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by slowmaker
Tue Jun 22, 2021 5:57 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: browser still broken on linux, or just me?
Replies: 21
Views: 25216

Re: browser still broken on linux, or just me?

Finally tried the standalone experiment; no dice. It took several tries even to get the standalone built without crashing. Once built, it fails to do anything on execution except generate a bunch of process IDs and burn about 3% CPU, according to htop. I think I've satisfied my curiosity enough for ...
by slowmaker
Fri Jun 18, 2021 12:40 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: browser still broken on linux, or just me?
Replies: 21
Views: 25216

Re: browser still broken on linux, or just me?

The browser "works" for me in linux, but you have to drag the widget out and hover over the stack with the mouse down for 5-10 seconds before releasing. I have no idea why this works, but it does, at least in current LTS kubuntu. That's interesting; in the course of trying this, I found that mine i...
by slowmaker
Thu Jun 17, 2021 12:13 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: browser still broken on linux, or just me?
Replies: 21
Views: 25216

Re: browser still broken on linux, or just me?

Fortunately this wasn't a need, more of a passing thought of using a quickie app to corral my daily web-comic reads in a LC stack. I know I still could, by pulling down the page and parsing out the part that has the image; just a bit more work than I'm willing to allot time for right now. Perhaps an...
by slowmaker
Wed Jun 16, 2021 6:02 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: browser still broken on linux, or just me?
Replies: 21
Views: 25216

Re: browser still broken on linux, or just me?

64 bit here. apparently does not work at either bit-ness. I did wonder if maybe the revBrowserOpenCef() way might work, but no dice there either, just immediately crashes (I was originally trying to drag the widget over; that's what hangs). ah, well. Thanks for the responses, folks :) I'll chew on i...
by slowmaker
Wed Jun 16, 2021 1:24 pm
Forum: Linux
Topic: browser still broken on linux, or just me?
Replies: 21
Views: 25216

browser still broken on linux, or just me?

Just today tried the to put a browser control on a stack under linux for the first time, encountered significant hang time; in fact it never actually placed the control successfully, nor responds to user interaction after that. Had to kill the process. Initial quickie searches indicate the web brows...
by slowmaker
Sun Apr 25, 2021 1:07 am
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Bill Atkinson mention of LC (old but new to me)
Replies: 1
Views: 2175

Bill Atkinson mention of LC (old but new to me)

catching up on my youtube watchlist and heard Livecode mentioned by the creator of Hypercard, thought it was kind of neat. Almost certainly old news to most of you, but here is the link for those who might be interested: The Legacy of the Apple Hypercard with Bill Atkinson (link jumps to just before...
by slowmaker
Wed Dec 30, 2020 11:55 pm
Forum: Android Deployment
Topic: native input rect rendering margin?
Replies: 6
Views: 4443

Re: native input rect rendering margin?

The team did reply, in the sense that they changed the status of the bug to "confirmed". But that's it. As of LC 9.6.1, the bug is still there.

I'm guessing it is rare for anyone to align inputs in such a way as to notice this, so it will probably stay extremely low priority for a long while.
by slowmaker
Wed Oct 21, 2020 6:23 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use
Replies: 16
Views: 9421

Re: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use

Heh; I actually had it pointed out to me once that 42 really *is* 6x9 -- in base 13.
by slowmaker
Wed Oct 21, 2020 5:35 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use
Replies: 16
Views: 9421

Re: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use

It seems (and please correct me if I misunderstand; Klaus can tell you I often do <g>) that the proposal here is that "it" remain local in scope but be extended to become the one variable where passing it to another handler is always by reference, rather than leaving that as an option as we do for ...
by slowmaker
Wed Oct 21, 2020 5:12 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use
Replies: 16
Views: 9421

Re: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use

OHO! Thanks Jacque! I'll definitely play around with that a bit. Also, quite embarrassed that I had not yet simply read the 'return' entry! Doubly so because I actually speculated before posting that there might be some additional keywords to tack on to "return" to modify its behavior, and then forg...
by slowmaker
Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:27 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use
Replies: 16
Views: 9421

Re: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use

breaking my self-imposed break-for-a-moment dictum already; as always, FourthWorld, you provoke thoughts :) ...for exploring ways to form the "natural language"-like phrasing of concepts. Obviously the writer of such a handler should document very, very clearly that the handler will be fiddling abou...
by slowmaker
Wed Oct 21, 2020 4:10 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use
Replies: 16
Views: 9421

Re: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use

I assume you know why we often use "42" as the foil in certain discussions. :wink: I know why *I* consider the number significant; I was a huge HG2G fan from the day - somewhere back in the mid-to-late-80's - that I stumbled onto the first book in my local library. I just always assume someone who ...
by slowmaker
Wed Oct 21, 2020 12:47 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use
Replies: 16
Views: 9421

Re: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use

Hi, Bernd, Yep, pass-by-reference works, but having to pass the reference to it doesn't really allow for the same semi-natural language use of the called handler + outcomes. You don't have to pass "it" to "get", or "ask" in order for them to set it, and would probably be annoyed at the clunkiness if...
by slowmaker
Wed Oct 21, 2020 10:31 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use
Replies: 16
Views: 9421

Re: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use

@Klaus: Thanks for the response! Yes, the local nature of 'it' is handy but to be used with caution, I agree. @Craig: It is pertinent, in that it demonstrates how a handler like 'test' fails to do something I would actually like to be able to do occasionally. using your example structure, here is so...
by slowmaker
Tue Oct 20, 2020 5:43 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Experienced Developers
Topic: Setting IT for the caller, not for local use
Replies: 16
Views: 9421

Setting IT for the caller, not for local use

A return statement allows me to set the result for the caller of a routine. Is there an equivalent for setting the special local variable 'it' for the caller of my routine? e.g. is it possible for me to write a function foo() which, when called, sets both 'the result' and 'it' for the caller? [I did...

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