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Part of the legal arguments that Apple made in their case against Epic defending their exorbitant cut of all profits from apps distributed through the App Store was that they are providing a "valuable service" to users and developers by insuring that no malicious actor could ever counterfeit an app ...

I *think* this is intentional. When you install an app from an app store (Apple or Google), the app store makes it impossible to install an identically named app which did not come as a legitimate update from them. So the various app stores cryptographically sign apps that you upload to them for ins...

I am trying to get the external .dylib file from the following project working in an iOS app: https://github.com/trevordevore/iosclipboard The included "iosclipboard.livecode" project makes it seem very simple. It includes the .dylib file in the "Copy Files" section of the Standalone Application Set...

I'm posting this here because it took me a while to figure all this out from a number of different sources. And inevitably, I will need this information in the future but have forgotten it. So I am doing my future self a favor by putting it into the forum in one place so when I search for "datagrid ...

I believe that it's a problem with the backdrop (View->Backdrop) on Windows. When you bring up a modal dialog box (one that is meant to stay on top), they appear behind the backdrop. Hence you can't see them. But you can bring them to the foreground by clicking on the Livecode icons in the dock, or ...

According to the docs, "The orientationChanged message is sent before any automatic interface rotation takes place..." and "The resizeStack message is sent after the resizing is finished." But on my iPhone 12, at least, I am seeing "weirdness". I have the following code: on orientationChanged log "o...

I'm happy to report that "click" works fine on all platforms, at least for what I need. I get the top-left corner of the field, add in the margins, and I can click right at the first character of the first line. Once the program has "clicked" there, I can get all the information that I need from "mo...

I'm trying to use Craig's very clever solution to an earlier problem of mine by using "set the screenMouseLoc" and then "scanning" along the text to find out when the background color changes. https://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=38975&start=15#p228699 It works flawlessly on Desktop. But ...

I have a stack with a field "text" and a button. (The stack is attached.) The button has the following code in it: on mouseup local tTopLeft put the globalloc of the topleft of fld "text" into tTopLeft set itemdel to comma add the margins of fld "text" to item 1 of tTopLeft add (the effective texthe...

Two excellent suggestions, Klaus. I did try them both when working on this problem, and I just tried them again to be sure. Unfortunately, no luck. The background of the transparent image stubbornly always shows the field's bgcolor, not the character's.

Thanks for tossing some ideas out.

Jeff

If I put an image with has a transparent background on a field, then the backgroundcolor of the field shows through properly. And if I change the backgroundcolor of the field, then the new backgroundcolor shows through. This also works correctly if I use the "set imagesource" command to replace a ch...

Check out the following Livecode lesson on-line. I think this is what you are looking for. It explains in excruciating detail what you need to do in order to authorize a Mac app so it can be distributed from a source other than the Appstore. Much more importantly, however, it includes a stack which ...

I recently installed LC 10.0 on my Windows 11 laptop, and it took over 15 hours! I started a little after 14:00 one day (2:00 pm), let it run all day and all night and all the next day, and was sitting at the computer at 17:30 (5:30 pm) or so when it finally popped up the "Installed!" screen. Just t...

But yes, it is a concern nevertheless, as is the whiplash-inducing speed of licensing changes... Without disagreeing with anything that has been said on this thread, I'd like to offer a perspective which you are, of course, welcome to take or leave. I am very encouraged by the admittedly, "whiplash...

Just for the record, I created a new stack, followed the mobileDemo code, and scaling worked perfectly. So there's something in my earlier stack that is causing the problem. I'm retiring my old "display testing "stack and starting afresh with a new "display testing" stack. :-) Thanks for your help! ...