Re: Remote debugger

2017-03-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay wrote: So far, all I've found is the blog post: Thanks. Seems easier for android because you can run test to the device on a tethered phone, but I can't do that with iPHone (or can we?) you can

Re: breakpoints being ignored

2017-03-08 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Interesting… this was happening to me today. on a hunch I set the gRevDevelopment to true… thinking that because I had messed with that yesterday while using the remote debugger on my android phone… I had done something that was blocking script debug -- related to the action of answering "No"

Re: Allowed Orientations failing on mobile in 9dp5?

2017-03-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmmm Sorry, I have to "eat those words" I tried again today in 8.1.3 and it fails. But in some prior standalones… it did work, but I'm not able to trace back to what I did that made it work at that time. On 3/11/17, 2:07 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mark Schonewille via use-livecode"

Re: Distinguishing between tap and swipe

2017-03-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Bob I'm using 10 also, based on using lower numbers and watching users who tap rows in a list (which serve as buttons) expect it to "trigger" instead of scroll the list… if that is what you mean by "tolerance" I could be wrong and there are probably more experienced UX devs out there who

Re: breakpoints being ignored

2017-03-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mike Kerner : Bingo. It happens in 9 when using the remote debugger. The Script Debugging gets disabled during this process. ditto what Mike said, confirmed again here today…"gotcha", because the check mark remains on the IDE menu and toggling the menu item on and off doesn't seem to

Allowed Orientations failing on mobile in 9dp5?

2017-03-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
This used to work on 8.1.3 on preopenStack command sivasiva_InitOrientation "landscape" end preopenstack #with these in a library that was started on init.. (i.e. effectively a backscript) command sivasiva_InitOrientation orientationType if the environment is not "mobile" then return false

Re: Remote debugger

2017-03-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Eureka! I got it working on Andrioid --TSNet, check --internet, check --remote debugger, check --internet permissions, check -- manually set gRevDevelopment to true (in msg box) # confirmed it is false even when checked in the IDE (weird) -- set break point in a script -- plug in Nexus5

Can you test: Send Back in 9 dp5 is broken

2017-03-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Can you test this -- open a card in Stack A with many groups on it. -- set select grouped object to true in the ID tool bar "Select Grouped" -- select an object # mine is corrupted graphic whose gradient keeps gettins "wacked" but the IDE. -- delete it -- go to another stack B # mine is a stack

Re: Remote debugger

2017-03-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
allowed.. binfile:/someAppPath/Unicode.txt into myNewText #now works everywhere This is a great step forward! Thank you Monte for the hard work! BR On 3/4/17, 8:37 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.

Re: Dragging widgets

2017-03-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Graham Samual wrote: But (and there certainly is a ‘but’) there is a danger that the whole LC environment might move away from the very powerful “everyone can code” ideal. It may be simply that this list is preoccupying itself with more arcane stuff that’s outside the comfort zone of most

Debugging Session Called on Android Build But Not Set

2017-04-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
--I have unchecked the remoteDebugger in the Standalone builder inclusions list --There are no break point in any stacks --Script debug mode is unchecked in the IDE menus Why does LC prompt me if I want to run remote debugging when I test to Android? LC9dp5 BR

Open Stacks / Stacks in Use All Stack Files Appear in Project Browser as open

2017-04-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Well, I got my Android test deployment working again, but the app completely dies on the phone now and even if I set a break point on the preopencard of the init script, it will not fire in the debugger. I note something peculiar: If I open myApp.livecode stack: which has stack files set and

Re: iOS "Invalid Entitlements"

2017-04-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmm none of these are true, but we still get invalid entitlements. 1) this is an adhoc distribution profile for use with registered UDIDs ; "Beta Version" is unchecked in the SA settings 2) mergHK inclusion does not even appear in the inclusions options (8.1.3) 3) "In App Purchase" is not

iOS "Invalid entitlements"

2017-04-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I was having difficulty with a stack and deleted all the stack files in the list and put empty into cRevStandaloneSettings and started fresh. Now I am getting "invalid entitlements" when trying to install on my iPhone. I did have a new user and I added their UDID, cleaned up all my old

Re: iOS "Invalid entitlements"

2017-04-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Have you checked the "beta version" in the standalone application settings for ios? On 7 Apr 2017 06:04, "Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode&qu

Re: How can I scrape text from a web page that is generated by javascript?

2017-07-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
FYI depending on what you are trying to get out you can also get the htmltext of widget "browser"; set the htmltext of templateField(); put the text of templateField() and see if that may serve in some use case. On 7/24/17, 12:41 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mike Bonner via

Re: Web vs Native (was Re: HTML5 limitations?)

2017-07-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Wow! Quite the discussion! and here I was away from the list adding one last (hehe maybe not) feature to V1 of the SivaSiva app (hope to release by Aug 15) which was to create a "news channel" of course the obvious way to do this is have an HTML page on line, that you call into a browser

Parsing (scraping) OpenGraph Tags from html HEAD

2017-07-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
given that a) trying to instantiate an XML tree from any given web page is likely to fail 85% of the time because they simply are never built to that strict a standard and b) you want to extract from the of the document the openGraph tags https://www.youtube.com/user/kauaiaadheenam;>

Re: Sluggish on Mobile Device

2017-08-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ monte: Elanor has the project link to our app on Git Hub if you are interested. I was going to submit a business support request to have your team examine that stack and see if there was a way to optimze it but I think Jacque has the bottom line: the "Siva-Siva-Portal.livecode" stack is

Re: "Cascading" Object-Behaviors

2017-08-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
"GIT DUMMY" here.. How does one get the script without downloading the entire LC repository? All I can see is to copy it.. which works I guess you have to then remove all the leading "+" signs and save to your plugins folder? BR On 7/30/17, 10:28 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Monte

Re: Parsing (scraping) OpenGraph Tags from html HEAD

2017-08-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Thierry though I'm yet sure when using regEx this is better than using Jacque's method on parseHeader pData set the lineDel to "",l)-1 of l & cr after tList end repeat -- do something with tList end parseHeader Either way it would seem prudent to extract the head first before

Re: Points of Graphic Oval

2017-08-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Sequently found "effectivePoints" and used that and it works fine on Mobile. But this thread became something more, it became about generating a polygon object that "looks like" an oval. But is an oval such an object at all? Mark Wieder via use-livecode"

Re: Points of Graphic Oval

2017-08-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mark thanks for an adventure into the clean air of abstract thought…. "This can be seen from the fact that to compute cos/sin/tan (which are the mathematical primitives in some sense acting here) require a 'taylor' expansion which is an infinite polynomial sequence (with order tending to

Re: common code patterns

2017-08-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Android App Woes

2017-08-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Mobile LC Apps Downloading Stacks After installation

2017-08-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

App Rejected: IPv6 network?

2017-08-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Android App Woes

2017-08-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Android App Woes

2017-08-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: common code patterns

2017-08-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Mobile LC Apps Downloading Stacks After installation

2017-08-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Local File in Browser Widget on Android - Fail

2017-08-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Group does not exist after "copy to this card"

2017-07-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I doing this thing of saving a custom control in the loader stack on card 4..but it's behavior is text only stack on external to the stack group "shareUI"" then I have a new init handler that adds the long id's of these controls global sConfigA to then it is super easy to do this anywhere

Caveat on save script only stack --> went to standalone

2017-07-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Interesting caveat create new stack (small splash/loader/engine) My Loader.livecode Add eye-candy graphic, quit button create new stack / script only / save as my-loader.livecodescript #checks for presence of file in $HOME/Dropbox/coolApp.livecode # handles mouseup on quit button…

Re: Native Livecode Pinch and Zoom

2017-07-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Ralph as we say in HawaiI "Oh! Ho!" What is this: ">I get pinch-and-zoom on both mobile platforms using the mobile browser >control. My html expert has had to tweak a couple of html pages now >and again to make it work. Can you ask him what the secret is? Pleeze! @ Richard:

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.5 -- tsneterr

2017-07-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Aloha, Charles: This connection speed feedback looks awesome. Does TSnet handle/monitor speed on all all the port 80/443 calls? set the url of widget "browser" to "https://www.himalayanacademy.com; I created a "horrible hack" to ping our server every few milliseconds ala Apple's own web

Re: Biased testing and micro-coaching

2017-07-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I would echo Jacqueline's advice here: " There's no secret to creating a great application that people will use and enjoy. Test the application and everything in it, again and again. Run everything through its paces several times and in different orders. Click every button, read and scroll

Re: Biased testing and micro-coaching

2017-07-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Your testers can be remote, assuming you get "live wires" who will dedicate time to testing/ communications I always invite them to SLACK asap so they feel they can contact me any time and then we jump into appear.in video rooms. I just exited 2 hours of meetings with one young mom, her

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.6 RC-1

2017-07-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I had almost the same sense as Mark on this. Distracting at first, but no really in the And since we are look at usability of the script editor and add ons I would LOVE to have the ability to show "sections" in my scripts I think it was years ago, or maybe even nowin GLX? anyway, Jerry

Re: "Silly" fun for the weekend

2017-07-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I'm not bored or at loose ends.. but looking for game models, this 60+ couldn't stop. got all 7 raisins, out in 349 secs… you could speed it up a lot! How would we (how do "they") implement the movement of a player on screen (in this case, the ant) on mobile? Silly fun was in fact addictive.

Re: intersect . . . invisible images

2017-07-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Ha! It not that deterministic: Your blend level is a matter of person evolutionary "work" that you have or have not done to date. Oh.. this metaphor has great edu possibilities. BR On 7/14/17, 7:26 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode"

Re: intersect . . . invisible images

2017-07-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Ahh, very helpful to understand that utilization. On 7/14/17, 8:16 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mark Waddingham via use-livecode" wrote: For example, you might have an image which incorporates a mostly

Re: intersect . . . invisible images

2017-07-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
LOL. OK way OT now.. (Richmond I have a long way to go to catch up to you on OT…) the so-called "100% empirical" is such a bogus idea in the first place, as many a modern brain scientist will tell you. And we know some of the top "empirically trained" guys. What measurements, by whom and under

Re: intersect . . . invisible images

2017-07-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
OT: your physical/food body is "intersected" by your pranic, astral, mental and superconscious bodies, all of which are "invisible." Hopefully they fully intersect most of the time unless you are sleeping or actively astral traveling. (Not a good idea for the untrained) but I would change the

Re: "Silly" fun for the weekend

2017-07-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
confirmed, I just re-downloaded again Monument Valley 1, that's exactly how they make "little alice" (or whatever her name is) move around the castle walkways. tap and she goes there (if she can) So I guess the algorithm would be 1) when you tap on a place on the maze that in fact the little

Re: "Silly" fun for the weekend

2017-07-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
use than just an end of quickie summer course test. Best, Richmond. On 7/14/17 10:35 pm, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: >I'm not bored or at loose ends.. but looking for game models, this 60+ couldn't stop. got all 7 raisins, out in 349 secs… y

Re: intersect . . . invisible images

2017-07-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Indeed, I won't list them but I get at least 5 use cases popping into my head the moment I saw this, where one would want the intersection between 1 object and an invisible object 2: just one: solution to a puzzle could be invisible. as user moves tiles around the intersect would trigger "got

Re: Livecode on iPod

2017-07-16 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
UDID FFF "fake" ? But developer.apple.com device portal accepts them… ?? BR On 7/15/17, 4:24 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Colin Holgate via use-livecode" wrote: I would bet yes, but

Re: Bug? ResizeControl Triggers From Outside of CustomControl with Assigned Behavior

2017-07-16 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I'm hitting this again… in order to stylize a widget I grouped it (by itself) now we get to do the cool effects/inks to make it look good. But it also is used as a button. and I place the group on all the cards in the stack, Now we have 3 different backgrounds all of which expect mouse

Bug? ResizeControl Triggers From Outside of CustomControl with Assigned Behavior

2017-07-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
WE have a peculiar bug, at least I think it is a bug. Where 1) navigation bar at bottom of screen, a custom control with a bkgnd grc 50 px tall 1024 wide and 4 widgets on it. 2) has assigned behavior "behavior_bottomToolsNav" # with some complex dynamic layout stuff happening to handle

Livecode on iPod

2017-07-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I have a young user that was given an iPod by his family. UDID: 5C OS: iPhone OS 10.3.2 Device: iPod7,1 (iPod7,1) Capacity: 14.9 GB will LiveCode apps run on this? the SA builder does not show "iPod" under iOS. BR

Setting image source of fld char to remote URL

2017-07-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Our new heifer, Kali is a "doll" http://www.himalayanacademy.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/kali-the-calf/kali-real-close.JPG playing around with a silly brainstorm… "in app blog thingy" on mouseUp set the imageSource of last char of fld "app-news" to

Re: Ethereal Breakpoints

2017-07-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
all of the above experiences confirmed here.. it's so bad sometimes I remove all break points from the menu, save everything, shut down and start add manual breakpoint in the actual code. with my text editor (using 85% script only text.livecodescripts now) then reboot and pray. such a

Re: Swipe transitions

2017-07-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
yes, this! The deeper I get into mobile design the more it becomes clear that true swipe transitions are somnething users expect, and by extension something new developers would expect to be supported. hit me hard yesterday when a new beta tester, 15 year old with an iPod Touch

Apples Script Execution Error in Standalone

2017-07-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I have this: in a custom property in a stack and we pass the user name and password, then "do as applescript" and the server is mounted tell application "Finder" mount volume "afp://192.163.102.8/Chola" as user name "###" with password "#" end tell put the result into fld "status"

Native Livecode Pinch and Zoom

2017-07-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
It appears we won't get pinch and zoom in the browser widget on mobile. It's back to using a native LC interface for a big map adventure where the user can zoom into an area and then pinch back out The use case is still the same: use a "Maha" = enormous/big SVG graphic that looks awesome and

How to get the number of lines of a fld referenced by long ID in a variable.

2017-06-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I'm trying to set up a global text only library that includes text handlers for formatting text run time. Typical use case is : clickable list field with titles that wrap. Say you set type size to 16, text height to 20, dontWrap is false, first indent -40, left margin 20. This looks fine, but

Re: Mobile Check Bandwidth Function

2017-07-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
OK I'm back.. sheesh… Spectrum purchase Time Warner Cable for some Ka bilion dollars and they run our show here now… but it took them four days to figure out that a splice in a wire between our main modem for the enterprise and the router on the street that was probably filling up with water

Mobile Check Bandwidth Function

2017-07-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Can anyone share their "test bandwidth" library? I'm looking for both 1) this phone is off line --easy enough… ping your server, no response, = off line 2) check for bandwidth speed below some threshold and then inform user -- be patient, your internet speed is slow, this may take

Re: Mobile Check Bandwidth Function

2017-07-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Good thoughts, Spotify actually will inform you that you don't have a connection even if you have 3G up.. I would like to know how they do that.. because my app *can* ping our server over 3G… but Spotify deems the connection insufficient to stream music and displays the "disconnected"

Pinch and Zoom in Browser Widget

2017-07-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We can to go a web page in Safari in iOS or Chrome on Android and pinch and zoom in. The same web page, shown in the browser widget is non-responsive to pinch and zoom out Is there a solution for this? BR ___ use-livecode mailing list

Peculiar behavior of group objects with hide-lock. show-unlock

2017-07-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I have this routine where I am "typsetting" a field which updates with lessons/text… use can forward one lesson at a time. local sLesson is incremented, the script fetch text on disk but I am unable to get nice transition effect… sometimes it's even as if the "image" of the field is cached,

Re: Augmented Earth now on the App Store!

2017-07-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Downloaded initial user registration failed some how.. no clear feedback on why, but now there is nothing more I can do… anything I try leads to a Error incorect or inaccurate app user login credentials. Going for the gear, choosing new user, enter creds. still get same message. I'm locked

Re: Peculiar behavior of group objects with hide-lock. show-unlock

2017-07-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jacque, you can pull nightly and check out the daily lesson card script. I don't have multiple lock unlock anywhere… I read that in the docs. I made sure 1) Pair only lock/unlock 2) one pair only hide/show in the whole script.. but "no way, no how" could I get them play together. There are

Re: Pinch and Zoom in Browser Widget

2017-07-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
ts.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: It also fails in Mac desktop, so you could save some time checking into why that is (if you have a trackpad that is). Where is the code for a widget stored? >On Jul 3, 2017, at 10:48 AM, Sanny

Re: Swiping between cards - metaphor end-of-the-road?

2017-04-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
This is an important subject, I've been meaning to write this for a couple of weeks, but Richard got here first. our current app. (if anyone is interested I can send you the git repo link off line…it is public; I just don't want to post It public) use click and swipe "everywhere" the model

Re: Scanning for inclusions

2017-04-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mike K. wrote: I thought once you ran it once, when you switch to manual, the auto-selected ones stay. hhm… that would be nice… easy to test.. stand by (time passes here) Nope, no go… Test one: 1) go to SA settings-> inclusions uncheck widgets headerbar and switch button # which

iOS 10.3.1 on iPhone 7 Plus

2017-04-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I have a new iphone 7Plus with iOS 10.3.1 (no choice… we are on an enterprise hardware refresh cycle here and move up when the last model still has resale value… works very well, $ wise, but keep us on the bleeding edge) any hope for installing standalone? I spent some hours with builds, kept

Re: iOS 10.3.1 on iPhone 7 Plus

2017-04-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
still no joy. Upgraded xCode… it defaults to 8.3.2 My mac is Sierra 10.12.4 LC 9dp5 →prefs → mobile -> select xCode fails: - ! The chosen folder is not a valid iOS SDK. Selected Xcode must have an iOS SDK among: 6.1 7.1 8.2 9.2 10.2 OK any solutions? can a lower

Scanning for inclusions

2017-04-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Is there a way to run the "scan for inclusions" required and get a list. Waiting for the inclusion scan while building a standalone take a lot of time. Sometimes I would like to check to see that I have set everything the app needs. it would be helpful to be able to run the "scan for required

Re: Web vs Native (was Re: HTML5 limitations?)

2017-07-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Matt wrote: Except that they've aged out of the phase where it's easy to learn new things. So they feel like an idiot baby and it takes way too much effort to push through the learning curve. LOL, hence my surprise after listening to some complaints by older folks about the

Re: "Cascading" Object-Behaviors

2017-07-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
half of Monte Goulding via use-livecode" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >On 31 Jul 2017, at 3:50 am, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: >"Entralled with e

Re: Parsing (scraping) OpenGraph Tags from html HEAD

2017-07-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
" delimiters can now be more than a single character." Hmm, that completely did not cross my mind… awesome.. On 7/29/17, 5:36 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" wrote:

"Cascading" Object-Behaviors

2017-07-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
"Entralled with external scripts and GIT are We" says Yoda hence refactoring old stacks with all code in the stack/card/behavior buttons "out" to *.Livecodescript files and then assigning these "back" to the stack/card/objects OK so not wanting to mess too much with actually refactoring

Points of Graphic Oval

2017-07-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
1) draw graphic oval name: "moveClue1" 2) create small image "word_1" move image "word_1" to the points of grc "moveClue1" in 2 seconds test: point the points of graphic "moveClue1" result: empty check dictionary: yep, oval are not among the objects with points ☹ OK, so how can we

Parent of Target

2017-08-08 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
The more we separate our code/libraries/behaviors from the binary UI, the more I find myself trying to dispatch call backs or other messages back to the group/card/stack that has a behavior and not the individual control: widget/button/field on the card itself, whose job was simply to intercept

Re: Points of Graphic Oval

2017-08-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
HH wrote: A circle is, just like a Bezier curve, a mathematical model, for thinking, doing mathematics. Not realizable in our virtual world. What you can have and what you see are (more or less good) approximations to that model, here nothing more than simple polygons. But then,

Re: Parsing (scraping) OpenGraph Tags from html HEAD

2017-08-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Responding on top Jacque's method only gets us a list, not an array, so one ends up having to write more code to parse the list anyway, your method is more efficient. "not comfortable with RegEx" Ha,, right. but it worth the effort to keep the little grey cells green! I will have to study

Track Mobile Player Props from Back Script

2017-08-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
If we set up a "lib_MobileControls" and start using on init, effectlvely adding this lib to the backscript. how does this: on playerPropertyAvailable theProperty if theProperty is "duration" then answer "You can now query the length of the movie" end if end

Re: Parent of Target

2017-08-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ 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

Using Find with Shell on Mac

2017-08-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Using Find with Shell on Mac

2017-08-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ 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

Re: Recursive folder creation

2017-08-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I just came to this myself before coming back here put item -1 of pURL into tFile put item 1 to -2 of pURL into tFolder put tDF &"/" & tFolder into tCompletePath # loop to create sub folders # Of course we know tDF exists, # but we don't know about any folder after that

Re: preOpenStack problem

2017-08-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
confirmed.. happening here… I've been getting this since 8.1.5, never cause serious problem, and had no recipe, so could not report it.. but yes exactly this debug breaking on preopenstack when closing up stacks. BR On 8/4/17, 11:06 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Richmond Mathewson via

Script Editor Enhancment Variable name columns

2017-08-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
In de-bug mode, SW variable tab/window/pane at the bottom… I am "forever" having to resize the left column, which typically has relatively short variable name strings it pURL tDF tFolder tPathtem etc. but the algorithm behind the column sizing appear to spit the window. it

Recursive folder creation

2017-08-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Attempts to create a subfolder below a folder that does not exists fail. Where folder "nature" exists but folder "2017" does not, attempt to create folder "birds" below 2017 fail. put specialFolderPath["Documents"] into tDF # "/media/audio/nature" #these folders exist # /2017/birds" # does

Re: Applescript Fails in Standalone on Mac Built with 8.1.6

2017-08-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
On 8/17/17, 7:03 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: OK got bit again by this one We do a lot of of in-house production tools t

Applescript Fails in Standalone on Mac Built with 8.1.6

2017-08-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Filtering, Search and Fields on Mobile

2017-08-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
e it 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" <use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com on behalf of use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:

Re: Sending a message to users that floats above everything

2017-08-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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"

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

2017-08-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

2017-08-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
[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: Parent of Target

2017-08-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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.

Bad Crash on Attempt to Group Radio Buttons

2017-08-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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: Paint tools and image creation

2017-08-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Parent of Target

2017-08-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
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

Re: Dispatching Messages to Closed Stacks Which Are Not in Memory

2017-05-16 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Bob:I think you are confusing the meaning of "open" with "running in the IDE". Library stacks open but may have no windows or controls created in the IDE. In fact a script only stack has no graphical elements at all. "Open" means "Open as a file that loads into memory". Indeed, I have

Re: Dispatching Messages to Closed Stacks Which Are Not in Memory

2017-05-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
right, I can see the stack in the project browser after the dispatch call but it is not actually open as a top stack… what doesn't make sense is that a) there is no dictionary word "open" b) but if you run open "gems" in the msg box it opens the stack in the GUI as the top stack c) If you

Dispatching Messages to Closed Stacks Which Are Not in Memory

2017-05-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I just discovered something fascinating. Stack "Gems" is in the stack files but closed, in fact all stacks in this modular frame work are set to destroy window and stack on close. -- look at project browser: confirmed… stack Is *not* open Stack "gems" has this in it's stack script: on

Instantiaing Grouped Controls - Templates - Responsive

2017-06-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We are in need of an "info-text" control which we can use "everywhere" instead of reinventing this in each stack/ module in our app. for Help | About |Instructions |Privacy Policy etc… all to be dynamically loaded and shown on demand. Different contexts require a different size. Thanks to

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