Re: [OT]Silly weekend LC poll

2018-08-26 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
I’ll just switch to using my nose. :-) Kee Nethery > On Aug 25, 2018, at 10:06 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > I swear one of these days someone is going to sew your fingers shut. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > Hyp

Re: [OT]Silly weekend LC poll

2018-08-25 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
For me both are pronounced the way they would be as a full word except only the first syllable is pronounced. > CHAR: Rhymes with "care" > LOC: Rhymes with "smoke" Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lis

Re: A poor man's app updater

2018-08-04 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
For sure don’t try to write updates to Applications on macOS, that requires permissions. Far better to treat them as app data and store in same place preferences get stored. Kee Nethery > On Aug 3, 2018, at 5:29 PM, Peter Bogdanoff via use-livecode > wrote: > > So, to store a

Re: 64 bit LC

2018-07-20 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
cades old and they figured out what my problem was. That’s a pretty successful product. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.r

Re: Why you should sanitize input data

2018-07-16 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
We had a system interface between a public web server and a SQL database that ran pre-formed SQL commands. The table was specified, the variables were typed, the output was processed by XSLT, etc. The public server called a function that included the variables and got back whatever the XSLT

Re: Apple's 30%--anyway around it?

2018-07-16 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
mechanism, can view that content on iOS. Selling content outside the AppStore via your iOS app raises all sorts of red flags. Kee Nethery On Jul 16, 2018, at 6:27 AM, Linda Miller, DVM via use-livecode wrote: > I used to create apps and ebooks years and years ago for PDAs. The o

Re: Examples of encryption for database access

2018-06-28 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
On Jun 28, 2018, at 9:17 AM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: > Another question I have is the best way to process the input text to > eliminate injection type attacks. I have a series of functions that filter out everything but ... digitsOnly() <- deletes everything other than 0

Re: Best practise approach for artwork for iOS and Android?

2018-06-11 Thread Kee Nethery via use-livecode
been rounded. Personally, if the app worked well with the images you had, and redoing them is your big go/no go, I’d use the images you have. If one app gains traction, perhaps v2 has new images. Toss them all against the wall and see what sticks. My two cents. Kee Nethery On Jun 11, 2018

Re: worth it's salt in security

2018-06-06 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
Yes, My description was about hashing. If your main concern is encrypting …. not something I know. sorry. Kee > On Jun 6, 2018, at 7:32 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > Brian Milby wrote: > > From the dictionary: > > > > The password and salt value are combined and scrambled

worth it's salt in security

2018-06-06 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
There is a bunch of basic info on the use of a salt on the web. The wikipedia article is a good start. It depends upon where and how you are using it. Mostly they discuss using a salt with a hash function. They recommend a long salt. They recommend storing the salt with the hashed password.

Re: UTF8 on LC server

2018-05-31 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
I’m assuming you are using “unicode” (aka UTF-16) and not UTF8 to do all your transforming of the data? Kee > On May 31, 2018, at 4:46 PM, Tim Selander via use-livecode > wrote: > > Thanks, Kee. > > Actually, I had found the reference to codepoint in the dictionary and tried > it. But it

Re: UTF8 on LC server

2018-05-31 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
p. In desktop, I can say "put char 1 of variable1" and I get a > Japanese kanji. In LC Server, I only get half a kanji. "Word" chunks are also > not working. Items and lines are OK. Yep, “char" is no longer the thing to use. Use “codepo

macOS and iOS sandbox permissions

2018-05-30 Thread kee nethery via use-livecode
permissions have you used and why? My plan is to aggregate our collective knowledge and post on the Livecode web site. Thanks, kee nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Accessing Amazon Database?

2015-04-01 Thread kee nethery
shared data is stored so that each client can access and write to it. Is anyone else out there doing this and if so, what experiences could you share with me? Thanks in advance. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: [OT] And You Thought Richmond Kept Old Macs Alive

2015-04-01 Thread kee nethery
Or if they have RJ11 phone jacks, PhoneNet connectors. Kee On Mar 27, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com wrote: Localtalk connectors. Bob S ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: xmlerr, can't parse xml, Extra content at the end of the document

2015-03-23 Thread kee nethery
Are you confusing data with labels? kee Normally you’d do something like this where the data is not part of the labels (the indents are just for readability): ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8”? myLiveCodeXml user id=2 usernameTiemo Hollmann/username

Re: Speaking of XML, what about KML?

2015-03-14 Thread kee nethery
, Kee Nethery On Mar 13, 2015, at 10:25 PM, William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org wrote: Thanks, I’ll give it a whack. Bill On Mar 13, 2015, at 1:07 PM, Michael Doub miked...@gmail.com wrote: I had never heard of kml, so I poked around a bit and found some samples at https

Re: App on different systems

2015-02-26 Thread kee nethery
I don’t own a Windows machine, I don’t test on a Windows machine, I do however have an internal app that is used on Macs except for two Windows users. I click the checkbox for build a Windows Standalone and the Windows version works just fine for them. Kee Nethery

Re: [OT] Wireless internet in my flat.

2015-02-25 Thread kee nethery
On Feb 25, 2015, at 9:02 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/02/15 18:31, kee nethery wrote: Compare all the variants of 802.11 that your router supports and that your MacBook Air supports. Could be there is no common 802.11 between them if your router is really old

Re: [OT] Wireless internet in my flat.

2015-02-25 Thread kee nethery
Compare all the variants of 802.11 that your router supports and that your MacBook Air supports. Could be there is no common 802.11 between them if your router is really old tech. Kee On Feb 25, 2015, at 8:25 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I have a wired+wireless router

Re: Because LC can't do two things at once.

2015-02-19 Thread kee nethery
What is PDF/A? It’s a TLA I’m unfamiliar with. Kee On Feb 19, 2015, at 6:21 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, put in PDF/A for #3--without it, I will have no choice but to use another platform, as it will be mandatory for ECF court filing in a couple of years.

Re: A computer science question

2015-02-10 Thread kee nethery
This is exactly the problem faced by circuit board layout programs, and I’ve never seen an algorithm for it. You might want to look to see if there are any open source circuit board layout programs available out there and see how they do tracing layouts. Kee Nethery On Feb 10, 2015, at 10

Re: encrypt storage

2015-02-04 Thread kee nethery
Need more details. What are you encrypting? What is the hash of? Need some idea of what you are attempting to do to answer your question. Kee Nethery On Feb 4, 2015, at 1:40 PM, Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com wrote: Hi all. I’m using encrypt/decrypt with aes128 cipher. Am I

Re: Advice on free app and user security

2015-01-19 Thread kee nethery
On Jan 19, 2015, at 10:55 AM, William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org wrote: Folks: I have been working on an educational app that I’m going to give away for free. I think of it as ROI for all the money I’ve gotten in NSF grants over the years. But, since I’m giving this away for

Re: Advice on free app and user security

2015-01-19 Thread kee nethery
that you can interview them to have them give you advice, or really old versions and really ask them to upgrade. My two cents. Kee Nethery On Jan 19, 2015, at 10:55 AM, William Prothero proth...@earthednet.org wrote: So, I’d like to get some feedback on what you consider the “best

Re: Multilingual UI

2015-01-17 Thread kee nethery
well. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: How to access a file on a remote computer

2015-01-17 Thread kee nethery
on the server Mac. Doing that, you’ll access it as if it was a web page using the get URL command. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: [semi OT] Virtual visits and LC

2015-01-14 Thread kee nethery
ponga.com On Jan 14, 2015, at 11:07 AM, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: Hi list A client of mine wants to add a few virtual visits of warehouses and appartments on his website. Those virtual visits will include various clickable hot spots, for instance to move from one room to another, or on

Re: Livecode 7 - Unicode - items not the same as pre-7?

2015-01-14 Thread kee nethery
is invisible when viewed in a browser. Either way, once I cleaned off characters from the Xpath function results, it did the right thing. Kee On Jan 14, 2015, at 9:48 AM, kee nethery k...@kagi.com wrote: In the pre-Unicode days, this code: set the itemdelimiter to tab put empty into theData

Livecode 7 - Unicode - items not the same as pre-7?

2015-01-14 Thread kee nethery
” it halts. The left arrow ceases to move the insertion point. Why is each item on a separate line? How do I get Unicode Livecode to produce the same output as pre-7? Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: How safe and feasable is it ?

2014-11-15 Thread kee nethery
On Nov 15, 2014, at 5:58 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Kee, What asymmetrical encryption do you use with LiveCode? encrypt theFilePassword using rsa with public key myapppublickey just using the normal RSA algorithm for asymmetrical encryption. Kee

Re: How safe and feasable is it ?

2014-11-09 Thread kee nethery
are recommended these days. Know that MD5 is not recommended. You can pick really big keys since the symmetrical algorithm is quick and the public/private algorithm will be working on a very tiny set of data. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: How to I flatten a Hypercard stack (now Livecode) from cards and backgrounds to just cards?

2014-10-05 Thread kee nethery
Jacque! Kee On Oct 5, 2014, at 1:18 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 10/5/2014, 1:52 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Kee Nethery says that he wants to remove backgrounds in a stack “to bring it into the modern era” Can anybody explain this statement ? What does

How to I flatten a Hypercard stack (now Livecode) from cards and backgrounds to just cards?

2014-10-04 Thread kee nethery
I imported a stack that uses a whole series of separate backgrounds. I’m converting it into Livecode and one of the things I’d like to do to bring it into the modern era is to get rid of card fields/buttons/scripts and background fields/buttons/scripts and just have fields, buttons and

Re: How to I flatten a Hypercard stack (now Livecode) from cards and backgrounds to just cards?

2014-10-04 Thread kee nethery
OK, I’ll give it a try. Thanks! Kee On Oct 4, 2014, at 1:40 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: From the message box, set the HCAddressing to false. That's all you should need to do. On October 4, 2014 3:16:45 PM CDT, kee nethery k...@kagi.com wrote: I imported

Re: Helping newcomers anticipate that standalones can't save to themselves

2014-08-15 Thread kee nethery
I use the launcher/updater with the script/data stack model so my standalones can save changes into it’s stacks. Wonder if it would make sense to have a standard version of that launcher/updater so that newbies can just grab it and use it. Kee On Aug 15, 2014, at 7:13 AM, Richard Gaskin

Mac printing Scale to fit paper size

2014-08-14 Thread kee nethery
. Is there someone out there with printer foo who I can hire to fix this for me? Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: Mac printing Scale to fit paper size

2014-08-14 Thread kee nethery
/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my new book Programming LiveCode for the Real Beginner http://qery.us/3fi LiveCode on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/runrev/ On 8/14/2014 21:11, kee nethery wrote: I’m printing postcards

Re: Multiple versions of apps

2014-08-12 Thread kee nethery
knows a way to save a stack as an application via script command. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com

Re: Execution of a long script

2014-08-11 Thread kee nethery
for a really long period of time, I know that is where I need to add a debug statement and figure out why it is taking so long there. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: [OT] SWIFT

2014-07-14 Thread kee nethery
Swift is going to have an amazingly fast adoption rate. People learned Objective-C to write Apple apps. It’s not really usable for anything else. All those people using Objective-C will switch to Swift for several reasons; it is easier to learn (it has a playground), it is designed to prevent

Re: Adjusting the size of cards in a stack

2014-07-08 Thread kee nethery
On Jul 8, 2014, at 2:27 PM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: On 7/8/14 9:44 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I have a stack with two cards in it each of which is a different size. I've been trying to understand how this is possible. Do you mean you're adjusting the

Re: programatically click?

2014-04-22 Thread kee nethery
programatic control and human interaction. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Anyone using Zygodact registration system with Kagi.com?

2014-04-07 Thread kee nethery
the stack back to us. We push your code into our systems and from then on, your products can get unlock codes based upon your algorithms. Happy to send the stack to anyone you wants it. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Dogcow!

2014-04-05 Thread kee nethery
I am proud to have a Claris the dogcow button on my Apple blue jean jacket. On Apr 5, 2014, at 12:04 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Susan Kare, with a cameo by Clarus: http://priceonomics.com/the-woman-behind-apples-first-icons/

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-28 Thread kee nethery
, they all have access to that server. The fun thing is that the logs get rolled so that it’s only the last some number of days that is stored in the logs. If I never need to look at the data, the files stay a fixed size. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: udid

2014-02-16 Thread kee nethery
What about if the user logs in using their corporate login data and you assign them a unique id based upon that? Maybe your app gathers some data about the phone (model, whatever is available) to characterize the device to some degree in case they have multiple? Kee Nethery On Feb 16, 2014

Re: IDE versus MSG Box - Field Tabstops

2013-08-14 Thread kee nethery
A summer class in Computer programming and slide rules in 1969 in the sixth grade on a teletype with paper tape. First personal computer was a SouthWest Technical Products 6800 in 1978. Kee Nethery On Aug 14, 2013, at 1:50 PM, Jerry Jensen j...@jhj.com wrote: I had my first computer class

Re: odd and even numbers

2013-08-05 Thread kee nethery
execution?) Kee Nethery On Aug 5, 2013, at 1:30 PM, Paul D. DeRocco pdero...@ix.netcom.com wrote: From: dunb...@aol.com Just ask yourself this answer testNumber mod 2 If you get a 1, testnumber is odd, if a 0, even. Careful, x mod 2 will be -1 for a negative odd number. Better

OT: UK Ordnance Maps and LiveCode

2013-07-23 Thread kee nethery
I keep reading this as UK Ordinance Maps and wonder if LiveCode is being used to deal with LiveBombs. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Does Apple accepts App with LC field instead of native iOS fields?

2013-06-21 Thread kee nethery
They are not purists. Being able to use the magnifier is not in the rules for what an app has to comply with to be accepted. Yes you can just use a LC field. Kee Nethery (I'm not Apple so your mileage may vary) On Jun 21, 2013, at 5:36 PM, Matthias Rebbe matthias_livecode_150...@m-r-d.de wrote

Re: Another bizarre Apple patent troll case, in which Runtime Revolution plays a bit part

2013-06-02 Thread kee nethery
it was different from state of the art 1993. Kee Nethery On Jun 2, 2013, at 7:43 PM, Brahmanathswami bra...@hindu.org wrote: Great publicity Mind-boogling that these software patents get approved. Wasn't this part of Hypercard? on mouseDown grab me end mouseDown Brahmanathaswami

Re: Rethinking rsa encryption of license keys

2013-05-14 Thread kee nethery
You embed your public RSA key into your app. You pick a random symmetrical key and encrypt your payload using that key. You encrypt the random symmetrical key with your private RSA key. You append the encrypted random key to your encrypted payload and send that to the customer. You extract the

Re: Rethinking rsa encryption of license keys

2013-05-14 Thread kee nethery
On May 14, 2013, at 3:09 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 2:08 PM, kee nethery k...@kagi.com wrote: You embed your public RSA key into your app. You pick a random symmetrical key and encrypt your payload using that key. You encrypt the random symmetrical key

Re: Rethinking rsa encryption of license keys

2013-05-14 Thread kee nethery
On May 14, 2013, at 5:43 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 3:22 PM, kee nethery k...@kagi.com wrote: There is nothing insecure about a symmetrical key. The insecurity with a symmetrical key is that both people have to know it and getting it from person

Re: Timed scripts without locking up functionality

2013-05-13 Thread kee nethery
-- use a send magicgatemouseup to stack mystack in 120 seconds -- then in your stack on magicgatemouseup processRequest if condition is not met then send magicgatemouseup to stack mystack in 120 seconds end if end magicgatemouseup On May 13, 2013, at 5:21 PM, Magicgate

Re: Timed scripts without locking up functionality

2013-05-13 Thread kee nethery
yes. good catch. Thanks Kee On May 13, 2013, at 6:07 PM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: Make sure you put the message to be sent in quotes: send magicgatemouseup ... Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 5/13/13 5:26 PM, kee

Re: Autosave from field?

2013-03-31 Thread kee nethery
I know english language experts say I am wrong but I too tend to use they and their to be gender neutral. Kee On Mar 31, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Peter Bogdanoff bogdan...@me.com wrote: On Mar 31, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 2:46 PM, J. Landman Gay

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-17 Thread kee nethery
On Mar 17, 2013, at 12:56 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/16/2013 10:42 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Mar 16, 2013, at 1:07 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: If one does not tie a piece of software to a piece of hardware there is probably no way to

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread kee nethery
Instead of user name, I recommend using their email. Why? Because my user name is Richard Hawkins but my email is k...@kagi.com (if I want to receive the app you are going to send to me). Richard Hawkins On Mar 15, 2013, at 10:00 PM, Peter Bogdanoff bogdan...@me.com wrote: Richard, You

Re: serial numbers on standalones

2013-03-16 Thread kee nethery
and they will frequently pay for the upgrade. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Alternative To A Specific Switch Statement

2013-03-14 Thread kee nethery
I would do the calc once. I would make the last one default just in case the calc provides you with something funky. Kee __put sin(pAngleInRadians) into sinCalc __switch case sinCalc 0 __put 1 into tX __break case sinCalc = 0 __put 0 into tX __break default __put

Re: Unicode in Answer Dialog on iOS

2013-03-01 Thread kee nethery
card. On top of that I have the image of a dialog. In that I have fields and buttons. Until they deal with the fake dialog, the transparent button prevents them from interacting with anything else on the screen. It's a hack but it works. Kee Nethery

Re: MacToISO

2013-02-07 Thread kee nethery
On Feb 7, 2013, at 5:20 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Really would be nice if the whole platform moved to utf8... stretch goal??? Interesting, I just assumed that re-organizing the code would involve UTF8. My bad. BFA Kee

Re: Apple

2013-02-02 Thread kee nethery
Java apps work just fine. For example Minecraft works. Java in the browser has been blocked. Web sites that load java code onto your machine have been halted from running. Kee ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure, Economic Hardships and Dual Survival

2013-01-24 Thread kee nethery
Just think of all the weirdness of that 18 year client that you won't have to deal with and of the nice shiny new computer you'll be working on and how nice and defragmented your data will be on the new shiny computer. I think your life is about to get a whole lot better. If you want to ponder

Re: Telephony in LiveCode

2013-01-15 Thread kee nethery
Asterisk is HUGE. There is no reason to port it to Mac. All the cards are what make it so useful and those are all for Linux. Odds are, if there is something that is telephony based that you want done, you can probably configure Asterisk to do it. You can get books on how to configure Asterisk

Re: Strange contents of long name

2013-01-15 Thread kee nethery
Can you give examples? Kee On Jan 15, 2013, at 12:10 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I think this has been discussed before but it appears that the long name of an object sometimes includes IDs rather than names. Specifically, if a control's name is empty, it's long name will use

Re: Learning LiveCode

2012-12-27 Thread kee nethery
ZX81 CPU chip was made by Zilog (thus the Z). The first Sinclair used the Z80. The Z80 chip was Z80 because it was binary compatible with the Intel 8080. The ZX81 was a Z80 CPU with more stuff added into it, thus, the ZX81 (presumably eXtra and 81 because that was the next number). Back in

Re: Switch, Case and wild-cards?

2012-12-27 Thread kee nethery
switch case 1 stuff break case 2 … case 500 stuff break default stuff CASE for ALL excluded cases break end switch On Dec 27, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: So there I am up to my thighs in a switch statement with

Re: [OT] mayan calendar - my calendar

2012-12-21 Thread kee nethery
According to my calendar on the wall, the world actually ends December 31st of this year. There are no other dates after that. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: App rejected now the 3rd time - because...

2012-12-01 Thread kee nethery
for the reviewers to experience the full experience. Even if you have to mock up the data. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http

Re: [OT] the evils (?) of secure boot.

2012-11-26 Thread kee nethery
For banking I just purchased a cheap Chromebook. Just got it today. Gonna see if it can talk to all the banks we use. But that is all it will ever be used for, banking. Kee On Nov 26, 2012, at 11:59 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/26/2012 09:16 PM, Mike Kerner wrote:

Re: URL function fails on http requests, results in invalid host address, other internet functions work correctly

2012-11-19 Thread kee nethery
app is trying to look up a DNS entry to grab a config file to ensure it is the latest code running. Could be the livecode DNS lookup routine is impatient. Could be it should be waiting a tad longer for a DNS response and it isn't. Might be a bug in LiveCode. Just a thought, Kee Nethery

Re: http://www.haiku-os.org/

2012-11-17 Thread kee nethery
My understanding was that BeOS had few drivers and few protocol stacks whereas the NeXT Mach version of Unix had everything. BeOS was very shiny but not full featured. Unix rugged robust reliable but not sexy. From what I recall, it was not price, it was time to market with an OS that could

Re: Integer-Calculation with 24 decimals?

2012-11-13 Thread kee nethery
For this, I'd do it by hand. Treat the numbers as text in a field rather than digits and follow the same process you would if you were to do this on paper. For modulo I'd start by making a list of multiples of 97 and start manually subtracting them. for example, 1234516789012345678901234

Re: revGoURL mailto bug ?

2012-10-25 Thread kee nethery
Wouldn't you URLencode this stuff since mailto: is a URI prefix? Kee Nethery On Oct 24, 2012, at 10:41 PM, Bob Earp rje...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm using revGoURL to send eMails to Apple Mail as follows; put mailto:?; lSubjectTxtlAddresseslBodyTxt into lMailMsg revGoURL lMailMsg

Re: [OT] Baseball

2012-10-11 Thread kee nethery
On Oct 11, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: With apologies to our non-USA and those who live outside the SF Bay Area but GOOO GIANTS Would you turn them into gooo with a blender or would you use some kind of chemical to dissolve them? Kee

Re: SafeWallet

2012-09-26 Thread kee nethery
InfoWallet That would be Bill Vlahos Kee On Sep 26, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Doesn't one of the Livecode devs make the product SafeWallet? Or was that InfoWallet? Bob ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: in-app purchase customers data

2012-07-25 Thread Kee Nethery
On Jul 25, 2012, at 8:27 AM, paolo mazza wrote: Hi all, I have a question about in-app purchase of Apple.I was told Your server doesn't have to keep track of who has purchased what because Apple does that. Is it true? In particular I need to receive from Apple the email of my customers.

Re: Why killing Media was killing an investment in the future

2012-07-19 Thread Kee Nethery
with a small program, he turns to Scratch. That said, it is not designed to create standalone apps. It's not a replacement for something like LiveCode. But as a first programming language, it is amazingly good. Kee Nethery On Jul 19, 2012, at 12:19 AM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: http

Re: Condtional parameters in handler calls

2012-07-17 Thread Kee Nethery
something amazing and cannot be interpreted by a human. Just my two cents. Kee Nethery On Jul 17, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I'm pretty sure this is not possible but it would be very cool if a parameter to a command could be a conditiion something like: myCommand parm1

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-19 Thread Kee Nethery
Wouldn't altering a file inside the application bundle invalidate the code signing required by MAS and makes it look to the OS as though some malware has altered that application? Kee Nethery On 19/06/12 09:45, Peter Haworth wrote: Personally I would save any preferences from a Macintosh

Re: Globals

2012-06-09 Thread Kee Nethery
On Jun 9, 2012, at 7:32 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: It seems that globals are global to any main stack currently in memory. If I have global gXYZ defined in stack file A, then open stack file B which also has a global defined for gXYZ, whatever is done to gXYZ within stack file A will affect

Re: Blockly

2012-05-20 Thread Kee Nethery
Scratch is open source and many other environments have used that UI for coding. My son who is now 10 has been coding in Scratch for 3 or 4 years. It is a very easy to learn environment and it supports message passing, objects, variables, etc. He's learned some very high level concepts without

Re: [OT] How to take a fairly good concept and jack it up badly

2012-04-16 Thread Kee Nethery
I would guess that your complaint is one they are hearing right now from other similar customers. Until the software is actually for sale, it probably does not make much sense to get worked up about their distribution system for large organizations. Their last OS update price was around $30.

Re: Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-09 Thread Kee Nethery
Or just use the Mac Archive or Compress menu item in the Finder. It works great. Kee ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Localization languages

2012-04-06 Thread Kee Nethery
On Apr 6, 2012, at 1:40 AM, Sergio Schvarstein wrote: Great ! Thanks Kee and thanks Matthias. :-) I've added the two empty folders via the standalone settings and it worked. Now the binary localization is set to (en,es) so let's see if in the iTunes info it appears as English,

Re: Localization languages

2012-04-05 Thread Kee Nethery
. You can name the folders English.lproj or en.lproj and Spanish.lproj or es.lproj but the trend is towards using the ISO names for the languages. Kee Nethery On Apr 5, 2012, at 4:59 AM, Sergio Schvarstein wrote: Hi Monte, Thanks for your quick answer and I agree it must be an option

Re: [irev] passing a parameter

2012-03-22 Thread Kee Nethery
This is correct except it is a key value pair: http://kweto.com/receiveData.irev?date=Jan2012,sender=Nicolas%20Cuelo that kind of thing. Also, the data you pass should be URL encoded (as in above replacing the space between your names with the URL encoded version of that character). Kee

Re: Slightly OC - LC in Keynote ?

2012-03-12 Thread Kee Nethery
I believe QuitTime has the ability to record your screen into a video and if you do the LiveCode app demo and record it you could have that video in KeyNote. Plus, you could ship it to other folks and they could see it also. Kee Nethery On Mar 12, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Bob Earp wrote: I have

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-11 Thread Kee Nethery
On Feb 11, 2012, at 12:57 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I'd wager a majority of computing professionals these days don't even know who Vannevar Bush was, or Project Xanadu. Kids... My wife owns a laser printed, hand bound user guide for Project Xanadu that she got from one of the guys on the

IMAP libraries?

2012-02-07 Thread Kee Nethery
I presume the answer is no but ... are there any LiveCode IMAP client libraries for LiveCode to act as a mail client? Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: SqLite to MySQL and back or ?

2011-10-17 Thread Kee Nethery
on a server. Just a thought, could be totally wrong. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use

Re: User Preferences

2011-10-12 Thread Kee Nethery
then IP-b then IP-a then IP-c etc for the same reg code within the same day, you absolutely have multiple users using one reg code. Kee Gerry Kee Nethery wrote: Log all the server connections. Once a day examine the log files to see if the same unlock code is coming from multiple IP

Re: User Preferences

2011-10-11 Thread Kee Nethery
message and a URL that explains it (with the unlock code encoded in the URL). That will let you know whether the unlock code is out there in major use. Finally, for each revision of your software, include some number of the unlock codes that if seen will cause the app to disable itself. Kee Nethery

Re: MultiThreading Question

2011-10-05 Thread Kee Nethery
want the load command. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Licensing Issues for LC developers [was: Re: Reading PDF - a cry for help]

2011-10-03 Thread Kee Nethery
is incorrect. Kee Nethery On Oct 3, 2011, at 4:03 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: The applicable part of the GPL referring to compiled and complete versions of programs (such as GhostScript in binary form, which is what I intend to use) is Section 6. It does allow use of the compiled code, provided

Re: On-Rev: irev to mysql to html charset (apostrophes, etc.) confusion?

2011-10-03 Thread Kee Nethery
repeat end if return theText end escapeQuote Kee Nethery On Oct 3, 2011, at 5:02 PM, Pete wrote: In SQLite, the way to escape an apostrophe is to precede it with another apostrophe, not a backslash. mySQL allows either method, not sure about other SQL implementations. Pete Molly's

Alternatives to SiteGrinder?

2011-09-23 Thread Kee Nethery
and have it create CSS and HTML? If I have the HTML and CSS, I can have RevServer create the HTML with the data in it. Kee Nethery ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

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