AW: How do you grant executing rights to your app for all users?

Hi Bill, with chmod I set "rx" - read and execute rights. With the finder information menu I only see the options to set "read and write" and "read only". How do you set execution right via the info menu? Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@l

Re: "ShellShock" - what are you doing?

More issues with shellshock :( http://mashable.com/2014/09/29/shellshock-additional-vulnerabilities/ On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 8:08 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > My client will be happy about that. > > On September 28, 2014 12:07:07 PM CDT, Mark Wieder > wrote: > >Jacque- > > > >Saturday, Septemb

Merging PDF files through LC

Good morning, Anybody know of a way (on Windows) to merge two PDF documents together via scripting? Any insight would be helpful if you have done this before. Thank you! SKIP ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit thi

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

I have not tried this yet but I just found this link posted online: http://quartam.blogspot.com/2010/12/concatenating-pdf-files.html On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel < s...@magicgate.com> wrote: > Good morning, > > Anybody know of a way (on Windows) to merge tw

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

You could use 3rd party tool ghostscript. Here´s a short how to http://www.rgagnon.com/gp/gp-0015.html Regards, Matthias Am 30.09.2014 um 15:31 schrieb Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel : > I have not tried this yet but I just found this link posted online: > > http://quartam.blogspot.com/2

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

Way back in Adobe Acrobat Pro 5, there was a built-in adobe scripting feature that could combine pages. In later versions that option disappeared. So I now provide my users a "collect" button which fetches all the files that need combined into a folder on the Desktop, and they combine them using

Re: User scroll direction preference

Hi John, you don't. The Os switches the rawKeyCodes if the preference is changed. All the best, Malte > How do find out what the user preference is? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsub

Re: File Walker

I would encourage you to file a bug report on that. Even if there turns out to be a good explanation, it needs to be documented. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web ___

LC does not accept Android SDK

Hi, today i downloaded the newest Android SDK android-sdk_r23.0.2-macosx. In the Android SDK Manager i downloaded Android 2.2 (Api 8), Android 2.3.3 (Api 10) and Android 3.1 (Api 12). After that i opened LC and in the mobile preferences for Android i selected the root folder of the Android SDK.

Re: File Walker

OK, that really does sound like you are encountering a problem with the combination of the code and your file system - not an inherent limit. "File Lister 2" should only recurse as deeply as your file system (i.e. it enters a recursion for each level of subfolder - but then exits it again),

Re: File Walker

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I would encourage you to file a bug report on that. > > Even if there turns out to be a good explanation, it needs to be documented. > Are you indicating that you are or aren't seeing the same thing on Linux. I'm on OS X 10.9.5, and this w

Re: HTTPProxy

I have now tried builds in both 6.7 and 7.0 - without setting HTTPProxy. The proxy does not require NTLM authentication so it should work but doesn't. I get this message: ERROR: error socket timeout So still no luck (it is a time consuming task since I have to travel to my client and test any n

Re: File Walker

Alex Tweedly wrote: > Following is a wild guess, and a request / suggestion for an > investigation attempt. > > The start of the code in question (from > http://lessons.runrev.com/m/4071/l/17080-files-and-folders-part-2 ) > is > > *function*listFiles pFolder, pRecurse > *local*tTotalFiles,

AW: HTTPProxy

Hi Mats, Perhaps you might need to set additionally the httpHeaders with the proxy authorization? I am using a software proxy for testing Tiemo > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag > von Mats Åström > Gesendet: Diensta

Re: File Walker

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Good catch. 40 is a deep folder hierarchy, and I've seen the > recursion error very early on, suggesting that the problem isn't traversing > the folders at all, but merely that it can't access some because of > permission errors. If

Re: File Walker

Kay C Lan wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:31 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I would encourage you to file a bug report on that. Even if there turns out to be a good explanation, it needs to be documented. Are you indicating that you are or aren't seeing the same thing on Linux. No, I was s

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D < matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de> wrote: > You could use 3rd party tool ghostscript. > I used to use ghostscript from my scripts. Sometimes it takes just far too long (minutes)< others it doesn't like files (but every pdf program refuses

Re: AW: How do you grant executing rights to your app for all users?

Tiemo, For applications that everybody uses, they should be in the Applications folder at the root of the system drive. There may also be an applications folder in each user account and applications in it are only available to that user. Try this link, http://www.jmu.edu/computing/mac/filestruc

Re: Delete columns... How?

On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Michael Doub wrote: > Bob, how do you control whether SQLite pages the table in from disk or > maintains it entirely in memory? > use :memory: as the file name. Blindingly fast. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _

Is Binfile broken?

I have 2 variables: theSourceFile which is binfile:/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Livecode Projects/Forms Generator/Installs/1105 Media Inc/Chatsworth/20140805-Service Invoice.pdf TheDestFile which is binfile:/Users/bobsneidar/Desktop/Install Forms/1105 Media Inc/Chatsworth/20140805-Service Invoi

Re: Is Binfile broken?

Bob Sneidar wrote: > I have 2 variables: > > theSourceFile which is binfile:/Users/bobsneidar/Documents/Livecode > Projects/Forms Generator/Installs/1105 Media Inc/Chatsworth/20140805 >-Service Invoice.pdf > TheDestFile which is binfile:/Users/bobsneidar/Desktop/Install > Forms/1105 Media Inc/Chat

Re: HTTPProxy

Hi Mats, We released a proxy library here: http://livecloud.io/extras/ It works well for pre 6.7 releases as it solved problems that can now be done natively in 6.7+ It comes with a demo stack that will help you verify that it is working. Please feel free to give it a try and see how it goes.

Re: File Walker

Okay I changed it. When I checked my documents folder it showed the message box and took a long time but finally put something in it. The message looked like some question marks and other stuff and maybe even some file names. When I checked my applications folder which I know has more than 400,0

Re: Is Binfile broken?

Thanks Richard. I get “Can’t open that file.” in the result for the write. Very informative. ;-) Now I have to figure out *why* it can’t open that file. I fear it might be Mavericks sandboxing that is getting in the way. It is a folder on my desktop, and while I changed the Everyone permissions

Re: Is Binfile broken?

It’s not sandboxing. I cannot write to a server I am logged in as the Enterprise Administrator on! I cannot create folders either using the Create Folder command. Anyone else having difficulty doing low level file writes? I have the same code working in another directory on my local hard drive a

Re: Is Binfile broken?

Bob Sneidar wrote: On Sep 30, 2014, at 09:13 , Richard Gaskin wrote: To diagnose problems with file access (and many other circumstances where error-checking is useful), check the result after attempting the action. With file access it can be very help to include a call to sysError there, so

Re: LC does not accept Android SDK

On Sep 30, 2014, at 7:37 AM, Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D wrote: > Hi, > > today i downloaded the newest Android SDK android-sdk_r23.0.2-macosx. > In the Android SDK Manager i downloaded Android 2.2 (Api 8), Android 2.3.3 > (Api 10) and Android 3.1 (Api 12). > > After that i opened LC and in the mo

Re: Delete columns... How?

I think that puts the whole database (multiple tables) in memory. Bob mentioned only the table so I thought he might know of some other magic incantation. :-) -= Mike On Sep 30, 2014, at 12:05 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:58 PM, Michael Doub wrote: > >> Bob, how do

Re: LC does not accept Android SDK

Am 30.09.2014 um 20:02 schrieb Mark Talluto : > > Did you make sure you have the zipalign file in the right place? > > http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=20966 > Mark, thank you very much! That did it. It seems updating a working version deletes this file and makes the working

Re: Is Binfile broken?

For creation of a folder the sys error() returned 0. Following is the actual handler in full. on syncFiles theSourceFiles, theDestFiles if the last char of theDestPath is "/" then delete the last char of theDestPath set the itemDelimiter to "/" repeat for each line theSourceFile in

Re: File Walker

On 30/09/2014 16:43, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:20 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Good catch. 40 is a deep folder hierarchy, and I've seen the recursion error very early on, suggesting that the problem isn't traversing the folders at all, but merely that it can't access some

Re: File Walker

JB wrote: For now I will not use recursive to list files or folders. I think we've established that recursion errors are the symptom but not the problem (that is, unless you have directory structures deeper than 400,000 levels, but then I suspect you'd see inode problems long before you'd h

Re: Is Binfile broken?

It's curious that sysError is returning 0 when the error occurs. You might also check if the paths exist - maybe something got amiss in loading the params to that handler? Another option might be to use rsync via LC's shell function instead of rolling your own. It's not available for Windows

Re: Sorting a multidimensional array

Dick, this works very well. Good to learn about the wrap operator. Peter, your solution didn’t work because the htmlText contains various characters in the link tags that messes up the sorting. Thanks both! Peter On Sep 26, 2014, at 3:06 AM, Dick Kriesel wrote: > On Sep 25, 2014, at 9:24 PM,

Re: File Walker

And what do you mean by folders that cannot be accessed? Since when are they not able to be accessed? I access them all of the time. I am a typical user who accesses files & folders everyday the same way. So you are telling me they cannot be accessed and I encourage you to put a program on the m

Re: Is Binfile broken?

Okay I think I know what the problem is. You can only create one folder at a time it seems. If I begin at /Users/bobsneidar/Desktop/Install Forms/, I can create a folder /Users/bobsneidar/Desktop/Install Forms/Chatsworth/ but *NOT* /Users/bobsneidar/Desktop/Install Forms/Chatsworth/18990/ Chatsw

Re: HTTPProxy

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Mats Åström wrote: > I have now tried builds in both 6.7 and 7.0 - without setting HTTPProxy. > The proxy does not require NTLM authentication so it should work but > doesn't. > > I get this message: ERROR: error socket timeout > > So still no luck (it is a time

Re: File Walker

I think you are missing the point JB. Permissions are a tricky thing. The user is accessing the folders based upon his security token created at the time he logged in. Suppose this is a file server, and midway through, the IT person changed permissions? You will get an error trying to open that

Re: File Walker

I am the only user on this Mac. If someone else uses my mac they use my settings. For me there is not much needed to understand when I list the file not using recursive it works and sometimes when I list them using recursive it does not work. It is the sometimes that bothers me and that is enou

Re: File Walker

Lovely. Bob S On Sep 30, 2014, at 14:14 , JB wrote: > I am the only user on this Mac. If someone else > uses my mac they use my settings. > > For me there is not much needed to understand > when I list the file not using recursive it works and > sometimes when I list them using recursive it

Re: File Walker

Hi there, I think sometimes people on this list need to: 1: Put a cool washcloth on their foreheads. 2. Go and take a nap. 3. Calm down and be able to laugh a little more. 4. (I sometimes need to do this myself, and it helps!) Cheer up guys! Rick On Sep 30, 2014, at 5:36 PM, Bob Sneidar w

Re: Sorting a multidimensional array

Consider however that you can get the keys of an array and sort them as an index to the array. put the keys of myArray into theKeys sort theKeys ascending numeric repeat for each line theCurrentKey in theKeys put myArray [theCurrentKey] into theValue — do something with theValue end repeat

Re: File Walker

I am not mad. Maybe the looping is too fast for my hard drive. I have a reasonably fast mac so that could be it. But that is enough for me to not use recursive even though I like it. John Balgenorth On Sep 30, 2014, at 3:06 PM, Rick Harrison wrote: > Hi there, > > I think sometimes people

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

I wonder what would happen if you opened the two PDF’s as binary files, then wrote them back out to a single file… Bob S On Sep 30, 2014, at 06:21 , Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote: > Good morning, > > Anybody know of a way (on Windows) to merge two PDF documents together via > scrip

Re: "ShellShock" - what are you doing?

Okay so if you turn off SSH in the Sharing panel, no one is getting at your Mac anyway. Just turn it off. Routers and Cameras on the other hand you may not be able to turn it off, those are the devices you *really* need to be concerned about. Bob S On Sep 25, 2014, at 13:12 , Mark Schonewill

Re: "ShellShock" - what are you doing?

If you have enabled SSH in the sharing panel of preferences. Bob S On Sep 26, 2014, at 14:33 , Bruce Pokras wrote: > Can anyone explain exactly what this means? What are those "special, advanced > Unix services? > > "But Apple said in an emailed statement that most of its users aren't > aff

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

That is a good question. How would the file know anything other than it is still a file only larger. John Balgenorth On Sep 30, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > I wonder what would happen if you opened the two PDF’s as binary files, then > wrote them back out to a single file… > > Bob

Re: "ShellShock" - what are you doing?

A jailbroken iPhone has shell capability. Bob S On Sep 27, 2014, at 20:04 , J. Landman Gay mailto:jac...@hyperactivesw.com>> wrote: Yeah. I think a lot of servers will be in trouble, but fewer consumers than the media makes it out to be. I have discovered: Android doesn't use a shell at all.

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

It might know by some info at the beginning of the file but you could probably delete it. John Balgenorth On Sep 30, 2014, at 3:25 PM, JB wrote: > That is a good question. How would the file know > anything other than it is still a file only larger. > > John Balgenorth > > > On Sep 30, 20

Re: File Walker

On 30/09/2014 21:32, JB wrote: And what do you mean by folders that cannot be accessed? Since when are they not able to be accessed? I access them all of the time. I am a typical user who accesses files & folders everyday the same way. Yes, most folders and files can be accessed. But there ar

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

Adobe has a document describing the structure. Looks like the format is a little more complicated than would permit this. I tried it, the resulting document is corrupted (of course). But if you knew how to extract the pointers to all the objects, and the body information containing any fonts and

Re: Replacing Characters

Use repeat with i - 1 to the number of characters of myString step 3 Bob S On Sep 27, 2014, at 24:23 , JB wrote: > Another thing to consider is the characters are > not in any specific crder. It could be cfacded or > anything else. > > If is use a repeat for each char and the variable > as a

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

http://applehelpwriter.com/2013/03/23/how-to-merge-pdf-files-in-os-x/ shows how to use applescript to merge PDFs. Regards, Matthias Am 01.10.2014 um 00:57 schrieb Bob Sneidar : > Adobe has a document describing the structure. Looks like the format is a > little more complicated than would p

Re: OT: Need a quick look into your OS X 10.9

Just repair your permissions. Bob S On Sep 29, 2014, at 02:11 , Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > Hello, > > I accidentially changed the rights on my /users/ dir on OS X 10.9.5 with > chmod and I am not sure what the original setting was. > > For testing my app with different user rights I need to

Re: List Folders and Files

A lust list of all the folders on your hard drive?? What kind of files are we talking about here??? Bob S On Sep 28, 2014, at 07:04 , JB mailto:sund...@pacifier.com>> wrote: The main thing I am interested in doing is lust list all of the folders on a hard drive and not the files. John Balg

Re: File Walker

I could not get it to work. Here is what i did. At the top I put the following line, put field "Folder" into whatFolder at the bottom I tried both of these lines and nothing was put in the field put tDirsToDo into field "list" put tDirList into field “list” then I tried this line put "

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

And *THAT* is why I LOVE THIS LIST!!! Bob S On Sep 30, 2014, at 16:13 , Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D mailto:matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de>> wrote: http://applehelpwriter.com/2013/03/23/how-to-merge-pdf-files-in-os-x/ shows how to use applescript to merge PDFs. Regards, Matthias

Re: 6.6.2 or 6.6.3???

No big deal, I just wanted to make sure that the posted update was not actually 6.6.2. Bob S On Sep 26, 2014, at 11:38 , Fraser Gordon wrote: > On 26/09/2014 19:24, la...@significantplanet.org wrote: >> Hi Bob, >> I had the exact same experience that you did. >> I just assumed it was a displ

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

Well it was a good try anyway. I am going to search for some pdf code and see if I can find any that can be used in Xcode that will show what is going on. John Balgenorth On Sep 30, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Adobe has a document describing the structure. Looks like the format is

Re: sorting question

You could try sort items of field "myField” by char 2 to 3 of each text ascending but you would have to add a space before the first item. Bob S On Sep 24, 2014, at 01:19 , la...@significantplanet.org wrote: sort items of field "myField" text ascending ___

Re: sorting question

Even better. DOH! Bob S On Sep 26, 2014, at 01:30 , Kay C Lan mailto:lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com>> wrote: sort items of tStore by word 1 of each ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscrib

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

Check with some Acrobat Developer forums. I’ll bet dollars to doughnuts there is a way to do this with their Java API. Bob S On Sep 30, 2014, at 16:20 , JB wrote: > Well it was a good try anyway. I am going to search > for some pdf code and see if I can find any that can > be used in Xcode

Re: File Walker

JB wrote: > If I bought your program and you gave me that technical > answer and I wasted my time trying to figure out why your > program will not access my folders and examine permissions > or other things when others do access them I would not be > happy. > > On that basis for the very few like

Re: File Walker

You would use it from a script something like this global gHierList, gFailedFolders, gBaseLevels, gMainFolder on mouseUp local tCount, tOrigDir, time1, time2 put "" into gHierList put "" into gFailedFolders put "" into fld "fldOut" answer folder "Pick a folder you want to wal

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

Here is a link for a program that appears to be free and open source code that will split and merge pdf files. http://www.pdfsam.org John Balgenorth On Sep 30, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Adobe has a document describing the structure. Looks like the format is a > little more compl

Re: Delete columns... How?

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 11:12 AM, Michael Doub wrote: > I think that puts the whole database (multiple tables) in memory. Bob > mentioned only the table so I thought he might know of some other magic > incantation. :-) > Open another database :) So you open database gizmo on the disk, and ga

Re: Replacing Characters

Thanks! John Balgenorth On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > Use repeat with i - 1 to the number of characters of myString step 3 > > Bob S > > > On Sep 27, 2014, at 24:23 , JB wrote: > >> Another thing to consider is the characters are >> not in any specific crder. It could

Re: List Folders and Files

Actually the reason I wanted to do that is the user would easily list a large amount of folders and they would not worry about the files as the program would select the desired files. A time saver for the user. John Balgenorth On Sep 30, 2014, at 4:16 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: > A lust list of

Re: File Walker

I understand there are things a normal person cannot and should not access. My point was the normal person should not see that when they are accessing files and folders. They do not normally see it in the finder so they should not see it in a program I release. I am not going to change their fil

Re: User scroll direction preference

Thanks Malte. I just assumed it didn’t and never bothered to check. I guess that is what I get for making assumptions. John On Sep 30, 2014, at 7:30 AM, Malte Brill wrote: > Hi John, > > you don't. The Os switches the rawKeyCodes if the preference is changed. > > All the best, > > Malt

Re: HTTPProxy

I had an issue with my app at one corporate location at which I worked. I assumed that the proxy was not allowing a strange app to access the web. So I fixed it by setting the httpHeaders so that it looked like Runrev (it was that long ago!) was actually Internet Explorer. While at your client's

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

PDFTK works fine under Windows using shell commands from Livecode. That is how my Patent Grabber app combines individual patent pages into a single PDF. Bruce Pokras Blazing Dawn Software www.blazingdawn.com On Sep 30, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 6:39 AM, Ma

Outrageously slow AppleScript performance

When I execute the AppleScript listed below in the AppleScript Editor it works in about 1 second. Take the same script, put in in a LiveCode field and do field “name” as AppleScript and it takes between 1 and 2 minutes to do! 1. Why? 2. How can I make it run quickly? Here is the AppleScript. It

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

Thanks everybody. I think I have a few options to choose from now. SKIP On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote: > PDFTK works fine under Windows using shell commands from Livecode. That is > how my Patent Grabber app combines individual patent pages into a single > PDF. > > Bruce

Re: Is Binfile broken?

Bob- Tuesday, September 30, 2014, 1:54:25 PM, you wrote: > At any rate, I know now I have to loop through each folder level > and create them. Also, the Open File function will *NOT* create it’s > parent folders in the path specified. The parent folder has to > already exist. I dunno, but it seem

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 5:34 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote: > PDFTK works fine under Windows using shell commands from Livecode. That is > how my Patent Grabber app combines individual patent pages into a single > PDF. Ooohh! Someone who's done it on windows with a commercial program! How do you han

Re: Merging PDF files through LC

>From the looks of it, you only need to have two files to get it to work from the command line: pdftk.exe and libconv2.dll (found in the PDFtk Server /bin directory after install) Getting it to work, probably not that hard. Distributing it with your application, that's a whole other issue. I ha

[BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

Before I go ahead and submit a bug report I'd like others to test and report their findings. This is just a simple shell script which should list the entire contents (folders and files) of the Users account. In Terminal enter the following: find $PWD The output will be on each line the full path

Re: Delete columns... How?

Hi Mke, Don't recall if this is an SQLite database in question but if so, there are various PRAGMA statements that control caching, page size etc. Check out www.sqlite.org for more info. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser a

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

Interesting. OSX 10.7.5 Terminal: 100,168 lines LC Community 6.1: 294,140 LC Community 7.0 dp5: 294,140 However a quick check of the LC results shows files from /Applications/ , not /Users/. The Terminal results 'correctly' (I assumed) list files from /Users/. Hope this helps Tim Selander

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

On 09/30/2014 10:17 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: Before I go ahead and submit a bug report I'd like others to test and report their findings. openSUSE, LiveCode 6.6.2 Redirected the output to files. Results are identical, except for the extra file created by running the initial 'find $PWD > pwdtest.

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

Thanks gentlemen, that's enough to start the ball rolling. May I assume Scott and Tim that your LC resides in the System level Applications folder. Mine resides in the User level Applications folder and may be an extra clue as to why, for me, Terminal > LC, whilst for you both it's Terminal < LC.

Re: [BUG][SHELL] Could Others Please Test This OS X/Linux

On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > Thanks gentlemen, that's enough to start the ball rolling. Bug #13572 Scott, Tim, Warren and Richard I've included your findings. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vis