Re: iOS not liking specialFolderPath(Preferences)
Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 7:53 PM, John Dixon wrote: In general you should only create files within the documents, cache, and temporary folders. But I'm not even to the point of accessing a file when this happens. This his happening by my *asking* where that folder is . . . And this line was not causing a crash back in January. If it's crashing in the simulator but not on the device it may be a problem with the simulator configuration. If it crashes on both it may be a bug in LiveCode. But I think John's main point was that there is no Preferences folder on iOS. See the Dictionary entry for specialFolderPath for a list of supported constants available for each OS. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Revmail problems on Windows 8
David, A lot has to do with what email client is installed on that machine and if it is open and running. For consistent results, I usually call a VB script to create the email and then send it to the users Outlook client. I didn't write it but I would be more than happy to share it if you are interested. SKIP On Jun 21, 2015, at 9:25 AM, David V Glasgow dvglas...@gmail.com wrote: 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 have learned that a button designed as a last resort call for help doesn’t work. I had carefully tested all the complex stuff, but hadn’t bothered with this because it was a single line of script: revMail “Cluster.Buster@*.nhs.uk,,Cluster Buster - help I'm stuck It works fine in the dev environment, and on Mac standalones. On Windows 8 it does nothing. Just in case it was an inclusions thing, I switched to automatic inclusions, but this made no difference. Is there any possibility it is a security setting on the network? I can talk to the NHS Trust IT folks next week, but I am a bear of little brain when it comes to Win networks, and I could do with a few sensible pointers if this is a possibility. I noticed that just about 2 years ago Mark Stuart reported that Revmail didn’t then work on Windows 8. That couldn’t still be an issue, could it? Finally, are there any pointers to a simple alternative approach to Revmail? (bearing in mind I have no control and very little access to any aspects of the platform or network) Cheers, David Glasgow ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Revmail problems on Windows 8
David V Glasgow wrote: I had carefully tested all the complex stuff, but hadn’t bothered with this because it was a single line of script: revMail “Cluster.Buster@*.nhs.uk,,Cluster Buster - help I'm stuck It works fine in the dev environment, and on Mac standalones. On Windows 8 it does nothing. Just in case it was an inclusions thing, I switched to automatic inclusions, but this made no difference. Is there any possibility it is a security setting on the network? I can talk to the NHS Trust IT folks next week, but I am a bear of little brain when it comes to Win networks, and I could do with a few sensible pointers if this is a possibility. I noticed that just about 2 years ago Mark Stuart reported that Revmail didn’t then work on Windows 8. That couldn’t still be an issue, could it? Finally, are there any pointers to a simple alternative approach to Revmail? (bearing in mind I have no control and very little access to any aspects of the platform or network) revMail is just a wrapper for the mailto:; protocol designation. All it does is open a mail with the various specified fields already filled in (subject, to, body, etc.). As such, no networking is involved, since it's up to the email client to actually send the message. Well designed modern OSes ship with default apps assigned to handle http:, mailto:;, and often ftp: along with others. On Windows this is done through registry setting. I don't have Win 8.0 but I just tested mailto:; on Win 8.1 and it does indeed open the default email client. Perhaps revMail is working harder than it needs to, maybe predating launch url and attempting to do extra work that launch url can handle well for it today. If so it may be a bug, but I haven't looked into the revMail code to see what it's up to. One simple workaround is to just use mailto:; directly with launch url:, e.g.: put somea...@somedomain.com into tAddress put Some Subject Line into tSubject put This is the body of the email into tBody put mailto:; tAddress ?subject= tSubject body= tBody \ into tURL launch url tURL If that doesn't work it may be that the machine you're testing on has had its default email application assignment mucked up, either by one of the many known brittle aspects of the Windows registry or perhaps intentionally by admins who set up the system (though given how popular mailto:; is on Web pages that wouldn't have been a smart thing for an admin to do). What is the value of the result immediately after attempting revMail? This article may be helpful: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mrmlcgn/archive/2013/02/26/windows-8-associate-a-file-type-or-protocol-with-a-specific-app-using-a-gpo-e-g-default-mail-client-for-mailto-protocol.aspx -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
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 have learned that a button designed as a last resort call for help doesn’t work. I had carefully tested all the complex stuff, but hadn’t bothered with this because it was a single line of script: revMail “Cluster.Buster@*.nhs.uk,,Cluster Buster - help I'm stuck It works fine in the dev environment, and on Mac standalones. On Windows 8 it does nothing. Just in case it was an inclusions thing, I switched to automatic inclusions, but this made no difference. Is there any possibility it is a security setting on the network? I can talk to the NHS Trust IT folks next week, but I am a bear of little brain when it comes to Win networks, and I could do with a few sensible pointers if this is a possibility. I noticed that just about 2 years ago Mark Stuart reported that Revmail didn’t then work on Windows 8. That couldn’t still be an issue, could it? Finally, are there any pointers to a simple alternative approach to Revmail? (bearing in mind I have no control and very little access to any aspects of the platform or network) Cheers, David Glasgow ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: iOS not liking specialFolderPath(Preferences)
On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 7:53 PM, John Dixon dixo...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: In general you should only create files within the documents, cache, and temporary folders. Indeed, be careful not to change or add any files within the application bundle. The application bundle is digitally signed when it is built, and any changes to it after this point will invalidate the signature and prevent it from launching. But I'm not even to the point of accessing a file when this happens. This his happening by my *asking* where that folder is . . . And this line was not causing a crash back in January. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
mergButton 1.0.0
Hi LiveCoders Recently a client needed to be able to create a button over a mergAV camera view so I implemented a new external for creating UIButtons. An android version will hopefully be forthcoming as their project progresses. This new external is available for $9 sold separately and of course is included in mergExt Complete which is still $299 for a whopping $931 worth of individual products. Please see http://mergext.com/home/mergButton http://mergext.com/home/mergButton for more info Cheers Monte -- M E R Goulding http://goulding.ws/ Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical markets mergExt http://mergext.com/ - There's an external for that! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
