Re: Button icons

2015-05-30 Thread Richmond
On 30/05/15 00:10, Klaus major-k wrote: Hi Richmond, Am 29.05.2015 um 22:09 schrieb Richmond : On 29/05/15 17:33, Klaus major-k wrote: Hi RIchmond, Am 29.05.2015 um 16:28 schrieb Richmond : So, I have a stack with one button and an image "Blob.png", But none of these scripts inside the bu

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richmond
How do I handle the poor performance of LC 7? Make sure I deploy my standalones on computers that are over 7 years old; then one doesn't notice the difference! Seriously; most of my computers are a bit like me: "of a certain age" and I haven't really noticed a difference. Richmond. ___

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Pierre Sahores
> Le 30 mai 2015 à 01:17, Richard Gaskin a écrit : > > The ability to deliver a single compact binary file that contains both > objects and code contributes strongly to LiveCode's uncommon productivity, Not only… Nobody seems to care around about something possibly more important about the L

AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Richard, the scenario is a field to enter a search term. With each entered character (keyUp) or each backspace (rawKeyUp) correcting the search term I call the following selecting routine to get a "live selection" of my 20,000 record list of words. In LC 6 I can enter the chars as fast as I wan

AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Malte, I've send Hanson my "real live stack" Waiting what they will tell me Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Malte Brill Gesendet: Freitag, 29. Mai 2015 17:53 An: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Betreff: Re: H

Re: Button icons

2015-05-30 Thread Martin Koob
Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote > > I do have a sense of humour; but, last night it was buried under the > remains of a real f**ker of a week. > > Somebody had been "pressing my buttons" in a nasty way! And none of his buttons had icons which didn't help. :-) Sorry couldn't resist. Martin -- Vi

help with timecode

2015-05-30 Thread Tim Selander
Dear Listers, I am trying to convert the currenttime of a player showing video into standard video timecode -- hours:minutes:seconds:frames -- in both drop and non-drop timecode. I'm not being too successful at it. As I struggled with it, it occured to me I may be trying to re-invent the whee

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Malte Brill
Hey Tiemo, what does the xSortListe function do? What is rather funny that my real life problem childs are also revolving around a live search feature. It might well be that your speed issues (as mine) are related to the sorting part (if you do a sort). My approach is a little diffrent than you

Re: help with timecode

2015-05-30 Thread Walt Brown
You are using timescale? My assumption is that "interval" = "frame". "Use the timeScale property to convert internal movie or sound times into seconds. The timeScale is the number of intervals per second of a movie or sound. These intervals are used for the player's startTime , endTime , duratio

Re: help with timecode

2015-05-30 Thread Mike Bonner
Be aware I have no clue about drop, no drop etc so I am probably way off base here but.. It seems to me that first you need to make sure you're working in seconds, so you need to divide the currenttime by the timescale to get the total seconds. Then its just a matter of math. Having said that, I

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mike Bonner
Malte, it might help if you don't sort the keys on each keystroke, instead put the keys into a list and sort them once, then keep referring to that same list as you do your filtering. Its faster to pop the full sorted list into a working variable on each keystroke and filter than it is to get the k

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Malte, it might help if you don't sort the keys on each keystroke, instead > put the keys into a list and sort them once, then keep referring to that > same list as you do your filtering. Its faster to pop the full sorted list > into a working

Re: Button icons

2015-05-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Martin Koob wrote: > And none of his buttons had icons which didn't help. :-) > Not needed; he's an iconic figure in his own right. :) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: > How do I handle the poor performance of LC 7? > > Make sure I deploy my standalones on computers that are over 7 years > old; then one doesn't notice the difference! > > Seriously; most of my computers are a bit like me: "of a certain age" > and I haven't really noticed a differ

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Thanks for sending your stack to the team. Please let us know the outcome. And thanks for posting that handler. Mike and Richard already hit on the only two items that come to mind (sorting and filtering), but I'm curious: How does performance look if you comment out the call to xSortListe?

Re: Button icons

2015-05-30 Thread Richmond
On 30/05/15 16:13, Martin Koob wrote: Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote I do have a sense of humour; but, last night it was buried under the remains of a real f**ker of a week. Somebody had been "pressing my buttons" in a nasty way! And none of his buttons had icons which didn't help. :-) Exactly!

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > It turned out that the acquiring company is very generous with their > developers, outfitting them with the very latest and fastest Macs loaded > with maximum RAM and the fastest HDDs on the market. I hit the opposite of this during my di

AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Malte, you and Richard are on the right trace - and I was blind :) The time cruncher is not the repeat loop, but my "special" sorting routine. I have a mixed alpha-numerical list. It is perhaps a little bit strange, but I want the numbers to be sorted at the end of the list. "A-Z-1-9-10-99-100

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/30/2015 08:07 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: In short, the developers were completely insulated from any understanding of the average user experience. It simply wasn't possible for them to know how slow their code had become in the eyes of their market. I had a similar experience doing QA wo

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/29/2015 09:27 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: Most of our c# stuff is still .Net ;) Yeah, C# isn't really as bad as it might be. The language itself is reasonable, if only it could be separated from the .NET stuff. nodejs debugging suite, built in git client, great js intellisense while S

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/30/2015 09:58 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hi Malte, you and Richard are on the right trace - and I was blind :) Nonetheless, if there's a significant performance hit in *the same code* running on different LC versions, then it's something to worry about. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@g

AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
I made some more performance benchmarks with my real life data I deactivated my "special sort" xSortListe handler and replaced it just by: 1. sort lines of tListe numeric 2. sort lines of tListe international (though it is not a solution for my sorting feature, but just to drill it down) LC 6.5.2

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: > Nonetheless, if there's a significant performance hit in *the same > code* running on different LC versions, then it's something to worry > about. If we were in a more optimistic mood, we could say: LiveCode 7 is very good at exposing suboptimal algorithms. ;) Of course

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-05-30 19:33, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: I made some more performance benchmarks with my real life data I deactivated my "special sort" xSortListe handler and replaced it just by: 1. sort lines of tListe numeric 2. sort lines of tListe international (though it is not a solution for my sort

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > I made some more performance benchmarks with my real life data > I deactivated my "special sort" xSortListe handler and replaced it just by: > 1. sort lines of tListe numeric > 2. sort lines of tListe international > (though it is not a

Re: help with timecode

2015-05-30 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
This is what I use for minutes & seconds. You can extend it to include hours & frames. You’ll want to do the send command at the frame interval (1/30) of a second. on updateCurrTime put round(the currentTime of player “thePlayer" 1005 / 600) into theTime put theTime div 60 into theMi

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Brahmanathaswami
And then there is the rest of us... how many I don't know. I'm not "Programmer" per se... I did some PHP, kinda grok JS... and they make me very edgy if I start thinking about useing them to getting work done. ... Mostly I just "need to get stuff done today!" I can hack up a stack for

RE: SQLite and Android "Database Error:Unable to open the database file"

2015-05-30 Thread Ralph DiMola
Thanks Peter. Both checked OK. I think this might be a bug unless there is some data inconsistency that could creep into some data type that the other platforms ignore. Maybe?? I've seen this using MS Access via ODBC to MYSQL DBs with invalid data in data types. I'm going to plod along and see what

Subject: Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi All, Everyone won't ever always be happy, but when do "the rest of us" turn those frowns upside down? In what month or year? Tell us about the timing of the arrival of the light at the end of the tunnel. What is your guess as to WHEN? Wondering. Of course, this asks for total speculation. Of

Re: Subject: Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Rauterkus wrote: So, one possible answer as to how to handle the poor performance of LC 7 is to wait. But how long is that waiting? Depends on the specifics of this issue. What performance issues are affecting your apps? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Dev

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/30/2015 10:54 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: If we were in a more optimistic mood, we could say: LiveCode 7 is very good at exposing suboptimal algorithms. Yep. And for dp or rc builds I think that's a good thing. But not for 'stable' releases. That most stuff works without any noticeab

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/30/2015 11:19 AM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: But... I'm not a programmer... I''ve seen some of the code you've thrown together, and I beg to differ. So I get it that there may be a lot of weeping and wailing if you are doing industrial systems. In that world perhaps "the time has passed

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/30/2015 12:40 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: along the way or are new converts to LiceCode. And add to those Oops. Obviously I meant LiveCode. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vi

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: > The problem is that "pretty good" isn't good enough for LiveCode > positioning itself in the marketplace, and that bodes ill for all > of us who hope for its continued existence. We old-timers are more > willing to accept some of the flaws, the degradations in performance, > t

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Brahmanathaswami
Mark Wieder wrote: Yeah, but here's the difference: you're the boss, you can make the decisions, you don't have to convince upper management about how new development tools fit into the existing set; and you don't have to manage a group of half a dozen engineers all trying to make changes to

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Malte Brill
> And thankfully, warts and all, none of the issues with LiveCode are > preventing Trevor, myself, and many others from shipping products made > with it. Out of interest, how many of those have you moved to use the 7 engine? I have no interest in lamenting here. I do admire the job that has been

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Malte Brill wrote: >> And thankfully, warts and all, none of the issues with LiveCode are >> preventing Trevor, myself, and many others from shipping products >> made with it. > > Out of interest, how many of those have you moved to use the 7 engine? Currently everything I do in LiveCode is done

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > On 05/30/2015 12:40 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > along the way or are new converts to LiceCode. And add to those >> > > Oops. Obviously I meant LiveCode. LiceCode: the hairiest programming experience you will ever have. The compiler is trul

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richard > On 31 May 2015, at 07:07, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > If there are bugs that have been submitted but not acted on and are holding > up work without a workaround, let's identify those and get them resolved. > > In addition to review of the current bug DB, Ben recently contacted a few

[OT] Google Keynote - forget death by PowerPoint

2015-05-30 Thread Kay C Lan
A lot of talk about Mobile computing so not completely off topic. If you ever do a presentation at a conference then the bar has been set pretty high for the openning splash. As you watch this you need to remember this is in a conference room and the screens are all around you. It slows down a bit

Re: help with timecode

2015-05-30 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Had some odd stuff...once again (600 is the timescale I was working with; you can find the timescale() with that function) : on updateCurrTime put round(the currentTime of player "thePlayer" / 600) into theTime put theTime div 60 into theMin put theTime mod 60 into theSec if le

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 31/05/2015 00:07, Richard Gaskin wrote: Currently everything I do in LiveCode is done in v7.0.5. I too have used only v7 for everything I've done recently for myself (no released products - just stuff I do for myself and friends/family). I've been still using v6 when I don't control it al

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

2015-05-30 Thread Mark Wieder
On 05/30/2015 04:45 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: LiceCode: the hairiest programming experience you will ever have. The compiler is truly nit-picking . . . :) I should have known I was opening the door to lousy puns. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com _