Biggest thing since mobile was added to LiveCode

2015-07-16 Thread Dave Kilroy
In case any of you didn't get a recent email from LiveCode with the news - the exciting development from Edinburgh is that the HTML5 eagle has landed! http://livecode.com/ready-html5-deployment-reveals-its-first-preview/ Well it's almost landed - the blog shows off a couple of running HTML5 LiveCo

Re: Livecode Javascript Compiler

2015-07-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-07-16 04:16, David Bovill wrote: I've a question regarding the roll-out, and eventual functionality of Livecode HTML5. In the recent roadmap blogpost there was an indication that compiling the Livecode language to Javascript was achieved relatively quickly, but that the harder part was

Re: Chrome, lchttpd and a possible Livecode socket bug?

2015-07-16 Thread David Bovill
Essentially (see below) the idea is that two functional requirements can (somewhat counter-intuitively) be combined into one software application. Flexible ease of use and scalable production use. The first use is a simple minimal scriptable server that I can customise for my own needs and run in

Re: Livecode Javascript Compiler

2015-07-16 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Peter. What i am keen to get a grip on is how we can interface Livecode exported Javascritp with existing Javascript in a web page. Are we going to be stuck with an isolated blob of all Livecode-Javascript in a page? Or can I make Livecode-Javascript widget that talk to existing pages? My t

Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Jana Doughty
Hi LiveCode Community, We have a preview of HTML5 Deployment and two demos to share with you! http://livecode.com/ready-html5-deployment-reveals-its-first-preview/ Enjoy! Jana ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Livecode Javascript Compiler

2015-07-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-07-16 11:05, David Bovill wrote: Thanks Peter. What i am keen to get a grip on is how we can interface Livecode exported Javascritp with existing Javascript in a web page. Are we going to be stuck with an isolated blob of all Livecode-Javascript in a page? Or can I make Livecode-Javascr

Re: Livecode Javascript Compiler

2015-07-16 Thread Kevin Miller
This is definitely an area we¹re looking at - its on the strategy list. Just can¹t say yet whether it will be during the initial beta cycle or in a v ³1.1² as it were. It will certainly be early in the evolution of this technology. In terms of LCB, remember we designed that from the start to capab

Re: [Ben] HTML5 preloading suggestion...

2015-07-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-07-16 02:35, Monte Goulding wrote: On 16 Jul 2015, at 4:06 am, Colin Holgate wrote: I looked at the HTML5 example pages, and they take a while to load. I’ve seen that sort of slowness before, where it took a while to download a lot of graphics. In that particular case each download w

Re: Livecode Javascript Compiler

2015-07-16 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Kevin and Peter - its very useful to have a soft indication of the direction you are heading. So my understanding now is that Livecode Builder - being the robust strongly typed language that compilers like - lends to being something that could be run through the compiler chain you are creat

Drag and Drop with HTML5 Export?

2015-07-16 Thread David Bovill
Is this something that looks like it will be part of the first alpha? Have any test been done with drag and drop - or are we a way off establishing whether this will work? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url t

Re: Drag and Drop with HTML5 Export?

2015-07-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-07-16 14:46, David Bovill wrote: Is this something that looks like it will be part of the first alpha? Have any test been done with drag and drop - or are we a way off establishing whether this will work? We do not currently plan to enable drag and drop in time for the first prototyp

Re: Drag and Drop with HTML5 Export?

2015-07-16 Thread David Bovill
Thanks for the head-up Peter. On 16 July 2015 at 13:54, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 2015-07-16 14:46, David Bovill wrote: > >> Is this something that looks like it will be part of the first alpha? Have >> any test been done with drag and drop - or are we a way off establishing >> whether this wil

RE: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Ralph DiMola
On my Galaxy S4 the word "Calculator" is overlapping the web page path and I get an "Exception thrown, see JavaScript console" in the bottom area. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-

RE: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-07-16 15:33, Ralph DiMola wrote: On my Galaxy S4 the word "Calculator" is overlapping the web page path and I get an "Exception thrown, see JavaScript console" in the bottom area. Which browser are you using? Peter -- Dr Peter Brett LiveCode Engine D

Re: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi all, > Am 16.07.2015 um 15:39 schrieb Peter TB Brett : > > On 2015-07-16 15:33, Ralph DiMola wrote: >> On my Galaxy S4 the word "Calculator" is overlapping the web page path and I >> get an "Exception thrown, see JavaScript console" in the bottom area. > Which browser are you using? same here

Re: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 2015-07-16 15:41, Klaus major-k wrote: Hi all, Am 16.07.2015 um 15:39 schrieb Peter TB Brett : On 2015-07-16 15:33, Ralph DiMola wrote: On my Galaxy S4 the word "Calculator" is overlapping the web page path and I get an "Exception thrown, see JavaScript console" in the bottom area. Whic

Re: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Roger Eller
So the latest Chrome or Firefox for Android is supported too? The note doesn't say Desktop only. On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > As it says on the web page, you must currently be using the latest version > of Chrome, Firefox or Safari in order to run the demos. >

Re: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Klaus major-k
> Am 16.07.2015 um 15:51 schrieb Peter TB Brett : > > On 2015-07-16 15:41, Klaus major-k wrote: >> Hi all, >>> Am 16.07.2015 um 15:39 schrieb Peter TB Brett : >>> On 2015-07-16 15:33, Ralph DiMola wrote: On my Galaxy S4 the word "Calculator" is overlapping the web page path and I

RE: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Ralph DiMola
Built in browser==> Java Exception Chrome==>Runs but right side is cut off and you can't slide it into view and a 9 is in the result when started Firefox==>Runs but right side is cut off and you can't slide it into view and a 9 is in the result when started Dolphin==> Locks up. Ralph DiMola IT Di

Re: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Martin Koob
Good to see progress is being made. With Safari version 8.02 on a Mac Mini OS X 10.10.1 both demos load and work. On a Mac with the latest version of Chrome Version 43.0.2357.134 (64-bit) works as well. I can click more than one button and perform all the operations on the calculator. However,

Letter Box

2015-07-16 Thread Ray
I'd love to control letterbox as a setting for fullScreenMode on mobile, set how wide the margins are, specify a color for them instead of black and maybe even using an image for the margins instead of a solid color. Does anybody have any experience with this? _

Re: put url web service timeout

2015-07-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/15/2015 12:16 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: The Dictionary says the socketTimeoutInterval is not supported on mobile but I tried it anyway. To my joy it works on mobile!! I want to pass this little gem along and find out what is the best way to report errors in the LC Dictionary. Use the QCC to

Filing Bugs is so hard - bugzilla is buggy

2015-07-16 Thread David Bovill
I'd love to file a bug. I'm getting a crash when I set a behavior. I've tried logging in - no joy. So resetting password (3 times) - no email sent as far as I can tell. Can we not now finally move over to Github for filing issues - and move into the 21st century? __

Odd behavior in Win8-I'm stuck fixing it, Help??

2015-07-16 Thread William Prothero
Folks: I have an application that is being used by a class of Earth Science students and get failure reports from two who use Windows 8. One lives in Australia and one lives in Japan. The app works fine on Macintosh. I’ve also tested it on my own installation of both Windows 8.1 and 7, 32 bit an

Re: [Ben] HTML5 preloading suggestion...

2015-07-16 Thread Monte Goulding
Thanks for the input Peter > At the moment -- and I'm working on changing that right now -- the demo > standalones consist of three files: > > * standalone-community.js is the engine itself. It is the same for all > stacks. > * standalone-community.html.mem is the initial memory image for the

Re: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Jana Doughty writes: > We have a preview of HTML5 Deployment and two demos to share with you! Wow. A calculator on a website. Welcome to 1995, folks. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread J. Landman Gay
On July 16, 2015 8:46:57 PM CDT, Mark Wieder wrote: >Jana Doughty writes: > >> We have a preview of HTML5 Deployment and two demos to share with >you! > >Wow. >A calculator on a website. >Welcome to 1995, folks. Next time it's your turn to translate the entire engine. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Mark Wieder
On 07/16/2015 07:13 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Next time it's your turn to translate the entire engine. Heh. But here's the thing... If I were trying to wow folks with a preview of what's coming, I wouldn't try to do it with a rehash of something we used to do 20 years ago in not many lines

Re: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Jerry Jensen
> On Jul 16, 2015, at 6:46 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > Jana Doughty writes: > >> We have a preview of HTML5 Deployment and two demos to share with you! > > Wow. > A calculator on a website. > Welcome to 1995, folks. In the ’70’s in Seattle (and maybe other places), somebody marketed “telecalc

Re: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Mark Wieder
On 07/16/2015 08:14 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: Just for grins, I divided by 0 and it hung up the phone. Hee. That was the first thing I tried with this one too. It just ignored me. So then I tried overflowing. Did fine with big numbers, except that they were wrong. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@g

RE: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Ralph DiMola
I wrote user i/o for FP numbers on a custom super computer. I took care of every case I could imagine...11, 1.23, 1. E-10, 33 e2, 000.0001 The person I demoed it for typed "+0". The entire super computer crashed faster than.. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim..

Re: Catch a Glimpse of HTML5!

2015-07-16 Thread Mark Wieder
On 07/16/2015 10:02 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: I wrote user i/o for FP numbers on a custom super computer. I took care of every case I could imagine...11, 1.23, 1. E-10, 33 e2, 000.0001 The person I demoed it for typed "+0". The entire super computer crashed faster than.. Users... can't