App Architecture - Nonmenclature

More strategy thoughts about app architure. I am using Andre book, (which he says is a guideline and your app may differ) but, wow, it has helped a lot to make "models" encapsulated. Since they know nothing about the UI, it is easy to debug, because you just expected a list file from dis

Error in loading "ws.goulding.script-library.mergjson"

I did my first attempt to build a standalone of Mobile for Android in 9.0.2 I got this unusual never-saw-it-before message: Remote: stack "ws.goulding.script-library.mergjson": execution error at line n/a (External handler execution error: could not decode JSON: unexpected token near end of fil

Re: Error in loading "ws.goulding.script-library.mergjson"

pm, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > wrote: > > I did my first attempt to build a standalone of Mobile for Android in 9.0.2 > > I got this unusual never-saw-it-before message: > > Remote: stack "ws.goulding.script-library.mergjson": execution error at line > n

Re: Error in loading "ws.goulding.script-library.mergjson"

heck with an olders verions of livecode later today. Brahmanathaswami  Monte Goulding wrote: I’d start by making sure the json you are decoding is what you think it is by logging it or putting it into a text field. >On 7 Jan 2019, at 1:28 pm, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via us

Getting Browser Widget to Read Local Assets

I finally got around to implementing this. Works great! In terms of being a loader for on browserDocumentLoadComplete pURL if pURl is not empty then send "hideloader" to me in 1 second end if [snip] One caveat: Old path problem. I can't get the browser to read a local image in this

Re: Getting Browser Widget to Read Local Assets

HH wrote: You could also do step 1 to 4 once and put compress(fld "HTML") into a , then set later on in btn "LoadURL" the htmltext to decompress(). BR: Thanks for your attentive in response to my query. I am keeping you posts in a folder entitled "Browser Widget Manual" I tried thi

Re: Crunchy chestnuts again, again, again

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Re: Navigator 7.1rc1 is available

Kudo from making group layering consistent/doable! ? = CUSTOM LIST STRINGS EDITOR This update adds an editor for custom list strings. == "Custom list strings" what is it? A "custom property which is a string" ? If so, that huge, the IDE, Project Inspector give us a custom property va

HTMLTEXT of a Browser Widget in Properties Inspector?

I have a strange phenomena 1) The htmltext of the browser widget does not seem to be available in the Properties Inspection a. I could have sworn there was link/field to it in previous version of LC b. It is not available in a custom property 2) I set the htmltex

Re: HTMLTEXT of a Browser Widget in Properties Inspector?

Wow! That’s look like a minefield! I vote to this: should we make a enhancement request? ** It would be a great feature if it were possible to delete the cache. ** I *finally* go the old htmltext/cache to go went away. But it too several reboots and I tested on my Android etc. until it "

OT: Linus on C vs C++

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Performance Issue Related to Gradients/Graphic Effects

There is a common UI element seen everywhere these days: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=21801 A small photo or image, say 150px W x 85px H, the lower part of the photo, at about 65px down, begins a gradient going to close to black near to bottom on the image. On top of that there

browserDocumentLoadComplete fired twice Mobile

browserDocumentLoadComplete is not in the dictionary. It's in described in API doc for the browser widget. Maybe that is intentional At any rate, for some reason if you have two browses widgets on the same card, but you have this in the script of only 1 browser widget widget "loader" widget

Re: browserDocumentLoadComplete fired twice Mobile

I learned something today, wow, the target only records mouse click budget record what the message it going to This was useful. It is still being call twice on mobile. NetWork tracer output. I have to set a flag or same ON desktop info1/30/19 3:50:49 AM from loader: true ope

Re: browserDocumentLoadComplete fired twice Mobile

oadCompleteFlag = 2 then put 0 into sHackDownloadCompleteFlag end if end browserDocumentLoadComplete Brahmanathaswami On 1/30/19, 4:02 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" wrote: I learned something today, wow, the target only re

Re: browserDocumentLoadComplete fired twice Mobile

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Re: Swipe over native scroller

Did you try Terry script? Elanor did something similar this in the Listen module, it not very refined. Terry put time in it with subtle time parameters. I have yet to try it. It here on the list Terry, do we have a place for a repository for code snippits? Maybe you can put in on the forum. I

Re: Setting behaviors in 9.0.2

This happens to me "regularly" but I have no recipe. Once a every few days or so. You mentioned it to me months ago, something about IDE "losing messages" Sometimes, "something" (some action in the IDE) cause the IDE to lose "parts" of the message hierarchy. Other things work. It can be anythi

Using Find with Shell on Mac

I'm pretty much fed up with Spotlight. On Linux apps I use Locate, which is really efficient. but setting up and keep the locate dbase on mac is also frought with issues. it will not index $Home which is weird. FIND is slower of course, but perfectly effective. this: find ~/ -iname *.liveco

Re: Parent of Target

@ Jacque the behavior is attached to a stack that is not the same stack as the target (a download button) so "this me" won't work @ Bob " getParentStack(the long id of me). All it does is parses the long id by using wordOffset to find the word "stack" then returns word tWord to -1 of the lon

Re: Using Find with Shell on Mac

@ bob try it in msg put $HOME see the dictionary for $ but this is one more of those "Alice in wonderland features" of LC that you will only discover after you fall into the hole (hehe) like the long owner of the target "why index" to locate and find return the long paths to the file

App Rejected: IPv6 network?

Dan: this is "big news" -- I thought the downloading of LC binary stacks was definitely forbidden fruit inside Apple's Walled Garden Dan wrote: "The app, on launch, downloads a file (a compressed stack) from my server. I know for fact that went without error. That freshly downloaded stack the

Mobile LC Apps Downloading Stacks After installation

Sorry for mixing threads and hijacking Dan's original issue with Apples rejection because of disabling TS Net moving this to a new thread. here. This is HUGE from my point of view.. though as Dan says, let's just do it, quietly and not abuse it Though if Richard and Mark's assessement is corr

Re: Local File in Browser Widget on Android - Fail

make sure your slashes are all correct. on iOS and desktop are forgiving with double// in URLs; but android is not.. .this bit me many times file:/somepath/somefile.html works file://somepath/somefile.html doesn't So If you have path setters here and there, one needs to follow some conv

Re: Mobile LC Apps Downloading Stacks After installation

Mark, thanks for the thorough explanation. I would go on record to say that "vision" for our use of such post/sideloading option would fall well within th UI/UX of the existing app, since, from a design point of view our goals would want it to be virtually transparent. That said, the CMS can g

Re: common code patterns

Monte, you request is a bit opaque to me.. but FWIW -- to stay away from globals -- to break up logical "areas of work/services" into separate scripts -- to be able trace back to the original script I find myself doing a lot more of this: I find myself doing a lot of this; behavior_Listen #

Re: Android App Woes

I also getting reports from from one Beta tester of Siva Siva app of the app stopping after hitting the home key. and also the square key (what is that on Android, some app switcher?) this is a but unclear… I need to talk to her.. but these are all related symptoms on Android: " I just tried

Re: Android App Woes

This is a problem we can't fix in scripts. The only solution is not to use libraries (or acceleratedRendering, apparently.) Ouch… seriously? Clearly "unacceptable" in a product that makes the deployment claims that LC does. Hopefully HQ will put this on the top priority. I'm going t

Re: Android App Woes

Dan, I can confirm here that, yes, it does seem to be an issue on Android with the "state of accelerated Rendering" in our app, we need to keep the loader stack open all the time. This has a card with a background color and a PNG on top… called from assets/img/global-icons/SVG-Lingam.png Let

Re: common code patterns

Yes On 8/10/17, 2:42 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Monte Goulding via use-livecode" wrote: local s command set p put p into s end set function get return s end get ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecod

Applescript Fails in Standalone on Mac Built with 8.1.6

OK got bit again by this one We do a lot of of in-house production tools that require our big server on the LAN to be mounted. For years I just kept a custom prop in these stacks uMountServer tell application "Finder" mount volume "afp://###ServerIP###/###Volume###" as user name "###ServerUse

Re: Applescript Fails in Standalone on Mac Built with 8.1.6

On 8/17/17, 7:03 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" wrote: OK got bit again by this one We do a lot of of in-house production tools that require our big server on the LAN to be mounted. For years I just kept a custom

Filtering, Search and Fields on Mobile

In our new app I just exposed *all* the audio on our web site in different playlists. you can now download and play off line. beta users begged me… done! YAY! Some some playlist (posted to a mobile scrolling field) are 900 lines long and you can't find anything BOO! Later I will implement more

Re: Filtering, Search and Fields on Mobile

t focus on nothing end if Another gem that I never knew about "focus on" On 8/19/17, 8:06 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" wrote: 1) how do we control when the mobile keyboard is opened. Sometimes I have left a field on

Re: Sending a message to users that floats above everything

Jonathan: I don't think it is even/ever possible to get something to "float"on top of a browser widget on Mobile. I wish/hope that I am wrong. On 8/20/17, 3:53 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Jonathan Lynch via use-livecode" wrote: What is the best way to send a message to users that flo

Re: htaccess rewrite rule to https let my apps stop working

T. Yes mod-rewrite is the way to go. What Matthias sent is how we are doing it. but for backwards compatibility in our apps I also include a function to replace http:// with https:// in any URL in our apps. BR ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Parent of Target

Back at it here with attempst to make "generic" behaviors as text only stacks that can serve as slaves "all over the place" So this is all about the calling context/target. I wonder If I am working too hard here, may be useful to have the calling context ready for a dispatch, to parse the long

Re: Parent of Target

Mark Wieder via use-livecode" wrote: >># do different things based on calling context. That's exactly the opposite of what behaviors are for. BR: ?? but a behavior may contain a script with a mouseup handler at that responds to different targets with different actions/results.

Re: Parent of Target

[ignore previous post… hit send prematurely] [@ Trevor if you have thoughts based on your experience with Levure… love to hear the ] Disclaimer: this my first time ever doing something with such a huge, modular architect, all previous experience to data has been in 1 Stack with Many Cards = 1

Re: Paint tools and image creation

This is important in our world. not sure if I follow exactly what the issues are, but I can tell you what users need. But first of all, the paint tools seem to be badly broken here in 8.1.6 if I draw an oval it , appears but selects the entire card rect as the enclosing rect/container instead o

Re: Parent of Target

Trevor I'm sorry I muddied the waters by using the word "widget" which I have carelessly tossed around in the past for "small group of objects that team up for a job" But really widgets are widgets now and what I mean is "custom Control" You understand me very well…. The card or Search

Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

I had just now a really bad crash in 8.1.6 created custom control/group then I needed to create two groups of five @ radio buttons in that group. I layed out the radio buttons and then with selectedGroupedControls selected, I tried to group one set of radio buttons by selecting them and click "

Re: Parent of Target

OH! "This sends the message down the normal message path starting at the object containing the script. " And here I've been thinking that a target was required for specificity, because of this in the dictionary: "If no target is specified, the message is sent to ' me '. In the contex

Search Values of Array in "One Go"

We use these arrays with media metadata that is extracted from our database of media metadata. The dbase was originally designed for lots of columns so that "there is nothing we cannot know about a media item" incorporating DCIM columns and also W3C media metadata initiative's recommended proper

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

Bob, Mike, thanks…"use the dbase" good thought The reason we use the array is once we load that into a local than I use the click line number of the song list (titles in a simple list field) to get the data for that particular song. click on line 9 get use everything we need from sSelecti

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

did you see the pitch for business upgrade? scroll down.. there some new thing that give you time on processes On 8/23/17, 9:28 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richard Gaskin via use-livecode" wrote: > I can't wait to use the new tools for watching processes to see where > bottle ne

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

The media meta dbase "jnanam.item" table actually has 87 columns, ha! way over kill, but I'm actually glad we did that because there is indeed "nothing we cannot know about any media item in the universe" But any given item… only uses a subset. media_type = "audio/song" and media_type =

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

Alex, thanks, this is very helpful 1) put x into aFilteredPlayListIndex[z] (there's no need to replicate all the data when the array will continue to exist, just keep the indices you want). awesome… I think I could increment the z from 1 up and then my clickline number will still work. 2) "c

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

s on SQLite dbase on disk, so you *have* to read it one way or another. (scratch his head…) On 8/23/17, 2:13 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Alex Tweedly via use-livecode" wrote: On 24/08/2017 01:04, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: >2) &qu

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

Well thanks to all of you urging me to stay away from re-processing the array but going back to the dbase. I Looked back at my code and realized that I *had* set it up to be re-usable, I just forgot how well I had done that I have this function in the behavior_Listen which is attached to the

Native Mobile Radio Buttons - Focus on Entry Field on Mobile

OK I successfully built a little custom Control which is a searchform that dynamically changes out some options depending on the class of audio being viewed by the user.. Pretty straight forward, a search fields, some radio buttons for what to search in and then two other sets of radio buttons

Re: Native Mobile Radio Buttons - Focus on Entry Field on Mobile

Mike wrote: for starters, get scott's tmControls2. They just look better. BR: duh of course! as for the focus, how are you trying to do it? are you using "focus on"? "click at the loc of"? BR: The focus comes into the search field when the custom control slides down… cursor is th

Re: Thoughts on BLOBs in SQLite

Tom Glod wrote: so I base encode the binary variable and then save it in a text field in table. no problems and no bs ever. Others do this also. I'm curious from an "uber architecture" point of view, what pros there are to keeping the image data in a base encoded form in the data b

What's Happening with TactileMedia?

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Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

Bob: fascinating [1] ["addr2"] ,[1] ["smtppassword"] none,[1] ["itemail"],[1] ["contactphone"] 661-257-1177,[1] ["contactonsite"] false, etc. what about a 2 diminsional array You can see from this format that you can convert to lines and then you can filter th

Re: What's Happening with TactileMedia?

OK great.. found it. but I guess we get his TMControls2 on the LC site. On 8/24/17, 9:00 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Matthias Rebbe via use-livecode" wrote: Seems he changed his domain name tactilemedia.com redirects to http://scottrossi.design/index

Re: Native Mobile Radio Buttons - Focus on Entry Field on Mobile

@ Bob yes that should work, but I'm using AGdbase lib and it defaults to AND has he is off to the annual Brazil JS Party till Wednesday… so I ended up giving the user discreet options, which I think is actually better. @ Mike TMControls2 I don't see this anywhere now…Scott has something t

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

@ Mark Waddingham Awesome! thanks, I will test this later… Yes, my solution, at the urging of our Cohorts of the Round Table LiveCode Data Diggers, who earlier said "Don't go looking for your needles in arrays." ( I just reformulated the SQL quaryand passed it back "up" to the stack script w

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

OK I will bite what would an array representing an "AND/OR" style query look like such that if used as a predicate for else if tElement contains pNeedle then it would return true/false How would you have to construct "tElement" ?? Mark: In terms of generalizing that function - then

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

Please do post your stack… over at the forums? On 8/26/17, 12:21 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Brian Milby via use-livecode" wrote: I'm using example 5 from this site for my JSON: https://adobe.github.io/Spry/samples/data_region/JSONDataSetSample.html I can post a copy of the

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

; I don't see any change in any prop in the PI… So, what is this "selectable" property? On 8/22/17, 8:26 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Monte Goulding via use-livecode" wrote: >On 23 Aug 2017, at 1:47 pm, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

Thanks Brian… We use MS office for enterprise now, So I have one drive and it came right thru. On 8/26/17, 5:51 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Brian Milby via use-livecode" wrote: Here is a link to the file on OneDrive: https://1drv.ms/u/s!Apo0Atd869AFkjiW39Xit7Rmmp4b (h

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

JQ wrote CantSelect disallows selection by the edit tool, mostly used in development, but doesn't change the message path. Hmm.. doesn't this comprise a Noobie Gotcha? cantSelect is not exposed in the PI for any object. if it was, then toggling this in the ABrowser would trigger the ch

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

this is a really useful prop… too bad it is not exposed in the PI "use case for it" OH Boy! us page lay people lock background objects all the time… once a subset of elements are "locked down" design wise.. you don't what them moving about. I'll be using this a lot now that I found it… But I

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

Richard: Hmmm, this could be really useful a whole responsive palette of control on the side of a card, (instead of a separate palette stack) while continuing to dev in the main region. useful for dev. In fact doesn't this solve a core UX, that is not "ancient"by any means?: A drawing regi

Re: TSNet error 6

Ralph I'm just about to implement this in our new app. I was only checking on init and some other navigation points in the app, but it's clear now we have to check *everytime* we call the server. because, as you say, use can walk from his desk (wifi) to outside (drop to bad 3G) and then out i

What Android device detail do you find useful and why?

Assuming we send data back to the mothership for analytic, then: If we want to know all about the device running our app. I asked myself: how much and how far can we go? -- the platform # gets us the bare minimum, OS -- the screenrect # that's useful especially for the myriad of Androids

Re: Android Audio Playback & Recording

Aloha Peter I think we also want ot have the voice recognition option here so that we could record short notes, or issue commands Maybe that is OT for your use case, but I have some users interest in this. BR On 9/10/17, 11:06 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Peter Reid via use-livecode"

Setting the User-Agent

is libURLSetCustomHTTPHeaders broken? or am I doing it wrong? on fetchPage libURLSetCustomHTTPHeaders "User-Agent: SivaSivaApp" put url ("https://www.himalayanacademy.com/ping.txt";) into fld "webPage" end fetchPage if we tail -n1500 /home/myDomain/logs/access_log we see this: 24.43.231.222

Brainstorm Project Browser Display

Our new app (goes to the iOS store today… then I have to go break coconuts and pray to the Gods of Apple for approval) as I do final tweaks I find myself wishing that all the binary stacks where at the top of the PB list You see, as "views" with almost no code, it means that they act as "portal

Re: [off]8/8+/X

"more of a shift coming" from where to where? If you mean toward Android? Agreed. there is an "explosion" going on in Asia right now, think "nuclear blast" of Android device deployments. India's demonetizing also adding to that. No longer a matter a rising middle class, every rickshaw driver,

Re: Android Audio Playback & Recording

Peter Reid wrote: 1. Find a way of getting the Fire/Android to play an arbitrary sound clip (typically less than 2-3 secs). I've gone for WAV format initially but I can easily make them something else (MP3, AAC, OGG, etc). ANY IDEAS for this? BR: Did you try the mobile player and play .

Re: Android Audio Playback & Recording

Mahala Ali! OT a bit… but how do we do this on iOS ? use MergAV? I'm only seeing ref to Video recording… we should refer to this, mergAVAudioSessionSetCategory # and all the other mergMicrophone* # commands and functions, right? BR On 9/15/17, 1:53 AM, "Ali Lloyd via use-livecode"

SivaSiva iOS App Approved - Android Issues/AcceleratedRendering issues

We are very happy to announce that Apple approved SivaSiva App V1 and it is now available at the app store. search for "SivaSiva" all one word. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/spiritual-workout/id1271260502?mt=8 But we still have problems with the Android version. you can download RC7 for Andr

Re: SivaSiva iOS App Approved - Android Issues/AcceleratedRendering issues

Jonathan I'm not sure exactly what this "stay in sleep mode" gets us… but yes, it's an interesting option. if we use this hack, would the audio continue to play when the user goes out ? Why are you recommending it? --- "imagery" Yes, with 400,000 still images on our in-house server and 3

Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

Now that we have the app in the iOS app store… with one big bug pending on the Android version… I am working on the first 'fixes" and upgrades for V1.1 of the app. Again, as is often the case for many of us through the years, I have a case of "choice paralysis" with respect to what would be the

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

Perhaps this answers the question. Looking at the download table/release notes. 9.0.0 DP 8 is 3 months behind… last updated July 13. Doesn't this mean all the fixes to bugs in 8.2 DP1 are still bugs in 9.0.0 DP8 ? BR Wrote: So what about 9.0.0 DP8 are you happy with this? Anything you ca

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

all mute 1) using 9. that old doesn’t' work for us.. We have got too much vested in 8.* that works well, can't risk it. 2) 45 minutes into using 8.2.0 DP1 I had so many issues and problems that I was force to abandon that too. Simple things like setting Select Grouped to true and then resizi

Scrolling Groups on Mobile - Show a little of what is below

FYI this is a tip that came from Jacque, but I had to experience it "live" myself. Alex though it useful to share… On a busy day here (we have 100 plus visitors daily) I will go outside and get complete strangers to download the new app and watch them as they go thru initial install and usage.

Re: Scrolling Groups on Mobile - Show a little of what is below

Yes… that's my plan… all I have to do is shrink the rows by 15 pixels vertically and the 4th one will pull up at the bottom of the screen. A bit tedious, but can do this with some toolbox scripts… so , not too hard. Actually now that I have 24 objects = 3 each for 8 rows (each one has a bkgrnd

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

I'm naïve about how these branches work. Probably need a firmware update in my brain on this whole "future" versions thing. I had to "regress' to 8.1.7 RC1 because 8.2 DP 1 because the IDE melted down pretty rapidly. You wrote: " When v9 goes final v8 will no longer be maintained" Yes, of c

Re: SivaSiva iOS App Approved - Android Issues/AcceleratedRendering issues

Jonathan Right -- Excellent. Thanks. I missed that before.. and yes I had this same experience and asked myself "What happened?" OK I'll have to go back and look that up, well work doing. Agreed. I guess was testing so much in Android, I forgot that apple actually closes. Would be nice to exp

Re: Scrolling Groups on Mobile - Show a little of what is below

I've seen that also, though it looks cool initially, I'm not sure a regular user of the app would want to have that "noise" every time they go to that screen it it were a "home" screen. But it's a good option for some use cases, for sure. But following on Jacque's essay on user testing and "ru

Re: Scrolling Groups on Mobile - Show a little of what is below

done http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20445 please add as you think useful. On 9/21/17, 11:51 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" wrote: >Would be super if we could build this into the widget.. so you could, e.g set the width to 100 pixels height

Re: Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

Thanks Panos you are awesome… appreciate the responsiveness. @ Richard. OK, downloading now.. I'm in. moving dev in 9 DP9. BR On 9/22/17, 2:30 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of panagiotis merakos via use-livecode" wrote: Hi all, The LC 9.0 DP-9 build, released today, has all the

How to offset placement of referenced images?

We need to occasionally Offset referenced images in their frame. place a large image into a small rect; move that image internally so that a given area of the composition is focused/centered in the image area. I thought I knew how to do that, but today the method escapes me. Is it possible? basi

Re: Setting the acceleratedRendering to true on startup on Android 7 and Android 8

Not only that… but I think we have other stacks where the wait is applied before accelerated rendering and it is stills stopping on exit/resume. I'm deep into refactoring… will get around to deploy again on devices in a day or so… will report back again then. J. Landman wrote: It's kind of

Re: Setting the acceleratedRendering to true on startup on

Dan, yes this could be really helpful Almost all (but one) use cases in our app framework are simply to facilitate either a scrolling field or a scrolling group. If we are looking for some consistent "algorithm" for this, which I am, so we don't have so much mental-re-estate consumed every time

Re: Script Editor Autocomplete Optional?

Monte Respond to your previous "disheartened" don't be! Just downloaded 9.0.0 DP9 For all the gorilla dust around this new feature which I had not actually see yet, I was wondering.. But now, wow this is awesome! How often to I set an itemdelimiter? sheesh "like all the time" and auto com

Developing Methods: Creating Scrolling groups larger than screen rect

Workin in 9.0.0 DP9 now. Old issues of editing groups seems to have gotten worse. selections lines around objects continue to appear even if you have select a different object, now the selection dashed lines remain on the previously selected object and it's as if we shift selected two object, bu

IPad Mini reports "not supported

New app has IPad set in SA builder Accepted by Apple went live I have screen shots for iPad on the store But iPad mini users report "Not compatible with this device" Why not? Missing splash screen? Via mobile phone ___ use-livecode mailing list use-l

Re: Developing Methods: Creating Scrolling groups larger than screen rect

Jacque in the new branch newPortalNav2.. I changed that… all controls are assigned initial numeric prefix 1_ 2_ I stole that idea from your photo index ( and the IDE started to calm down or rather I think I found a WYSIWIG method. e.g.Tall vertical scrolling group whose formatted Height might

Re: IPad Mini reports "not supported

screen sizes or resolution sizes, or what -- Alex. P.S. I had to remove the app from my iPad to get the store to show me the Compatibility list again. On 25/09/2017 01:16, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: >New app has IPad set in SA builder

Re: Developing Methods: Creating Scrolling groups larger than screen rect

Wow… great tip. That dictionary entry is a small 'gold nugget" These groups have their locklocation set to true. So, duh.. obviously part of the problem was: " If a group's boundingRect is empty and its lockLocation is false, when you drag an object toward the boundary of the group, the group

Re: A modest proposal for a new property

Though this is not a universal solution… but related.. FWIW we have an enhancement request in for widgets to allow us to set their margins. The entire area of a widget is its "hit box" (term from Unity) So all we need it to be able to set margins. Typical use case might be to have a 24 X 24 w

Offset Referenced Image Data

I put this enhancement request in if anyone is interested http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=20473 in brief " We need the ability to have an image object "mask" referenced image data by setting the offsets of the image, common use case is "I need this in a square" But don't want to me

Re: A modest proposal for a new property

marvelous, very important thread…in mobile, it's all about the touch msg… yes "all of the above" the enhancement request to allow margins for widgets stands as still useful but plays directly into the other scenarios described here. And though separate "desires," they do over lap e.g. As it is

Re: Beacons and Bluetooth

Lagi: yes this is really bigger than we see. Probably need a whole forum area dedicated to NFC, Bluetooth Comms. FWIW I talked with Jacque about this yesterday. NFC in the form of "within 4-5 cm" is available now on Android if you have Indy or business. Maybe by next year for iOS… the "beacons"

Re: IPad Mini reports "not supported

Surprise, at least this is new news for some of us: assuming the device supports one or another, all those services are indeed actually available, whether you check those boxes or not or so I'm told via another grapevine. ergo: you only want to check them in the SA builder if your app really, r

AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

We continue struggle with our app on Android and between mobile controls being instantiated or deleted + oddities with acceleratedRendering, + remote bugging not *really* working, it's a bit of a fishing expedition when everything works on desktop and iOS. A complete document on accelerated ren

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