Re: OT: Need better hardware vs need better software.

2016-08-01 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 9:59 AM, Jim sims wrote: >BIG pipe is an easier and sexier sell for the > politician. > Unless you are Indian (from India, not American) Years ago I had a job in Bombay (back when it was Bombay not Mumbai) and each day as I travelled to and from the site

Re: OT: Need better hardware vs need better software.

2016-08-01 Thread Jim sims
But if they just work smarter with what they have the POLITICIAN cannot boast: "I'm getting the latest and greatest stuff for you, planning ahead for you, and new business will want to come HERE instead of THERE!! Our PIPE is gonna be a big pipe, ten times bigger pipe than our neighbors dinky

Re: The Joy of Removing Features.

2016-08-01 Thread Kay C Lan
Enjoyed Part 1, looking forward to Part 2. Just wondering though, because of your discovery of the enjoyment of feature removal, will your 4 Parts only be coming in 3 ;-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: OT: Need better hardware vs need better software.

2016-08-01 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:10 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > Very, very occasionally there might be a last-minute emergency scan to be > examined - but the 99.999% case is predictable and cachable. > > So - if you are developing apps of any kind - think about whether or how or > when

Re: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Matthias, Yes, I can certainly understand why one would want to avoid or offload that work if at all possible. Let us know what you find out with Fastspring or Avangate! Thanks, Rick > On Aug 1, 2016, at 5:50 PM, Matthias Rebbe > wrote: > > I know,

Re: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread Matthias Rebbe
I know, Paypal is easy. I used it before 01.01.2015. But after that date the EU changed the rules how VAT has to be handled for digital products when sold within the EU. So the VAT declarations for every EU country i have to do every month is the problem. Using PayPal i am the seller of the

Re: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi Matthias, I used to do a lot with Paypal. Do your calculations before you send your customer to Paypal. Then just tell Paypal what things to show. You can put in the VAT yourself as a preprocess thing. It should work fine. Just my 2 cents. I hope it helps! Rick > On Aug 1, 2016, at 4:11

OT: Need better hardware vs need better software.

2016-08-01 Thread Alex Tweedly
I recently listened to an episode of BBC Radio 4's "Peter Day's World of Business" (A podcast series I highly recommend), about Chattanooga http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03wxx6w Chattanooga is a US city which used to be very much a heavy industry and transport city, and has suffered job

The Joy of Removing Features.

2016-08-01 Thread Alex Tweedly
Part 1 of a 4-part series on developing simple apps for photo management and viewing. A few months ago I realized I was coming to the end of my current Livecode project / interest, and it was time to find a new personal project for my Livecode time. I am a hobbyist developer using Livecode

Re: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread Matthias Rebbe
It seems i cannot use PayPal. I am living in Germany and when selling to EU residents i have to charge the VAT rate of the buyers country. Unfortunately Paypal just does the payment processing, but not invoicing and vat handling Every month or every 3 months i have to do a VAT declaration

Re: libURL and New TsNet Commands/Failures

2016-08-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
OK since a) "libURLftpUploadFile" has no hook to/support from, tsNet for schema "sftp://; AND b) I hit the "no business license" wall on attempt to use "tsNetUploadFileSync" I regressed back to "put" We are uploading small web optimized files in this use case so reading in the data

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 DP-3

2016-08-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 8/1/2016 12:41 AM, Charles Warwick wrote: You can issue post/get/put asynchronous commands even to the same server with the Indy license using tsNet commands directly Remind me, is "get url" blocking? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software

Re: libURL and New TsNet Commands/Failures

2016-08-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
char...@techstrategies.com.au> wrote: If you want to avoid loading the data into memory first, the best command for that would be tsNetUploadFileSync. Let me know if you need any help working out the syntax for that. I (indy licensed user) did my best to implement this (see my

Re: libURL and New TsNet Commands/Failures

2016-08-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
char...@techstrategies.com.au> wrote: I'll check with the LC team, but it probably makes sense to allow that command to work with SFTP as well if it detects the presence of tsNet. in case it's easier for them to track, I made an official enhancement request to that effect bug 18124 -

pageHeights woes

2016-08-01 Thread Jeanne A. E. DeVoto
I'm trying to debug a printing problem, and getting (under certain circumstances) crazy values for the last line of a field's pageHeights. Specifically, the last line of the pageHeights is sometimes either negative or very large (closer to 2^32 than I think can be coincidental). I'm working

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 DP-3

2016-08-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
@Charles: So, in effect, just to clarify my understanding… the *only* difference between the TSnet indy and business license is that the indy user has the added burden of coding explicit tsNet commands to get the same asynchronous behavior that the business user can get with simple calls

Re: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
I've been using this script for years now and it's been reliable. The community helped me debug it and in return I've given it back to anyone who wants it. You should be able to just replace the values of the variables at the top and be good to go, but do test it in the PayPal sandbox before

Re: MORE HELP with: open printing for pdf... SOLVED

2016-08-01 Thread Dan Friedman
Hello again! In case you were following along, I finally figured this out... In an attempt to deliver my application as easily as possible, I have my customers download only the exe from my site -- just this one file. All extra files (extra stacks, images, dlls, etc.) are the downloaded by

RE: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread Lynn Fredricks
> Has anyone already done such thing with Paypal or other > platforms like Fastspring or Cleverbridge? > And if is use Paypal, do i have to write invoices again or is > Paypal providing a correct payment receipt? There was a point where we used Esellerate for Omegabundle sales (because so many

Re: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread Paul Dupuis
I amend my prior note. I managed to reach Kee (CEO of Kagi) at his personal email this morning. He committed to trying to to make the Suplier backend available for some transition period so Kagi supplier have access to product decriptions, coupon codes for ongoing promotions, reporting and so on

Re: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
This is very sad news. Kagi has served the industry incredibly well for an incredibly long time. I have some idea of just how hard Kee personally worked in pursuit of this. I wish him the best. Ben On 01/08/2016 09:19, Matthias Rebbe wrote: today i was informed that Kagi has ceased

Re: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread Paul Dupuis
We too use(d) Kagi and realized something was not right last week when no one would reply to any email or phone calls. Unfortunately, not in enough time to grab some reports and other information that will cost us lots of hours of time. And, of course, hoping they payout owed sales at they state

Re: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread Graham Samuel
Oh, rude word! Or several rude words! Only very recently with his kind help I copied Matthias’ method of using Kagi together with Jacque Gay’s Zygodact and got the whole thing working. I did this partly because I found the PayPal ‘Buy Now’ button solution tricky, even following Jacque’s

Re: looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread Guglielmo Braguglia
Hi Matthias, maybe this page can give you some useful info about using Paypal (and Zygodact) ... http://www.hyperactivesw.com/cgipaypal/index.html ;) Guglielmo Braguglia > Matthias Rebbe > 1 August 2016 at 10:19 AM > Hi, > > today i was informed that

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 44

2016-08-01 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi all, Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #44 here: https://goo.gl/X3mifS This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 DP-3

2016-08-01 Thread Terry Judd
On 1/08/2016 3:51 pm, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay" wrote: >On 8/1/2016 12:41 AM, Charles Warwick wrote: >> On 1/08/2016 3:16 pm, J. Landman Gay wrote: >>> On 7/31/2016 11:58 PM, Charles Warwick wrote:

looking for an alternative to KAGI, because KAGI ceased operations (:

2016-08-01 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi, today i was informed that Kagi has ceased operations as of July 31st, 2016. I used KAGI to sell my tool BRx Konverter and was already wondering why i did not receive my payout this month and the last payment was also later than normal. Now i know…. I have to find an other way to sell my

Re: libURL and New TsNet Commands/Failures

2016-08-01 Thread Charles Warwick
On 1/08/2016 3:43 pm, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: @ jacque: It's my understanding that you need to buy the business edition if you want asynchronous connections, even if you are a developer of one.. perhaps I am wrong. You only need the business edition for async connections using SFTP