Android Deployment Update / Nov 2019

I see a lot of changes in my developers console on Google. I reading through everything… I kept these kind notes which were sent by Jerry in June, summarizing Mark W. comments on building of Android. Are they still up-to-date? And about what about Android 9? I think Ralph also felt that the p

Re: Mobile development android vs ios

"Call me contrary". but the more I look at the Android UI the more I like the principles. I also seems that Apple likes it too. In iOS 13.2 they "finally" have a near 100% for delete an app, like Android. If you went with Android UI, and use your own icons and widgets, a) Apple won't complain,

Re: New app update: four errors in plist

FYI, you click "Beta Test" in standalone settings and you will get the "beta entitlement", properly installed , which is required if you want to use Test Flight. In standalone settings I see three options: Required, Prohibited, n/a. Do you mean the plist always contains a location option ev

Tester in iPhone 8 Not Getting Audio

FYI, I started using TestFlight in iOS and have a broader group testing the app. iPhone8 is no longer playing audio any time after iOS >12. Upgrading to 13.2.2 doesn't fix it! Sad. I have to release the app… with a disclaimer for iPhone 8 users…. _

Special Graphic Effects - Kill Performance On Rapid Redraws

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 m

Re: WebP-Tool v103

We really appreciate you staying on the "bleeding" edge ahead of us, Herman! Tried the stack, works amazing well. A 1.2MB img →129K (at 1024 px wide) Look fabulous in Google Chrome! " so you can use webp images in your stacks…" that is using the pngOUT images in our stacks? Right? Disclaimer

Re: WebP-Tool v103

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 am

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-1

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 alway

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-1

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: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-1

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

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 use-livec

Big App Mobile Download

[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 https://developer.android.com/google/play/expa

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-1

> = > 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 instal

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-1

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

Livecode Server - Email

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

CreateMobileAudioPlayer - Fails on Mobile 9.6.0.dp1

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" comm

Remote Debugger 9.6dp1?

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 op

Re: iOS scrollers

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 users

Re: iOS scrollers

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 yo

Re: iOS scrollers

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 se

Re: Remote Debugger 9.6dp1?

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

Achilles Heel of 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 into

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

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

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

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

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

Groups in the message path: Trapping Mouseup

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

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 get

Re: Groups in the message path: Trapping Mouseup

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 t

Re: Groups in the message path: Trapping Mouseup

@ 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

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! Afte

Animated Gifs - Keep them Running

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 g

Re: Animated Gifs - Keep them Running

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 "ugly

Re: Groups in the message path: Trapping Mouseup

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 o

Re: Animated Gifs - Keep them Running

@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 Android..whateve

Re: Animated Gifs - Keep them Running

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 pr

Remote Debugging Not Working

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 cou

Re: [ANN] Release 9.5.1

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 mai

How to "save" the IDE stack

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 wo

Polygon Side Does Note Match to Polygon rect

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 ma

Re: How to "save" the IDE stack

@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

@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 o

Re: Polygon Side Does Note Match to Polygon rect

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 e

Re: mobile dev confusion

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. __

Re: mobile dev confusion

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 Ta

Re: LiveCode won't recognize my stack

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 *befor

Import SVG with Multi-Path and Two colors

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: Import SVG with Multi-Path and Two colors

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: Start using font

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

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 "/Users/brahmanathaswami/Documents/

Re: Parent Group of the Target

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 your

Re: Parent Group of the Target

@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 groupi

Re: Changing extention on script only stack

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 use-livec

Re: Embarrasssing old bugs

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 https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-date-and-time-form

Re: Embarrasssing old bugs

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 t

YAML Libraries

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" st

Re: YAML Libraries

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: iOS browser local URLs

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" ?

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 t

Re: iOS browser local URLs

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 widge

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

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 us

Re: html5Player

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. _

Import SVG as Images

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 revIDECr

Re: html5Player

"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 over-e

Re: Import SVG as Images

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: html5Player

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 [html5I

Re: OMG text processing performance 6.7 - 9.5

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 occurrenc

Remote Debugging Not Working -- Bug 22500 -

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 wi

Mobile "shake" ??

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 Pleas

Re: Mobile "shake" ??

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:

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

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 embedded

RE: Apple Deprecated "UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend"

Apple is making it worse. As March 10, the Transporter/App Store (it seems) will a) verify to app (I am on a new Mac with a fresh set of certs and provisioning profiles) b) then, accept delivery of the app c) then respond with :"DELIVERRY FAILED ON MAR 10, 2020, AT

Re: Apple Deprecated "UIApplicationExitsOnSuspend"

"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 : > > If you

Bug in Widget Browser - Please confirm.

Yay! On my fresh Catalina installation I have remote debugging working…. On Android (not mac Desktop or iOS) This function call: put parseTheHTML(the htmltext of widget "body","bookmark") into tTitle # produces an error lRemote: stack "behavior_view_SivaSivaBrowser": execution erro

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-3

FWIW Xcode 11.3 not easily available on Apple site, I tried with Xcode 11.3.1. Everything “appears” fine, at least for now…. BR iOS Support - Building with Xcode 11.3 using the iOS 13.2 SDK is now supported ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livec

Runtime Error on. JavaScript Handler in Browser

With Catalina I have RemoteDebugging Working… even better I have AAGNetworkTracer and AAGNetworkTracerDashboard working… awesome tools made by Andre! Can be used with Community License, worth every penny I enabled for mobile testing. On iOS, when I open the Lexicon (a local html5 “stack” tha

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-3

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 Signature.

Re: [ANN] Release 9.6.0 DP-3

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

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