MergPop error on iOS 11.2 & LC 8.1.8

[Paul Hibbert]

Hi William,

I took another look and can confirm what you are seeing, at first I tried with “Save to Files” and that works OK, I didn’t see the “Save Image” button initially as it was off screen, however, when I did try the “Save Image” button, the app just silently quit just as you see. I think this needs a bug report.

I also tried this in the simulator with the log window open and no entries are passed to the log when the app quits, so no clues there.

I looked at Photos to see if the same menu appears there, but the options available are different and “Save Image” isn’t available in Photos, so there may be something Monte needs to adjust in the mergPop plugin to fix this.

@Jacque, there is no “Save image” handler, this is an option (button) in the iOS menu that is triggered by mergPopActivity.

Paul

> On 9 Dec 2017, at 00:39, William de Smet via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Like I said MergPop works fine in my app except the fact that the app quits after choosing 'Save Image' from the  popover sheet. 
> Can you confirm this?
> 
> It's a brand new iPad (2 days old) with no other apps installed. 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> William
> 
>> Op 9 dec. 2017 om 03:26 heeft Paul Hibbert via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> het volgende geschreven:
>> 
>> William,
>> 
>> Just did a quick test and to make this work I had to go to Standalone Application Settings > General and choose “Select inclusions for the standalone application”, then under Standalone Application Settings > Inclusions scroll down and make sure “MergPop” is selected along with any other inclusions necessary.
>> 
>> It seems MergPop is not being found when allowing LC to search for the required inclusions. This may be a bug, but I can’t find anything on LCQC for it right now, although I’m sure I remember it being discussed on this list previously (that’s how I knew what the fix was), but I don’t remember the conclusion.
>> 
>> FYI, I checked this by adding a catch tError command within the try - end try handler then used answer tError, it told me that LC couldn’t find the handler “mergPopActivity”, so it confirmed that the library was missing, fixing that made it work.
>> 
>> Paul
>> 
>>> On 8 Dec 2017, at 12:00, William de Smet via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> I am seeing an error on using MergPop with iOS 11.2 /LC 8.1.8 when saving a
>>> PNG with the 'Save Image' button on the popover sheet.
>>> It quits the app immediately.
>>> 'E-mail, Copy, Print, Save Files App' all work fine. Even Airdrop works
>>> fine.
>>> 
>>> I do this:
>>> --------
>>> try
>>> put specialfolderpath("documents") & "/" & "cars.png" into tPath
>>> export snapshot from group "cars" to file tPath as PNG
>>> mergPopActivity "",tPath,"",""
>>> get the result
>>> end try
>>> ----------
>>> 
>>> Anyone else seeing this?
>>> Is there something I can change in my script?
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> greetings,
>>> 
>>> William
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