Re: CentOS Death in 2021

2020-12-13 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
I personally use Neon, it's based upon Ubuntu and is the development base platform for KDE. I find that it is better integrated between the tools as they are specializing upon one desktop and ensuring everything is properly supported. I have used livecode on it over the past year without issue.

Re: LiveCode 9.0.5

2019-10-04 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
9.05 is for the foolish people who bought the special indy license for version 9 You know, the people who where expecting a stable product that was feature complete for the version. Unfortunately, such a beast does not exist. I will not make the same mistake again. On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 19:21,

Re: Recommended specs for Windows Development computer.

2019-10-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
Try Vmware Fusion - you can run windows without needing a dual boot - you just need a windows 10 licence. On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 14:04, Erik Beugelaar via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would advise this hardware: > > - LGA 1152 motherboard (with PCIe ports) > -

Re: ...and Livecode... where are we now?

2019-10-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
I first bought livecode back in 2010, they had lots of hype and promises at the time, most of the promises did not really start to arrive until the open source kickstarter (such as version control). I have tried to make sense of the code base, in order to add support for a few things, such as

Re: import from multi-page png, and automating pdf-> png

2019-07-12 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
https://www.xpdfreader.com/pdftopng-man.html Is probably the tool you are looking for On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 14:49, Dalton Calford wrote: > You can use gimp to automate the conversion of pdf's to specified output > file formats/sizes. This is good for batch work. > xpdfreader also has some

Re: import from multi-page png, and automating pdf-> png

2019-07-12 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
You can use gimp to automate the conversion of pdf's to specified output file formats/sizes. This is good for batch work. xpdfreader also has some good utilities/functionality depending upon what you are trying to do. On Fri, 12 Jul 2019 at 14:46, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode <

Re: Elevating User Rights of Livecode on Linux

2019-07-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
r "put shell('vdir /etc') etc into the message box, all I get is an > error.Is the / a special character that needs to be escaped or > something else? > > best regards > > Dalton > > On Wed, 3 Jul 2019 at 12:41, Mark Wieder via use-livecode < > use-livecode@li

Re: Elevating User Rights of Livecode on Linux

2019-07-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
se-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 7/3/19 8:28 AM, Dalton Calford via use-livecode wrote: > > I am looking to read/write odbc settings from within livecode, but due to > > user rights, I want to allow for sudoer style rights elevation. > > > > Is there a way

Re: Livecode ODBC connection without DSN?

2019-07-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
>break > case "SQL Server" is in tOdbcDrivers > get revOpenDatabase("ODBC","DRIVER={SQLServer};SERVER=" & > pServer & ";DATABASE=pDataBase;UID=" & pUser & ";PWD=" & pPasswd & &

Re: I am no longer an Apple developer

2019-07-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
Hi Alain, I am not a Livecode HTML developer, although I am quite knowledgeable about html 5.I know many different ways to optimize web sites including the use of progressive jpeg, setting up and using a cdn, file compression types/implementations etc. As I don't know how livecode's HTML is

Elevating User Rights of Livecode on Linux

2019-07-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
I am looking to read/write odbc settings from within livecode, but due to user rights, I want to allow for sudoer style rights elevation. Is there a way to present the user with a dialog asking for password from within livecode? best regards Dalton

Re: Livecode ODBC connection without DSN?

2019-07-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
quot;,,,) > > break > > case "SQL Server" is in tOdbcDrivers > > get revOpenDatabase("ODBC","DRIVER={SQL > Server};SERVER=192.168.1.250;DATABASE=MyDatabaseName;UID=sa;PWD=MyDatabasePassword;Trusted_Connection=No",,,) > > break > > end s

Re: Livecode ODBC connection without DSN?

2019-07-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
tc. > > Bob S > > > > On Jul 3, 2019, at 07:42 , Dalton Calford via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > Is it possible to connect to a database without a predefined DSN using >

Livecode ODBC connection without DSN?

2019-07-03 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
Is it possible to connect to a database without a predefined DSN using the livecode database connector? best regards Dalton ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Panel/Form Widget

2019-04-12 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
base >> access(from a low level standpoint). >> >> I hope I am wrong, but I won't know until I dig further into the git >> sources. >> >> >> >> On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 12:45, Stephen Barncard >> wrote: >> >>> This is an old fashi

Re: Panel/Form Widget

2019-04-12 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
: > This is an old fashioned list, which allows no attachments. > Always use links. > > On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 09:40 Dalton Calford via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> > Well, it appears this list is not the best place to use for such a >

Re: Panel/Form Widget

2019-04-12 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
> Well, it appears this list is not the best place to use for such a discussion. I shared some notes and a screen shot and voila, I get this "Your message to use-livecode awaits moderator approval" > I don't know if Richard got the message or not, nor do I know if my post got approved, but with

Re: Documentation on Low Level Database Access

2019-04-11 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
Hi Mark, If I remember correctly, wasn't that DB-Layer rewrite promed back in version 5 or 6 along with full support for version control? On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 16:09, Mark Wieder via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > On 4/11/19 9:12 AM, Dalton Calford via use

Re: Panel/Form Widget

2019-04-11 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
I was about to explain using screen shots, flow diagrams etc., but, then I thought this may not be the best place to be discussing this. If you think this is as good a list as any, I can proceed, but, I will have to do so later this evening as I am about to start a MOP. best regards Dalton On

Re: Panel/Form Widget

2019-04-11 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
ok, In order to explain what I need the utility for, is as a front end to a highly normalized warehouse Temporal Graph database. That probably means nothing to you, but, lets assume it does for the time being. For a simple example, lets say we are dealing with addresses, 2.6 billion addresses,

Re: Panel/Form Widget

2019-04-11 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
Hi Richard, I have no experience with such systems. I only work with computers, > where nothing happens until someone writes some code. :) > I understand where you are coming from, as I started out writing assembly for 8088 processors and the whole idea of writing a loop in a high level

Re: Documentation on Low Level Database Access

2019-04-11 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
Hi Richard, Thanks for the pointer. I will look that up this weekend. The database I am looking at is called firebird (www.firebirdsql.com). It has embedded and standalone libs. Supports windows, linux, osx and ios along with android. It is opensource and has native support for c++, c, pascal,

Documentation on Low Level Database Access

2019-04-11 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
Hi all, I am looking at the git repositories, the widget documentation etc., looking for a solid guide on how livecode accesses database engines. For example, if I wanted to add low level support for another open source database that is available on all the same platforms as livecode, is there

Re: Panel/Form Widget

2019-04-11 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
controls and place them where I want them and then > select them and ”Group” them afterwards. If I want that exact group in > another project I can clone the group in one way or another. > > So I can’t see the big difference... > > But maybe [probably] I’m missing something

Re: Panel/Form Widget

2019-04-11 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
Hi Richard, Thanks for your response! So for the foreseeable future, we have groups, sharable within a stack, > and clonable anywhere, even into other stacks. Using that as a > foundation, we may be able to write a handler or two to give you a very > Viewer-like experience, if you can share more

Panel/Form Widget

2019-04-10 Thread Dalton Calford via use-livecode
Hi all, In other programming languages/environments that I have used, there is a normally a panel object. In livecode terms, it would act like a stack that is embedded inside another stack as a widget. With Delphi, it is a panel (tabbed; normal or repeating) while in MSAccess it is a form