Re: Unicode

2015-01-25 Thread Peter W A Wood
Pete I think the real coding advantage with Unicode in 7+ comes when processing text. Personally, I think that it is safer to stick with UTF-8 encoding for external data as it is the only encoding format that you don’t need to worry about processor “endianness”. Regards Peter > On 26 Jan

Re: Unicode

2015-01-25 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Peter. If that's the case, I'm not seeing much in the way of a coding advantage over pre 7.0. Sounds like using textEncode/textDecode instaed of uniencode/unidecode? That does answer another question I had though which is what is needed if the database is UTF-16 encoded. Sounds like noth

Re: changing layer within a group by script/ speed of "start editing"

2015-01-25 Thread Scott Rossi
Try locking the screen before doing any object relayering. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On Jan 25, 2015, at 5:19 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > I have a group with four overlapping graphics. > > Depending upon what happens, different ones want to be brought

Re: changing layer within a group by script/ speed of "start editing"

2015-01-25 Thread Eric Corbett
Try using the relayer command; relayer grc 1 of grp x after grc 2 of grp x You don't need to start editing with relayer, but you need to be careful not to relayer an object to outside the group. HTH Eric > On Jan 25, 2015, at 17:19, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > > I have a group with four overlapp

changing layer within a group by script/ speed of "start editing"

2015-01-25 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I have a group with four overlapping graphics. Depending upon what happens, different ones want to be brought to the top and change the overlap. I'm currently using start editing/set the layer of zzz to top/stop editing. I think it also changes the size. I can actually see the order in which th

Re: Unicode

2015-01-25 Thread Peter W A Wood
Pete LiveCode 7+ stores text data encoded according to UTF-16 so, as I understand, you will need to convert the UTF-8 encoded data using the textEncode function. Regards Peter > On 26 Jan 2015, at 06:45, Peter Haworth wrote: > > Is there a lesson/guide anywhere that shows how to use unicode

[ANN] Unicode compliant Chooser Widgets available

2015-01-25 Thread Bob Warren
Over the years, many of you have downloaded my "File/Folder/Picture Chooser Widgets" for Linux and Windows, which work only in English. Well now, thanks to LiveCode 7.0.1, a Unicode Compliant (international) Edition is available. Here are the relevant links: GENERAL DESCRIPTION: http://www.hows

Unicode

2015-01-25 Thread Peter Haworth
Is there a lesson/guide anywhere that shows how to use unicode in LC 7? All I need to do is SELECT data from an UTF8 encoded SQLite database/display it in fields/datagrid and read input from fields/ INSERT/UPDATE it to the database. I've got things working using unicodeText/uniencode/unidecode in