Google maps and fullscreenmode

2015-11-14 Thread Ludovic THEBAULT
Hello, I want to display google maps on an mobile app. My app use the fullscreenmode property to display on any device. But on "retina" screens, my map is very smaller (in the html code of the google map page, we need to put the width and height in pixels). Even if i adjust the pixel size of the

Re: Release 8.0 DP 9

2015-11-14 Thread Richmond
On 14/11/15 00:58, Mark Wieder wrote: On 11/13/2015 11:48 AM, Richmond wrote: Considerably better than DP 8. Well Done! Hmmm... what are you seeing that I'm not? I don't think that's the case. What is the case is that I am looking for things that worried me about DP 8 and thou art lookin

Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

2015-11-14 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have a « Terms of Use » problem with LiveCode. I bought into Livecode several years ago, using it every day for my private use. I have stopped buying the new versions of LiveCode as they become available, because I am happy with 5.5, I can’t afford to upgrade, and

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

2015-11-14 Thread Richmond
On 14/11/15 13:56, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Bulgaria is really very beautiful just now with super, autumnal weather . . . I have a « Terms of Use » problem with LiveCode. I wonder if my "lack of problems" is due to my terminal naivety or my basically crimi

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

2015-11-14 Thread Mike Bonner
If I recall correctly, 5.5 was of the "you own it forever" versions of LC, rather than the newer "it expired, so if ya wanna keep using LC (the dev environment) you gotta pay again" version. With the newer license set, again If I Recall Correctly, zny apps you've already written (if you were to u

html->array

2015-11-14 Thread Mike Kerner
Has anyone embarked on parsing out a web page? I would think the best thing to do would be to encode it as an array, but I'm open to other ideas. My scraper is straining. I need to try something different... -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God crea

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

2015-11-14 Thread tbodine
Hi, You didn't mention how you are distributing your programs or what platforms your users have. My understanding is if you build standalones from your licensed version those standalones can be distributed at no further cost to you. At least those were the terms I recall from the 5.x era. (I know

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

2015-11-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
I will try, just to check on my own understanding With the community license which I think we can assume your old copy of 5.5 falls under ( you could upgrade to the latest at no cost) you can create and give away apps freely to any one. If you want to sell it, want to password protect your sta

Re: html->array

2015-11-14 Thread Matt Maier
I imagine the problem isn't storing it, but rather dealing with all the possible exceptions to proper html. Perhaps you could pass it through some kind of html fixer. I found a half dozen websites and an open source project with one Google search http://tidy.sourceforge.net/ On Nov 14, 2015 06:50,

Re: html->array

2015-11-14 Thread Colin Holgate
When I wrote something to do page scraping I used mostly string tricks to reduce the source to a list of what I wanted. Below is the whole script, and the different handlers let me get the text, images, videos, or links from a page: global gPageURL function getText pPageSource put replace

Re: LiveCode meet-up at FOSDEM 2016

2015-11-14 Thread David Bovill
I'll ask around - but off the top of my head I'd say Saturday night to give time to invite participants, but also before people leave Sunday night. I'd consider getting a stand - they were active last year and also teaming up with some other projects that have a buzz around them. Are you giving a

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

2015-11-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: I can’t understand your licence rules, especially as they have been much modified since I BOUGHT 5.5 quite some time ago. The license that accompanied your software is the only one that governs the software you received. Any changes to the license for later versio

Decimal places

2015-11-14 Thread Richmond
So I have started a "baby calculator" to help 5 year old kids get their heads round European coins and it has an output box where added coins go. Now, if I add 2 Euros to 50 cents the field displays 2.5 and I want it to display 2.50. So would be most grateful if somebody could put me right in

Re: Decimal places

2015-11-14 Thread Tore Nilsen
Have you had a look at numberFormat? You can set the numberFormat to display 2 decimals. Tore > 14. nov. 2015 kl. 18.20 skrev Richmond : > > So I have started a "baby calculator" to help 5 year old kids get their heads > round European coins > and it has an output box where added coins go. >

Re: Decimal places

2015-11-14 Thread Richmond
On 14/11/15 19:22, Tore Nilsen wrote: Have you had a look at numberFormat? You can set the numberFormat to display 2 decimals. Tore No, but I have felt stupid many times before :) Thanks. Richmond. 14. nov. 2015 kl. 18.20 skrev Richmond : So I have started a "baby calculator" to help 5

Re: Decimal places

2015-11-14 Thread Tore Nilsen
> 14. nov. 2015 kl. 18.28 skrev Richmond : > > No, but I have felt stupid many times before :) That makes two of us. Tore ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subsc

Re: Decimal places

2015-11-14 Thread Richmond
On 14/11/15 19:31, Tore Nilsen wrote: 14. nov. 2015 kl. 18.28 skrev Richmond : No, but I have felt stupid many times before :) That makes two of us. Tore But set the numberFormat of fld "fff" to "#.##" doesn't work . . . Richmond. ___ use-live

Re: Decimal places

2015-11-14 Thread Tore Nilsen
This works for me: on mouseUp set the numberFormat to 0.00 put 2 + 0.5 into tNumber put tNumber into field 1 end mouseUp Tore > 14. nov. 2015 kl. 18.33 skrev Richmond : > > On 14/11/15 19:31, Tore Nilsen wrote: >>> 14. nov. 2015 kl. 18.28 skrev Richmond : >>> >>> No, but I have felt

Re: Decimal places

2015-11-14 Thread Richmond
On 14/11/15 19:35, Tore Nilsen wrote: This works for me: on mouseUp set the numberFormat to 0.00 put 2 + 0.5 into tNumber put tNumber into field 1 end mouseUp Tore Great! What is your home language, as in mine (Scots) we would write "screivet" for "skrev"? I wid jalouse it mu

Re: Decimal places

2015-11-14 Thread Tore Nilsen
My home language is Norwegian, and I write both Bokmål and Nynorsk (landsmaal) equally well. My dialect is from the western part of Norway, and it is closest to Nynorsk. All Norwegians are taught both versions of written Norwegian, although some find it difficult to write both equally well. Tor

Big Math

2015-11-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
I have not tested these thoroughly enough, but they worked for what I needed them for, so I'm putting them out there. Bugs/improvements welcome. To add two arbitrarily large numbers -- must both be positive: function bAdd x,y put 0 into c repeat with i = 14 to max(length(x),length(y)) step

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

2015-11-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Francis, It is really simple. You paid for LiveCode 5.5, which means that the license of LiveCode 5.5 applies. You have a valid license for LiveCode 5.5 and you can use LiveCode 5.5 to distribute software commercially. Obviously, this implies you can also give away your software for free to

XML-RPC

2015-11-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Starting on a project to have an LC client talk to a server using XML-RPC. I see various functions in the dictionary but are there any lessons/examples out there? Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin

Re: Area of Irregular Polygon

2015-11-14 Thread Roger Guay
Jim, I'm just now trying to catch up on this discussion and I see that no one has answered your question. I can’t answer either and wonder what’s going on??? BTW, I believe you should have a negative sign in front of the square bracket . . . not that that helps at all! Cheers, Roger > On

Re: XML-RPC

2015-11-14 Thread Brahmanathaswami
FYI: RevIgniter has an XML-RPC library... (hmmm, or maybe it was Andre's library) Anyway... we use that to have a page on our web site "talk" to Word Press (get posts) perhaps this helps... you would need to see that library... I will send it to you off line... We don't (or do we?) have a