Re: Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive

2017-06-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Richard 1) Again, all very nice theory Viz-a-viz my lament… "where are all the examples, sample code" We all don't live it the stratosphere of visionary LiveCode architecture like you doi. -☺ Can you post sample stacks with your resize handlers? 2) I like everything you are describing but I

Re: Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive

2017-06-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Yes, I did try. and certainly any manual resizing fires the resize msgs as expect. But the interest was, initially, to get the resizeControl to fire from script. As resizeable it off of all stacks -- deliberately so team does not inadvertently break their rect with the slip of a drag/save. I

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.5 RC-1

2017-06-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
got it tks… I had forgotten the structure there… only stable versions at the top… yep… 8_1_5-rc-1 is there below. On 6/12/17, 8:41 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of panagiotis merakos via use-livecode" wrote:

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.5 RC-1

2017-06-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
No offline activation file available? On 6/12/17, 7:09 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of panagiotis merakos via use-livecode" wrote: Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of

Re: Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

2017-06-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
ha… that's a simple hack… I might use # instead… though these all start showing up in PB as have in a 1 line script.. which I guess is server explanatory. panos wrote me back today say he thinks the default behavior is good for newbies. which it probably is. Theoretically the IDE *could*

Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

2017-06-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I wrote support "complaining" that after I clear the on mouseup end mouseUp that is inserted in button scripts by default, apply, close, save. Then later if one inadvertently opens the script of that button, the script is reinserted. Panos replied this is the default behavior….gave me a hack

Widgets as Buttons

2017-06-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Re: using widgets for buttons like disclosure triangles. On mobile they seem very unresponsive. Jacque says you have to actually tap the pixels inside the defined svg area. We had this discussion before relative to using small graphics as buttons. So, are we back to making small groups with a

Re: Desktop Fork Menu for Mobile Picker

2017-06-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
OH… never mind… "popup menu at" How could I have forgotten that (by work on mobile most of this year..) BR On 6/20/17, 4:50 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode@

Re: Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

2017-06-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Kevin, Thanks for jumping in, very inspiring work you have all been doing recently. One has to wonder if anyone sleeps in Edinborough! I've been having a running conversation with Richard on how to make small solutions available to the whole community, in the spirit of "this would make

DataGrid2 - Improved Graphics Means What - Exactly?

2017-06-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
The DataGrid 2 fund raiser is interesting, not so much for the DataGrid; which I don't use; (Instantiating a small group template multiple times to make a longer grouped control is easy enough and scrolling list fields do the rest, so far there hasn't been a use case yet where Datagrid

Re: DataGrid2 - Improved Graphics Means What - Exactly?

2017-06-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
uest) on the crowd funding agenda. Mahalo! (thank you) On 6/22/17, 9:28 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mark Waddingham via use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: On 2017-06-23 07:23, Sannyasin Brahmana

Trouble with Building from g8.1.5 rc1 for Early Version iOS

2017-06-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
LC: 8.1.5 rc1 xCode: 8.3.3 I had the lowest version set to iOS 6.1 xCode balked and LC error repor dialog shows up, saying app build failed because all these files/libs (many lines in the SA dialog) were for 10.3 OK so I went back into SA settings pick "10.3 or later" and the build went

Re: Feature Race: Pick Your Project

2017-06-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I had similar feelings, (I have taken almost every pitch to "pay in advance for X number of years for this discount or that… ) so when we get hit up again for development that one would hope would be just part of the product road map, it does indeed seem odd. Even "advanced smooth scrolling

Re: Preference for Keeping Saved Empty Button Scripts Empty

2017-06-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
A work in progress http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19905 On 6/19/17, 2:35 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: ha… that's

Desktop Fork Menu for Mobile Picker

2017-06-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
OK , who knew we would be building for mobile first, and *then* go fishing for a desktop solution to the same requirement? this is too easy: - sort tList put "All" & cr before tList mobilePick tList, "cancel" if the result is 0 then put empty into tModule else put line (the result) of

Re: Open Inv Stack on iPhone

2017-05-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
we have been playing with this open, close, show, destroy, stacks on mobile for several months FWIW, if you use dispatch to a stack, even if it has GUI on card 1… it just opens in memory but not visible. if you run "go" later the stack will top level (as you would expect) #stack

Re: FTP from iOS but getting tsneterr: (67) Access denied: 530

2017-05-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Richard Gaskin via use-livecode" wrote: ("ftp://FTPusername:ftppassw...@mydomain.on-rev.com/somepath/somefile.ext;) Would that be "ftps://..."? @ Charles I have the same (or perhaps similar) question. If using sftp://username:password@mydomain/sompath/somefile.ext is the user

Re: HTML5 deployment: progress comes into sight

2017-05-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
mark Waddington wrote: We've also been looking at how to abstract the FFI work we've done as part of the Infinite LiveCode campaign to allow LCB to bind to JavaScript APIs (which will allow greater type fidelity than is possible using 'do as javascript' from LCS). BR: I

Re: HTML5 deployment: progress comes into sight

2017-06-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Just getting back here after a week away on another project where they are moving the Hinduism Today app to an HTML 5 platform (shameless promotion) check it out… pretty cool release (free) on the App store… Android version is buggy. @ Roland: Right.. my use of "Syncronous" was a bit off,

Re: urgent iOS internet issue (url request timeout setting?)

2017-06-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Not to say that TSnet bug doesn't also exist but What iOS version? your problem is an exact mirror of issues I'm having here in the shop with my iPhone 7+ and after a recent upgrade … completley unrelated to Livecode. But our netadmin keeps saying "your wireless hubs in the office look fine to

Re: HTML5 deployment: progress comes into sight

2017-06-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mark Wieder wrote: Requests are sent asynchronously and trigger a callback message when they're done. The callback message payload contains a reference to the message that called it. That way a callback handler can associate the returned message with the calling handler, and if

Param Naming - Object by Reference Best Practices

2017-05-31 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
The more libs/behaviors we use the more we are passing params that reference objects This fails put "graphic portal-title-bkgnd" into pObject setGradient pObject command setGradient pObject local tNewGradientArray # be careful when cutting and paste to and from email # tabs may get replace

Re: Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive

2017-06-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Oh boy, this custom control thing is awesome + external behaviors as text only scripts… What a break through! At 60+ should not get too excited about anything, but this has my brain on fire. I even took all the code out of the control, moved it to a behavior… and then, even for buttons the

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-7

2017-06-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Fascinating… I tried upgrading LC server on our Ubuntu web server last year, and it would fail on some scripts and the only information was exactly that exiting on signal 4 BR On 6/15/17, 9:02 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode"

Re: Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive

2017-06-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
OK well, continued working on this first: the resizeControl thing did not work out at all because it depends on the user resizing the stack. using that same handler but with "send" breaks everything because if you set the rect of the main enclosing object then the rect of the group "me" start

Twitter and Facebook Libraries

2017-06-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hoping to not re-invent the wheel, Also MergeSocial is only iOS anyone have any "social" libraries for sharing on their apps? Sample stacks? on the forums the last thing I could find by date was reporting some issues with MergeSocial, but that's mute, since we need it for android also.

Re: clipsToRect property (was Re: Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive)

2017-06-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Tks Devin for moving this over here. @ Jacque: OK rignt-- agreed "crop" is wrong.. because, yes, it implies "irrevocably chopping off image data" But "lock" also has the problem of assuming the loc is locked, which it is not. How about a word that really is what it does Constrain rect

Re: [ANN] Release 9.0.0 DP-7

2017-06-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
FYI: Attempts to build standalone for Android that worked in DP-5 fail in DP-7 (and DP-6 before) I will file a bug report. I had to regress to 9DP5 (or 8.1.5 RC1) BR On 6/15/17, 6:42 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of panagiotis merakos via use-livecode"

Re: LiveCode apps in Google Play

2017-06-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
The Gurudeva.app is livecode and is on Google Play Not sure if the policy would affect it's operations. it does ping for connectivity and then streams audio if the users clicks a "Surprise" link on one screen. Other than that it is entirely self-contained. BR

Re: Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive

2017-06-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mark …Ha! "OOooh Myy Gawd" had I known this from the beginning it would all have "worked out of the box" because the resetting rects and locs of child objects of the group was causing the rect of the group to "jump around" hence there no fixed coord system to work from. This is great… right

Re: Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive

2017-06-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
re: label for adding clipsToRect to the PI from a graphic design point of view…where people are frequently doing this very same thing inside some frame|window|div etc. in fact, may be switching back and forth between their image design environment and Livecode… there is also strong logic

Stack Files and Behaviors

2017-06-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
1) Can someone confirm the end it the description of the stackfile entry in the dictionary seems to be truncated… i.e. someword missing there? 2) Maintaining stack files for the main stack from which the standalone is being built, across a project in active development by a team has caveats.

Re: Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive

2017-06-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mark Waddingham wrote: This might have been mentioned somewhere else in this thread, but its probably worth repeating if so as a group with clipsToRect true, and a resizeControl handler makes a good base for a custom control. BR: indeed confirmed just by setting that one property

Re: Documentation on Accelerated Rendering

2017-04-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jacque thanks for the detailed query, or rather the detailed outline of the Shadows of the Unknown World of Rendering. appropo the puzzle app/module we have in our new app, which is pretty much failing on Android completely. @ the rest of you: we get a quote from a dbase, take snapshots of

Documentation on Accelerated Rendering

2017-04-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Our new modular app was crashing badly and also rendering bizarre screens on Android, HQ determined that if Accelerated rendering was on when you close one stack and opened a second one, it was the problem. But Acceleratedrendering is needed for performance, so it seems to work fine,if, instead

Re: Scanning for inclusions

2017-04-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Bill wrote: "For me, it's a pain point because when I try to build a standalone and I don't have one of the widgets linked, I only get a message saying "module not found" or something like that. " I think it is actually worse than that. I'm bleary eyed from pushing so many builds these past

Escape From Script In Use Blocking?

2017-05-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
if you manage to do something odd in an on preopencard script such that a) no error msg appears b) attempts to change the script are blocked with: "cannot change script while is it executing How to you get out? I have a good idea what is wrong but cannot change the script or enter a break

Relayering Controls in 9 dp5 problematic?

2017-05-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
layout card make some controls click on prop inspector try to set the layer of fld now set to layer 6 nothing happens, IDE "blinks" are resets the field to 6 select fld; object menu, arrange, send back… now it works property inspector is not updated. use revApplicationOverview, click on a

Bitten by Group Default Margins

2017-05-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We discussed this before on this list, but I wanted to bring it up again. I don't remember any conclusions. Are we the only ones who would prefer that the engine not auto set group margins to 4? This bit us hard recently as one member of the team who was not familiar with this issue spent a

Re: Documentation on Accelerated Rendering

2017-04-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
end repeat and we are setting the acceleratedRending on in preopenCard and false on close card Still no joy on android. On 4/30/17, 3:39 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode

Re: User friendly functions to replace MySQL queries?

2017-05-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Since I refuse to move over to HTML5 and Andre works on our projects, I have the joy of helping to make sure he sticks with this community. @ Alex cat's out of the bag… yes our current project (of which Andre has master minded a large part) is on git, public.

Re: Android Audio Playback & Recording

2017-09-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Android Audio Playback & Recording

2017-09-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-09-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

How to offset placement of referenced images?

2017-09-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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?

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

2017-09-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Setting the acceleratedRendering to true on startup on

2017-09-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Script Editor Autocomplete Optional?

2017-09-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Moving on from 8.* to 9.*

2017-09-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-09-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-09-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-09-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-09-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-09-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-09-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-09-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-09-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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.*

2017-09-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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"

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

2017-09-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Grouping Controls in selectGroupedControls mode

2017-10-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Mark As one who is constantly switching from Indesign (editorial work for our magazine) and Livecode My testimony is I can't tell you often I "bark" at indesign "why on earth can't I change the properties of a single object in a group without ungrouping! like we can do in Livecode!" So what

Segmented Control Bugs?

2017-10-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Anyone experiencing any anomalies with the segmented control Scenario Added to stack in 8.1.7 (or earlier) open stacks in 9.0.0 dp9 save open in 8.2.0dp1 control is blank. shut down LC open again in 9.0.0dp9 it appears again, but has a bug.. it seems to be catching a mouse down message when

Re: Segmented Control Bugs?

2017-10-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I may be blind today… been tracing code for three days… see all props listed in the API guide https://www.dropbox.com/s/tpo38y5q491w0hr/seg-control-props.jpeg?dl=0 "hiliteChanged" does not appear among them. On 10/3/17, 5:53 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of panagiotis merakos via

Re: [ANN] Release 8.2.0 DP-2

2017-10-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks for the update Mark… you have our app on Git, so if you can make it work on Android, sometime in November, that will be great! We will keep pushing on content. Getting a proper rendering on opening and closing stacks is the key missing factor on Android. On 10/12/17, 8:45 AM,

What Android device detail do you find useful and why?

2017-09-08 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: [off]8/8+/X

2017-09-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
"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

2017-09-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Setting the User-Agent

2017-09-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-09-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: IPad Mini reports "not supported

2017-09-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
No idea why - but maybe that list will help you see whether it's splash 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 Brahman

Re: A modest proposal for a new property

2017-09-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Offset Referenced Image Data

2017-09-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

IPad Mini reports "not supported

2017-09-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-09-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Developing Methods: Creating Scrolling groups larger than screen rect

2017-09-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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,

Re: A modest proposal for a new property

2017-09-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Beacons and Bluetooth

2017-09-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

2017-09-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
It's not set for "everything" only scrolling groups. How can it be drawing too much? if there is only one scrolling group on the card and all other cards, stacks etc are closed or not in view, how does having the layermode set in an unopened stack start to "draw too much" ?? Jonathan Lynch

Dismiss Keyboard on Mobile

2017-09-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I have a drop down search panel with radio buttons and a search field. the search string field is grouped with the search icon (magnify glass icon) this small group of two objects has behavior attached. When the user hits the search icon, the string and readio buttons all form and run a dbase

Re: AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

2017-09-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Well …"exactly" And that is what we want to clarify if stack A is open and contents for its front card are buffered. Now open stack B on top of stack A with Accelerated Rendering on.. Just then… before we close Stack, for n number of milliseconds we have buffered objects for 2 different

Re: Dismiss Keyboard on Mobile

2017-09-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Yes peruising the dictionary in the little cool app made by someone in Asia… LC dictionary.. and looking through all the mobileControlCreate input options and saw that focus was the key. And this app has a nice keyboard with the word "DONE" in blue, in the place where the return key is (at

Re: Dismiss Keyboard on Mobile

2017-09-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmm. that nice "DONE" option is only for iOS iPhoneSetKeyboardReturnKey J. Landman Gay wrote: See " mobilesetkeyboardtype". ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: IPad Mini reports "not supported

2017-09-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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,

AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

2017-09-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: AcceleratedRendering States When Opening and Closing Stacks

2017-09-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jonathan: The layermode of the scrolling groups is preset to "scrolling" The question is about the sequence as it relates to visual layer rendering Open Stack A, turn on acceleratedRendering Open Stack B, which also turns on its "own" acceleratedRendering Close Stack A, *after* having open B

Re: Segmented Control Bugs?

2017-10-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmm the bug I have is a bit different… appears in both 8 and 9 I "deprecated" the control by moving it to -2000,-2000 and used the "old-fashioned way" of three buttons in group/get the target and go. save… went off for some other work.. came back Then every time the stack opens, the script

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

2017-09-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Thoughts on BLOBs in SQLite

2017-08-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-08-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: What's Happening with TactileMedia?

2017-08-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

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

2017-08-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ 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

What's Happening with TactileMedia?

2017-08-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

2017-08-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

2017-08-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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 -

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

2017-08-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
'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" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: &g

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

2017-08-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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:

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

2017-08-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

2017-08-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

2017-08-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

2017-08-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Search Values of Array in "One Go"

2017-08-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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 =

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