LiveCode Connection to PostgreSQL 16?

This used to be relatively easy to do. They have changed how users can connect to PostgreSQL, and now it’s not easy to hook up LiveCode Server 9.6.11 to it. I’m dead in the water until this is solved. Does anyone have any updated LiveCode instructions for this? Thanks in advance, Rick

Re: pulling out hair connecting to postgres server

What version of the OS are you running? What is your pg_log telling you? Version 9.5 is very old. The current version of PostgreSQL is 16.2 What version of LiveCode Server are you running? Let us know! Rick > On Mar 21, 2024, at 12:26 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode > wrote: > > I'm near

Re: We lost an Angle

Hi Ralph, Sorry for your loss. I’ve heard that keeping the TV on for extra voices in the background can help mitigate the silence of the house. Good luck to you! Rick > On Jan 10, 2024, at 8:54 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode > wrote: > > Many of you knew Margaret from the conferences.

Re: Top things you are waiting for ....

I’m still waiting for the LC Compiler. (My foot is still tapping while I wait.) I’m concerned that I keep getting offers from LC to build my app for me using their programmers. I would rather know those programmers are working hard on the new versions of LC that are enhancements we have

Re: Forum Software LC?

Hi Bill, If you are running your own server on your computer, I don’t believe they would have access to that at all. They claim it’s both safe and that they are transparent on how it all works. It is open-source software so you should be able to see for yourself. Rick > On Sep 23, 2023, at

Re: Forum Software LC?

Hi Richard, Thanks for the clarification on this. Rick > On Sep 20, 2023, at 2:40 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > It's free as in both freedom and beer. > > From the COPYRIGHT.md file in the archive I linked to above: > >This program is free software; you can

Re: Forum Software LC?

Hi Richard, Thanks for the additional information. If I host it myself do I pay anything, or it is free? Thanks, Rick > On Sep 20, 2023, at 11:38 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > If you want the core team to also host and support it, yes, you can hire them > to do that for

Re: Forum Software LC?

Hi Andre, I have already worked with all of those for years. Thanks for the warning anyway. Rick > On Sep 18, 2023, at 2:52 PM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode > wrote: > > You’ll need a very good grasp of Web technologies such as HTML, CSS, JS. You > will also need a good understanding of

Re: Forum Software LC?

Hi Richard, Why is Discourse better than Dat-course? LOL Discourse is $50 per month! No free option for that. Thanks for your input. Rick > On Sep 18, 2023, at 1:57 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > > Don't build it yourself. It's a lot of work. Software is almost

Forum Software LC?

Has anyone built Forum Software with LiveCode? There are a lot of PHP ones, but I have yet to find one that was built with LiveCode. PHP is hacked all the time, and I have found hacker bots that try to hack my server all the time by exploiting holes in PHP. They even try to install PHP on my

Re: Installing LC on Ubuntu?

t; LiveCode Ltd > www.livecode.com > > > >> On 3 Sep 2023, at 20:50, harrison--- via use-livecode >> wrote: >> >> Hi Mark, >> >> Thanks, I found that worked. >> >> I was misled by the old LiveCode lesson. >> >> Rick

Re: Installing LC on Ubuntu?

Hi Mark, Thanks, I found that worked. I was misled by the old LiveCode lesson. Rick > On Sep 3, 2023, at 2:42 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > After setting the executable bit you should be able to just double-click the > installer in the Downloads folder. Best to install for

Installing LC on Ubuntu?

Hi there, I have been trying to install LiveCode on the latest “Jellyfish” version of Ubuntu by following the directions provided by LiveCode lesson: https://lessons.livecode.com/m/2571/l/148050-installing-livecode-on-linux I have found this lesson is now out of date and I am unable to

Re: LC 9.6.9 App uses too much memory!

Hi Mark, It was a very old stack that used the Player object. It had start and stop buttons that I had created, and a couple of scrollbar objects for quick value scrubbing and playing. There was some rather odd behavior with the toggle controller where the 9.6.9 version was the flip flop of the

LC 9.6.9 App uses too much memory!

Hi LiveCoders, I just got a warning from the OS that I was out of application memory. Livecode was using over 90 GB of memory! The stack runs fine under LC 9.6.8 without any issues whatsoever, but as soon as I open it with LC 9.6.9 the problem reappears. (I have to use force quit to shut down

Re: LiveCode Server is sleeping?

Hi Matthias, To answer your questions: MacintoshHD/Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables/livecode-server The hard drive is the internal SSD drive. Apache server and the livecode server are both installed on the same hard drive. Scripts are in: Library/Webserver/Documents and some are forwarded

LiveCode Server is sleeping?

I am running LiveCode Server version 9.6.9, with apache 2.4.56 under Mac OS 13.4 Ventura with a Postgresql database. All of my energy saver settings in the OS are set so nothing ever sleeps. When my server hasn’t been getting incoming connections for a time, for some stupid reason it goes to

Re: OpenCore Legacy Patcher Supports 2012 iMac!

Thanks Henry, for confirming that Ventura runs on your 2012 iMac with OpenCore Legacy Patcher. Rick > On May 29, 2023, at 10:59 PM, HENRY LOWE via use-livecode > wrote: > > Mac OS Ventura runs just fine on my 2012 iMac courtesy of OpenCore Legacy > Patcher. I don’t run LC on this machine -

OpenCore Legacy Patcher Supports 2012 iMac!

https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/MODELS.html#imac You are very lucky! You must have looked at an old post. Have fun! Rick > On May 29, 2023, at 1:11 PM, doc hawk via use-livecode > wrote: > > If memory serves, the problem with older machines was not running the metal >

Re: OpenCore Legacy Patcher for LC

No problems with LC that I have found so far. > On May 29, 2023, at 11:17 AM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > It's on my to-do list but I haven't got to it yet. Is there a problem with LC? ___ use-livecode mailing list

OpenCore Legacy Patcher for LC

Is there anyone on this list that has tried OpenCore Legacy Patcher to run LiveCode on their old mac? Let me know. Thanks, Rick > On May 27, 2023, at 4:54 PM, harrison--- via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi LC Mac users, > > Last week I came across the fol

Run LC on old Mac with Ventura!

Hi LC Mac users, Last week I came across the following: https://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/64141/opencore-legacy-patcher I was very skeptical at first, so I took out my old 15 inch 2012 MacBook Pro that I was thinking about recycling, and I tried it. It works like a new machine running

Re: AR applications?

Hi Skip, Doubtful. I would wait until after we have a compilable version of LC and then it will be more possible. Rick > On May 27, 2023, at 12:26 PM, Skip Kimpel via use-livecode > wrote: > > Has anybody done anything with LC and AR? > > Curious minds want to know :) > > SKIP

Re: Android and USB footswitch

Hi Klaus, The mouse receiving device is a USB plug or dongle. At the very worst you might have to find an adaptor. It should work! Rick On May 26, 2023, at 3:23 AM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode wrote: Hi Rick, Am 26.05.2023 um 03:32 schrieb harrison--- via use-livecode : Hi Klaus

Re: Android and USB footswitch

Hi Klaus, A quick and really dirty solution: Find an old wireless or BlueTooth computer mouse that you really don’t like, and use it as a foot switch. That will be super easy for LiveCode to detect too! Have fun! Rick > On May 25, 2023, at 6:24 PM, Pi Digital via use-livecode > wrote: >

Re: Can Xavvi generate sensible text output as well as code?

I used ChatGPT to generate some test data for me. It took several tries before it was able to give me a dozen lines of useable data. I told it to separate each item with a comma and each line with a carriage return. Then I just copied and pasted the data into a spreadsheet program,

Re: Livecode Compiler

Hi Glen, No you haven’t missed it to my knowledge. I’m sure it is a major piece of work, and with any project that complicated there are bound to be delays. We are all looking forward to a release sometime. Enjoy your day! Rick > On Mar 21, 2023, at 7:30 PM, Glen Bojsza via use-livecode >

Re: I need to fetch some text from a WP website, but need to login first

Hi Matthias, If you can’t get it done with tsNet or LiveCode, you might want to try using Keyboard Maestro. Rick > On Feb 28, 2023, at 11:00 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi, > > i need to login into a WP website to fetch some specific data. Currently this > is done

Re: tsNet Email HTML Button?

Hi Matthias, Yes, I tried that first. After that didn’t work quite right, I tried Charle’s suggestion from a couple years ago: If you want to create your own HTML and plain text versions of the e-mail body, you can still use that sample stack. Simply replace the following line: put

tsNet Email HTML Button?

Good afternoon, I’m trying to use LiveCode with tsNet to send an email with an HTML button. Unfortunately the email message output doesn’t work right. Any normal text is formatted properly and it can center it nicely, which is fine. I tried using a simple anchor tag and although the text

Re: Chat and textarea formatting

Hi Richard, Thanks for the better example code. When I copy colored text or bold faced text from TextEdit and pasted it into the box it doesn’t carry over. Of course if I copy the one sample line you provided that copies fine and renders fine. I also tried creating some text with bold and

Re: Chat and textarea formatting

Hi Richard, It takes care of the line spacing problem fine which is good! It doesn’t like apostrophes in words, and returns garbage for that. It doesn’t keep any bold facing or text coloring information. Thanks for this suggestion. Rick > On Feb 15, 2023, at 4:52 AM, Richard Gaskin via

Re: Chat and textarea formatting

Hi Alex, Once the HTML is sent, then it becomes an LC thing, because I have to put the information into an LC variable, and then after doing a little work on it, put it into the database using LC database stuff. If LC had a way to provide direct inputs fields into webpages it would be a totally

Re: Chat and textarea formatting

Hi Craig, No. I have an HTML5 Here’s an example from W3Schools: textarea { resize: none; } The textarea element - Disable default resize option Review of W3Schools: At w3schools.com you will learn how to make a website. They offer free tutorials in all web development

Chat and textarea formatting

Greetings LC List Members, I have to create a little chat program with LiveCode on a LiveCode server. Currently I have a textarea text box to accept the user’s input, but it won’t keep any formatting at all, not even carriage returns, line feeds, or bold faced text. I also have to put that

Re: Training the AI to write better LiveCode

Hi Richard, That’s for sure! We should never let an AI write code that we don’t have a prayer to understand. It should always write code that is humanly readable and correctable. We have seen this happen time and again where we put in the work to help a company become profitable, and we end up

Re: Training the AI to write better LiveCode

The rules for fizzbin were intended to be complex, so that Kirk could lull his audience into lowering their defenses long enough to be overwhelmed. The game can be played with a standard Earth deck of cards, despite the slightly differing deck on Beta Antares IV

Re: Training the AI to write better LiveCode

I charge all of my clients for training. I charge a lot more to train Artificial Intelligence Chatbots! Unfortunately, chatbots don’t yet know how to pay me, and until someone is willing to pay me to train it, that isn’t going to happen. Until they are willing and able to pay me for training, I

Re: Training the AI to write better LiveCode

ChatGPT has been called a search engine without the search engine. I would tend to agree with that. It seems to find bits and pieces of code or articles that others have written before and tries to put them together. It uses a text typing output mode to give it the appearance of an

Re: Sad news about Brahmanathaswami

Andre, Sorry to hear this news. At least he got to spend a bunch of years living in Hawaii though, which is more than many people could ever dream of doing! He also got to spend many years coding with LiveCode and you, which I’m sure was both a joy and a blessing! Take care of yourself, and

Re: Lock screen and animated gif

Thingle, It could also be: I’m single - but with a lisp! LOL Ok, I’ll stop now. Rick ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Lock screen and animated gif

Is updateYourThingle a technical term? What is a Thingle anyway? I’m familiar with Thingy, but I haven’t seen a Thingle before. Your definition appears to be: Some icon thing that spins around. Sorry, I just couldn’t resist! ;-) Rick > On Dec 20, 2022, at 9:37 AM, Craig Newman via

Re: What ever happened to LC blockchain?

Hi Richard, I am a naturally inquisitive person, so I am always seeking out new and different things. I came across the old thread and wondered what progress if any had happened on the LiveCode front with it. Thanks for your responses! Rick > On Dec 18, 2022, at 3:32 PM, Richard Gaskin via

Re: ChatGPT

Funny! Rick > On Dec 18, 2022, at 3:15 PM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode > wrote: > > A Twitter thread with ChatGPT botsplaining how 77 is a prime number: > > https://twitter.com/bellafusari1/status/1603161415678046208 > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > >

Re: ChatGPT

I tried using ChatGPT just to see how good or bad it might be at writing LiveCode programs. It looked really cool when it generated the code, and at first I was all excited about it. Upon closer inspection it became clear that it was really bad code. Lots of syntax errors, a bunch of logic

Re: krampus is coming

So, wait until 11:59pm of 12/24/2022 before becoming disappointed? ;-) Rick > On Dec 17, 2022, at 7:01 PM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode > wrote: > > we were supposed to get a new 10 dp before 12/25 ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: krampus is coming

Hi Bob, No, for more information see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus Cheers, Rick P.S. What does this have to do with LiveCode? > On Dec 17, 2022, at 3:14 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Is krampus the name of one of the

Re: What ever happened to LC blockchain?

Hi Richard, I just read an article about Ethereum, and smart contracts. How one would approach this with LiveCode would be an interesting topic, although it does raise some questions. For example: Assume that someone writes an app like a game, that is stored as a smart contract. Although it is

Re: What ever happened to LC blockchain?

Hi Richard, This is my first real exploration of how it works, and I wondered if anyone had tried to do anything using LiveCode. I didn’t have any application in mind yet, I was just wondering how difficult it might be to work with the concepts in an LC environment. This was more of a question

What ever happened to LC blockchain?

Good Morning LiveCoders, I was doing some research and came across this old post from 2016. Whatever happened to the research group you guys formed? Did anything happen? If so, where did you archive the stuff? Thanks, Rick > On Aug 20, 2016, at 5:17 AM, David Bovill

Re: IP address and Country

Hi Kee, I did solve it, I just forgot to tell the list that I did. Oops. Thanks! Rick > On Nov 27, 2022, at 4:17 PM, kee nethery via use-livecode > wrote: > > When we did this, the database table had a start and end IP address range > column. > > The IP addresses were entered into the

Re: IP address and Country

query you want to > make, I'll see if what I have is a good starting place, and then convert the > C code if practical. > > Thanks, > > Alex. > > On 15/11/2022 17:12, harrison--- via use-livecode wrote: >> Hi Martin, >> >> Thanks for the information,

Re: IP address and Country

Hi Martin, Thanks for the information, but what I really want is a LiveCode solution that doesn’t depend on third parties. I have the database. I was asking if other people here had come up with a fast LiveCode solution. If all else fails, I will look into one of the third party suggestions,

Re: IP address and Country

Hi Bob, Yes, that website illustrates what I’m trying to do, but I really need my own code for this. Thanks for the suggestion anyway. Rick > On Nov 14, 2022, at 7:57 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > Is that a fixed thing? Can it ever change? Seems like there must be a web >

IP address and Country

Greetings LiveCoders, I’m trying to set up an LC Server routine to retrieve the country name where the user is supposedly located by using the user’s IP Address and a cross-reference table. I’m sure someone here must have done something similar in the past and I was wondering what the best

Re: iOS 16! It will not do landscape!

Perhaps the screen lock is turned on so it only shows stuff in portrait mode? > On Sep 16, 2022, at 10:45 AM, Mike Kerner via use-livecode > wrote: > > weird. we've got 16.1 on our ipads. the LC app we're running on them is > working fine in landscape. > > On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 9:31 PM

Re: Standalone Application Error

tes for xCode support). > > Regards, > Matthias > > >> Am 06.09.2022 um 23:36 schrieb harrison--- via use-livecode >> : >> >> Greetings LiveCoders, >> >> I came up against this error today: >> >> There was an error while s

Standalone Application Error

Greetings LiveCoders, I came up against this error today: There was an error while saving the standalone application Adding ad-hoc signature failed with error: (path name to app): replacing existing signature xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools),

Re: How to use addEventListener for browser window resizing in web deployment?

Hi Andreas, I have found the following website to be very helpful with a lot of my javascript projects. Do you know about these guys? https://www.w3schools.com/js/default.asp I hope that helps you. Cheers, Rick > On Aug 6, 2022, at 7:44 AM,

Re: Livecode Builder developer wanted

Hi Paul, You should have led with that information. Keys here: Not time sensitive. Pay competitive rates: What is your rate? Be upfront with that if you can. Thanks for clearing things up a bit. Cheers, Rick > On Jul 28, 2022, at 12:23 PM, Paul Dupuis via

Re: Livecode Builder developer wanted

Hi Paul, I seriously doubt that anyone would be chomping at the bit for this task. First, you expect the person to spend their free time looking at the task to determine the effort and cost required to accomplish the task. There is no paid incentive to do that first step. If after the person

LC Screen Recording?

I’m wondering if there is a way from within LC to make a video recording of what is going on within a rect in a macOS LC app. Recording audio at the same time would also be a big plus. Anyone with good ideas or suggestions for what I might be able to do? Thanks, Rick

Re: Is Anyone on the list still using macOS 10.11?

Hi Matthias, Sorry, but I am no longer have Yosemite on any of my older Macs. Thanks for the clarification though. Hopefully someone can help you out with this. Cheers, Rick > On Jun 27, 2022, at 10:14 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Rick, > > it's even older. I meant

Re: Is Anyone on the list still using macOS 10.11?

Hi Matthias, macOS 10.11 El Capitan? You shouldn’t be testing with that at all. It’s 6-7 years out of date now. What kind of testing do you need? Good luck! Rick > On Jun 27, 2022, at 8:26 AM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi, > is there anyone on the list still using

LC Server & Monterey

I’m trying to upgrade my web-server from Catalina to Monterey, and I’m running into Error 403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource. I’m using LiveCode Server 9.6.7 Everything worked great under Catalina. What extra thing do I need to do for Monterey? Anyone else worked

Re: Generating Random numbers to conform a distribution

Try rolling 2 six-sided dice. 7 is the number that appears the most so it’s at the middle of the curve, while 2 and 12 are at the ends of the distribution. Roll the dice multiple times to generate a distribution. Now simulate rolling the dice with random numbers in LC the same way. Now conduct

Re: Set HTMLText and Get Effective HTMLText

Hi Paul, Thanks for this. I’ll keep this in mind for the future. I found that Bob’s simple suggestion of: put URL VarURL into VarHTMLText to work the best for me. Thanks again! Rick > On May 18, 2022, at 1:38 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > Instead of: > > set the

Re: Set HTMLText and Get Effective HTMLText

Hi Bob, That might be what I need, but I’ll have to look at the resulting code to see if that will work. Thanks, Rick > On May 18, 2022, at 12:43 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > put URL VarURL into VarHTMLText ___ use-livecode

Re: Set HTMLText and Get Effective HTMLText

Hi Klaus, Thanks for getting back to me on this. That explains the problem. I wish it worked with variables though because execution would be faster. Oh well, at least it will do for now until we have the LC 10 compiler which will make it all faster! Rick > On May 18, 2022, at 12:29 PM,

Re: Set HTMLText and Get Effective HTMLText

Thanks! It’s a bummer though, because variables are much faster. Rick > On May 18, 2022, at 12:28 PM, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode > wrote: > > I would think it is because the htmlText is a property of a field. It is one > of the properties that it inherited by any field. The variable does

Set HTMLText and Get Effective HTMLText

This works: set the HTMLText of field "HTMLTextField1" of this card to URL VarURL This doesn’t work: set the HTMLText of VarHTMLText to URL VarURL (The syntax is accepted fine, but it throws the following error at execution time.) Chunk: error in object expression This works: get the

Re: Divide Large Data Blob?

Hi Bob, Nice to know this for the future. Thanks for your research! Rick > On May 16, 2022, at 7:53 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > OK so it appears there is a log2 property. The log2 of 1000 yields 9.965784 > so I suppsoe if you round up, that would give you the maximum

Re: Divide Large Data Blob?

Hi Bob, Yes, I was looking into the binary sort idea. It’s too bad that isn’t just a built-in function for LC. I’m not sure it’s worth that kind of effort for my particular case. Thanks, Rick > On May 16, 2022, at 6:44 PM, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode > wrote: > > So this has got me

Re: Divide Large Data Blob?

Hi Bob, I just need to make one pass at the data, so building an SQL database for it doesn’t make sense. I don’t have any definitive line for the boundary between good and bad data. It’s more of a consistent first guess used just to cut down on the amount of data to process. I start looking

Re: Divide Large Data Blob?

is your friend. Filter is blazingly fast. > > Ralph DiMola > IT Director > Evergreen Information Services > rdim...@evergreeninfo.net > > -Original Message- > From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf > Of Rick Harrison via use-liv

Re: Divide Large Data Blob?

> rdim...@evergreeninfo.net > > -Original Message- > From: use-livecode [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf > Of Rick Harrison via use-livecode > Sent: Monday, May 16, 2022 1:46 PM > To: How to use LiveCode > Cc: Rick Harrison > Subject: Divide Large Da

Re: Divide Large Data Blob?

Hi Richmond, Doesn’t the following still require a loop? LC doesn’t like the syntax you provided. Thanks, Rick > On May 16, 2022, at 2:23 PM, Richmond via use-livecode > wrote: > > 3 put chars 1-SLICER of MyDATA into firstTHIRD ___ use-livecode

Re: Divide Large Data Blob?

Hi Richard, I was looking at the offset function and thinking about the starting points. It still presents a looping problem for me that I’m trying to avoid. If other methods aren’t more efficient I will play with it more. Thanks, Rick > On May 16, 2022, at 2:32 PM, Richard Gaskin via

Re: Divide Large Data Blob?

Hi Richmond, An interesting approach. I’ll give it try Thanks! Rick > On May 16, 2022, at 2:23 PM, Richmond via use-livecode > wrote: > > Well one of the things you could do is this: > > slightly pseudo > > 1 put the number of chars in MyDATA into MyNUM > 2 put MyNUM / 3 into SLICER > 3

Divide Large Data Blob?

I have a large chunk of data that I want to search as quickly as possible. Unfortunately the part I want to search is the middle third of the data. The other thirds at the beginning and at the end are just junk and slow down my search so I want to get rid of them. I don’t want to search

Re: Visual Dissolve Times

Hi Tore, set the effectRate.. Cool! Thanks Tore! > On May 5, 2022, at 1:45 PM, Tore Nilsen via use-livecode > wrote: > > You can set the effectRate to speed up or down the visual effects. Lower > number increases the speed. Look it up in the Dictionary for more precise > explanation. > >

Visual Dissolve Times

Greetings LiveCoders, I was playing around with the visual dissolve effect and I wanted to be able to specify an amount of time for the effect. In my case I wanted it to do the effect in 0.75 seconds (3/4 of a second). We only get choices of very fast fast normal slow very slow When I tried

Ken Burns LC Stack

I downloaded the Ken Burns LC Stack and found that it doesn’t seem to work. Is anyone else finding it doesn’t work? Thanks, Rick ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Hey Lurkers: Anyone still using LC 6.7? (Regulars too)

Ah, the old days of LC 6.7 when LiveCode was fast. How much I miss that! Hopefully our new compiler when it comes out will make me feel that LC 6.7 was really slow. Thanks for the walk down memory lane! Rick ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Getting Webpage Information

Hi Tom, I found htmltext gave me html not just text. I tried the following, and it yielded a lot of formatting junk, plus some useable text. set the HTMLText of field “MyTestTextField" to the HTMLtext of widget “MyWebBrowser" Bob is correct about javascript variable contents not coming

Re: Getting Webpage Information

Hi Keith, Yes, I have tried that several times and ways. It doesn’t seem to work. One would think that would work fine. Other ideas? Thanks, Rick > On Mar 27, 2022, at 3:58 PM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Rick, > Maybe try 'put the text of widget "youtBrowserName" into

Getting Webpage Information

I have been playing around with the WebBrowser widget, and I can’t seem to grab the content results of what the page returns. Example: If I use the Browser to navigate to google, I can program a way to search for “Bird”. When the results are returned in the browser, I can manually perform a

Re: Counting Syllables

Yes, I’m looking into that. Web-scraping isn’t fun though, and it can be a lot of work. One also has to make sure it doesn’t violate company policies etc. I’m not a fan of getting sued. Rick > On Mar 24, 2022, at 1:55 AM, Dick Kriesel via use-livecode > wrote: > > You could scrape an

Re: Counting Syllables

Yes, that is where I’m at. An existing database would make things a lot easier. Rick > On Mar 22, 2022, at 9:06 AM, Craig Newman via use-livecode > wrote: > > If you have a database at all, it would cost nothing much in speed to just > use the whole thing all the time. Put the database into

Re: Counting Syllables

I’ve tried a bunch of things. It’s 80-90% correct, but failing 10-20% of the time due to irregulars isn’t acceptable. I think I have to look into a database table lookup solution, but I’m dreading it. Thanks, Rick > On Mar 21, 2022, at 4:18 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode > wrote: > >

Re: Counting Syllables

“miaou” has 4 consecutive vowels so I’m not surprised it has 2 syllables. That may be a rule. The average person uses about 20,000 words on a regular basis. They know about 40,000 visually. It’s estimated there are about 1.25 million english words, but a lot of those are scientific terms.

Re: Counting Syllables

I found this: https://www.dcc-cde.ca.gov/professionaldev/events/documents/syllabication-packet-2021-04.pdf I’m not sure how comprehensive it is yet, but it has me thinking! I tried looking up

Re: Counting Syllables

Hi Richmond, Yes, I came across syllablecounter.net which only intrigued me more. Unfortunately it reports the word triangle has 2 syllables which is incorrect. Any dictionary will tell you triangle has 3 syllables. Is there a rule for that or is it just an exception to some rule? Perhaps

Re: Counting Syllables

Hi Colin, Thanks for sharing this. I’m reading it now! Rick > On Mar 20, 2022, at 3:12 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode > wrote: > > This post goes over some techniques: > > https://mholtzscher.github.io/2018/05/29/syllables/ > >

Re: Counting Syllables

Hi Richmond, Yes, English. Sorry I forgot to be specific, I thought it was implied. Yes, I have been counting vowels, but there appear to be a lot of exceptions, so there must be a lot more rules. I need to know what all the rules are to make it work if possible. There are websites out there

Counting Syllables

I’m working on a project that requires an LC program to count the number of syllables in a paragraph. I don’t want to have to re-invent the wheel here if there is an existing solution to the problem. If not, what are all the rules I need to check? Suggestions? Thanks, Rick

Re: How to extract a video clip...

I was looking for some LiveCode lessons on how to use mergAV and there weren’t any. :-( Are there any good examples anywhere on how to use it? Thanks, Rick > On Mar 19, 2022, at 9:37 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode > wrote: > > If mergeAV was macOS and Windows, I would definitely

Compiler Funding Options Update

Hi LiveCoders, I just received a message from LiveCode Ltd., that stated the compiler has been 83% funded with just 1 day to go. This project really needs to be fully funded if LiveCode is to move forward. Quite often I find that our present version of LiveCode isn’t fast enough for me to be

Re: Browser Widget and Images

Thanks! I had forgotten about "import as control" and about set the imagedata of image “my image”. set the imagedata doesn’t fit to the image’s object size though. I would probably have to resize the image beforehand. I also came across: put URL "binfile:///ExportedImageFile.png" into image

Re: Browser Widget and Images

:58 PM, Klaus major-k via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi Rick, > >> Am 13.03.2022 um 19:34 schrieb Rick Harrison via use-livecode >> : >> >> I have a large free public domain image displaying nicely in my LC Browser >> Widget. >> I want to br

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