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by sritcp
Sat Feb 13, 2021 7:12 pm
Forum: iOS Deployment
Topic: Closed Captions
Replies: 6
Views: 4216

Re: Closed Captions

.... except for the full screen button. (Is this a bug or a feature of the browser widget?)
Feature

Sri.
by sritcp
Sat Feb 13, 2021 4:00 pm
Forum: iOS Deployment
Topic: Closed Captions
Replies: 6
Views: 4216

Re: Closed Captions

Hey, setting the htmlText of the browser widget actually works !!! I stored the embed code of the video player (with video file and closed captions) in a field and set the htmlText of widget "MyBrowser" to field "EmbedCode" The player controls work (including turning on and off the captions), except...
by sritcp
Fri Feb 12, 2021 10:01 pm
Forum: iOS Deployment
Topic: Closed Captions
Replies: 6
Views: 4216

Re: Closed Captions

Too much do-it-yourself for me! Welcome to LiveCode. :lol: I wonder if I can enter the HTML embed code for an external video player in LC and have it execute? Not the browser widget, it would mean I'll have to make and store the html file containing the embed code somewhere. Can it execute a snippe...
by sritcp
Fri Feb 12, 2021 7:48 pm
Forum: iOS Deployment
Topic: Closed Captions
Replies: 6
Views: 4216

Re: Closed Captions

I am just getting to know the intricacies of CC, so the way my question is formulated is informed(!) by my ignorance! Here’s what I “understand”: CEA-608/CEA-708 format closed captions can have subtitles in multiple languages (one or none of them to be chosen by clicking the CC button in the video p...
by sritcp
Fri Feb 12, 2021 5:06 pm
Forum: iOS Deployment
Topic: Closed Captions
Replies: 6
Views: 4216

Closed Captions

Can the LC video controller on iOS play mp4 (m4v) video files with embedded closed captions?
If not, is there a workaround to display closed-captioned video files?

Thanks,
Sri
by sritcp
Sun May 24, 2020 1:58 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Copy and Paste Datagrid
Replies: 2
Views: 1901

Re: Copy and Paste Datagrid

Copy the whole card; this works (most of the time).
Copying and pasting Datagid creates all kinds of problems.

Regards,
Sri
by sritcp
Fri Mar 13, 2020 10:05 pm
Forum: Talking LiveCode
Topic: Why Am I Always a Beginner???
Replies: 7
Views: 5105

Re: Why Am I Always a Beginner???

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by sritcp
Thu Feb 20, 2020 7:49 pm
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Coming out as a Trans person.
Replies: 3
Views: 3516

Re: Coming out as a Trans person.

Craig:

A left-handed compliment?

Sri
by sritcp
Thu Feb 20, 2020 3:14 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Send/Call command Object Referencing
Replies: 4
Views: 3407

Re: Send/Call command Object Referencing

Thanks Axwald and LCMark!
LCMark wrote:
Thu Feb 20, 2020 2:20 pm
......... neither change the current card of the stack.
That explains (and clears) my confusion!

Regards,
Sri
by sritcp
Thu Feb 20, 2020 2:57 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Send/Call command Object Referencing
Replies: 4
Views: 3407

Re: Send/Call command Object Referencing

So, "this" refers to card 2 (for both "send" and "call") ... But, "me" refers to card 1 (for both "send" and "call")... and any reference to a script local variable refers to the one in card 1 (for both "send" and "call") (to test this, define a script local variable each on card 1 and card 2, both ...
by sritcp
Thu Feb 20, 2020 12:10 am
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Send/Call command Object Referencing
Replies: 4
Views: 3407

Send/Call command Object Referencing

LC 9.5.1 User Guide p 131-32 gives the following example: Add to card 1 script: command showCard answer the number of this card end showCard Now, use the following statement from card 2 (card script or button script) to send "showCard" to card 1 According to the Guide, "send" command should result i...
by sritcp
Sat Feb 15, 2020 11:27 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Value comparison of numbers and groups of chars
Replies: 3
Views: 2683

Re: Value comparison of numbers and groups of chars

Do you have a particular issue? Hi Craig: My program required comparing two numbers, each stored in a file. put URL tRemoteFileURL into t1 put URL tLocalFileURL into t2 If t1>t2 then ....... etc., etc. When the remote file access returned an error (which was in text form) instead of the file conten...
by sritcp
Sat Feb 15, 2020 4:34 pm
Forum: Getting Started with LiveCode - Complete Beginners
Topic: Value comparison of numbers and groups of chars
Replies: 3
Views: 2683

Value comparison of numbers and groups of chars

Playing around with the operators, I noticed put empty > 20200120 - - false put space > 20200120 - - false put space > empty - - true put -1 > space - - true put "text" > 20200120 - - true put (space & "text") > 20200120 - - false put ("text" & space) > 20200120 - - true put (space & 20200121) > 202...
by sritcp
Fri Feb 14, 2020 8:33 pm
Forum: Internet
Topic: How to update contents without holding up the user?
Replies: 4
Views: 4321

Re: How to update contents without holding up the user?

.... where no meaningful action can be performed by the user until the app finishes obtaining data from the server... Of course! If I was using a server where its latency became prohibitive .... One of the challenges of serving a low-incidence target population is that, you may have a user in a dis...
by sritcp
Fri Feb 14, 2020 4:49 pm
Forum: Internet
Topic: How to update contents without holding up the user?
Replies: 4
Views: 4321

Re: How to update contents without holding up the user?

...the "load url" command is non-blocking, with a callback message to notify you when the download is complete ... Yes, I noticed that .... 1. I guess one should never use "put URL .... into tTemp" with internet documents because the remote server may hang or be extremely slow, and we wouldn't know...

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