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I just started doing some development in Livecode on a Windows machine and ran into the same problem. I solved it by going into the Edit menu in a script editor window, and then under Options, turning off everything except Autoformat (which I like and doesn't cause slowdowns while typing). Now the e...

Here's an upcoming device, the Cortado , that I'd love to integrate with Livecode. It's a small Arduino with BLE support that runs off a coin cell battery. RGB LED, accelerometer and breakout pins are all part of the tiny package. This can be hooked into all sorts of projects, with on-board processi...

True, but that shouldn't discourage anyone from requesting a feature, or else what's the point of this particular forum?

Well, I'll buy it for sure, Monte, if it ends up being the first solution.

I still encourage this to be incorporated as an actual feature though. I really don't want to have to make my BLE apps with techBASIC. Ew.

I think this discussion has pretty much wrapped up for all parties concerned, but I wanted to point out one other feature of the language that makes function parenthesis important. And that is: you can have a function and a command with the same name. If for no other reason, the parenthesis make it ...

I agree with you there, snm. It would have been better if the url and "file:" keywords would create any missing folders in the path they are given. But since they don't, changing the existing behavior would, as I described, break existing code. That should always be avoided since someone that didn't...

You add such great stuff to Livecode, Monte, and so much, as well. It's too bad this isn't under current development. Were you planning to support the BLE stack as well as the traditional Bluetooth format? Even a simplified GATT interface would add loads to Livecode's potential. In the best of all w...

If someone has a function that should only write to a file its folder exists, and do nothing if the folder doesn't exist, then writing: put it into url "file:missingFolder/filename.txt" ...would do nothing if the folder missingFolder did not exist. But if the code was changed to create folders, then...

That sort of change would break any code that expected/depended on the existing behavior. Normally that sort of different default behavior would warrant a new function, but this isn't a function call, at least not a discrete one. I'd propose changing "create folder" so that giving it a larger chunk ...

For a work project, I've been researching Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), part of the Bluetooth 4.0 standard, and... It's going to be big . Move over QR Codes, RFID & NFC. For any short-range (<50m), non-streaming data transfer, paired or broadcasting, BLE is going to be it. If you're not familiar with ...

There's not a ton of information out there about iBeacons, the new BLE Location Services feature of iOS 7, but this is something I'd love to see added to LiveCode.

I've been doing some web scraping of a page for downloading of listed files, but I'm encountering some difficulty with libURLDownloadToFile when the link doesn't contain the actual filename, such as when it's some sort of cgi script that then returns the actual file. When the filename is in the url,...

This thread is a bit old, but I thought I'd add some of the tool functions I use to parse any text chunk for particular bits, since I've been doing this a lot lately. I use these functions all the time to extract URLs from HTML source. function CutTo src, pat get offset( pat, src ) if it > 0 then re...

I've got an interesting in-house need that would normally go against good human interface guidelines. I have a Livecode application that sits in the background behind other applications (on Windows in this case) that is constantly polling for a particular keystroke combination. When that happens, it...

Let me clarify: The open process command doesn't work on OS X to start command line UNIX processes, like the ones I was talking about. As per the current docs: Note: On OS X systems, you can use the open process command to start up an application, but not a Unix process. To work with a Unix process,...