Re: libURLSetStatusCallback Runtime error

2012-10-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: Hi Richard, This in the IDE. In fact, I start the IDE then load the stack that has the problem so there is loads of time for the library to be loaded before my stack is opened. HI'm stumped. The next diagnostic step I would try would be going through the release

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-08 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from you know where, Thanks to all for the input. Unfortunately, I still don't have a solution. My PDF is a Family Tree exported from EazyDraw, but I can also export to jpg, png, etc. Maybe I will have to solve the problem this way. -Francis ___

Put URL and garbage in result from PHP

2012-10-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I'm downloading a list of words of 9 characters from a MySQL database using a PHP script and a put URL command in a LiveCode script. Altogether, there are approximately 1 lines in my list, with one word on each line. Both the PHP script and the LiveCode script run on Mac OS X. I use a

Re: LC and mobile development what-not

2012-10-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Stuart wrote: I'm just starting to try my hand at mobile development, using LC 4.6.4. (I won't upgrade LC until I see how mobile development goes) I've read the Android Release Notes for this version of LC and didn't see anything about what font name and size to use for a mobile

Re: libURLSetStatusCallback Runtime error

2012-10-08 Thread Bernard Devlin
Peter, you could try replacing the 5.5.2 libUrl code with that from an earlier version. LibURL is the script of a button somewhere (can't remember where off the top of my head). Comment out the current script, paste in the old one. See if the problem persists. That will indicate the engine or

Re: Entire sqlite database wiped of data??

2012-10-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
QUICK!!! BACK IT UP! Bob On Oct 5, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Is your database still in the corrupted state? If so issue the following command: PRAGMA integrity_check OK, this is getting bizarre. I

Re: [UPDATE] Free 'Clearview' desktop clock v1.2

2012-10-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
You put a shortcut to the app in the user's Startup Items folder. Alternately, you cal place it in the All Users Startup Items folder. C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup Replace the All Users with the user profile folder name for individual startup. Not sure about

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
Just curious, on a Mac running OS X can't you simply tell the Finder to open the file and have whatever app is the default app open it? Or do you need the annotation features that Skim gives you which something like Preview does not? I believe LC has a command called launch, that will open a

re: iOS simulator (still!) won't work

2012-10-08 Thread Lars Brehmer
Thanks for the reply Colin! Unfortunately it still doesn't work! What are the chances! Some things may have become more strict over time, and you may have to enter a more full app id. In that field initially there is com.yourcompany.yourapp, change that to something else, say

Re: Entire sqlite database wiped of data??

2012-10-08 Thread william humphrey
I had very similar stuff happen to my SQLite database when I updated my MAC/OS to 10.7 from 10.6 - I could see the data with my SQLite reader but LiveCode was not letting me see it. It was inconsistent too. Sometimes it would all come back. I finally decided that behavior was too flaky for me and

Multiple Stack Instances

2012-10-08 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Hey there, I have come across a scenario when I need to be able to have multiple copies of the same stack with different form data in the field. So that the user can have multiple instances of this form available to switch between. Typically, I just allow them to edit 1 record at a time and

Congrats to Colin

2012-10-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
At our last LiveCode User Group meeting two of our members had Colin's book on their devices, which were passed around giving us all an opportunity to see the scope of the book and the quality of both the writing and the code examples. Well done, Colin. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: Congrats to Colin

2012-10-08 Thread Colin Holgate
Thanks, but are you sure it was my book? Just kidding (I hope!). On Oct 8, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: At our last LiveCode User Group meeting two of our members had Colin's book on their devices, which were passed around giving us all an opportunity to

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

2012-10-08 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Have you tried evince? I don't know about the command line options for calling it in Windows. Excellent reader. Peter Francis Nugent Dixon wrote Hi from you know where, Thanks to all for the input. Unfortunately, I still don't have a solution. My PDF is a Family Tree exported from

Re: Multiple Stack Instances

2012-10-08 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Andrew, I would use only one stack with one form and keep the data in a custom property. Put the data into the fields in a preOpenCard handler. Another option is to use multiple cards in one stack and display different cards as required. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk

Re: iOS SDK Platform Not Installed Error

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Guay
Bless you, John Dixon . . . it works !! Why isn't this common knowledge, or have I missed this advice before? I know I did a search of the archives many times before posting my problems with Xcode 4.5.1. BTW, if anyone ever wants to contrast the civility and helpfulness of this list, they need

Re: Congrats to Colin

2012-10-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Colin- Monday, October 8, 2012, 10:38:40 AM, you wrote: Thanks, but are you sure it was my book? Just kidding (I hope!). Not sure. You might check to see if yours is missing. g -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Congrats to Colin

2012-10-08 Thread Van Brollini
Just bought Colin's book!! Looking forward to it. Van Brollini ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

RE: Congrats to Colin

2012-10-08 Thread Ralph DiMola
Congrats Colin By the WayAre there any east coast US LC User Groups? If not, anyone interested in starting one? Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com

Re: libURLSetStatusCallback Runtime error

2012-10-08 Thread Terence Blyth
I get this error a lot when developing, Livecode locks up and I have to force end Livecode. Can anyone tell me if this is normal ? Thanks Terence On 9/10/2012, at 4:09 AM, Bernard Devlin bdrun...@gmail.com wrote: Peter, you could try replacing the 5.5.2 libUrl code with that from an earlier

RE: libURLSetStatusCallback Runtime error

2012-10-08 Thread Ralph DiMola
Terence, In 99% of my IDE lockups, F5 will bring LC back to reality. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Terence

Re: Congrats to Colin

2012-10-08 Thread Roger Eller
We tried to start a SERUG group on the East coast in 2005. Four people met in a hotel lobby with our laptops for a couple of hours in Atlanta. I remember there was a Ralph there (maybe it was you). I had a 2.5 hour drive, which was a bit far, so then we switched to virtual meetings in

Re: libURLSetStatusCallback Runtime error

2012-10-08 Thread Peter Haworth
Richard and Bernard, Thanks for the replies. Inserting a wait with messages right before the call to libURLSetStatusCallback fixes the issue so at this point, I think I'll just move on :-) Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Bernard Devlin

Re: Congrats to Colin

2012-10-08 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
I am in South Florida.. How about you, Ralph? SKIP On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 3:15 PM, Ralph DiMola rdim...@evergreeninfo.net wrote: Congrats Colin By the WayAre there any east coast US LC User Groups? If not, anyone interested in starting one? Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen

Strict Compile Mode

2012-10-08 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm switching over to to using strict compile mode in all my stacks, which I should have done long ago. I was surprised to find that not all variables have to be defined in this mode. It seems that using a variable in a repeat command such as repeat with x=1 to 10 does not require x to be

Re: Strict Compile Mode

2012-10-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
Ima gonna say it's just something that was overlooked, or something that might have required an engine mod they didn't want to get into at the time. On Oct 8, 2012, at 1:15 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: It also seems that sometimes LC constants have to be enclosed in quotes. For example Set the

Re: Entire sqlite database wiped of data??

2012-10-08 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Did you execute the PRAGMA command? I don't know for sure but it's possible it might fix some problems. I'm going to try tomorrow . . . right now I'm to groggy from bounding back and forth across the country--I made the first

RE: Congrats to Colin

2012-10-08 Thread Ralph DiMola
Skip, I'm in upstate NY(50 miles north of Albany), but have an office 10 miles east of NYC and was thinking that I would time those trips with a LC User group meeting in the NYC tri-state area. Just a thought. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net

RE: libURLSetStatusCallback Runtime error

2012-10-08 Thread Terence Blyth
Great I will try it tonight. Terence Blyth Managing Director Computer Technologies Ltd Computer Technologies Ltd 27 Selwyn Place, Nelson City Nelson 7014 Email: tere...@ctec.co.nz Phone: +64 3 545 9001 Fax: +64 3 545 9002 Mobile: +64 21 220 5670  Please consider the

Re: Strict Compile Mode

2012-10-08 Thread Mark Wieder
Peter Haworth pete@... writes: I'm switching over to to using strict compile mode in all my stacks, which I should have done long ago. Yay! But aren't you going to feel nostalgic for all those runtime bugs you used to have to hunt down? I was surprised to find that not all variables have to

Re: Strict Compile Mode

2012-10-08 Thread Peter Haworth
Don't worry, I still have plenty of those to keep me from being nostalgic! I've pretty much decided that every handler should start with lock messages and lock screen and that I'll scatter random wait with messages commands throughout my code :-) Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On

Re: Strict Compile Mode

2012-10-08 Thread Bob Sneidar
Actually, that's the only way I got my Pachinko game to work. Bob On Oct 8, 2012, at 3:30 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: Don't worry, I still have plenty of those to keep me from being nostalgic! I've pretty much decided that every handler should start with lock messages and lock screen and

Re: Congrats to Colin

2012-10-08 Thread Walt Brown
1) More congrats to Colin. 2) Will get the book. 3) Ralph, I'm game to get together anywhere in north New Jersey. - I'm on the I-80 corridor just inside PA. Walt On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Ralph DiMola rdim...@evergreeninfo.netwrote: Skip, I'm in upstate NY(50 miles north of Albany),

Re: Put URL and garbage in result from PHP

2012-10-08 Thread Michael Kann
Mark, The filler 1f41 is the hex number for 8001 decimal, which is the number of bytes of real data that is coming next. It looks like it is telling you how many bytes you are going to get (in hex), then giving you the bytes you want. The 1e7d at the end might be the number of data bytes left

Re: Put URL and garbage in result from PHP

2012-10-08 Thread Michael Kann
Mark, A little more on the junk found in your output. The hex number 1e7d is 7805 in decimal, which is not divisible by 9. If all your words have 9 characters then 1e7d cannot represent the number of bytes left over after groups of 8001 bytes have been outputted. What the final 1e7d

RE: Congrats to Colin

2012-10-08 Thread Ralph DiMola
Great Walt! If anyone else wants to get together, chime in. I was thinking of someplace near Mass transport so maybe some NYC folks might want to get involved. I'm originally from North Jersey so I could make some location suggestions based on the distribution of the interested parties. Ralph

Re: Put URL and garbage in result from PHP

2012-10-08 Thread ha...@exformedia.se
If you access your data via command line. Is it OK then? Then I hope you instead of SELECT xword FROM ydatabase really wants SELECT xword FROM YTABLE? What does your HTTP-headers look like? maybe it's an encoding issue that somehow garbles LiveCode? I've never seen this issue in LiveCode