Re: "unable to load foreign library"

And it works with a resource folder designated. I just had to drop the .dylib extension. All seems to work. I'm guessing it was a bad library file. > On Apr 15, 2016, at 10:19 PM, Dar Scott wrote: > > Thanks, all! > > I got this to work. I'm able to load a dynamic library in LiveCode B

Re: "unable to load foreign library"

Thanks, all! I got this to work. I'm able to load a dynamic library in LiveCode Builder. I don't know what the problem was. My last change switched to a different library and used a much shorter line (simpler function). I also used a full path; that worked with both a simple 'load extensio

Possible help for extra-time-consuming operations?

Have pondered the issue of ensuring that the OS does *not* label a seemingly-'frozen' LC app as unresponsive. The following code (which I haven't actually tried in LC, shame on me) might be helpful. Some notes after the code… local KeepMeAlive = false local NumSecs = 4

Re: clock widget & daylight saving

On 15/04/2016 21:29, Mike Kerner wrote: I thought I already reported this when I reported the time zone problem, but maybe I forgot DST. Oh, cool. I think they're actually different manifestations of the same problem, so when one is addressed the other should be too.

Re: clock widget & daylight saving

I thought I already reported this when I reported the time zone problem, but maybe I forgot DST. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 15/04/2016 17:42, John Dixon wrote: > >> put a clock widget on a card... set the time to your time zone... >> In both the IDE and the simu

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

I once helped someone in the forum In 2009 someone at the forum wanted to index Wikipedia for "title". It took him 3 days to complete an indexing operation on a 23 GB xml file. http://forums.livecode.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=3690 after some optimizations it was down to 30 minutes http://foru

Re: Anyone have any LiveCode hooks to WordPress? And, are you following these Word Camp events

Todd that sounds great! Please pass on my congratulations to Narek and all others involved :) - "The first 90% of the task takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% takes the other 90% of the time." Peter M. Brigham -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble

Re: US government tells Windows users to uninstall QuickTime

RM wrote: > This is amazing: not what the US government is telling people to do, > but that people are so "sheepy" in doing so. The perceived political/sociological aspects are beyond the scope of this list, but to be clear the ongoing program of providing notice of security vulnerabilities in

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

Roland Huettmann wrote: > Also to be noted by Bernd, the speed also dramatically increases > using an SSD. I am still using old fashioned hard drive (. SSDs are indeed much faster. After I put in even an old one in my laptop, boot times are now under 9 seconds. But there's no shame in using H

Re: clock widget & daylight saving

On 15/04/2016 17:42, John Dixon wrote: put a clock widget on a card... set the time to your time zone... In both the IDE and the simulator, everything is good in that it shows the 'correct' time... Load it onto a dvice and the clock is an hour behind, I guess it knows nothing about daylight sa

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

Absolutely Richard It changed the execution speed dramatically reducing the buffer size. I really still need the time to set up various tests and check it carefully trying to find the right size on my machine. Maybe 128k - we will see. >From Bernd - in an internal mail - he worked on my script an

Re: US government tells Windows users to uninstall QuickTime

This is amazing: not what the US government is telling people to do, but that people are so "sheepy" in doing so. The simple fact is that all versions of Windows are 'compromised' in terms of internet security unless one takes a considerable amount of trouble to harden one's system. If one does

re: troubleshooting e-mail sent from a server by script

Thanks, Ralph, that could be really helpful! Curt By doing items above I have got my spam score to a -.3 on a scale of +10 = spam. Before I did these I had a spam score of 15 - 20 and went below zero after these changes. If you would like to see my server side script let me know. -- Sent fro

clock widget & daylight saving

put a clock widget on a card... set the time to your time zone... In both the IDE and the simulator, everything is good in that it shows the 'correct' time... Load it onto a dvice and the clock is an hour behind, I guess it knows nothing about daylight saving...:-( Others seeing this ?

Re: SMTP Library that works with Gmail over SSL?

On 02/08/2011 20:26, Trevor DeVore wrote: Does anyone have a LiveCode solution that can send HTML email via SMTP using SSL? I need to send email through the Gmail SMTP server and the existing SMTP libraries I've found for LiveCode don't support SSL. Hi Trevor, Did you ever find a solution to t

Re: [OT] automator ln to specified folder

I get a “no such folder: bonnmike” error… Just teasing! Thanks for the help, this combination seems to work well. I did remove the PLINK- part, I need the names to stay the same. For your interest, and others too, the problem this is to solve is a DropBox complexity issue. My designer colleague

Re: Anyone have any LiveCode hooks to WordPress? And, are you following these Word Camp events

I'm very excited about what you're cooking up! -- Best regards, Marty Knapp Good News for WP to LiveCode linking. We have completed an App that allows you to control most WP function from LiveCode using the REST API. It addiction we have a complete and detailed wrap of the WOO Commerce REST A

Re: US government tells Windows users to uninstall QuickTime

I am still on QuickTime prerelease email lists, I posted a question there about this. Not hopeful of a useful reply! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

Roland Huettmann wrote: < Richard: "You may find the sample stack attached to this report useful: " Richard, thanks a lot for the sample stack. I downloaded and tested "LargeFileRead.livecode". Unfortunately it also creates the same symptoms on

RE: troubleshooting e-mail sent from a server by script

I have been fighting this and am winning but it requires constant attention. A few thing I learned: 1) Put "Mailfrom:myem...@server.com"(where server.com is the URL of the source server of the emails) in the header. This will connect the email back to the server regardless of the "From:" in the he

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

Mark Waddingham wrote: P.S. One could argue that 'multi-threading' might help here - but it is actually absolutely no different in effect from splitting into two processes. Indeed, for this kind of thing separate processes is a much much better idea as it completely insulates the master from the

Re: US government tells Windows users to uninstall QuickTime

Paul Dupuis wrote: On 4/15/2016 7:37 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: I have the first customers following this advice and tell me that my software is completely out of date. I am loosing customers. When will LiveCode provide the new Mac & Windows compatible media player? It was one of the crowdfu

Re: troubleshooting e-mail sent from a server by script

Curtis Ford wrote: > I've done a project for a client that involves customers filling > out a form on a web page, which triggers a script that 1) writes > their information to a log file on the server, and 2) sends out > confirmation e-mails to the customer and client. > > It's been working well

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

On 15/04/2016 04:14, Kay C Lan wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 2:12 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: why not turn this into a simple plugin to add a button to the dictionary stack. Scraping html text, that's super easy for me; creating a plugin - that's another story. Have generally steered clear

Re: Volunteer github guru for documentation submissions?

Kay C Lan wrote: > Have generally steered clear of plugins since weening myself onto > LC8. I note that rc1 isn't as stable for me (or others) as dp16 > and elsewhere removing plugins is recommended but that's not a > factor in my case. Plugins are supported in v8.0. Indeed, they remain the pri

Re: US government tells Windows users to uninstall QuickTime

On 4/15/2016 7:37 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > I have the first customers following this advice and tell me that my > software is completely out of date. I am loosing customers. > > > > When will LiveCode provide the new Mac & Windows compatible media player? > > It was one of the crowdfunding

Re: [OT] automator ln to specified folder

Got it working here. First item in the automator app is "Get Specified Finder Items" Then the shell script, I'm using for f in "$@" do ln "$f" "/Users/bonnmike/Desktop/myfolder/Plink-$(basename "$f")" done Its working both ways actually. Setting the directory first then running the loop, or i

troubleshooting e-mail sent from a server by script

I've done a project for a client that involves customers filling out a form on a web page, which triggers a script that 1) writes their information to a log file on the server, and 2) sends out confirmation e-mails to the customer and client. It's been working well for quite a while, but every

AW: US government tells Windows users to uninstall QuickTime

Hi Kevin, thanks for the info and caring about it. If I may tell you, what is important for me in my case, is that I can use the same video file format and video codec for both platforms (like mp4 with h.264). This is so important for me, because my programs are coming along with 1GB to 8GB of vid

Re: US government tells Windows users to uninstall QuickTime

Thanks Tiemo, we¹ve seen this issue appear in the news. We¹re actively working on an interim solution now and I¹ll aim to update you on what that looks like early next week. Kind regards, Kevin Kevin Miller ~ ke...@livecode.com ~ http://www.livecode.com/ LiveCode: Everyone can create apps On

US government tells Windows users to uninstall QuickTime

I have the first customers following this advice and tell me that my software is completely out of date. I am loosing customers. When will LiveCode provide the new Mac & Windows compatible media player? It was one of the crowdfunding aims and I haven't heard much about it anymore. Tiemo

Sending email over SMTP with STARTTLS (sending email via gmail)

I have a venerable app which does some automated work on a schedule, and emails a report. The app uses Shao Sean's libSmtp, dating back to 2005. It's typically set up using an organisation's internal SMTP server to send email. Now my client has switched to using Google Apps for business, and

Re: Anyone have any LiveCode hooks to WordPress? And, are you following these Word Camp events

Todd, this is exiting. I am especially interested in the OAuth 2.0 in LiveCode. Good news. Roland On 15 April 2016 at 03:20, Todd Fabacher wrote: > Good News for WP to LiveCode linking. We have completed an App that allows > you to control most WP function from LiveCode using the REST API. > > I

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

> One thing to remember is as much as we would like it to be the engine is not prescient. > It does not > know how much data it will need to read before it will find your sentinel string. > What this means in > practice is when reading until a string the engine needs to: > - constantly resize the

Re: specialfolderpaths on Windows >=8

Hi #Tiemo, > Am 15.04.2016 um 09:25 schrieb Tiemo Hollmann TB : > > Hi Klaus, > > is "firends" the short form for "fire nerds" and if yes what is a fire nerd? nope just the result of „made in eile“ :-D > To your question: I am using specialFolderPath(35) for an editable option > file and other

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

> On 15 Apr 2016, at 4:59 PM, Roland Huettmann > wrote: > > Though it does NOT work for me as I am reading much larger chunks of data > using "read until..." > > (It is still running for 60 minutes now... I think I have to force-stop it. > No... now it finished with 3,060,000. -:) > > I think

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

On 2016-04-15 08:59, Roland Huettmann wrote: I think it is important to know how to handle "big" data with files, in memory and placing in fields. And of course in a future nearby 8.1 version (or sooner?) those in need would love to see this taken care of in the engine. I don't think the prob

AW: specialfolderpaths on Windows >=8

Hi Klaus, is "firends" the short form for "fire nerds" and if yes what is a fire nerd? To your question: I am using specialFolderPath(35) for an editable option file and others and that works fine from Win XP to 10 Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-

Re: LC7 and 8 - Non responsive processing large text files

< Richard: "You may find the sample stack attached to this report useful: " Richard, thanks a lot for the sample stack. I downloaded and tested "LargeFileRead.livecode". Unfortunately it also creates the same symptoms on Windows: Stack becomes un