Has anyone used livecode’s text formatting commands to create paragraphs with
hanging indents (all lines but the first indented)? If so, any clues on how to
do it?
Best regards,
Terry...
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> On Mar 20, 2017, at 5:15 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode
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> Has anyone used livecode’s text formatting commands to create paragraphs
with hanging indents (all lines but the first indented)? If so, any clues on
how to do it
I asked about this a while back – would be great to have video export built-in
but I think you’re stuck with one of the other options for now. I need to
create personalized (templated) videos for students (feedback on assessment)
and while I’d rather be using LC for this I’ve had to switch to a
Is there any way to display styled text in HTML5 apps? There only seems to be
one font supported and I can change the colour and size but nothing else sticks
(LC Community 9.0.0 dp5).
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OK, thanks Peter – I’ve got it displaying a different font now. Still
struggling with styles but I’m sure I’ll get there.
Terry...
On 28/03/2017 11:50 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Peter TB Brett via
use-livecode" wrote:
On 28/03/2017 10:32, Terry Judd via use-live
t;use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode"
wrote:
OK, thanks Peter – I’ve got it displaying a different font now. Still
struggling with styles but I’m sure I’ll get there.
Terry...
On 28/03/2017 11:50 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Peter TB Brett vi
Have you tried the relayer command? It has a number of useful options.
Terry...
On 29/03/2017 9:28 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Dan Friedman via
use-livecode" wrote:
Is this a bug or am I losing my mind? Can anyone confirm?
Using LC 9.0.0 DP-6, set the layer of any object to a
Is it possible to have a gradient with one of its end-points being transparent
instead of a solid colour?
I want to overlay a graphic with a vertical gradient that blends from
transparent to white to give the effect that the underlying content is fading
out as you move down the screen. I’m able
Thanks Mark, I'll try that out.
Regards,
Terry...
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> On 3 Apr 2017, at 8:30 pm, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-04-03 11:37, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote:
>> Is it possible to have a gradient with one of its end-p
Thanks for all the responses. I really wanted to use a graphic rather than
importing an image for all the reasons that Scott mentioned. Mark’s method
works of adding an alpha value to the ramp settings of the fillgradient
property of the graphic works perfectly so there is a (relatively) simple
I’m automating the creation of a series of images (mostly graphs or similar) to
include in some non LC generated reports and I need to be able to produce them
at a higher than screen resolution so that they will look ok. I was thinking
that I could just increase the scaleFactor of the stack and
Thanks Jim, that’s perfect! I don’t know how many times I’ve looked at the
import/export command in the dictionary and not seen the size modifier.
Much appreciated.
Terry...
On 6/04/2017 9:14 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Jim Lambert via use-livecode"
wrote:
Terry,
Try this
I missed the start of this thread so I might be off target but the app needs to
be server from a secure (https) server. If it isn’t and/or if your manifest
file isn’t perfect then you will get that sort of message as well.
Terry...
On 6/04/2017 12:18 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Ga
> On Apr 5, 2017, at 7:35 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> I missed the start of this thread so I might be off target but the app
needs to be server from a secure (https) server. If it isn’t and/or if your
manifest file isn’t perfect then you will ge
Using the community license - 9.0.0 (dp 5) - I couldn’t get a HTML5 app to run
if it included any SVG widgets. I’m not sure if this problem extends to other
widget types or not but as a workaround I converted all the SVGs to bitmaps.
I’d try taking out the SVGs to start with and see if that help
I want to record sound from within LC on a Mac – actually I want to get LC to
speak some text and have it recorded to file (using Sound Siphon to capture it
directly rather than via the inbuilt mike and speakers). Is setting the
dontUseQT to false and going with ‘record sound’ the only option or
OK – looks like mergMicrophone is an option on OSX – I’ll give that a try.
Terry...
On 7/04/2017 12:04 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode"
wrote:
I want to record sound from within LC on a Mac – actually I want to get LC
to speak some text and have it r
ing synthetic speech output.
Food for thought -
Phil Davis
On 4/6/17 11:12 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote:
> OK – looks like mergMicrophone is an option on OSX – I’ll give that a try.
>
> Terry...
>
> On 7/04/2017 12:04 pm, "use-l
I’m using mergMicrophone (on OSX) with default settings to record audio (from
revSpeech) for inclusion in Powerpoint presentations, but when I open the PPT
files on a Windows computer (so that I can export them to video, retaining the
sound) it complains about the sound files being in an inappro
s suitable on
both platforms, distribute the converted file.
On Apr 11, 2017 2:53 AM, "Terry Judd via use-livecode" <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I’m using mergMicrophone (on OSX) with default settings to record audio
> (from revSpe
te is likely to only use Apple centric
formats.
>I would let Windows PPT convert the audio, then if playback is
suitable on
>both platforms, distribute the converted file.
>
>On Apr 11, 2017 2:53 AM, "Terry Judd via use-livecode" <
>u
Hi Dan - when you say you have it running on iOS, do you mean within an LC iOS
app? If so, some info on how you got it to work would be fantastic (I couldn’t
figure out how to implement it). No experience with using it with Android,
sorry.
Terry...
On 12/04/2017 2:54 pm, "use-livecode on behal
Anybody know which browsers will run LC’s HTML5 apps successfully under Windows?
So far I’ve only been able to get one I’ve created working in Firefox. It gets
stuck at the ‘downloading’ phase on both Chrome and IE (I’m running Windows 7)
and on the Mac it works on Safari and Firefox but also st
Great, thanks for that. Hadn’t occurred to me that I’d need to run from a
server to test under Chrome. I’ll give that a go.
Terry...
On 3/05/2017 2:07 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of hh via use-livecode"
wrote:
On Windows latest Firefox, Chrome and Opera. NO IE, NO Edge.
Running with C
I’m using 8.1.3 (Business licence) on the Mac and I’ve notice a few times that
the IDE seems to be unresponsive to URL requests after a while. If for example
I do something simple like...
Put url http://www.google.com
then I get the following error...
Message execution error:
Error description
Ah – that’s really helpful (and reassuring). I’ll move to 8.1.4 now.
Thanks,
Terry...
On 15/05/2017 1:25 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via
use-livecode" wrote:
On 5/14/17 8:51 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote:
> I’m using 8.1.3 (Business licence) o
Couple of questions about the tsNet external...
# if I’m just using get or post url (i.e. no special tsNet commands) do I still
need to call tsNetInit?
# what is the default timeout for a synchronous get or post url call, and how
do I change it?
TIA,
Terry...
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OK – I have a bit of a serious issue on iOS where if I lose wifi connectivity
the first attempt to get data from a url causes problems.
I’m attempting to upload a file to Dropbox (that stuff all works fine) and I do
an initial test to see whether the device is online (by trying to access a
url)
.
Terry...
On 1/06/2017 11:44 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode"
wrote:
OK – I have a bit of a serious issue on iOS where if I lose wifi
connectivity the first attempt to get data from a url causes problems.
I’m attempting to upload a file to Dro
Sync("http://www.livecode.com";, tHeaders, tRecvHeaders, tResult,
> tBytes, tSettings) into tData
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Charles
>
>
>
>> On 1/06/2017 1:24 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote:
>> OK, I think I have a workaround although I’m not sur
Thanks Charles – I’ll keep an eye out for the timeout stuff in the next release.
Best regards,
Terry...
On 2/06/2017 8:21 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Charles Warwick via
use-livecode" wrote:
Hi Terry,
On 24/05/2017 11:55 AM, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote:
&
ailing that there is something wrong with the Meraki (wireless)
devices.
could be other bad apples in the barrel besides TSnet's reuse connection
issue.
but maybe it is iOS?
On 5/31/17, 3:44 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via
use-livecode&quo
Hi BR - for me it depends on how many instances of the control I’m likely to
need on the screen. If I only ever display one at a time then I usually include
it as a shared group and place it on any card that might require it and
show/hide, populate and layer it dynamically as required. If I need
I’ve just had a quick play with the enhanced script editor and these all seem
like good suggestions to me, and in the script editor pane of the preferences
window I’d allow the user to (i) hide/show the list of available common
handlers and (ii) hide/show included comments on their functionality
On 13/07/2017 2:56 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin via
use-livecode" wrote:
I would caution against adding more stuff to the Prefs window, for
reasons too lengthy to indulge in here.
Perhaps having a button in the script editor that links to the script edito
If I add files that are in the same folder as the stack file in the copy and
then in the app (simulator or real device) if I ‘put the files’, then the added
files are included in the listing. However, if the added files are in a
different folder (e.g. “stuff/test.pdf”) then they don’t show up. S
ecode" wrote:
On 7/15/17 8:05 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote:
> If I add files that are in the same folder as the stack file in the copy
and then in the app (simulator or real device) if I ‘put the files’, then the
added files are included in the listing. However, if the ad
standalone is built. Just make the other folders
> sub-directories of the mainstack's folder and include them in the copy files
> pane.
>
>> On 7/16/17 3:09 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote:
>> Ok, so when adding files in the ‘copy files’ pane I can only include fil
sort lines of fld “myGuff” descending numeric by length(each) – should do it.
Terry...
On 8/08/2017 8:23 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Richmond Mathewson via
use-livecode" wrote:
I have a listField containing a number of words which I want to order so
the longest comes
first . .
Something like...
put merge("[[gGlobal1]]*[[gGlobal2]]/[[gGlobal3]]") into tEquation
On 12/2/19, 1:58 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Roger Guay via use-livecode"
wrote:
Granted, this may be too esoteric for me to understand, but I can’t seem to
make this do what I want to do
Let
Hi Hershel - If it's a desktop app then you can control the user's email app
using either applescript (MacOS) or VBscript (Windows). I've included some
template scripts below to get you started (assuming your users have either Mail
or Outlook). I store these in custom properties, use merge to re
Pretty sure this has been covered before but couldn’t locate the email thread.
I’m using the ‘Enable background execution’ option on iOS in order to avoid
having to use iOS’s guided access feature to lock users (examiners in this)
into our app (thereby avoiding any loss of data/state), and would
No worries Tom - glad it was helpful.
Terry...
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> On 19 Feb 2019, at 2:58 pm, Tom Glod via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Terry, I learned so much from your answer, thanks for taking the time.
>
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 5:38 PM Terry Judd via use-livecod
FWIW I've seen similar issues to this going back a while (I'm on MacOS but not
sure what LC versions were involved). No recipe that I could find but
restarting LC generally got things moving again.
Terry...
On 26/2/19, 1:19 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via
use-livecode" wrote
While there don't appear to be suspend or resume messages on mobile you can
sort of script your own resume message using a timer. If the timer is updated
regularly using a send in time approach then the send will be delayed while the
app is in the background. If the interval between the current
Haven't noticed any problems but the honest answer is that I don't know. How
would you go about testing for issues?
Terry...
On 4/3/19, 5:28 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin via use-livecode"
wrote:
Terry Judd wrote:
> While there don't appear to be suspend or resum
How about specialFolderPath("temporary") ?
Terry...
On 28/3/19, 5:46 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Peter Bogdanoff via
use-livecode" wrote:
I get "can't create that directory (13)”
The challenge is to write a pref file to a non-user directory so the file
is available to all use
Really? I ran into trouble a couple of days ago trying to install a couple of
my apps onto an iPad that I had recently updated to iOS 12.2 and assumed it
wasn't possible. LC 9.0.4 (rc2), Xcode 10.1.
Terry...
On 2/5/19, 12:49 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Ralph DiMola via use-livecode"
wrote
OK, you're right. Seems like something went astray on that iPad when I restored
it from a backup last week. I've just done a factory reset on it and my apps
now install just fine under iOS 12.2.
Terry...
On 2/5/19, 8:39 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-li
OK - so I'm trying out 9.5.0 (dp 1) and am loving the fact that we now have a
functional emulator (I'm using Android Studio) that we can use to test Android
apps. Thanks dev team! But, I'm not entirely clear which processors I need to
build against in order to publish the app. I'm *not* distribu
Hi Paul - so, you could create a grc object the same size as the group, send it
to the back and set its cantSelect property to true. That should give you the
behaviour you want as well as preventing your user from selecting the
'background' object in the group that switches to the pointer tool.
So admittedly I have modified Trevor's code a bit (mainly so I don't get the @
symbols associated with parameters but also so that instead of ["someNode[1]"]
I get ["someNode"][1], but for me that XML snippet creates an array that looks
like...
["combine"]["class"] = TV_show
["combine"]["sourc
Can't say I've been experiencing too many crashes (I'm currently using 9.0.4
and 9.5.0 dp1) but the problem where the breakpoint dots (and line numbers)
don't keep up with or align with the appropriate script line seems to be a very
common occurrence in 9.5 (haven't tried the 'stable' version of
nSignMaker Mac <https://winsignhelper.dermattes.de/>
> Am 01.08.2019 um 08:39 schrieb Terry Judd via use-livecode
mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>>:
>
> Can't say I've been experiencing too many crashes (I'm currently using
9.0.4 and 9.5.0 dp1) but the problem wh
I was assuming that LC apps would continue to run OK on iOS 13 but I've already
received a report from a user with some pretty interesting error screens
attached.
I recall we had some problems when iOS 12 came out because we are using an
enterprise developer license to distribute outside of the
That should have read 'hoping' rather than 'assuming' I think ;)
On 23/9/19, 7:47 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of Terry Judd via use-livecode"
wrote:
I was assuming that LC apps would continue to run OK on iOS 13 but I've
already received a report from
Given that the rankings are based on search query frequencies and that Google
searches seem to be the biggest contributor to the data they use I wonder why
they don’t just do a series of Google Trends searches to come up with the
relative rankings?
Terry...
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> On 6 Oct 2019,
These seem to be bounties for finding critical (mostly security-related) bugs
rather than fixing them - hard to see large tech companies outsourcing their
security fixes.
We already have an established system for reporting bugs, and LC are actively
attending to fixing some/most of them. The pro
On 8/10/19, 11:02 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Mark Wieder via use-livecode"
wrote:
Back in the old days LC/RR had a voting system on bugzilla. You had five
votes you could allocate to bug reports, and this gave an indication of
how many people were affected by a given bug. S
I feel like there are plenty of ways that a point system that avoids some of
these issues with the previous one could be implemented - fewer total votes per
person, single votes per bug only, no or reduced value votes for community
users, forced re-allocation of votes on a regular basis...
Yep,
Not built-in but...
function formatRemainingTime pTime
put trunc(pTime/3600) into tHours
put pTime mod 3600 into tTimeX
put trunc(tTimeX/60) into tMins
put tTimeX mod 60 into tSecs
if tHours < 10 then put "0" before tHours
if tMins < 10 then put "0" before tMins
if tSecs < 10
I'm printing a whole bunch of PDFs (multipage feedback reports generated by
populating a series of cards with individualised data - mix of text and
graphics) and it starts off fast and then inevitably slows down - a lot. While
it might start off printing say 14 reports per minute after a few min
my iPad
> On 24 Oct 2019, at 12:53 am, dunbarx--- via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Hi.
> Are you repeatedly using "open printing to PDF"?
> Craig
>
>
> -----Original Message-
> From: Terry Judd via use-livecode
> To: use-livecode@lists.runrev
on mouseUprepeat with y = 1 to 5put yourPathName && y into jobPathopen
printing to pdf (jobPath & ".pdf")print this cardend repeatclose printingend
mouseUp
You should get five PDF's in a flash.
Craig
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From: Terry Judd via
Not sure if it will help, but here's the code I use to create a multiline text
control (pControlName) on iOS that 'overlays' an existing LC field (pObj)
# create a native multiline text control
put the rect of pObj into tRect
# shrink the rect by 1 pixel all around to reveal the object's border
a
finding new things. It turns out my multiline fields
are working, but the single input ones do not. Very strange.
Do you have single line inputs?
--
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HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.c
n Gay via
use-livecode" wrote:
Found it, it was the alpha. When I leave that out, it displays, is
editable, and works.
Thank you!
On 11/26/19 8:16 PM, Terry Judd via use-livecode wrote:
> I primarily use single line input fields on my apps' login scree
Some contrasting data...
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F0490j1
On 11/12/19, 10:17 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Bob Sneidar via
use-livecode" wrote:
Nothing in space and time is linear. ;-)
Bob S
> On Dec 7, 2019, at 18:20 , Rich
esw.com
HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
On December 10, 2019 6:37:17 PM Terry Judd via use-livecode
wrote:
> Some contrasting data...
>
> https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=%2Fm%2F0490j1
>
> ?On 11/1
TIOBE is obviously measuring a bunch of other things and assigning a fair bit
of weight to them - if you compare the Trends data for RUST (#31/0.37%) and
LiveCode (#48/0.18%) it's chalk and cheese...
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0490j1,%2Fm%2F0dsbpg6
On 11/12/19, 12:55 pm
Worth trying again I reckon - the Android Virtual Device Manager in Android
Studio plays very nicely with LC now.
Terry...
On 29/12/19, 10:27 am, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via
use-livecode" wrote:
I remember Panos mentioning that one of the primary reasons for including
I spent a lot of time trying to do this on iOS and gave up (I was working with
a per day calendar style scrolling object that you would swipe to change days).
It worked some/most of the time but like you say, scrolling seems to override
everything else. I even tried disabling scrolling until you
ian
On Jan 20, 2020, 6:45 PM -0500, Terry Judd via use-livecode
, wrote:
> I spent a lot of time trying to do this on iOS and gave up (I was working
with a per day calendar style scrolling object that you would swipe to change
days). It worked some/most of the time but like you say, sc
Yeah, this isn't helpful either, but while we're on the shortcomings of ordered
lists in Livecode if you render an alphabetically ordered list using htmlText
then it is rendered as lowercase irrespective of whether you specify type='A'
or type='a'. The only way to guarantee that it is right is t
Hi Paul - I haven't done it although I have gone the other way, creating
content/media with LiveCode and merging it (text, images, audio files) into a
PPT template file (which is then converted to Keynote and exported as a video).
Anyway, getting access to the screen content/media for each PPT s
Is there some secret to getting the tree view messages to fire? The
actionInspect message works as advertised but I can’t get either the
dataChanged or formattedHieghtChanged messages to trigger. I was expecting the
dataChanged message to trigger whenever the arrayData of the widget was set to
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