Compatible video formats

2018-05-13 Thread Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode
Hi, I’m needing a single Mac/Windows compatible video format for use in the player control. Is there one or more that will work without any additional plugins? I couldn’t find a list… Peter Bogdanoff ArtsInteractive ___ use-livecode mailing list

RE: PDF

2018-05-13 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
Richard I agree. I have customers that we are nudging toward EPubs for the reasons you've enumerated but when they see the amount of work involved they fall back to the "Well our employees are using MSWord and just PDF them. Tagging them is just too much work". The only ones we're having success

Re: PDF

2018-05-13 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
R.H. wrote: > Thank you, Richard, for your enlightening discussion on the ePub > format and that we should start thinking that direction. > > > Given PDF's role as a delivery vehicle, it's most commonly an > > extra step added to the end of a publishing process. > > > > Have you asked that

PDF

2018-05-13 Thread R.H. via use-livecode
Thank you, Richard, for your enlightening discussion on the ePub format and that we should start thinking that direction. > Given PDF's role as a delivery vehicle, it's most commonly an extra step > added to the end of a publishing process. > Have you asked that data provider if they have

Re: PDF

2018-05-13 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
R.H. wrote: > To extract text from a PDF document, I am using a command line tool on > Windows which is available also for Linux based systems called Xpdf. > > It was working well, using shell() on LiveCode Community 8x, but > tested only in the IDE on Windows. A good tool. Thanks. > I

Re: PDF

2018-05-13 Thread Mike Bonner via use-livecode
I ended up using pdftotext, it worked like a charm. (Though I had to look up how to send it a file list using find.. Too long away from the shell.) I now have a little app that can do a word search for matching files and show either the extracted text, or the original pdf using the browser

Re: Active window and mouse location

2018-05-13 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I don't think any OS allows an app to insert itself into the user's work flow like that. Even your own solution requires you to specify it via a hot key. Usually we use the native version of interapp communication, which on Mac is applesccript and on Windows VB. Or you could see if there's an

Re: PDF

2018-05-13 Thread R.H. via use-livecode
To extract text from a PDF document, I am using a command line tool on Windows which is available also for Linux based systems called Xpdf. It was working well, using shell() on LiveCode Community 8x, but tested only in the IDE on Windows. It should work with Linux and Mac as well. If PDFs just

Re: Active window and mouse location

2018-05-13 Thread Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode
Since I do not create the stack as a "modal stack" (a command I didn't even know existed... again, thanks for THAT), then does that make my card (only one in the app) a "system" window? After read the doc's on "modal stack", I doubt that I want my stack to become "modal"... even temporarily.