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by AxWald
Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:37 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Possibly the worst effect of removing the Open Source version.
Replies: 14
Views: 6939

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...
by AxWald
Mon Sep 27, 2021 2:45 pm
Forum: Educational Outreach
Topic: Is this what we need?
Replies: 31
Views: 25331

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...
by AxWald
Thu Sep 23, 2021 9:31 pm
Forum: Android Deployment
Topic: Free simple tool for creating keystore file
Replies: 24
Views: 22940

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...
by AxWald
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: 8790

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...
by AxWald
Mon Aug 30, 2021 10:27 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Linux use may increase in the desktop sector
Replies: 24
Views: 12704

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...
by AxWald
Sat Aug 28, 2021 12:27 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Linux use may increase in the desktop sector
Replies: 24
Views: 12704

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...
by AxWald
Fri Aug 27, 2021 10:21 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Linux use may increase in the desktop sector
Replies: 24
Views: 12704

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!
by AxWald
Fri Aug 27, 2021 8:09 pm
Forum: Windows
Topic: Speeding up text operations on Win
Replies: 3
Views: 4427

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 ...
by AxWald
Fri Aug 27, 2021 11:52 am
Forum: Windows
Topic: Speeding up text operations on Win
Replies: 3
Views: 4427

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...
by AxWald
Sat Aug 21, 2021 10:23 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Self-awareness re line numbers
Replies: 2
Views: 2317

Re: Self-awareness re line numbers

Hi,

try:

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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
Have fun!
by AxWald
Sat Aug 21, 2021 10:14 am
Forum: Databases
Topic: issuing dot commands to sqlite through livecode
Replies: 5
Views: 5225

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...
by AxWald
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: 2428

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...
by AxWald
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: 6071

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...
by AxWald
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: 16898

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...
by AxWald
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: 16898

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...

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