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- Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:37 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Possibly the worst effect of removing the Open Source version.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 8348
Re: Possibly the worst effect of removing the Open Source version.
Hi, I have a feeling that almost ALL of the users of the Open Source version of LiveCode have stopped contributing to the LiveCode Forums; leaving it poorer. I've spent considerable time here, each month in the past years. I've answered a lot of questions, provided many code examples, made speed com...
- Mon Sep 27, 2021 2:45 pm
- Forum: Educational Outreach
- Topic: Is this what we need?
- Replies: 31
- Views: 28954
Re: Is this what we need?
Hi, The problem, as we all know is not the 25 bucks, it is the perception that C# and friends are what employers need. While the 25 bucks are not much it's still money that has to be acknowledged, quarreled over, argued about & maybe finally allocated by the "bureaucrazy". So for 25 meager bucks the...
- Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:31 pm
- Forum: Android Deployment
- Topic: Free simple tool for creating keystore file
- Replies: 24
- Views: 28026
Re: Free simple tool for creating keystore file
Hi, my KeyMaker is targeted for Windows, and the classic Android SDK tools. It searches for an installed Oracle Java 8 using Win paths, uses backslashes all over the place, and, finally, tries to interpret a Win shell reply. In the code, it doesn't do much but creating a long shell command like this...
- Fri Sep 17, 2021 9:15 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: How to get date and time from a file
- Replies: 11
- Views: 9613
Re: How to get date and time from a file
Hi, [...] Win took about 6 times as long as the others to obtain the mod dates on the same random selection of 100 files in a folder of 15,100 files. [...] It may be caused by this . I wrote about it here . tl;dr: Text operations with huge lists are unbearably slow in the Windows versions of the con...
- Mon Aug 30, 2021 10:27 am
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Linux use may increase in the desktop sector
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15340
Re: Linux use may increase in the desktop sector
Hi, LC is still seen as an Apple Macintosh and iOS first society. Funny: first time I have seen that. Hint: Have a look at any release notes and check where's the vast majority of changes targeted. Hint 2: Look at the screen shots of any documentation of LC Ltd. Hint 3: Install & try a 9.* version o...
- Sat Aug 28, 2021 12:27 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Linux use may increase in the desktop sector
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15340
Re: Linux use may increase in the desktop sector
Well, as long as LC doesn't find its way in any repositories this is academic anyways. But back to topic: There's a newer article on theVerge. Actually, every other day now there's another news item about what additional machines suddenly may run Win 11, too. Makes me wonder if this isn't a quite st...
- Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:21 pm
- Forum: Off-Topic
- Topic: Linux use may increase in the desktop sector
- Replies: 24
- Views: 15340
Re: Linux use may increase in the desktop sector
Hi, Frightening. Microsoft ended support for Win 7 more than a year and a half ago. The only ones still producing modifications for the system are organized crime and hostile nation states. You may have a look at the support status of the Linux distributions that LC lists as "supported" ;-) Have fun!
- Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:09 pm
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: Speeding up text operations on Win
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6027
Re: Speeding up text operations on Win
Hi, It would be interesting to know how long this type of exercise takes on Linux. I'd expect it to be faster - but that's off topic here: it's about the dramatic degradation of LCs performance with some basic operations in the new versions, and it's explicitly about Windows (thus the "Windows" sub ...
- Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:52 am
- Forum: Windows
- Topic: Speeding up text operations on Win
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6027
Speeding up text operations on Win
Hi, it has been reported repeatedly that operations with large amounts of text are unbearable slow when using new versions of LC on Windows, while not suffering this much on MacOS. Now there is a thread on the mailing list (where the enlightened ones enjoy their neolithic quote hell undisturbed by u...
- Sat Aug 21, 2021 10:23 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Self-awareness re line numbers
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2746
Re: Self-awareness re line numbers
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set itemdel to comma -- only if you have set it to something different before
answer item -1 of line -1 of the executionContexts
- Sat Aug 21, 2021 10:14 am
- Forum: Databases
- Topic: issuing dot commands to sqlite through livecode
- Replies: 5
- Views: 6987
Re: issuing dot commands to sqlite through livecode
Hi, AFAIK ".tables" is syntax specific to the SQLite command-line program ("sqlite3"/ "sqlite3.exe"), and NOT part of the supported "dialect of the SQL language". Since LC communicates with the DB using queries in "SQL language" this may not work. But you may use it via shell: get shell(myPath & sla...
- Mon Aug 16, 2021 8:57 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: How to use one list to populate many identical, but independent, menus?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2925
Re: How to use one list to populate many identical, but independent, menus?
Hi, adding to what Kelly said, maybe an example: The content of your menu needs some more information, so let it be: [MenuTitle]tab[MenuCommand]tab[MenuSelector]CR ... where MenuCommand is what is send when the menu is choosen, and MenuSelector is a space-delimited list of chars that determine on wh...
- Tue Aug 10, 2021 8:03 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Filter each lines on a item value
- Replies: 14
- Views: 7310
Re: Filter each lines on a item value
Hi, may be a mistake by myself, but too often I got the "filter" command to return things I'd not meant it to. So I just stopped using it. Instead I do: set itemdel to tab repeat for each line L in myData if (item 2 of L = 1) then put L & CR after myVar end repeat delete char -1 of myVar MyVar is no...
- Wed Aug 04, 2021 11:43 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Puzzled by LC 9.6.2 error
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19040
Re: Puzzled by LC 9.6.2 error
Hi, as Jacque said. If this line: put item pReverseItem of sScoreList into tThisResponse blows up in LC 9 but runs flawlessly in LC 8 then there's something buried in the code. Something that doesn't smell well. What happens: LC evaluates pReverseItem as an integer Then it evaluates sScoreList as CS...
- Tue Aug 03, 2021 10:14 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Puzzled by LC 9.6.2 error
- Replies: 39
- Views: 19040
Re: Puzzled by LC 9.6.2 error
Hi, what I do in case of CSV parsing problems: Version A: I create a variable before the loop: "put 1 into myVar". Then I add a line of code at the start of the loop: "put myVar" When it crashes I see the line number in the CSV where the culprit is hiding. Version B: I add a parameter check before t...