Standalone problem

2010-11-12 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
OK, this is the problem. I've been working full time on an app for the better part of a month or more. When I first started, it consisted of a main stack and a sub-stack. One had 68 cards; the other 280. Not really complicated stuff. Full card images with fields and buttons on top of the images

Re: Audio Triggering + Mouse Event latency

2010-11-12 Thread Scott Rossi
If anyone has any suggestions for Anthony, I'd be eager to to hear them as well. I mentioned to him that in my experience, playing sounds imported as audioclips provided the fastest playback response, with the limitation being no multichannel support (one sound at a time with no layering of that

Export snapshot and Mandriva

2010-11-12 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Hello, This script : export image photo to file test.jpg as JPEG works under Debian 5 but under Mandriva 2008, all i have it's a slurry of pixels. Any workaround ? Thanks LiveCode 4.50 ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: How to reorder lines in a list field (understood!)

2010-11-12 Thread zryip theSlug
Bonjour André, J'ai peut-être une idée pour contourner le problème. Pourriez-vous m'envoyer votre script afin que j'y jette un oeil ? Je ne vous promets rien, mais je voudrais essayer. Merci à l'avance. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:28 AM, André Bisseret andre.bisse...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Bonjour,

Re: How to reorder lines in a list field (understood!)

2010-11-12 Thread zryip theSlug
Oooops, should be a private reply, so move it to trash excepted André ;) On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 11:28 AM, zryip theSlug zryip.thes...@gmail.com wrote: Bonjour André, J'ai peut-être une idée pour contourner le problème. Pourriez-vous m'envoyer votre script afin que j'y jette un oeil ? Je ne

Re: ShaoSean externals

2010-11-12 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Peter, i am sorry i cannot help. I am looking for it also. But had not yet time to ask here in the list for it. So if someone in the list could help us out with Shao´s ssmac external...? Regards, Matthias Am 10.11.2010 um 04:22 schrieb peter.thirk...@vuw.ac.nz: Hello Matthias I am

Re: OT: Morfik is now free

2010-11-12 Thread Richmond
On 11/12/2010 08:38 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: All- Morfik 3 has just been released, the licensing restrictions are gone, and it's now free. http://www.morfik.com/ Jolly good: although when one goes to the Morfik website it does not tell one which operating systems Morfik functions on; typically

Re: Preference Storage on iOS

2010-11-12 Thread Harald Müller
Hi Mike, I'm using the cache-folder inside the engine-folder. This folder is backed up while syncing. Perhaps you have to encrypt your data when it contains passwords. Best regards, Harald. Am 12.11.2010 um 02:51 schrieb Mike Kerner: How is anybody else storing preferences with their stacks

Re: Standalone problem

2010-11-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Joe, it looks like something removed some files, inlcuding the empty' engines that are the basis of standalones built by Revolution. Just re-install a fresh copy of Rev and all should be solved. Here's some additional info: http://qurl.tk/kh -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk

Re: Performance Mystery Solved - IT'S THE DATA STUPID!!

2010-11-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: I have to admit you guys left me behind a while ago. But I'm glad I may have created a platform for some knowledge that wasn't there before, plus I've got a fix for my problem so yes, definitely a good day! Thanks again for not only bringing this up, but for diligently

LQCC - Account needed?

2010-11-12 Thread zryip theSlug
Dear List, I tried to visit the LQCC for the first time but it seems an account is needed to search something in it. In the home page, I have two fields to enter a login and password, a login button and a field to retrieve a forgotten password. I tried to log in with my regular LiveCode account

iOS DB?

2010-11-12 Thread Mike Kerner
For the rest of you that are starting to try to develop iOS apps, are you trying to use the mySQL dbms that I believe is built in to ios? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

Re: Standalone problem - architect

2010-11-12 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Mark, Thank you very much for the suggested resolution; I hope it works. Not sure exactly how to go about installing a fresh copy of Rev, or even where to obtain it. I'll try the obvious sources. Joe Wilkins On Nov 12, 2010, at 4:55 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Joe, it looks like

RE: Audio Triggering + Mouse Event latency

2010-11-12 Thread Lynn Fredricks
I thought FranklinAudio could be a solution, but apparently Anthony is still getting some latency issues. It would be great to see Anthony's project done in LiveCode. Anthony, the only other item I can think of is, by any chance are you running any other scripts while tapping buttons?

Re: Audio Triggering + Mouse Event latency

2010-11-12 Thread Mark Wieder
Anthony- First of all, welcome to the list community. You've gone farther down this road than I have, so I don't think I'll have any useful comments on latency for you... Thursday, November 11, 2010, 8:11:18 PM, you wrote: So, I'm wondering if an area that is harder for me to test is perhaps

RE: Audio Triggering + Mouse Event latency

2010-11-12 Thread Lynn Fredricks
What hardware are you running this on? Are you using QuickTime? Have you tried fiddling with the QuickTime properties (the qtIdleRate, the dontUseQT)? Franklin Audio has no dependency on Quicktime. Anthony, you might want to submit a ticket to support to see if there's something wrong

Re: iOS DB?

2010-11-12 Thread Andre Garzia
Mike, There is no mysql dbms built in on iOS, there is SQLite in two forms, something that can be accessed thru Objective-C/Cocoa and HTML5 Storage which is available for webapps. Both forms are closed for us and we can't access any with iOS deployment option. andre On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 1:41

Re: Preference Storage on iOS

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/11/10 7:51 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: How is anybody else storing preferences with their stacks for their iOS projects? For example, I want to store usernames and passwords for websites that my project is going to access, but those will vary from user to user. If you want the preferences to

Re: iOS DB?

2010-11-12 Thread Mike Kerner
That is of course what I meant, but I didn't know if LC could use it or not since we have an SQL engine in LC ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

RE: alerts

2010-11-12 Thread Mark Smith
Robert Brenstein wrote: If your saving is done on different cards in a multi-card stack or in multiple stacks, then you can do the above but show a substack instead of a field to ensure it is always above the card controls. disable all controls saving their enabled state

RE: iOS DB?

2010-11-12 Thread Lynn Fredricks
There is no mysql dbms built in on iOS, there is SQLite in two forms, something that can be accessed thru Objective-C/Cocoa and HTML5 Storage which is available for webapps. Both forms are closed for us and we can't access any with iOS deployment option. Ill have to discuss with Runtime,

Re: Environment variable displayed in the debugger

2010-11-12 Thread DunbarX
So is it a bug that the preferences checkbox show globals in the script editor pane does not do anything? I know I have seen this work intermittantly, and unreproducably, in both v4 and v4.5. I recall an earlier thread on this. I cannot get rid of globals at all anymore, and though I have

Re: iOS DB?

2010-11-12 Thread Andre Garzia
no externals available to iOS right now... so sorry, no db. :-/ On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote: That is of course what I meant, but I didn't know if LC could use it or not since we have an SQL engine in LC

Re: Audio Triggering + Mouse Event latency

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/11/10 10:11 PM, Anthony Howe wrote: Key problem? All of these implementations deliver repeatable, less than desirable responsiveness from the button that is being clicked by the user to trigger the audio. It's just initiating playback too slowly to cut it as a playable 'instrument'.

Re: LQCC - Account needed?

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/12/10 9:07 AM, zryip theSlug wrote: Dear List, I tried to visit the LQCC for the first time but it seems an account is needed to search something in it. In the home page, I have two fields to enter a login and password, a login button and a field to retrieve a forgotten password. I tried

Re: OT: Morfik is now free

2010-11-12 Thread stephen barncard
It's for making WEB apps (sites really) not desktop... On 12 November 2010 03:26, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/12/2010 08:38 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: All- Morfik 3 has just been released, the licensing restrictions are gone, and it's now free.

Re: Performance Mystery Solved - IT'S THE DATA STUPID!!

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Haworth
No problem Richard, fun tracking this stuff down. After your last email, I now understand the exact reason for the slowdown. I now plan to switch all my long name references over to use the control ID. Everything in the doc says using the ID should be a safe way to uniquely identify a

Re: Environment variable displayed in the debugger

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/12/10 10:57 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: So is it a bug that the preferences checkbox show globals in the script editor pane does not do anything? I know I have seen this work intermittantly, and unreproducably, in both v4 and v4.5. I recall an earlier thread on this. I cannot get rid of

Re: ShaoSean externals

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/11/10 5:38 PM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: Peter, i am sorry i cannot help. I am looking for it also. But had not yet time to ask here in the list for it. So if someone in the list could help us out with Shao´s ssmac external...? She wrote me privately and said if we need any of her files,

Re: Performance Mystery Solved - IT'S THE DATA STUPID!!

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/12/10 11:44 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: There's a little trepidation on my part about that because I occasionally see posts that suggest that maybe there's issues with the uniqueness of IDs but hopefully I won;t run into them! They won't change unless you change them yourself, and the only

Bug Tracking

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Haworth
I've learned over the last few days how important it is to keep track of code changes in each release of an app. I already have a LiveCode app that lets me catalog bugs/enhancements, prioritise them, write notes about how they were fixed and define which release they were fixed in.

Re: Bug Tracking

2010-11-12 Thread Andre Garzia
Peter, This was a hot topic some months ago here. There are many alternatives and many users have rolled their own as well. Your first choice is: (a) To use a standard VCS/SCM software such as Git, Mercurial, Darcs, Bazaar, Svn, Fossil... (b) Roll your own If you go with letter (a) then you

DOWNLOADING REV 4.0.0

2010-11-12 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi all, I've asked support to tell me where I can get a new copy of Rev 4.0.0, but sometimes they take forever to respond. Do any of you have a link to the proper download site? TIA, Joe Wilkins ___ use-revolution mailing list

Re: Bug Tracking

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Andre. I guess I've gone down the path of rolling my own so far. I don;t think I need the more exotic features like branching, merging, etc so I think I'll just go ahead and add the logic to copy the necessary files to a version folder when I set up a release. I will check out

Re: Bug Tracking

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Haworth
Chipp - where can I get a copy of Magic Carpet? Pete Haworth On Nov 12, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: f you decide to go with option (b) then you can do pretty much whatever you want. Chipp Walters has a wonderful tool in the form of Magic Carpet.

Globals in debugger insight?

2010-11-12 Thread DunbarX
Thanks, Jacques. I, too have noticed that unchecking the show Globals checkbox in the script editor pane of the preferences does not hide system globals. It is not a speed issue, but rather one of overcrowding. The global list is loaded first, and then all the context variables. Hard to debug

Re: DOWNLOADING REV 4.0.0

2010-11-12 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Well, I've downloaded LC 4.5.1 and it builds the application. I've only checked the Mac version at this time, but there are definitely some things that don't work in the standalone as they do in the IDE mode. Cause for a lot of head scratching. Incidentally, for those who have less than perfect

Re: Globals in debugger insight?

2010-11-12 Thread Thierry
Le 12 nov. 2010 à 19:33, dunb...@aol.com a écrit : Thanks, Jacques. I, too have noticed that unchecking the show Globals checkbox in the script editor pane of the preferences does not hide system globals. It is not a speed issue, but rather one of overcrowding. The global list is

Re: DOWNLOADING REV 4.0.0

2010-11-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/12/10 1:22 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: I'dstill like to know why the build with 4.0 hasn't worked. The errors you got indicated that some of the files required for the build weren't in their default locations, so the standalone builder couldn't find them. The most likely reason is

Re: Audio Triggering + Mouse Event latency

2010-11-12 Thread Anthony Howe
Thanks for your replies everyone. Just to confirm, the app in it's current state contains ONLY the code to trigger the sounds from the buttons. The only other overhead would be about 200k worth of PNG files as graphics and a buffered qt movie of 100k. Minimal. I started with this function as I

Re: Performance Mystery Solved - IT'S THE DATA STUPID!!

2010-11-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yay! Nice catch. You had me going there for a while. I wonder though how this would affect a standalone which uses sqlYoga? As I mentioned, sqlYoga uses the long ID of the button object that stores the database objects as properties. Seems to me however that it might be better to just let the

Re: Gif issues

2010-11-12 Thread Bob Sneidar
You know I think we ran into this before. Because LiveCode is single threaded, things like animated cursors and progress bars will not run while a single command is executing. I assume this is what you mean by a blocking call. Either LiveCode needs to support multithreading, (unlikely) or

How to reorder lines in a grouped list field (workaround)

2010-11-12 Thread zryip theSlug
Dear List, For reordering lines in a list field, André Bisseret uses an adaptation of the Eric Chatonet tutorials: http://www.sosmartsoftware.com/?r=telechargerl=enarch=tutorials/Managing%20Drag%20and%20Drop2.rev.zip and

Re: How to reorder lines in a grouped list field (workaround)

2010-11-12 Thread zryip theSlug
In case it could be useful for someone, here is a possible workaround to this problem. The script has been validated by André: -- LE SCRIPT DE DRAG DROP ENTRE 2 FIELDS d'Éric CHATONET, MODIFIÉ POUR UN SEUL local lLineNo,tLaLigne,tStyle,lTrackDragMove -- script local variable

Re: LQCC - Account needed?

2010-11-12 Thread zryip theSlug
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:30 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: The QCC requires its own account, separate from your user account. Drop a note to support and they'll get you set up. Jacque, Thanks for your advice. Best regards, -- -Zryip TheSlug- wish you the best! 8)

Re: Follow the rev tools palette by a window

2010-11-12 Thread zryip theSlug
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:02 PM, zryip theSlug zryip.thes...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list members, To follow the rev tools palette by a window (a palette), I use the send message in time form below : command scanForRevToolsLoc   set the topLeft of this stack to the bottomLeft of stack

movie in a standalone

2010-11-12 Thread edward cawley
Well thanks to the list have a much better understanding of getting things into a bundle. I didn't know you could place a file directly into the resource in the bundle, instead of letting the standalone maker do it. It is working fine now in finding the files. But now a new problem, i play a

Re: Bug Tracking

2010-11-12 Thread David C.
Chipp - where can I get a copy of Magic Carpet? I'm not Chip obviously, but you can find everything you should need here: http://www.altuit.com/webs/altuit2/MagicCarpetCover/default.htm I registered it several years ago and it's a nice product! Best regards, David C.

LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-12 Thread Peter Haworth
I opted to go for the personal version of LiveCode when the name change happened. I understand that I can't distribute apps with this version but I personally find it objectionable that I have to endure the banner announcing that for 10 seconds every time I start a standalone app - I'm

Re: Environment variable displayed in the debugger

2010-11-12 Thread Mark Wieder
James- Thursday, November 11, 2010, 3:14:25 PM, you wrote: I just upgraded to 4.5.1 and was surprised to find that the environment variables ($LOGNAME, $SHELL, $PATH etc.) still show up in the debugger ahead of the script variables. I suppose this is as good a time as any to say that

Re: iOS DB?

2010-11-12 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 11/12/10 6:57 PM, Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: There is no mysql dbms built in on iOS, there is SQLite in two forms, something that can be accessed thru Objective-C/Cocoa and HTML5 Storage which is available for webapps. Both forms are closed for us and we can't

Re: iOS DB?

2010-11-12 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 11/12/10 6:57 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: no externals available to iOS right now... so sorry, no db. :-/ What you mean Andre? It is possible to use iValentina, Which we ship as static LIB. The same can be done for the whole DB engine. On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 2:38 PM,

Drag and Drop to Item in List Field

2010-11-12 Thread Bill Vlahos
I have a list of categories and I want to drag and drop some text from a list field onto one of the categories in the target list field. The line of text should hilite on the drag (before the drop) so I know which item it is going to I should drag into. I can get most of the coding for drag

Re: Follow the rev tools palette by a window

2010-11-12 Thread Richmond
On 11/13/2010 01:16 AM, zryip theSlug wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:02 PM, zryip theSlugzryip.thes...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list members, To follow the rev tools palette by a window (a palette), I use the send message in time form below : command scanForRevToolsLoc set the topLeft of

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-12 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Pete, thanks for bringing this up. I just today installed LC and I, too, chose the personal version, being unaware of its limitations. I believe that I could have chosen another one if I had wanted and probably will try to change my license if I can figure out a way to do that. I've already

Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-12 Thread Richmond
On 11/13/2010 06:52 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: I opted to go for the personal version of LiveCode when the name change happened. I understand that I can't distribute apps with this version but I personally find it objectionable that I have to endure the banner announcing that for 10 seconds