Re: Unicode: LC 7.0 - PHP - MySQL?

2014-10-30 Thread Peter W A Wood
Hello Tiemo I'm not sure that I have all the answers you are looking for but I hope this will help a little. It is a simplification though to try and make things understandable. > On 30 Oct 2014, at 00:11, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a LC 6 program communicating through PH

Valentina db

2014-10-30 Thread larry
Hello, Has anyone used Valentina database with LC? If so, what is your experience with it? Is it a product that a newbie (me) could reasonably learn how to use with LC? Thanks for any info, Larry P.S. If you have a recommendation for a database that is REALLY easy to use with LC, please let m

AW: Unicode: LC 7.0 - PHP - MySQL?

2014-10-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello Peter, thank you for taking your time for your helpful explanations. I still have two issues left. I found in the SQL export of my db that it is UTF-8 encoded. So perhaps the definition of a collation "ascii_general_ci" defines a "subset" of UTF-8? As far as I understand it now, I should pas

Re: Valentina db

2014-10-30 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:42 PM, wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone used Valentina database with LC? > > Yes, for many years now. > If so, what is your experience with it? > > Love it. Especially if you need speed and simplified table relationships - Binary Links are great. > Is it a product that

AW: Valentina db

2014-10-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Larry, I am using Valentina locally without server, that’s not too hard. But I think it depends on your needs of number of users, client/server, performance, etc. SQLite probably is even easier and it is free. The reason for me going with Valentina was, that I needed to protect the data of my l

Re: Benchmarking 7.0 performance

2014-10-30 Thread Kay C Lan
So you are saying that there is NO difference between 6.5 and 7.0, both take 10-12 sec to save your file. Are you still looking for a way to speed that up? If so the short answer is you need to move all those records to an SQLite database. 1 card + 1 SQLite DB and guaranteed any changes you make

Re: Benchmarking 7.0 performance

2014-10-30 Thread Kay C Lan
Sorry, hit the Send button accidentally before finding the link. NOT CSV* * For reasons as to why you wouldn't use a comma to separate your values, please refer to this excellent article by Richard Gaskin: http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/csv-must-die.html Unfortunately, using 1 Card

Re: Valentina db

2014-10-30 Thread larry
Thanks very much Kay and Tiemo! - Original Message - From: "Kay C Lan" To: "How to use LiveCode" Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 2:33 AM Subject: Re: Valentina db On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 3:42 PM, wrote: Hello, Has anyone used Valentina database with LC? Yes, for many years no

QT replacement on Windows?

2014-10-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hello, now that runrev replaced Quicktime by AVFoundation on Mac, I am curious about a solution for windows. One of the extendet targets of the crowdfunding was replacing QT (not only on Mac). But I don't hear anything anymore about this roadmap issue. Probably it was easier to replace on Mac, b

Re: Unicode: LC 7.0 - PHP - MySQL?

2014-10-30 Thread Peter W A Wood
Hello Tiemo > On 30 Oct 2014, at 16:30, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > > Hello Peter, > thank you for taking your time for your helpful explanations. I still have > two issues left. > I found in the SQL export of my db that it is UTF-8 encoded. So perhaps the > definition of a collation "ascii_gener

AW: Unicode: LC 7.0 - PHP - MySQL?

2014-10-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thanks Peter > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag > von Peter W A Wood > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 30. Oktober 2014 13:11 > An: How to use LiveCode > Betreff: Re: Unicode: LC 7.0 - PHP - MySQL? > > Hello Tiemo > > > On 30 O

Re: Encoding videos for Android

2014-10-30 Thread Mark Schonewille
What kind of custom control would that be, David? I'm currently having the same problem. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveC

Re: Benchmarking 7.0 performance

2014-10-30 Thread Tim Selander
Thanks, Kay! Rinaldi's plug in has "saved" me with the saving problem -- it also seems a little slow on the saves, but does it in the background with no visible impact/slowdown while using the stack as it saves. Good enough for our needs. I hear you on the merits of SQLite. But my main goal

Re: QT replacement on Windows?

2014-10-30 Thread Martin Koob
>From the roadmap http://livecode.com/community/roadmap/ the cross platform player object will be made possible by the new widget framework. My understanding is that now that LiveCode 7 and 6.7 are released work can now start on widgets as part of the next version of LiveCode. Martin -- View

Re: Valentina db

2014-10-30 Thread Mark Talluto
On Oct 30, 2014, at 12:42 AM, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone used Valentina database with LC? > > If so, what is your experience with it? > > Is it a product that a newbie (me) could reasonably learn how to use with LC? > > Thanks for any info, > Larry > > P.S. If

livecode versions what do the various suffix mean? DP/RC/GM

2014-10-30 Thread Robert Mann
Self explaining in title! Dummy question.. but.. can't find information easily in the live code account space. dp = ?? rc = ?? gm = ?? thanks.. ! -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/livecode-versions-what-do-the-various-suffix-mean-DP-RC-GM-tp4685

Re: livecode versions what do the various suffix mean? DP/RC/GM

2014-10-30 Thread Colin Holgate
I think DP would be Developer Preview. RC is Release Candidate, GM is Gold Master. > On Oct 30, 2014, at 1:56 PM, Robert Mann wrote: > > Self explaining in title! Dummy question.. but.. can't find information > easily in the live code account space. > > dp = ?? > > rc = ?? > > gm = ?? > >

Re: livecode versions what do the various suffix mean? DP/RC/GM

2014-10-30 Thread Thomas von Fintel
developer preview release candidate gold master http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle Greetings Thomas Am 30.10.2014 um 18:56 schrieb Robert Mann: > Self explaining in title! Dummy question.. but.. can't find information > easily in the live code account space. > > dp = ??

Two features I don't understand

2014-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
1. ID caching Page 10 of the v6.0 Release Notes: The description there says: The engine now caches lookups of control references of the form “card id ...” and “control id ...”. This speeds up any access using those

Re: livecode versions what do the various suffix mean? DP/RC/GM

2014-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Robert Mann wrote: > Self explaining in title! Dummy question.. but.. can't find > information easily in the live code account space. > > dp = ?? > > rc = ?? > > gm = ?? > > thanks.. ! From the top of the Downloads page at : STABLE - These releases a

Re: Two features I don't understand

2014-10-30 Thread Michael Doub
I use the styled arrays quite often when creating content, applying styles and taking advantage of the metadata. I can’t comment on the speed. I have a tendency to think in terms of arrays so this is pretty comfortable for me. I did a lot of work using space above and below and was real

Re: Two features I don't understand

2014-10-30 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 30/10/2014 18:36, Richard Gaskin wrote: 1. ID caching Page 10 of the v6.0 Release Notes: The description there says: The engine now caches lookups of control references of the form “card id ...” and “control id ...”

Re: Possible bug in LC6.7 - maybe one for Mark Schonewille?

2014-10-30 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Graham, Late to this one but there is indeed a new property named "status" which is why your script now fails. Unfortunately, can't tell what it's used for since there's no dictionary entry for it. About to file a bug report for that. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStack

(Arbitrarily) Long-Division Script

2014-10-30 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hi all, I wanted to develop a library to allow me to perform basic maths (add, subtract, multiply, divide) with arbitrarily long numbers in LiveCode. My requirements are simple: - integers and floating-point numbers must be supported as all operands in all operations, to an arbitrarily large

7.0 Bug

2014-10-30 Thread Peter Haworth
Getting the imagesource of a character that is immediately preceded by a tab character returns empty even if the character has an imagesource set on it. QCC report number 13887. Pretty obscure but it pretty much cripples lcStackBrowser when trying to expand a line. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: Possible bug in LC6.7 - maybe one for Mark Schonewille?

2014-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: > Late to this one but there is indeed a new property named "status" > which is why your script now fails. Unfortunately, can't tell what > it's used for since there's no dictionary entry for it. About to > file a bug report for that. Please do - thanks. Searching for "sta

Re: Two features I don't understand

2014-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Michael Doub wrote: > I use the styled arrays quite often when creating content, applying > styles and taking advantage of the metadata. Thanks. I still don't understand how I might use it, but I'm glad someone's using it. RunRev don't generally spend time on a feature unless there's either

Re: Two features I don't understand

2014-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Tweedly wrote: On 30/10/2014 18:36, Richard Gaskin wrote: 1. ID caching Page 10 of the v6.0 Release Notes: The description there says: The engine now caches lookups of control references of the form “card id ...”

Re: Two features I don't understand

2014-10-30 Thread Monte Goulding
On 31 Oct 2014, at 2:55 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote: > If RunRev needed this themselves, they've done a good job of concealing why. > :) Copying styled text works great with htmlText. Richard if you remember originally styledText supported a few things that htmlText didn't and people complained

Re: Two features I don't understand

2014-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Monte Goulding wrote: > On 31 Oct 2014, at 2:55 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> If RunRev needed this themselves, they've done a good >> job of concealing why. :) Copying styled text works >> great with htmlText. > > Richard if you remember originally styledText supported > a few things that htmlT