LiveCode support

Hello folks My Indy license stopped working in September (should be good until 2017), and Heather was actively trying to sort the problems out. Then it all went silent. There has been no response to my last 4 emails (ticket number is in subject line). I haven’t been cross or offensive, and t

Re: Release 8.0 dictionary

> On 23 Dec 2015, at 12:29 pm, Heather Laine wrote: > > Nor should anyone respond to this thread with any kind of debate on whether > this debate is acceptable. Did you just press command-period on a recursion after only two iterations? Best Wishes, David Glasgow

Re: Licensing Problems

Charles, I have had repeated problems with my Indy license expiring every month. http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16720 I have to download a new activation file for my specific version (7.1.0) each month. This is pain, but oth

Re: Licensing Problems

Couldn’t say if it is really exactly once a month, but it is something like that :(( > On 14 Feb 2016, at 1:24 pm, Charles Szasz wrote: > > David, > > Thanks for your comments! Do you do a manual activation for each month for > licensing? > > Sent from my iPad > _

Re: Endless discussion on licensing and pricing (was: Standalones on el Capitan?)

> On 2 May 2016, at 1:56 pm, Paul Dupuis wrote: > > This really is a pointless discussion and I know people will find that > comment offensive and it is not intended to be. I follow these discussions with interest, and don’t find them pointless at all. It is quite helpful to understand the

Cross platform Emoji in a field within a group

Hello folks, I am fiddling with an app which involves fairly complex grouped objects each of which I want to be ‘taggable' using a subset of emoji. Probably a little line of them in a bar across the top of each group I am trying to decide whether to use a collection of png on an emoji card, or

Re: Cross platform Emoji in a field within a group

23 Aug 2016, at 11:08 am, Richmond wrote: > > How about using a ttf font? > > Check out the Unicode specs on this: > > http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F600.pdf > > Richmond. > > > On 23.08.2016 13:06, David V Glasgow wrote: >> Hello folks, >&

Re: Very OT - Bad pun

I use to live in Leicestershire … > On 25 Aug 2016, at 4:25 pm, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Not even the French could pronounce a word so different from how it is > spelled. (I'm half French so I can make fun of us). > > Bob S > > >> On Aug 23, 2016, at 14:29 , stephen barncard >> wrote: >>

Re: Very OT - Bad pun

Are you thinking of A1? That is a famous road which runs from London to Edinburgh via Leicestershire, and is also a steak sauce ;-) > On 27 Aug 2016, at 12:25 am, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Isn't that a steak sauce? > > Bob S > > > On Aug 25, 2016, at 08:28 , Dav

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

I PAID in advance for the Windows version, and then switched to mTropolis. IIRC it trumpeted that it did not rely on a metaphor. Boy was I glad to get back to stacks & cards David G > On 5 Oct 2016, at 2:03 am, Earthednet-wp wrote: > > I waited a year for the DOS version. It never came. T

Re: Supercard 4.8 public beta

think you have transcended metaphor: Do not try to bend the card. That's impossible. Instead only try to realise the truth ;-) David G > On 5 Oct 2016, at 6:22 pm, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > David V Glasgow wrote: > > > I PAID in advance for the Windows version, and th

OT - cross platform zero slashed font

Is there really no cross platform zero slashed (like Monaco 0) font? Is there one which is substituted by another zero slashed font on different platforms? Best Wishes, David Glasgow

Re: OT - cross platform zero slashed font

Belated thanks Richmond and Jeanne Best David Glasgow > On 24 Oct 2016, at 6:37 am, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto > wrote: > > At 4:52 PM +0100 10/18/2016, David V Glasgow wrote: >> Is there really no cross platform zero slashed (like Monaco 0) font? Is >> there one which i

Re: SVG import

“jalouse" sounds Scots-French, and I can’t be bothered to Google it. I jalouse I agree with Richmond though. I am just looking at a workflow for designing a number of graphics and trying to decide between SVG and oversized bitmaps. The latter would be simpler to create - in fact I haven’t act

marker points and curves confusion

In the dictionary it states “Curve and irregular polygon graphics can be drawn with a marker at each vertex" I have set the markerdrawn property to true, and markerPoints to a listOfVertexes (copied from user manual). The curve is formed of the oval with a startangle of 180 and an arcangle of

memory munching group

Hello folks, I am hesitant to call this a memory leak problem, but it doesn’t seem far off. I have a group consisting of an array of 18x 5 button radio buttons, each set prepended by a field labelling the scale. All the buttons, and label fields contain a custom property (csplain) consisting o

Re: memory munching group

> On 8 May 2015, at 6:31 pm, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > Does it still happen if you remove the visual effect? > > Thanks for the suggestion Jacqueline. Yes it does. However, if I comment out the whole show line, the problem disappears. It seems it is specifically related to that. It d

Re: memory munching group

> On 9 May 2015, at 4:18 pm, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > How about the layermode of the field? If it's not static it will be cached. > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com > I got the field to rep

Revmail problems on Windows 8

Hello Folks, I am just doing the final tweaks on an app designed for an NHS Trust to support clinical decision making . It is exclusively a Win environment. So far, apart from the usual font faff, the deployment platform hasn’t given me any real headaches. However, a week before roll out I h

Re: Revmail problems on Windows 8

I originally sent this a couple of days ago, but it has never appeared on the list. Apologies if it ends up a double post…. Based on the advice received when I posted this issue, I checked the result immediately after the revmail line was executed. Interestingly, the result-put line was not e

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2015 edition)

I am working on v 3.0 of an assessment of paedophile sexual interest for professionals working with sex offenders. I’m sweating a bit because it has to be ready for the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers conference in Montreal starting week of 11th Oct. Im working on the manual jus

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2015 edition)

. Cheers, David G > On 1 Oct 2015, at 12:23 pm, Trevor DeVore wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 6:22 AM, David V Glasgow wrote: > >> >> Im working on the manual just now, using another LC product, what used to >> be Blue Mango’s ScreenSteps. Not sure what h

Paths in Mac standalone headache

In my apps openstack script I setup a path for saving and getting results using specialfolderpath(“documents”), and put that in a global gresultspath I use that to access results in a couple of places within substacks, using a fairly standard script. This works fine in development, and fine on

Re: Paths in Mac standalone headache

> On 6 Oct 2015, at 2:52 am, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > when the culprit was simply a defaultFolder assignment that didn't take. Thanks. Helpful scripts both. I think it *is* simply a folder assignment that doesn’t take. Not the default folder, but the path to the results which I temporari

intersection point of two graphic line segments

I just want to run an idea by list members. I am looking at creating “overpasses” inserted into one grc line segment over another where they cross. I can use intersect to determine if any (newly created or moved) lines cross any other(s) already existing. However, that doesn’t tell you where

Re: intersection point of two graphic line segments

Well, that’s piqued my interest. Not easy to find animation AnimationEngine, so what would detecting intersections and creating overpasses involve using AnimationEngine? D > On 11 Nov 2015, at 1:08 pm, Malte Brill wrote: > > Hi David, > >> Has anybody dealt with this before > > I have metho

Re: intersection point of two graphic line segments

Thanks Malte! > On 11 Nov 2015, at 3:04 pm, Malte Brill wrote: > > Hi David, > > http://www.derbrill.de/animationEngine6.zip > > > ae is dual licensed (GPL3 / commercial) Stack is unlocked and the zip > Contains a PDF + some examples. What you wi

Re: Unicode and languages

Ha! You beat me to it, Alex. The only extra is that Paul might be able to identify very common but distinct markers to identify the language, and create a simple algorithm. Made me wonder how Google translate does it when it is set to 'detect language’ Cheers, David G > On 6 Jun 2020, at

Build problems with 9.6

Hi Folks, I have been trying out 9.6 on Mac on a stack developed with 7.1.4. I made some minor tweaks to the stack and then tried to build a standalone. I didn’t check change the default build settings. It built for linux, then entered a blizzard of 'stack with the same name is in memory’ al

Re: Build problems with 9.6

Should have said, MacOS 10.13.6 > On 15 Jun 2020, at 11:20 am, David V Glasgow wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I have been trying out 9.6 on Mac on a stack developed with 7.1.4. I made > some minor tweaks to the stack and then tried to build a standalone. I > didn’t check cha

Re: Build problems with 9.6

/quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22740? > > Kind regards, > Panos > -- > > On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 14:02, David V Glasgow via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Should have said, MacOS 10.13.6 >> >>> On 15 Jun 2020, at

Re: Build problems with 9.6

nd regards, > Panos > -- > > On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 18:12, David V Glasgow via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Hi Panos, >> >> The tools appeared to install, but the error(s) still appear, and the >> standalone isn’t

Re: Build problems with 9.6

> On 16 Jun 2020, at 1:11 pm, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode > wrote: > > Sorry about that, I should have mentioned that "/path/to/your/Xcode.app" is > a placeholder for the actual path to your Xcode.app. Oh boy. Feel a bit dumb now! Currently 10.1, downloading 11 now, just in case.

Re: Build problems with 9.6 [mostly fixed]

de.app > > *>>>>>>>Launching X-Code I get an unknown error with a long field of text > in the console. Want to see it? * > > If the previous command does not make any difference, then yes please :) > > Which version of Xcode have you installed BTW? >

Fwd: Build problems with 9.6 [mostly fixed]

. I tried setting the password of the stack to empty, with no change to error. Stack has no sub stacks. I suppose I could select inclusions manually, but it would be nice to know what is going on. Cheers, David G > Begin forwarded message: > > From: David V Glasgow > Subjec

slow loading & navigation to card containing large field

Hello LCers On Mac 10.13, LC 9.6 In my stack I have a field on one card consisting of imported text, which is typically several thousand of internet searches/file names/URLs. I search for a number of keywords, which are then aggregated, and by navigating to another card, display summary stati

Re: slow loading & navigation to card containing large field

e main storage and heavy lifting within a custom property? Thanks very much for the suggestions. Cheers, David G > On 1 Jul 2020, at 5:15 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi David > >> Am 01.07.2020 um 18:10 schrieb Richard Gaskin via use-livecode

sorting lines by date

Livecodeistas, I am working with text files consisting of many thousands of lines, most of which are in the format URL & Tab & Date - but a few don’t have a date. So they look like this ... http://1.lw6.blah/b7f3bd9e6b4d728a0f6d5883ed3a5ce/5326d47f?ss=152 17/03/2014 9:55 http://1.lw6.zdo

Re: sorting lines by date

Hi Tom, That’s what I thought I was doing. From the dictionary… The dateTime keyword recognizes all LiveCode's date and time formats and sorts them in time order, rather than alphabetical or numeric order. Cheers, David G > On 10 Jul 2020, at 11:24 pm, Tom Glod via use-livecode > wrote: >

Re: sorting lines by date

Thanks everyone & Curry. I will play with this some more. Looking at the lists I am given, most of the date columns are declared to be UTC. I intended to try to detect other formats in due course, but thought I’d start with the common one. Reminds me of my favourite Jake Peralta line: “Stupi

Re: Layers in PBrowser

> On 13 Aug 2020, at 4:16 am, Pi Digital via use-livecode > wrote: > > Why do I have the same discussion with you people Hi Sean, There are no ‘you people’, there is only us, including you. I can’t help you with your IDE problem, but I can see that others are trying hard to be helpful, an

Getting page counts of PDFs

Livecoders, In my day job, some of my income comes from the number of pages from a number of PDF documents thatI have to read for individual cases. I thought it would be fun and useful to write an LC script that would either count the pages or (even better) get the page count of a folder full

Re: The Most Stupid Question Ever?

> On 10 Nov 2020, at 11:14 pm, Craig newman via use-livecode > wrote: > > So then LC knows when the message box is about to be the target, and > therefore acts differently than with any other container. The actual already > executed command "put" is left stranded, unrequited, because the nex

Re: Design Question

Oooh! For once I might make a contribution! I had the same issue in a healthcare context. These IT systems vary tremendously between services, are complex and often hard to connect with - either by design, or by lack of interest in supporting other software. I found the best way to get a comb

Re: filter

Apologies for barging in, but I am confused by regex generally and in this specific example by the function of the terminal ‘+’ If you are only finding one character, why do you need to specify 'at least one' of one char? Cheers David G > On 20 Nov 2020, at 8:44 am, Klaus major-k via use-live

OT Re: Trying to use the Segmented Control

> On 6 Dec 2020, at 10:16 am, Richmond via use-livecode > wrote: > > I started driving again in the United Arab Emirates on the basis of a Saudi > licence I had got for a bottle > of fake Chanel number 5. I never drive in the UAE. Hit a camel = go to jail. David G ___

Field ID clash

Using 9.6.0 on Mac 10.13.6 I duplicated a field and found a third field responded to the mouseup of the duplicate. It seems the duplication generated a clash of IDs between the duplicate and third field. I could just select and start again, but I was wondering whether there is a safe way to m

OT Re: Audioclips overlapping

Oh my! I had a minuet generator dongle for my Sinclair Spectrum!! So that’s how it worked! > On 9 Jan 2021, at 3:08 pm, Richmond via use-livecode > wrote: > > Erm . . . not sure about this, but the word 'concatenation' just bubbled > up in my brain. > > But any concatenation would need to be

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.2 RC-2

I paid for the Windows version of SuperCard that was advertised in MacUser for some considerable time in the ?mid 90s. I waited, and waited, and waited…. > On 13 Jan 2021, at 8:00 pm, Michael Kristensen via use-livecode > wrote: > > Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> We've been here before... >> >>

Re: Cmi5 eLearning Standard in LiveCode MEETING TODAY AT 1 PM EST

VideoLinkwell looks like a great tool, Martin. I spend a lot of time analysing video recorded police interviews, so I I know what a huge slog it is to document what happens and at which point(s) in a video. Is there a walkthrough of features/tools? Cheers David G > On 18 Jan 2021, at 6:49 p

Re: Cmi5 eLearning Standard in LiveCode MEETING TODAY AT 1 PM EST

I intended to comment on list, because I was impressed with Videolinkwell and thought folks on the list might be interested! I watched the videos and think your app is really cool and worthwhile. There! I did it again! David G > On 19 Jan 2021, at 5:37 pm, Martin Koob wrote: > > Hi List. >

Re: lock screen

I once got in an unholy mess with a couple of lock screens which, of their own accord, had sneaked into repeat loops. > On 22 Jan 2021, at 2:24 pm, Craig newman via use-livecode > wrote: > > Something else you might want to to know, though it may only be academic. > > LockScreen commands are

Re: LC Roadmap

> On 13 Feb 2021, at 12:37 pm, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode > wrote: > > I was told last year that HTML5 deployment would see upgrades maybe by > Jan2021 LC 9.7. Hi Sean, I think that kind of aspirational statement, particularly in the world of software development, is the kind of thing

Re: [OT] Poll: What does it mean for 1 rect to be 'within' a certain distance of another rect?

Being a bear of little brain, I would try placing each rect into a group centred on a larger rect, where the margin is d/2, then test using intersect. Now, where did I put that hunny? Best wishes David Glasgow ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liveco

Re: [OT] Poll: What does it mean for 1 rect to be 'within' a certain distance of another rect?

id G > On 16 Feb 2021, at 5:08 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 2/16/2021 6:16 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote: >> Being a bear of little brain, I would try placing each rect into a group >> centred on a larger rect, where the margin is d/2, t

Re: [OT] Poll: What does it mean for 1 rect to be 'within' a certain distance of another rect?

Double [OT], but I just want to say that I have looked at HyperRESEARCH several times over the years, and have been hugely impressed with its features. In fact, it is too feature rich for my needs, but it looks like a really great piece of work. Cheers, David G > On 16 Feb 2021, at 9:43 pm, P

Baffling can't create variable message

LiveCoders, I have a pulldown menu button to which I want to append new searches that it does not already contain. I have scripted this in various ways, multiple lines, single line, add parentheses, leave ‘em out, use extra variable/not, in an attempt to isolate what I am doing wrong. Someti

Re: Baffling can't create variable message

quot;. You have to use "set the > text" > > set the text of button "search all" to return & fld "custom" & the text of > button "search all" > > > > - > Matthias Rebbe > Life Is Too Short For Boring Code >

Re: Multidimensional array issue

Er, I think I have just reached the fourth level of array un-enlightenment. Wait!…. I can see the cyberverse! SCHLOOOppp!-ting! > On 3/8/21 5:36 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: >> Are you testing for empty, or are you testing if there is a value in an >> array variable? If there is

Re: [ANN] New Book: Development Oriented Development

Going off at a bit of a tangent, but maybe not entirely OT… I see that Payhip state you can sell software through their platform. Andre, do you do that? or any Livecoders for that matter? If so, how is it going? Cheers David Glasgow > On 16 Mar 2021, at 6:26 pm, Andre Garzia via use-liv

Re: Resources folder on mac, and the good old days

I am following this with interest because, as I have previously lamented, I would like to give away apps to colleagues without the huge, incomprehensible headache of certificates, signing and notarising etc. I want to make absolutely sure that I understand it correctly, that a player app which

Star score graphic generator achievable with inks... or...?

Hi folks, I am thinking about an app to create a 'star score' graphic for any given score/maximum value. I don’t want it to be just integers up to the number of stars, but for one for the stars (if mean score is neither zero or the maximum) to be part golden and part grey. I initially thought

Re: Star score graphic generator achievable with inks... or...?

> On 1 Apr 2021, at 6:00 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Actually I think you would have to set the width of the top group, then set > the left of the top group to the left of the bottom group. Simply changing > the right will move the group I think. Just going off memory. > >

Re: Star score graphic generator achievable with inks... or...?

Of course what you suggest is a perfect solution. Someone had to mail me off list and explain it using very small words. Cheers David G > On 2 Apr 2021, at 10:08 am, David V Glasgow wrote: > > > >> On 1 Apr 2021, at 6:00 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >>

Re: Star score graphic generator achievable with inks... or...?

ink this would do what you need. >> >> You would need to install the widget in your IDE to use it. >> >> Martin >> >>> On Apr 2, 2021, at 9:14 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode >>> wrote: >>> >>> Of course w

BPD EUPD

Not going to get all professional/technical here, but this condition is *really* tough on those who have it. Think social-emotional roller coaster. It also generates challenges for those who interact with them. What allowances individuals choose to take is a matter of choice, of course. Howev

Snapshot image density

Hi Livecoders, I have been thinking about offering snapshot image density options on an app which currently only offers (import) snapshot size options. I chose import snapshot script variant because users’ machines may well react badly to an attempt to save an image (security). However, mos

Re: Snapshot image density

Thanks Richard. > On 16 Apr 2021, at 4:17 pm, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > David V Glasgow wrote: > > > Is it right that import snapshot doesn’t offer image density options > > as export snapshot does? > > Is the metadata["density&q

Re: Close & remove from memory - Engine hang

> On 8 May 2021, at 12:57 am, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode > wrote: > > > I just wrote about my observations and asked for a recipe. > ... > > If you felt that as "doubt" then i am really sorry. > > No worries! I also apologize if I've misread your message. Now *that’s* how to do it. Da

Finding invisible/non printable characters in a string

Hi folks, hope everyone is well. Would I be right in thinking if codepoint count > the number of chars in a text string, then it probably contains invisible characters? Or would I need to search through Hex to check? Or something much easier and cleverer that I hadn’t even considered. Becaus

Re: Finding invisible/non printable characters in a string

> On 10 May 2021, at 6:23 pm, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode > wrote: > > > Another fun accent example is using a "Zalgo" generator: I set out to learn some Livecode, but instead learned about Zalgo. … and that invisible characters have to go in the ‘maybe when I have some time’ drawer,

Replacetext of any characters between parentheses with a space

LC coders, please tell me why this won’t work! My guess is that this is a regex issue, not LC, but I am so stuck. I want to replace all text within in parentheses (including the parentheses) with a single space. I have tried assembling the matchExpression in advance and in line, and also esca

Re: Replacetext of any characters between parentheses with a space

D’Oh! Thanks Paul. Much appreciated. Cheers David G > On 9 Jun 2021, at 6:10 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 6/9/2021 1:03 PM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote: >> on mouseup >> >> put field "import" in

Re: Replacetext of any characters between parentheses with a space

https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=35951 > > Richmond. > > On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 8:05 PM David V Glasgow via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> LC coders, please tell me why this won’t work! My guess is that this is a >> regex

Re: Forum?

I’m with Richmond. I have had nothing since 13th, except for this thread. Cheers David G > On 15 Jun 2021, at 11:41 am, Keith Martin via use-livecode > wrote: > >> On 15 Jun 2021, at 09:58, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Has the Forum gone bottom up? > > It’s a littl

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.3

Any help? https://developer.android.com/google/play/expansion-files > On 3 Aug 2021, at 5:06 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Don't make really big apps? :-) > > I'd start by going through all your graphics and using the lowest resolution > that you can get away with. If you li

Re: LiveCode community edition is gone

> On 1 Sep 2021, at 11:26 am, Bernard Devlin via use-livecode > wrote: > > There you had a group of programmers who supposedly loved what > HyperCard could do, but they only loved that concept as a historical > artefact, not as a tool available to people now. Abso-frogging-lutely. The really

Re: Text encoding.

Following this with interest, but also a little confusion. I completely fell into the trap of assuming you encode outgoing and decode incoming. Alex states that put textEncode(tWHoleText, "UTF8") into tWholeText speeds replace up, but David B says LC internal format is UTF16. Doesn’t the 8 vs

Re: Text encoding: summary of results and times.

So if someone has a cross platform (Win/Mac) app designed to process text files of various and unknown formats and provenance, is there some incantation process which would ensure it is best prepared for lots of finding and filtering? Best wishes David Glasgow ___

OT Re: Testers wanted for score tracking app

I visited Finland in 40 years ago, and saw someone playing kyykkä Much to the amusement of my host, I initially thought I was witnessing someone deranged throwing a stick at tins of beans. > On 30 Sep 2021, at 3:30 pm, Andreas Bergendal via use-livecode > wrote: > > Thanks Mark! > > Here is

Re: On the subject of things with the same short name... ('identical' groups which behave differently)

Ah! (light comes on). Thanks Sean. So ‘me’ is actually more specific than it would seem! I avoided ‘me' because it returns the short name of an object (of which there are several), and went for the long name of me because it is unique. Just to be clear, what you are saying is that when LC

Re: On the subject of things with the same short name... ('identical' groups which behave differently)

I don’t know what my wife is complaining about. It IS all about me! > On 8 Oct 2021, at 4:37 pm, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > For the sake of clarity, in retrospect it may have been better to use This > Me, That Me, The Other Me, and perhaps Not Me. :-) > > Bob S > > >> On Oc

Re: screen resolution and stack height

> On 2 Dec 2021, at 2:31 pm, Craig Newman via use-livecode > wrote: > > Here is a neat article: > > https://www.studiobinder.com/blog/what-is-4-3-aspect-ratio/ > Interesting! I suppose my original point is that in the old days you could create at any intermediate ratio and it would match

Re: screen resolution and stack height

Thanks for more thoughts guys. I do have a scale factor button, but don’t want to stretch, so I use ‘letterbox' The cinematography web page inspired me to experiment more freely and I found that 3:2 seems to be a good compromise despite not matching any screen ’standard'. It scales on screens

Re: Command "Launch"

> On 11 Dec 2021, at 12:08 pm, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Ken Ray has a nice list of many specialfolderpath() names on his website: > > I can’t say h

OT Re: Livecode downloads VERY slow

> On 23 Dec 2021, at 3:39 am, William Prothero via use-livecode > wrote: > > I bet I got you all beat, for geezerdom. I took the first National UK examinations in 'Computer Studies' in the early 70s. Part of the final exam was to read a short piece of punched tape. With your eyes. Mine

Re: Sorting cards problem solved

Please let me not be the only one who can’t stand the suspense... > On 3 Jan 2022, at 7:18 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 1/3/22 12:13 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: >> On 1/3/22 9:30 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: >>> Right, Zweibelwähe should be last,

Re: Sorting cards problem solved

; > On 1/3/22 2:53 PM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote: >> Please let me not be the only one who can’t stand the suspense... > > I know this topic has taken over the list, and it's probably run its course > now so you can breathe easy. The last puzzle remains unsol

Re: scripted Show tooltip not a thing?

Thanks all. I scripted as if the delay was the duration the tooltip is displayed. Duh! Of course the delay is hover delay before the tooltip shows! I knew that, and yet somehow didn’t know it at the same time. Cheers David G > On 11 Jan 2022, at 2:48 pm, Craig Newman via use-livecode > w

Re: scripted Show tooltip not a thing?

I rather lazily didn’t post an update, but on reflection I had already decided to do exactly what you recommend, Richard. Your advice isn’t wasted because my thinking about why it is the best thing to do wasn’t that clear. It is an important UI point you make about advice only being useful

can I filter lines with a list of alternative OR strings?

Hi Folks, I can filter text using a single term plus a numerical range s eg: *re 1[0-5]* matching a text stem “re “ followed by any one of 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 or 15 But is there a form where the alternatives are also text? eg something like: *big [“dog”, “cat”, “fish”]* The above searches OK

Text overwriting itself in non wrapping field

Hi folks, I have imported just under 10,000 lines of a web history into a non wrapping scrollable field. As the subject above indicates, in one line characters appear rendered over the top of each other. The is quite stable, so redrawing or scrolling doesn’t make it go away. That line is pre

Re: Text overwriting itself in non wrapping field

move on. Shall I do that, and we will never speak of this again? Best wishes, David G > On 17 Mar 2022, at 7:21 pm, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 3/17/22 10:58 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode wrote: >> Examining it, it looks like it ought to be a n

OT Re: What happens if an Indy license renews these days?

Matthias, please could you also start reminding me of all the things I misread and forget in my emails ;-) Best wishes, David Glasgow > On 19 Mar 2022, at 5:21 pm, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode > wrote: > > Andre, > didn‘t you get an email from LC some time ago. > > If i recall it corre

Re: can I filter lines with a list of alternative OR strings?

t, so now I can investigate further! thanks again David G > On 6 Mar 2022, at 11:12 pm, Dick Kriesel via use-livecode > wrote: > > >> On Mar 3, 2022, at 2:30 AM, David V Glasgow via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> I can filter text using a single

Re: Encountering slow navigation to a card containing very large fields? Do this one simple trick.

Hi Jim, The text in fields doesn’t move or change after the initial analysis. the slowdown is just navigating back to to the card containing the fields from from one which doesn’t contain the fields. Cheers David G > On 16 Apr 2022, at 8:46 pm, Jim Lambert via use-livecode > wrote: > >

Re: Encountering slow navigation to a card containing very large fields? Do this one simple trick.

Hi Richard > On 16 Apr 2022, at 8:20 pm, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > How many is "many many thousands of lines"? 10k? 100k? More? Typically 30,000 to 800,000. One field wrapped (the imported ‘source’ text) and the other a, unwrapped list of found lines containing a keyword.

Re: Encountering slow navigation to a card containing very large fields? Do this one simple trick.

Elephant” > allegory. The Datagrid eats the Elephant, “One Bite At a Time.” The field > tries to eat the Elephant all at once. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On Apr 16, 2022, at 01:40, David V Glasgow via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Thanks for this, Bob.

Re: Encountering slow navigation to a card containing very large fields? Do this one simple trick.

Maybe context would help. I receive digital evidence from police Hi Tech Crime Units, consisting of lists/tables of messages, search histories, web histories, files downloaded, etc etc. These relate to online activities of alleged internet offenders. Some consist of data relating to a few mont

Re: Single Window LC IDE?

> On 27 Apr 2022, at 2:17 pm, Mike Kerner via use-livecode > wrote: > > they not only discussed it, but they demo'd it … and referred to it as a “new ‘dock windows’ capability”.Which sounds like it will still be each to his/her own. Cheers David G

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