Need to confirm following issues

[Jules]

I have been using Live code for the last week and have hit some issues and I have been looking around the forum and just wanted confirmation if it me or if the issues(design features) are still there

1 Revlets don't work in Firefox true/false My app does not display correctly in vista
2 Revlets in Safari does not work correctly on Vista (keyboard problems). I have not tried yet on Linux and XP
3 I need to use people dates of Birth but cannot validate pre 1970 (true or false)
4 Where is there any documentation on the limitations as to what browser/OS platform mix the Revlets work on. I know chrome is a issue

I am writing a browser based app and date/time calculations are involved in everything it does.

everything was going so well!

[Mark]

Jules,

I can't answer all your questions, but I can tell you that the revlet works kind of correctly in FireFox on Windows XP and Mac OS X. AFAIK there is no revlet plugin for Linux. You need to read in the LC dictionary about everything related to date and time, specifically the centuryCutoff. I wouldn't know about documentation.

Best,

Mark

[doc]

Hello Jules,
As for #1 and #2, I've never had any problems running a Revlet in either Firefox, I.E. or Safari while using Vista or Windows 7. You may see some operating system/security complaints when using I.E. and Vista, but it *should* work. Chrome isn't an option for any of the three platforms and as of today, there is still not a working plugin available for Linux using any browser.

As for #3, I cannot say with any certainty based on personal experience, but I cannot think of any reason why you cannot validate any date you wish. Perhaps you might want to take a look in the Dictionary at the "centuryCutoff" property if you are experiencing difficulties with older dates. Past that, maybe someone else can chime in with some advice.

As for #4, you got me! Actually though, I think that Revlet's may still be considered to be in the beta stage and possibly without any "platform specific" documentation having been made available as of yet. If there is any question about a property, object or command, the dictionary normally states very clearly the platform a given item is suitable for use with.

Hope some of that is helpful,
-Doc-

Edit: Mark beat me to it.

[mwieder]

#3: use julian dates to handle dates before 1970. It's a unix thing, and you'll find that problem with computers in general, not just a LiveCode thing. Sarah Reichelt has a good date library with all sorts of conversion routines in it.

http://www.troz.net/rev/index.irev?cate ... ary#stacks

[Jules]

Thanks for all your prompt solutions and advice. I have found that the issue with Safari when I try to type data in nothing happens and if I hit backspace it put a History.Back() and I jump out of my application. "http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... 4&tstart=0" this page suggest it is a safari problem but offers no fix anyone seen this before?

[mwieder]

No idea, sorry - I use Firefox for everything if I can get away with it.

[Jules]

Combo boxes slider does not work in IE or Firefox. I can see Live codes strengths in the Desktop department but I cannot see it as a reliable alternative to Flex, Java or Silverlight in its current form for RIA. I will continue testing just in case I am missing something.

I thought was missing something then I found this http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/viewtop ... mbo#p28935