Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Trevor DeVore via use-livecode
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 10:36 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 1/14/20 9:46 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: > > > Beyond backup across versions (since that's widely available in most > > cloud storage for even binary files), that Git features

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Trevor DeVore via use-livecode
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 4:14 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Thanks, Trevor. That's a helpful outline. > > I haven't had a business case to support so many branches, but I can see > where it might be useful down the road. > > Any opinions on Github vs

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Mark Wieder wrote: > On 1/14/20 7:52 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: > >> Is it a bug that script-only stacks can't be imported into the >> stackfile to become binary substacks? >> > > They can, but it's a one-way operation. Once you've done that the > substack and the script-only text

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 1/14/20 2:13 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Any opinions on Github vs Gitlab? SCaLE is coming up soon. Gitlab always has a table set up. They're good at answering the hard questions. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-liv

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 1/14/20 9:46 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Beyond backup across versions (since that's widely available in most cloud storage for even binary files), that Git features do you find most valuable? As in Trevor's description, the advantage of being able to create new branches

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 1/14/20 7:52 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Is it a bug that script-only stacks can't be imported into the stackfile to become binary substacks? They can, but it's a one-way operation. Once you've done that the substack and the script-only text file are two different entities

Re: Embarrasssing old bugs

2020-01-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4636 Klaus: Ouch! :-/ > There are several "convert date" libraries knocking around. That would help > you…. Thank you, but after now more than 20 years using of MC/RR/R/LC I know how to do that. __ HA! Maybe would can add comments to t

Re: Embarrasssing old bugs

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Kalus major-k wrote: Am 14.01.2020 um 20:53 schrieb Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode : There are several "convert date" libraries knocking around. That would help you…. Thank you, but after now more than 20 years using of MC/RR/R/LC I know how to do that. :-D The irony here is

RE: Cause found for LC crashing to desktop when Browser widget opens PDF

2020-01-14 Thread Ralph DiMola via use-livecode
FYI: I'm not seeing this. PDF display OK. 1) New stack 2) Create Browser widget 3) Put https URL to a PDF into the Property inspector. LC 9.5.1 LC 9.6dp2 Win 10 1709 Acrobat DC 2019.021.20061 Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message

Re: Changing extention on script only stack

2020-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I'll pitch in for lunch but I can't fund the whole project. Bob S > On Jan 14, 2020, at 14:08 , Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Bob Sneidar wrote: > > > Let's remember this is just Windows we are talking about. I have no > > issues whatsoever with the OS X version of LC Script

Re: Embarrasssing old bugs

2020-01-14 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Swami, > Am 14.01.2020 um 20:53 schrieb Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > : > > Klaus wrote > "How embarrassing is this in 2020? If we want to get an even higher ranking > than 36 on TIOBE, this should be fixed as > soon as possible." > It is: embarrassing. The fact that the LC

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Thanks, Trevor. That's a helpful outline. I haven't had a business case to support so many branches, but I can see where it might be useful down the road. Any opinions on Github vs Gitlab? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Trevor DeVore wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:47 AM Richa

Re: Cause found for LC crashing to desktop when Browser widget opens PDF

2020-01-14 Thread Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
Hm, i am working with Mojave 10.14.6 and the most current version of Acrobat DC. Maybe this also depends on the os. Anyway i can replicate it on a newly installed Mac. We´ll see what LC´s Dev Team does say. > Am 14.01.2020 um 22:16 schrieb Richard Hillen via use-livecode > : > > Hello Matthi

Re: Changing extention on script only stack

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Bob Sneidar wrote: > Let's remember this is just Windows we are talking about. I have no > issues whatsoever with the OS X version of LC Script Editor... While performance issues are most evident on Windows, there's some noticeable lag on Mac too. Most who use external editors here are on Mac.

Re: SQL(ite) question

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Bob Sneidar wrote: > Yes, but the original question was about whether or not it could be > done with a single statement. Also I am not a big fan of full text > searches the way they are implemented typically. For instance, on our > copier vendor's websites they of course have searches, but what I

Re: Cause found for LC crashing to desktop when Browser widget opens PDF

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Hillen via use-livecode
Hello Matthias, Macbook Pro with LC 9.5, Catalina, Acrobat DC, pdf on browser widget works in developer mode. Not tested as standalone. Richard. > Message: 6 > Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:56:43 +0100 > From: matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de > To: How to use LiveCode > Subject: FYI: Cause found

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Trevor DeVore via use-livecode
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 2:35 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Trevor DeVore wrote: > > > I use SoS extensively but I had never tried using the SB to encrypt them > as > > I use Levure. The Levure packaging library automatically encrypts script > > only s

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Trevor DeVore via use-livecode
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 11:47 AM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > ... > > Help me motivate to move my Git transition forward sooner: > > Beyond backup across versions (since that's widely available in most > cloud storage for even binary files), that Git fe

Re: Use-livecode author names

2020-01-14 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
I'm slightly unsure of those numbers. My email outbox has over 1000 messages to the list - and although a few of them were rejected :-), I would have thought I should still appear in that 'frequent-sender' list (even if I did split my posts between a couple of authornames). Alex. On 14/01/202

Re: Changing extention on script only stack

2020-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Let's remember this is just Windows we are talking about. I have no issues whatsoever with the OS X version of LC Script Editor, but the few times I really needed to code and debug in Windows it was like scratching my eyes out with a toothpick. Bob S > On Jan 14, 2020, at 12:09 , Kaveh Bazar

Re: SQL(ite) question

2020-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Yes, but the original question was about whether or not it could be done with a single statement. Also I am not a big fan of full text searches the way they are implemented typically. For instance, on our copier vendor's websites they of course have searches, but what I end up with are 10,000 hi

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Trevor DeVore wrote: On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 1:13 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote: Exactly. I was hoping the Standalone Builder would do that if you choose to include external SoS in the standalone. What I found instead is that it doesn't being th

Re: iOS launch screen dimensions

2020-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I just went through a comparison and it looks like most of the actually do match. The SB is missing only these two: 11" iPad Pro 1668px × 2388px 10.5" iPad Pro 1668px × 2224px I used a couple of online image generators to get the full range of launch images, and they produced many ot

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Trevor DeVore via use-livecode
On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 1:13 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Exactly. I was hoping the Standalone Builder would do that if you > choose to include external SoS in the standalone. > > What I found instead is that it doesn't being them into the standalon

Re: Changing extention on script only stack

2020-01-14 Thread Kaveh Bazargan via use-livecode
The slow editing in LiveCode is a big drawback for me. It is slow, spacing is usually off till you hit tab, and generally not efficient. On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 20:06, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Brian Milby wrote: > > I would offer a clarification fo

Re: Changing extention on script only stack

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Brian Milby wrote: > I would offer a clarification for ScriptTracker... I didn't mean to imply your fine tool's only purpose was to help people get around a slow Script Editor. It is indeed very useful for its intended purposes. But when we start using tools intended for all sorts of things

Re: Changing extention on script only stack

2020-01-14 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
I would offer a clarification for ScriptTracker:  while the files it exports could be used as-is for SoS behaviors, that is not the goal of the tool.  One goal is to allow editing of scripts in external editors (performance is one reason, but there are others too).  A larger goal is to allow Git

Re: Embarrasssing old bugs

2020-01-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Klaus wrote "How embarrassing is this in 2020? If we want to get an even higher ranking than 36 on TIOBE, this should be fixed as  soon as possible." It is: embarrassing. The fact that the LC engine cannot does not produce ISO-8601 standard dates https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-form

Re: SQL(ite) question

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Bob Sneidar wrote: Actually I do this all the time. SELECT * from MyTable where COLUMN1 like "%mysearchtermhere%" OR COLUMN2 like "%mysearchtermhere%" OR COLUMN3 like "%mysearchtermhere%" I loop through a list of columns I want to search to build the query. Wouldn't that be a br

Re: Changing extention on script only stack

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Greg (Pink) Miller wrote: ScriptTracker was definitely the tool I needed. I didn't need an external script for any reason other than faster editing. If people are use SoS solely to get away from performance issues in the Script Editor, rather than add a pile of other tools to make SoS develop

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Exactly. I was hoping the Standalone Builder would do that if you choose to include external SoS in the standalone. What I found instead is that it doesn't being them into the standalone stack file as substacks, nor even convert them to binary stack files in place. It just refuses to allow a

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Kaveh Bazargan via use-livecode
That’s a great idea. :-) On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 18:30, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > My thought was that you'd use the text files during development and then > save them as binary with encryption for the final build. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | ja

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
My thought was that you'd use the text files during development and then save them as binary with encryption for the final build. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On January 14, 2020 11:38:06 AM Kaveh Bazargan via use-liveco

Re: Changing extention on script only stack

2020-01-14 Thread Greg (Pink) Miller via use-livecode
ScriptTracker was definitely the tool I needed. I didn't need an external script for any reason other than faster editing. On Sat, Jan 11, 2020 at 10:43 PM Brian Milby via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > And if you want to edit scripts in an external editor, my tool may be

Re: Embarrasssing old bugs

2020-01-14 Thread Jjs via use-livecode
There are more things which are still not possible in LC concerning mobile. It goes back to 2011 and that is get ads in your app. Or decent touch possibilities like TUIO for all desktop platforms. Klaus major-k via use-livecode schreef op 14 januari 2020 18:55:33 CET: >Hi all, hi mothership, >

Re: Embarrasssing old bugs

2020-01-14 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Bob, > Am 14.01.2020 um 19:04 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > : > This is why I always convert dates to what I call SQL datetime (YY:MM:DD > HH:MM:SS). For display purposes I format as needed. sure, that's what we do in the moment, but something like this is not easily worked around:

Re: SQL(ite) question

2020-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
Pretty sure + means concatenate, otherwise that SQL statement would not work in any I can imagine. Bob S > On Jan 14, 2020, at 10:05 , Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Bob, > >> Am 14.01.2020 um 19:00 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode >> : >> >> The only problem I see he

Re: SQL(ite) question

2020-01-14 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Bob, > Am 14.01.2020 um 19:00 schrieb Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > : > > The only problem I see here is that it is possible to get a match with the > last part of one column and the first part of the next, especially with > numerical data, which would be a false positive. AHA, so SQL tr

Re: Embarrasssing old bugs

2020-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
This is why I always convert dates to what I call SQL datetime (YY:MM:DD HH:MM:SS). For display purposes I format as needed. Not sure this would help on an Android though. Bob S > On Jan 14, 2020, at 09:55 , Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > And now I have to tell him that after

Re: SQL(ite) question

2020-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
The only problem I see here is that it is possible to get a match with the last part of one column and the first part of the next, especially with numerical data, which would be a false positive. Bob S > On Jan 14, 2020, at 01:15 , Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Sean, > >>

FYI: Cause found for LC crashing to desktop when Browser widget opens PDF

2020-01-14 Thread Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode
Hi, maybe this is of use for the one or the other. in any case LC crashes on Mac to desktop when opening a PDF in the Browser Widget and your are getting crazy because of that, then check if Acrobat software is installed on your system. A few days ago i mentionend in an answer to an other post

Embarrasssing old bugs

2020-01-14 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi all, hi mothership, a customer of mine asked me to help him, he needs to deliver an update to his existing app. I hade been mentoring him, a complete newbie, about two years ago and after a couple of months he had an app in the iOS store and in the Google Paly store (or what this is called).

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
I use Nextcloud with my work folders, so backup with versions is automatic, and it keeps everything synced across my Mac, Linux, and Win boxes along with it. But my needs are modest. Because I rarely work in teams larger than three to five developers, and we assign tasks by skill focus so we

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Kaveh Bazargan via use-livecode
The benefits of SoS are so important that I would hate to have to go back to binary again. Nothing like having pure text files to version, back up etc. so I am also hoping for an elegant solution to encode these in standalone. On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 at 17:31, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode < use-liv

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Sure, and with the extra benefit that you wouldn't have to expose your code to end-users. That is, unless there's a way to include SoS in a standalone that includes encryption, such as an automated method in the Standalone Builder. I couldn't find one, but it seems like such a pervasive issue

Re: encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Wouldn't a binary script-only stack be the library stack we already have now? -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On January 14, 2020 9:55:01 AM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Since script-only stacks contain only a

encrypting script-only stacks

2020-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Since script-only stacks contain only a script with no properties, they have no password property, and thus cannot be encrypted. I had thought that including them in the Stacks pane of the Standalone Builder might convert them to binary substacks, where the password could apply. No dice. Is

Use-livecode author names

2020-01-14 Thread hh via use-livecode
See the "statistics" here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?p=186723#p186723 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runre

Re: shell() and pdftotext

2020-01-14 Thread hh via use-livecode
> Richard H. wrote: > Typing to Terminal „pdftotext“ I get a List with command-options. > With get shell(„pdftotext“) with and without quotes > I get the answer „/bin/sh: line 1: pdftotext: command not found“ > What is wrong? May you please help? (MacOS Catalina). You could add on startup /usr/lo

Re: SQL(ite) question

2020-01-14 Thread Klaus major-k via use-livecode
Hi Sean, > Am 14.01.2020 um 02:04 schrieb Pi Digital via use-livecode > : > > Even easier: > > SELECT * FROM MyTable WHERE ((col1+col2+aCol1+aCol2) LIKE > ‘%mysearchtermhere%’) aha, thank you very much, I had no idea this is possible! :-) > Sean Cole > Pi Digital Prod Ltd > >>> On 13 Jan 20