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The diskSpace function may help.

Yep, sockets can be a lot of fun but will take some experimentation to use well. I like 'em for peer-to-peer apps, but for client-server I prefer working at a higher level letting HTTP do most of the work, being a well-defined protocol with lots of tools available. I'll dig up that mchttpd stack and...

This Lesson is a good introduction to using sockets in LiveCode: http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/4071/l/12924-how-to-communicate-with-other-applications-using-sockets If there's interest I could dig up the old mchttpd stack and pass it around as an example of making a simple web server entirel...

Nice work on the update, Mark. I appreciate your continued support of this FOSS effort.

LiveCode is currently at v5.5.3, available at runrev.com

JPG doesn't support transparency.

IIRC PNG supports it through the alpha channel, rather than through the setting of a color as with GIF.

PNG alpha data can be obtained through the image's alphaData property, and you can manipulate those pixels however you want.

What sort of test do you want to try?

LC v5.5.3 includes a mobilePixelDensity function.

Any changes to your main application can be saved within the application... ...provided you've set the filename property of the stack being saved to a writable location. Keep in mind that most OSes won't allow writes to the location where the app is stored, so you'll want to move any savable elemen...

I've been using split and combine. What does your source data look like?

It seems Paul is organizing a meeting for November:
http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-l ... 79655.html

I still don't understand why, if I'm on OS X, LiveCode thinks that a CR is the correct end-of-line marker The reason is largely historical, but at this point protects legacy code written expecting it. Before OS X the Mac line ending was always ASCII 13, and since OS X is a Unix much of the OS now u...

It may be worth noting that for most logging the data can get quite large, so rather than writing log entries by putting the entire container in the file as a whole thing, you may want to consider incrementally appending the log as most logging tools do. In LiveCode you can do this by opening the fi...

Similar to how you can specify "text" or "binary" when using the "open file" command, you can also specify binary mode with using the "put...url" syntax as well by just replacing "file:" with "binfile:".

The LiveCode engine uses ASCII 10 as the value for the constant "CR" internally, in fields, variables, etc. This is the same line-break character used on Unix, where the engine was born in '92, and also uses this on Linux, the first platform the engine was ported to and the one which uses the same c...