Re: Guess encoding for text file...

2019-09-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I am sure my routine could be optimized some for performance. My consideration of doing this via OSX/Windows API using LCB FFI is only partially about performance. I think an advantage is that the OS vendors (with way more resources than me) are more likely to keep the algorithms reflecting up

Re: Ideas for my book.

2019-09-18 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
Wise words from Jacque as always! Yes, who is the book intended for? If people who have programmed already, then we have to ask, have they used scripting languages? Are they old enough to remember Hypercard, etc? If not, it’s all a bit of a tabula rasa, isn’t it? To answer on my own account (ju

Re: Export Snapshot

2019-09-18 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
+1 Never leave anything to chance (if you can help it). Bob S > On Sep 18, 2019, at 09:54 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Richmond wrote: > > > I should like just to say how grateful that *export snapshot* > > on Macintosh does NOT dump the resultant image inside the LC > > a

Re: Export Snapshot

2019-09-18 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
I never joined the Ramblers' Club. :) On 18.09.19 19:54, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Richmond wrote: > I should like just to say how grateful that *export snapshot* > on Macintosh does NOT dump the resultant image inside the LC > app package any more (9.5.0). > As an inveterate use o

Re: Export Snapshot

2019-09-18 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Richmond wrote: > I should like just to say how grateful that *export snapshot* > on Macintosh does NOT dump the resultant image inside the LC > app package any more (9.5.0). > As an inveterate use of *export snapshot* this means a lot to me. Acquiring a habit of using full paths for all files w

Re: Sorting strangeness

2019-09-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Good to know. Thank you. On 9/18/2019 11:03 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2019-09-18 15:43, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Again, thank you Mark - this helped immensely. In making a commercial text analytics application, we do a lot of sorting of user entered textual data

Re: Sorting strangeness

2019-09-18 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2019-09-18 15:43, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Again, thank you Mark - this helped immensely. In making a commercial text analytics application, we do a lot of sorting of user entered textual data. With the move from LC6.7.11 to LC9.0.5rc1 we discovered the sort text issue bug, but the

Re: Sorting strangeness

2019-09-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Again, thank you Mark - this helped immensely. In making a commercial text analytics application, we do a lot of sorting of user entered textual data. With the move from LC6.7.11 to LC9.0.5rc1 we discovered the sort text issue bug, but them we many dozens of sort statements through out our cod

Re: Export Snapshot

2019-09-18 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
Possibly: but a default folder inside an app package seems a bit "potty." Richmond. On 18.09.19 16:38, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote: are you sure it wasn't just dumping it into the "defaultfolder" wherever that may be? and not specifically inside the app package? On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:

Re: Export Snapshot

2019-09-18 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi all, > Am 18.09.2019 um 15:38 schrieb Tom Glod via use-livecode > : > > are you sure it wasn't just dumping it into the "defaultfolder" wherever > that may be? and not specifically inside the app package? > > > On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:57 AM Richmond via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists

Re: Export Snapshot

2019-09-18 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
are you sure it wasn't just dumping it into the "defaultfolder" wherever that may be? and not specifically inside the app package? On Wed, Sep 18, 2019 at 3:57 AM Richmond via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > I should like just to say how grateful that *export snapshot* > o

Export Snapshot

2019-09-18 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
I should like just to say how grateful that *export snapshot* on Macintosh does NOT dump the resultant image inside the LC app package any more (9.5.0). As an inveterate use of *export snapshot* this means a lot to me. Richmond. ___ use-livecode maili