Re: Any LiveCoders who also use Xamarin?

2016-01-22 Thread Mark Wilcox
> I'm in an slightly weird situation with a client where they want me to > use > Xamarin instead of LiveCode for a project (for internal 'political' > reasons > as much as anything as far as I can see) - have any of you tried Xamarin > and > if so what did you think of it? I think the important th

Re: Open source, closed source, and the value of code

2016-03-01 Thread Mark Wilcox
sing your design if you'd released open source code that implemented it. There is a similar debate about patents... and much discussion on that in the open source community. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Summary: Open source, closed source, and the value of code

2016-03-03 Thread Mark Wilcox
I've hesitated to wade in on this but I think LiveCode's "official" interpretation of the GPL is wrong and also a mistake. I thought that there was a policy of encouraging those that produce libraries for other developers to also dual-license them - I didn't realise that was only supposed to be all

Re: Community PDF Project (was Revenue and the Open Source edition)

2016-05-04 Thread Mark Wilcox
> In a former, not so old, enormous thread dealing with the FOSS license > and > trying to understand what it meant in practice, one of the conclusion was > that *only Livecode can dual license*. Nobody else can do that. And Kevin > Miller really pushed hard on that point. Only Livecode can dual l

Re: Licensing AGAIN [was: Sharing FontLab Plugin]

2016-07-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
> So If student A writes down some code on text wrangle and gives it to > student B who (thanks folks) have an indy license, that belongs to student B > and he can dispose of it as he wishes, open sourced or closed source. > In that case it seems to me that it is just a case of confidence between

Re: Licensing AGAIN [was: Sharing FontLab Plugin]

2016-07-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
ore EULA and so whoever has the LiveCode license needs to own the copyright to the rest of the code to be able to distribute on the App Store GPL-free. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runr

Re: Licensing AGAIN [was: Sharing FontLab Plugin]

2016-07-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
e never going to pay anyway. Give people good reasons to do the right thing and pay, rather than try to scare them into doing so with GPL-related FUD. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runre

Re: Licensing AGAIN [was: Sharing FontLab Plugin]

2016-07-22 Thread Mark Wilcox
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016, at 03:38 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Mark Wilcox wrote: > > > My concern around LiveCode over-reaching with their derivative > > work claims (which are significantly stronger than those made > > by WordPress and Drupal) > > In what way(s)?

Re: Licensing AGAIN [was: Sharing FontLab Plugin]

2016-07-22 Thread Mark Wilcox
he GPL version can create plugins for others and sell them commercially, the user of those plugins would need to get their own commercial license to make use of them in a closed source app. The Qt company folks view this as very positive activity in their ecosystem. -- Mar

Re: Licensing AGAIN [was: Sharing FontLab Plugin]

2016-07-22 Thread Mark Wilcox
On Fri, Jul 22, 2016, at 04:53 PM, Rick Harrison wrote: > Like I said, LC should consider creating their own license then. > > After this little debate, I will never touch any GPL license ever > in the future. In fact, I now consider the community version > of LC to be worthless. I’ve always had

Re: Licensing AGAIN [was: Sharing FontLab Plugin]

2016-07-25 Thread Mark Wilcox
Hi Kevin & Richard, Thanks for engaging so positively with this discussion. Let me start by saying that I'm very much on the side of LiveCode succeeding and want to help not just complain from the sidelines. Open source licensing FUD tends to make my blood boil a little, although leaving that asi

Re: Wondering about iOS background tasks

2016-10-04 Thread Mark Wilcox
still playing audio. It may be the case that the way LiveCode works with audio APIs, or the way you're using them, means you stop playing between tracks for too long, so the system assumes the audio is finished. Might be worth further investigation. --

Re: which iPhone...

2014-11-10 Thread Mark Wilcox
If you don't have the appropriate launch screen / launch images for the iPhone 6/6+ then your app gets run at iPhone 5 size and scaled up. Sent from my iPhone > On 10 Nov 2014, at 22:16, John Dixon wrote: > > > > > Now I am a little confused ... > > xCode 6.0, OSX 10.9.5, LC 7.0, iOS 8 sim

Re: Commercial Licensing

2015-01-08 Thread Mark Wilcox
st software I wouldn't be bothered though. Mark -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk On Wed, Jan 7, 2015, at 04:04 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > Hi all - this may be naive, but I don’t recall a recent discussion on > this list and I don’t know where to turn. > > The recent disc

Re: Building apps for iOS 7?

2015-02-02 Thread Mark Wilcox
less you're not building for the App Store it's a bit of lost cause trying to support older versions than the latest official SDK allows - Apple always come up with some new submission requirement that means you need to use the new SDK sooner or later. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.c

Re: Confusion about making 64 bit binaries for submission

2015-02-03 Thread Mark Wilcox
e as part of your binary. There's a neat little command line tool called lipo which lets you see which architectures are included in your binary if you want to double check. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk ___ use-livecode mailing list u

Re: Building apps for iOS 7?

2015-02-03 Thread Mark Wilcox
> I¹m using an enterprise license so I¹m not going through the > app store and what I really want to do is to roll back to an earlier > version of Xcode so that I can build my app using some pre iOS 8 > compatible externals. What problem are you running into with the build using incompatible exter

Re: Mobile cloud storage

2015-02-05 Thread Mark Wilcox
system they offer file storage. For Apple platforms at least it would make sense to mimic the interface as far as possible though, assuming you don't just want to wrap what they've already done. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk _

Re: [semi-OT] Distributing apps for iOs outside iTunes

2015-03-18 Thread Mark Wilcox
that they're only allowed for internal use within an Enterprise. This removes all the issues with collecting UDIDs and keeping provisioning profiles updated. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk On Wed, Mar 18, 2015, at 06:36 AM, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: > Hi list &g

Re: [semi-OT] Distributing apps for iOs outside iTunes

2015-03-18 Thread Mark Wilcox
shows no signs of caring about enforcing that. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk On Wed, Mar 18, 2015, at 12:06 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > I take this the other way: I want more control, not less. I take it > personally when something I build isn't freaking awesome. I consider &g

Re: [semi-OT] Distributing apps for iOs outside iTunes

2015-03-18 Thread Mark Wilcox
u > have the ability to explicitly cut them off from updates. Sure, you can > hope that the corporate IT department locks them out, as well, but this way > you have an incentive to communicate with them at least once per year about > who has access. > > On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:

Re: LiveCode 8 Library Component: MLT Video Editing Framework

2015-03-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
The framework is free of dependencies and probably quite easy to wrap as a component for LiveCode 8. However, on it's own it doesn't do anything. There are lots of modules that make it incredibly powerful but they do have dependencies, some of them huge, like Qt. The video rendering is via SDL,

Re: LiveCode 8 Library Component: MLT Video Editing Framework

2015-03-22 Thread Mark Wilcox
> Any pointers on reading / how to gain this level of knowledge would be > greatly appreciated. >> On Sun, 22 Mar 2015 at 06:40, Mark Wilcox wrote: >> >> The framework is free of dependencies and probably quite easy to wrap as a >> component for LiveCode 8. However, on i

Re: mobile app stores - personal v. corporate customers

2015-03-30 Thread Mark Wilcox
> Is it possible to have an app in both the Apple store and the Android store > which functions in this way. Yes. Apple and Google are not trying to make money out of your B2B sales. An ideal solution might be to have a free app with some minimal functionality that lets you unlock the main conte

Re: Android local notifications

2015-04-02 Thread Mark Wilcox
Android can delay notifications for power saving reasons. As I understand it the more there are from one app and the less the user interacts with them, the more likely they are to be delayed. I think to do what you want more reliably you'd need to use background processing (wake up every 30 sec

Re: LiveNode Server

2015-04-14 Thread Mark Wilcox
lise enough now that it'll make sense to think about them again soon. Mark -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk On Wed, Apr 8, 2015, at 02:47 PM, Andrew Kluthe wrote: > To clarify just a little bit further. The code and objects weren't > holding > onto memory, the variables

Re: Why can't LC do what PencilCase does?

2015-04-14 Thread Mark Wilcox
Apple added another exception to the code downloading rule, using JavaScriptCore you can download JavaScript and run it. So it probably is just a WebView but it doesn't have to be. Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Apr 2015, at 17:24, Geoff Canyon wrote: > > No idea. Their basic projects don't have

Re: LiveNode Server

2015-04-14 Thread Mark Wilcox
the Node server, or even just communicate via the file system. >> On Tuesday, April 14, 2015, Jim Lambert wrote: >> >> >>> Mark Wilcox wrote: >>> >>> This is an interesting thread. >> >> >> Indeed it is. Thanks for your informat

Re: Stacks and livecode server?

2015-04-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
e, providing the > code doesn't substantially alter the features of the app. That's certainly against the letter of the rules as they stand. Of course Apple can't really know what every app with every possible 3rd party runtime is doing, so you may well get away with it. Who wants to

Re: Stacks and livecode server?

2015-04-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
> On 21 Apr 2015, at 15:09, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Mark Wilcox wrote: > > > Yes, you can download bundles of content with no code. The file format > > doesn't matter. Unity has asset bundles that can contain code on other > > platforms but are content onl

Re: Android Intents/iOS Extensions?

2015-04-23 Thread Mark Wilcox
On Thu, Apr 23, 2015, at 03:45 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I'd like to have an app be able to accept data from other programs, like > when you click the Share button in an image gallery and a list of > programs pops up that can accept images - I'd like mine to be among them. > > I can see from t

Re: Android Intents/iOS Extensions?

2015-04-23 Thread Mark Wilcox
> On 23 Apr 2015, at 18:43, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > 1. Before I dive in, does anyone here know why this wouldn't work? Custom URLs and Intents are two different systems. The former requires the app you receive data from to know about your custom URL scheme. The same exists on both iOS and An

Re: 3 strategic questions I have re iOS development

2015-05-07 Thread Mark Wilcox
ion for this. It is entirely feasible though. Depending on your timescales and willingness to dig into Apple, Dropbox and/or Google documentation, you could just start with LiveCode 8 and try building some extensions. Otherwise I think for most of this you

Re: video conferencing with LiveCode?

2015-08-25 Thread Mark Wilcox
orms) as far as I know. You certainly could implement WebRTC for LiveCode but it probably makes more sense to do this as a web app. Mark -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: LC, IOS 7 and UIKeyCommand

2014-04-30 Thread Mark Wilcox
Hi Richard, Sorry for a rather late reply to this. I'm not sure what level of answer you're looking for. You've found the appropriate incantations in Objective-C. They need to be used in an external, or someone would need to contribute this feature to the engine. Given the issue noted in your l

Re: LC, Android & video control

2014-05-01 Thread Mark Wilcox
I'm not aware of any external that gives you low-level video access on Android. I think it would be possible to create such an external but - Android externals are a rather new feature, Monte did a lot of the work to enable them (I'm not sure if anyone else has built one yet?) and lower level vi

Re: IOS 8 and xCode

2014-06-19 Thread Mark Wilcox
a compiled language like Objective-C. You can't use Objective-C in the IDE and you won't be able to use Swift. It will be possible to write extensions (externals) in Swift but because the engine is C++ they will need a standard C or Objective-C wrapper to be able to talk to the engine

Re: iOS reference document - iOSBrowser

2014-06-19 Thread Mark Wilcox
somewhere that demonstrates features of a newer iOS > browser? No, although there is a new WKWebView class in iOS 8 that allows significantly more interaction between the app and the web content. There are of course no official plans to support it in LiveCode yet. -- Mark Wilcox m...@so

Re: Compile IOS Externals

2014-06-20 Thread Mark Wilcox
Hi, This external is only a couple of lines of code - I very much doubt it doesn't compile, you probably have a linking problem. If you post the errors then maybe it'll be easy to solve and it might also provide valuable learning for other externals. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery

Re: WebRTC support and Chromium Embedded Framework in LiveCode

2014-07-01 Thread Mark Wilcox
can't agree on a mandatory one. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk On Tue, Jul 1, 2014, at 02:40 AM, David Bovill wrote: > Thanks Alejandro - I just tested and on OSX with revBrowserOpenCEF (which > is Chrome 32) - I get a score of 472 rather than 503 for Chrome 32. It > looks like

Re: WebRTC support and Chromium Embedded Framework in LiveCode

2014-07-01 Thread Mark Wilcox
latform versions that LiveCode does. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk On Tue, Jul 1, 2014, at 09:28 AM, David Bovill wrote: > Ah yes - I see the Chromium Embedded framework is really desktop only - I > missed that. I'd like to down what the long term strategy regards browser > contro

Re: We're Funding LiveCode For the Web

2014-07-01 Thread Mark Wilcox
y killed because Mozilla and Microsoft refused to implement it. IndexedDB looks like the option that everyone eventually agreed on but it's not implemented everywhere yet. I suspect it will be fairly widespread by the time the HTML5 deployment option is complete though... -- Mar

Re: CEF browser - how to allow cross origin requests using the file:// protocol?

2014-07-11 Thread Mark Wilcox
ption would obviously be much more flexible. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.ru

Re: [OT] SWIFT

2014-07-14 Thread Mark Wilcox
http://swift-lang.org/main/ This is the wrong Swift. Yes, Apple gave their new programming language the same name as an existing one. Mark ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and m

Re: Matching funding

2014-07-19 Thread Mark Wilcox
The matched funding is in addition to the total. I don't know the exact source but assume it's some government scheme, matched funding seems to be the preferred method in the UK. It's the main thing that makes the campaign worthwhile. They pre-sell licences people would need anyway at a slight

Re: iPhone kiosk

2014-08-25 Thread Mark Wilcox
ode, update it and put it back into single app mode. Of course the devil is in the details but I recommend looking into all of the legitimate solutions before going down the jailbreak route. -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk On Mon, Aug 25, 2014, at 06:45 AM, Richard Miller wrote: > Hop

Re: iPhone kiosk

2014-08-25 Thread Mark Wilcox
legitimate firmware because the firmware itself includes version and signature checking. What's so special about this custom hardware that the device needs to be jailbroken? Why can't it go down the MFi route? -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk On Mon, Aug 25, 2014, at

Re: iPhone kiosk

2014-08-26 Thread Mark Wilcox
Obviously I don't know the details but if you're going to run in a single app mode, then complete control of the phone while your app is running is possible without a jailbreak - it's just control whilst in Springboard and other people's apps you need to jailbreak for. -

Re: 64-bit App Store requirement

2014-10-24 Thread Mark Wilcox
> On 23 Oct 2014, at 14:45, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > You may just be ahead of your time. > > After all, it seem unlikely Apple will be shipping an iOS device that has > more than 4 GB RAM, and even if they did, with PAE it would only be logically > "necessary" if they expected individual app

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-08-01 Thread Mark Wilcox
This thread is too long and full of misunderstandings (even from the expert lawyer on the technical side) to reply to every post separately.  Here's my take (IANAL but I did work for a open source software foundation and write the licensing FAQs etc): 1) Anything published without an explicit c

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-08-01 Thread Mark Wilcox
Kevin Miller wrote: > I think most of the people sharing on revOnline are happy for their ideas > to be used, otherwise they wouldn't have uploaded the stacks. However I do > agree that some legal clarification is a good idea. How about we state > that everything on revOnline is automatically publi

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-08-01 Thread Mark Wilcox
Dr. Hawkins wrote: > If they don't contain *any* code, I agree.  If I designed such a file > format, it would only > have descriptions of what the user did, and would be pure ascii. > I can't tell; there are certainly non-ascii characters in there, and I > just don't know what > they are.  I *a

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-08-01 Thread Mark Wilcox
Richmond wrote: > If copyright is not explicitly stated then, surely, the thing is up for grabs > . . . That is very definitely not the case, although ideas can't be copyrighted only a particular expression of an idea.  So if you made a calculator app that looked and/or worked exactly like min

Re: Submitting to Apple... at what size ?

2013-08-01 Thread Mark Wilcox
The only automated check that Apple are likely to do is ensure that you include the retina "splash screen" images in the bundle.  Beyond that, it's down to a reviewer deciding that your graphics look low-res/poor quality on a retina display - I haven't heard of any rejections for that reason. __

Re: revOnline and Open Source

2013-08-02 Thread Mark Wilcox
Monte Goulding wrote: >> It's nice when you guys get involved. I totally agree with the logic behind >>what you said by the way. Unfortunately this stuff isn't as logical as we >>often assume it is ;-) I also think the law in this area is bonkers and agree with the more common sense view of

Re: MobGui and Resolution Indipendence

2013-08-07 Thread Mark Wilcox
>> Then I wonder how to deal with the MIT licence if I have to deploy a >>commercial app. The MIT license tells you - you have to provide a copy of the copyright notice and permission statement (essentially a copy of the license file) with all copies of the software, although I'm sure Monte isn

Re: linking for armv7 failed...

2013-08-07 Thread Mark Wilcox
Are you using any externals that might not have been built for armv7? From: John Dixon To: "use-livecode@lists.runrev.com" Sent: Wednesday, 7 August 2013, 9:48 Subject: linking for armv7 failed... I am in the middle of trying to upload an ipad app to itunes

Re: Getting the Public IP address

2013-08-08 Thread Mark Wilcox
> I am trying to establish the User's public IP address. The Scripter's > Scrapbook has several methods, all of which return the same result and all > of which seem to return a local IP address (e.g. put the hostnametoaddress > of the hostname into myIP). I am getting 192.168.2.2 (local) instead

Re: community vs commercial for internal distribution of iOS apps

2013-08-20 Thread Mark Wilcox
It's distribution not use that counts in the GPL. If you put the download behind a login then you could possibly argue that the distribution was entirely internal, however, students are not generally under the control of an organisation in the same way that employees are - a student could legiti

Re: community vs commercial for internal distribution of iOS apps

2013-08-20 Thread Mark Wilcox
>> Just for clarify : if i look in the binary of a standalone created by the >> community edition, i can see all the scripts aka the source code, no ? Yes, there's no encryption or password protection on community edition stacks but the GPL does not accept being able to extract the code in some

Re: Sprite Kit, Box2D, Performance and LiveCode's Approach to Game Coding

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
I wrote an extensive response to your original mail on this thread but sadly lost it to rubbish Yahoo! webmail + the 15k limit on the list. (FWIW, JavaScript is not 50 times slower than C++ but with modern JS engines like Google's v8 more like 5 times + that amazing Citadel demo with the unreal

Re: Sprite Kit, Box2D, Performance and LiveCode's Approach to Game Coding

2013-08-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
Box2d is definitely fun to play with but it's really only good for games that inherently need physics simulation - Angry Birds is a good example. (BTW, box2d is also the physics engine in Sprite Kit, which is basically Apple's cocos2d Lite - since the cocos2d developers started focussing on the

Re: Implications of DOJ vs Apple for developers?

2013-08-26 Thread Mark Wilcox
> Publishers could set their price, they just couldn't set it any lower than > was available in Apple's store. Apple very clearly did collude with publishers to try to set some minimum pricing for ebooks, which is most certainly against the law. The DoJ is bonkers because the minimum pricing

Re: Facebook authorisation on iOS

2013-09-10 Thread Mark Wilcox
Hi Gerry, I don't know how Andre Garcia's library works but assume it's not using an external that wraps the Facebook SDK for iOS. From painful personal experience I'd advise against any attempt to access Facebook other than through the official SDKs or platform native interfaces (e.g. for shar

Re: Pitch shifting Audio

2013-09-20 Thread Mark Wilcox
To pitch shift audio in real-time here is the basis for a cross-platform external: http://www.surina.net/soundtouch/ This could probably be integrated alone quite neatly. Pulling the audio out of a video to be able to pitch shift it in real-time could be done with ffmpeg (you need to decode it b

Re: iOS 7 / Xcode 5 and the status bar.

2013-10-01 Thread Mark Wilcox
John's right - on iOS 7 apps are full screen by default with a translucent status bar floating on top. This happens to native apps when you build under the iOS 7 SDK too. It's a platform change that apps should adapt to. Since the status bar is translucent it matters what goes underneath, so th

Re: Updating iOS apps

2013-10-02 Thread Mark Wilcox
FWIW, you can also use TestFlight with an Enterprise developer account (I think it's limited to 1000 users) but an Enterprise distribution certificate frees you from the hassle of managing device IDs - for an extra $200/year it's almost certainly worth it for avoiding the pain of the provisionin

Re: A Text file format for LiveCode

2013-10-07 Thread Mark Wilcox
Personally I think there may be some value in having the default developer view of a stack as a set of (mostly) text files. There would then be a tool that does a lot of what lcVCS does which turns that into a binary stack format for runtime size and performance - a lot of languages "compile" th

Re: [OT] web training video delivery - how do YOU do it?

2013-10-09 Thread Mark Wilcox
Hi Phil, I don't deliver web training but I do have some experience with getting videos to work across a lot of browsers. The only way of delivering videos to old browsers and maintaining your sanity is Flash. Even then, Adobe dropped support for IE6 last year, so the user has to have an old v

Re: The status of 6.5.1

2014-01-20 Thread Mark Wilcox
>> There's not enough time to test every pre-existing feature. >> There needs to be an automated monkey machine to run each new >> version through. > > There is, they've been writing one for a while now. The only quibble I have here is that I foresaw and asked about this potential quality issue

Re: "New Year Roadmap"

2014-01-20 Thread Mark Wilcox
>> Funny how it is the Roadmap from last year. As someone who bought a lifetime license in the Kickstarter based on the promised new functionality, I really wasn't expecting them to deliver in the originally stated timeframe - I have too much experience with complex software projects for that.

Re: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

2014-02-26 Thread Mark Wilcox
Tiemo said early 2007, so it's actually a 2006 (i.e. original intel model) MacBook right? The 2007 model was introduced mid-2007. Even so there are still plenty of folks online who say they have Snow Leopard running just fine on their 2006 MacBook - it seems the only reason you might not be able

Re: Enterprise iOS License Distribution...

2014-04-10 Thread Mark Wilcox
Profile Manager includes Mobile Device Management for iOS devices. It's definitely the right way to be doing this. No idea why it's not recognising the file but I thought I'd add that an app signed for enterprise distribution can be installed directly on ANY iOS device, not just through MDM. So

Re: Enterprise iOS License Distribution...

2014-04-16 Thread Mark Wilcox
2. I’m also wondering if there is something special that needs to be done to the iOS app after LiveCode creates the iOS app. The iOS appears to have a app extension and not an ipa extension. Also, I’m guessing the iOS app hast to be compressed before changing the file extension to ipa otherwise

Re: [OT] New pricing (GPL issues)

2013-04-08 Thread Mark Wilcox
OK, second post in a row - really sorry for forgetting to delete the whole digest from the end of the last one before I hit send.  Promise not to do it again. :) Apple don't have an explicit policy against the GPL or any other open source license as far as I'm aware.  I am not an IP lawyer bu

Re: Open Livecode Login

2013-04-10 Thread Mark Wilcox
Having an online login for an open source product doesn't happen for a good reason. When the source is available, someone will remove the login requirement. RunRev should be allowed some faltering first steps into open source, it's not an easy transition and they're doing an awful lot of it very

Re: Open Livecode Login

2013-04-10 Thread Mark Wilcox
Kevin, Crossed your mail by being interrupted whilst typing replying on my phone. Wouldn't it make more sense to make login optional than actively invite a fork? Respectfully, Mark Kevin Miller wrote: >Our position on this is that the vast majority of users are happy to log >in, and we would

Re: Best Practice: Login Session on iOS

2013-04-11 Thread Mark Wilcox
Yes, Apple do reserve the right to reject your app for any reason at all but they have some fairly clear rules about licensing and logins. Here's my simplest explanation. If you want to use Apple's app store as your primary discovery mechanism (hint, you really don't want to rely on this anyway

Re: What's the best way to store data that one iOS app sends to another?

2013-04-11 Thread Mark Wilcox
Hi all, Third attempt at my original first post to the list after writing far too much - I'll do shorter versions and split it in two. I'm new to LiveCode but went for the lifetime commercial license in the Kickstarter campaign so I'm planning to get a lot more active after I finish my current

Re: Galactic Gauntlet crach

2013-04-11 Thread Mark Wilcox
Someone has posted the same linker error on StackOverflow (except for armv7). The error says you've built for the simulator (i386) but are trying to link a device binary (armv6). Don't know if this is a setting you have wrong or a LC CE 6.0 bug? Your build choices don't mention simulator or dev

Re: What's the best way to store data that one iOS app sends to another?

2013-04-11 Thread Mark Wilcox
>> Third attempt at my original first post to the list after writing far too >>much - I'll do shorter versions and split it in two. And here's part 2 - to go back to the original (title) question for this thread. To communicate / sync data between 2 iOS apps and store it on a server somewher

Re: Is it just me, again?

2013-04-12 Thread Mark Wilcox
There's something worth adding to this. It is not necessary for, say, a tools plugin in the IDE to go dual licensed. Because stack protection is only in the commercial version you'd have to have no protection on stacks for community edition users (and thus it's probably not worth having any on y

Re: Non_Open Source materials being embedded in OS stacks/standalones.

2013-04-13 Thread Mark Wilcox
The fancy techniques which watermark videos and images by hiding something in the image data itself exist because they are extremely hard to detect and thus remove. If you simply open the image with a hex editor and type in your copyright details then someone else can open it in their hex editor

Re: Is it just me, again?

2013-04-13 Thread Mark Wilcox
Hi Pete, Here's how it can work for you. If you create your lcStackBrowser with the commercial version of LiveCode and simply assert your copyright (e.g. include a copyright notice) and sell it, without password protection to both commercial and community users then everything is fine. The defa

Re: Is it just me, again?

2013-04-13 Thread Mark Wilcox
Minor OSS licensing note (tell me to shut up if they get dull)... From: Dr. Hawkins To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Saturday, 13 April 2013, 1:48 Subject: Re: Is it just me, again? > There is a lot of room in the OSS world for a license between the free > BSD/

Re: What's the best way to store data that one iOS app sends to another?

2013-04-16 Thread Mark Wilcox
From: Geoff Canyon To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Tuesday, 16 April 2013, 9:14 Subject: Re: What's the best way to store data that one iOS app sends to another? > Any thoughts on https://www.firebase.com/ I've heard some good things about Firebase but it's primarily about sending small ch

Re: What's the best way to store data that one iOS app sends to another?

2013-04-16 Thread Mark Wilcox
Makes sense. If the pricing model is a major factor you might also want to look at StackMob. I believe they have unlimited free use of their basic feature set. Geoff Canyon wrote: >On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Mark Wilcox wrote: > >> Firebase but it's primarily about sen

Re: What's the best way to store data that one iOS app sends to another?

2013-04-17 Thread Mark Wilcox
Monte, not sure if you're aware but Apple's not at all keen on non-game apps using GameKit. Shame because there's loads of really useful generic stuff in GameKit. Non games that show up in Game Center get rejected, or occasionally approved and then removed later. Monte Goulding wrote: >Geoff

Re: What's the best way to store data that one iOS app sends to another?

2013-04-17 Thread Mark Wilcox
ion.html Mark From: Monte Goulding To: How to use LiveCode Sent: Wednesday, 17 April 2013, 8:27 Subject: Re: What's the best way to store data that one iOS app sends to another? On 17/04/2013, at 5:22 PM, Mark Wilcox wrote: > Monte, not sure if y

Re: mobile iOS with community version

2013-04-18 Thread Mark Wilcox
As I understand it, LC Community not building for iOS is just a bug that'll be fixed very soon. The "which version do I need" info specifically says you can build personal or internal use apps (not distributed outside your company) with Community Edition. To build iOS apps for devices rather th

Re: Has any of the KS video tutorials been released yet?

2013-04-19 Thread Mark Wilcox
Yes, I have them all in my account now. I assume there won't be a public link since they're still paid tutorials for those that didn't pledge for them on KS. Shawn Blc wrote: >Has any of the new KS video tutorials been released yet? If so, will they >appear in my account or is there a link? >

Re: Feature request: semaphores for externals

2013-04-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
I think that asynchronous and concurrent processing is going to be essential for LiveCode to remain relevant longer term. There is an irreversible trend towards more cores and greater parallelism in almost all environments. In that context I think externals is too narrow a scope for adding more

Re: Feature request: semaphores for externals

2013-04-21 Thread Mark Wilcox
Regarding lack of comments, I think this can be traced back to Apple. They actively encourage the self-documenting code school of thought, where function and variable names are supposed to make it obvious what the code is doing. The argument against extensive comments is that they can get out of

[OT] Cross-platform tools shootout

2013-04-22 Thread Mark Wilcox
Hi, I've been digging through the data from VisionMobile's last developer survey (they're running another one at the moment) which a lot of happy LiveCoder's participated in. Every week I publish some new nugget of info. This week it's the results of the developer satisfaction questions on cros

Re: [OT] Cross-platform tools shootout

2013-04-23 Thread Mark Wilcox
ark From:  To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Monday, 22 April 2013, 17:42 Subject: Re: [OT] Cross-platform tools shootout Mark Wilcox writes: > LiveCode came out third overall in case anyone is interested in seeing the numbers: > http://build.develope

Re: [OT] Cross-platform tools shootout

2013-04-23 Thread Mark Wilcox
Chipp Walters wrote: > Interesting as Haxe (the overall winner, and winner in Development Speed) > doesn't even have an IDE. It would be interesting to have a LC/Haxe > shootout with a Haxe developer, who evidently must be expert in CSS, > Javascript, HTML and probably a host of other inside fra

Re: Missing controls in standalone

2013-04-23 Thread Mark Wilcox
Michael Doub Wrote: > I looked at the new Standalone settings for Windows and there is something > new that I have not seen before and it is not documented:  UAC Execution > Level.  I get this weird behavior on the Default setting.    When I set it > on Highest Available, this starts to wor

Re: GPL 3???

2013-04-23 Thread Mark Wilcox
GPLv2 is more or less the same as v3 from a patents perspective if I remember correctly. As a contributor, you grant anyone using the code a royalty free patent license to any related patents you hold if they use the code under the GPL. The changes related to patents were about cross-licensing d

Re: GPL 3???

2013-04-23 Thread Mark Wilcox
The incompatible bits (ATL and OpenSSL) are equally incompatible with both versions of the GPL. RunRev have had to add an exception temporarily. Mark Wieder wrote: >Well, you'd know this stuff better than I would, but my understanding is >that there were problems with some of the third-party co

Re: Splash screen localization

2013-04-23 Thread Mark Wilcox
If you're building a native iOS app the splash screen can be localised just like any other image and the system will pick the right one to display for you whilst it's loading your app. Sounds like a small feature request for LiveCode. I'll see how tricky it is to add once the IDE is open to cont

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