Re: Failed to load external error

2016-09-01 Thread Charles Warwick
Hi Jacque, Yes. In the Ext folder should be all the externals that are included with Livecode. Inside that there should be a tsNet folder - just replace the dll file in there. Regards, Charles On 2/09/2016 10:34 am, J. Landman Gay wrote: Just to be sure...I should replace the dll in the

Re: Set the fillGradient ....

2016-09-01 Thread Scott Morrow
Ah, thanks Randy! I was familiar with this behavior but (slaps forehead) your straight forward solution never occurred to me. Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now with 20% less chalk dust!) web http://elementarysoftware.com/ email sc...@elementarysoftware.com office 1-800-615-0867

Re: Set the fillGradient ....

2016-09-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
p...@researchware.com> wrote: … It would be a real asset (IMHO) to be able to refer to the position of object in a group relative to the topLeft of the group being 0,0. My vote for that! Perhaps an enhancement request can be submitted? These are the kind functions we really need for wor

Re: Failed to load external error

2016-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Just to be sure...I should replace the dll in the Ext folder, right? I couldn't find one in Runtime/Windows/x86-32/Externals folder. On 9/1/2016 6:27 PM, Charles Warwick wrote: Hi Jacque, Ben, Yes, unfortunately that fix just missed making it into the RC1 release. It will be in RC2. Regards,

Re: libURL gone mad

2016-09-01 Thread Charles Warwick
I would like to resolve as many libUrl reliability issues as possible in the community edition as well. Having worked on the tsNet libUrl wrapper, I have some ideas about what is going on but what always helps is a sample script that can reproduce the problem. On 2/09/2016 9:47 am, Richard

Re: libURL gone mad

2016-09-01 Thread Charles Warwick
Pasadena is probably a bit too far away for me at the moment but I do hope to make it to the next conference ;-) If you want a quick and roughly equivalent function for v6, you could always add the following to the libUrl library code: function libUrlIsSyncBlocked if lvBlockingUrl is not

Re: libURL gone mad

2016-09-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Follow-up: how much in the way of libURL reliability will find its way into v8.1 Community Edition? I have some ambitious goals for the open source version down the road, and I'm hoping we can have robust, reliable HTTP access there as well. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Charles

Re: libURL gone mad

2016-09-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Super-cool info, Charles! Thanks for taking the time to ponder my query. Very much looking forward to v8.1rc2. If you can make it to our local LiveCode User Group meeting tonight in Pasadena I'll buy you dinner. If not, consider the offer open for whenever we have a chance to meet in person.

Re: Failed to load external error

2016-09-01 Thread Charles Warwick
Hi Jacque, Ben, Yes, unfortunately that fix just missed making it into the RC1 release. It will be in RC2. Regards, Charles On 2/09/2016 7:25 am, J. Landman Gay wrote: Thank you! That sounds like exactly the problem we're seeing. We're in a rush so I'll try the file Charles uploaded to th

Re: libURL gone mad

2016-09-01 Thread Charles Warwick
Hi Richard, I am keen to see as many of these issues resolved as possible, so please let me know if you have any more details for requests that don't seem to ever complete or error. By the sounds of it, you are using a commercial version of LC that includes tsNet and its libUrl wrapper. Th

RE: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-01 Thread Jim MacConnell
Lots of little things but definitely not cutting edge stuff and, frankly, mostly for my own satisfaction. I'd love to get involved in cloud stuff but that's outside of where I work's comfort zone since we need to maintain production regardless of outside influences (note: this production invol

Re: LC performance change from Win 7 to Win 10

2016-09-01 Thread tbodine
UPDATE: For my immediate deadline, I cannot make the leap to LC 8.x. But I have found most of the issues I cited above have improved or cleared up after updating to LC 7.1.4. -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LC-performance-change-f

Re: LineGraph widget

2016-09-01 Thread BNig
Hi Monte, I agree that the Y axis should have a rounded range (though the first feature request in the forum was 2 decimal digits for Y axis values) also agreed on the 0 line. >> This reminds me we still need to sort out the decimal number formatting >> we discussed at the conference! You will

libURL gone mad

2016-09-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
My quest today began with a seemingly simple question: If I have a button that gets data from a URL via libURL, how do I prevent a second request if the user double-clicks? In this case we have too many entry points to disable and re-enable the controls that trigger URL access for that to be

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-01 Thread ke...@stallibrass.com
A server/client system to allow a railway network to remotely print large format images at any station with a print facility on the line. Software works really well but probably won't be pressed into service because the prints are subsequently distributed to sub stations via train and they can't

Re: Failed to load external error

2016-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Thank you! That sounds like exactly the problem we're seeing. We're in a rush so I'll try the file Charles uploaded to the QCC. If I had more time I'd read the bug reports every day. :) On 9/1/2016 4:08 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Hi Jacque, It might not be this, but it sounds awfully similar

Re: Failed to load external error

2016-09-01 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Hi Jacque, It might not be this, but it sounds awfully similar to a problem I had, attempting to deploy a standalone built with 8.1.0 dp 3 to Windows. Details here, including a patched version of tsNet.dll which fixed the issue for me: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18205 The b

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/1/2016 3:48 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: What exciting LiveCode project(s) are you working on at the moment? Where can we find out more about them? Have you run into any interesting problems (or solutions) that you'd like to share? I'm working on lots of stuff right now (too much, actually.)

Re: LineGraph widget

2016-09-01 Thread Monte Goulding
That’s cool. Playing with the Line Chart is fun ;-) I would say if the chart crosses between positive and negative on the Y axis we should have a 0 line. I’d generally rather see the Y axis move to a rounded range that makes sense for the data and an option to set the range and step size of the

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-01 Thread Jeff Reynolds
Just updated content the presenter interface system for the auditorium programs at Monterey bay aquarium. It's been run on MetaCard/rev/livecode since the 90s and still going strong! They have a number of presenter shows that run in the auditorium all the time that utilize a large HD video libra

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-01 Thread Skip Kimpel
I am in the process of creating an applicant tracking system for our HR department. The online application will be submitted through a WordPress website leveraging Gravity Forms. Thanks to Todd and the Digital Pomegranate team, I was able to utilize some of the code they have been writing for the

Re: Failed to load external error

2016-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 9/1/2016 2:15 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Due to an audio bug fix we needed, we were forced to compile and release an app using 8.1rc1. Some Windows users are regularly receiving the error "failed to load external" when the app launches. This renders the app useless. So far we have heard from b

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-01 Thread Monte Goulding
He probably did mean it that way ;-) Sent from my iPhone > On 2 Sep 2016, at 12:23 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > • Peter challenged me to do better than the new Documentation setup. Maybe > he didn't mean it that way, but that's the way I took it, so I'm going to > have a go ___

Failed to load external error

2016-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay
Due to an audio bug fix we needed, we were forced to compile and release an app using 8.1rc1. Some Windows users are regularly receiving the error "failed to load external" when the app launches. This renders the app useless. So far we have heard from both Windows 7 and Windows 10 users. The

SVG management

2016-09-01 Thread me
I have not had time to check this out, but here's a Mac app for managing and tweaking SVGs. Might be helpful. https://www.producthunt.com/tech/svgsus-2 Best, Jerry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to sub

LineGraph widget

2016-09-01 Thread BNig
Hi all, I modified the line graph widget that ships with LC 8.1.0 RC1 per user request to show optionally decimal Y-values up to 5 digits and optionally values at the vertices of the graph. needs LC 8.1.0 RC1 http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=27490&start=15#p145912 feature requests

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-01 Thread Bob Sneidar
I have an app called Forms Generator (you've probably seen me talk about it in the list) which has data entry forms that populate a mySQL or sqLite database. It also has the ability to import fillable PDF forms, analyze the structure of the PDF and save the PDF file binary in the database so I c

Re: postgres "serial primary key" recycling values

2016-09-01 Thread Bob Sneidar
Right. I don't think any SQL database does. They all store the next unique key value(s) in some kind of master table for the database. That is what nextval() returns, not the next unused sequence. Bob S On Aug 31, 2016, at 14:31 , Dr. Hawkins mailto:doch...@gmail.com>> wrote: I think I see w

Re: Set the fillGradient ....

2016-09-01 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 9/1/2016 12:00 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I don't believe we have any functions or other language elements that > use object-local coordinates, but if we did what should those look like? The other main area where object-local coordinates come up frequently is with groups. It would be a real as

Re: Set the fillGradient ....

2016-09-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
Roger Guay wrote: > >> On Sep 1, 2016, at 5:41 AM, Randy Hengst wrote: >> >> To make this work via script, I’ve done two things… the easiest is >> to set the grc that I want to change to the size and position of >> the a grc master with the fill gradient I want to match… in this >> example, the s

Re: Set the fillGradient ....

2016-09-01 Thread Randy Hengst
That’s a good question, Roger… I have no idea if it’s a bug… Glad it helped you. > On Sep 1, 2016, at 9:06 AM, Roger Guay wrote: > > Wow, Randy, that works! Is this a workaround to a bug or what?? > > Thanks, Randy. > > Roger > > >> On Sep 1, 2016, at 5:41 AM, Randy Hengst wrote: >> >> To

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-01 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 9/1/2016 4:48 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > What exciting LiveCode project(s) are you working on at the moment? > Where can we find out more about them? Have you run into any > interesting problems (or solutions) that you'd like to share? I am working on trying to create code to print a Data Gri

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-01 Thread PystCat
I've been working on an interface that creates specialized calendars that contain Stock Exchange holidays to connect tow rather large Oracle database that handles millions of transactions a day. On a different note, I love the subtle reference to ST:TNG with Picard held captive by a Cardassian

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-01 Thread Mike Kerner
Let's see: • Peter challenged me to do better than the new Documentation setup. Maybe he didn't mean it that way, but that's the way I took it, so I'm going to have a go. • Finishing a new app that allows machine shops to quickly determine how to run particular operations, what tooling to use, etc

Re: Set the fillGradient ....

2016-09-01 Thread Roger Guay
Wow, Randy, that works! Is this a workaround to a bug or what?? Thanks, Randy. Roger > On Sep 1, 2016, at 5:41 AM, Randy Hengst wrote: > > To make this work via script, I’ve done two things… the easiest is to set the > grc that I want to change to the size and position of the a grc master wi

Re: Set the fillGradient ....

2016-09-01 Thread Randy Hengst
To make this work via script, I’ve done two things… the easiest is to set the grc that I want to change to the size and position of the a grc master with the fill gradient I want to match… in this example, the script is in the grc to be changed: on mouseDown local tStartLoc put the loc of

Re: Standalone stops running (Hillen Richard)

2016-09-01 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Richard, > Am 01.09.2016 um 12:35 schrieb Hillen Richard : > > Hello all together, > > problem solved,I´m very relieved. > ... >> -> Klaus major-k >> looks like it is as bad as I was afraid of when I read the filename: >> the ? umlaut is the culprit >> >> This app runs fine: >> ../PK-Beit

Standalone stops running (Hillen Richard)

2016-09-01 Thread Hillen Richard
Hello all together, problem solved,I´m very relieved. > -> Richard Gaskin > Hello Richard., Stack Data is a substack of stack main; it is automatically choosen in „Stacks in the selected stack file". > -> Klaus major-k > looks like it is as bad as I was afraid of when I read the filename:

Re: What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-01 Thread Matt Maier
I've been building a website in Livecode and revIgniter. I wanted a passwordless authentication system so I had to roll that from scratch. Now I'm connecting my desktop app to the website so that users can sync their projects and make them available online. This way people who know how to make th

What's everyone working on this month? (September 2016)

2016-09-01 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi all, What exciting LiveCode project(s) are you working on at the moment? Where can we find out more about them? Have you run into any interesting problems (or solutions) that you'd like to share? -- In the office, I'm currently trying to figure out what tools I can build to help