Looking for LiveCode developer in Norway, Stavanger area

2020-09-01 Thread Ivar Andreassen via use-livecode
A mature startup is looking for programmers that have from "little" to professional experience with LiveCode in Norway, and in "south Rogaland" "Stavanger Sandnes region". The reason for being so specific on location is that we want you physically present in our team meetings. We are developing a

Re: formattedRect, formattedLeft, formattedWidth of chunks

2020-09-01 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
When data causes the crash it’s the worst. I had an issue with drag-dropping text from a PDF not knowing that Adobe uses all kinds of non-printing characters. I wrote a cleanASCII function for just that purpose Bob S On Sep 1, 2020, at 3:52 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode mailto:use-livecod

Re: formattedRect, formattedLeft, formattedWidth of chunks

2020-09-01 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
If you control the content, it is probably not an issue. In our case, the content and the ranges (char x to y) are set by the people that use our product - we have no control - so we end up with customer's trying to do their research and suddenly our product hard crashes, sometimes resulting in

Re: formattedRect, formattedLeft, formattedWidth of chunks

2020-09-01 Thread Bob Sneidar via use-livecode
I have a great many of these. I’ll keep a lookout. Bob S On Sep 1, 2020, at 6:25 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: formattedWidth ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit t

Re: Hacktoberfest is coming

2020-09-01 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
H. good question Mark...I certainly don't want to do any work thats going to sit there for a year+ Maybe someone from the mothership can give a yay or nay. On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 10:55 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 8/27/20 9:05 AM, Mike Ker

formattedRect, formattedLeft, formattedWidth of chunks

2020-09-01 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Just a heads up to anyone else out there who may be having VERY hard to track down crashes in LC 9.x.x. The following functions: formattedRect, formattedLeft, formattedWidth when operating on chunk expressions (i.e. char X to Y of field Z) can cause an engine crash for certain field content.

Re: ...and now for something completely off the wall...

2020-09-01 Thread Graham Samuel via use-livecode
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