Re: shell() and pdftotext

2020-01-12 Thread Phil Davis via use-livecode
To find the full path, this may work - open Terminal and type:     which pdftotext and it should display the path to the copy of pdftotext that the OS runs when you type the 'pdftotext' command. Phil Davis On 1/12/20 2:00 PM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: My guess is that shell

Scripting puzzle / challenge.

2020-01-12 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
It's been a while since we had a puzzle challenge on here I came across this article https://medium.com/free-code-camp/bet-you-cant-solve-this-google-interview-question-4a6e5a4dc8ee and it seemed to me like an interesting puzzle. The article is interesting, but (IMHO) pretty flawed;

Re: shell() and pdftotext

2020-01-12 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
My guess is that shell can’t find your executable.  Try using full paths. Thanks, Brian On Jan 12, 2020, 2:54 PM -0500, Hillen Richard via use-livecode , wrote: > Hello, > > I want to extract .txt from a pdf-file using Livecode 9.5 on macOS Catalina. > > Therefore I installed from

shell() and pdftotext

2020-01-12 Thread Hillen Richard via use-livecode
Hello, I want to extract .txt from a pdf-file using Livecode 9.5 on macOS Catalina. Therefore I installed from http://www.xpdfreader.com/ the xpdf-tools-mac-4.02 and using the Terminal with „pdftotext /Users/hillen/Desktop/inter.pdf“ I get a clean text-file inter.txt. Wonderful! So I

Re: search whole list on certain subject, searching for Admob integration

2020-01-12 Thread JJS via use-livecode
ok i can search on narkive.com, that's great. Reading this " With that being said, we are currently working on various widgets for LiveCode 8 and one that supports multiple ad platforms is currently in the pipeline." here https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?t=26794#p139662 looks

search whole list on certain subject, searching for Admob integration

2020-01-12 Thread JJS via use-livecode
Hi, how do i search the whole list to get info on some topics. For now i'm searching for a solution to use Admob. as i made a thread here: https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=53=33521 Certainly not everyone is using the forum. So maybe someone has info here on how to add Admob to