Re: Design Question

2020-11-17 Thread David V Glasgow via use-livecode
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: Publishing Mac Apps

2020-11-17 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
I agree (from limited experience I admit). The hassle referred to usually includes messages from the OS that many non-tech users will find mysterious, confusing and generally off-putting. Quite a lot of users don’t really understand the requirement to log in just to get some bit of software upda

Re: Standardizing codepoints

2020-11-17 Thread scott--- via use-livecode
Thank you all for your advice. Jacque, normalizeText() was what I had vaguely remembered but couldn’t find. Richmond, I am working on a library that removes emojis from text and replaces them with imageSource... so that the text can be printed to PDF on mobile. You are correct about the “going

Suspend in iOS, or when is a mobile app running?

2020-11-17 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Sorry if this is documented somewhere but I can’t find it. On desktop platforms, LC gives us “suspend” which is fired when the app goes into the background. I seem to be having some problems with iOS, in that when the screen locks (triggered by user action or a time limit), my app seems to sto

Re: Suspend in iOS, or when is a mobile app running?

2020-11-17 Thread Håkan Liljegren via use-livecode
I’m not sure what you mean with ”suspend” on mobile. You only run one application at a time. If your app goes out due to a phone call or any other event it will normally quit your app and send a closeStack message and some more. If you want to create an application that doesn’t allow the screen

Re: Design Question

2020-11-17 Thread ELS Prothero via use-livecode
I’m re-sending this because I used the wrong email server. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Nov 17, 2020, at 8:46 AM, William Prothero wrote: > > David and Graham, > One approach that occurred to me is this. > There are 2 components to the work that students would “hand in”

Re: Design Question

2020-11-17 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
William Prothero wrote: > It seems the effort to make this app work with learning management > systems would be huge, something I’m definitely not up for. It may not be. I've made standards-compliant courseware in the past (a while ago; the data format was XML ), and it wasn't as bad as I'd t

Re: Suspend in iOS, or when is a mobile app running?

2020-11-17 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Android has always acted like this and now that iOS apps run in the background like Android does, it behaves the same way. At least our problems are cross-platform now. An app will stay in RAM until the user specifically quits or until the OS needs the memory. When that happens, the OS wipes t

Re: Suspend in iOS, or when is a mobile app running?

2020-11-17 Thread HENRY LOWE via use-livecode
On iOS use mergNotify as below. Works well for me. on openStack mergNotify "UIApplicationWillResignActiveNotification" mergNotify "UIApplicationDidBecomeActiveNotification" end openStack on UIApplicationWillResignActiveNotification pUserInfo // Your code before the app goes to background --

Re: Design Question

2020-11-17 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Richard, I kinda like the pdf idea. Seems it would give me a way to encapsulate and format the text and images and perhaps a fairly defined pdf format would make it straightforward to edit it using Livecode as well. Best, Bill William A. Prothero https://earthlearningsolutions.org > On Nov 17,

Re: Design Question

2020-11-17 Thread Jim Lambert via use-livecode
> The application's core is access to Earth data (that scientists used to > develop the theory of plate tectonics) and capturing and annotating plots > that can be incorporated into student writing. If the 'student writing' is created in some other program then wouldn't it be sufficient to al

Re: Suspend in iOS, or when is a mobile app running?

2020-11-17 Thread Mark Smith via use-livecode
And just a reminder that, under iOS, you’ll have to register to receive a “ UIApplicationWillResignActiveNotification” message, and then write a handler to respond to that (PS only register once in your stack script — I learned the hard way). It’s documented under mergNotify in the dictionary (w

Re: Design Question

2020-11-17 Thread scott--- via use-livecode
For getting it FROM the student, why not just use a livecode stack file. It could contain everything and be highly editable. For returning it TO the student you could use a pdf. -- Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web https://elementarysoftware.com/ email

Re: Design Question

2020-11-17 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Scott Morrow wrote: > For getting it FROM the student, why not just use a livecode stack > file. It could contain everything and be highly editable. ^ this LiveCode stack files are an underrated document format. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the