Re: Is HTML5 really practical?

2019-09-01 Thread Dan Brown via use-livecode
With WebAssembly (WASM) now shipping in most modern browsers there doesn't seem much point in continuing development on the current (somewhat broken) Enscripten driven approach to delivering lc on the web. Hopefully lc have already started looking into compiling to wasm https://hacks.mozilla.org/

Re: Is HTML5 really practical?

2019-09-01 Thread hh via use-livecode
> Alex T. wrote: > Is there a way to force a reload of the bit you want (need) to reload, > without reloading the engine ? (Continuing my answer) For a reload from cache you can do "location.reload()" as "javascript" If you mean to load another standalone or reset the current standalone without

Save/Open stack to/from variable?

2019-09-01 Thread hh via use-livecode
In a situation where you can't 'directly' access the filesystem in order to save or read a stack but can write any variable to a local file and read from any local file to a variable, the questions arise: • Can we save (the current state of) a stack to a variable in a format as the usual stackfile

Re: Launch vs Set in widget

2019-09-01 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2019-09-01 01:16, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Yes, I meant "launch url in widget" which says it opens a url in the widget, but that is what "set the URL of widget x" does too. I don't see any difference. As Sean said the difference is the widget, rather than anything else. The 'l

Re: Checking the host OS

2019-09-01 Thread JB via use-livecode
On OS X in the terminal you can type: sysctl hw.machine and it will display the machine architecture. I don’t use the shell commands much but it looks like you can get the info without compiling code by using the code below. on mouseUp put shell( "sysctl hw.machine" ) into pData put pData

Show Script in New Window

2019-09-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
On Mac, 9.5 stable, Script Editor, clicking on a tab to "Move to New Window". Take that script and moves it out to full screen window, with no way to minimize or go "back" at which point one cannot interact with a) the stack b) another script Can anyone else confirm this behavior. ( have three

Globals in Modular Stack Framework

2019-09-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Given a modular stack framework for mobile, where 1) a "engine" stack to always open, but hidden on boot → call it "Stack Engine" 2) then you have multiple "modular" stacks -- call them views--which are opened and closed on "demand/navigation" → call them a. stack "story"

Re: Globals in Modular Stack Framework

2019-09-01 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 9/1/19 7:48 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: There are two ways to go with this: 1) keep adding "keys" to the BIG global sConfigA OR 2) we could keep the custom properties of Stack Engine (which is always open) Does anyone have experience and has come to "best practice

Re: Hactoberfest is coming...

2019-09-01 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
Here is your first request for: * Repos to add to the list of LC projects to be targeted for some effort. So far I've added the LC IDE and Levure * Issues and bug reports to be added to the list of things the community might be able to tackle and resolve quickly, everything from minor bugs or docum

How to disable Navigation/BackNavigation in the browser widget

2019-09-01 Thread hh via use-livecode
As this was several times a question in the forum and also in the use-list here a method that works in the browser widget (without redirecting) on all platforms that support the widget. Browser widget usage example #27: NoNavigation/NoBackNavigation http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?p=1828

Re: Launch vs Set in widget

2019-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
This is long, so most of you will probably want to skip it. On 9/1/19 6:48 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Hmmm - you say 'on your Pixel' - have you observed the behavior on other devices, or indeed other Pixels? (It might be worth creating a Pixel emulator which will be in factory

Re: Show Script in New Window

2019-09-01 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I only have one monitor and I don't see that. On 9/1/19 8:43 AM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: On Mac, 9.5 stable, Script Editor, clicking on a tab to "Move to New Window". Take that script and moves it out to full screen window, with no way to minimize or go "back" at wh

Re: Maintenance forever?

2019-09-01 Thread Mike Kerner via use-livecode
Ugh. I feel your pain on the RAID failure. We had one fail on our primary ERP server about a month ago when a drive controller bit it. The corruption then propogated to the rest of the array. The machine first locked up then was unbootable. About five hours later the team gave up on the transa