key:value pairs they expect. Here's a simple example: {"name" : "Tom McGrath", "favorite_

Re: Moaning

On 03/06/13 22:44, Kevin Miller wrote: Just working on an update as it happens...will post this week. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@runrev.com ~ http://www.runrev.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can code Thanks. But it would be nice if you could tell us about what's going on more often.