Development - Entries from August 2019

Friday, August 30. 2019

LDC #150: How to Decide When to Use Legato

In previous blog posts, we have shown a lot of examples of tasks you can use Legato to automate. We’ve gone into detail on how these scripts work, what UI functionality is required to support them, and ways they can be improved and added upon to increase the functionality. Way back in LDC #67, we even discussed best practices that can be applied when writing applications. One topic we haven’t really covered though, is how to estimate the complexity of a task, and if it’s even a suitable task for Legato to tackle. Keep in mind we can really do anything with Legato... but there are definitely times where we should just step back, and say that a task is outside the scope of what a script should handle.

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Steven Horowitz

in Development at 17:02

Friday, August 23. 2019

LDC #149: Using FTP in Legato

This weeks’s blog is going to focus on the File Transport Protocol or FTP and what functions Legato offers to add FTP into your next script. The FTP protocol is an older protocol and somewhat outdated but it does have its uses. It was originally designed to send files over the internet long before webpages and HTTP. It has many disadvantages when compared to modern protocols such as SFTP but it still offers an easy way for users to download and upload files.

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David Theis

in Development at 16:25

Friday, August 16. 2019

LDC #148: Unicode and UTF-8

When it comes to text, we as programmers live in a world that is a combination of 8-bit and 16-bit. Living in 8-bit is okay until you need to access characters outside the scope of standard ASCII and ISO Latin 8859. Then you need additional support, and that support comes from Legato’s functions to handle Unicode and UTF-8.

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Scott Theis

in Development at 17:33

Friday, August 09. 2019

LDC #147: A Look Back in Time

We started this blog in September of 2016, releasing one article a week (with only a few exceptions) for a total of 147 articles over 151 weeks, each article illustrating various features of the Legato scripting language. With so many articles available to reference I thought I would take the time this week to put together a picture of where we have been in a way that will make it easy to find previous topics that have been covered. This way no matter whether you have been a faithful reader since the beginning or if you have only found us recently you can have a place to easily find where and when we have covered a topic. This is by no means a comprehensive list, but intended to be a resource to find if we have covered a topic you may have questions about.

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Joshua Kwiatkowski

in Development at 17:45

Friday, August 02. 2019

LDC #146: HTML Writer Overview

Previously, I discussed converting a CSV file into a HTML table using Legato’s HTML Writer Object. The previous blog, which you can find here, did not cover all the options and functions the HTML Writer Object offers. This week’s blog will be an overview of the functions for the HTML Writer Object and what they can do.

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David Theis

in Development at 15:44

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