Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

Fantastic.. well done to the LiveCode team!! using 8.1 right now - Andy Piddock My software never has bugs. It just develops random features. Copy the new cloud space, get your free 15GB space now: Get Copy Script editor Themer for LC http://2108.co.uk PointandSee is a FREE simp

Re: libURL gone mad

A couple weeks ago I wrote: Along these lines, I'm hoping the docs will include a detailed listing of which features from your external are included in which LC edition (Community, Indy, Business), so folks can choose those which best serve whatever needs they may have. For example, most of the

Re: libURL gone mad

On 14/09/2016 15:50, Richard Gaskin wrote: A couple weeks ago I wrote: Along these lines, I'm hoping the docs will include a detailed listing of which features from your external are included in which LC edition (Community, Indy, Business), so folks can choose those which best serve whatever

Pull Down Menu has no icon

Pull down menus used to have small fly-down arrow icon on the right by default. This carried thru to a standalone without the necessity of adding the icon to your stack (I thought) in 8.1 I'm not seeing these. In the PI there is default icon assignment 1136 on one that I made in 8.1 RC2…but ther

Re: libURL gone mad

On 14/09/2016 16:12, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: On 14/09/2016 15:50, Richard Gaskin wrote: A couple weeks ago I wrote: ... Does anyone here know where I can find a breakdown of which new networking features are available in which LC 8.1 editions (Community, Indy, Business)

Re: libURL gone mad

Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 14/09/2016 15:50, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> A couple weeks ago I wrote: ... >> Does anyone here know where I can find a breakdown of which >> new networking features are available in which LC 8.1 editions >> (Community, Indy, Business)? > > https://livecode.com/products

LC 8.1.0 iOS Deployment

Greetings! Ok, so I download iOS 10 to my device and I see that my apps have bug 18327. Ug! According to the QCC, this issue is fixed in 8.1.0. So I installed 8.1.0 to rebuild and test my apps. But, I can't get the iOS standalone made. I get this error: There was an error while saving the

LC 8.1

Fantastic as far as it goes . . . However, as I am, still unable to access any documentation, either in a stack or via a browser, in LC 8.1 on Xubuntu 16.04 64-bit, I feel I may be missing out on a lot of the exciting new features. The online documentation at https://livecode.com/resources/a

Re: LC 8.1.0 iOS Deployment

Hi Dan, What is the full error msg? Do you get this error on subsequent attempts to build an iOS standalone, or just the very first time? I suggest you file a bug report at http://quality.livecode.com Best, Panos -- On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 4:29 PM, Dan Friedman wrote: > Greetings! > > Ok, so

iOS Dev and Deployment Tip

Hi All, With iOS 10 now out and macOS 10.12 coming next week, I expect to see a bunch of emails with issues about deployment problems and I’d like to share what I do to try and keep everything sane and working. I use VM’s Fusion and build a VM for each version of the OS, install the appropriat

LiveCode Server 8.1 - installing

I admit to knowing nothing at all about Linux. I am using Jacque’s Zygodact product running as a CGI as part of a website which is hosted by DreamHost - this is to sell a product via FastSpring. Matthias Rebbe has very generously explained how to do this (I mean how to set up the selling of a do

Re: LiveCode Server 8.1 - installing

On 14/09/2016 16:57, Graham Samuel wrote: I admit to knowing nothing at all about Linux. I am using Jacque’s Zygodact product running as a CGI as part of a website which is hosted by DreamHost - this is to sell a product via FastSpring. Matthias Rebbe has very generously explained how to do

Re: LiveCode Server 8.1 - installing

HI Peter Thanks for the lightning reply! A quick check on the DreamHost Knowledge Base doesn’t answer the question, so I’ve had to generate a ticket in their support system. A lot of LC people use DreamHost, and as I say it was kind of working until I foolishly binned my 7 series version in f

Re: LC 8.1.0 iOS Deployment

Panos, Thank you for the reply. Here is the entire error message: There was an error while saving the standalone application linking for arm (arm64) failed with duplicate symbol l001 in: /Applications/LiveCode Indy 8.1.0.app/Contents/Tools/Runtime/iOS/Device-8_2/Standalone /Application

Re: libURL gone mad

Peter TB Brett wrote" On 14/09/2016 16:12, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: On 14/09/2016 15:50, Richard Gaskin wrote: A couple weeks ago I wrote: ... Does anyone here know where I can find a breakdown of which new networking features are available in which LC 8.1 editions (Commu

Re: libURL gone mad

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > > On 14/09/2016 16:12, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> Peter TB Brett wrote: >> >> On 14/09/2016 15:50, Richard Gaskin wrote: >>> A couple weeks ago I wrote: >>> ... >> >>> Does anyone here know where I can find a breakdown of which

Another fine mess I find myself in...

I have done something that I don't usually do... I have installed the latest stuff without waiting for the 'shrieks of despair' to appear in the list to find out what the problems are... I upgraded my iphone to 10 I upgraded liveCode to 8.1 After doing this I noticed that the status bar at t

Re: LiveCode Server 8.1 - installing

Graham Samuel wrote: > A quick check on the DreamHost Knowledge Base doesn’t answer the > question, so I’ve had to generate a ticket in their support system. You may consider closing that support request with Dreamhost. There are enough of us using LC Server on DH that I'd like to avoid the p

Re: Another fine mess I find myself in...

John Dixon wrote: > I have done something that I don't usually do... I have installed the > latest stuff without waiting for the 'shrieks of despair' to appear > in the list to find out what the problems are... > > I upgraded my iphone to 10 > I upgraded liveCode to 8.1 In that case you have no

Re: libURL gone mad

Hi Roger, pSettings is an array. More information on what elements apply to that array can be found in the dictionary entry for tsNetSmtpSync I created a stack for the promo 8.1 promo video which should help with using the new tsNetSmtpSync function. This can be downloaded from here http:/

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

Just installed on my Mac. The "Open Recent” menu does not seem to function. Has something changed? All the best Terry > On 13 Sep 2016, at 17:11, Peter TB Brett wrote: > > Dear list members, > > We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1.0, our latest feature > release. > > R

RE: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

Works OK here on 10.11.6 Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Terence Heaford Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2016 1:58 PM To: How to use LiveCod

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

It appears the preference for the number of recent files is set to 0 when installing. Could have swore LC remembered this setting when installing a new version? Terry > On 14 Sep 2016, at 18:58, Terence Heaford wrote: > > Just installed on my Mac. > > The "Open Recent” menu does not seem t

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

Hi Terence, > Am 14.09.2016 um 19:58 schrieb Terence Heaford : > > Just installed on my Mac. > The "Open Recent” menu does not seem to function. Does it work or does it not work or only seems to not work, but actually does? :-D > Has something changed? "Open Recent" works as exspecterd on my

Re: Project Browser Allows you to move a group into another group

I should be able to share it, the plugin was made to add some shortcuts to the menus, so I’ll need to do a little more testing with the latest release and a bit of code tidying along with some warnings/instructions before it’s suitable for public use, but I’ll get on it then add it to the LiveCo

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

Oddly enough, on Xubuntu 16.04 64-bit 8.1 is ahead of the curve in this respect as populated the recent menu as soon as I started it up. Mind you; no documentation . . . Still. Richmond. On 14.09.2016 21:11, Terence Heaford wrote: It appears the preference for the number of recent files is set

Re: Another fine mess I find myself in...

Richard... iOS 10.0.1 appeared as an update on my iPhone, so I guess it is out of beta. I guess I will have to stay with LC 8.1.0 as it is said to be stable now... I have just tested another stack that uses .lc scripts to query a database and with that one everything seems fine. I am just a l

Re: Another fine mess I find myself in...

On 9/14/16 1:19 PM, John Dixon wrote: I have just tested another stack that uses .lc scripts to query a database and with that one everything seems fine. I am just a little confused now why one stack does not work as I did nothing to it except upgrade Did you double-check the inclusions? Maybe

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

Richmond wrote: > Oddly enough, on Xubuntu 16.04 64-bit 8.1 is ahead of the curve in > this respect as populated the recent menu as soon as I started it up. Same here under Ubuntu 14.04. > Mind you; no documentation . . . Still. But not for lack of trying. There are 74 comments in this bug r

Re: Another fine mess I find myself in...

John Dixon wrote: > iOS 10.0.1 appeared as an update on my iPhone, so I guess it is out > of beta. Nice to see them maintain backward compatibility at least as far as 10.0.0. ;) > I have just tested another stack that uses .lc scripts to query a > database and with that one everything seems

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

The documentation works superbly in Xubuntu 14.04 32-bit (all my school computers bar one are that) for LC 8.1; everything popping up in Firefox "without a backward glance". I wish I knew why that does not happen in the 64-bit variant. On 14.09.2016 21:37, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrot

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

At the risk of seeming very stupid indeed . . . 1. Do the .rev stacks here: /home/richmond/.runrev/components/livecodecommunity-8.1.0.x86_64/Documentation/rev/ contain ALL the Documentation? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@list

Re: libURL gone mad

Neil was so kind to sent me that stack a 2 days ago, because i was in urgent need of an useful example script for sending emails with tsNet external. I´ve added a function to that button script. The function builds the complete smtp message with all needed smtp headers and it deals with the litt

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

Ha, Ha: answering my own question, again: No they don't: blast. On 14.09.2016 21:50, Richmond wrote: At the risk of seeming very stupid indeed . . . 1. Do the .rev stacks here: /home/richmond/.runrev/components/livecodecommunity-8.1.0.x86_64/Documentation/rev/ contain ALL the Documentation?

Re: libURL gone mad

Hi Matthias, Sent the message here before seeing your reply on our support system :) Will update my link with your stack asap Cheers, Neil LiveCode Technical Support and Content Creation Lead n...@livecode.com LiveCode +44 (0) 845 219 8923. 25A Thistle S

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

Anyone have a suggestion on how to fix the position of the script editor when it stubbornly wants to stay offscreen? This is something in 8.1 I just ran into, today. I have only the built-in display on this lappie. I've tried setting the rect to the screenRect, moving the location around, etc., a

Re: libURL gone mad

updated :) http://techsupport.on-rev.com/LCMail.zip LiveCode Technical Support and Content Creation Lead n...@livecode.com LiveCode +44 (0) 845 219 8923. 25A Thistle Street Lane South West, Edinburgh, EH2 1EW http://www.livecode.com Facebook

Re: libURL gone mad

This is magnificent!!! Thank you Neil and Matthias for sharing. ~Roger Roger Eller Graphics Systems Analyst 803 North Maple Street P: 864.967.1625 Simpsonville, SC 29681 C: 864.908.0337 SealedAir.com roger.e.el...@sealedair.com On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 3:07 PM,

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

never mind. "revnewScriptEditor" spawns "revNewScriptEditor 1", so setting anything for "revnewscripteditor" won't help. On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 2:59 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > Anyone have a suggestion on how to fix the position of the script editor > when it stubbornly wants to stay offscreen?

Re: LiveCode Server 8.1 - installing

Hi Richard I don’t have any desire to frighten the DreamHost horses! However my query was a very simple one, simply to answer Peter’s question. DH support has already come back to me - apparently I’m using Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS on my site If you run LC on DH often, can you explain to a deeply ign

Re: Another fine mess I find myself in...

From: use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay Sent: 14 September 2016 19:31 To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: Another fine mess I find myself in... On 9/14/16 1:19 PM, John Dixon wrote: > I have just tested another stack that uses .lc scripts to query a >

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

Richmond wrote: 1. Do the .rev stacks here: /home/richmond/.runrev/components/livecodecommunity-8.1.0.x86_64/Documentation/rev/ contain ALL the Documentation? The dict data is in the SQList file I referred to earlier: I've been exploring the dictionary data in Documentation/resources/api

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 7:37 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: > But for the Dictionary specifically, even though I have no technical > problem preventing me from using the Dictionary I shared Jacque's > preference for a different design (for me the biggest feature is among > the smallest to implement: I

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

Ali Lloyd wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 7:37 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> But for the Dictionary specifically, even though I have no technical >> problem preventing me from using the Dictionary I shared Jacque's >> preference for a different design (for me the biggest feature is >> among the

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

I'll check but I'm pretty sure the default preference is 15. There was a bug where setting it to 0 didn't function right and there was also a regression when the new menubar was made a different preference was used. Sent from my iPhone > On 15 Sep 2016, at 4:11 AM, Terence Heaford wrote: > >

Re: LiveCode Server 8.1 - installing

Matthias Rebbe Bramkampsieke 13 32312 Lübbecke Tel +49 5741 31 +49 160 5504462 Fax: +49 5741 310002 eMail: matth...@m-r-d.de BR5 Konverter - BR5 -> MP3 > > Both services provide LiveCode Server pre-insta

Re: LiveCode Server 8.1 - installing

Graham Samuel wrote: > Hi Richard > > I don’t have any desire to frighten the DreamHost horses! However my > query was a very simple one, simply to answer Peter’s question. DH > support has already come back to me - apparently I’m using Ubuntu > 12.04.5 LTS on my site If memory serves they swit

Re: LiveCode Server 8.1 - installing

Matthias Rebbe wrote: > There is a little difference between the LC server versions installed > by default at On-Rev and HostM. > > On-Rev has LC server commercial installed. > > HostM by default has just installed the most current release version > of community server. > > But if a user can proo

Re: Another fine mess I find myself in...

John is the stack connecting to .lc scripts on on-rev in a SSL domain? If not could it be an issue with ATS? i.e. if you tick the ‘Disable ATS’ box does it make a difference? But either way, yet another reason why hostm knocks on-rev into a cocked hat Kind regards Dave > It seems that the s

Re: Project Browser Allows you to move a group into another group

Good luck… I'm on mac On 9/14/16, 8:19 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Paul Hibbert" wrote: I should be able to share it, the plugin was made to add some shortcuts to the menus, so I’ll need to do a little more testing with the latest release and a bit of code tidying along with some war

Re: LiveCode Server 8.1 - installing

> Am 14.09.2016 um 22:32 schrieb Richard Gaskin : > > For things that stay on a server we manage ourselves, what would be an > advantage of using the proprietary editions of LC Server? > You could use 3rd party password encrypted stacks with LC server commercial for example, like the stacks

Re: LiveCode Server 8.1 - installing

> On Sep 14, 2016, at 8:57 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > > Obviously I have made a massive error, but what is it? I just want to be able > to run some .lc programs on the server - it doesn’t seem much to ask. LC 8.1 has different dependencies than previous versions of LC. The first thing I would

LiveCode 8.1 and the Filter enhancements...

For those using LC 8.1, and have tried the new filter command's support for arrays, I have a question: I see you can filter by keys or elements from the documentations, which is great, but I don's see how I would do another common item Let say I have an array that is a table (a common model) wher

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

Monte Goulding wrote: try "colorwheel": [ { “name”: “Red”, “color”: “255,0,0" }, FYI, further tests with jsonImport/Export round trips, reading and writing:

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: > FYI, further tests with jsonImport/Export round trips, reading and writing: > > jsonImport > jsonExport > > are > > a) not in the dictionary for > b) round trip does not support any formatting (no indentation or > vertical white space) > c) square braces not

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 6:11 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > I'll check but I'm pretty sure the default preference is 15. There was a bug > where setting it to 0 didn't function right and there was also a regression > when the new menubar was made a different preference was used. Hi Terrance It a

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 7:18 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > FYI, further tests with jsonImport/Export round trips, reading and writing: > > jsonImport > jsonExport > > are > > a) not in the dictionary for > b) round trip does not support any formatting (no indentation or ver

Re: LiveCode 8.1 and the Filter enhancements...

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 7:06 AM, Paul Dupuis wrote: > > For those using LC 8.1, and have tried the new filter command's support > for arrays, I have a question: > > I see you can filter by keys or elements from the documentations, which > is great, but I don's see how I would do another common ite

Re: LiveCode 8.1 and the Filter enhancements...

Monte Goulding wrote: > Actually what you are describing is probably better implemented with > the by clause I have suggested here: > http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18309 > > You could then: > > filter elements of tArray by each[“col2”] is “some” > > Or alternatively if you need matc

Re: LiveCode 8.1 and the Filter enhancements...

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 9:21 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Would it be worthwhile considering some form of XQuery for that so we could > do ranges and other nifty things? Hi Richard I considered adding patterns as array paths (a numerically indexed array of keys) but I don’t think that’s as fle

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.0

On 09/14/2016 12:33 PM, Ali Lloyd wrote: This should (in theory) have been fixed in 8.1.0 rc 1 ( http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18183) Added my comment. Works on OSX, but not on linux. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-l

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

The use case is cross session data on mobile where we would like to be able to examine/change the "array" in a text editor. if the user shuts down the app, you must save the data somewhere, and reload to gUserSettings on start up. So, yes, agreed, there are many ways to accomplish this. The on

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

bra...@hindu.org> wrote: "Actually if I just let the jsonExport and jsonImport do the work… it's valid json… except that what's on disk is all on a single line." Python to the rescue: this works as a text filter in BBEdit save to: ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Text Filters/ #!/usr

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

> On 15 Sep 2016, at 12:13 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > >"Actually if I just let the jsonExport and jsonImport do the work… it's > valid json… except that what's on disk is all on a single line." > > Python to the rescue: this works as a text filter in BBEdit It’s probably

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

On Wednesday, September 14, 2016, Monte Goulding wrote: > > > Ah, I haven’t used the LCB JSON library myself. Perhaps Peter will chime > in here. > > FYI mergJSON turns a sequentially indexed array 1..N <-> a JSON array [ ]. > I use mergJSON to export for this very reason. I import with the LCB J

Re: Maintain Order in JSON Import

Sweet! Can this external be used in a Windows standalone? ~Roger On Sep 14, 2016 10:17 PM, "Monte Goulding" wrote: > > > On 15 Sep 2016, at 12:13 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami < > bra...@hindu.org> wrote: > > > >"Actually if I just let the jsonExport and jsonImport do the work… > it's val

play sound command?

Folks: Just wondering about playing sound with 8.1. I assume that using the video player control is the way to do it. But, I tried the Play “audioclip” fName command with an mp3 audio and it just gave me noise. The video player control works fine. But, I just want to ask, or point out, whether t

Rotatable mobile browser

I am unable to create a stack that simply repositions some card controls and resizes a browser to fit the new orientation on an Android phone. I have tried both the browser widget and the older mobile browser commands, each of which fail for different reasons. This is all in LC 8.1 (and all pr