Re: JSON Safe Text
Yes - it's taken from the wild (an HTML page on the internet). Then turned into XML, then a table extracted etc - so looks to me like non-utf8 stuff has go in there somewhere. That's why I was wandering if there was a way to filter out arbitrary text and make it utf8-safe. You know urlencode for utf8 - or plain text? I don't want to encode all the spaces and normal / safe chars - just whatever weird stuff got into the data? On 24 July 2015 at 00:12, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: On 24 Jul 2015, at 7:22 am, David Bovill david@viral.academy wrote: I'm placing the text into an array and then using Monte's mergJsonEncode function to decode it. Usually works fine - but in this case it looks like the content needs some tidying before I put it into the array. mergJSON will choke on anything that’s not utf8. Is it possible there’s some other encoded data there or something you are doing with the data is messing with the encoding? -- 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 ___ 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: JSON Safe Text
You really need to know the encoding you are working with. Check if the page has a charset attribute first and if it does re-encode to utf8 first. The try it in mergJSON. If it chokes then the best you can do is replace any char greater than charToNum(127) with “?”. Other than that I think there are encoding detectors around but it may depend on how critical the data is... On 24 Jul 2015, at 4:03 pm, David Bovill david@viral.academy wrote: Yes - it's taken from the wild (an HTML page on the internet). Then turned into XML, then a table extracted etc - so looks to me like non-utf8 stuff has go in there somewhere. That's why I was wandering if there was a way to filter out arbitrary text and make it utf8-safe. You know urlencode for utf8 - or plain text? I don't want to encode all the spaces and normal / safe chars - just whatever weird stuff got into the data? On 24 July 2015 at 00:12, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: On 24 Jul 2015, at 7:22 am, David Bovill david@viral.academy wrote: I'm placing the text into an array and then using Monte's mergJsonEncode function to decode it. Usually works fine - but in this case it looks like the content needs some tidying before I put it into the array. mergJSON will choke on anything that’s not utf8. Is it possible there’s some other encoded data there or something you are doing with the data is messing with the encoding? -- 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 ___ 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 -- 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
revBrowserSet
This is my first foray into using a browser in LiveCode and I have come across a couple of points I was hoping someone could help me with: I am experimenting using a browser to display charts using highcharts from highcharts.com and have got the example charts working in a browser. I am working with LC 6.7.6 on iMac with Yosemite. -- I have this script to setup the browser global gBrowserID on mouseUp lock screen set the visible of grc browserOutline to false --put revBrowserOpenCef(the windowId of this stack, ) into gBrowserID put revBrowserOpen(the windowId of this stack, ) into gBrowserID revBrowserSet gBrowserID, rect, the rect of graphic browserOutline revBrowserSet gBrowserID, offline, true revBrowserSet gBrowserID, scrollbars, false revBrowserSet gBrowserID, showBorder, true unlock screen end mouseUp I have noticed that with revBrowserCef I cannot disable scrollbars and show border does not work for me but with revBrowserOpen they both work? Perhaps I am doing something wrong or is revBrowserCef a work in progress? ——— At the moment it appears that I will have to create my own charts in LiveCode export them as index.htm then reload them into the browser. Is there a way to create the chart in LiveCode then pass it straight to the browser. I tried this without success using the content of one of the example files in highcharts: put the uScript of me into tScript revBrowserSet gBrowserID, htmltext, tScript revBrowserRefresh gBrowserID ——— Is there any better documentation on the use of the revBrowser commands or is it all to be trial and error? Thanks Terry ___ 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: Best practise for a quiz control?
I am not sure, what my loop will be doing, while I opened modal the answer window? Will the loop wait for the user answer in the modal window in both above cases, or is the modal window completely independent from the loop and the loop runs on? How can I hold my loop waiting for the user action in the modal window? When you 'modal' a stack, the modal command will block the current script until the dialog closes. (e.g. You have an OK / Cancel button which do 'close this stack'). Note that messages *are* dispatched whilst this blocking occurs - otherwise events wouldn't get processed so you wouldn't have any user interaction. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ 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: revBrowserSet
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@icloud.com wrote: Is there a way to create the chart in LiveCode then pass it straight to the browser. I tried this without success using the content of one of the example files in highcharts: put the uScript of me into tScript revBrowserSet gBrowserID, htmltext, tScript revBrowserRefresh gBrowserID If you were to step through your code and take the content of uScript and paste it straight into a text editor, and then display that file in a 'real' Browser does it display correctly? I've done exactly your steps and have had no trouble displaying LC created html in an LC Browser instance. Actually there is one difference, I don't revBrowserRefresh, I just 'wait 1 millisec' and it displays. As for the CEF browser I seem to remember reading something about it's the way of the future but it is a work in progress. I may have that wrong though. HTH ___ 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
Best practise for a quiz control?
Hello, What I want to do: The user gets a kind of multiple choice question, answers by clicking his choice in a list or answering a dialog (two different cases). The answer dialog has to be a modal window, not the standard answer dialog, because I have to place the dialog window at a certain screen position. After answering, the next question is being asked. This is a kind of loop with dialogs. My question: Should I build this question-answer cycle in a repeat forever loop or in a myHandler, which has a send myHandler to me in 1 at the end. Or is there a better design approach for this? I am not sure, what my loop will be doing, while I opened modal the answer window? Will the loop wait for the user answer in the modal window in both above cases, or is the modal window completely independent from the loop and the loop runs on? How can I hold my loop waiting for the user action in the modal window? Thanks for your recommendations Tiemo ___ 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: revBrowserSet
Yes it works correctly if I use this script from LC with the content in a file global gBrowserID global gFile on mouseUp answer file Select a chart to load: if the result is not cancel then put it into gFile revBrowserNavigate gBrowserId, file:// gFile end if end mouseUp What I really want to do is just load the content of the file gFile directly from LC. I thought put revBrowserSet gBrowserID,”htmlText”,theContentsOfgFile might work, but it doesn’t. Perhaps I am using this in the wrong context but there does not appear to be any docs for using revBrowser type commands unless I can’t find them? All the best Terry On 24 Jul 2015, at 09:51, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: paste it straight into a text editor, and then display that file in a 'real' Browser does it display correctly? I've done exactly your steps and have had no trouble displaying LC created html in an LC Browser instance. Actually there is one difference, I don't revBrowserRefresh, I just 'wait 1 millisec' and it displays. ___ 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
AW: Best practise for a quiz control?
Hi Mark, thanks for clarifying this part of my question! Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von Mark Waddingham Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Juli 2015 11:53 An: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Betreff: Re: Best practise for a quiz control? I am not sure, what my loop will be doing, while I opened modal the answer window? Will the loop wait for the user answer in the modal window in both above cases, or is the modal window completely independent from the loop and the loop runs on? How can I hold my loop waiting for the user action in the modal window? When you 'modal' a stack, the modal command will block the current script until the dialog closes. (e.g. You have an OK / Cancel button which do 'close this stack'). Note that messages *are* dispatched whilst this blocking occurs - otherwise events wouldn't get processed so you wouldn't have any user interaction. -- Mark Waddingham ~ m...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps ___ 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: LiveCode and SQLite performace
A rule of thumb for Mac is 10% of drive being free... I find iStat Menus a useful tool for continuous monitoring of vital parameters (just a happy user). RObert On 23.07.2015 at 15:37 Uhr -0700 JB apparently wrote: If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a you need at least 1/2 of your hard drive as free space to run efficiently. So if you have a drive with 500 GB you need 250 GB or more free space on the drive. Anything below that and it normal operations like opening files will be slower. I have used more space than 1/2 and the more I use the slower it gets. Sometimes you can speed things up a little by relaunching the Finder. That can be done using the Force Quit option. If it speeds things up it will only be a temporary fix. John Balgenorth ___ 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: LiveCode and SQLite performace
I've found DiskWarrior to be an indispensable tool on my Mac. It fixes disc corruption that diskutil can't and optimizes the directory. It might be worth a try. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:50 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: 10% might work for you but it definitely does not work for me. I have a 1tb drive and 348 gb free space. Most operations run slower than normal. I deleted about 150gb of music to bring it up to 350gb because it ran too slow to use. Now it runs fast enough to use but I still have a lot of wasted time. I had a 350gb drive and had the same problems way before 35gb free space. John Balgenorth On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Robert Brenstein r...@robelko.com wrote: A rule of thumb for Mac is 10% of drive being free... I find iStat Menus a useful tool for continuous monitoring of vital parameters (just a happy user). RObert On 23.07.2015 at 15:37 Uhr -0700 JB apparently wrote: If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a you need at least 1/2 of your hard drive as free space to run efficiently. So if you have a drive with 500 GB you need 250 GB or more free space on the drive. Anything below that and it normal operations like opening files will be slower. I have used more space than 1/2 and the more I use the slower it gets. Sometimes you can speed things up a little by relaunching the Finder. That can be done using the Force Quit option. If it speeds things up it will only be a temporary fix. John Balgenorth ___ 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 ___ 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: Anomalous Script behavior
Peter. There is no limit to the size of a script; LC is not HC. But that was easy. To your real question, I am positive, and this does indeed go back to HC, that certain handlers will work one day and not the next. That some will work if I step through them, but not run normally. And that this comes and goes, but generally somehow works itself out, so that after a bit of angst, the gremlin goes away, and rarely leaves me with the issue. Not to say that on occasion I simply rewrite a handler, if it is not too long, and then it works. Hidden spurious chars? Hidden spurious chars that evaporate? I suspect others believe the same, and similar tales will, in aggregate, be like one of those TV shows about haunted houses. There are mysteries... Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Peter Bogdanoff bogdan...@me.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Fri, Jul 24, 2015 1:16 am Subject: Anomalous Script behavior Using LC 7.1 dp1 Part of a script sometimes doesn’t function—sometimes it works just fine. Sometimes it refuses to continue to execute the rest of a handler. This refusal will happen over and over until some point in my testing it starts working again beautifully. It’s a group script with 35,655 characters. Is there a limit to the number of characters? I put in breakpoints that are sometimes reached, sometimes not. It’s a handler that is being called by callbacks in a player as the media plays, so it’s difficult to debug while the media is playing. So I put some code in to put data into a field when those lines of the script are reached. Then I can see the progression through the script in real time. When it’s not working properly, while the handler IS receiving the callback calls, that field stays empty. Any ideas? Peter Bogdanoff UCLA ___ 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: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX
Here's the workaround that I have been using, in case others find it useful. I put it into a controlkeydown handler in my LC frontscript. All my script shortcuts use control-shift-key. The command doUndoSpace types a space and then deletes it, to make sure LC knows that editing has been done and the script needs re-checking. This may not be necessary in later LC versions (I operate still in 5.5 -- I know, I'm a dinosaur). So control-shift-underscore comments out a line or lines, control-shift-= uncomments a line or lines. on controlkeydown which put the long name of the target into tarName put the shiftkey is down into shK switch which case - case _ -- comment out the line -- until Rev fixes the commandkey shortcut if not shK then pass controlkeydown if field is not in tarName then pass controlkeydown if revNewScriptEditor is not in tarName then pass controlkeydown put the selectedLine into tLineCh put - - into cmntChars if to is in tLineCh then put word 2 of tLineCh into stLineNbr put word 4 of tLineCh into endLineNbr repeat with n = stLineNbr to endLineNbr put put cmntChars space before word 1 of line n of tarName \ into theDo do theDo end repeat -- put scriptLinesText into line stLineNbr to endLineNbr of the target put endLineNbr into selectHere else put word 2 of tLineCh into lineNbr put the long name of the target into tLongName put sr(line lineNbr of the target) into tLineText do put cmntChars space before word 1 of tLineCh put lineNbr into selectHere end if doUndoSpace send tabkey to tarname -- to fix indenting select after line selectHere of the target break case = case + -- uncomment the line -- until Rev fixes the commandkey shortcut if not shK then pass controlkeydown if field is not in tarName then pass controlkeydown if revNewScriptEditor is not in tarName then pass controlkeydown put the selectedLine into tLineCh if to is in tLineCh then put word 2 of tLineCh into stLineNbr put word 4 of tLineCh into endLineNbr put line stLineNbr to endLineNbr of target into scriptLinesText repeat with n = 1 to the number of lines of scriptLinesText put sr(line n of scriptLinesText) into tLineText if char 1 to 2 of tLineText = - - then delete char 1 to 2 of tLineText put tLineText into line n of scriptLinesText end repeat put scriptLinesText into line stLineNbr to endLineNbr of the target else put sr(value(tLineCh)) into tLineText if char 1 to 2 of tLineText = -- then delete char 1 to 2 of tLineText do put tLineText into tLineCh end if end if doUndoSpace send tabkey to tarname break default pass controlkeydown end switch end controlkeydown private command doUndoSpace -- this solves the problem that after the above scripted operations -- the script editor remains unaware that the script has changed, -- so an enterkey will close but not save the changed script -- thus we have to *type* at least one character lock screen put the selectedText into selTxt type numToChar(32) -- the important step put word 4 of the selectedChunk into charNbr put selTxt into char charNbr of the target unlock screen end doUndoSpace function sr pText return word 1 to -1 of pText end sr On Jul 23, 2015, at 6:30 AM, Alan Stenhouse wrote: The uncomment keyboard shortcut has never worked for me either, would love if it did. Interestingly, after someone posted about holding open the menu and then trying it, it does work. Haven’t investigated further though. Wonder if it’s possibly related to having multiple keyboard languages available. Was surprised to hear from many that it works fine for them…!! Thought that it was again, one of those things… cheers Alan On 23 Jul 2015, at 12:00 pm, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: I normally work on a 2009 iMac, but I?ve just installed LC 7.1.0(dp1) on my 2015 MacBook Pro and it?s doing exactly the same as the iMac, i.e. it doesn?t work correctly and adding the system shortcut is only a partial workaround. The MBP is also on OS X 10.10.4. I?ll head over to the bug report now. Paul On Jul 22, 2015, at 17:59, Jerry Jensen j...@jhj.com wrote: Oh thank you Paul! I am not crazy (well, not about that anyway!). What model computer are you using? Yes, please add this to the comments in the bug report. I do think it will help. .Jerry
Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace
I'm z On Jul 24, 2015, 10:23 AM, at 10:23 AM, EED-wp Email proth...@earthednet.org wrote: I've found DiskWarrior to be an indispensable tool on my Mac. It fixes disc corruption that diskutil can't and optimizes the directory. It might be worth a try. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:50 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: 10% might work for you but it definitely does not work for me. I have a 1tb drive and 348 gb free space. Most operations run slower than normal. I deleted about 150gb of music to bring it up to 350gb because it ran too slow to use. Now it runs fast enough to use but I still have a lot of wasted time. I had a 350gb drive and had the same problems way before 35gb free space. John Balgenorth On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Robert Brenstein r...@robelko.com wrote: A rule of thumb for Mac is 10% of drive being free... I find iStat Menus a useful tool for continuous monitoring of vital parameters (just a happy user). RObert On 23.07.2015 at 15:37 Uhr -0700 JB apparently wrote: If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a you need at least 1/2 of your hard drive as free space to run efficiently. So if you have a drive with 500 GB you need 250 GB or more free space on the drive. Anything below that and it normal operations like opening files will be slower. I have used more space than 1/2 and the more I use the slower it gets. Sometimes you can speed things up a little by relaunching the Finder. That can be done using the Force Quit option. If it speeds things up it will only be a temporary fix. John Balgenorth ___ 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 ___ 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: Anomalous Script behavior
Craig and Peter, Thanks for your replies. Yes, I’ve seen this happen other times, but then it does just go away. Here I’m seeing it reoccur over and over... I tried the same script in LC 6.1.3 and it seems better there, but will do more testing. It could be that there is an unexpected value being passed, and maybe LC 7 is more susceptible to it. Peter On Jul 24, 2015, at 8:33 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I've run into situations like this and it usually seems to be caused by an unexpected value in a variable passed to an lc function or command which causes it to silently quit and stop the rest of the calling script from executing. Hard to define what unexpected means and I'm trying to think of an example but it's been a while since it happened to me. I would add some code to your tracking mechanism to track the value of any critical variables, especially those that are passed as parameters to other handlers. On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:16 PM Peter Bogdanoff bogdan...@me.com wrote: Using LC 7.1 dp1 Part of a script sometimes doesn’t function—sometimes it works just fine. Sometimes it refuses to continue to execute the rest of a handler. This refusal will happen over and over until some point in my testing it starts working again beautifully. It’s a group script with 35,655 characters. Is there a limit to the number of characters? I put in breakpoints that are sometimes reached, sometimes not. It’s a handler that is being called by callbacks in a player as the media plays, so it’s difficult to debug while the media is playing. So I put some code in to put data into a field when those lines of the script are reached. Then I can see the progression through the script in real time. When it’s not working properly, while the handler IS receiving the callback calls, that field stays empty. Any ideas? Peter Bogdanoff UCLA ___ 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 ___ 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: Force window on second display
Works like a charm Thank you! On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:49 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Skip, This time I have tested it: put line 2 of the screenRects into myRect put (item 1 of myRect + item 3 of myRect) / 2 into X put (item 2 of myRect + item 4 of myRect) / 2 into Y set the loc of stack myStack to X,Y -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 7/24/2015 15:28, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: put line 2 of the screenRects into myRect put (item 1 of myRect + item 2 of myRect) / 2 into X put (item 3 of myRect + item 4 of myRect) / 2 into Y set the loc of stack myStack to X,Y ___ 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: LiveCode and SQLite performace
@ On Jul 24, 2015, 10:23 AM, at 10:23 AM, EED-wp Email proth...@earthednet.org wrote: I've found DiskWarrior to be an indispensable tool on my Mac. It fixes disc corruption that diskutil can't and optimizes the directory. It might be worth a try. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:50 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: 10% might work for you but it definitely does not work for me. I have a 1tb drive and 348 gb free space. Most operations run slower than normal. I deleted about 150gb of music to bring it up to 350gb because it ran too slow to use. Now it runs fast enough to use but I still have a lot of wasted time. I had a 350gb drive and had the same problems way before 35gb free space. John Balgenorth On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Robert Brenstein r...@robelko.com wrote: A rule of thumb for Mac is 10% of drive being free... I find iStat Menus a useful tool for continuous monitoring of vital parameters (just a happy user). RObert On 23.07.2015 at 15:37 Uhr -0700 JB apparently wrote: If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a you need at least 1/2 of your hard drive as free space to run efficiently. So if you have a drive with 500 GB you need 250 GB or more free space on the drive. Anything below that and it normal operations like opening files will be slower. I have used more space than 1/2 and the more I use the slower it gets. Sometimes you can speed things up a little by relaunching the Finder. That can be done using the Force Quit option. If it speeds things up it will only be a temporary fix. John Balgenorth ___ 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 ___ 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: LiveCode and SQLite performace
The guidelines I'd read were about 15% IIRC; I believe there used to be a tech note on this, but I can no longer find it at apple.com. Most third-party sites discussing this cite 15%. If OS X required us to never use half of our disk space that would be quite a public controversy, since that's far beyond what any other file system requires and would represent a tremendous waste of storage resources. If you have poor performance on a Mac that has more than 15% free, chances are free space isn't the cause. There may be other issues with the drive (+1 for Disk Warrior), or either the primary or a secondary drive has a power-scaling feature that lets the platter rest when not in use, or corrupted b-tree elements, or any number of other factors. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com John Balgenorth wrote: 10% might work for you but it definitely does not work for me. I have a 1tb drive and 348 gb free space. Most operations run slower than normal. I deleted about 150gb of music to bring it up to 350gb because it ran too slow to use. Now it runs fast enough to use but I still have a lot of wasted time. I had a 350gb drive and had the same problems way before 35gb free space. John Balgenorth On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com wrote: A rule of thumb for Mac is 10% of drive being free... I find iStat Menus a useful tool for continuous monitoring of vital parameters (just a happy user). RObert On 23.07.2015 at 15:37 Uhr -0700 JB apparently wrote: If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a you need at least 1/2 of your hard drive as free space to run efficiently. So if you have a drive with 500 GB you need 250 GB or more free space on the drive. Anything below that and it normal operations like opening files will be slower. I have used more space than 1/2 and the more I use the slower it gets. Sometimes you can speed things up a little by relaunching the Finder. That can be done using the Force Quit option. If it speeds things up it will only be a temporary fix. John Balgenorth ___ 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: Anomalous Script behavior
I've run into situations like this and it usually seems to be caused by an unexpected value in a variable passed to an lc function or command which causes it to silently quit and stop the rest of the calling script from executing. Hard to define what unexpected means and I'm trying to think of an example but it's been a while since it happened to me. I would add some code to your tracking mechanism to track the value of any critical variables, especially those that are passed as parameters to other handlers. On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:16 PM Peter Bogdanoff bogdan...@me.com wrote: Using LC 7.1 dp1 Part of a script sometimes doesn’t function—sometimes it works just fine. Sometimes it refuses to continue to execute the rest of a handler. This refusal will happen over and over until some point in my testing it starts working again beautifully. It’s a group script with 35,655 characters. Is there a limit to the number of characters? I put in breakpoints that are sometimes reached, sometimes not. It’s a handler that is being called by callbacks in a player as the media plays, so it’s difficult to debug while the media is playing. So I put some code in to put data into a field when those lines of the script are reached. Then I can see the progression through the script in real time. When it’s not working properly, while the handler IS receiving the callback calls, that field stays empty. Any ideas? Peter Bogdanoff UCLA ___ 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: Force window on second display
Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel skip@... writes: put line 2 of the screenRects into myRect ...although to make sure you stay out of trouble you might want put line -1 of the screenRects into myRect instead. That way if the second monitor gets unhooked you'll still be able to see the stack. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.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: LiveCode and SQLite performace
Thanks to everyone for the info. It looks like I need to run some test on it. John Balgenorth On Jul 24, 2015, at 8:19 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: The guidelines I'd read were about 15% IIRC; I believe there used to be a tech note on this, but I can no longer find it at apple.com. Most third-party sites discussing this cite 15%. If OS X required us to never use half of our disk space that would be quite a public controversy, since that's far beyond what any other file system requires and would represent a tremendous waste of storage resources. If you have poor performance on a Mac that has more than 15% free, chances are free space isn't the cause. There may be other issues with the drive (+1 for Disk Warrior), or either the primary or a secondary drive has a power-scaling feature that lets the platter rest when not in use, or corrupted b-tree elements, or any number of other factors. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ambassa...@fourthworld.comhttp://www.FourthWorld.com John Balgenorth wrote: 10% might work for you but it definitely does not work for me. I have a 1tb drive and 348 gb free space. Most operations run slower than normal. I deleted about 150gb of music to bring it up to 350gb because it ran too slow to use. Now it runs fast enough to use but I still have a lot of wasted time. I had a 350gb drive and had the same problems way before 35gb free space. John Balgenorth On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Robert Brenstein rjb at robelko.com wrote: A rule of thumb for Mac is 10% of drive being free... I find iStat Menus a useful tool for continuous monitoring of vital parameters (just a happy user). RObert On 23.07.2015 at 15:37 Uhr -0700 JB apparently wrote: If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a you need at least 1/2 of your hard drive as free space to run efficiently. So if you have a drive with 500 GB you need 250 GB or more free space on the drive. Anything below that and it normal operations like opening files will be slower. I have used more space than 1/2 and the more I use the slower it gets. Sometimes you can speed things up a little by relaunching the Finder. That can be done using the Force Quit option. If it speeds things up it will only be a temporary fix. John Balgenorth ___ 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: LiveCode and SQLite performace
As long as we're on this topic, I can't get over how much faster my POC MacBook Air is than my not-so POC Mac Mini. The former has an ssd, the latter, a regular HD. The former has a 1.4 ghz i5 with 4GB RAM, and the latter a 2.3 ghz i5 with 16 GB RAM. That SSD makes the air scream. On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Mark Waddingham wrote: I'd get your hdd checked out asap. This is a good opportunity for all of us to remember that portable large-capacity hard drives are dirt cheap compared to the cost of lost data. A USB 3.0 1TB drive can be picked up at the corner market for about US$60, and a 2TB drive for under US$85. I know everyone here already has multiple redundant daily backups anyway, but there was a time many years ago when I didn't, and I paid for it dearly. Now I have one copy of everything in the cloud, three in my office, and three at home which are rotated through the office so at least one of those offsite backups is never older than 24 hrs. With an rsync script backing up is super-fast and as easy as typing a single word in Terminal. Yes, I also use Time Machine, but relying on any single backup isn't enough; drives fail, software fails, archives corrupt, merde happens. rsync takes only a few minutes to learn and can move large amounts of data with ease anywhere, a perfect compliment to other backup systems for multiple redundancy. Far more than needed? Exactly. Disks are cheap, but time is the rarest commodity in the universe. Last year my MacBook Pro started acting wonky so before I ran any diagnostics the first thing I did was make a full backup. Good thing: the mobo died half an hour later. I just copied the files I needed to another machine and was back to work in minutes. -- 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 -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, This is good. ___ 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: LiveCode and SQLite performance
+10 Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 1:04 PM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace Mark Waddingham wrote: I'd get your hdd checked out asap. This is a good opportunity for all of us to remember that portable large-capacity hard drives are dirt cheap compared to the cost of lost data. A USB 3.0 1TB drive can be picked up at the corner market for about US$60, and a 2TB drive for under US$85. I know everyone here already has multiple redundant daily backups anyway, but there was a time many years ago when I didn't, and I paid for it dearly. Now I have one copy of everything in the cloud, three in my office, and three at home which are rotated through the office so at least one of those offsite backups is never older than 24 hrs. With an rsync script backing up is super-fast and as easy as typing a single word in Terminal. Yes, I also use Time Machine, but relying on any single backup isn't enough; drives fail, software fails, archives corrupt, merde happens. rsync takes only a few minutes to learn and can move large amounts of data with ease anywhere, a perfect compliment to other backup systems for multiple redundancy. Far more than needed? Exactly. Disks are cheap, but time is the rarest commodity in the universe. Last year my MacBook Pro started acting wonky so before I ran any diagnostics the first thing I did was make a full backup. Good thing: the mobo died half an hour later. I just copied the files I needed to another machine and was back to work in minutes. -- 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 ___ 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: Anomalous Script behavior
Hi Mark, Unfortunately, I don't recall the exact circumstances where this happened because it's been a while. I seem to remember it was a call to one of the datagrid library handlers with a bad parameter that caused the handler containing the handler to stop executing with no error message shown. I should have submitted a QCC report and will be sure to do so if and when it happens again. I can say with confidence that it was with an LC version prior to 6.7 and that it was not related to a player callback. On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:42 AM Mark Waddingham m...@livecode.com wrote: Hi Peter, Do you see a similar thing in 6.7? The reason I ask is that if the problem is only occurring in an a handler being invoked by the engine as part of callbacks set by the callback property on a player it could be something to do with that specific case. The player implementation on Mac changed completely from 6.7 onwards... Mark. Sent from my iPhone On 24 Jul 2015, at 06:15, Peter Bogdanoff bogdan...@me.com wrote: Using LC 7.1 dp1 Part of a script sometimes doesn’t function—sometimes it works just fine. Sometimes it refuses to continue to execute the rest of a handler. This refusal will happen over and over until some point in my testing it starts working again beautifully. It’s a group script with 35,655 characters. Is there a limit to the number of characters? I put in breakpoints that are sometimes reached, sometimes not. It’s a handler that is being called by callbacks in a player as the media plays, so it’s difficult to debug while the media is playing. So I put some code in to put data into a field when those lines of the script are reached. Then I can see the progression through the script in real time. When it’s not working properly, while the handler IS receiving the callback calls, that field stays empty. Any ideas? Peter Bogdanoff UCLA ___ 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 ___ 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: Anomalous Script behavior
Hi Peter, Do you see a similar thing in 6.7? The reason I ask is that if the problem is only occurring in an a handler being invoked by the engine as part of callbacks set by the callback property on a player it could be something to do with that specific case. The player implementation on Mac changed completely from 6.7 onwards... Mark. Sent from my iPhone On 24 Jul 2015, at 06:15, Peter Bogdanoff bogdan...@me.com wrote: Using LC 7.1 dp1 Part of a script sometimes doesn’t function—sometimes it works just fine. Sometimes it refuses to continue to execute the rest of a handler. This refusal will happen over and over until some point in my testing it starts working again beautifully. It’s a group script with 35,655 characters. Is there a limit to the number of characters? I put in breakpoints that are sometimes reached, sometimes not. It’s a handler that is being called by callbacks in a player as the media plays, so it’s difficult to debug while the media is playing. So I put some code in to put data into a field when those lines of the script are reached. Then I can see the progression through the script in real time. When it’s not working properly, while the handler IS receiving the callback calls, that field stays empty. Any ideas? Peter Bogdanoff UCLA ___ 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: LiveCode and SQLite performace
Mark Waddingham wrote: I'd get your hdd checked out asap. This is a good opportunity for all of us to remember that portable large-capacity hard drives are dirt cheap compared to the cost of lost data. A USB 3.0 1TB drive can be picked up at the corner market for about US$60, and a 2TB drive for under US$85. I know everyone here already has multiple redundant daily backups anyway, but there was a time many years ago when I didn't, and I paid for it dearly. Now I have one copy of everything in the cloud, three in my office, and three at home which are rotated through the office so at least one of those offsite backups is never older than 24 hrs. With an rsync script backing up is super-fast and as easy as typing a single word in Terminal. Yes, I also use Time Machine, but relying on any single backup isn't enough; drives fail, software fails, archives corrupt, merde happens. rsync takes only a few minutes to learn and can move large amounts of data with ease anywhere, a perfect compliment to other backup systems for multiple redundancy. Far more than needed? Exactly. Disks are cheap, but time is the rarest commodity in the universe. Last year my MacBook Pro started acting wonky so before I ran any diagnostics the first thing I did was make a full backup. Good thing: the mobo died half an hour later. I just copied the files I needed to another machine and was back to work in minutes. -- 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: LiveCode and SQLite performace
Hi Mike, The only reference to slow opening of SQLite dbs on the Internet was to do with file permission issues on windows so if you are seeing this on Mac it very much sounds like a hard disk issue. One of my colleagues had an issue recently with the hard drive in a 2011 iMac which didn't show up as a problem in any of the macs internal diagnostics. We replaced the drive and all was well again. It would periodically get exceptionally slow when opening various files. I'd get your hdd checked out asap. Mark. Sent from my iPhone On 23 Jul 2015, at 22:08, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: Hey guys, I think that I have a system issue of some type. We had a nasty thunderstorm last night and we lost power. Obviously my Mac was re-booted. When I ran my timing tests this morning. Open was 3 seconds and loading all the data in to a variable was 1. Much better. I just got back from a nice bike ride and tried it again.. some 5 hr later with the mac running the whole time. Open was 93 seconds and loading the data was 23. This tells me that it has nothing to do with livecode or the database, but something is going on with my system that is causing a dramatic slowdowns. -= Mike On 7/23/15 1:46 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Hi Michael, Those are ridiculously long times! I can't think of anything obvious that would cause them. Mark's question about whether the automatic indexes are being recreated is a possibility but I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen. I couldn't tell from your original post if your table has a primary keydefined, looks like the ID column might be it? Reason I ask is if would be worth trying SELECT primarykeycolumn FROM mytable since selecting all primary key columns is the absolute fastest select statement on a table so I'd be interested to see how long it takes. If you don't have a primary key defined, use rowid instead. That doesn't help with the open time but it might shed some light and what's going on. If you would be willing to share the database with me offline, I'd be happy to see if I can spot anything. I'd also be happy to post the problem on the sqlite developers list but in order to do that, I would need the exact CREATE statement used to create the table plus any other tables in the database. Your sqlitebrowser tool should provide that somewhere. Pete On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 4:33 PM Michael Doubmiked...@gmail.com wrote: I just updated the database and it now has 608436 records. Sorry for the typo. it was 604000. How long to open - 216 seconds. I timed put revDataFromQuery(,,db_id,select * from mydatabase) into tResult it was 26 seconds. 216 to open and 26 to copy all of the data into a variable. This seems odd to me. The database is on the main internal drive (same as OS) in folder with the stack that is accessing the database. The result of the integrity check is ok On 7/22/15 5:11 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Hi Michael, Out of interest, when you say it takes a long time to open the database, how long do you mean? Also, where is the database located? On your Mac's hard drive, external drive, on a network? I'm a bit confused as to the number of records. Your original email said 600,000+ records, but you mentioned that the ID field (which is defined as unique) has values from 1 to 60400. Maybe a type somewhere? You'll see auto indexes for any columns that are defined as UNIQUE, that's how sqlite enforces that constraint. Don't worry about indexes for now. They on;y help if you are having problems with how long it takes to execute your select commands and this problem is occurring long before then. PRAGMAs are just another type of sqlite statement. After opening your database, do this: put revDataFromQuery(,,gDBID,PRAGMA integrity_check)) into tResult put tResult gDBID is just the variable with your connection ID in it so replace it with your variable name. The message box will open and you'll see the output from the PRAGMA command. It it begins with revdberr,Livecode detected an error with the statement for some reason. If the PRAGMA does not find any error it returns OK. Anything else, there's corruption in your database. Let me know the result of the integrity check and we'll go from there. On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 1:50 PM Michael Doubmiked...@gmail.com wrote: Kay and Mark, the database file size is 250Mb. The performance issue that surprised me was the open time. Adds and Queries are as expected. ID's currently range from 1 to 60400 URL is a typical URL that ranges from 50 to 130 characters, average is 80 char. tag is currently not being used so empty local is a mac file path: of the form /Volumes/EXTERNAL/XXX/x.xxx How would I create and index? When I look at the database with sqlitebrowser, it looks like an auto index was created. Can you give me instructions as to how I
Re: Best practise for a quiz control?
Hi. I would definitely write my own handler to manage and display the questions and call that handler with a Send command instead of the forever loop. -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Best-practise-for-a-quiz-control-tp4694294p4694305.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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: LiveCode and SQLite performance
First off, I want to thank all of you that have given me suggestions. It really is appreciated. Here is the update. I backed up all of my data to an external drive and did a complete re-installation of the OS, then resorted the data. The first few tests of the database were fine, but after waiting a few hrs and trying again I saw the long open time again. At this point I exported all of the data to csv file and to sql file.I recreated the database file with a table where I definitely specified the ID as primary key. I imported the csv data. I tried importing the sql but I aborted the process after an hour, as the progress was really poor. The csv import was done in under a minute. Now open times are a consistent 7 seconds with the load of the entire database into a variable is 4 seconds. I did all of this last night and I am seeing the same behavior this afternoon. So my take on this is that I did have a systems issue that was slowing things down, but I also think that the database was not configured correctly initially. Anyway, I am operational again. And thanks again for your kind help. -= Mike On 7/24/15 1:36 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: +10 Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richard Gaskin Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 1:04 PM To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace Mark Waddingham wrote: I'd get your hdd checked out asap. This is a good opportunity for all of us to remember that portable large-capacity hard drives are dirt cheap compared to the cost of lost data. A USB 3.0 1TB drive can be picked up at the corner market for about US$60, and a 2TB drive for under US$85. I know everyone here already has multiple redundant daily backups anyway, but there was a time many years ago when I didn't, and I paid for it dearly. Now I have one copy of everything in the cloud, three in my office, and three at home which are rotated through the office so at least one of those offsite backups is never older than 24 hrs. With an rsync script backing up is super-fast and as easy as typing a single word in Terminal. Yes, I also use Time Machine, but relying on any single backup isn't enough; drives fail, software fails, archives corrupt, merde happens. rsync takes only a few minutes to learn and can move large amounts of data with ease anywhere, a perfect compliment to other backup systems for multiple redundancy. Far more than needed? Exactly. Disks are cheap, but time is the rarest commodity in the universe. Last year my MacBook Pro started acting wonky so before I ran any diagnostics the first thing I did was make a full backup. Good thing: the mobo died half an hour later. I just copied the files I needed to another machine and was back to work in minutes. -- 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 ___ 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
AW: Best practise for a quiz control?
Hi Tim, thanks for your recommendation Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von tbodine Gesendet: Freitag, 24. Juli 2015 15:54 An: use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com Betreff: Re: Best practise for a quiz control? Hi. I would definitely write my own handler to manage and display the questions and call that handler with a Send command instead of the forever loop. -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Best-practise-for-a-quiz-cont rol-tp4694294p4694305.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.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 ___ 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: Force window on second display
put line 2 of the screenRects into myRect put (item 1 of myRect + item 2 of myRect) / 2 into X put (item 3 of myRect + item 4 of myRect) / 2 into Y set the loc of stack myStack to X,Y You might use working screenRects instead of screenRects. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 7/24/2015 15:19, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: A bright good morning and a happy Friday to all you LC'ers, Is there a way to force a standalone on a second connected display? This is for a retail environment where I am sending data and info to a customer standing on the other side of a counter viewing a secondary monitor. I want this to be automated so that if the computer is rebooted and the application is launched, the employee does not have to drag the LC application window to the other screen. Thank you, as always, for your input! SKIP ___ 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: Force window on second display
Thank you for the quick response Mark! On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: put line 2 of the screenRects into myRect put (item 1 of myRect + item 2 of myRect) / 2 into X put (item 3 of myRect + item 4 of myRect) / 2 into Y set the loc of stack myStack to X,Y You might use working screenRects instead of screenRects. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 7/24/2015 15:19, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: A bright good morning and a happy Friday to all you LC'ers, Is there a way to force a standalone on a second connected display? This is for a retail environment where I am sending data and info to a customer standing on the other side of a counter viewing a secondary monitor. I want this to be automated so that if the computer is rebooted and the application is launched, the employee does not have to drag the LC application window to the other screen. Thank you, as always, for your input! SKIP ___ 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 ___ 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: Force window on second display
Yeah, but obviously I messed it up. I'll post a correct script in a sec. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 7/24/2015 15:28, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: Thank you for the quick response Mark! On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:24 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: put line 2 of the screenRects into myRect put (item 1 of myRect + item 2 of myRect) / 2 into X put (item 3 of myRect + item 4 of myRect) / 2 into Y set the loc of stack myStack to X,Y You might use working screenRects instead of screenRects. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 7/24/2015 15:19, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: A bright good morning and a happy Friday to all you LC'ers, Is there a way to force a standalone on a second connected display? This is for a retail environment where I am sending data and info to a customer standing on the other side of a counter viewing a secondary monitor. I want this to be automated so that if the computer is rebooted and the application is launched, the employee does not have to drag the LC application window to the other screen. Thank you, as always, for your input! SKIP ___ 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 ___ 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
Force window on second display
A bright good morning and a happy Friday to all you LC'ers, Is there a way to force a standalone on a second connected display? This is for a retail environment where I am sending data and info to a customer standing on the other side of a counter viewing a secondary monitor. I want this to be automated so that if the computer is rebooted and the application is launched, the employee does not have to drag the LC application window to the other screen. Thank you, as always, for your input! SKIP ___ 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: Force window on second display
Skip, This time I have tested it: put line 2 of the screenRects into myRect put (item 1 of myRect + item 3 of myRect) / 2 into X put (item 2 of myRect + item 4 of myRect) / 2 into Y set the loc of stack myStack to X,Y -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 7/24/2015 15:28, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: put line 2 of the screenRects into myRect put (item 1 of myRect + item 2 of myRect) / 2 into X put (item 3 of myRect + item 4 of myRect) / 2 into Y set the loc of stack myStack to X,Y ___ 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
Referencing a control name
Hi all, I have this data in a field MyField: button Home,37,26,2,699 I want to reference that data like this: set the width of item 1 of line 1 of field “MyField” to item 2 of line 1 of field “MyField” How do I script the stuff inside the ? Sometimes that item will be a field, graphic, etc. Having a brain freeze. Peter Bogdanoff UCLA ___ 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: Referencing a control name
First put the reference into a variable and then Set the width of myVar to x -- Kind regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Http://economy-x-talk.com Share the clipboard of your computer over a local network with Clipboard Link http://clipboardlink.economy-x-talk.com Op 25 jul. 2015 om 02:05 heeft Peter Bogdanoff bogdan...@me.com het volgende geschreven: Hi all, I have this data in a field MyField: button Home,37,26,2,699 I want to reference that data like this: set the width of item 1 of line 1 of field “MyField” to item 2 of line 1 of field “MyField” How do I script the stuff inside the ? Sometimes that item will be a field, graphic, etc. Having a brain freeze. Peter Bogdanoff UCLA ___ 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
[ANN] mergExt support for iOS 8.4
Hi LiveCoders I’ve just uploaded new builds for all my externals that support iOS 8.4 so you can build your apps against Xcode 6.4 using the latest versions of LiveCode. While you’re at the site downloading the new releases be sure to check to see how much time you have left on your access so you can take advantage of the 20% off offer if you still have some time left. It’s on the right side of the screen below your name. The other thing worth noting is I currently have a poll going on the LiveCode User Group on facebook to decide what to implement next. At the moment adding Directions support to mergMK looks like the most feasible out of the popular options. I will have some good news on CoreBluetooth (BLE) shortly anyway. https://www.facebook.com/groups/livecodeusers/permalink/893125430726308/?qa_ref=qd https://www.facebook.com/groups/livecodeusers/permalink/893125430726308/?qa_ref=qd 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
RE: Referencing a control name
Also control is a synonym for field, button, image. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Peter Bogdanoff Sent: Friday, July 24, 2015 8:06 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Referencing a control name Hi all, I have this data in a field MyField: button Home,37,26,2,699 I want to reference that data like this: set the width of item 1 of line 1 of field MyField to item 2 of line 1 of field MyField How do I script the stuff inside the ? Sometimes that item will be a field, graphic, etc. Having a brain freeze. Peter Bogdanoff UCLA ___ 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: Referencing a control name
On Jul 24, 2015, at 5:05 PM, Peter Bogdanoff bogdan...@me.com wrote: I want to reference that data like this: set the width of item 1 of line 1 of field “MyField” to item 2 of line 1 of field “MyField” How do I script the stuff inside the ? Sometimes that item will be a field, graphic, etc. Hi, Peter. You could just replace your delimiters: set the width of (item 1 of line 1 of field “MyField”) to item 2 of line 1 of field “MyField” — Dick ___ 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: LiveCode and SQLite performace
10% might work for you but it definitely does not work for me. I have a 1tb drive and 348 gb free space. Most operations run slower than normal. I deleted about 150gb of music to bring it up to 350gb because it ran too slow to use. Now it runs fast enough to use but I still have a lot of wasted time. I had a 350gb drive and had the same problems way before 35gb free space. John Balgenorth On Jul 24, 2015, at 4:15 AM, Robert Brenstein r...@robelko.com wrote: A rule of thumb for Mac is 10% of drive being free... I find iStat Menus a useful tool for continuous monitoring of vital parameters (just a happy user). RObert On 23.07.2015 at 15:37 Uhr -0700 JB apparently wrote: If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a you need at least 1/2 of your hard drive as free space to run efficiently. So if you have a drive with 500 GB you need 250 GB or more free space on the drive. Anything below that and it normal operations like opening files will be slower. I have used more space than 1/2 and the more I use the slower it gets. Sometimes you can speed things up a little by relaunching the Finder. That can be done using the Force Quit option. If it speeds things up it will only be a temporary fix. John Balgenorth ___ 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
