Re: Play m4a files on Windows 7

[J. Landman Gay]

On 8/9/2016 4:26 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:

We need to play .m4a files on Windows 7 and up. Double-clicking one of
those files plays back successfully on a Win 7 machine. Loading a player
control with the URL to the file in LC on the same machine does not (LC
7.1.4).

Is this fixable? Is there something users can install to make it work?
Or do we need a more recent version of LC?



Poking around, it looks like I have to build in LC 8.1. If that's 
correct, then it's risky, it isn't stable yet. Is there any other way?


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Play m4a files on Windows 7

[J. Landman Gay]

We need to play .m4a files on Windows 7 and up. Double-clicking one of 
those files plays back successfully on a Win 7 machine. Loading a player 
control with the URL to the file in LC on the same machine does not (LC 
7.1.4).


Is this fixable? Is there something users can install to make it work? 
Or do we need a more recent version of LC?


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HyperActive Software   | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

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2016 conference woes

[Iphonelagi]

I'm going to be civil here no sarcasm or ranting that I would have done if I 
hadn't waited  5 hours  to cool down.

I'll just assume a glitch that can be fixed rather than a total mess.

Anyway the sound on at least a half or more of the track 1 recordings is non 
existent or so low or muffled I can't hear it.

I tried to listen on my Mac PCs and iPhone and Android 

In fact on chrome on the pc or Mac they will not play either .. The track 2 
which look like flash all seem to work.


On my iPhone all the videos work but sound is so low as to be inaudible. Now I 
hope this is an error because I can't believe it took 6 recordings before it 
was noticed ... Was nobody watching live either remotely or at least for 
quality control? I hope somewhere there are other recordings of the lectures or 
someone has some dubbing to do ... Not a happy bunny wasting over 2 hours 
trying every different combination  of browser/device
Two different browsers on android give "oops something went wrong".




Regards Lagi


Sent from my iPhone
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Re: SVG Editors, anyone?

[Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami]

@ Alejandro:

The use cases I have in mind are small but design rich "tiles" 
logos/buttons/icons, so I don't think a browser works. Of course larger more 
complex would also be great… 

Here is an icon design I got from our lead designer last year, I was excitedly 
rejoicing at team meetings about how we could use these in our apps…  thinking 
we could use it in Livecode, only to find later that the SVG widget will not 
support even something as simple as this 9K SVG

http://wiki.hindu.org/outgoing/new_tiruvadi_for_app.svg

I had to bit the bullet and export this in multiple sized  PNG's

@Graham: feel free to take that file if you are need any examples.  It has 
useful elements that ideally would be supported:

A) styles (in this case , 8 different fill colors) that are later applied to 
paths and circles as classes
B) ~ 14 independent paths
C) 14 circles

Yes.. .mothership has gone silent on SVG dev. 
Hope it has not gone to the top shelf in the back room.

 
Alejandro Tejada" wrote:

Could you use the browser widget to
render a svg as png

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Re: [SQL] placeholders work for SQLite but not for mySQL

[stephen barncard]

On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 8:40 AM, Dr. Hawkins  wrote:

> Now that you mention that . . . is it possible that past runnings have
> created db entries of "NULL" rather than NULL?
>

I've had that happen.

Stephen Barncard - Sebastopol Ca. USA -
mixstream.org
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[ ANN ] Release 8.0.2

[panagiotis merakos]

Dear List Members,

We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.0.2 Stable. By
"Stable", we mean that no reported regressions have been introduced in
8.0.2, compared to the previous Stable release.

LiveCode 8.0.2 is a promotion of 8.0.2 RC-4, so there is no change between
the two versions, but the build number and the status.

*Getting the Release*
You can get the release at https://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ or via
the automatic updater.

*Feedback*
Please report any bugs encountered on our Bugzilla at
http://quality.livecode.com/


Warmest regards,
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Re: [SQL] placeholders work for SQLite but not for mySQL

[Dr. Hawkins]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Kay C Lan  wrote:

> As I said I'll get around
> to completely rebuilding the db
>


Now that you mention that . . . is it possible that past runnings have
created db entries of "NULL" rather than NULL?

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OT: Switch it off and back on

[Francis Nugent Dixon]

Hi from Beautiful Brittany,

I've always been in favour of this practice, without questioning why !

I run an old version lof LiveCode (5.5). Quite often, I save a modified
version of my stack, and then try to Quit LiveCode.
I get the same message asking me to Save or Cancel, and LiveCode is
now totally blocked. I have to Force Quit (on my Mac), and then reload
LiveCode. My first Save worked OK, so I never lost anything. I waste about
one minute of my life Force Quitting and reloading LiveCode.

This happens regularly, but I live with it. For the same reason when I
select a button and by mistake hit backspace, and my button (and
its script) disappears into thin air (recent question to you), doesn't
bother me in the least. I save my stack after every few lines of script
and so if I absent-mindedly delete my button, I have a backup taken
a few minutes earlier. 

Software was never perfect - I know ! I've been writing it for 50 years !

Reminds me of the joke where 4 software engineers were in their car,
and suddenly it stopped for no apparent reason !
They discussed the options (engineers do this !) and then decided that
if they all got out of the car and got back in again, the problem would
disappear. That's life - Live with it   ! ...

-Francis

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[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 45

[Peter TB Brett]

Hi all,

Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source 
community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter!


Read issue #45 here: https://goo.gl/fOiTaY


This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been 
going on in and around the open source project.  New issues will be 
released weekly on Mondays.  We have a dedicated mailing list that will 
deliver each issue directly to you e-mail, so you don't miss any!


Are you doing something interesting with LiveCode Community Edition? 
Please get in touch and get it featured in "This Week in LiveCode"!


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Re: OT: Switch it off and back on ...

[Peter TB Brett]

On 09/08/2016 06:08, Matt Maier wrote:

Because we're capable of building systems more complex than we can
understand. So there are always ghost states it can get into that we didn't
prepare for.

I was reading about "crash only" programming a while ago. It like using the
"turn it off and back on again"approach as a part of normal business. Since
all of your systems need to be able to recover from a crash anyway, why
bother programming a graceful shutdown? Just set them up so that they can
pick up where they left off and crash them if anything isn't running
perfectly.


At the conference, the "vulcanbot" continuous integration service was 
mentioned several times.  This is a microservice I created to facilitate 
our development workflow by linking our GitHub repositories to our build 
farm.


vulcanbot uses _exactly_ crash-only error handling; whenever something 
unexpected happens, it quits (generating informative log messages), and 
then gets automatically restarted by systemd.  In practice, this works 
incredibly well.


  Peter

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Re: OT: Switch it off and back on ...

[Richard Gaskin]

Matt Maier wrote:

> I was reading about "crash only" programming a while ago. It like
> using the "turn it off and back on again"approach as a part of normal
> business. Since all of your systems need to be able to recover from a
> crash anyway, why bother programming a graceful shutdown? Just set
> them up so that they can pick up where they left off and crash them
> if anything isn't running perfectly.

http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2016-July/228647.html

:)

I like the simplicity of crash-only.  But I currently enjoy a 
below-industry-average support cost; I can't imagine how big of a 
multiple of that average my support costs would be if I rebooted the 
user's machine instead of providing a more graceful degradation.


Still, tempting

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Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 155, Issue 15

[Matthias Rebbe]

Peter,

there is also Macroscheduler from MjtNet, a UK based company, which is be able 
to do this among many other things.
It´s a commercial product. But the product itself, the support and also the 
forum are awesome.

http://www.mjtnet.com 

Regards,
Matthias


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Tel +49 5741 31
+49 160 5504462
Fax: +49 5741 310002
eMail: matth...@m-r-d.de 

BR5 Konverter - BR5 -> MP3 
> Am 09.08.2016 um 12:05 schrieb Peter Reid :
> 
> Thanks Mike and Richmond, I'll take a look at autoit as I don't want to get 
> into VB unless I REALLY have to!
> 
> I was hoping that a short VBA script might do the job so I can use LC for the 
> file/folder management, but autoit may be the solution anyway.
> 
> Peter
> --
> Peter Reid
> Loughborough, UK
> 
>> On 8 Aug 2016, at 11:00am, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote:
>> 
>> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 10:22:36 -0600
>> From: Mike Bonner 
>> To: How to use LiveCode 
>> Subject: Re: PowerPoint VBA from LC?
>> Message-ID:
>>  

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 155, Issue 15

[Peter Reid]

Thanks Mike and Richmond, I'll take a look at autoit as I don't want to get 
into VB unless I REALLY have to!

I was hoping that a short VBA script might do the job so I can use LC for the 
file/folder management, but autoit may be the solution anyway.

Peter
--
Peter Reid
Loughborough, UK

> On 8 Aug 2016, at 11:00am, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote:
> 
> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 10:22:36 -0600
> From: Mike Bonner 
> To: How to use LiveCode 
> Subject: Re: PowerPoint VBA from LC?
> Message-ID:
>   

Re: SVG Editors, anyone?

[Graham Samuel]

Thanks for the thought, Alejandro, but I don’t see how this would work when it 
comes to scaling. My idea would be to adapt the size of the widget to the 
screen size as part of the standalone, by simply changing its dimensions, and 
voila! the graphics in the widget would always look good. If I had to prepare a 
PNG for each size of screen, wouldn’t I have to do that at build time and 
maintain lots of differently sized PNGs instead of one single code-and-graphics 
base? Or maybe I don’t quite understand what you are suggesting.

The technique you suggest does look powerful, though, for preparation of apps 
where only one screen size is envisaged.

Thanks again

Graham

> On 9 Aug 2016, at 02:05, Alejandro Tejada  wrote:
> 
> Hi Graham,
> 
> Could you use the browser widget to
> render a svg as png?
> 
> Take a look at this javascript code
> that shows 3 different methods
> to create a transparent png
> from svg files:
> http://techslides.com/save-svg-as-an-image
> 
> This works really fine:
> http://techslides.com/demos/d3/convert-svg-png.html
> 
> Alejandro
> 
> On Mon, 08 Aug 2016,
> Graham Samuel wrote:
> 
>> Yes, I?m assuming that the SVG capabilities of widgets
>> will develop until pretty much any SVG graphic can be rendered:
>> this could of course be wrong.
> 
>> But I would be very sad if we have to stick to monochrome
>> for any serious work. After all, complex controls, which is
>> what widgets are, are certain to demand colour sooner
>> rather than later, and since scalability is the most attractive
>> thing about widgets that I?ve seen so far, I very much hope
>> this can be achieved via SVG.
> 
>> OTOH at the conference I don?t think I heard anyone
>> from the mother ship talking about plans to enrich
>> SVG rendering.
> 
>> If anyone knows anything more definite, please tell us!
> 
>> Graham
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