Re: LiveCode Personal Banner

2010-11-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
long time. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailin

Re: The New FRelease

2010-11-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
e four fiftyone" failed to turn up anything I recognize. What is it? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCode

Re: Cloning cards

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
o > complex for me at this time. Whether you clone or copy, either is just a single line of code. The long part of my post was a function to help with the thing either method will still need: where to save the file in a place you know will be user-writable. -- Richard Gas

Re: Cloning cards

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
return tPath end MyDataPath The above is off-the-cuff and untested, but I've written similar handlers often so hopefully it will be at least mostly working and somewhat helpful. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine

Re: Cloning cards

2010-11-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
<http://livecodejournal.com/tutorials/saving_data_in_revolution.html> -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv _

Re: Create button script won't work - why?

2010-11-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
mmand, but not with a new control using the create command. Go figure -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.c

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

2010-11-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
ll controls in a stack, when I do I now understand that opening the stack invisibly first will greatly improve performance. Monte, thanks again for your test. Most illuminating. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.co

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

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
lted in this: > 8596 72 true Great work, Monte! Thanks for running that test. So the difference is in addressing controls *within* a stack, but not with the stack itself. Hard to anticipate, but very good to know. So Peter has a solution, and I learned two new things today about performance.

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

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
sult: 151 140 true The difference is small even across 10,000 iterations, and can be explained by the need to resolve the path to a stack reference. How can this test be modified to show a greater difference? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthw

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

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
behavior has changed then Trevor, Chipp, Jacque, and a good many others who voiced an opinion that leaving it in memory was valuable may not like it, but I'll be quite happy indeed. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthwor

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

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
ect to change, you'll want to migrate that to a separate stack file anyway since the OS doesn't allow executables to modify themselves. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCode

Re: IDE/Standalone Performance Issues - A Light At The End of the Tunnel!

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
t writes to the same location as when it's run in the IDE. All I have to do now is find all the places in my code where controls are referenced by their long name - oh joy! Hopefully we'll be able to find a different root cause than the current apparent one, maybe one that requ

Re: IDE/Standalone Performance Issues - A Light At The End of the Tunnel!

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: > On Nov 11, 2010, at 11:04 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> So it seems that the overhead of resolving absolute object >> references (long form) is much higher than what the engine >> can do when you're able to hard-wire part of the reference

Re: IDE/Standalone Performance Issues - A Light At The End of the Tunnel!

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
uestion so we can see what else might be at play? Also, have you compared timing tests of an isolated portion of the code to hone in on where the performance is lost? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode develop

Re: Creative Common Copyright Notice in Standalones

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
o another initiative started there that could use some help for those so inclined: a proposal to create a public domain behavior script for field objects to provide data validation and masking. Feel free to jump in. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http:

Re: LiveCode and the Mac App Store

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
anything to iOS (though I have a project starting next week which will have me making an iPad app -- I hope for my client's sake that the SDK terms remain stable enough to allow a positive ROI on that investment). -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consul

Re: Help: Id's can be completly unreliable

2010-11-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
pies groups many times during its operation, I suspect this bug is not easy to reproduce or we'd be seeing reports of DG failures. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJourna

Re: Help: Id's can be completly unreliable

2010-11-10 Thread Richard Gaskin
am glad I got this working so I can continue. But still be warned and prepared to deal with the ID 0 problems you may encounter. What are the "ID 0" problems? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveC

Re: Saving/importing custom controls to/from file

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Terry Judd wrote: On 9/11/10 11:51 PM, "Richard Gaskin" wrote: Terry Judd wrote: Seems like it might be a bit simpler if I can suck an object straight out of a networked database onto the clipboard and paste it when and where I want it. Easier to update/maintain and less h

Re: Indenting Challenge

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
The firstIndent property of the field can be set to a negative number, but that would only take care of one level of indenting. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
put "67890,67891,67892,67893,67894,67895,67896,67897" \ into sCustomBusyCursors end if -- Increment the cursor ID: add 1 to sCurBusyCursor if sCurBusyCursor > the number of items of sCustomBusyCursors then put 1 into sCurBusyCursor end if

Re: Saving/importing custom controls to/from file

2010-11-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
, for instance. I copy between Rev and MC regularly since native object persistence in the public Clipboard was implemented. But why especially useful for RevMobile? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Li

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
uot; -- typo: this is a scrollbar, not a database :) end SetupProgress ...should be: on SetupProgress pMax set the startValue of sb "progress" to 0 set the endValue of sb "progress" to pMax set the thumbpos of sb "progress" to 0 show sb "pro

Re: Beachball cursor Help

2010-11-08 Thread Richard Gaskin
-- want to use another number instead of 100: if pVal mod 100 - 0 then set the thumbpos of sb "progress" to pVal wait 0 with messages -- allow redraw end if end ShowProgress on EndProgress set the thumbpos of sb "progress" to the endValue of sb "progr

Re: standalone image problem

2010-11-07 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 11/6/10 12:29 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> For many years the engine used the folder where the executable >> resides as the defaultFolder, which for Mac was inside the >> bundle - when did this change? > > I can't find a reference to

Re: Painfully slow performance

2010-11-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
explain the speed difference. I look forward to seeing what this discussion reveals. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog

Re: standalone image problem

2010-11-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
ultFolder, which for Mac was inside the bundle - when did this change? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com

Re: Escape key doesn't work with fullScreen?

2010-10-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: On 10/31/2010 12:17 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: While testing a presentation stack I noticed that the escapeKey message doesn't seem to be sent while the stack is in fullscreen mode, though it works as expected otherwise. Is this a known feature/issue? Or am I doing some

Re: [OT] Browsing the internet... It is safer from Linux?

2010-10-31 Thread Richard Gaskin
ially billions on the line that one would think that if such stories were true many - including the FBI - would be well motivated to corroborate. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJourn

Re: [OT] Browsing the internet... It is safer from Linux?

2010-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
limited user account will not be able to get at the system files. That can be done on Mac and Win, but few users bother and neither OS vendor does very much to educate their customers about why it's valuable. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://w

Escape key doesn't work with fullScreen?

2010-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
While testing a presentation stack I noticed that the escapeKey message doesn't seem to be sent while the stack is in fullscreen mode, though it works as expected otherwise. Is this a known feature/issue? Or am I doing something wrong? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode tra

Re: Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
clause to its license agreement forbidding unauthorized benchmarking, and most other vendors followed suit. ... <http://www.sqlmag.com/article/benchmarks/the-truth-about-the-tpc.aspx> -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fou

Re: Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
ing actual use cases for SQLite. There are some database vendors that in their EULAs state you cannot publish performance data, and also have sued some who have done so. A curious limitation. Which ones? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourt

Re; Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
ly. Is this a known limitation of externals, or is this just a case of false attribution of the root cause on my part? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journ

Re: Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Stuart wrote: on Fri Oct 29 19:17:40 CDT 2010, Richard Gaskin wrote: Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences with large data sets if SQLite. << Hi Richard, How many tables and how many columns per table (on average) are you talking about? Probably just a single table

Stress-testing SQLite

2010-10-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
etical limits I haven't come across real-world usage stories of data sets that large. Should I be confident in SQLite as a storage solution for that? Should I be scared? Thanks in advance for sharing your experiences with large data sets if SQLite. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World L

Re: revweb plug-in for linux

2010-10-28 Thread Richard Gaskin
UI instead? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revolution mailin

Re: Bl**dy Laptop Keyboards

2010-10-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
(like Function+Enter) to trigger the Return key code (Fn = Function). I find that too annoying to do, so I've been redesigning some apps to eliminate distinctions between the two keys. Yep, it isn't what I'd prefer but it's where we are. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-26 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond asked: This of course leads to the inevitable question: if all computer people eventually grow horns where does that leave Kevin Miller, You and Me Imps. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Community request: Calling all screenshots!

2010-10-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
y to tell that's language-independent feel free to include it. Feel free to include additional screen shots of details if you feel they add substantially to an understanding of your app's story. Thanks in advance for your help. Looks like it'll be a fun conference. -- Ri

Re: Standalone and "About..." menu

2010-10-25 Thread Richard Gaskin
s needed. Your mileage may vary; contents may settle during shipping; items in mirror may be closer than they appear. IMNSHO, most of the complaints about making menu bars in Rev would go away if this small handful of inconsistencies was addressed. The mechanism itself is fairly robust and do

[OT] "LaunchPad" is a registered trademark - of Canonical Inc.

2010-10-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
er user-friendly Unix-based OS. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.com/blog.irv _

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
omical today, this dialog box may not be completely unimaginable a year or two from now: <http://livecodejournal.com/blog.irv?pid=1287696062.654893> As a developer that's frightening, but as a shareholder I would expect nothing less. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training an

Re: Open a property inspector by script ?

2010-10-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
, not just the one RunRev uses. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com ___ use-revolution mailing list use-

Re: On-Rev File Browser Upload Dialog

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
GIDataInA put URLDecode(gCGIDataInA[tKey]) into gCGIDataInA[tKey] end repeat end if -- else -- GET: - put $QUERY_STRING into gCGIDataInA split gCGIDataInA by "&" and "=" repeat for each line tKey in the keys of gCGIDataI

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
oking out for the user, providing as much "security" and "safety" as they can. Remember that iPhone users report that they like having that sort of "stewardship", and many believe that being able to choose their own software from their own download sites is completely

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Is the the future of what our customers will see at our software sites? <http://livecodejournal.com/blog.irv?pid=1287696062.654893> -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJourn

Re: (no subject)

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: What in the world is this? Our first spambot. Already blocked by the ISP (t35.com -- good work). Looks like we're officially in the big time now. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Media Corporation ___ am

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
ch has been just fine as the conduit between loyal Mac users and loyal Max developers for more than a decade, will be seen as some sort of ghetto experience. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://ww

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Richard Gaskin wrote: Do I get to own or have access to the registration data for users of my product? Is there anyone here with apps in the current iOS App Store who can answer that? As far as I can tell, no, they only offer tools/Web pages that display

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Lynn Fredricks wrote: I think there is a simple question to ask - Do I get to own or have access to the registration data for users of my product? Is there anyone here with apps in the current iOS App Store who can answer that? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
; <http://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/mac/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=227900419> -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.co

Re: On-Rev File Browser Upload Dialog

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
html> So now you have both the client and the server side parts you need. Nothing left but to glue them together and enjoy. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode

RE: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
, Stanley Milgram, and others portray a complexity in human nature that may be too multidimensional for such rational optimism. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com

Re: >

2010-10-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
over the Win logo on your keyboard: <http://www.system76.com/article_info.php?articles_id=9> While the System 76 office is in Colorado (where MetaCard was born) they have affiliates you can send your request to in more than a dozen countries worldwide, so you can get your "Powered

Re: RUG Meeting Tomorrow in Southern California

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
good time. 7:00PM in Glendale, open to any locals who want to attend. Come early at 6:00PM and join us for dinner. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog:

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
d to know who my customers are, or not. How does that work with iOS? It's hard to imagine they could be so Draconian. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJ

Re: [OT] Mac App Store

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
ey're able to find out whether they want to pay me. ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.co

Re: >

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
they make appointments, order the parts, and you only bring in your machine when the parts arrive to bring your downtown as close to zero as possible. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://

Re: Franklin Audio Intro Pricing Ends Soon; New Testable Too!

2010-10-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
A couple of their models are very attractive, and apparently they offer the same OS-free option through their business sales. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Jour

Re: on-rev remote database

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
for authenticated access. Andrew, you can hopefully breathe easier now. Relax and enjoy your unlimited databases. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Jou

Re: on-rev remote database

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
. What is the performance difference? And can you recap exactly what the implementation differences are? I'll bet there's a way to do what you need with good performance. Also: How inherently relational is the data? There are so many data storage options these days -- Rich

Re: on-rev remote database

2010-10-19 Thread Richard Gaskin
t is the performance difference? And can you recap exactly what the implementation differences are? I'll bet there's a way to do what you need with good performance. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Live

Re: Franklin Audio Intro Pricing Ends Soon; New Testable Too!

2010-10-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
een impressed with the good performance and solid construction of the machine. I got that one second-hand, but now that I know how to get OS-less computers from Dell my next one will probably be from them. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthwo

Re: Constant command

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
all the other "dont*" properties that you have to set to true to get it to not do something, and the most bizzare of all, being able to use property syntax ("the") for function calls, but only with some functions and not others. Ah, the mysteries -- Richard Gaskin Fourth W

Re: Constant command

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
se the old "typewriter" character (I wonder how many people these days have even seen a physical carriage? ). Maybe this is why it only occurs to you to consider revising code after reading something on this list: Maybe the code actually runs just fine as it is. :) -- Richard

Re: Constant command

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: I almost never use constants inside a handler, but that's just personal style. Me neither. In the rare cases when I do it tends to be for relatively minor settings that I won't bother making a UI for. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and

Re: Constant command

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: > Once you create the constant it is accessible in all scripts. Unless Malte's request was implemented recently, I believe constants are available only to the script they're defined in: <http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5135> -- Ric

Re: [ANN] Simple RPN Calculator on RevOnline

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
J. Landman Gay wrote: One customer of an unnamed app has threatened to sue the company for breaking accessibility laws. I'm not sure how successful they would be, but I'm all for it. That wasn't the LiveCode installer, was it? ;) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCo

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
so bad; it's easy to strip those out as stop characters. More challenging, at least conceptually in some cases, is working with quoted strings, which are treated as a single word no matter how many words are between the quotes. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and

Re: List Words from Textarea

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
iable end repeat return the keys of wordsList -- the list of words end uniqueWordsOf -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog: http://LiveCodejournal.c

Re: Workaround For No selectionChanged Message?

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
f the traversalOn of the buttons in the toolbar is set to false. When that property is true, the button gets focus when it's clicked, causing the selection to be lost. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCo

Re: WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=9058> If anyone here knows of a way to get this to work I'd be most grateful. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCode

WindowBoundingRect in Linux

2010-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Have any of you found a way to have a Rev stack's maximize button honor the windowBoundingRect in Ubuntu or any other Linux? ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage you

Re: SHIFT, fn-KEY, Confusion on a Mac

2010-10-12 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: Not all that funny really . . . But this is quite useful: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1343 "All your keys are belong to us!" -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode develo

Re: Distinguishing between ASCII and UTF8

2010-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jeff, Dave, Peter: thank you! Good stuff - I think I'll be able to distinguish most files using those. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com LiveCode Journal blog:

Distinguishing between ASCII and UTF8

2010-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
ASCII values in them (like the dagger symbol). What patterns should I be looking for in the binary data of a file to distinguish UTF8 from plain text? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers:

Re: Plug-ins missing

2010-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
stephen barncard wrote: > On 6 October 2010 10:50, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> I've set my plugins directory in LiveCode Prefs, but re-launch LC >> it seems it doesn't find them - none appear in the Plugins menu, >> only the default ones. >> >> Is this a

Re: Plug-ins missing

2010-10-06 Thread Richard Gaskin
et. I've set my plugins directory in LiveCode Prefs, but re-launch LC it seems it doesn't find them - none appear in the Plugins menu, only the default ones. Is this a known issue, or is there something odd with my installation? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training

Re: Revlets make Safari to crash on Mac OS X 10.6.4!?

2010-10-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
e seen and like so many are seeing with other apps, we may have to wait for OS X 10.6.5 to fix them. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Liv

Re: Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
orcement of the tokens you'll have to learn for scripting anyway. And without that, as you've found it just raises the learning curve. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveC

Re: Launch app from MacOSX system bar

2010-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
hat you would expect it to work. Please do not be afraid to try it out as we need feedback to develop it further. -------- -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for L

Re: Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
tValue end mouseUp I use this the whole time Nice! It hadn't occurred to me to put the entire array notation string into a variable. And it avoids the performance penalty of "do" -- good stuff. Thanks! -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: htt

Re: Storing an Array as a Custom Property

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
t the tProp of me to "Howdy!" end mouseUp Is there a way to make that a one-liner using array notation? I know we can do it with hard-wired propset names like this: set the gaskin["richard"] of me to "Howdy!" But how can we do it where the propset name is

Re: "Live Code" owned by Microsoft (and others) ? [Was: Re: GOOSE BUMPS]

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
pto.gov/trademarks/index.jsp> 2. Click the link labeled "Basic Word Mark Search (New User)" 3. Once on the Search page, type "livecode" in the field provided and that'll produce the list of results. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consu

Re: "Live Code" owned by Microsoft (and others) ? [Was: Re: GOOSE BUMPS]

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
ess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4005:cuudsn.3.1> The second has a status of "dead", and shows Applied Microsystems Corporation of Redmond, WA as the former mark registrant, first filed November 24, 1997 and canceled March 14, 2009: <http://tess2.uspto.gov

Re: Getting line endings straight.

2010-10-01 Thread Richard Gaskin
d there may be many scripts out there that rely on ASCII 13 when on Mac. How many Mac programs don't render ASCII 13 line endings correctly? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJour

Re: iPad's competitor from RIM

2010-09-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
r an email list here <http://stereogum.com/440092/cut-copy-where-im-going/mp3s/> Also available for free in iTunes (see track 8): <http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/cut-copy-where-im-going/id377487166?i=85256575> -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www

Re: Which stack called the library stack ?

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
John Dixon wrote: How can I find out which stack called a library stack from the script of the library stack ? The executionContexts will return a list of the calling chain. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode

Re: Scripts that are already running

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
r has occurred! exit monitorSlave end if end repeat send “monitorSlave” to me in 50 millisecs end monitorSlave -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode developers: http://www.LiveCodeJournal.com Liv

Re: Scripts that are already running

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
.. In fact, nothing more than the send in time in LiveCode can do. And more elegantly. cron can also be useful for that, at least for OS X and Linux. What is the command-line equivalent of cron on Windows? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworl

Re: Scripts that are already running

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
uMyProp pValue if pValue = 50 then DoSomethingCool end if end uMyProp It can be tempting to use getProp and setProp in places where more controllable and concise function and command calls can work well as accessors, but when you need 'em they're handy to have available. -- R

Re: Read from file not working 4.5?

2010-09-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
lding paths relative to the application stack in both the IDE and in a standalone: <http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/metacard/2002-September/002553.html> -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for LiveCode devel

[OT] test

2010-09-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Sorry for the seeming waste of bandwidth, but I need to verify something about the format of these list archives so please ignore this email. From here to there From here to there From here to there and From here to there Back to your regularly-scheduled LiveCode discussion -- Richard

Re: I feel betrayed

2010-09-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
e. That's very good news. A similar sentiment was posted in the forums recently, so it would be useful to have the URL to whatever info you have on the scholarship program. Thanks - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com We

Re: Online Snippets library

2010-09-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
t offers, you'll stumble across some other affordance he's included and find yourself saying, "Wow, he thought of that too!" Hugh took the time to draft a brief article about it for LiveCode Journal (formerly RevJournal): <http://www.livecodejournal.com/features/

Re: GOOSE BUMPS

2010-09-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
#x27;t yet know who you are to find you: http://www.google.com/search?q=rapid+application+development Relevant backlinks, keyword-based domains, domain longevity, appropriate keyword richness, and consistent keyword usage in backlinks help make that happen. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth Worl

SoCal Rev User Group meeting: Thursday night

2010-09-22 Thread Richard Gaskin
last month's meeting. Early birds can meet at 6PM at Porto's restaurant across the street to share a meal. Details and directions: <http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/socalrev/> Hope to see you there - -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://

Re: GOOSE BUMPS

2010-09-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
oogle.com/search?q=rapid+application+development -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Rev training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for Rev developers: http://www.revjournal.com revJournal blog: http://revjournal.com/blog.irv ___ use-revol

Re: Rev on two minimalist Linux distros

2010-09-16 Thread Richard Gaskin
use here: the author has since abandoned open source and Linux altogether, and no distro ships with it as its default choice (I don't think any even include it). It's a nice work, but I'm not sure it's the best choice for testing "standards". -- Ric

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