Mark mumbled
> and in doing so you could unUnicode it. OK I made up that word, but still…
Verbing nouns again, the man is . . .
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>
> Try a picnic basket instead
Given that someone actually implemented RFC 1149, why not?
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Shooting from the hip, but could it be differences in cr, lf, and the like
getting processed differently?
That is, being intrereted by your yogi as a break in one implementation and not
another? (Which, of course, would be a boo-boo.)
pawk, who couldn’t manage to get “Cindy” or “ranger smith”
On Apr 5, 2020, at 11:18 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
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> I don’t think LC accepts multiple statement transactions at all, does it?
I’d be dead int the water if it didn’t. ;)
I’m flat out *dependent* on these—opening a debtor in my software requires
several hundred entries to be
If server performance is at all an issue, SQLite may be the wrong choice.
It has a kind of, very reluctant, simultaneous access that the developers warn
you not to use.
They suggest PostgreSQL for heavy loads.
I use SQLite within the application (the in-memory access is blindingly fast),
and
On Apr 2, 2020, at 12:05 PM, Pi Digital via use-livecode
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> That article is based on out of date information.
Yeah.
Zoom has enough recent issues without resorting to the old ones!
:_)
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I actually create a throwaway user account on my Mac, and run zoom from the
.dmg file . . .
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I think you’re right.
I added 5 from London to EST, and 3 more to the et.
So (no longer trueing my time math), 8AM PST?
Err, and Friday still in PST, right?
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I think the that’s midnight PST . . .
Also, I would ask that you to *not* submit our email address to zoom, but
instead send the code to the lit, or by your own servers to our email—it came
out in the last couple of days that, just a zoom was nearing a whole week
without a new security or
On Mar 30, 2020, at 8:02 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
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> Cmd-E will eject a mounted removable disk. I've never heard of Cmd-Shift-1.
Newbie :)
It seems to have disappeared some time ago.
I know that I used it some years ago on a CD, to my surprise.
-3 and -4 are still live,
As more cobwebs and dust fall away . . .
First impose a (temporary?) index column, idx, ordering the transactions, with
a step of 1.
And then you do something like
UPDATE theTable SET tBal=tBal(idx -1) + charge WHERE idx > MIN(idx);
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I haven’t fully followed the queries that led to this, but would something like
SELECT SUM(OLD -NEW) FROM some_table WHERE need_to_calc IS true;
get you anywhere?
I’m also thinking of a lag within the list, to assign them all at once, but the
commands coming to memory are from statistical
On Mar 25, 2020, at 12:33 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
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> On 3/25/20 12:11 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode wrote:
>
>> I used yesterday’s version, and not installed globally (ran from the opened
>> dmg). And will purge that account today, and make another i
On Mar 25, 2020, at 11:37 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> the problem being that the server daemon was still active after ending a zoom
> session.
And also that it was done without user consent, and in violation of the rules
enforcedly apple . . .
I used yesterday’s version,
Isn’t that the key sequence for ejecting the internal floppy, err, first
removable disk?
It does seem to be removed from recent releases, though (although -3 an -4
still work, though not quite how they used to . . )
These were in the original release for the 128k . . .
On Mar 25, 2020, at 10:37 AM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
wrote:
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> Zoom is fantastic. A
Be very cautious with zoom, and note it’s snarky privacy policy which
acknowledges they sell data about you . . .
I had to use it yesterday for a nonprofit board meeting. I created a
throw-away
On Mar 20, 2020, at 4:04 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
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> Even Morse code got a new character recently.
But does livecode support that character?
:)
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On Mar 20, 2020, at 12:51 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
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> Just for a laugh... one of the more esoteric codings I used in the quasi
> modern error (besides EBCDIC) was the 5 bit Quotron stock ticker system in
> the mid 90s. It used different codes for requesting/receiving quotes
On Mar 20, 2020, at 11:09 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
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> Okay, now you going for the low blow :-)\
What part of “lawyer” wasn’t clear? B b
:_)
> Next, you'll be suggesting I need to check for EBCDIC encodings!
That will be a start, but it’s not done until you include Baudot.
On Mar 19, 2020, at 1:31 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
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> “ASCII"
Wait, you’re not going to distinguish between six and seven bit ASCII?
:_)
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You got my hopes up at first glance . . . I bought it said “champagne” widget .
. .
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On Feb 16, 2020, at 5:15 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
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> "A progressive web application is a type of application software delivered
> through the web, built using common web technologies including HTML, CSS and
> JavaScript. It is intended to work on any platform that uses a
>
On Jan 13, 2020, at 11:39 AM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode
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>
> Single command? No.
Also, note that you *can* submit compound commands from LiveCode to SQLite and
PostgreSQL, unlike with mySQL. (Or, maybe the interface to mySQL has changed
in the years since I learned this the hard
To elaborate further, if you can use pdftotext from the command line, but this
is failing, it is because the path declared for your login shell is not getting
picked up, or a different shell is being used by livedcode.
Come to think of it, I have *no* idea which shell livecode defaults to—I’d
On Dec 18, 2019, at 1:24 PM, JB via use-livecode
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> Thank you very much!
>
You’re quite welcome.
> I will be playing around with these a lot.
>
I’m interested to see what you do with it.
Also, at the conference this year, I asked panagiotis, who bounced me to Mark
on the
On Dec 18, 2019, at 1:03 PM, JB via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> Actually as I said in the first post I do not really need it. I was
> reading the manual about something else which I have already
> forgot and I ran across the code so I tried it.
Investigate “sockets” in the dictionary.
>
> But
On Dec 18, 2019, at 12:51 PM, JB via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> A year or so ago I was messing around with the terminal in c code
> and found some code that opens two terminals and they talk to
> each other.
>
> Is that something I can use to communicate with live code too?
Conceivably, but
On Dec 18, 2019, at 12:38 PM, JB via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> open process "/Applications/Utilities/Terminal.app" for write
> write tMessage && the long time & return to stdout
*That* is the problem.
If you open a terminal from within livecode, that doesn’t turn it into stdout,
which already
On Dec 18, 2019, at 11:06 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
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>
> Well, sudo already offers a mechanism to prevent volatile teminal activity.
But that’s a privilege restriction about superuser.
Generally, I would think that a process shouldn’t be able to write to a random
other
On Dec 18, 2019, at 9:36 AM, JB via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> I didn’t know you needed to launch it from
> the command line.
Without that, I don’t think that livecode could be associated with any
particular terminal.
In fact, I suspect that OSX would block any attempt from any non-descendent
On Nov 9, 2019, at 4:03 PM, Richard Rumbled,
>
>
> Did everyone stop using LiveCode, or is this mailserve down again?
You didn’t get the memo?
We all switched to NewHyper.
(So why is the list still running at all?)
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On Nov 7, 2019, at 1:29 AM, Heather Laine via use-livecode
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> No need to respond…
Hmm, a conspiracy of silence.
Indeed, a coverup,.
:)
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On Nov 1, 2019, at 5:42 PM, Mark mentioned,
>
> Is it possible to pick up the background color from the mouseColor or the
> backgroundColor or something and set the background color of the field to
> that? (and obviously forget the bit about setting the blendlevel)
The problem there is that
On Nov 1, 2019, at 10:03 AM, Richard rumbled
>
> I'm certain that I don't understand the layout, because from the description
> it sounds like you have an object which is not visible and therefore cannot
> be printed but which is causing a problem when printed.
>
> I'm sure you've considered
On Oct 31, 2019, at 5:42 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> A light gray is the system default on OS X windows. You might have better
> luck setting the stack background to opaque and white. But take that with a
> grain of salt, I've never done what you're attempting.
But if
I *am* truly fascinated that for once, I’m the one not having problems while
others are being terrorized by the dreaded Pirate Code Dots . . . .
They sill move around the script in odd ways at times, but the ones that stay
put do indeed stop execution where they’re supposed to . . .
On Oct 25, 2019, at 10:32 AM, Tom Glod via use-livecode
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> Phil.NICE! ...everything seems like a no brainer in hindsight.
That actually came up in litigation over the patent for the shaving cream can.
The challenger claimed that it was too obvious, and not patentable.
The
On Oct 22, 2019, at 8:49 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> I have tried push and pop before but you really have to keep track of the
> pushed cards or you end up somewhere unexpected.
Every time I’ve tried to use push/pop, it’s been more trouble than it was
worth—with the lone
On Oct 21, 2019, at 8:02 PM, kee nethery via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> My wife built a Hypercard stack standalone that was protected by a dongle.
> But, every call to the dongle was something you could search for in the
> scripts. So she had scripts that did hashes of the scripts that talked
On Oct 17, 2019, at 12:04 PM, hh via use-livecode
wrote:
> I'll publish this weekend on SampleStacks a pdfLib (split and merge)
> based on a JS library (via a browser widget). Already 95% are done.
Did it publish?
And will this only be for server?
Do I sound anxious?
:)
On Oct 17, 2019, at 9:27 AM, FlexibleLearning.com via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> Has anyone got an LC-based method to merge pdf files?
LC business can’t even output a pdf widget save as low density raster at the
moment.
I’m currently working on an interim solution that creates a PyPdf2
On Oct 12, 2019, at 8:05 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode
wrote:
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> You probably could get close with math but line breaks would not be uniform
> and will introduce variability. You could probably get it down to 2 or 3
> checks.
This.
Font scaling itself is nonlinear enough, but the way
On Sep 7, 2019, at 4:29 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> On 2019-09-06 21:10, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote:
>> On Aug 28, 2019, at 12:07 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
>> wrote:
>>> On 2019-08-27 17:24, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote:
>>> I'm not entirely clear
As I’ve had to build every form myself in the past, they were constructed of
fields, lines, and boxes. As such, with them not being opaque, I could put a
rectangle behind the group that was turned visible when the group was active,
as a visual cue.
Now that I’m using pdfs, this isn’t working
On Aug 1, 2019, at 2:26 PM, JJS via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> what are you doing, or what is running when that happens?
When I’ve seen it with the dp and rc, it tends to be after I move objects, or
perhaps copy and paste objects, and then a delay, a brief moment of returning
to apparent
On Jul 29, 2019, at 6:14 AM, dunbarxx via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> Do you mean that if you have:
>
> if then breakpoint
No. I mean if I set a condition on the pirate code dots. The first one or
two I set work, at least for the moment, but then they seem to start scarfing
up one
On Jul 26, 2019, at 3:40 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> K!
Don’t be scared.
Be *very* scared . . .
There is something wonky about the whole in and out of memory thing.
My project is (during development) a bunch of main s tacks, with an mcp
to rule them all . . .
On Jul 4, 2019, at 1:30 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode
wrote:
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> set the name of last img to “XXX_2"
Also
clone control “gizmo”
set the name of it to “blivet"
Will handle your new object.
If I’m going to work with the new object for a few lines, I always use
put the long id of it
Dar delivered,
> Only those who write code that crashes. ;-)
Uhm, don’t all of us here use livecode?
4-5 times an hour for 9.5 at the moment . . . fortunately, I have an autosave
every 30 seconds when not in the group editor . . .
And I never did get 6 to stay up long enough to use (or to
Bob belabored,
> I thought ALL developers knew what that meant! :-)
Some of us just call it, “Damnit!”
9.5 is doing a *lot* of damniting . . .
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> . It's not so big but good enough (2x3mtr) :)
I sure hope that that’s the pool and not the yard . . .
:)
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>
> There is a note on open process in the Dictionary that says that on OS X
> systems you can start an application but not a Unix process,
Tha’ts not right:
From the message box,
put shell("pwd")
Yields
/Applications/LiveCode Business 9.5.0 (dp 1).app
(Under Catalna)
I can’t come up with a recipe for this one, either . . .
When using the group editor and cutting a subgroup, it seems not to lose all of
its information. I then paste back in, and it frequently becomes part of its
prior owner, and sometimes part of another group.
So if I edit group A, and
On Jun 28, 2019, at 8:24 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> When the standalone opens the external stack (which could be in an older
> stack file format), when the mouse is in the external stack window, LiveCode
> thinks the mouse is about 30-40 pixels ABOVE where the mouse actual
bob belabored,
>
> You are probably right. But the workaround is so simple, putting an opaque
> green graphic in the group behind all the other objects, that it would be a
> lot of work to implement just so we didn't have to put a graphic in a group.
I actually use that background rectangle
On Jun 24, 2019, at 8:11 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
wrote:
>
> True, but I need itto break AT the line of code that changes a property of a
> stack. If there is a script running while when the send in time command is
> due, the existing script will continue to run, THEN at the first
On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 1:13 PM JJS via use-livecode <
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> try delete your preferences file and restart LC.
>
>
Thanks.
I ultimately did this this morning, but it always seems to take weeks to
get things back like aI had them
I tried copying the file from the
On May 24, 2019, at 1:31 PM, Richmond via use-livecode
wrote:
>
>> A 32 bit OS can only address around the first 2 gigs of memory. Not very
>> good for running multiple apps.
> Dunno about that: I've been running multiple apps ever since I bought a
> Macintosh LC475 running MacOS 7.0.1.
Oh, and . . . how do I get that pulsing/sliding selection region marker around
the region as I work.
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I think I used to know this, but . . .
Aren’t there messages for when the mouse is held down and dragged, as if
selecting an area?
Or is it something we do with mosueDown, mouseStillDown, and mouseUp?
Specifically, in the new pdf widget, I’m looking to, during development,
selecting a
In all seriousness, what does it actually do for us?
I have a perpetual indy license, and my business license is up for renewal on
Thursday.
I *think* it’s supposed to handle some kind of revision control or repository,
but I’ve never gotten around to *anything* with it.
Currently, my
On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> I know you know, but it bears repeating, you can never go wrong following
> that old IT adage, no special characters in a filename, no spaces or caps
> in a SQL column name. In fact I don't
When choosing "edit group" from the toolbar (or otherwise), is there an
"editGroup" or similar message sent that I can intercept?
In particular, I want to set a flag that my auto-save routines can catch,
as saving while in edit group knocks that mod out, sometimes with oddball
effects.
--
Dr.
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:28 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode <
use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> Here's a Turing-complete language with one(!) instruction
>
There's a *long* history ad literature about subtract and branch as the
sole instruction being turing complete.
Making it
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