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 "o

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 w

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 q

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 card

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 leas

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 yo

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
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 o

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 use-li

Re: Segmented Control Bugs?

2017-10-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
LC team: Thanks for getting the docs fixed… can we go back on point? Bug still stands The segmented still seems to be "globally enabled" and "hears" the hilitedChanged msg from "across the universe" -- when card is opened even though no handler is checking that property -- even from a top stack

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

Re: [ANN] Release 8.2.0 DP-2

2017-10-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Panos any hope for this big issue of acceleratedRendering breaking a multi-stack app framework on Android which is currently holding our app "hostage" (cannot deploy on Android) These are all, pretty much the same issue: http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16736 http://quality.livecod

Re: Autocompletion of quotes on LC 8.2,0 DP-1

2017-10-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Bill P. wrote: I find that, for the autocompletion of quotes in the new editor, that I’m deleting them as often as I use them. It’s nice to see the text red when quotes are not completed, but ….. I can live with it, but for me, it’s not an improvement. I found this also, but wondered then

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, "use-livec

iOS 11.0.3 No Sound? Mobile player broken?

2017-10-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We are getting reports from iOS users that after their recent upgrade to iOS 11.0.3 "After updating my iPhone this past weekend I've discovered that the sound is not working on either of your two apps." Now, this can't be a Livecode problem because one app is made with LC and the with ionic/An

OT: The future of Digital Dev/Design/Prototyping

2017-10-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
https://www.invisionapp.com/studio?utm_campaign=studio Dumps to Swift Of course as soon as the dev gets beyond the visual layer and deeper content requirements surface, this kind of tool hits the wall. But the UI/UX for developing the views is pretty powerful. Something similar that would "dump

Relative Paths in Property Inspector

2017-10-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Backstory: Sometime back in a round with HQ we got the engine to "remember" relative path settings for the filenames of images/players etc.. such that it would not default to full path from root on the drive which makes the path unique to that user and no longer portable… so "relativity" go sup

Re: Relative Paths in Property Inspector

2017-10-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
BR: are you keeping your stacks next to the images? like this ~/Dropbox/Pet Project/animals.livecode ~/Dropbox/Pet Project/img/dangerous-pets/tiger.jpg and if you set the image filename to "img/dangerous-pets/tiger.jpg" it fails? -- Mike Kerner wrote: it is related. As soon a

Re: Radio button scaling

2017-10-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Christer I have had some success with a) create icon in a vector program b) no gradients! c) set background as transparent d) save as PNG at the largest size you might need. e) scale down (never up) dynamically run time before display. whether it is "non-smooth" will vary depending on the image

Re: Relative Paths in Property Inspector

2017-10-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Brian: good question. Now that I think of it… maybe both would be good? Option 1: If the pref is on, then the check box is checked by default in the PI; otherwise it's not. This allows the user to use full path. Option 2: no check box in PI, just a pref because: assumes no use cases there are

Re: Relative Paths in Property Inspector

2017-10-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@Mike I tried to duplicate your 3rd case. Are you on Mac OS X? if I create a stack, place and img in an adjacent image folder and move to the server ("Chola") in the next room… set the img filename to img/tiger.jpg it works @brian ./img/tiger.jpg also works… but really doesn't get us any

Specialty Fonts on Mobile -- OK? or Stay Away?

2017-11-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We have a new UI/UX designer working in Sketch/Invision/Zeplin which is a marvelous universe for design collaboration, and getting from her designs to a card layout in LC is easy enough. But she has chosen to use a font called KohinoorDevanagari which not only has Devanagari script but a very

Testing Bandwidth with new TSNet Functions

2017-11-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Someone suggested we could test bandwidth by getting the milliseconds before calling a ping.txt file on our server (contains one word "true") and then check the milliseconds after getting the result and we might use this to determine if the bandwidth was sufficient for streaming content from the

Image Offset in Frame

2017-11-15 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
His is probably covered somewhere, but I can't find it. In CSS we can position in image in frame with an offset like -20,-20 In most layout programs you can move the image around inside the frame. How can we do that with an image in LiveCode? I can use crop, but this is permanent BR _

Re: Image Offset in Frame

2017-11-16 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Alejandro: Thanks.. very clear… @paul hibbert Thanks for the reminder on Scott's masking stack.. .that's what was sticking my mind that I could not find… I downloaded hist stack again. but it seems we don't even need a graphic on top of the image or have to concern ourselves with these ink

IDE breaks down over time

2017-11-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I am building new UI… not a drop of code.. it's all about drawing controls, grouping, setting rects and RGB values etc.forground background colors, setting alpha etc. after about 30 minutes in 9.0.0-dp-9 the IDE seems to get very confused. (OS X) If I work in the project browser, or revApplic

Re: IDE breaks down over time

2017-11-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Paul very helpful! BR It’s here if anybody wants it: http://livecodeshare.runrev.com/stack/813/LC-Menu-Shortcuts - It’s not perfect, but it works if you are careful with the shortcuts that you choose. BEWARE - I've only tested on Mac, so I don’t know how well it will work with Wi

Re: Naive Player Questions

2017-12-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Panos wrote: You can do that by checking "the playmate of player 1". If it is 0, then the player does not play "playmate" ?? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Charles (and anyone else) using tsNetSetTimeouts 30, 0, 30, 6, 30, 1000 I need to implement this in our app… "minimum amount of data…" is obviously different from "no connection whatsoever" Your example assumes that for this use case, 30 seconds is acceptable. That may well be fo

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
pandora-and-spotify/ and interesting tool: push this URL to a browser widget in your mobile app. http://www.bandwidthplace.com and walk around different locations and check your bandwidth… someone might cook up a native LC widget for this purpose. BR On 12/5/17, 9:19 AM, "use-livecode o

Map Widget Futures

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I'm not sure if the news from LiveCode Global is under any kind of NDA… Since I have a business license, we could pose this directly to HQ, but seems useful to share.. hope that is OK and I have this quesiton What is the binary format of the map "object" that the engine or map widget can now pa

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Still searching… let's break this down a bit Almost TSNet functions and commands require a connectionID. In some instances these are aribitrary strings assigned by the dev on the initial call, then used later. but what if we use the simple libURL commands? get url "https://www.domain.com/ping.

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Matthias Rebbe wrote: The connection ID is only used/needed when you use the asynchronous commands of tsNet. The synchronous commands like tsNetUploadSync or tsNetFileUploadSync or others (they are ending with Sync) do not use connectionIDs. And i assume that put URL and get URL are using

Re: Naive Player Questions

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Richmond wrote: NO: a player does not "demand" an external file as my example stack demonstrates: https://www.dropbox.com/s/9v2juqqu7ojb83v/Carrot%20Player.livecode.zip?dl=0 The player in that stack plays an embedded mp3 file. Does not play here (Mac OS X) of cour

Re: Map Widget Futures

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks for replying Ali I wasn't thinking of overlays, though that could be useful and would obviously be an early enhancment request. message path: Presumably "markers" are in the msg path… i.e. like buttons, and would respond to mouseup/down/touch. That would suffice for my V1 vision of use

Re: read larger data streams over sockets - broken?

2017-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
May not mean anything for your use case, but I have built an in-house revision control system for InDesign documents… it's been in use for several years after the death of Adobe VersionCue (which was a night mare anyway) our team loves it: super simple, never fails, we never lose data, ever. I

Re: Map Widget Futures

2017-12-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Ali I'm clearly "out of my depth" here… after looking at the Google Maps model. looking at: com.google.android.gms.maps.model I think see why you are talking about overlays, as these comprise "model classes" GroundOverlay A ground overlay is an image that is fixed to a map. Gro

Re: LC Server style survey: co-mingle code w/HTML?

2017-12-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Replying to your original post/surveyr. Not exactly sure what you are looking for… and this is just story telling that may not be directly relevant but perhaps helpful to lurkers so here goes at Himalayan academy.com We use RevIgniter for everything on our site except the blog… public_html/

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Charles…we have enough to go on now. well, almost if I read you right "load" is not handled by TSNet (since that is libURL's own asynchronous operation?) www.himalayanacademy.com Get the SivaSiva App today (for iPhone and iPad) https://itunes.apple

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-08 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Awesome Ralph: Looks like we need to crowd fund Charles for documentation (smile) You are about 3 days ahead of me… can you post some code snippets of your methods? On 12/7/17, 1:54 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Ralph DiMola via use-livecode" wrote: Ok, I just got async tsNet workin

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-08 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Charles Warwick wrote: Sorry for the confusion, tsNet does handle the ‘load’ function, effectively using its own asynchronous functions to replicate standard libUrl behaviour. BR: wow. That's magic! so this means we can just proceed "as usual" with using load [URL] url [with message cal

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-08 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
D&&"has been downloaded but is too small==>"&pBytes&&"Result==>"&pResult -- this was before I had the 404 check delete file Get_Path("Updates")&pID end if end if end if

Re: Script Editor problem

2017-12-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mike Kerner wrote: *set* the rect of stack "revNewScriptEditor 1" to the 50,50,900,900 Ditto Mike's solution: this happens so regularly that I just have to up arrow through my cmds in the msg box to find the above. Bit of a nuisance though. BR ___

The Detailed and Long files

2017-12-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
it was a huge step to do away with the defaultfolder requirement to get a file list put files(somePath) is wonderful but, "u" …we are still forced to change the defaultFolder to get the detailed|long files Is it too much to ask for these file info functions to also work "out of the box"

Re: libUrl tsNet and socketTimeoutInterval

2017-12-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
know if there is any overhead to leaving this call back be live "24-7-365" in the app or not… but this way we could turn it on and off if that is better practice. BR On 12/8/17, 5:08 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" wrote:

Re: Script Editor problem

2017-12-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay Start Center can be set in Preferences to show on every startup. It lists the last used stacks. If you use a utility frequently it will be there. The most current projects you've worked on will also be there. 9 dp 10 set pref to open on start up… reboot…"nada" BR

Stop the Spinner Widget

2017-12-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
8.1.8 Tried some animated GIF spinner "loaders", look horrible when layered cards with color… all "pixelated" edges. Downloaded 9 dp10 since the spinner is not available in 8.1.8 pulled out the new spinner widget. lovely! Of course we can hide/show, but can we stop it? …. Like we do with anim

Tab alignment in fields

2017-12-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
very old dumb question: If you set tab stops for a field, Is there a way to set the alignment for one stop/column? e.g. have all the numbers in the final column on the right align vertically to the decimal point or left?? I'm pretty sure the answer is no, but just checking if I missed something

Timer on Auto complete

2017-12-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@monte I'm giving 9 dp 10 a workout. Since I'm building some stuff from ground zero, I'm finding the auto complete is very useful. So useful in fact that it’s a bit irritating when the suggested list is dismissed so quickly. Is there a way to keep the suggestions list

Re: At this point, what's the shortest path to an iOS/Android app?

2017-12-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Geoff IMHO your shortest path will be a) forget about fully responsive, in terms of trying to emulate html5 web design. IMHO this whole "must be responsive" is a huge sidetrack from content development…someone spends days and days and ends up with a few pix and a little bit of text and "it's

Re: Versions of LC and Xcode

2017-12-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmmm I seem to have gotten myself into the same fix as Ben. " Now that I have updated to LC 9.0 DP-10 and LC 8.1.8 stable, nothing can build (except 8.1.6 stable - which unfortunately doesn't like the widgets in my stack!)." I'm on High Sierra 10.13.6, Xcode 9.1 and LC is telling me I don't have

Re: [ANN] Release 8.1.9 RC-1

2017-12-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jai Ganesha! Yay! The SivaSiva app can now "go live" -- we have been keeping it under wraps until Android was working. So this is *huge* for us. Thank you so much! Have a great Christmas… BR Panos: Various crashes related to the acceleratedRendering property are now fixed ___

Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

2017-12-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
One app report 90 crashes in iTunes connect among users who have opted in. How can we analyze these to make improvements? in xCode we can set our account preferences then go Window -- Organizer -- Crashes and xCode will fetch data for the app you have up … if click on the iOS app for your app

Re: Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

2017-12-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
For several early builds I was including iPad in SA settings but iPad users couldn't open because I did not include a splash screen to exact rect/spec. (SA builder did not object either…) I note the devices in some the of the crash report show "iPad 4th Generation Model" I wonder if the app

Re: At this point, what's the shortest path to an iOS/Android app?

2017-12-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jacque: You will recall this was HQ's "hack" offered to us in the mix of hacks in our attempts to solve rendering issues on Android (which never did work in the end) where the stack being opened had AcceleratedRendering set to true… waiting *seemed* to help in some scenarios. With the fix in 8

Re: Versions of LC and Xcode

2017-12-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Mike and Ralph Hmmm I jumped the gun… downloaded Xcode 9.0, then woke up this morning to find 8.1.9 RC1 as a Winter Solstice Candy Box from Scotland (Nandri/Mahalo!) 8.1.9 RC1 will let us use xCode 9.2 now… but saving a specific path to a specific xCode version could be useful… On 12/19/

Re: Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

2017-12-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
FWIW I learned why iTunes connect show 90 crashes, but xcode only give me 6: That's because they only offer the crash files from the past two weeks. I guess this makes sense in a way… crashes from previous builds may not be that relevant. On 12/19/17, 11:22 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of M

Re: Analyzing Crashes on iOS Apps

2017-12-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Well, what we see in iTunes connect "90 crashes" is not reflected in xCode for the same app which only shows what appears to be, 6 reports. The only option offered is for me to symbolicate these and then I was able to get these six report out as text files, zipped and sent to you view support e

TS Net Documentation

2017-12-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
an old theme "I want a printed dictionary…" As I peruse the dictionary TSNet is *huge* and complex…. Hunt and peck for what you have no clue will serve your needs gets tiring. Sometimes good old-fashioned "study for your exams" approach is a better way to go. And no, I don't want anything elect

Editing library script with TSNet "running"

2017-12-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
If I try to edit handlers in a global backscript that has some TSNet callback handlers… I always get stack "lib_SivaSiva": execution error at line 1547 (Object: can't set scxript while it is executing), char 1 I have no way now to change this script, except to exit, quit LC and edit by hand, t

Re: TS Net Documentation

2017-12-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Ali Lloyd wrote: Check out /Contents/Tools/Ext/tsNet.../api.lcdoc for all the tsNet things in one file - hopefully that's roughly what you're looking for Happy Winter Solstice to the team! Yes, Ali, that’s perfect… "awesome" simple plain text… BR _

Re: TS Net Documentation

2017-12-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
/23/17, 11:56 AM, "use-livecode on behalf of Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode" wrote: Check out /Contents/Tools/Ext/tsNet.../api.lcdoc for all the tsNet things in one file - hopefully that's roughl

Remote Debugging on iOS

2017-12-23 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I made a few changes to a stack that was some working, and still works on desktop, but hangs on iOS. I think I even have recipe for the UX/UI tapping-navigation across handlers/stacks/screens that will cause the app to crash in iOS. I used to only dev test SA's on Android because if it worked o

Re: Remote Debugging on iOS

2017-12-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
jacque wrote: Remote debugging doesn't work with script-only stacks (I had to ask here on the list myself a while back.) The breakpoint has to be saved with the standalone, and script-only stacks don't have properties so breakpoints can't be saved. Hmm OK, so that means we have to

Re: Android package installer hangs (Oreo)

2017-12-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I tried building for Android on 9.0 dp 11 yesterday and got some weird font mapping issues. Pixel arrived (wow! iOS, seems a bit primitive now…) used, unlocked, (looks brand new) no sim… I got wi-fi. immediate prompted me to upgrade to 8.1, which I did. in LC 8.1.9 I can't see it in the test m

[ANN] SivaSiva App on Google Play

2017-12-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jai Ganesha! My new Pixel arrived the day before Pancha Ganapati amidst a 72 hour solo code sprint, working with the new 8.1.9 to get an Android version done. At the last minute I solved rendering issues on Android (not happening on Desktop or iOS) and with a little help from Jacque, today got

Re: [ANN] SivaSiva App on Google Play

2017-12-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Andy for the review. all your observations will be taken into account, we were wrestling sooo long with the core rendering issues that I wasted a lot of time testing instead of working on refinements, for which the list is very long. I will look at your screen recordings in depth… And w

Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Our new SivaSiva app expects a lot of horse power. If we want to optimize for smaller devices, I'm not sure where to begin. We can't really shrink graphics below 55k png for small thumbs… so if we have 8 of these on a card and a hero image around 200 K… we are talking about ~700K image data on

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
. Big job, I know, with a project this large. On 12/26/17 11:04 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: >Our new SivaSiva app expects a lot of horse power. If we want to optimize for smaller devices, I'm not sure where to begin. __

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Andy (cc support) Yes, I used tinyPng I have paid for their 50 image at a time option, awesome tool, I think we will get a site license of photoshop plug in… The home card(s) (navigation "portals) on the app are one big parent scrolling parent group with some subgroups. max 8 "rows) with the

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I am going thru Aravind's reports. His phone is top of the line Android… Samsung Galaxy A7 (3GB RAM) 7.0 Nougat, It appears that 8.1.9 RC 1 did not fix all the Android rendering issues… yes, the problem of leaving the app via home or app switch and coming back to the app, yes, that is solved

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Great pointer's Andy, I will try those browser checks… TS Net does not interact with either the browser or a mobile play that streams audio, so we are "on our own… " to Monitor those. Meanwhile this is from London, happy new user --- "So far so good. No problems, everything running smoothl

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
are the same as they were? On 12/28/17, 1:22 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" wrote: On 12/28/17 4:50 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode wrote: >So, "weird" … Galaxy Samsung A7 in India running Android version 7.0… -

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
FYI here is Aravind's from Kerala comments today. To what extent we can realistically fit this app onto a phone with only 1GB of RAM… I don't know. Perhaps this is useful for other Android developers looking for a broad base in Asia, although this may be all "old news" to most of you… here it i

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I certainly did not mean to imply by "only" that pointed to the market share of phones with 1 GB ram. OT: I was just reading Quora about how US overwhelming Germany with sheer numbers of tanks and jets that had much lower specs than German made tanks/planes. But we won on our sheer industrial p

Dissolve/Transitions Very Costly

2017-12-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Appropo optimization thread, I'll dig in on specific issues The script profiler is showing this for a script that runs super fast until: 1433 868 show image "gems-image" with visual effect dissolve very fast So this was pertty long but I suppose reasonable enough… then, I ran it again

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
This looks very useful . I think we need to wait until HQ weighs in on my bug report. Regardless of the fact that it works on iOS and Oreo, one has to wonder how on earth we can close a stack which is set to destroy on close, turn acceleratedRendering to false (assume previously cached control

Re: Dissolve/Transitions Very Costly

2017-12-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
So: if the effectRate defaults to 2000 (which is what I'm seeing here on desktop) and you have -- Show image "grand-canyon" with visual effect dissolve very fast --- # theoretically 1/5 of 2000 = 400 milliseconds why is the script profiler saying this line takes 4765 milliseconds top exec

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Reading this in depth. yes, reallocation of bit map space is beyond the developer's realm… I spotted this too… RGB 565… Anyone using this and getting smaller files sizes ver current jpgs? I'm not seeing this as an option in Photoshop on Mac. How we reduced our Android app’s memory

Re: LC Server - MySQL - update about 2000 rows/records of a table

2017-12-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Ditto what Mike said: " On mysql.. can't you prebuild your multi-command transaction in a variable" I periodically do this kind of thing. assuming the transaction is exactly the same… one way is to build a single SQL query from your data. Assume you need something like this, getting and SQL q

Re: Optimizing for small Android devices

2017-12-31 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mark: Wow, yes, it does help! I hope you had a great Christimas and are refreshed ready to face all of us again (smile) Your entire email should be posted to some knowledge base somewhere! As for speed optimization: - Alternate images I will make 1 X images right away for my home "portal"

Go in Window (not working) Go in A window "working"

2018-01-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mark recommends using "go in window" on Mobile, saying this closes stack A while going to open stack B This works on desktop put ("stack " & quote & gems & quote) into tDestination go tDestination # but stack A remains open. but this fails in a backscript put ("stack " & quote & gems & quote)

Re: Go in Window (not working) Go in A window "working"

2018-01-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmmm how simple. go stack in window tID needs to be added to the dictionary… as an example… I did read the entry text description of the Window param, but missed it, still.. lets see if this helps on Android. BR ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Go in Window (not working) Go in A window "working"

2018-01-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
tack oStackName wait 100 milliseconds with messages --go to cardOrStackObject in window tWindowID # where we open the other, new stack first and *then* close the old one. On 1/2/18, 10:31 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Mark Waddingham via use-livecode" wrote: On 2018-01-03 05:

Re: Go in Window (not working) Go in A window "working"

2018-01-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
FWIW: Seems my error was (not in dict) that I should have been doing put the ID of the topstack into tWindowID go to cardOrStackObject in window id tWindowID Well I've been tinkering testing this for two days… made the mistake of making too many changes, then threw out that branch… went ba

Re: Two new videos about using Navigator with LiveCode

2018-01-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Geoff wow this is the tool I've been waiting for! I just fixed a series of fields on 8 cards that carried that old single blank line script that used to be saved in by default… using Navigator it was so easy. FYI" the script handler's for a long script on ly stack are being filtered to show on

Local Image Paths in HTML for Browser Widget Fails

2018-01-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I'm trying to send some local html to the browser widget to display a local loading GIF until the page "comes down" from the cloud. This needs to work on mobile too. the directory structure main app folder /assets /img /global-icons ajax_loader_big.gif" /i

Re: Local Image Paths in HTML for Browser Widget Fails

2018-01-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Mike… thanks… duh! (as he slaps himself on the side of the head) I was mixing up the props the htmltext # with the url this is all static content so all that was needed was, assets /info web-loading.html and then this command setWebURL put path_Assets() & "info/web-l

Notifying users of Web Delays in Browser Widget

2018-01-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Where 1) we cannot use TSNet to "listen" to the socket being used by the Browser widget 2) We cannot overlay a browser with any kind of control/dialog on mobile (or desktop) 3) the browser widget takes the whole card screen on mobile phone, except bottom nav bar which is native LC control 50p

Re: Local Image Paths in HTML for Browser Widget Fails

2018-01-08 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Nope… no way. On mobile, there are major issues with certain mobile controls. e.g. scrolling group becomes a mobile scroller on a phone… this "lies on top of everything" and I believe the browser is also generating a mobile control instance as well. I don't understand it 100% (not even 10%) but

OT: Why I Probably Will Never, Ever Learn HTML%

2018-01-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Maybe it is just age… or whatever. But every time I get the idea of "maybe I might see if I will do something in HTML5" I go to a page like this, I start to get a headache and walk away. https://reactjs.org/docs/integrating-with-other-libraries.html BR _

Re: Creating .ipa now that iTunes has depreciated apps.

2018-01-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Or (shameless promotion) If you have a select group of registered iOS devices in your profile and you don't want to deal with iTunes connect at all for beta testing pay Jacque the reasonable fee for her AirLaunch "be done with it" http://www.hyperactivesw.com/airlaunch/index.html Then enjo

Re: Anyone else got two-monitor issues with LC9 on Mac?

2018-01-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
BR: I'm late to this party, but FWIW Graham wrote: Does anyone else see this or know of any report? BR: yes, all the time, no recipe but it's so bad I don't *ever* put any liveCode stack on my MacBook Pro monitor -- which is designated as the secondary monitor when hooked up to the 31" curved

Drag And Drop Rows

2018-01-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I was examining the API for Datagrid2 in 9 dp 11 Swiping looks interesting, but I'm also looking for " drag-to-arrange" for mobile With similar "cool" UI animation behavior where if you drag a sub-mini-group, which comprises a row of a large vertically or horizontal scrolling parent group, th

Re: Anyone else got two-monitor issues with LC9 on Mac?

2018-01-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mark wrote: screenRects: the first is primary and the rest are relative to that. Any engine issue will likely be to do with those rects as that is the basis of its display coord to LiveCode coord mapping. with screenrects at 0,0,3440,1440 -1440,0,0,900 tops are aligned… and …hmmm… things

Re: Crazy script-only stack question

2018-01-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Not barking up the wrong tree at all, with multi-stack apps very much in the wind…a subject of interest indeed. Agreed with Igor, (ala bug 10275_) not having and a RCS for the binary stacks themselves is a nuisance. But your 5 liner doesn't solve that either. But how does creating a stack and s

Re: Crazy script-only stack question

2018-01-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jacque wrote: If you're just using red-dot breakpoints then it isn't as difficult to remove them, you can just use the "remove all breakpoints" menu item. I wonder if a case could be made for the IDE to also search and line in any script that = breakpoint and either comment or delete

Re: Feature proposal: mobileActualAllowedOrientations?

2018-01-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay wrote: If the alternative is to only have a tiny misrepresentation of a landscape-only stack, do we want the behavior changed? How do other apps, like some games, handle this situation? What Ralph said: Android bug… I think the question then becomes "how do other ap

Artifacts on screen from closed stacks on Android

2018-01-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We are getting reports (and screen shot and screen videos) from some Android users that show artifacts from a previously opened Stack A, when opening Stack B where Stack A is explicitly closed and has both destroyStack and destroyWindow set to true. In the absence of being able to reproduce th

Re: Artifacts on screen from closed stacks on Android

2018-01-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
J. Landman Gay wrote: We really do need a "redraw card" command, but for now you can force a redraw by either hiding and then showing the offending object, or by resetting it. BR: But we are talking about entire stacks… and the offending object wants to disappear completely acros

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