Re: Achilles Heel of Livecode

2019-12-03 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I really am too old-fashion. I see "apps" that have fancy animated effects and spin pretty GIFs while doing some task to let me know that the task is being done ... and all I can think is: If they dropped ALL the cute animation crap and spent the CPU cycles on doing the task I wanted

Re: Adding `the caller` to LiveCode Script

2019-11-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I'd like to see the 'the caller' added as well. Mind you, I'd like to see a *lot* more of the player object bugs fixed and more of the LCS statements that are still not Unicode aware made Unicode aware first, but the "the caller" would probably 3rd on my list. Digging through the

Re: Identifying Un-used functions and commands

2019-11-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
revRefactor has a very nice "orphan Code..." feature https://github.com/mwieder/revRefactor/tree/master/Plugin On 11/25/2019 1:08 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I think he wants it the other way around, identifying handlers and functions that aren't called by any other handler.

AVF and DirectShow and access to media tracks and raw data

2019-11-21 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
The evolution of LiveCode from Quicktime (OSX/Win) to AVF (OSX) and DirectShow (Win), while necessary, lost some potentially useful features. Under Quicktime you have several player properties to see what "tracks" the player file has and to turn those track on and off. With the current

Re: Managing maximized windows on MacOS

2019-11-20 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/20/2019 3:45 AM, Giovanni via use-livecode wrote: Hi everybody, as already said the main problem is that there is no way to intercept the maximization action and to understand if the window is maximized or not. screenrects or windowBoundingRect are not useful in this case mainly when the

Re: Y coordinate for a line of text

2019-11-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
You may want to look at the Dictionary entry for "measureText" On 11/12/2019 1:43 AM, scott--- via use-livecode wrote: I’m needing to know the coordinate (Y is the tricky one) for a line of text. I’m not do a very good job at calculating it. I think I remember a newish LC command or function

Amazing how forgiving the older LC engines are...

2019-11-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I just got bit by how forgiving older LC engines version are. Migrating a stack from LC6.7.11 to LC9.5.1. There is a handle to perform a "select all" on a particular list field where "select all" means select all lines but the first. The code was essentially:   put empty into tLineList  

Re: [OT] Hmmm...

2019-11-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 11/9/2019 7:03 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Nearly 24 hours since the last post to this list. Did everyone stop using LiveCode, or is this mailserve down again? Just checking I haven't run into any new engine bugs or Catalina issues in a whole week! So I have had

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
the right version to the requestor? Or maybe the info available to the server about the requesting OS isn't that detailed. Not sure. At least I'm sure I can use a single download link for an app's Mac and Windows installers. Phil Davis On 11/5/19 8:33 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote

Catalina & Mojave "Allow/Deny" dialogs

2019-11-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Another "fun" feature of the newer macOS versions is the new Privacy (tab in the Security and Privacy pane of the System Preferences). It seems that running our app generates a number of system dialogs of the form "[[OUR APPLICATION]] wants access to " with "OK" and "Don't Allow" buttons.

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
on but their experiences, and other people's experiences? I need to tap into that resource! ;-) Bob S On Nov 5, 2019, at 08:18 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 11/5/2019 10:41 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: First, your assumption that "it's one everyone is experiencing for any inst

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
may be an annoyance, but it's one everyone is experiencing for any installer. RunRev won't be able to fix this so that we have one unified installer. Bob S On Nov 5, 2019, at 05:15 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: One annoyance from Catalina and Notarization for me as a developer: Liv

Re: Indy 9.5.0. Apple can't search for malware in LC Indy?

2019-11-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
One annoyance from Catalina and Notarization for me as a developer: LiveCode 9.x.x supports macOS 10.9 (Mavericks) through 10.15 (Catalina). For our app built on LC9.x.x, we support those versions of macOS as well. However, a Notarized DMG (one way of addressing Apple's Notarization

Re: Managing maximized windows on MacOS

2019-11-04 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I'd like to know this too. I'd love to see a way to better control maximizing a window. the windowBoundingRect is a little out of date. 1) It only applies to the primary monitor (any platform) and I am finding a lot more of our customers have multiple monitors these days (usually a laptop

Re: drag'n'drop in text fields

2019-10-29 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/29/2019 9:47 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode wrote: It looks like selectionChanged only reacts to explicit user events (mouse click or cursor moved via keyboard navigation). I, for one, would consider user-driven pasting of text or user driven drag and drop to be 'explicit user events',

Re: drag'n'drop in text fields

2019-10-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/28/2019 5:40 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Paul. Am 28.10.2019 um 22:34 schrieb Paul Dupuis via use-livecode : ... on dragDrop if "files" is among the keys of the dragData then put line 1 of the dragData["files"] -- or whatever end if end dr

Re: drag'n'drop in text fields

2019-10-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/28/2019 5:25 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Hermann, Am 28.10.2019 um 22:15 schrieb hh via use-livecode : on dragDrop if "files" is among the keys of the dragData then put line 1 of the dragData["files"] -- or whatever end if end dragDrop on dragEnter set the

Re: Weird macOS error dialog

2019-10-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/25/2019 8:35 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: After installing LC 9.5 on macOS "Catalina", when I run it I get a system alert I've never seen before:  "LiveCode Indy 9.5.0" wants access to  control "System Events". Allowing control  will provide access to documents and data  in

Re: Death of eSellerate (48-hour, 50%-off) REBIRTH Sale

2019-10-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/23/2019 8:47 AM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote: Due to the untimely, or at least inconvenient, demise of an old electronic friend (eSellerate) as a separate entity, I have migrated the addon store to its parent company (Digital River) and updated the store links on the

AW: Signing, Notarizing, and Stapling and macOS versions

2019-10-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/23/2019 8:49 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: LiveCode 9xx is supported on macOS Maveriks (10.9) and up Catalina (10.15) requires Notarized DMG or App to be allowed to open/run I have discovered that a Notarized and Stapled DMG works on Catalina and Mojave (10.14), but presents

Re: RE Video Player LiveCode on Windows

2019-10-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
, if a player couldn’t find the referenced file it often causes LC to freeze or slow way down, similarly to what you’re reporting. Peter Bogdanoff ArtsInteractive On Oct 23, 2019, at 12:28 PM, R.H. via use-livecode wrote: @ Paul Dupuis Thank you very much, Paul, for your detailed answer. I

Signing, Notarizing, and Stapling and macOS versions

2019-10-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
LiveCode 9xx is supported on macOS Maveriks (10.9) and up Catalina (10.15) requires Notarized DMG or App to be allowed to open/run I have discovered that a Notarized and Stapled DMG works on Catalina and Mojave (10.14), but presents an error when trying to open on El Capitan (10.11). Does

Re: Video-Player LiveCode on Windows

2019-10-21 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
LC9 uses DirectShow which Microsoft ships with a very limited number of formats it supports. We recommend people install LAV Filters - a free set of additional codec for DirectShow that provides a format range comparable to Apple AVF

Re: Effective rect of stacks on Windows 10

2019-10-21 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/21/2019 4:41 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Paul Dupuis wrote: > When the 'effective rect' of a stack was introduced to provide the > outer boundaries of a stack, along with the effective working > screenRects(s), I rewrote all my complicated windows manage

Re: Effective rect of stacks on Windows 10

2019-10-21 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Thank your Richard and Trevor. When the 'effective rect' of a stack was introduced to provide the outer boundaries of a stack, along with the effective working screenRects(s), I rewrote all my complicated windows management code (and some of your clever tricks for Windows weirdness, Richard),

Re: Effective rect of stacks on Windows 10

2019-10-21 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/21/2019 2:11 PM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote: I am looking for input from people who are using `the effective rect of stack` and the values it reports on Windows. I have some code that uses the effective rect of a group to determine if the stack is still on the screen after the

Re: mnemonic working on Windows in LC 9?

2019-10-21 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/21/2019 10:49 AM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote: Does using the mnemonic key to display a menu on Windows work for anybody else in LC 9? I just did the following test and all I hear is a beep: 1. Launch LC 9 on Windows 10. 2. Press the ALT key. The letter represented by the

Re: Set font dynamically to fit text

2019-10-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/12/2019 8:20 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: Assuming one is not putting whole pages into small fields, does any one have an efficient run time LC algorithm that will set the font size so that the formatted text will all appear in the field without needing to

launch & quit

2019-10-12 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have a stand alone with a card with a button with a mouseUp handler on mouseUp   -- some stuff   -- tApplication variable contains a path to another standalone for OSX or Window depending upon what platform() this standalon is running on   launch tApplication   put the result into tError  

Re: Catalina

2019-10-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/9/2019 12:29 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: It may be too late for you, but last week I got an email from the company that makes my accounting software warning customers not to upgrade to Catalina. They said they've been working on the transition for a year and thought they'd

Re: Catalina

2019-10-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/9/2019 12:02 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: It's a good point. If any commercial developers using LC (or ANY dev environment) are going to have issues with Catalina, it might be a good idea to mail blast them and warn them if your app is not going to be compatible, and even

Re: Catalina

2019-10-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Customer (at least ours) do not understand 32 bit vs 64-bit. They will only know that (a) Apple says there is a new update for their computer and they click to update; or (b) as a member of some university or business, their computer is upgraded (perhaps at their request, perhaps as part of a

Re: Catalina

2019-10-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Agree! With all the billions of $$$ Apple has, they certainly could have afforded to maintain 32-bit compatibility for smaller developers who can't afford to make every change Apple demands, but they make more profits if they don't. Sorry to any Apple fanatics. I just needed to vent my

Re: Give a bug a hug

2019-10-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/8/2019 12:42 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Pi Digital wrote: > Forgive me for saying but, except the bounty idea, wasn’t this the > whole point of it going open source - so that the community would > fix bugs themselves! Personally, I try to avoid making claims about

Re: Always negative

2019-10-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I am not sure why LC doesn't just play a DONATE (via paypal or something) button on either the https://livecode.org/ page or the https://livecode.org/contribute/ page It's kind of hidden, but in the footer of https://www.joomla.org/contribute-to-joomla.html there is a link to donate

Re: publish and surprise

2019-10-02 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
d be a bit of news. So every message the engine sends is checked to see if there is a subscription to that message and then all objects ( whether in the path or not. ) that are subscribed would receive a message that this message was triggered. That is pretty cool! On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 8:53 AM Paul D

Re: publish and surprise

2019-10-02 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/1/2019 11:52 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: I have finally gotten around to noticing that LC9.x builds have opened the publish-and-subscribe mechanism to arbitrary messages. I'm not sure when this happened and I'm really not inclined to go searching through all those release

Re: Export snapshot and errors...

2019-10-01 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
esult' that I wanted to clear. On 10/1/2019 10:39 AM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Is the for error necessary? I just return empty. Bob S On Oct 1, 2019, at 06:02 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: command clearResult return empty for e

Re: Export snapshot and errors...

2019-10-01 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 10/1/2019 8:58 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: In LC905rc1, the Dictionary entry for Export Snapshot does not appear to indicate how any error value is returned (for example if the file can not be written) the result is not cleared after an export snapshot - i.e. put the result

Export snapshot and errors...

2019-10-01 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
In LC905rc1, the Dictionary entry for Export Snapshot does not appear to indicate how any error value is returned (for example if the file can not be written) the result is not cleared after an export snapshot - i.e. put the result into tTemp1 -- if this put "X" in tTemp1 export snapshot from

Re: open process

2019-09-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
passing information (arguments, commands, etc.) to another program using "open process" requires that the other program has a mechanism to listen to interprocess messages. Most programs designed to accept a set of command-line parameters do not have listeners for inter process communication

Re: Stacks and Sub Stacks

2019-09-28 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 9/27/2019 11:29 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: No one answers the other question, so I will ask it here, as it goes to Message Hierarchy "put gotSomeFruit() into tBanana" where " gotSomeFruit ()" is among the functions/handlers is found among "stackInUse". ie.

Language convenience rant...

2019-09-27 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Assume I have a function guessTextEncoding that returns the various possible encoding for a text file. If the file is MacRoman and my app is running on OSX (Platform() = "MacOS") I can use: put URL ("file:") into tText put textDecode(tText,"Native") into ... destination OR put

Re: Does anyone know...

2019-09-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
) On 9/25/2019 8:54 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: We currently use ICU 58.2 which looks to be Unicode 9.0 + some extras http://site.icu-project.org/download/58 <http://site.icu-project.org/download/58> On 26 Sep 2019, at 7:50 am, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: .

Does anyone know...

2019-09-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
... how often the Unicode engine/rules are updated in LiveCode? For example, the standard is at 12.1 (released May 2019 to add 1 character) and the last major release was 12.0 (released March 2019). Does anyone know what version the Unicode library in LC905rc1 uses? Perhaps a  "the

Another LC905rc1 function NOT Unicode aware

2019-09-24 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
And 'open printing to PDF' is yet another part of LC905rc1 still not Unicode aware. https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22385 Filename/paths and PDF document property options can not be Unicode. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Guess encoding for text file...

2019-09-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I am sure my routine could be optimized some for performance. My consideration of doing this via OSX/Windows API using LCB FFI is only partially about performance. I think an advantage is that the OS vendors (with way more resources than me) are more likely to keep the algorithms reflecting up

Re: Sorting strangeness

2019-09-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Good to know. Thank you. On 9/18/2019 11:03 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2019-09-18 15:43, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Again, thank you Mark - this helped immensely. In making a commercial text analytics application, we do a lot of sorting of user entered textual

Re: Sorting strangeness

2019-09-18 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2019-09-16 21:54, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: IF sort lines of ascending text was working correctly for lines of mixed ASCII and Unicode, for someone sorting lines of text that can be Native text, Unicode text (both RTL and LTR), or mixtures of both

Guess encoding for text file...

2019-09-17 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
59-1"  * "MacRoman" and I suppose "Binary" as the default if none of the above can be detected - MARK'S REPLY On 2019-09-13 16:44, Paul Dupuis wrote: > I have a LiveCode Script (LCS) routine that attempts to follow > industry c

Re: Sorting strangeness

2019-09-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ot; (using the system locale settings)  and Unicode may mean in relation to one another? Thank you again, Paul Dupuis Researchware On 9/16/2019 2:45 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2019-09-16 19:01, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Thanks Bob for being one of the folks on the list

Re: Sorting strangeness

2019-09-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
:10 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Okay, here is a Monday morning puzzler for folks: Take the following text: Chinese 中文 Georgian ქართული Arabic عربى Greek Ελληνικά Russian русский Norwegian Norsk "sort lines of ascending international" produces exactly what is expected: A

Re: LC Luvv Da Buggs - Greatest Hits - "Player"

2019-09-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
A very entertaining way to present such a sad list :-) Between these and the lengthy list of Unicode bugs... sigh. On 9/16/2019 1:01 PM, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode wrote: Who would have thought the old player to have had so much bugs in it? Enough per square inch to rival a rowdy case

Sorting strangeness

2019-09-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Okay, here is a Monday morning puzzler for folks: Take the following text: Chinese 中文 Georgian ქართული Arabic عربى Greek Ελληνικά Russian русский Norwegian Norsk "sort lines of ascending international" produces exactly what is expected: Arabic عربى Chinese 中文 Georgian ქართული Greek

Re: Test post: Its awfully quiet around here...

2019-09-16 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 9/16/2019 9:16 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: Testing... Not trying to be snide or anything, but I've been too busy posting bugs to the LC quality center and trying to get our 2 commercial applications onto LC905 to post much unless it is related to bugs.

Re: Merge and unicode

2019-09-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Doesn't any Unicode in htmlText of a field need to be in HTML form (i.e. #;? I thought htmlText turns any non ASCII into either hex encoded html or, where html entity names exists, uses html entity names. On 9/9/2019 6:35 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 9/9/19 2:39 PM, Paul

Re: OT: Catalina - the end of ad hoc & in-house development?

2019-09-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
If I want to develop an small OSX (or Windows) app for my wife to help her keep track of some hobby related items, I should not have to code sign or notarize it for OSX or Windows or, honestly, any platform. Every OS should provide a way that the USER is still in control of their OS and can

Re: Merge and unicode

2019-09-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 9/9/2019 2:13 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: On 9/9/19 1:08 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: It seems that the merge command doesn't respect unicode. Does anyone have a workaround? The text I'm inserting is already decoded to UTF16. I misspoke, sorry. It's the

Re: Weird behavior for modal stacks and answer dialogs

2019-09-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 9/9/2019 6:50 AM, Giovanni via use-livecode wrote: Hi everybody, I’m writing here to report a very strange behavior of modal stacks and answer dialogs on MacOS Yosemite and Sierra. Basically the modal windows or dialogs, in these OSes simply does not work and this seems to happen since LC

Re: OT: Catalina - the end of ad hoc & in-house development?

2019-09-07 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Everyone is signing the praises of tools to jump through Apple's hoops, but I see no one refuting Peter's original claims that Catalina is a ste towards the end of ad-hoc and in-house development for the Apple platform and I would agree. Apple's goal for OSX is to get to the same place as

Re: Unicode is not "everywhere"...

2019-08-27 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
7/2019 8:11 AM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2019-08-22 21:07, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I reported what I thought was 3 bugs in 1 report in https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22213. I have edited that report to focus on a single bug - that the detailed files (and p

Re: Unicode is not "everywhere"...

2019-08-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
(thanks). I just want the detail files/folders to be fixed as my work-around is slow. On 8/23/2019 4:37 PM, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode wrote: If shell returns text, does that mean shellCommand has to go away? On Aug 23, 2019, at 9:05 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 8

Re: Unicode is not "everywhere"...

2019-08-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
ve no idea what Linux does) Correct the CMD.EXE vs Command.exe reference in the Dictionary as well Dar Scott Mad Scientist Paul Dupuis Mad Wizard :-) On Aug 22, 2019, at 9:37 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I have filed two bug reports that are in LC905rc1 and go back to 7.0 where LC

Re: Unicode is not "everywhere"...

2019-08-23 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Hi Dar, Yes, this is a viable work-around for the Windows shell bug. function newShell pCommand   local tResult   set the hideConsoleWindows to true   set the shellCommand to "cmd.exe /u" --/U for UTF16 output   put shell(pCommand) into tResult   if the result is empty then -- no errors     put

Re: Unicode is not "everywhere"...

2019-08-22 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/22/2019 8:46 PM, Monte Goulding via use-livecode wrote: Both of these are anomalies we could only resolve with new syntax I think… at lease the urlEncode one is. I’m not sure if the expectation of shell is it returns text or binary data… The workaround there would be to open process for

Re: Unicode is not "everywhere"...

2019-08-22 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I just want it consistent and documented and able to return more than just ASCII data Currently, OSX shell returns UTF8 which may mean that it is returning binary as it is returning 8-bit bytes where Unicode text has been encoded as UTF8 Windows returns CP1252 text, not binary and any

Re: Unicode is not "everywhere"...

2019-08-22 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/22/2019 4:08 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: Dar Scott wrote: > If the result of shell() is run through textDecode, should then > shell() return binary data? This puts it outside the scope of > "everywhere". I like the idea, as long as simple ASCII characters > work

Unicode is not "everywhere"...

2019-08-22 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I have filed two bug reports that are in LC905rc1 and go back to 7.0 where LC functions that should deal with Unicode properly do not. These are: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22213 -- The "detailed files" function fails for any files with Unicode in the name, returning the

Re: "copy files", specialfolderpath("resources") and missing files = SHOWSTOPPER

2019-08-10 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/10/2019 5:03 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: thank you, yes, I imagined something like this. But what does get moved and why, and what can I do to make my app run? We use a "on standaloneSaved pDestFolder" handler and then use revCopyFolder or revCopyFile (or whichever other of

Re: Should the scope of WholeMatches be expanded?

2019-08-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/8/2019 5:18 PM, Dr. Hawkins via use-livecode wrote: On Aug 5, 2019, at 7:43 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I'd like to see wholeMatches apply to: Gee, that would do just what I need in searches . . . and the check is already there, and applies in the IDE search/replace

Re: How does OSX tell what app to open when you double click a file?

2019-08-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/6/2019 10:10 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2019-08-06 23:59, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: For example, if you drag installed 5 apps, APP1, 2, 3, etc, that all had a info.plist defintion for a .xyz file extension onto a virgin OSX system out of the box

Fwd: Re: How does OSX tell what app to open when you double click a file?

2019-08-08 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
o'. https://www.chainsawonatireswing.com/2012/09/19/changing-default-applications-on-a-mac-using-the-command-line-then-a-shell-script/#find-out-the-current-default-for-an-extension Bob S On Aug 6, 2019, at 13:36 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: So we make an OSX desktop app in LiveCode that h

Re: How does OSX tell what app to open when you double click a file?

2019-08-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
s-on-a-mac-using-the-command-line-then-a-shell-script/#find-out-the-current-default-for-an-extension Bob S On Aug 6, 2019, at 13:36 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: So we make an OSX desktop app in LiveCode that has several document types. We add these to the info.plist file in the App

Re: How does OSX tell what app to open when you double click a file?

2019-08-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
o'. https://www.chainsawonatireswing.com/2012/09/19/changing-default-applications-on-a-mac-using-the-command-line-then-a-shell-script/#find-out-the-current-default-for-an-extension Bob S On Aug 6, 2019, at 13:36 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: So we make an OSX desktop app in LiveCode that h

How does OSX tell what app to open when you double click a file?

2019-08-06 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
So we make an OSX desktop app in LiveCode that has several document types. We add these to the info.plist file in the App bundle so they are defined, with doc icons, extensions, types, etc. If a user has APPv1 installed that has a plist entry for the file extension .myext and then installs

SOLVED: Help with an algorithm...

2019-08-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/5/2019 11:53 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Today is not my coding day. I have a problem I should be able to design a solution for an am struggling. Clearly I am missing "something" I have 2 lists (LISTNEW and LISTOLD) of the following format: ParentA Child 1 C

Re: Help with an algorithm...

2019-08-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
like: put oldChildren & return & newChildren into allChildrenrepeat for each line tLine in allChildrenput tLine into myArray[tLine] Delete the last item of the old list and do it again. This way the last item can be isolated directly. Craig -Original Message- From: Paul Dupui

Help with an algorithm...

2019-08-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Today is not my coding day. I have a problem I should be able to design a solution for an am struggling. Clearly I am missing "something" I have 2 lists (LISTNEW and LISTOLD) of the following format: ParentA Child 1 Child 2 etc. ParentB Child 1 etc. etc. The parents are in alphabetical sorted

Should the scope of WholeMatches be expanded?

2019-08-05 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
Is it just me or would anyone else like to see the scope of the wholeMatches property expanded beyond just wordOffset, itemOffset, and lineOffset. I'd like to see wholeMatches apply to: Replace Replace in field Contains (as in if X contains Y) With wholeMatches meaning test at white space

Re: "template" stack in custom property

2019-08-03 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/2/2019 10:33 PM, ambassador--- via use-livecode wrote: What are the advantage of instantiating the new stack from data in a prop rather than by cloning a substack? That was my question too. It is a very different way of storing a stack. I imagine that an: open invisible stack (the

Re: increasing column width of DG keeps running

2019-08-01 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 8/1/2019 9:23 AM, JJS via use-livecode wrote: hi, anyone ever had this: Increase the column width of a DG by clicking on the increase button. in the property inspector, keep the mouse down until you think the column is wide enough. Then it keeps running --read increasing the width--

ANSWER: OSX High Sierra and Mojave Double Titlebars or Menubars?

2019-07-31 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
to the Quality Center bug: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22267 On 7/26/2019 12:27 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22267 We have a screen recording showing the issue (but not what triggered it!) that, when I can get it form

Purge a stack from memory

2019-07-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I know this comes up again and again, is there some counterpart to "revLoadedStacks(application)" that can PURGE a stack from memory? If you have a stack open, say stack "A" and you open a different stack file with a stack called "A", the IDE presents a message about stacks with the same name

Re: OSX High Sierra and Mojave Double Titlebars or Menubars?

2019-07-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
and if I can get more info from her I'll add to it. We have a hard deadline in about 3 weeks. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On July 26, 2019 9:16:10 AM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: On 7/26/2019 12:17 AM, Trevor

Re: OSX High Sierra and Mojave Double Titlebars or Menubars?

2019-07-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/26/2019 11:22 AM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote: On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 9:14 AM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Yes, thank you. In LiveCode 905rc1 in Standalones on OSX High Sierra we are seeing an odd behavior where -- something h

Re: OSX High Sierra and Mojave Double Titlebars or Menubars?

2019-07-26 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/26/2019 12:17 AM, Trevor DeVore via use-livecode wrote: On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 4:05 PM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: I recall a recent (last year/this year - I think) bug where under OSX High Sierra or Mojave you could end up with double tit

OSX High Sierra and Mojave Double Titlebars or Menubars?

2019-07-25 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I recall a recent (last year/this year - I think) bug where under OSX High Sierra or Mojave you could end up with double titlebars in your windows or perhaps it was double menubars? I have spent a big chunk of time searching the Livecode Quality Center and can not find this bug. Am I

Unicode languages and text selection...

2019-07-22 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
In moving a commercial application that allows researchers to perform a lot of textual analysis  from LC6.7.11 to LC9.0.x, we have been trying to make sure we take advantage of "Unicode Everywhere". In do in so, we test with text in as many different languages (representative of different

Re: looking for 3 or 5 testers for my Notarizing stack

2019-07-22 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/22/2019 8:24 AM, Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode wrote: To test you´ll need to be a member of Apple´s developer program, a valid Developer ID Application certificate, an AppleID with 2FA and a app-specific password. What is "2FA"? ___

Re: Best Practice with Player object to determine audio or video

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
the mediaTYpes property returns tracks (and the documentation doesn't say whether the list is cr delimited or comma delimited, but that is a docs issue) Are you saying that for example if (the mediaTypes of player X contains "audio" and not (the mediaTypes of player X contains "video")) is

Re: Accessibility

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/11/2019 2:41 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: Screen readers don't work in LC. How do those of you who support accessibility provide that? Is there anything in LC itself that supports the ADA act? This comes up repeatedly on this list. Any Desktop LC app is compatible with

Re: Question about "the screen" property of stacks...

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
? On 7/11/2019 1:08 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2019-07-11 17:17, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: The screen of stack X returns the number of the monitor (the line number for the screenRects) that the stack/window is on. If someone from the mothership can verify, I would

Re: Question about "the screen" property of stacks...

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
t position, but seeing this, it makes more sense to me to move the window to the screen with the closest center. On 7/11/2019 1:08 PM, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2019-07-11 17:17, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: The screen of stack X returns the number of the monitor (the l

Re: Question about "the screen" property of stacks...

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
for stacks that are not open. Bob S On Jul 11, 2019, at 08:17 , Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: The screen of stack X returns the number of the monitor (the line number for the screenRects) that the stack/window is on. How exactly is this determined? I presume it is based on the loc (location

Best Practice with Player object to determine audio or video

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I'm looking for the best way (code), cross platform, to determine if the media a user selected for a player object is audio (only) or a video. I am surprised there is not some inherent player property to get this information. I am using an approach that looks at the formattedHeight (with

Question about "the screen" property of stacks...

2019-07-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
The screen of stack X returns the number of the monitor (the line number for the screenRects) that the stack/window is on. How exactly is this determined? I presume it is based on the loc (location) property of the stack, since the window (effective rect or rect) itself can span multiple

Re: DataGrid v1 vs DataGrid v2...

2019-07-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/9/2019 8:32 AM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: Hi Paul. It gets upgraded automatically. If it is in a Form style, the swipe actions are turned off by default to avoid ruining your old versions. Practically all of the old code works as it did before. As it's just the engine that

DataGrid v1 vs DataGrid v2...

2019-07-09 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
QUESTION: If I have a stack with a Datagrid in it that was made in LiveCode 6.x.x. and I have now opened and saved this stack from LiveCode 9.0.5rc1 in the current (v7.0) stack format. Does the Datagrid get converted from a version1 data grid to a version 2 datagrid? Or, if I want/need the

Re: name vs short name

2019-07-04 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
No it is not consistent, but some of the syntax was baked into Metacard long ago, often in response to some specific customer asking for a way to do some specific thing. Remember, Metacard was effectively a product of a single person. For LiveCode to change it now would break far fr too many

Re: Symantec quarantining LiveCode standalone on client's machine

2019-07-02 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
On 7/2/2019 5:57 PM, Curt Ford via use-livecode wrote: Guess it's time to finally look into this. I just visited https://comodosslstore.com but am not sure of the differences between Comodo code signing, Microsoft Authenticode, etc... Any suggestions on best practices with LiveCode/Inno

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