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  Unexpected resizing label fields inside a form

Posted by: stam66
01-14-2025, 05:23 PM
Forum: Bug Reports
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Hi team,

not sure if this expected behaviour or not, but it's not useful...

I am creating a moderate complexity form which has 30+ controls in it (with the help of a tab control). Everything has a label. Everything looked good.

Then I decided to just resize the screen/stack/window: The form unexpectedly resized with it, but but was a bit worse is that the label fields (not the controls themselves) changed their text size. But only to smaller size, so I have a bunch of labels inside groups inside and outside of a tab control inside a a form that I need to resize - and be careful not to resize the window ever again! 

Here's what it looks like (the label font size is 6 when it should be 14):
   

Am I doing something wrong or is this a bug/incorrect behaviour?
Many thanks
Stam

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  Howdeee

Posted by: tomglod
01-14-2025, 12:45 AM
Forum: Introduce Yourself
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Hey Hey Everybody. I keep forgetting to do this, but not today!

My name is Tom I work on Appli's development team.
I've been here for 3 years, I've taken part in growing Appli's featureset, and I've watched Appli mature into where it is today.

I'm available to help  with any Appli topics or queries.
You can email me tom (@) canelasoftware.com

Cheers,

Tom

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  Unable to use Switch element to control object

Posted by: stam66
01-07-2025, 11:42 AM
Forum: Bug Reports
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Dear team,

I wanted to use a switch control to manually set the passwordField property of a field to True|False.

On the face of it this should be simple but does not seem to work. I have to toggle the switch twice to change the property once, with the result that it's not possible to really control this with logic.

This is my code, for a field password with it's passwordField set to true, and switch element called showPassword:
   

This alternative code has the same issue:
   

Either I'm doing something wrong (but for the life of me I can't see it) or this is a bug...

This makes using Switch element unusable...
Any suggestions?

Many thanks,
Stam

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  Login control - reset password functionality?

Posted by: stam66
10-16-2024, 07:16 PM
Forum: General
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Hi all,

Quick question - Does Appli have a "reset password" functionality similar to  cdb_forgotUserAccountPassword in LiveCloud? (still undocumented btw!)

If not I presume it's possible to add as a code block - but would that work without having the LiveCloud libraries?

Many thanks
Stam

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  LiveCode licence needed?

Posted by: stam66
10-11-2024, 01:26 AM
Forum: General
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Hi Mark & team

I have a recollection that when Appli was first announced, there was a requirement to have a LiveCode licence as well (please do correct me if I'm miss-remembering).

Quick question: Is that still la requirement? 
If so, how does that work with the multiple licences and changes in LiveCode which is now being sunsetted in 3 years, to be replaced with LiveCode Create? (a little bit academic right now as for the foreseeable future I will have a liveCode licence anyway)

Many thanks
Stam

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  Script as text

Posted by: stam66
10-11-2024, 01:13 AM
Forum: Feature Requests
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Hi Team
One thing that has become very apparent when trying to share scripts on this forum: there is no way to do this without a screenshot - or re-typing everything manually.

The current lowcode interface is nice, and promotes feeling simplicity - but is not always the most practical. 
- The script does take up a lot of screen real estate so longer scripts are more difficult to visualise. 
- There is no way that I know of as yet anyway to take a copy of the script as actual text, for example to paste in the forums, or share with others.

Feature request: would it be possible to create an alternate layout where the script simply appears as text (even if it can't be modified by typing and is used as it is now) with the ability to copy/paste this on forums or elsewhere like gist/github?
Or at least implement a function to copy the current script as text?

Many thanks once again,
Stam

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  BLOBs: Multiple feature requests

Posted by: stam66
10-11-2024, 12:59 AM
Forum: Feature Requests
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Hi team

first of all thank you for the fixes just pushed - list files works perfectly.

The intention with the lowcode script I was trying to use this in was to
1. browse a folder containing mp4 videos
2. upload them to the cloud for use in an app.
 
The first request is an issue I've had with LiveCloud as well: uploading a blob does not retain the filename or modifiable metadata for the file and essentially just contains a UUID and an extension. Therefore working with BLOBs is not possible unless I also create a kind of join table to include the BLOB UUID and metadata, whereas this could be solved easily by including the filename as a key in the cdbBlobs table. This is fine and it works but is extra work.

In Appli, this script uploads the BLOBs and populates a separate table with their IDs and filenames. This works but may not be the most efficient:
   

So the first question is: can I use blobType in livecloud with the filename instead of the extension to make up for this? (I attempted to create. new key in the cdbBlobs table but that caused catastrophic errors only solved when I deleted the project...).
The second question is: was there an easier way to achieve the tasks shown in the script above?

If not, then the first feature request is: would it be possible to consider adding a "description" key in cdbBlobs that could for example be populated with the filename by default?



Another issue I've had with BLOBs is that create blob has been implemented as a non-blocking action - but there is as far as I can see no way to set up a callback/notification for when upload has been completed. Since there is no batch upload in Appli (as far as I can see), that means this is a stepwise process and there is no way for the app to know when the process has been completed.

So my second feature request is: please consider implementing callbacks for BLOB actions in Appli and BLOB handlers in LiveCloud 
As far as I can see there is no easy way to periodically poll this from Appli so I dont' think I can work around this; and in LiveCode + LiveCloud it would mean setting up a recurring handler to check if the number of records in LiveCloud matches the number of records the handler knows it has uploaded - again a lot of extra and possibly error-prone work.

If adding a callback isn't feasible, is it possible to have an option to make this a blocking action, so the script cannot proceed until upload is complete?

Many thanks once again,
Stam

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  List Files issue

Posted by: stam66
10-06-2024, 03:57 AM
Forum: Bug Reports
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Hi all

I want to iterate the files of a folder.

As I'm new to Appli I'm still finding my feet, so I thought I'd try and just show the "list" in an answer dialog in way of debugging, as I can't see a way to examine this during script execution. But this script fails for reasons I can't really understand:
   

the error I'm getting is:
   

Looking at the documentation for List Files, it seems this only works for folders within the Documents folder (is this true?)
Moving said folder into the documents folder produces the same error...

Extracting the folder name using get item from variable (for the folder that is in /Documents) and using that with list files instead of the path produces the same error...

Grateful for explanation as to why this isn't working (I presume this isn't a bug and I'm "doing it wrong"), and more importantly, how I can iterate files of a folder 
Thanks in advance,
Stam

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  Buttonbar

Posted by: stam66
10-05-2024, 11:31 PM
Forum: Feature Requests
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Hi team,

great product... I'm guessing this can be done manually, but would be a nice timesaver to have a buttonbar control... ideally something that can combine buttons with popovers configurable in settings. Maybe also with an 'action button' as in material design.



Stam

Part of this would require "sticky" buttons which I can't see a way to do in Appli at present (did I miss a setting?)
Ideally would also require a "popover" control (eg as in FileMaker Pro). I guess a roundrect could be used (although I'm always partial the arrow).

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  Hey

Posted by: stam66
10-05-2024, 08:59 PM
Forum: Introduce Yourself
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Hi all - I'm a cardiologist based in London and code a bit on the side mainly for workplace apps. 
My interests are mainly medical/related apps, and most things LiveCode!

I've just (re)discovered Appli - I had seen very early versions of Appli but had no real use for it at the time.
Just a few days ago, a use-case came up that Appli may fit the bill for and I looked at this again - and was balled over! 

The product has matured really well since I last checked it out; the interface is truly well thought out. Seems like a joy to use and I look forward to getting into this :)


PS: great thanks also to Andre for the YouTube video series, that was a great way to quickly get up to a speed with Appli basics!

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