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I do think modernising the forum to a new forum platform like Discourse and importing all the existing phpBB posts might go a long way to encouraging active participation, but the reality is that the number of active participants is low, hence the apparent “well established pattern”… Yep. I like Di...

A global property to govern scope would be one way to handle it, but in addition to doubling the implementation/testing/documentation commitment it may still have side effects with any third-party code that doesn't take that into account. Stam's accessor handler gets the job done well, and reminds u...

Mark Waddingham is a very thoughtful API designer. When he chose to implement the textChanged message many years ago, I'd venture to guess that his decision to make it a catch-all for system events while leaving scripted changes up to the scripter was not mere slouch. Moreover , at this point, with ...

Text manipulated by user actions can take many forms, including typing, cutting, pasting, drag-n-drop, etc. Having the text changed message to handle all of them is a godsend. In contrast, the one thing we know about text being manipulated by script is that the scripter is in control of how that hap...

According to https://superuser.com/questions/1085734/how-do-i-know-the-dpi-of-my-laptop-screen: PPI = sqrt((pixels_horizontal^2 + pixels_vertical^2) / inches_diagonal) i guess you need a way to get the diagonal dimensions of the screen and know the pixel doubling. Not sure if that helps? The arithm...

Thanks, but those don't return DPI, just multipliers for pixel doubling on high-res displays.

LC has a way to obtain DPI (pixel density) on mobile, but I don't believe there's anything in the engine to get that info for desktop platforms. I have a case where on-screen display needs to be of a specific real-world size in inches. I can dig up the AppleScript/Powershell combos needed for stuff ...

Native deployment is LiveCode's strength, and its breadth in that space leaves most competition in the dust. It has a few weaknesses to address, esp with mobile (scrolling fields, clipboard, etc), but still a strong competitor for mobile. Moreover, it's almost alone in the desktop space, where user...

Forums are bottom-of-the-funnel. To see drivers look at the top of the funnel. No doubt, but as a lambda user we only have access to the bottom of the funnel. Furthermore, if I continue your metaphor, what comes out of the funnel is, in theory, exactly what goes in. The size of the spout only deter...

NoN' wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 03, 2024 12:25 am

I'm certainly not going to extrapolate Livecode's situation from these few figures...

Good call. The charts reinforce what we experienced on the ground: the decline plateaued, until FOSS was dropped.

Forums are bottom-of-the-funnel. To see drivers look at the top of the funnel.

I have recently been inundated by Facebook posts for XOJO showing up on my feed, which are professionally attractive and enticing. Great advertising that almost had be heading to their download area. When the last time this happened to me with LC? Well... never. You may have hit on a key element th...

Good morning, I have just checked and "suspend development tools" removes all options to close the application under development. Quitting Livecode even fails so its a dead end and I have no idea why it is an option; probably a good idea at the time. The goal with suspending the IDE is to provide a...

dunbarx wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 01, 2024 8:29 pm

Richard.

Did you mean "suspend development tools"? I never heard of suspending the IDE.

Yes, suspending. How does that affect what you're experiencing?

If I have both a closeStack and a closeStackRequest handler in the stack script: on closeStack answer random(999) end closeStack on closeStackRequest answer any char of "ASDFG" pass closeStackRequest end closeStackRequest Only "closeStack" fires from the "close" menuitem. Both fire if I close from ...

This (and many other things) would be easily accomplished with a LC field, if LC's mobile engine had Clipboard support. This request has been outstanding for some time: https://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=19990 I'm unaware of a method to use the OS-native editable fields as non-editable. If...