Field object bug on Android?

2013-09-05 Thread Terry Judd
I'm running into what seems like a bug on Android. I have a bunch of formatted text that I'm displaying in an LC field on Android. The field's height is set to its formattedHeight in a locked group (it's the only control) and is scrolled using a native scroller control. It all works well until

Re: on-rev no incoming email

2013-09-05 Thread Robert Mann
I had the surprise yesterday, David has been at it and things are back, except one thing : revIgniter is not getting back the file path info as it used to be, and so is broken! So my revIgniter sites are down..; Anybody has a clue? == error returned file

Re: on-rev no incoming email

2013-09-05 Thread Heather Laine
The diesel server was down in two separate incidents. It was not down for 20 hours, it was down for 2 periods of a few hours each. On both occasions we were very much aware of the issue almost immediately, and working hard behind the scenes to resolve it. Hopefully the problem is now completely

Re: Field object bug on Android?

2013-09-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Terry, I would never set the height of a field to such a high number. Not only fields, but groups too cause problems if they get that big. Similar problems occur on all platforms, including Windows and OSX operating systems. A good alternative is to set the field to a reasonable size and

Linux standalone created with MacOSX- how to set the executable flag permanently

2013-09-05 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, i am no Linux expert, although i started my career in the 80s in a company where we worked exclusively on Xenix and Unix. But that´s a long time ago. So please excuse my question if it sounds dumbly. I´ve created a Linux app on MacOSX. To get this app to run under Linux the customer has

Re: Coding Club?

2013-09-05 Thread Heather Laine
Richmond… I got your ticket thanks, answer will arrive shortly. I've looked into the feedback form, you are correct in that it gives the appearance of spinning forever. I will have it fixed. It does in fact submit the queries, just doesn't tell you it has. Regards, Heather On 5 Sep 2013, at

Re: [OT] Raspberry Pi vs x86 embedded motherboard PART 1

2013-09-05 Thread William Waldman
Sorry - Apparently this post is too large to go through without moderator approval and after 3 days, I think I'll just hack it in two. There's a huge groundswell of interest around a crop of new, relatively inexpensive ARM based single board computers and micro based boards (the Raspberry Pi, the

Re: [OT] Raspberry Pi vs x86 embedded motherboard PART 2

2013-09-05 Thread William Waldman
To impact these markets in a worthwhile way, we would need to add resources that appeal to these markets - which are very different from each other. Here's some background to the Academic and Maker markets as I see it, which would indicate the kinds of support the LiveCode community would need to

Re: Linux standalone created with MacOSX- how to set the executable flag permanently

2013-09-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Matthias, You should be able to set the executable bit for a linux executable on Mac OS X and preserve it with tar. Any standard tar cli utility will honor the permissions when unpacking the file. There is no need to move it to a Linux box first. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille

Re: Linux standalone created with MacOSX- how to set the executable flag permanently

2013-09-05 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi Mark, thanks for your answer. I am not sure how i can set that flag for Linux under Mac OS X. Using a ls -al on Mac OS X i can see that it has already the executable flag set. But when i compress it with tar and move it to Linux and untar it, then flag is not set anymore. Regards,

Re: Linux standalone created with MacOSX- how to set the executable flag permanently

2013-09-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Matthias, What is the owner on Mac OS X? Does this owner exist on Linux? If not, you might want to chmod a-x or use chown. I think that the tar man page contains some useful info. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: Linux standalone created with MacOSX- how to set the executable flag permanently

2013-09-05 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Matthias, Check this tar option: --preserve-permissions Should do the trick Regards, Thierry 2013/9/5 Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de Hi Mark, thanks for your answer. I am not sure how i can set that flag for Linux under Mac OS X. Using a ls -al on Mac OS X i can

IMPORTANT - VENUE CHANGE for SoCal LiveCode Meeting: QA with Kevin Miller, September 12

2013-09-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
To accommodate what we anticipate will be a larger group than usual, we've moved the venue for our September meeting, just two blocks north and across the street from where we used to meet. The September 12 meeting will be held at: Hamburger Hamlet, back room 214 S. Lake Ave. Pasadena, CA

Re: [OT] Raspberry Pi vs x86 embedded motherboard PART 2

2013-09-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
William Waldman wrote: We need to recognize that these new devices are an opportunity for LiveCode - if we want to take advantage of the buzz. Well said, Bill. While there's no doubt a certain percentage of Raspberry Pi users who become disappointed once they understand that it's not a

Re: on-rev no incoming email

2013-09-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Heather- Thursday, September 5, 2013, 3:02:00 AM, you wrote: Note: emailing this list does not provide a good way to alert us of issues with on-rev. Emailing the on-rev support urgent queue does. Thanks to all those of you who did use this mechanism to alert us to the issue. Asking on the

Unicode worries

2013-09-05 Thread Richmond
Having invested a lot of time and effort into Unicode work over the last few years, and, should it suddenly yield a semi-respectable financial reward, I will seriously consider investing in the Commercial version of Livecode when all the kickstarter goals have been completed. What worries me

Re: What is the size limit for numbers in LC? -- and multiplying really large numbers

2013-09-05 Thread Jerry Jensen
Nope. In the message box try 999+111 which gives you a correct 16 digit sum of two 15 digit numbers. The limit is not in decimal digit count. The math is binary. .Jerry On Sep 5, 2013, at 4:11 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi Geoff,

Re: Linux standalone created with MacOSX- how to set the executable flag permanently

2013-09-05 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Thanks Mark and Thierry for putting me in the right direction. And yes, Thierry, that did it. Thanks, Matthias Am 05.09.2013 um 16:18 schrieb Thierry Douez th.do...@gmail.com: Hi Matthias, Check this tar option: --preserve-permissions Should do the trick Regards, Thierry

Short Term LiveCode/RDBMS Project Help Wanted

2013-09-05 Thread AC Marketscout
*Our company is seeking a programmer/consultant with significant expertise in LiveCode programming on a contract basis for a minimum of 4 weeks, with experience building RDBMS backed applications. You will perform analysis and implementation of a specification we have already created, which is a

What is the size limit for numbers in LC? -- and multiplying really large numbers

2013-09-05 Thread Geoff Canyon
I've written bignum routines for addition and multiplication several times when solving project euler problems. Generally my multiplication functions bog down at about 200 digits -- i.e. take more than a second to run. I decided to optimize, and about a dozen iterations later, the below is the

Re: Short Term LiveCode/RDBMS Project Help Wanted

2013-09-05 Thread Mike Kerner
Dang, all of that brings back memories - so what is everyone using to build reports in LC since RDP is (obviously) dead? So far I haven't been able to do everything I want to do in Valentina On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:40 PM, AC Marketscout ac.marketsc...@gmail.comwrote: *Our company is seeking

Re: Short Term LiveCode/RDBMS Project Help Wanted

2013-09-05 Thread Andrew Kluthe
I've tried many solutions and not really been completely satisfied with any of them. I've been rolling most of my own with html and javascript. It's been such a problem I am considering moving reporting to a web app. On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote:

Re: on-rev no incoming email

2013-09-05 Thread Robert Mann
Hi, if somebody has a webstite on DIESEL built on top of revIgniter, please check and let me know if all is fine. That might help identify a problem on my on-rev account. Thanks, Robert -- View this message in context:

Re: What is the size limit for numbers in LC? -- and multiplying really large numbers

2013-09-05 Thread Jerry Jensen
I think LC uses IEEE binary64 floating point format which can represent integers to 15+ digits exactly (52+1 bit mantissa). However, last time this came up somebody made an example that gave inconclusive if not downright confusing results. Its probably platform specific as well. .Jerry On Sep

Re: What is the size limit for numbers in LC? -- and multiplying really large numbers

2013-09-05 Thread Jerry Jensen
OK. I woud like to replace the first word of my reply, from Nope to Yep. All the rest applies. .Jerry On Sep 5, 2013, at 5:11 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Jerry, Please, read my previous e-mail carefully. I didn't write that you can't do any calculations

Re: What is the size limit for numbers in LC? -- and multiplying really large numbers

2013-09-05 Thread Mark Schonewille
Jerry, Please, read my previous e-mail carefully. I didn't write that you can't do any calculations beyond 15 digits. I wrote that calculations aren't reliable beyond 15 digits. I made a general statement. You will find a similar statement in the LiveCode manual. -- Best regards, Mark

Re: Short Term LiveCode/RDBMS Project Help Wanted

2013-09-05 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 9/5/13 8:11 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: Dang, all of that brings back memories - so what is everyone using to build reports in LC since RDP is (obviously) dead? So far I haven't been able to do everything I want to do in Valentina Hi Mike, Hi Andrew, You talk here

Re: Short Term LiveCode/RDBMS Project Help Wanted

2013-09-05 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 9/5/13 7:40 PM, AC Marketscout ac.marketsc...@gmail.com wrote: *Our company is seeking a programmer/consultant with significant expertise in LiveCode programming on a contract basis for a minimum of 4 weeks, with experience building RDBMS backed applications. You will perform analysis and