Ah Ha!! I found a non printable character in the url that is being pulled out of the first line of the file.
-= Mike On 02/17/2012, at 6:50 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > I would be surprised if you could get this to work as DropBox states > specifically that you cannot link to folders in your Public folder: > > <https://www.dropbox.com/help/16> > "While you can't link to folders in your Public folder, you can link to > files within sub-folders" > > That said, you could generate a simple text file in your Public folder with > a list of your available files, and read from that. It's a bit manual, but > you could automate the process in your LiveCode development. > > Regards, > > Scott Rossi > Creative Director > Tactile Media, UX Design > > > > > > Recently, Michael Doub wrote: > >> I am trying to take your concept and make it a bit more generic but I feel >> like I must be in the Friday blues. >> I am stuck on syntax or I am loosing my mind. Probably the latter. ;-) >> >> Rather than go to the stack directly I wanted to pick up the url from the >> first line of a text file so it is >> easy to switch stacks. Sounds easy enough but its is not working! The >> correct URL is in fact in the StacktoLoad variable. >> What am I missing in the syntax? >> >> on mouseUp >> put URL "http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4379494/LiveCode/LoadLinks" into list >> put line 1 of list into StacktoLoad >> go URL StacktoLoad >> end mouseUp >> >> -= Mike >> >> >> On 02/11/2012, at 8:32 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: >> >>> This may already be old news, but I thought I'd throw it out there in case >>> this helps someone... If you're already using your DropBox account to help >>> speed up your mobile development process, read no farther. >>> >>> I've been developing stacks for iOS use on and off over the last year, and >>> have been annoyed with the bottleneck process of building standalones, >>> uploading them to the device, launching the test app on the device, finding >>> everything that doesn't work, and then starting the whole process over every >>> time I make a change. Even using the simulator just takes too long and is >>> sometimes inaccurate compared to running on a real device. So I wondered if >>> I could save some time using LC's "go url xyz..." ability to access a stack >>> remotely with DropBox. And it actually works perfectly. >>> >>> First I loaded my dev stack to my Public DropBox folder, and right-clicked >>> on the stack to get its DropBox address. >>> >>> Then I built a simple mobile standalone that contains a single button with >>> the script: >>> go url "http://dl.dropbox.com/path_to_my_stack.livecode" >>> >>> After uploading the simple standalone *one time* to my mobile device, I >>> launch the simple standalone, press the button, and my dev stack appears on >>> my device within a couple of seconds. With the original stack open on my >>> desktop system (saved in DropBox), I save any changes, relaunch the simple >>> standalone on the mobile device, and press the button to immediately see my >>> changes. No uploading or file transfers are needed. I do this for all the >>> mobile devices I want to test on -- as soon as I save the dev stack in my >>> DropBox, all my testing devices have immediate access to it. >>> >>> I haven't tried this on Android yet, but I assume it will wok the same. >>> This process has saved me a significant amount of time and sanity -- maybe >>> it will for you. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Scott Rossi >>> Creative Director >>> Tactile Media, UX Design >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> use-livecode mailing list >>> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >>> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >>> preferences: >>> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode