Achilles Heel of Livecode

2019-12-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ richard I love LiveCode, use it every day, probably till the day I die, if I not meditating, singing or swinging kettle bells, and have invested in every offer presented by Kevin since you "turned me on Metacard" when I used Supercard and was looking for bigger solutions, and even bought

Good News! Audio Working with AVKit on iPhone 7 and 8

2019-12-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Yay! Good news! A build with 9.6 dp1 with xCode 11.1 with a fix for the new use of AVKit in iOS. On Test Flight my iPhone 7 and 8 users, who had failures previously on iOS 13+ with the mobile audio player built in LC9.5 ... now report that audio is working! More Apple Caveats: FYI: Don't be

Groups in the message path: Trapping Mouseup

2019-12-08 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I think this a old problem that is re-surfacing. Or else it is known…. 9.6 dp1, in the message path different independent groups are not encapsulated. button "starWidget" -- has no script -- is not a part of any group Stack script: on mouseup put the short name of the target

Re: Groups in the message path: Trapping Mouseup

2019-12-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
In this use case, - the button "starWidget" is a "standalone" button on an independent layer on the card and not a part of any group -- @Jacque... the groups that are trapping the mouseup I are background groups using on various card. Mark Weider says "A background group will definitely

Re: Groups in the message path: Trapping Mouseup

2019-12-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mark Waddington gave the answer if need. I really want "shared groups" and not "backgroundGroups" Then the scripts are encapsulated. I turned off backgroundBehavior on all groups. A click on top layer button (no script) now registers in the stack script with its target. I tried it, Yay!

Animated Gifs - Keep them Running

2019-12-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I switched from the mobileIndicator to installing an animated gif for Loading. This way I have control over the load process and can let users bail out. It is a lovely gif, but it "hangs" when the processor on phone is doing something else. It there are way to keep it's frames "circling" until

Re: Animated Gifs - Keep them Running

2019-12-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@richard: I don't think *anything* including widget, run in a different thread on LC @HH and Tom Great idea! (using send) -- aside fyi dictionary is confused: rotate: OS mac, windows, linux Platforms desktop, server, mobile It should say, (hopefully) iOS and

Re: Animated Gifs - Keep them Running

2019-12-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Ahh.. good catch! You should use: -> SET THE ANGLE of widget xyz to N just like with images you want to "rotate". ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Remote Debugging Not Working

2019-12-13 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Anyone who has an an indy or business licence, and has moved to Catalina… I want verify in this is my context or if is a bug… I can't do Remote debugging. My iPhone on in the same wireless network and my MacBook Pro… But if I put an "breakpoint" in a script, save, and test on an iPhone, of

Re: [ANN] Release 9.5.1

2019-12-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I do not see the player changes with Apple going forward with AVKit. Any they only in 9.6.dp1? We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 9.5.1 STABLE. ** Note 9.5.1 STABLE is the last planned release in the 9.5.x series ** ___ use-livecode

Re: Animated Gifs - Keep them Running

2019-12-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmmm. "Indeed, without even the option of threaded GIF playback, it isn't possible to make a progress indicator that doesn't affect overall performance, in addition to having disturbingly jerky appearance." Yes, I suspected the "LC - Single thread" issue. at least the mobileIndicator while

Re: Groups in the message path: Trapping Mouseup

2019-12-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
User Guide: I tell myself periodically to read the whole thing (be never do…tinyDictionary has me hooked) … here it is, as you says, clearly stated on page 105 If background behavior is false, the group is in the message path for all controls it owns, but is not in the message path of any

Android Scrolling Field - 9.6.dp1 - Receives MouseUp/Down

2019-12-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
On 9.6 dp 1 I was testing on iOS for a week. Then I tested on Android. Surprising new behavior in the mobileScroller: It receives the mouseDown as soon as you scroll, or mouseUp after you scroll. This does not happen on iOS, not did in happen in 9.5 on Android. How can I prevent this and only

Bail Out of Failed Connection Mobile Indicator

2019-12-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
on mobile, when the busy indicator in up, showing it is busy downloading, How do you stop it in the case of a failing download? For example, bandwidth to too weak, or the url can't be accessed? Use just wants to "bail" out and not hang the application? BR

Re: Groups in the message path: Trapping Mouseup

2019-12-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@ Mark Waddington That's it! Thank you! If you turn 'background behavior' off, then your shared group should no longer receive messages after the card does. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Groups in the message path: Trapping Mouseup

2019-12-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
So then to trap "the target" in the stack script, require putting pass mousedown (or mouseWhatever) in all the background groups (all of which contain their our MouseDown) Correct? remember the use case: we do not want and script in *any* button or top object that receives a click or

Player object in iOS 13....

2019-10-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Can any one confirm: the iOS mobileAudioPlayer controller is broken with the iOS 13 update put pRect into sPlayerRect mobileControlSet pPlayerName, "visible", true mobileControlSet pPlayerName, "rect", pRect mobileControlSet pPlayerName, "showController", true mobileControlSet pPlayerName,

Re: ... in iOS 13....

2019-10-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Bill: A few us at the monastery run 32bit applications that have announced EOL due to Catalina… as are many programs: the market share does not warrant ROI for developing 64bit… (including my old favorite DragThing ☹) Our tech team (supersavvy network/server admins) have set up Parallels for

Catalina and Livecode

2019-10-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
First I want to give my appreciation for the hard work at HQ keeping up with Apple. In fact Mark W. maybe ahead of the game! As mentioned, I had to upgrade (against my better wishes) to Catalina, because Adobe was giving us trouble on Mojave. Surprising Livecode is working! and every

No internet!

2019-10-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
The internet cable 15 miles off Kapahi on the bottom of the ocean was cut last night! Because our Island has the most important Missile range of the Pacific , we wonder if North Korean divers did it. Hehe just joking. But how does a cable half mile down under the surface get cut? Very

Re: iOS 13.1.3 - Catelina

2019-10-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
"For future reference, wisdom will tell you to hold back on upgrades until the general consensus from other early adopters gives the go-ahead." We, normally, always do that… myself I normally wait 2-3 month for before upgrading a system. Apple views their audience as a beta test group. We know

iOS 13.1.3 - Catelina

2019-10-18 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We are in software no-man's land… the last three days, mired in technical mud 1. Play beachball with Adobe InDesign (app hangs on every 10 key strokes, and you move to a new tool) Spent 2 hour screen sharing with a very savvy lad in New Delhi. No Go 2. iPhone pestering for an upgrade. I

Special Graphic Effects - Kill Performance On Rapid Redraws

2019-11-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We released SivaSiva 1.6. Just yesterday. The days before release I found a "bug" I had introduced in performance which may be useful, especially to newbies, because in using xTalk for 20 years, even I did not this. One of the thing I have learned is how "bad" special graphic effects are on

Re: WebP-Tool v103

2019-11-24 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Looking forward to support on mobile. There is the total RAM requirement that makes it hard to put the image into custom props of one stack. SivaSiva app holds roughly 350 photos, that must delivered with the package. So a stack which had them as customs prop would "blow out the phone." So I

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-1

2019-11-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Whatever the semantics of release numbers, what pull requests or issues remain. You did the right thing! MW: We felt it better to get dp-1 almost feature complete, addressing the critical issues holding up people's apps first before lumping a lot of fixes from all over the place. The latter

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-1

2019-11-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Panos/Release notes say: - Support for building with Xcode 11.1 and the iOS 13.1 SDK has been added. OK so we are behind Apple, which is probably a good thing, since they appear to innovating so fast without testing…. so we don't want to enter their "public beta wrestling ring" but They have

Re: iOS scrollers

2019-11-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Ditto that here. I still have you with handler. Ralph said he was added 20 the rect, so I did this. put ("0,0," & (the formattedwidth of control pName) & "," & \ the formattedheight of control pName + 20) into tRect But on iPhone X increasing by a generic "20" in not enough. I don't think

Remote Debugger 9.6dp1?

2019-11-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I have Remote Debugger in the inclusions for making a mobile standalone The Development Menu has checked "Script Debug Mode" I put an explicit "breakpoint" in a handler; test (target) my iPhone. Boot the app on the phone. The app hangs where I have the breakpoint. But the script editor does not

Re: iOS scrollers

2019-12-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Bug: QA ticket #...? I believe you will use the previously confirmed number? Agreed, it’s has become "a blocker." Not that you cannot build the app. But any TOC and Indices you will have in the app don't work, from the user point of view. The last line will appear if you use scroll up, (keep

Re: iOS scrollers

2019-12-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Perhaps I misunderstand you, but IMHO, "it not rocket science" Regardless of the device or fullscreenmode. I use (and I think jacque uses) the card rect… If we set a scroller to the "formatterHeight", in any model or "mode" context, the user should be able to scroll right to the bottom, and

Re: Remote Debugger 9.6dp1?

2019-12-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
2019, at 1:27 pm, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode > mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: > > I have Remote Debugger in the inclusions for making a mobile standalone > The Development Menu has checked "Script Debug Mode" > > I put an expli

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-1

2019-11-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
> = > Your application failed code-signing > check. Check your certificates, > provisioning profiles, and bundles ids. > @Brahmanathaswami When do you get this error? When building the standalone, or when installing it to device? Regards, Panos -- When try to

Livecode Server - Email

2019-11-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I have a email CGI from a very old cgi for the days when "revolution" was the server Now with LiveCode server, Ubuntu 18+ does have /usr/sbin/sendmail installed, at least I see that, but this old process does not work put "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t" into mprocess open process mprocess for write

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-1

2019-11-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Aloha Panos 1) Right, the IOS INVALID ENTITLEMENTS were the ones I was looking. I’ll be sure the save them where I can find them again 2) Yes, I will file a bug report after I am sure that the library (which Jacque made originally) is using the correct code for the AVfoundation, something may

CreateMobileAudioPlayer - Fails on Mobile 9.6.0.dp1

2019-11-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Rather than file a bug report, I think we can air this out here on the list first. then if it is a bug will file it. This work on in 9.5.1 rc 1, but is failing on 9.6 dp1. I immediately crashes the app as soon as we pass the parameters to it. We are not using and the "no-longer-available"

Big App Mobile Download

2019-11-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
[change thread title since it is a different subject from WebP-Tool] Wow… Without changing the default setting, you get 200 MB! Or "limitless" if the users changes setting. But: since we get "one push, two platforms" with LC… Android; Google Play

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-1

2019-11-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
The web site was getting the links from apple. This does appear to be malicious, but does appear to an earlier build (mod sep 29 or so) https://download.developer.apple.com/Developer_Tools/Xcode_11.1_GM_Seed/Xcode_11.1_GM_Seed.xip @Matthias -- this is what I get when following your route using

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-1

2019-11-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I meant say links at https://xcodereleases.com/ Do NOT appear to be malicious, https://download.developer.apple.com/Developer_Tools/Xcode_11.1_GM_Seed/Xcode_11.1_GM_Seed.xip but are a few weeks out of date. BR ___ use-livecode mailing list

Android - ANRs and Crashes

2019-11-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We are getting new reports in Google console -- haven't looked at it in a while, but now getting ready for a new release and I am going through every link at the developer console site, as there are new requirement I don't want to miss….now these this new thing: ANRs and Crashes it is

Re: Stacks and Sub Stacks

2019-09-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Related: if you have this in the message box. put the openstacks you only get the 1. presently open binary stacks 2. any script only stack that you explicitly have open in the IDE But, can you we a list of all stacks available to the message path "right now" We can query the stack

Get Definition

2019-09-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
We have a command command Journal_LaunchEntry pEntryID in the message path, via a start using "model_Journal.livecodescript" But click on the command script editor "Get definition" is dimmed. Is this a "bug"? I can you find a search to find it, but that seems"lame" BR

Stop Processing a Web Connection

2019-10-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I think I have found a bug in our mobile app…. which is that: If there is poor bandwidth, say, when the user is trying to get a video in the browser widget, or the there is a direct call for other resources from our API (images, audio for player, big XML/Json. etc) the UI hangs. They click a

Re: Get Definition

2019-10-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Not only that. I don't think the SE "get definition(s)" from *.livecodescript, stacks. Unless perhaps they are open. I just submitted a PR to fix a "get definition" bug. Currently if the handler you're looking for is in quotes the menu item will be dimmed.

Re: Stop Processing a Web Connection

2019-10-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Charles responded off list, this may be useful to others: = Unfortunately tsNet doesn’t get involved in the browser widget’s network communications, so I can’t help there... However, the best way to stop UI hangs is to use the tsNet asynchronous (non-blocking) functions so that all

Re: Get Definition

2019-10-09 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
As Jacqueline said, on init the app puts all models, and libraries in using…. If you using a stack that has behaviors, they are "naturally" open when because the stack, cards open. I need to check, Yes, BBEdit or Sublime or Atom works fine… On 10/8/19 5:30 AM, Brian Milby via use-livecode

Background Audio in Mobile Apps

2019-10-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
One of my users says that a previous version of our app, as long is it remained open, continued to play audio, even when they went to another app.. "While I am listening audio’s in the Siva Siva app, new bug: Automatically stopping audio while screen off or moved one app to another app Or

Set font dynamically to fit text

2019-10-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Assuming one is not putting whole pages into small fields, does any one have an efficient run time LC algorithm that will set the font size so that the formatted text will all appear in the field without needing to scroll? BR Satchiai Iru - Be a Witness

Re: Set font dynamically to fit text

2019-10-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
BR: Hmm I figured that a repeat loop would do that, but was look for a "one-off-equation" According to the "laws of math" (ha... algebrait has been such a long time; I could be wrong) if you have single unknown variable , X, and all others are known factors, you would,

Re: Set font dynamically to fit text

2019-10-12 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
But "line breaks" is another known factor, based on X… which still leaves us on variable to find. Brian wrote: You probably could get close with math but line breaks would not be uniform and will introduce variability. You could probably get it down to 2 or 3 checks. BR: Hmm I figured that a

Re: id3lib from Mark Smith -> id3_getPictureData

2019-10-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I could use 1.02 BR In case you need 1.02, just let me know. Matthias Rebbe ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: id3lib from Mark Smith -> id3_getPictureData

2019-10-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Great thanks It also works as on a livecode web server. Hi, https://dl.qck.nu/?dl=id3LibV1.0.2.zip Regards, Matthias ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Set font dynamically to fit text

2019-10-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Dan: Thanks for the handler! Ralph: Actually that last solution offered was fromr Dan Friedman not mine. Can you put your two handlers on the list? " I also have an option to fit either by height or width." Doc Hawk: I give in , " Font scaling itself is nonlinear enough, but the way

Import SVG as Images

2020-02-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I want to import SVG as a tool in a stack meant for deployment. digging into REV IDE stacks | RevMenuBar, we find the "revIDEImportControl" handler [snip} case "image" if pFileName ends with ".svg" then -- SVG files can't be referenced

Re: html5Player

2020-02-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
My goodness -- magic" indeed! Where is the "stack" in the environment? Is in everything inside the lower right quadrant: My I should switch for the forum so that we have screen shots. We envision a scenario like this: for 5 people to collaborate as the same time: 1. all load the IDE

Re: html5Player

2020-02-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
"Can you save" To which you supplied a lengthy answer, thank you. I have a real use case: I looked at all the collaborative "white boards" on the market. There are 10 that only have free version that allows a limit number of people participating. All too complicationed and unnecessarily

Re: Import SVG as Images

2020-02-01 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Alright! Now have more questions. The is way OFF TOPIC but I thought I could ask, because some of you know the SVG standards better I do… the SVG from Sketch, come with a default width and height and a viewBox of 100px http://www.w3.org/2000/svg; xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink;>

Re: OMG text processing performance 6.7 - 9.5

2020-02-03 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
hhmm…. how do you "truncate the string and search from the beginning" ?? Can you give a code snippet example? BR I found this as well. Another thing, it's faster to truncate the string and search from the beginning than using a "start at" on the entire string when searching for all

Re: html5Player

2020-01-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Herman: can you save anything from that view? I always have to remind myself that it is Livecode running in a browser. It feels like some dedicated app. I suggest that anybody who is interested in what is possible with Livecode HTML5 to have a look at Hermann's examples.

Mobile "shake" ??

2020-02-19 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
is there any way to respond to "shaking" on mobile? I found nothing in a dictionary search for "shake" and looked through (quickly) all mobile commands, perhaps it a buried parameter? BR ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Mobile "shake" ??

2020-02-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Great! BR yes. :-) > I found nothing in a dictionary search for "shake" and looked through > (quickly) all mobile commands, perhaps it a buried parameter? Check this lesson from the mothership:

Remote Debugging Not Working -- Bug 22500 -

2020-02-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I've been working on an update to my app. Not, all of a sudden, in does not open on Android in a test done in Catalina. It crashes on startup I already reported in Bug 22500 (Dec 16, 2019) that the remoteDebugger was not working. Panas left it with a "pending follow up" … but I did follow up

Re: Changing extention on script only stack

2020-01-11 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
No revision control. For people working in a "1 human silo" Is there a reason not to just put the script into a button and set the stack behavior to that? That's what I do when I don't want extra files in my build. ___ use-livecode mailing list

YAML Libraries

2020-01-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I am finding the constraints of JSON to be a bit, well, "constraining" , for use in small "data serializations". e.g. a list of 20 stories with various parameter, that you don't want to put in a database (for now, maybe later once the dBase design clarifies itself and the number of "stories"

Re: YAML Libraries

2020-01-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I found the handler ## Monte's YAMLToArray command constant kMultiLineModeNone = 0 constant kMultiLineModeLiteral = 1 constant kMultiLineModeFolded = 2 command YAMLToArray pYaml [snip] in the levure initialization behavior. I think that's it. There is no "ArrayToYaml" but that is not needed.

Re: Embarrasssing old bugs

2020-01-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Klaus wrote "How embarrassing is this in 2020? If we want to get an even higher ranking than 36 on TIOBE, this should be fixed as  soon as possible." It is: embarrassing. The fact that the LC engine cannot does not produce ISO-8601 standard dates

Re: Embarrasssing old bugs

2020-01-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4636 Klaus: Ouch! :-/ > There are several "convert date" libraries knocking around. That would help > you…. Thank you, but after now more than 20 years using of MC/RR/R/LC I know how to do that. __ HA! Maybe would can add comments to

Re: iOS browser local URLs

2020-01-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Jacque wrote: Bug report here: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=22543 added the case: SivaSiva/nightly branch which is even simpler: open stack Lexicon, Card 1 script, on preopencard if the environment is not "development" the set the url of

Re: No support for 24bit/96kHz audio file?

2020-01-22 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
aiff or wav? Hi, i imprted some short audiofiles 24bit/96kHz but it seems LC does some kind of downsampling or changes the frequency. As it plays now very looow. Is the max 16bit/44.1kHz ? Any idea? Thanks, Jerry ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: iOS browser local URLs

2020-01-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I am pretty sure it is a regression. I have a business support request to test the Andre's "htmt5" Lexicon on iOS built in 9.5 (comes packaged inside the SivaSiva app) I can't test myself because of upgrading to Catalina…. It was working 9.5 but not on 9.6DP2. Works fine on android. I had to

closeControl -- "switchable" ?

2020-01-21 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Using text only script behavior files has advantages and disadvantages. One "con" is the possibility of "rapid profileration" of text scripts (behavior, model, libraries etc.) Your app could easily become like some horrendous-humongous PHP or JS framework with 100's of "dependencies." I am

Re: Import SVG with Multi-Path and Two colors

2020-01-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Sorry, that doesn’t work, I just get a white box I needed the background to be opaque and was trying to do that in SVG widget Anyway, I had my designer send another opaque version from the output from Sketch Now, using Image As Control --> Image File [choose below in a file:} it works. But it

Re: LiveCode won't recognize my stack

2019-12-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Trashing prefs will bring back LC to the main monitor, no fiddling with loc of stacks. then, later in the week, after loading on Macbook Pro while at Java Café. LC loses track -- or something, does not always happen this way. Then back to multi-monitors. I learned to shut down my lap top

Import SVG with Multi-Path and Two colors

2019-12-31 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I would like to import an SVG that has multiple paths and which two colors. Using Illustrator or Inkscape, merge compound path make them all the same color But the following SVG imports fine as an image in LC and has multiple colors. Granted they are all circles, but can't the above by turned

Re: Polygon Side Does Note Match to Polygon rect

2019-12-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Thanks Howard, I have a "design tools" stack, which I can toggle as a palette, focus on the top card of the stack I am building.. I'll add a card with this in a button "Make equilateral triangle" BR Obviously you want an evenly sided triangle with fixed width W? So use put 243 into W -- for

Re: mobile dev confusion

2019-12-29 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Hmmm.. I conclude from this thread (where I do not use the similutor) that for the Google Play store we only need to build armv7 & arm64 @J. Gay right? Support for x86 chips on mobile devices apparently was dropped some years ago.

Polygon Side Does Note Match to Polygon rect

2019-12-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Regular Polygon Tool: If you create a triangle grc and set its width and height to 243pt the tool positions the top of the triangle to center of the top line of the rect and leaves margins on the left and right sides. Thus, the triangle itself doesn't take the width of 243pt. It like ist has

How to "save" the IDE stack

2019-12-27 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Suddenly on my multi-monitor set up RevMenuBar appears left monitor: topLeft -1023,200 RevNavigator appear left monitor: topLeft -420,442 RevTool on the "bottom" monitor: topLeft 43,1456 OK so I can, from the message box, do this: set the topleft of stack revMenubar to 0,20 and it

Re: mobile dev confusion

2019-12-30 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I go straight to my Moto6 device. It so fast. For some reason my "gut" doesn’t trust the emulators. In fact, I can never get to work on iOS, it always hangs, tell me I can't load etc. It would be a problem it if a) loaded the emulator b) failed the device. Takes 6min 24sec to load to iPhone

Re: Start using font

2020-01-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Does that you don't have to "code/script" to access the fonts? Just putting them there (copy files) makes them available? Thanks, I was hoping that was the case. So it's a dictionary error. Good. On 1/6/20 7:21 PM, Ralph DiMola via use-livecode wrote: > I have a folder "Fonts" that I include

Parent Group of the Target

2020-01-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I could have sworn we passed way before, but I can't find it anywhere on the list what is the most efficient was to get the name of the "Parent Group" of the target? Do we really have to parse this? widget id 67388 of group id 67392 of card id 8169 of stack

Re: Parent Group of the Target

2020-01-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
aha! I was searching for "parent" Yes, "owner" is it. And for multiple groupings, the owner of the owner of the owner of ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Parent Group of the Target

2020-01-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@Bill P. ditto that "if there was a compilation of the various keywords and what each refers to". on mouseup put the short name of the owner of the target # where all you want it the "immediate" owner and not the card, stack end mouseUp # that was easy! And for multiple

Re: How to "save" the IDE stack

2019-12-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@Mark Right, I figured that was the only solution. One gets tired setting the prefs again each time you to do that @Richard, Good idea to store as a plug-in stack. I already have CollectMyStacks. This would be the "same thing" but for the IDE Toss the peferences stack and let lc rebuild it.

Re: Polygon Side Does Note Match to Polygon rect

2019-12-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
@HH @brian Ha! You math genius are wonderful! But this is a one off design process, so I will still with my "ruler" grc rect…. A triangle with width=height is NOT a regular polygon (it doesn't have equal side length). To have what you want create a grc of type "polygon" and then set points

Re: Problems with uploading iOS apps (german LC forum)

2020-03-06 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
FIRST: can we open a standalone is Xcode and gets details therein? I having the same problem. on Catalina… Using Transporter, with the correct App Store provisioning profile >> ERROR ITMS-9074:"Missing Provisioning Profile - Apps must contain a >> provisioning profile in a file named

Re: Apple Deprecated "UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend"

2020-03-10 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
"DELIVERED ON MAR 10... YAY! I try your method next time BR On 3/10/20, 1:15 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of matthias rebbe via use-livecode" wrote: > Am 10.03.2020 um 23:10 schrieb Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode : > > I

Drag and Drop Images

2020-04-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
>From a substack called "library" Where images are loaded one after another to a group, referenced by filename (to image data) on disk (not placed) to a mainstack called "Slideshow" with one Image per card Before I try and reinvent the wheel, does

Re: iOS build error - help needed

2020-04-14 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I 9.6.1.dp3 and Catalina 10.15.4 and Xcode 11.3.1 It works Suggest he unstall Xcode and reinstall in and get install the command tool from menu (again) And be sure he is not using a development profile and had the beta test box checked in SA setting (that one cost me a lot of time!) you can

Android Release Requires 21 but 911 Devices Get Dropped?

2020-04-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
I wonder if I did something wrong. Just releasing a new version of SivaSiva to the stores... Using 9.6.0 dp 4  -- which contained an important bug fix for the javascript handlers in the browser widget. I want prompted that I need to upgrade for SDK18 to SDK21. With no apparent option to do

Re: Android Release Requires 21 but 911 Devices Get Dropped?

2020-04-17 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
What is "4.x" ? Minimum Android Version? I did as you suggested last year, two builds e.g version 22 for arm v7 and arm64 version 23 for x86 and x86_64 both came in (using SDK 21) about 95MB the last versions, (20,21) done with SDK 18 were about 70MB the analysis did not complain about

Re: Problems locating Android SDK

2020-04-07 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Well, second, related problem. Android appears installed On OSX Catalina, I am having trouble getting my device to appear... /Library/Android/sdk/build-tools/29.0.1 Android -- from terminal, appear normal % ./adb %./adb kill-server %./adb start-server * daemon started successfully % ./adb

Re: Issues with Mobile Native controls

2020-04-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Some thoughts on icons. I have a focus group of about 10 people, mostly in London, one older woman in France. The "old" FontAwesome as used by Livecode out of the box (I have yet to explore Brian option for bringing in your own or use the "new" FontAwesome While the icon are a bit bold

Google Play Wants Us to Use Android App Bundle?

2020-04-20 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Trying to upload the latest release of my app for Android I rolled out the my app Google Play console 2 arm versions-together - v24 2 86 versions together - v25 Google Play accept the rollout (with a 7-day review disclaimer) and says: -- Warning: This APK results in unused code and

Speech Synthesis

2020-04-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Given the arrival of the Speech Library Something I played with 30 years ago on hypercard manually entering phonemes, to get the computer talk was a fascinating thing. Today, with AI all around us, Speech Sythesis is "everywhere" and very advanced, When we initialize

Re: Problems locating Android SDK

2020-04-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Mine is working, I'm wondering if I can put it a dropbox for you. (4.6 GB) Or does it put your "machine signature" on it when you install it. I remember having to "down grade it" to build-tools 29.0.01 to get it to be seen by LC, BR On 4/5/20, 12:46 PM, "use-livecode on behalf of Skip

Re: Problems locating Android SDK

2020-04-05 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
~/Library/Android/sdk/ I don't use virtual machines... I just use my MotoG6 on WiFi without a SIM card...USB... it is really fast to build and take one variable out of the equation. (I don't trust the VMs... call me superstitious...) When I an "happy" I put the SivaSiva.ipk on our web

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-3

2020-03-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
Did you try a build for TestFlight, (which requires a Distribution for App Store Provisioning profile) Everything worked fine using the same Provisioning Profile and Certificate to 9.6.0.DP2.. But under XCode 11.3.1 and 9.6.0 DP3. I am getting: -- ERROR ITMS-90035: "Invalid

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-3

2020-03-25 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
to be sure? Sean On Wed, 25 Mar 2020 at 21:19, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com<mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: Did you try a build for TestFlight, (which requires a Distribution for App Store Provisioning profile) Everything

How to "kill" mouseTouches while waiting for an internet connection?

2020-03-26 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
In lo-bandwith, hi-latency internet connections. How can we use mobileClearTouches # in association with this handler? function checkURLAvailable pSelectedURL local tHeaders, tSentHeaders, tResult, tBytes put tsNetHeadSync(pSelectedURL, tSentHeaders, tResult,

Re: How to "kill" mouseTouches while waiting for an internet connection?

2020-03-28 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami via use-livecode
WelL, I thought the same thing for a long time, but was reluctant to “impose” so dramatically on the User Interface. But I always envision a big ugly “cover”. Ha! So transparency works….Good, we will try it. Are you typically showing a loading msg or icon. IN other context, I should a load in

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