Re: Adding and delete a row of data to the Polygrid

2023-08-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Alex, Thank you. On 8/28/2023 9:35 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: Sorry, I meant 10.x In 9.x you could do put sColSubtotalArray into tA[1] set the addDataAfter of widget "rwTableview" to tA Alex Sent from my iPhone On 28 Aug 2023, at 13:33, Paul Dupuis via use-liveco

Re: Adding and delete a row of data to the Polygrid

2023-08-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/28/2023 7:28 AM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: The latest LC has the additional feauture of "automatic" sequences; i.e. Is that LC 10.0.0dp5 or LC 9.6.9 or 9.6.10rc1, which 'latest' version? ___ use-livecode mailing list

Adding and delete a row of data to the Polygrid

2023-08-27 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I ran into an inconsistency with the Polygrid The Polygrid property pgDataOfRow returns the data for the row indicated by what pgInternalPointer is set to. The pgData of the Polygrid is a 2D array of the form array[n][columnName]value and pgDataOfRow returns a 1D array of the form

Re: Merging PDF pages

2023-08-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
() to call it to do several video operations that can't be done in Livecode. Paul Dupuis Researchware On 8/25/2023 9:10 AM, Eller, Roger via use-livecode wrote: It's been a while since I've posted a question here. Is it possible to use livecode script to merge multiple 1-page PDFs into a multipage

Re: Polygrid sorting

2023-08-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ng by item pColumnNumber of each else sort lines of tText descending by item pColumnNumber of each end if set the text of me to tText end headerClick Kind regards, Panos -- On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 02:57, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: The

Polygrid sorting

2023-08-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
The Polygrid, unlike the Datagrid, has no built in column sorting. You have to roll your own. Before I write my own, has anyone written a column sort (i.e click on a column header to sort by it) for a Poly grid they'd care to share? ___

Re: Polygrid columns not fully clearing when pgColumns is set

2023-08-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
column(s), then set the pgColumns of the PolyGrid? Bob S On Aug 24, 2023, at 1:26 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Thanks Klaus. I may use this method rather than the overhead of clearing and setting the whole pgData property. Actually, the more I think about it, neither "m

Re: Polygrid columns not fully clearing when pgColumns is set

2023-08-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
left over data in pgData, only the columns in the currently set pgColumns should be seen. On 8/24/2023 2:34 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Paul, Am 24.08.2023 um 20:30 schrieb Paul Dupuis via use-livecode : Aha, I was setting pgColumns to the fewer columns and T

Re: Polygrid columns not fully clearing when pgColumns is set

2023-08-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Aha, I was setting pgColumns to the fewer columns and THEN pgData to the smaller data set to match the columns You need to clear the pgData (set to empty) first, then set the columns, then set the new pgData. Perhaps this is a documentation bug? On 8/24/2023 2:26 PM, Paul Dupuis via use

Polygrid columns not fully clearing when pgColumns is set

2023-08-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Hi to any polygrid developers out there, Please see bug https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24315 I have run into an issue with the latest polygrid (as of this post) where if you set pgColumns to a new array that reduces the number of columns in the grid, some old columns are not

Polygrid questions

2023-08-22 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I see I have the properties of a polygrid for: pgColumns -- an array of all column properties and pgColumnWidths -- a comma delimited list of widths There does not seem to be a distinct property just for alignments, such as pgColumnAlignments What I need to do is change the width and/or

Re: Detecting when resizeStack is completed

2023-08-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/18/2023 12:03 PM, David Epstein via use-livecode wrote: How can I redraw objects after the user has resized the stack, but not continuously during the resize? Releasing the mouse at the end of a resize does not appear to send a mouseUp message. after resizeStack  -- actions you want

Re: Rectangles on Windows?

2023-08-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
If you want to send me a link to your Windows standalone, I would be happy to download it (Windows 11 HP laptop) and see if I see the same thing. Or a link to your stack and I can see if it appears in the LC 9.6.9 IDE if you want. On 8/11/2023 10:19 AM, Dar Scott via use-livecode wrote:

Re: Snapshot of browser not working?

2023-08-01 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Exporting a snapshot of a PLAYER fails under Windows (see https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23694). Exporting the Browser widget may be related? If it is reproducible in a test stack, you shoud file a bug report with a test stack to demonstrate the error. I seem to recall other

Re: charIndex property

2023-07-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have no idea why pasting placed *'s all over the place! On 7/31/2023 11:54 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Bob, Here is a version of Mark's method, for trueWords, sentences, and paragraphs, with the added parameter of pDirection to get the char index of the start of the chunk

Re: charIndex property

2023-07-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
remain after deletion. The above puts in a sentinel char which can be searched for to find where the requested chunk started. Second time lucky? ;) Mark. Sent from my iPhone On 27 Jul 2023, at 21:23, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 7/27/2023 4:31 AM, Mark Waddingham via

Re: Reorder fields

2023-07-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
You can change the layer (order) in the Project Browser in the IDE by just dragging the objects up or down the list of objects on the card. On 7/28/2023 6:19 AM, Mark Smith via use-livecode wrote: How do you reorder fields? I have a form (prebuilt) with 3 fields (a,b,c) in positions 9, 15,

Re: charIndex property

2023-07-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/27/2023 5:06 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Oh those pesky chunks which don’t ‘cover’ the target string (which is actually all of them except codeunit/point/char come to think of it). I should have run through a few more examples in my head before posting…. Alternative

Re: charIndex property

2023-07-27 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/27/2023 4:31 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2023-07-26 18:02, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: If I have some text in a field, I can use the "charIndex" property (see Dictionary) to obtain teh character position of the first character of a chunk. Does a

Re: charIndex property

2023-07-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/26/2023 8:00 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: actually, i have a couple of questions, which are maybe suggestions, but are actually questions, because maybe someone else will be curious enough to try to solve them * did you check the oss source to see if the function is available?

Re: LC on Sonoma beta

2023-07-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/26/2023 4:20 PM, Marty Knapp via use-livecode wrote: Anyone have any input regarding LC apps running on the Apple Sonoma beta? I have not installed it but have some customers who have and saying my app crashes. Also, anyone using the Levure framework to build Universal apps with LC

Re: charIndex property

2023-07-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/26/2023 1:13 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: OIC what that does. I suggest having a hidden field, setting the text of that field to your variable, then operating on that field. Bob S That is what I am currently doing. And I have a hidden field, hidden image, hidden player - all

charIndex property

2023-07-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
If I have some text in a field, I can use the "charIndex" property (see Dictionary) to obtain teh character position of the first character of a chunk. For example, if the field contains: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. The lazy dog was named "Oz". The lazy dog was a great dog.

Re: What is your best practice for setting a script in a script?

2023-07-21 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
As some people on this list and the forums have explored in the past, I have a interest in creating a Livecode application (stack) entirely from a (text only) single script. So there are initially no Livecode objects to place a behavior script in. There are initially no buttons, fields, cards,

Re: Apple Notarization changes...

2023-07-17 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Well, I'm glad the lesson and tool exists and thanks for the link. On the negative side, I just found the Apple developer Xcode page that shows that Xcode 13minimum OS version is  macOS Big Sur 11.3 So, no more Mojave. Huge bummer for me. We have a macBook Air with Ventura (latest version),

Apple Notarization changes...

2023-07-17 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I got an email from Apple Developer date 13-Jun-2023 that: "We’re reaching out because you recently used the altool command-line utility to notarize your macOS software with Apple. As announced last year at WWDC22, if you’re still using altool with the Apple notary service, you should

Re: What is your best practice for setting a script in a script?

2023-07-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Oh, another great solutions! On 7/15/2023 8:23 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote: On 15/07/2023 21:29, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: All good suggestions so far, but not what I was after, which was whether there is any better way to have the script you are setting the newly

Re: What is your best practice for setting a script in a script?

2023-07-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
That's pretty good! On 7/15/2023 7:14 PM, Geoff Canyon via use-livecode wrote: Custom properties would definitely be my go-to, similar to what others have said. That said, I think the merge command is your friend here. This script in a button does what you want: on mouseUp set the script

Re: What is your best practice for setting a script in a script?

2023-07-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
le" to . On 7/15/2023 11:06 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: So in the instances where you have a script that creates an object and then sets the script of that object (example below), what is you best practice for having the script in a script and still be readable? Example: BUTTON

What is your best practice for setting a script in a script?

2023-07-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
So in the instances where you have a script that creates an object and then sets the script of that object (example below), what is you best practice for having the script in a script and still be readable? Example: BUTTON "Make" on mouseUp   local tScript   create button "Sample"   put "on

Re: Workaround for regular Crash setting (audio) file of player?

2023-07-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Are you on a single monitor or do you have more than 1 display? It is a known bug that the player object freezes or crashes when petting properties on any monitor but the primary display: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20707 On 7/15/2023 9:07 AM, David Bovill via use-livecode

Re: Field highlited

2023-07-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
, is there a way of determining the default highlight colour? When I select some text in a field it highlights to a light blue color, but I can’t find where that color is set. Thanks Mark On 13 Jul 2023, at 11:01 pm, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 7/12/2023 6:21 PM, Paul Dupuis via

Re: Convert date

2023-07-14 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Yes to this. I have, lot so many developer, a set of functions to translate to and from this date format. We can all write our own or use ones others have provided, but it would be nice if this was built into the language. On 7/13/2023 10:59 PM, Neville Smythe via use-livecode wrote:

Re: Field highlited

2023-07-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/12/2023 6:21 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I have a LC9 field object - just a scrolling field (not a list field) with a lot of text. The user selects some text and then click a button near the field. I want the selection to remain highlighted, but when you click outside

Re: Field highlited

2023-07-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Thank your Bob, Craig, and William for the responses. It appears the way I have done it in the past is the "best" option. I was hoping there was some clever trick I don't know, but it is what it is. I'll do what I have done before. Thanks again. On 7/12/2023 6:21 PM, Paul Dupu

Field highlited

2023-07-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a LC9 field object - just a scrolling field (not a list field) with a lot of text. The user selects some text and then click a button near the field. I want the selection to remain highlighted, but when you click outside the field the highlight goes away. Any simple solutions to this.

Re: Livecode 10.0.0dp5 new reserved words

2023-07-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/11/2023 11:20 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Or… he could just go through his code using the find utility and replace every instance of tExt with tExtension. :-) Yes, I plan to: tExt = t Ext = TEXT  > tFileExtension pLayer = p Layer = PLAYER > tObjectLayer etc.

Re: Livecode 10.0.0dp5 new reserved words

2023-07-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/11/2023 8:26 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Cases of using 'tExt' is not uncommon - as it is really difficult to see that it is 'text'... Another one (which bit Ali recently) is `pLayer'. I'm sure there are a fair few other examples. Ouch! 'pLayer' is another I'd better

Re: Livecode 10.0.0dp5 new reserved words

2023-07-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/11/2023 8:01 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2023-07-11 12:28, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Does anyone, including folks at the mothership, have a list of new reserved words in Livecode 10? I have used a variable called "tExt" (t for temp, Ext for

Livecode 10.0.0dp5 new reserved words

2023-07-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Does anyone, including folks at the mothership, have a list of new reserved words in Livecode 10? I have used a variable called "tExt" (t for temp, Ext for extension)  to pull of the file extension from file paths. i.e. if tFile contains "C:/users/paul/desktop/image.png" set itemDel to "."

Re: A stack "revCursors" is already in memory.

2023-07-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/6/2023 5:12 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 7/6/23 9:26 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I have a new Livecode 9.6.9  install on a new Windows 11 laptop. It was working normally for a while, and, now, whenever I launch it, I get a warning message: A stack

A stack "revCursors" is already in memory.

2023-07-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a new Livecode 9.6.9  install on a new Windows 11 laptop. It was working normally for a while, and, now, whenever I launch it, I get a warning message: A stack "revCursors" is already in memory. The Livecode UI does not ... etc.. Can someone advise what I need to do to address this?

Re: Remote debugger error message

2023-07-02 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I got this error in a new install of LC969 on a brand new Windows 11 HP laptop. After I quit LC and started it again, I have not seen the error. I think there may have been some Windows notification that appeared but went away before I could do anything in the standard Win10/11 Notifications

Re: PDF widget and XPDFviewer

2023-06-17 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
the widget. Paul Dupuis Researchware On 6/17/2023 1:39 PM, David Epstein via use-livecode wrote: What is the relation between the widget “PDF” and the external “XPDFViewer” (both in Pro Features)? The latter offers more direct access to a few properties (e.g., totalCharacterCount), while

Re: Windows OS and LC969 weirdness

2023-06-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
! On 6/12/2023 2:19 PM, panagiotis m via use-livecode wrote: Hello Paul, It sounds like this bug: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20707 Kind regards, Panos On Mon, 12 Jun 2023, 21:10 Paul Dupuis via use-livecode, < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: I have a weird problem

Windows OS and LC969 weirdness

2023-06-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a weird problem and I am wondering if anyone has seen anything like it. I have an desktop app, built in Livecode 9.6.9 and running under Windows 10 and 11. The app has stacks/windows to display different types of content docText for text, docPDF for PDFs, docImage for images, docMedia

Re: Notarizing a Mac app

2023-06-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I'm pretty sure you have to sign and notarize each build. On 6/12/2023 12:16 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Does rebuilding a Mac app retain a previous notarization or do I need to re-notarize and re-sign on every new build? I want to distribute a notarized and signed app to

Re: google translator access via livecode

2023-06-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 6/4/2023 2:35 PM, Andrew Meit via use-livecode wrote: I am seeking a widget or live script code to translate a single word or at most 256 chrs text from within a stack. I think there is or was Google api livecode could use to talk with the Google translator server via scripting. My ideal

Livecode enhancements

2023-05-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I ran into another time today where having the ability to define data structures (or templates) in Livecode would be a significant enhancement (for me at least) to the language. I see these 2 enhancement requests that cover defining data structures/templates, although they are suggesting

Re: XAVVI and app/code copyright

2023-05-17 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Xavvi generates livecode script as directed by you. Just as livecode script you create now is copywritable, whether you write each lie by hand or copy some code from a freely available library, the finished application you make can be copyrighted by you. Same with Xavvi. On 5/17/2023 10:11

Re: Inclusions and JSON

2023-05-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
NEVER MIND. I just realized that JSONToArray is part of the mergeJSON library and not part of the JSON library! Dear Livecode: For the JSON ignorant among us, could we just have one JSON library - by whatever name! On 5/9/2023 7:30 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I have a stack

Inclusions and JSON

2023-05-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a stack that serves as a plugin for our app. The plugin stack makes some calls using jsonToArray The external stack alone in the LC 9.6.9 IDE works perfectly. The external plugin stack opened in our app in LC 9.6.9 IDE works perfectly. The external plugin stack opening in the

Re: opencard and visual effect

2023-05-03 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
If I have followed this thread: 1) Klaus executes a go to with a visual effect using an effect rate of X millisecs 2) Klaus need to start a time on how long the user of the app has to answer a question once the card is displayed I believe the order is: 1) preOpencard handler (if one) is

Re: Creating 'read only' text files

2023-04-30 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I don't know of a Livecode syntax per se to do this (i.e some syntax like: set the permissions of file tFile to read-only) You can do this in Livecode using the shell() function (see the dictionary) to issue applicable mac or win command lines. For eample a Google search shows the command

Re: revXML and UTF8

2023-04-10 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
hout using the xml library, all characters display fine. The problem is really with revXML. There must be a trick for using revXML with UTF8 file format. Le 2023-04-10 07:28, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode a écrit : Look up textEncode and textDecode in the dictionary. Text from or to a file needs to

Re: revXML and UTF8

2023-04-10 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
library, all characters display fine. The problem is really with revXML. There must be a trick for using revXML with UTF8 file format. Le 2023-04-10 07:28, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode a écrit : Look up textEncode and textDecode in the dictionary. Text from or to a file needs to be decoded or encoded

Re: revXML and UTF8

2023-04-10 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Look up textEncode and textDecode in the dictionary. Text from or to a file needs to be decoded or encoded since LC 7. On 4/10/2023 4:07 AM, jbv via use-livecode wrote: Hi list, I have an xml file with lots of non-western characters (greek, arabic, japanese...). I need to convert these data

Re: Ventura 1.3 - revcopyfile

2023-04-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
You may also be able to address this by giving any Standalone if this app is it's own Standalone) or the Livecode version you are using the "Full Disk Access" permission, from System Settings On 4/6/2023 1:03 AM, Jean-Jacques Wagner via use-livecode wrote: Hi, Last Sunday I upgrade to

Re: How to loop through stacks with same name?

2023-04-04 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I believe there is a IDE handler you can call to unload a stack - something like "revUnloadStack" or similar, but I do not recall the exact API name. Hopefully, some one else on the list has the exact API details. Alternatively, contact supp...@livecode.com and ask what the IDE API is to

Re: We cannot edit cRevStandaloneSettings

2023-03-30 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I just used LC 9.6.9rc3 to runs an Installer app (built in LiveCode) we use to making installers for our research product for macOS and Windows. It sets the cRevStandaloneSettings via script for each of 2 installer standalones (one for each platform) it builds. It ran without errors. The

Re: Datagrid column sorting

2023-03-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
NEVER MIND I discovered how to add a 'on SortDataGridColumn pColumn' handler to the datgrid group script to address the issue. On 3/20/2023 3:38 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: With a datagrid, there is a property - the dgProp["sort by column"] of group "Data Grid&q

Datagrid column sorting

2023-03-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
With a datagrid, there is a property - the dgProp["sort by column"] of group "Data Grid" - which returns (or can be set to) the column name that is the current sort column This corresponds to a property in the Property Inspector, columns tab, for the datagrid - a checkbox - labeled "Sort by

Re: REGRESSION in LC 9.6.9rc2

2023-03-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
involved. Might be best to query Heather on that. Cheers Monte On 8 Mar 2023, at 8:38 am, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Monte, Thank you! Yes, it does appear I just spent several hours tracking down a DUPLICATE bug entry. Curse me for NOT searching the bug database FIRST! So, I guess

Re: REGRESSION in LC 9.6.9rc2

2023-03-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
be scripted around unfortunately. See https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24003 <https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24003> Cheers Monte On 8 Mar 2023, at 4:58 am, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Sadly, I just found another serious regression in LC 9.6.9rc2 that

Re: REGRESSION in LC 9.6.9rc2

2023-03-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
. Regards, Matthias Am 07.03.2023 um 19:38 schrieb Paul Dupuis via use-livecode : The one in the example stack submitted with the bug report. The point is not about UI design. It's that code and objects that worked in LC 9.6.8 does not work at all in 9.6.9rc2. On 3/7/2023 1:32 PM, Craig New

Re: REGRESSION in LC 9.6.9rc2

2023-03-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
to your bug report. I tried your sample stack here with macOS13.2 and LC 9.6.9RC2. The dropdown menu appears here when clicking "Build Criteria". Regards, Matthias Am 07.03.2023 um 19:38 schrieb Paul Dupuis via use-livecode : The one in the example stack submitted with the

Re: REGRESSION in LC 9.6.9rc2

2023-03-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
? Craig On Mar 7, 2023, at 12:58 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Sadly, I just found another serious regression in LC 9.6.9rc2 that seems to cause dropdown menus in modal dialogs to fail. Code that works in LC 9.6.8 does not work at all in 9.6.9rc2 See https://quality.livecode.com

REGRESSION in LC 9.6.9rc2

2023-03-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Sadly, I just found another serious regression in LC 9.6.9rc2 that seems to cause dropdown menus in modal dialogs to fail. Code that works in LC 9.6.8 does not work at all in 9.6.9rc2 See https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24133 I am hoping LC can fix this for 9.6.8rc3 or, like the

Re: [[ ANN ]] New Enhancements Bundle v1.0.29 available

2023-02-10 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
report with a short video recipe - maybe I am following slightly different steps and the devil is in the details :) Kind regards, Panos -- On Thu, 9 Feb 2023 at 17:00, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: On 2/9/2023 9:53 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode w

Re: [[ ANN ]] New Enhancements Bundle v1.0.29 available

2023-02-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 2/9/2023 9:53 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 2/9/2023 9:24 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Hello all, Just to let you know that there is an update of the enhancements bundle available in your account area. Latest update 1.0.29: 9 February 2023 This update

Re: [[ ANN ]] New Enhancements Bundle v1.0.29 available

2023-02-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 2/9/2023 9:24 AM, panagiotis merakos via use-livecode wrote: Hello all, Just to let you know that there is an update of the enhancements bundle available in your account area. Latest update 1.0.29: 9 February 2023 This update includes several bugfixes. I'll update BugZilla later tonight.

Re: Maximum field size

2023-01-19 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
All the responses about crashing - because lines are too long (exceeding 65K chars or 32K x in line length) or there are too many lines (and so 32,767px of scrollable height is not enough) - strongly indicated that an overhaul of the standard field object is needed in LC 10, or, more likely,

Re: Maximum field size

2023-01-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I thought the theoretical limit was 4GB (32bits of characters) but I may be wrong or there may be practical limits below that threshold. On 1/18/2023 7:29 PM, David Epstein via use-livecode wrote: How many rows or columns or characters can reasonably be displayed in a LiveCode field? A 1.39

Re: Standalone riddle

2023-01-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Fully qualified object references are your friend. Have you tried referring to the field as: put pText into field "searchTerm" of cd 1 of stack "stackName" -- of instead of the card number, use name or ID On 1/13/2023 4:42 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I have a 2-card stack,

Re: .mov files in a standalone on Windows

2023-01-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
, or... ? Thank you. jbv Le 2023-01-08 15:46, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode a écrit : Without installing 3rd party codec for DirectShow in Windows, you can't play .mov media. LA Filters is free and works very well with DirectShow (the media player on Windows LC 9.6.8 uses). See https://github.com

Re: .mov files in a standalone on Windows

2023-01-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Without installing 3rd party codec for DirectShow in Windows, you can't play .mov media. LA Filters is free and works very well with DirectShow (the media player on Windows LC 9.6.8 uses). See https://github.com/Nevcairiel/LAVFilters/ On 1/8/2023 1:53 PM, jbv via use-livecode wrote: Hi

Re: Little bit OT - Shouldn't be a Fireside Chat today?

2022-12-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Cancel as Livecode Ltd is closed from Christmas to New Years. On 12/28/2022 11:14 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote: Hi, this is a question to the subscribers of the Fireside Chat meeting. My calendar shows that today should be a Fireside Chat meeting. Was it rescheduled or so? I

Re: Lock screen and animated gif

2022-12-21 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Thank you. In a future Livecode Global you should do a series on "How the Engine Actually Works" :-) On 12/21/2022 8:00 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2022-12-20 18:27, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: If someone switches to another applications (so a su

Re: Lock screen and animated gif

2022-12-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Mark, Thanks for clarifying! On 12/20/2022 1:10 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Finally click button B2 on stack S2 - the one which changes the defaultStack in a pending message... Then observe an error - this is the case Paul describes. I must have had some of the above going

Re: Lock screen and animated gif

2022-12-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I'm just using this post to raise awareness on the list (if anyone reading this doesn't know this already) When using 'wait 0 with messages' any messages in the pendingMessages (who are not delayed in time) get processed. This includes (potentially) user clicks (mouseDown and mosueUp events).

Re: currentCard vs current card

2022-12-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Thank you. I may have to switch to TinyDictionary, or, perhaps, LC LTD should just license the work and include all 350 synonyms in the default Dictionary. IMHO, the Dictionary is the one part of the documentation (vs User's Guides, tutorial, release notes, etc.) that should be the most up to

currentCard vs current card

2022-12-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
In LC968 or 969rc2 the Dictionary has an entry for the 'currentCard' used either as a property: put the currentCard of stack "X" -- put the short name of the currently displayed card in stack X It appears the following syntax is also valid, but slightly different: puttheshortnameofcurrent

Re: ChatGPT

2022-12-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Another perspective on ChatGPT: https://www.sciencealert.com/chatgpt-could-revolutionize-the-internet-but-its-secrets-have-experts-worried ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe

Re: Another LC9.6.9rc2 regression? This time with Datagrids

2022-12-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
'm working on), it will demonstrate the sort of self-control that i'm legendarily lacking. OOH! SHINY! On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 5:08 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Hi Mike, I suspect some change was made in the Datagrid scripts, such as a move o

Re: Another LC9.6.9rc2 regression? This time with Datagrids

2022-12-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
e in might be too great for me... On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 4:20 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Anyone else having problems with: set the dgProp["someProperty"] of grp "someDatagrid" under LC 9.6.9rc2 vs LC 9.6.8? In bug https://

Another LC9.6.9rc2 regression? This time with Datagrids

2022-12-13 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Anyone else having problems with: set the dgProp["someProperty"] of grp "someDatagrid" under LC 9.6.9rc2 vs LC 9.6.8? In bug https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=24046 were seeing lines of script where we set the dgProp of a datagrid just stop (like it hit and 'exit to top'). The

Re: Build in Answer Dialog

2022-12-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
at that, they replaced the stack with an SOS. don't mind me. On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 10:20 PM Mike Kerner wrote: have you tried replacing Tools/Toolset/palettes/ask-dialog/revaskdialog.rev with the older version? On Thu, Dec 8, 2022 at 6:50 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livec

Re: Build in Answer Dialog

2022-12-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
2022 at 19:08, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Does anyone know how to make a change to the built in Answer Dialog stack permanent (for a given instance of LC)? I can show IDE stack in the Project Browser and see the Answer Dialog stack and make the change

Build in Answer Dialog

2022-12-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Does anyone know how to make a change to the built in Answer Dialog stack permanent (for a given instance of LC)? I can show IDE stack in the Project Browser and see the Answer Dialog stack and make the change I want (unchecking the Fixed line height for the field to fix regression:

Re: Lock screen challenge

2022-11-21 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I was also going to suggest just brute forcing it. Something like: (code not complete or syntax checked) repeat with i=1 to the number of stacks   repeat with j = 1 to the number of cards in stack i     repeat with k= 1 to the number of controls of card j of stack i   put the script of

Re: LC Date Conversions post 2035

2022-11-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
The results on Windows may also depend upon whether you built a 32 bit standalone or a 64 bit standalone? Or using the 32 or 64 bit version of whatever release of Livecode is being used. On 11/7/2022 9:55 AM, Martin Koob via use-livecode wrote: Hi This thread reminded me of some sci-fi show

Export Snapshot (macOS) and XPDF External bugs?

2022-10-27 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Combining two unrelated topics in one message: 1) I am seeing a bug under macOS in the export snapshot (of a player object) command. This is under LC 9.6.7 (and I think 9.6.8). We have a routine that takes a list of time codes in a movie, loads the movie into a player object, set the

Re: Printing (Preview in LC/screen vs Printer/PDF)

2022-10-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
22 4:52 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I know this topic has been covered previously, probably many many times, but my search skills are failing me. We have a "printing stack" in our app that, among other things, provides a "Print Preview" view. This takes t

Printing (Preview in LC/screen vs Printer/PDF)

2022-10-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I know this topic has been covered previously, probably many many times, but my search skills are failing me. We have a "printing stack" in our app that, among other things, provides a "Print Preview" view. This takes the printer margins, page size, orientation, etc and creates a stack with

Re: revZIP library...

2022-10-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
give the compressed size directly after compression. Sean On 20 Oct 2022, at 16:31, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: In addition to the revZIP library, whether building for 32 bit Windows standalone or 64-bit Standalones, still (as of LC 9.6.8) has a 2GB limit on archives it can open

Re: revZIP library...

2022-10-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
glitch or more likely my eyes playing tricks on me. -- Paul On 10/20/2022 12:04 PM, Pi Digital via use-livecode wrote: Do you have no success with the revZipDescribeItem() function. This should give the compressed size directly after compression. Sean On 20 Oct 2022, at 16:31, Paul Dupuis via

revZIP library...

2022-10-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
In addition to the revZIP library, whether building for 32 bit Windows standalone or 64-bit Standalones, still (as of LC 9.6.8) has a 2GB limit on archives it can open and a 2GB limit on what it can save, there appears to be NO mechanism to get the compressed size of an item (file) in the

Re: Long shot question about OpenCV

2022-10-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/17/2022 9:24 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: On 10/17/22 15:00, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Has anyone out there done any work at wrapping the OpenCV computer vision/image recognition open source library with LCB? See https://opencv.org/ I am particularly interested

Re: Processing WAV file sample data

2022-10-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ffmpeg will do this. While a video tool, it has robust capabilities for manipulating audio track or just audio files. In one of the Livecode Global problem solving sessions this summer examples of using ffmpeg from LC was demonstrated and the sample stack is available if you subscribed to the

Long shot question about OpenCV

2022-10-17 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Has anyone out there done any work at wrapping the OpenCV computer vision/image recognition open source library with LCB? See https://opencv.org/ I am particularly interested in simple face and/or object recognition in images - something where I can pass the library an image file (like a PNG)

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