(apologies, this was initially sent to the wrong email)
Is there any way to capture mouseDown/Up on a Segmented Control
widget? hiliteChanged is the only message that is documented or shows
up in the Script Editor and standard mouseDown/Up handlers aren't
acknowledged. Am I missing somethin
I'm getting false positives when using
mobileSensorAvailable("location") with Location Services disabled on
my device. iOS is able to determine Location Services is disabled and
notify user (via a short script), but the same code in my Android
build is telling me the sensor is available. I
Andre's Facebook library still works, but was a bear to track down
about 2 years ago when I bought and implemented it. It seems other
than references in the Wayback Machine, this library has vanished from
the interwebs.
Social sharing seems common enough that there would be a reliable
cro
Depending on your license level, tsNet may not be available.
I was recently looking for a way to force clear browser cache in
LiveCode browser widget (still can't figure it out, even trying the
"?seconds" parameter discussed on the list) and discovered the LOAD
command in LiveCode. Where PU
Both of these work for me in 9.0.0rc1 and 9.0.0 on 10.13.3 (using the
default widget with the 4 items):
set the hilitedItem of widget "Navigation Bar" to 4
set the hilitedItemName of widget "Navigation Bar" to "search"
By some chance do you have more than 1 navbar widget which is
unintention
Didn't bother to test on Android since mergAV isn't supported, but I
can confirm the crashes on simulated devices. When tested on physical
devices, the stack never crashed but didn't always work depending on
the source of the image. Even images from the same device didn't
always work, which
I'm working with the Tree View widget and have found that leaf nodes
stay open even after the arrayData has changed. For example, if I
click on leaf node 2 and 4 to open them up for further inspection but
then load new arrayData those same leaf nodes are already expanded
with the new data.
Setting the arrayData to EMPTY acts the same as setting the arrayData
to some other array: the open nodes remain open. I even tried changing
the number of elements in the array to something as low as 1 but it
still remembered what nodes had been open when setting the arrayData
to something
-0500, Andrew Bell via use-livecode
, wrote:
Setting the arrayData to EMPTY acts the same as setting the arrayData
to some other array: the open nodes remain open. I even tried changing
the number of elements in the array to something as low as 1 but it
still remembered what nodes had been open when
I've had growing frustration with adding items and changing itemNames
of new items in the Navigation Bar widget. Today I finally took the
time to attempt and recreate/troubleshoot the issue which led me to
filing two bug reports.
One major limitation I discovered was that the widget only se
I know the devs are working on including the new version of Xcode, but
has anyone tried to run their apps in the iOS 12 beta? I installed it
on my iPad and haven't had ANY luck. Every app that I've made (app
store official & ad hoc install) either crashes or goes to black
screen on iOS 12.
standalone(s)?
Best,
Panos
--
On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 5:11 PM, Andrew Bell via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
I know the devs are working on including the new version of Xcode, but has
anyone tried to run their apps in the iOS 12 beta? I installed it on my
iPad and haven
Like Jacque mentioned, I don't think you need to bother with tsNet for
local files since they should be almost instantly loaded.
I too struggled with tsNet when I first tried to implement it, but
this website helped me more than the LiveCode pages:
https://www.techstrategies.com.au/tsnet-re
Had my first customer complaint about the app not working on their
device running the iOS 12 beta. Luckily I was able to point to a blog
post about how Fortnite also crashes under iOS 12 and explained how
their development budget is WAY larger to buy some time ;)
Has the mothership had a ch
mobilePickPhoto will launch the device camera, but not actually open
the OS based Camera app. There is a nice lesson available @
http://lessons.livecode.com/m/4069/l/30490-how-do-i-capture-images-in-livecode-mobile
--Andrew Bell
From: Dan Friedman
To: "use-livecode@lists.runrev.com"
Subje
One method is to offer things for sale outside of things for sale to
the outside world that then unlock content in your app. I have a
client that a made an app for that is free to download, but
functionally crippled without an existing account from them (login
credentials unlock access to c
Based on the fact that my apps are still crashing on load in iOS 12
beta 4 (16A5327f) I can only assume that Fortnite was NOT written in
Livecode ;)
--Andrew Bell
From: panagiotis merakos
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: iOS 12 compatibility
Message-ID:
Content-Type: text/pl
Panos
--
PS: We are still investigating.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 9:51 AM, panagiotis merakos
wrote:
Thanks Andrew. I just upgraded the test device to iOS 12 beta 4 and I
confirm apps still crash on startup. Sigh :(
Best,
Panos
--
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 6:28 PM, Andrew Bell via use-liv
st at
app launch.
--Andrew Bell
--
@Andrew thanks for checking.
Which LC version do you now use? We have fixed *a lot* of
acceleratedrendering-related issues in LC 9.0.1- RC-1, so issue #2
might be already fixed.
Best,
Panos
--
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Andrew Bel
Panos asked me to file a bug report on what I was experiencing, but I
haven't been able to nail down the formula yet.
Simply enabling acceleratedRendering would allow my app to launch, but
things weren't moving or responding as they should have. It does seem
like some mouseUp messages are g
ace, not just at app launch.
--Andrew Bell
--
@Andrew thanks for checking.
Which LC version do you now use? We have fixed *a lot* of
acceleratedrendering-related issues in LC 9.0.1- RC-1, so issue #2 might be
already fixed.
Best,
Panos
--
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Andrew B
Like this?
https://livecode.com/docs/9-0-0/components/map-widget/
I will be talking a little about my Map widget implementation during a
LC Global talk next month.
--Andrew Bell
From: Klaus major-k
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Tutorial for MAP widget
Message-ID:
Content-Type: text/pl
This one escaped me at first as well, but if you click on the sprocket
widget in the upper-right of the PI you have the option for
"Header/Footer Size" to grow and shrink the tabs. I'm not sure what
"Footer" is referring to.
--Andrew Bell
PI window and tabs:
- The PI tabs (Basic, Conten
Klaus-
After further inspection I agree with you that this widget needs a
proper tutorial. I was looking at the module itself trying to find
some undocumented features (like a polygon or circle overlay instead
of just a polyline) and came up empty handed.
After looking at the W3Schools tu
From: Brian Milby
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: fullscreenmode and rect of a substack on mobile device ?
Message-ID:
In the end, I guess I need to get an Android device so I can start testing.
My go-to source for Android test devices is the local grocery store so
I can buy a pre-p
I agree, and my clients have confirmed, that scrolling with dg2 is
jerky compared to dg1. This isn't as noticeable when scrolling at a
fast rate, but very evident at slower speeds.
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20910
As Sannyasin mentioned, I can't go back to LC8 due to lack o
Thank you Livecode crew for patching Bug 21396 that required
acceleratedRendering to be TRUE in order for an app to launch in iOS
12! Word of advice to developers as they submit their new builds to
Apple (because if you don't, and you don't have acceleratedRendering
enabled in your stack, y
I just had a mobile app submission rejected from Google Play for
"Violation of Device and Network Abuse policy" which is an extremely
vague category of issues. Based on some StackOverflow research, it
seems that a common fix to this is to ensure that the following line
appears in your manif
From: Randy Hengst
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: iOS 12 compatibility
Message-ID: <0be15129-2652-43a4-aecc-00498689e...@mac.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Hi Andrew,
What version of LC and Xcode combination did you use for your build?
be well,
randy
www.classroom
- The stack that caches object scripts is not being cleaned up
properly between debugging sessions. This would mean that you would
see the old script but what would be executing would be the new
script. One way to test this might be to move a breakpoint statement
from one line to another an
I originally reported the iOS 12 bug (that doesn't show up in QC when
you search for "iOS 12" but can be found @
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21396) back in July,
which was fixed in 9.0.1rc2. I no longer see that black screen or
crash on iOS 12 (betas or release) when buildi
I ran into the same problem: had to upgrade from Xcode 8.2 to 9.2,
which required that I upgrade from macOS 10.11 to 10.12. You can
download the update from Apple through the App Store @
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208202 but will need to log into the
Apple developer site to download
I created an admin backend app for a client so they can manage data
for their frontend app. This backend, based off client request, is
running on macOS/Windows/iOS. The desktop versions use a password for
authenticating access but the iOS deployment uses Touch/Face ID for
authentication via
I'm trying to tab from field to field in a mobile app when pressing
the TAB key on a bluetooth keyboard, but having no luck in an iOS app.
My "on tabKey" code works fine in the IDE but not on the iPad.
After closer inspection of the dictionary, I discovered that the
tabKey handler is NOT su
I think that code is based off a documentation bug because "alphabet"
is not a listed parameter in the dictionary (even though it is the
first example shown after the listed parameters). I use:
The mobile keyboard won't activate unless a field has focus and the
"default" keyboard is already
Mike-
Attachments don't make their way onto the list, so we can't see your settings.
You said a "map browser widget" but that doesn't exist in LiveCode:
Map widget does, and Browser widget does, but no Map Browser widget. I
think you're talking about the Browser widget based off the thread
From: Bob Sneidar
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: remove empty lines in DG
Fortunately for you, I have a cursorToArray function already written:-)
YOU wrote that? Thank you thank you thank you! When I discovered that
script it completely changed my workflow by allowing me the ability
I found a bug that was squashed in 8.1.0dp3 has re-appeared. What's
the proper way to report this? I found the original thread (marked
FIXED) and made a comment, but not sure that anyone revisits those.
http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17852
--Andrew Bell
___
I recently tackled push notifications for a client project that was
WAY more in-depth than I imagined (and initially quoted for). Using
the LC tutorials for push notifications with APNsAssistant and
AnroidGCM I was able to add push notification sending from a
standalone desktop app created
I have a database on a LiveCode server that I use to track user
interactions in a LiveCode app. It has gotten too big to query in
LiveCode without timeout errors (the JSON gets mangled because there
are now several thousand records), so I'm trying to generate a text
file on the server and d
- you need to know your database encoding (let?s assume UTF-8)
I was still fairly green to mySQL when I first created this database,
so I never changed the default. Looks like the collation is
"utf8mb4_unicode_ci". Should that be changed to something else? The
server charset is UTF-8 Unic
Hmm? did you encode the data correctly as you put it in the db?
The data was transmitted from device to server using HostM's MySQL
HTTPS API Solution 1.1.3 @
https://www.hostm.com/tutorials/livecode/api-mariadb-mysql (amazing
tool and web host).
It looks like they are sending as "utf-8
I've been having a similar problem with an app that I just never got
around to debugging. After looking at that device compatibility
matrix, I think my problem is that GPS is selected as a required
provision (trying to get latitude/longitude from user when a certain
function is executed).
I just got around to building a new version of an existing project and
discovered my barcode scanner didn't work. Quick check of the release
notes for 8.2.0dp1 stated that mergZXing was being deprecated and to
use mergAVCam instead.
I can't find mergAVCam (assume mergAV is the inclusion, bu
should be a little more explanation as to how to proceed with the
workaround than the release notes mention.
--Andrew Bell
Which platform are you going for? mergav is for ios and osx. You can't
use "search for", you have to include it manually.
it works fine for me in my ap
Guess I didn't scroll down far enough on
http://mergext.com/home/mergav/ to see the barcode syntax. THank you
for the suggestion.
I wentlooking on MergEXT and the various Livecode
tutorial/lesson/stack-sharing sites for a MergAV sample stack. The
closest I found was a thread on this forum
From: Bob Sneidar
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: is a date
Message-ID: <6eb529a3-5d21-4186-bd90-641746e96...@iotecdigital.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
This probably matters to no one at all, but SQL does not store dates
with forward slashes. SQL datetime formats loo
Is it possible from a LiveCode app to link to the iOS device Settings?
I would like to help users enable Push Notifications if they didn't
the first time the app was launched, and rather than just describe
where it is I'd like to jump to the Settings app.
Seems to be doable in native progra
small handful that I tried all
had the same result of going from LiveCode app to the last area of
Settings that was active on the device.
--Andrew Bell
On 3 Nov 2017, at 7:57 am, Andrew Bell via use-livecode
wrote:
Is it possible from a LiveCode app to link to the iOS device
Settings?
So far things have worked well for me embedding fonts in iOS and
Android, but I've had some issues acquiring proper licensing for some
client requested typefaces because "web" & "print" licenses didn't
cover "app" usage. Google Fonts, and their liberal licensing, are your
friend.
I've had
I'm working on connecting to a 3rd-party API (Pipedrive) to a LiveCode
app I've done and seem to have a problem; any assistance would be
appreciated. Dummy (sandbox) account information has been included
with my code sample.
I've never used RESTful before, but the API seems pretty well
do
I tried suggestions from several users (on and off the list), but
nothing has worked for me. After contacting Pipedrive tech support, I
got the typical IT response of "it works for us" as they blamed
LiveCode. They suggested that somehow using regex would fix the issue,
but I'm not sure how
DDoS tools aside , what APIs need more than one call at a time?
I can think of a use in my (relatively) simple Indiana On Tap mobile
app. Currently I fetch some mySQL data and download some images from a
HostM account through their SSL API. The data is a couple of arrays
with a 30-300 ent
Thanks for the feedback on proper headers! I looked again at the
PipeDrive API
[https://developers.pipedrive.com/docs/api/v1/#!/Persons/put_persons_id] in
more detail and noticed that the Phone I was trying to change was
actually looking for an array rather than a number or string so I
th
A published mobile app built using LC8.1.8 that suddenly stopped
working. It retrieves info from a database and populates a few
datagrids. I was able to use the Remote Debugger to pinpoint where the
error is occurring (worth every penny of the upgraded license) and
found this:
89,79,11
77
A goal this year is to get an app (for foreign language learning) on the
Android and iOS stores. To this end, I have begun to re-study LC8's app
building course; LC itself I've been using for decades.
Let's say my original app gets approved. In that app is a datagrid object
list consisting of 10
I'm getting ready to start a new semester teaching LiveCode using
LiveCode University. Each time I run this class, I notice some
discrepancies between LCU and whatever the current version of LC is.
Devin Asay is listed as the author, but this was purchased through
RunRev. I started to file
::: Mac OS version :::
10.11.5 on MBP
10.12.6 on iMac
school IT just forced me to update the iMac to 10.13.2 but I haven't
compiled anything since then (thanks Apple for not backwards applying
Meltdown/Spectre patches)
::: LC version(s) :::
8.1.8 Business until the pesky "could not open
I'm experiencing a big degradation in performance with dg2. I have a
datagrid with a 224x119 image and two text fields. Slow scrolling
using dg1 (8.1.8) is silky smooth but slow scrolling using dg2 (9dp11)
is jittery at slow speeds. This isn't as noticeable with faster whip
scrolls but look
I don't have a clear answer for this, but just an observation: iPhone
5 was the last of the Apple 32bit hardware devices. That makes me
think this is an OS issue more than an LC issue.
--Andrew Bell
I'm getting a very strange complaint from one user who has an older
iPhone 5 running iOS 1
I have a mobile app that I'm looking to implement "Enable Background
Execution" in now that the plist hack is no longer required. Is there
a simple way to track how long the app has been in the background?
Basically, I'd like to initialize the full stack if the user has been
gone for a cert
I have some students working through the LiveCode academies in class
and have found an error in the first lesson (previously we have
encountered issues with the Parallax Effect lesson). On the Project
Setup and Splash Screen, the user is instructed to play a splashscreen
video by doing the
Bug 21156 for dictionary error filed. What about the outdated lesson
information?
--Andrew Bell
-
Hi Andrew,
I suggest filing a bug report to quality.livecode.com. This report would be
a good candidate for a community pull request, as it requires changes in
the Dictionary.
Best,
Panos
-
__
Well I took this as a chance to dip my toes in the GitHub waters. I
created an account, signed my contributor agreement with LiveCode, and
linked my GitHub to LiveCode.
I made a commit (but no pull request) on
docs/dictionary/object/videoClip.lcdoc and it was pretty painless ;)
Can anyone
I ran into this over the weekend but didn't check the list until this
morning. After some testing I can confirm this bug appeared in
9.0.0dp11. Filed bug report @
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21172
I'll probably look at switching my code over from revMail to
mobileComposeM
Has there been a session where someone showed a bug fix with pull
request? I recently tried to try a simple contribution (updating a
Dictionary entry) and found myself struggling (Git virgin). I know
there are lots of Github tutorials (and Trevor did a tutorial with
Git/Levure @ LC Global 1
Is there a quick way to search a large multidimensional array that I
am missing? I'm working on an inventory system and trying to figure
out some more efficient methods.
Currently I'm taking a tab-delimited spreadsheet provided by the
client and converting it to an array, but there are curr
THANK YOU for the recommendation! It took 4 seconds to convert this
giant array to an SQLlite DB that could be queried in a heartbeat. You
just took this project from proof of concept to prototype.
My apologies to the list, I vaguely remember seeing that thread but
didn't recall the title o
Here is a card script I'm currently using that seems to work in an
iOS/Android app I have now:
on preOpenCard
inputCreateTsm
end preOpenCard
on inputCreateTSM
put the rect of graphic "tsmRectangle" into tThisRect
# do some math to visually accommodate a roundedRect with innerShadow
Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:25:21 -0600
From: Randy Hengst
To: How to use LiveCode
Subject: Re: [OT] Download Request
Message-ID: <2123c29c-82dc-49ec-915c-86ae74918...@mac.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
A quick follow-up? the initial response from Apple said that they?d
get
le", "line"
mobileControlSet pName, "manageReturnKey", false
mobileControlSet pName, "keyboardStyle", "default"
mobileControlSet pName, "clearButtonMode", "unless editing"
end if
-- Focus on the Control
mobileContr
I've been compiling an iOS app in 8.1.x but am trying to make the jump
to 9.0dp6 for the cool new Business features like Remote Debugging.
Things seemed to be working ok until I compiled a development version
and installed it on my iPhone to find all my custom fonts were
replaced with bla
Try with 8 to make sure fonts work. There is a font bug in 9 on devices
with retina screens.
I should have searched the bug list first and I would have seen #19358
which describes this issue. I just did a build using 8.1.4rc1 with the
same exact code base and the fonts work fine.
Haven't
I'd have a little more faith in crowd funding app features if the
Native Field Object that I contributed for a year ago was available.
https://livecode.com/project/infinite-livecode-native-field-object/
--Andrew Bell
Message: 6
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 16:57:30 -0400
From: Mike Kerner
To: How
I am trying to modify a Windows stack to alert the user when a
particular event happens while the app is in the background or
minimized. Something like mergNotify, but for Windows, would be ideal.
My first thought was to change the taskbar icon, like Outlook does
when I have a new email or
I had a student submit an app that got rejected for the same reason.
To gain approval he presented a grid of 9 random numbers
(7,19,603,73,29,200,etc.) and asked the end-user to select values that
were "multiples of 3" (603,29,etc.). This was deemed an appropriate
age-gate for his audience
Occasionally I use some of the advanced networking stuff but the
remote debugger has been worth the upgrade price for me.
--Andrew Bell
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2019 09:16:30 -0700
From: doc hawk
To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Subject: Why do I have the business package?
In all seriousness, w
This was originally mentioned in a message at the end of January, but
that thread never went anywhere. I submitted an updated app to Google
Play today and noticed the warning message myself for the first time.
It seems we have a few more months to prepare for this, but can't
recall seeing a
Hopefully it's a type for 9.0.5DP1 since 9.0.4 was released today. I
can't wait to use some new faster Android emulators!
--Andrew Bell
Subject: Re: Android needs 64 bit builds
Message-ID:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
a minor thing probably i noticed. The 9.1.0D
I'm excited to try some of the new features of LC 9.5 but found a
regression that has me dead in the water. Went to file a bug report,
but 9.0.5 is the newest version listed. (I realize the team is busy in
San Jose this week)
Now that I'm a slightly more seasoned coder I know there are more
I realize there are better and more efficient ways to construct that
loop, but the fact that the original code does not throw an error in
9.0.5rc1 but does throw an error in 9.5dp1 made it seem like a
regression.
After re-reading the release notes I think this is probably the result
of bu
Jacque has a handy tool called Airlaunch that allows you to deliver
builds over the air (via web server).
[https://livecode.com/products/thirdparty/hyperactivesw/airlaunch-1-0-0/]
Another option is to save the standalone and install directly via the
Devices panel in Xcode.
[https://docs.m
Now that you mention this, I see the same issue with 2 of my apps in
the iOS store that were built using LC 9.5. There is one item just
"past" the bottom of the datagrid that you can only see if you swipe
beyond the end, but as soon as you let go it snaps back to showing the
2nd to last ite
Something seems to have changed in the datagrid code, because I have
an old iOS device with a version of my software from over a year ago
and it scrolls fine so I feel like the issue is with my scroller and
DG2 (this stack pre-dates that change).
I tried Ralph's suggestion of adding 20px, b
I learned HyperCard in K-12 during the '90s and moved to LiveCode a
couple years ago. My coding efficiency and strategies have developed
considerably over my past couple projects. I don't make a new card for
everything, but easily end up with a dozen cards in a stack for most
projects.
Ar
"2. have more images that fit the package -- last time I check it was
100MB, for iOS."
I assume you are referring to the maximum app size when downloading
from the App Store, in which case that limit has been removed with iOS
13.
https://ww.9to5mac.com/2019/05/31/apple-iphone-cellular-li
I'm excited to see that the switch to AVkit in LC 9.6 fixes the bug
where href="https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21438";>cameraControl
automatically configured audio and video input devices when created!
Will these syntax changes be made to mergAV? Using the barcode reader
on iO
duh):
mergAVRequestMediaAccess "video"
--Andrew Bell
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 08:24:55 +1100
From: Monte Goulding
Subject: Re: mergAV and AVkit
mergAV has already supported this for a while. You set the
microphone to empty before creating the camera. It is in the docs
for mergAVCa
I can confirm this issue and have made a sample stack documenting it
(but can't find the bug report @ quality.livecode.com to update).
Here are the results of my testing of the data grid scroller with the
various fullscreenMode options...
set the fullscreenMode of me to "showAll" // CUTS OFF
What is your virtual device? I don't have this problem any longer with
Xcode 11.1 (required for LC 9.6dp1), but in older versions the default
iPad was an iPad Air and the default iPhone was an iPhone 5 (or 5s?)
and the Simulator wouldn't fully launch.
In the device Simulator you can launch
Is there a way to determine if an iOS device has dark mode ("Dark
Appearance") enabled from within a LiveCode app?
The inherited default text color of a field is black, but is changed
to white by the OS when this mode is enabled (on a white background in
this case which makes it appear invi
c 4, 2019 at 2:30 PM Andrew Bell via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
Is there a way to determine if an iOS device has dark mode ("Dark
Appearance") enabled from within a LiveCode app?
The inherited default text color of a field is black, but is changed
to white by
mergLA will handle Face ID the same as Touch ID for iOS: no extra code
needed. It would be REALLY cool if this would work on macOS too so you
could use it on MacBook Pros since it's using the same calls.
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18742
--Andrew Bell
From: Dan Friedman
T
An API that I use was sunset on 2020-02-01 so I need to convert my
previous stack calls from their v1 to v2 format. The original method
was a simple url post but the updated method uses GET via curl. I was
able to convert my calls to the new format, and can successfully get
data when using
ication/json
-
Matthias Rebbe
Life Is Too Short For Boring Code
Am 13.02.2020 um 22:27 schrieb Andrew Bell via use-livecode
:
An API that I use was sunset on 2020-02-01 so I need to convert my
previous stack calls from their v1 to v2 format. The original
method was a simple url post but t
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