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- Wed Apr 03, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Where are the newbies?
- Replies: 139
- Views: 1094770
Re: Where are the newbies?
Native deployment is LiveCode's strength, and its breadth in that space leaves most competition in the dust. It has a few weaknesses to address, esp with mobile (scrolling fields, clipboard, etc), but still a strong competitor for mobile. Moreover, it's almost alone in the desktop space, where user...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Where are the newbies?
- Replies: 139
- Views: 1094770
Re: Where are the newbies?
Forums are bottom-of-the-funnel. To see drivers look at the top of the funnel. No doubt, but as a lambda user we only have access to the bottom of the funnel. Furthermore, if I continue your metaphor, what comes out of the funnel is, in theory, exactly what goes in. The size of the spout only deter...
- Wed Apr 03, 2024 1:07 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Where are the newbies?
- Replies: 139
- Views: 1094770
Re: Where are the newbies?
Good call. The charts reinforce what we experienced on the ground: the decline plateaued, until FOSS was dropped.
Forums are bottom-of-the-funnel. To see drivers look at the top of the funnel.
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 9:11 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Where are the newbies?
- Replies: 139
- Views: 1094770
Re: Where are the newbies?
I have recently been inundated by Facebook posts for XOJO showing up on my feed, which are professionally attractive and enticing. Great advertising that almost had be heading to their download area. When the last time this happened to me with LC? Well... never. You may have hit on a key element th...
- Tue Apr 02, 2024 4:21 pm
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: "Close and Remove from Memory" does not call CloseStack
- Replies: 10
- Views: 403
Re: "Close and Remove from Memory" does not call CloseStack
Good morning, I have just checked and "suspend development tools" removes all options to close the application under development. Quitting Livecode even fails so its a dead end and I have no idea why it is an option; probably a good idea at the time. The goal with suspending the IDE is to provide a...
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: "Close and Remove from Memory" does not call CloseStack
- Replies: 10
- Views: 403
- Mon Apr 01, 2024 4:37 pm
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: "Close and Remove from Memory" does not call CloseStack
- Replies: 10
- Views: 403
Re: "Close and Remove from Memory" does not call CloseStack
If I have both a closeStack and a closeStackRequest handler in the stack script: on closeStack answer random(999) end closeStack on closeStackRequest answer any char of "ASDFG" pass closeStackRequest end closeStackRequest Only "closeStack" fires from the "close" menuitem. Both fire if I close from ...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
- Topic: Native mobile field which allows highlighting and copying but not editing
- Replies: 3
- Views: 368
Re: Native mobile field which allows highlighting and copying but not editing
This (and many other things) would be easily accomplished with a LC field, if LC's mobile engine had Clipboard support. This request has been outstanding for some time: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19990 I'm unaware of a method to use the OS-native editable fields as non-editable. If...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 6:39 am
- Forum: Using Plugins for Customizing the LiveCode IDE
- Topic: Hedera Hashgraph
- Replies: 1
- Views: 517
Re: Hedera Hashgraph
There were two, but I deleted your duplicate post. Please post a given topic in only one place so people know where to reply. Most Web3 apps are open source, and LC discontinued their open source edition some years ago. If you can tell us a bit about how you envision using LC for this project I migh...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:33 am
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: Reading and writing text to / from a file
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1276
Re: Reading and writing text to / from a file
SQLite is a relational database system. No one said it wasn't a relational database; it's not an RDMBS . You're fine with "RDBS" but not "RDBMS"? What did "M" do to raise your ire? SQLite can be used as a substitute for ZIP archives or Tarballs. I would not make that recommendation. Well that is of...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:10 am
- Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
- Topic: Chi-square
- Replies: 5
- Views: 490
Re: Chi-square
Nicely done, Stam. Thanks for posting that.
Back in the open source era I'd hoped it might last long enough to attract contributions for a stats lib and others. Much better than shelling out to some other language. Maybe this will inspire more.
Back in the open source era I'd hoped it might last long enough to attract contributions for a stats lib and others. Much better than shelling out to some other language. Maybe this will inspire more.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:53 am
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: Reading and writing text to / from a file
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1276
Re: Reading and writing text to / from a file
Why rush to a stent when some patients only need a cleaner diet and some exercise? Of course the answer will depend on the patient. Poor example I'm afraid - one option is treatment and the other prevention - you can't prevent with treatment and you can't treat with prevention - you can only preven...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:31 pm
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: Reading and writing text to / from a file
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1276
Re: Reading and writing text to / from a file
Ultimately however I still think an sqlite database would be a) safer, b) quicker with the number of records discussed here. a) Safer in what way? b) Quicker only for certain operations, and slower for others. Safer because it’s less prone to random errors. Deleting 1 char in a text file (a column ...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 4:43 pm
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: Reading and writing text to / from a file
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1276
Re: Reading and writing text to / from a file
Ultimately however I still think an sqlite database would be a) safer, b) quicker with the number of records discussed here. a) Safer in what way? b) Quicker only for certain operations, and slower for others. There's a reason log files are commonly flat files written with append. RDBMSs are optimi...
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 4:24 pm
- Forum: Talking LiveCode
- Topic: Reading and writing text to / from a file
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1276
Re: Reading and writing text to / from a file
I have a file with 50,000 rows of about 25 chars per row. I only need to read roughly the most recent 200 rows until something is true and it saves time not to load the entire file using put ULR "file:filename" into tWhatever What is the evaluation test you're performing? It may also be useful to s...