AW: AW: how to resize icons when resizing objects?
Thanks Jacqueline for your useful hints Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von J. Landman Gay Gesendet: Montag, 19. März 2012 18:37 An: How to use LiveCode Betreff: Re: AW: how to resize icons when resizing objects? On 3/19/12 6:08 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: Hi Ken, hmmm, didn't thought about that yet. A button with it's predefined different states was the first choice. I use buttons for that too. The way to resize the icon is to resize the images you are using as icons. Then the button icon will also change size. Make sure the images are locked or they won't keep their new sizes. The script needs to adjust the image sizes before the card is drawn. Otherwise the icon won't change size until the next redraw, usually when the user presses the button or leaves the card and comes back. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
AW: how to resize icons when resizing objects?
Thanks Ken, you say, you usually don't resize buttons with the stack. (I haven't done it yet either) I thought it could perhaps be a nice feature for tablet PCs (Windows 8), that you have bigger button icons, when increasing the window size to fullscreen to be better accessible with finger handling. Don't you think this could be nice? Or do I think of exotic features? Thanks Tiemo If I need to have them resize with the stack, then yes (although I usually don't need that). The other thing you can do is to resize the images that are the icons of the buttons and then force the buttons to redraw (lock/unlock screen might work, otherwise you can set the icon of the buttons to their same values). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: MySQL joined select
Thanks for the replies. I've made it workin, but I wanna add something else: So the question in SQL is: Maybe there is a way to hide columns it the result, like: SELECT car_nr, model, travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE number 414 AND (car_nr truck_nr) from transport; and show only result of the colums travel_days, but ONLY on* **separate* columns and HIDE OTHER COLUMNS. I've posted here more detailed: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=12t=11426p=53702#p53702 Help please... On 20 March 2012 01:09, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Seems like either Peter or Mark's solution would be a lot better than trying to do it with an SQL SELECT, but I'm also not sure of what Marek is trying to achieve - seems strange to want to replace all the numbers with plus signs. Maybe he wants a floating plus sign at the start of the number, dunno. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD pmb...@gmail.com wrote: repeat with n = 1 to length(tInput) if char n of tInput is a number then put + into char n of tInput else put - into char n of tInput end repeat Or am I missing something? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:15 PM, Pete wrote: I wonder if there might be a less ugly way to do this in LC instead of SQL... Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Marek reichenbach.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a lot! That helped me a lot man. Marek Reichenbach On 2012 Kov. 19, at 19:29, Ken Ray k...@sonsothunder.com wrote: On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:44 AM, Marek Reichenbach wrote: when i get for example: 1234567 - i should get result +++, 123-56- I would get +++-++- . The only way I know is kind of ugly, requiring seven nested REPLACE statements: SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(123-56-,1,+),2,+),3,+),4,+),5,+),6,+),7,+) This would return: +++-++- Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Serious Question about the list...
The mailing lists predate the forum by many years. Some people who used the mailing list complained they preferred a forum, so RunRev obliged and provided the forum. It's not that one discussion mechanism is officially sanctioned by RunRev, although I suspect new users find the forum before the find the mailing list (and I suspect that announcements from the MotherShip might be more notable in the mailing list channel than in the forum). Those of us for whom the mailing list was the way we discussed these things for years have continued to use the mailing list. Some people are quite disciplined in going off to the forum to help out in discussions there. Some of us (such as me) just have a look at the forum every few weeks or months. I have a load of different technologies to keep on top of, and just don't feel I have the time to visit the forum on a regular basis. Some of the old-hands (and some of the new-hands) here are super-human. Like others, I keep my email from RunRev in gmail, and have my own search mechanism at hand. I also use the 'draft' folder on gmail to hold RunRev related notes of my own, so that when searching for something I don't just find the past discussions of others, but also have my own notes turn up in the results. The forum is not actually (IMO) easier to read or search than using the mailing list via gmail. Bernard On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 1:32 PM, Richard MacLemale rich...@richardmac.com wrote: Here's my serious question. Why do so many people in the know use the list instead of the official RunRev LiveCode forums? Forums have so many advantages over mailing lists - they're easier to read, they're easier to search, you can access them from anywhere, I could keep going. I'm just curious as to why the best LiveCoders spend more time here than in the forums? There are people who participate in both - I see Jacque and Klaus in there all the time and I probably owe Klaus a case of beer at this point... Anyway, just curious? --- Richard MacLemale Music = http://www.richardmac.com Programming = http://www.macandchee.se ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
[MobGUI]Geometry Reset?
I have one of several apps that I'm using MG to create the layouts for the other iOS geometries. Everything is going fine until I select iPad Landscape. Then all of a sudden font sizes shrink and objects get bigger - the navBar, buttons, etc. all grew, but the fonts in all of those objects shrunk. This is especially obvious when you fire up the simulator. So has anybody else run into this, and how did you fix it? I tried the MG recovery but that didn't help matters. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, This is good. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk
On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:52 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: I think it should behave the same way character selections do. A negative range has been a valid construct since HyperCard and is, actually, the only way to set the insertion point by script. It's a necessary feature. This seems to work, and is far clearer: *select* before char 8 of fld 1 after works as well, as do word and line references. Right, but if you have an insertion point in a field (no text selected), then the selectedChunk will contain something like char 13 to 12 of field 2 This is designed so that the selectedChunk is always in the form char startchar to endchar of fld fldNbr That's just the way it works. After dealing with chunks for a while it does make sense, and it's consistent. Jacque's point still holds, though -- the implementation of this form using lines instead of chars is *not* consistent. try this: put one,two,three into t replace comma with cr in t put t into tt put WHAT!!!??? into line 3 to 2 of tt put t cr cr tt which gives you: one two three WHAT!!!???one two three The WHAT should appear at the start of line 3, or possibly should replace the cr at the end of line 2, depending on how you look at it. I agree with you that this syntax should be blocked by the IDE at compile time if it's not going to be implemented properly at runtime. I'd call it a bug. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk
I understand that this is what the engine returns when the selection is empty, and I'm prepared to accept it as a necessary method for the engine to describe an empty insertion point, but just because the engine reports char 13 to 12 doesn't mean the engine should accept setting the selection to char 47 to 26, or to word 9 to 3, or line 7 to 4. The engine returns one exact format, and allowing it to accept that one exact format should be all it does. There's no reason other than bad history to do so. On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD pmb...@gmail.comwrote: Right, but if you have an insertion point in a field (no text selected), then the selectedChunk will contain something like char 13 to 12 of field 2 This is designed so that the selectedChunk is always in the form char startchar to endchar of fld fldNbr ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?
Every one of the other layouts went smoothly - switch to the layout setting, move and resize everything, repeat. However when I went to iPad Landscape all of a sudden the objects crew substantially and the fonts shrunk substantially. It is really dramatic when comparing to iPad Portrait. In the simulator the fonts look downright goofy. if I could trash the iPad Landscape geometry info and start over it would be fine. There aren't that many objects on this card. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, This is good. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
accessing colorized script
Anyone know how I can get the colorized htmltext of a script from the script editor without opening the editor and copying the text? I have a handler that puts a section of a stack script into a field -- pretty straightforward to just extract the relevant plain text from the script. But it would be a bonus if I could put the colorized script into the field without recreating the colorizing scripts of the IDE. I'm doing this in the IDE, not a standalone, so I could make use of the hooks in the IDE if I could figure out how. I've looked at the scripts in the revNewScriptEditor stack but can't figure them out. I'm looking for something like a revColorizeScript handler -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?
Ugh. Well I just (foolishly) tried this with another stack as well, and in this one it's iPad Portrait that seems to break. Hmm. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, This is good. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk
On Mar 20, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Peter, Am 20.03.2012 um 14:40 schrieb Peter M. Brigham, MD: On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:52 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: ... Jacque's point still holds, though -- the implementation of this form using lines instead of chars is *not* consistent. try this: put one,two,three into t replace comma with cr in t put t into tt ##put WHAT!!!??? into line 3 to 2 of tt ## Wrong ORDER of line range! put Waht!!!??? into line 2 to 3 of tt ## Will give the desired result: That's my point. The compiler should reject put WHAT!!!??? into line 3 to 2 of tt if it's not going to implement it in a way that is consistent with put WHAT!!!??? into char 3 to 2 of tt -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?
Hi Mike, the data is stored in custom properties of the card. For each object there is one custom property and for each orientation/resolution there is a set e.g. uMobGUIGeometry-640x960. Try to delete the set uMobGUIGeometry-640x960. This deletes all settings for ipad landscape. But please make a backup first, as i am not sure, if this is the correct way. John Craig should know the correct solution/answer. Regards, Matthias Am 20.03.2012 um 15:33 schrieb Mike Kerner: Ugh. Well I just (foolishly) tried this with another stack as well, and in this one it's iPad Portrait that seems to break. Hmm. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, This is good. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?
Hi Mike, i made a mistake in my last post. Try to delete uMobGUIGeometry-960x640. That is the correct set. Am 20.03.2012 um 15:53 schrieb Matthias Rebbe: Hi Mike, the data is stored in custom properties of the card. For each object there is one custom property and for each orientation/resolution there is a set e.g. uMobGUIGeometry-640x960. Try to delete the set uMobGUIGeometry-640x960. This deletes all settings for ipad landscape. But please make a backup first, as i am not sure, if this is the correct way. John Craig should know the correct solution/answer. Regards, Matthias Am 20.03.2012 um 15:33 schrieb Mike Kerner: Ugh. Well I just (foolishly) tried this with another stack as well, and in this one it's iPad Portrait that seems to break. Hmm. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, This is good. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?
Thanks, Matthias. I'll try that. John has been really busy, so I was hoping to get an answer from the masses first. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, This is good. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk
Folks- Maybe I've missed this, but has a bug been filed? I can't think of a use case where the current behavior is preferred, and I can't see how changing it to something more consistent and er... correct... would break any existing code. I think this is something the rev team should fix, or at least look into. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: MySQL joined select
Any columns you define in the select statement will be in the returned data. You do not have to retrieve a column to use it in the select statement. This works: select zip from addresses where state = CA Besides that, I do not know what you mean by hide. Hide from what? Your user interface? If you are using a datagrid, you can simply set the dgprop[columns] of the datagrid to the ones you want to see, excluding the ones you want to hide. The data will still be there and can be referenced like all the other data, but it won't show in the datagrid. Bob On Mar 20, 2012, at 2:20 AM, Marek Reichenbach wrote: Thanks for the replies. I've made it workin, but I wanna add something else: So the question in SQL is: Maybe there is a way to hide columns it the result, like: SELECT car_nr, model, travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE number 414 AND (car_nr truck_nr) from transport; and show only result of the colums travel_days, but ONLY on* **separate* columns and HIDE OTHER COLUMNS. I've posted here more detailed: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=12t=11426p=53702#p53702 Help please... On 20 March 2012 01:09, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Seems like either Peter or Mark's solution would be a lot better than trying to do it with an SQL SELECT, but I'm also not sure of what Marek is trying to achieve - seems strange to want to replace all the numbers with plus signs. Maybe he wants a floating plus sign at the start of the number, dunno. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD pmb...@gmail.com wrote: repeat with n = 1 to length(tInput) if char n of tInput is a number then put + into char n of tInput else put - into char n of tInput end repeat Or am I missing something? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:15 PM, Pete wrote: I wonder if there might be a less ugly way to do this in LC instead of SQL... Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Marek reichenbach.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a lot! That helped me a lot man. Marek Reichenbach On 2012 Kov. 19, at 19:29, Ken Ray k...@sonsothunder.com wrote: On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:44 AM, Marek Reichenbach wrote: when i get for example: 1234567 - i should get result +++, 123-56- I would get +++-++- . The only way I know is kind of ugly, requiring seven nested REPLACE statements: SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(123-56-,1,+),2,+),3,+),4,+),5,+),6,+),7,+) This would return: +++-++- Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: MySQL joined select
On Mar 20, 2012, at 4:20 AM, Marek Reichenbach wrote: Thanks for the replies. I've made it workin, but I wanna add something else: So the question in SQL is: Maybe there is a way to hide columns it the result, like: SELECT car_nr, model, travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE number 414 AND (car_nr truck_nr) from transport; and show only result of the colums travel_days, but ONLY on* **separate* columns and HIDE OTHER COLUMNS. You only include the columns you want back in the SELECT part of the query: SELECT travel_days FROM … Also, although I know you provided a dummy query, be aware that there are two inherent problems with the one you provided: 1) If you have multiple tables in the FROM clause, you need to identify the table attached to the column in the SELECT clause (although some SQL engines might just assume you meant the first table, it's good form to identify the table), either by full name: SELECT table1.travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE… or by alias: SELECT t1.travel_days FROM table1 t1,table2 t2 WHERE… 2) I'm not sure what from transport means since you already have a FROM clause in your example query The bottom line is that you don't have to include columns in the SELECT portion of the query that you don't want back, so long as you identify them properly and they actually exist in the table you're referencing. Just be aware that LiveCode's text parsing is second to none, so there are usually times where it may actually be easier and more efficient to let SQL handle getting the data, but let LiveCode handle parsing the data after it arrives. As I mentioned in an earlier post, you *can* use SQL to change your numbers to + symbols, but it's ugly - Mark's method to post-process it in LC with a single statement if far better (IMHO). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: accessing colorized script
On 3/20/12 9:30 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: Anyone know how I can get the colorized htmltext of a script from the script editor without opening the editor and copying the text? I don't think you can any more, the colorization is done by the engine. There used to be a script for it in older versions of the IDE. If you have an old version of Rev you might find it. I can't recall which version had the changeover but if you go back to, say, version 3.x it's probably in there. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk
If I may be so bold, remember the discussion about the filter command returning different results depending on whether or not the chunk ended in a CR or not? Some argued that that was how it ought to behave. Are we now saying that consistency is the order of the day? So let it be written! So let it be done! But let's go with consistency in ALL things. Bob On Mar 20, 2012, at 6:40 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: Right, but if you have an insertion point in a field (no text selected), then the selectedChunk will contain something like char 13 to 12 of field 2 This is designed so that the selectedChunk is always in the form char startchar to endchar of fld fldNbr That's just the way it works. After dealing with chunks for a while it does make sense, and it's consistent. Jacque's point still holds, though -- the implementation of this form using lines instead of chars is *not* consistent. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: accessing colorized script
Confounded new fangled engines! You can't work on 'em these days! Bob On Mar 20, 2012, at 8:46 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/20/12 9:30 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: Anyone know how I can get the colorized htmltext of a script from the script editor without opening the editor and copying the text? I don't think you can any more, the colorization is done by the engine. There used to be a script for it in older versions of the IDE. If you have an old version of Rev you might find it. I can't recall which version had the changeover but if you go back to, say, version 3.x it's probably in there. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: MySQL joined select
Hi Marek, I think you're confusing what you get back from the SELECT statement with what you display to your users - they are two different things. I'm going to assume that you need all the columns you name in your SELECT statement for some processing reasons but that doesn't mean you have to show them all to your users. Once you get the data back from the SELECT, it's up to you which columns you put in a filed, datagrid, or any other Livecode control. Maybe you're thinking that you have to SELECT the column because you refer to it elsewhere in the SELECT statement, but that's not the case. You can refer to any columns form the selected tables anywhere in your SELECT even if they are not explicitly selected. Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Marek Reichenbach reichenbach.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the replies. I've made it workin, but I wanna add something else: So the question in SQL is: Maybe there is a way to hide columns it the result, like: SELECT car_nr, model, travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE number 414 AND (car_nr truck_nr) from transport; and show only result of the colums travel_days, but ONLY on* **separate* columns and HIDE OTHER COLUMNS. I've posted here more detailed: http://forums.runrev.com/viewtopic.php?f=12t=11426p=53702#p53702 Help please... On 20 March 2012 01:09, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Seems like either Peter or Mark's solution would be a lot better than trying to do it with an SQL SELECT, but I'm also not sure of what Marek is trying to achieve - seems strange to want to replace all the numbers with plus signs. Maybe he wants a floating plus sign at the start of the number, dunno. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD pmb...@gmail.com wrote: repeat with n = 1 to length(tInput) if char n of tInput is a number then put + into char n of tInput else put - into char n of tInput end repeat Or am I missing something? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Mar 19, 2012, at 5:15 PM, Pete wrote: I wonder if there might be a less ugly way to do this in LC instead of SQL... Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Marek reichenbach.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a lot! That helped me a lot man. Marek Reichenbach On 2012 Kov. 19, at 19:29, Ken Ray k...@sonsothunder.com wrote: On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:44 AM, Marek Reichenbach wrote: when i get for example: 1234567 - i should get result +++, 123-56- I would get +++-++- . The only way I know is kind of ugly, requiring seven nested REPLACE statements: SELECT REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(123-56-,1,+),2,+),3,+),4,+),5,+),6,+),7,+) This would return: +++-++- Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe
Re: MySQL joined select
Hi Ken, Good catch on the multiple FROM clauses, not sure what that's all about. Probably just needs to qualify the columns in the condition with the table name. The SELECT statement has a lot of problems in general. There's no JOIN statement to link table1 and table2 together, for example. That might work as long as the column(s) to be used to join the tables together have the same name in both tables but in general, it's much better to explicitly define the linkage with a JOIN statement - for clarity reasons if no other. Just one comment on the need to qualify columns with table names. I definitely agree it's good practice to do that for clarity but as long as a column name is unique among all tables, SQL will figure out which table an unqualified column name belongs to. Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Ken Ray k...@sonsothunder.com wrote: On Mar 20, 2012, at 4:20 AM, Marek Reichenbach wrote: Thanks for the replies. I've made it workin, but I wanna add something else: So the question in SQL is: Maybe there is a way to hide columns it the result, like: SELECT car_nr, model, travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE number 414 AND (car_nr truck_nr) from transport; and show only result of the colums travel_days, but ONLY on* **separate* columns and HIDE OTHER COLUMNS. You only include the columns you want back in the SELECT part of the query: SELECT travel_days FROM … Also, although I know you provided a dummy query, be aware that there are two inherent problems with the one you provided: 1) If you have multiple tables in the FROM clause, you need to identify the table attached to the column in the SELECT clause (although some SQL engines might just assume you meant the first table, it's good form to identify the table), either by full name: SELECT table1.travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE… or by alias: SELECT t1.travel_days FROM table1 t1,table2 t2 WHERE… 2) I'm not sure what from transport means since you already have a FROM clause in your example query The bottom line is that you don't have to include columns in the SELECT portion of the query that you don't want back, so long as you identify them properly and they actually exist in the table you're referencing. Just be aware that LiveCode's text parsing is second to none, so there are usually times where it may actually be easier and more efficient to let SQL handle getting the data, but let LiveCode handle parsing the data after it arrives. As I mentioned in an earlier post, you *can* use SQL to change your numbers to + symbols, but it's ugly - Mark's method to post-process it in LC with a single statement if far better (IMHO). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: MySQL joined select
Thanks for the replie!!! :), I'll make some research. On 20 March 2012 18:38, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Hi Ken, Good catch on the multiple FROM clauses, not sure what that's all about. Probably just needs to qualify the columns in the condition with the table name. The SELECT statement has a lot of problems in general. There's no JOIN statement to link table1 and table2 together, for example. That might work as long as the column(s) to be used to join the tables together have the same name in both tables but in general, it's much better to explicitly define the linkage with a JOIN statement - for clarity reasons if no other. Just one comment on the need to qualify columns with table names. I definitely agree it's good practice to do that for clarity but as long as a column name is unique among all tables, SQL will figure out which table an unqualified column name belongs to. Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Ken Ray k...@sonsothunder.com wrote: On Mar 20, 2012, at 4:20 AM, Marek Reichenbach wrote: Thanks for the replies. I've made it workin, but I wanna add something else: So the question in SQL is: Maybe there is a way to hide columns it the result, like: SELECT car_nr, model, travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE number 414 AND (car_nr truck_nr) from transport; and show only result of the colums travel_days, but ONLY on* **separate* columns and HIDE OTHER COLUMNS. You only include the columns you want back in the SELECT part of the query: SELECT travel_days FROM … Also, although I know you provided a dummy query, be aware that there are two inherent problems with the one you provided: 1) If you have multiple tables in the FROM clause, you need to identify the table attached to the column in the SELECT clause (although some SQL engines might just assume you meant the first table, it's good form to identify the table), either by full name: SELECT table1.travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE… or by alias: SELECT t1.travel_days FROM table1 t1,table2 t2 WHERE… 2) I'm not sure what from transport means since you already have a FROM clause in your example query The bottom line is that you don't have to include columns in the SELECT portion of the query that you don't want back, so long as you identify them properly and they actually exist in the table you're referencing. Just be aware that LiveCode's text parsing is second to none, so there are usually times where it may actually be easier and more efficient to let SQL handle getting the data, but let LiveCode handle parsing the data after it arrives. As I mentioned in an earlier post, you *can* use SQL to change your numbers to + symbols, but it's ugly - Mark's method to post-process it in LC with a single statement if far better (IMHO). Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Error Codes
OK, I give up. How do you translate error number into descriptive text? The only reference I can find is: put line errorcode of the cErrorsList of stack revErrorDisplay I tried for example put line 353 of the cErrorsList of stack revErrorDisplay and all I get is empty. Thanks Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)
On 03/20/2012 12:08 AM, rand valentine wrote: Hi, guys. Here’s another Unicode-related question. How can I use a Unicode keyboard to type in a Livecode field? I’m working with an American Indian language (called Hocąk), and I need to be able to type characters such as š, ǧ and ąą. I can put them into a field with Unicode commands, but when I try and type in a field using the special keyboard (a system-level thing), the keyboard seems to be ignored. Is there some trick to this? Thanks so much. rand valentine university of wisconsin-madison ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode On a Mac, a Win or a Lin? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
AW: how to resize icons when resizing objects?
Yes so do I today too, but after I've seen first impressions of Win8, I'm thinking of where the journey goes to... Tiemo No, you're absolutely right - the main reason I haven't had to do this is that 99.5% of my development is on desktop apps, so I'm more used to resizing windows and repositining controls rather than scaling them. :D Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: accessing colorized script
Could you use the one from GLX ? (I don't know how stand alone it is, or how hard it might be to extract from its context). -- Alex. On 20/03/2012 15:46, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/20/12 9:30 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: Anyone know how I can get the colorized htmltext of a script from the script editor without opening the editor and copying the text? I don't think you can any more, the colorization is done by the engine. There used to be a script for it in older versions of the IDE. If you have an old version of Rev you might find it. I can't recall which version had the changeover but if you go back to, say, version 3.x it's probably in there. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)
On 03/20/2012 12:37 PM, Richmond wrote: On a Mac, a Win or a Lin? Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? :D ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
RE: Error Codes
Mark, THANK YOU The of card 1 was what I was missing. Again I'm guilty of reading the dictionary too fast. Thanks for your time! Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Mark Schonewille Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 1:54 PM To: How to use LiveCode Subject: Re: Error Codes Hi Ralph, One possibility is to use the LiveCodeErrors app for iPhone. You can find this in the iTunes store. Another possibility is to use this http://qery.us/1w7 library (shareware). There is also quite some information about this available on the mailing list http://qery.us/1w8 and there you can find that you need to use the cErrorsList of cd 1 of stack revErrorDisplay. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.7 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/za On 20 mrt 2012, at 18:37, Ralph DiMola wrote: OK, I give up. How do you translate error number into descriptive text? The only reference I can find is: put line errorcode of the cErrorsList of stack revErrorDisplay I tried for example put line 353 of the cErrorsList of stack revErrorDisplay and all I get is empty. Thanks Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)
On 03/20/2012 08:10 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 03/20/2012 12:37 PM, Richmond wrote: On a Mac, a Win or a Lin? Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? :D Pretty well. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)
Me?? I never replied to this subject. On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Richmond wrote: Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? :/D You ought to think a wee bit before you decide to be rude. Thunderbird cut off the end of your subject line (I found out what it was by accessing the Use-List via Firefox). - Richmond. / ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk
I think it's unlikely anything about this behavior will change no matter what bug report is filed. There's the backward compatibility issue you raised (although I personally think that is usually a cop out) but you could also argue that what happens is by design. I'm thinking your hope for a more right answer is probably in vain at this point! Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: On 20/03/2012 17:17, Pete wrote: So I wouldn't vote for a bug report that asked for lines to behave like characters in this respect. I would vote for a bug report that asked for this situation to be caught as an error (although I think it would have to be a run time error not compile time since the start and end points could be variables or expressions). Lost in this discussion is the reason why someone wanted to do this in the first place. Alex, I think it was you that started this whole thread - did you have a specific reason for wanting to specify a line range with an end point before the start or was it just an observation? No, no specific reason to want to do it - it kind of happened by accident :-) And it wasn't so much an observation as a question - can someone give me a rationale for this behaviour so I can deal with it better ? What I *wanted* to do was replace line 'x' of someContainer (and everything after it) by my new data, so I did the (temptingly logical - but WRONG) thing of put newData into line x to -1 of someContainer NB that is simply wrong, because line -1 means the last line that is there - not to the end after what I specified :-) as it happened, the container had x-1 lines in it at the time (including a trailing line delimiter, just to confuse things), so that became equivalent to put newData into line x to x-1 of someContainer I knew that what was happening seemed wrong - but couldn't figure out how or why. Jacque's explanation showed me what I should do - but still left that niggling feeling of something being a bit odd. I can get what I wanted in a couple of safe ways a.delete line x to -1 of t!! inverted range - but AFAIK it does the right thing with it in all cases put newData into line 2 of t b.put newData into line 2 to kInfinity of t -- where kInfinity is some arbitrarily large constant I'm not sure what I would vote for now, hence I haven't yet put in a bug report. Personally, I'd probably like a run-time error, but I suspect that the need for backwards compatability would prevent that being feasible. -- Alex, still hoping for someone to come up with a more right answer :-) __**_ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecodehttp://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)
On 03/20/2012 08:48 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Me?? I never replied to this subject. @Bob: you have never been rude to me; unless, of course, I am so goofy as to have misunderstood the subtleties of what you are saying . . . :) The person who wrote this Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? knows very well who they are. AND . . . between you, me and the rest of the Use-List, I am sufficiently thick-skinned not to let that sort of thing really fuss me: but the person who wrote it should no that I am only partly cretinous, and that there might have been a perfectly good reason for my question: which there was. -- Just been over to my Mac and managed very successfully to type some Hindi into a Unicode field, so suspect this is a Windows 7 thing. Knowing that Non-Latin keyboards do tend to screw up in Windows (faced this with Vista a while back), I went through a merry time with my Devawriter; to the extent that it locks out all keyboard mappings except the ones I have programmed into the standalone itself. J. Landman Gay was writing something that I only saw out of half and eye that Unicode types would be happy about whatever is forthcoming in LC 5.5 (personally don't have the money right now); so, just maybe, this aspect of things will be sorted out. On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Richmond wrote: Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? :/D You ought to think a wee bit before you decide to be rude. Thunderbird cut off the end of your subject line (I found out what it was by accessing the Use-List via Firefox). - Richmond. / ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
MySQL standalone issues
Can anyone point me to an article or tutorial that walks thru all the considerations for making MySQL database functionality work in a standalone? I have created several apps that query a MySQL database. They work fine in the IDE but I have never been able to get them to run as standalones, from which they return a variety of error messages depending on the specific query involved. Thanks in advance, Sieg Lindstrom ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Text formatting for a slider
I wonder what is wrong with this: put the propertyNames of scrollbar ZLIDE into fld PROPPS ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
answer dlog box changes Mac full screen mode
Hi all. Found a quirk on MacOSX and wonder if you have a workaround. Scenario: Standalone (made with LC 4.6.4) and running on Mac Lion is set to full screen, so there is not titlebar when it opens. However, if app uses the answer command, after dismissing that dlog box the Mac puts a titlebar across the top of the full screen monitor. (PC does not do this.) Since the app is for use in a presentation, I want to avoid the titlebar. Anyone know a workaround? Thanks, Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/answer-dlog-box-changes-Mac-full-screen-mode-tp4490058p4490058.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: New Xcode 4.3.1
I'm happy to see in the newsletter announcement of LC 5.5 I just received that it retains Save As as a file menu option. Maybe Apple will ban LC from use on desktops because of that, who knows. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Tim Jones tolis...@me.com wrote: On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:43 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/19/12 3:25 PM, Ken Ray wrote: This is actually a lot uglier when you try to Save as a file on a locked volume to another place - you get multiple steps and tirades of dialogs informing you why you can't save the original file (which you weren't trying to do in the first place)… Is Export supposed to do that now? Mind, I'm still going on theoreticals until I actually install Lion. ... but what you're supposed to do is according to my Apple Store Genius is Duplicate the opened file, close the original, change the new Copy and then Save. When you save the duplicate, you'll be prompted with the normal Save As... dialogs. And I agree, this is two steps back. Tim ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: accessing colorized script
On 3/20/12 2:24 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Peter M. Brigham, MDpmbrig@... writes: I'm looking for something like a revColorizeScript handler _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of field 1 Ooooh! -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: accessing colorized script
Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:20:51 PM, you wrote: _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of field 1 Ooooh! You can also use chars instead of lines. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Error Codes
On 3/20/12 12:37 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: OK, I give up. How do you translate error number into descriptive text? There's a plugin that Richard Gaskin and I developed. I've been trying to upload it to RevOnline for some time but it won't let me. Until that gets fixed, anyone who wants it can grab it from my Dropbox: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23431607/LiveCode%20Error%20Lookup.livecode.zip The advantage of this little stack over a static resource (besides being free) is that it dynamically loads the error list from the currently running copy of LiveCode. That means it will never go out of date, and will change depending on which version of LiveCode you open it in. There's a second card that's intended for use with debugging iOS errors copied from the Console app. There's an Info button in the stack for more details. It hasn't been thoroughly tested but I've been using it for some time without any problems. The scripts are open, so you can change it if you want. If you do, please let me know so I can update the master copy. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: MySQL standalone issues
Thanks, Pete. That gives me a clue. The LC app of primary concern to me has such a long history it started out as a HyperCard stack (and formerly interfaced with a local database, not MySQL). There are instances in which it temporarily saves data to text files to get around HyperCard's 30,000-character field length limit. That said, I have considered that aspect before, and the text files in question are included with the stack in the standalone settings, but maybe I haven't done that properly. In fact, I now realize that the text files, being of such ancient vintage, don't have .txt extensions. Now wondering if that is the root of the problem, even though this app has worked in the IDE for 7 years. Sieg Lindstrom On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Pete wrote: Hi Sieg, I don't know of such an article but people on this list can probably help if you give use a bit more detail about what the queries are and what error messages you are getting. There shouldn't be any SQL reasons for things not working in a standalone if they worked in the IDE so I suspect it's some LC related issue. The favorite candidate for things like this is usually relying on data being saved somewhere in the standalone, which can't be done. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: accessing colorized script
On 3/20/12 3:30 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:20:51 PM, you wrote: _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of field 1 Ooooh! You can also use chars instead of lines. You mean like, line 2 to -1 of ...oh never mind. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: accessing colorized script
Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:44:08 PM, you wrote: On 3/20/12 3:30 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:20:51 PM, you wrote: _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of field 1 Ooooh! You can also use chars instead of lines. You mean like, line 2 to -1 of ...oh never mind. Actually, (ignoring the other discussion...) the colorize routine for some reason won't take -1 as a parameter - you have to be explicit about it and say (the number of lines of x) instead. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: accessing colorized script
That will invert the colors of the previous lines to their polar opposites. But only if they have a trailing CR. ;-) Bob You mean like, line 2 to -1 of ...oh never mind. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Text formatting for a slider
I made an attempt at 'fixing' Smart properties a while back, but found it's not as simple as it might seem to be. Three objects created for each property in real time made to scroll together and some other trickery going on. It's a project I do want to tackle one of these days. On 19 March 2012 15:34, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.comwrote: JIm, I'm a fan of Mr. Rinaldi as well - he supplied the first serial xcmds for hypercard back in 89 - however I can't get Smartproperties to work these days - have you used it lately? sqb On 19 March 2012 14:57, Jim Hurley jhurley0...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Pete, Yes, my feeling exactly. It looks like there was a conscious effort to omit the foregroundColor for the slider (and scollbar as well). I was worried that it was to be deprecated. (I wasn't concerned about ALL the properties being in the Inspector. It is odd, however, that there is a place for the foreGroundColor property, an icon but no defining text, but no way to access it. I suspect RR got distracted while implementing the slider Inspector.) You might want to check out Richard's 4wProps (under the Development/Plugins menu). Easy access to all the properties. Occasionally I have found (legendary) Renaldi's SmartProperties invalueable. It allows one to compare side by side the properties to two objects. It is valuable in finding out why two, apparently identical, controls behave or look different. Jim Hurley Message: 24 Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:42:46 -0700 From: Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: Text formatting for a slider Message-ID: CABx6j9mAJJtKUZneWCna5tP7fWxUMBvH7LqBsvxZgbJ= ybd...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Yeah, but that displays all possible properties of any object. The properties property of an object gets you an array of properties for a specific object. Still a long list mind you, and not a complete list either according to the dictionary. I think you're probably right that it would make the inspector windows very unwieldy to include all properties. The problem is that by leaving some of them out, arbitrarily, it gives the impression that they aren't available, especially to new users. I remember when I first started using LC and wanted to set the behavior of an option menu button - there's no inspector window behavior field so I just assumed it wasn't possible for some reason and went down a different, much more complicated path. Seems like it would have been trivial to include one more option in the inspector option menu for All Properties or something similar. I ended up writing my own plugin to show all the properties of a selected object and allow me to change any of them. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/19/2012 06:05 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: I have a slider in which the showValue is set to true. Unfortunately, the card background is gray and the black slider value is very difficult to read. The inspector for the slider does not display an option for the foreground color. Why not? Using 4W Properties (thank you RIchard) the foreground color is listed as an option (and can be changed there, or from the msg box.) Why this omission in the Inspector? (LC version 4 AND 5.) Almost all object have a vast number of options that one can fiddle around with; the Props Inspector only displays a subset of them; why? I don't know, but I can hazard a guess: a Props Inspector that displayed ALL the props of each object might be so unwieldy as to be virtually unusable. Just for fun . . . Set up a new stack with a scrollingListField field called PROPPS and try this in the MessageBox: put the propertyNames into fld PROPPS and blow your mind . . . :) Jim __**_ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/**mailman/listinfo/use-livecode http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:
RE: answer dlog box changes Mac full screen mode
Thanks. I'll give that a go! Tom -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/answer-dlog-box-changes-Mac-full-screen-mode-tp4490058p4490632.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the
I filed bug 10109 on this. It's open for comments and of course the rev team can act on it or punt as they see fit. But I think it does need fixing. I can't see any way now in which the current implementation makes sense, even as an accidental side-effect. It's rather something to have to be aware of and studiously avoid when coding. It would be nice to have One Less Pitfall, and I don't see a downside to fixing it. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
LiveCode 5.5
Hello List, I read this list almost everyday, but this is only the second time I have posted here. I guess I feel like I am still a newbie compared to everybody else. After reading the LiveCode 5.5 iOS release notes, I think I am missing something very basic concerning the recent LiveCode upgrade to 5.5. Unless I overlooked it, LiveCode does not support Xcode 4.3.1 (and therefore iOS 5.1). Can this be correct?? Do we have to wait for the next upgrade for that capability? I know another member put out a terminal based workaround to shoehorn the iOS 5.1 simulator into Xcode 4.2.1, could this now be the official approach?? Thanks for sharing ANY insight into what RunRev has in mind here concerning this subject. I will have a very tough sell ahead of me justifying this fee based upgrade without official LiveCode support for the most recent iOS. Terry Confused in St. Louis. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: MySQL standalone issues
Pete, I investigated further. I found something strange. I copied the simple script below from lessons.runrev.com and put it in a button on a brand new stack. Saved as a standalone and it worked as designed. Next I copied the button containing the working script to my existing app and saved that as a standalone. This time it didn't open the database. Instead it returned the answer error Unable to connect to the database. revdberr, invalid database type. What could possibly cause the same button to work in a brand new stack but not work in an old one once it's saved as a standalone? Any suggestions for what to do short of recreating a stack that has many buttons and fields? Here is the script in the button in question. on mouseUp -- use a global variable to hold the connection ID so other scripts can use it global gConnectionID -- set up the connection parameters - edit these to suit your database put fake.com into tDatabaseAddress put fake_stats into tDatabaseName put fake_username into tDatabaseUser put fakepassword into tDatabasePassword -- connect to the database put revOpenDatabase(MySQL, tDatabaseAddress, tDatabaseName, tDatabaseUser, tDatabasePassword) into tResult -- check if it worked and display an error message if it didn't -- set the connection ID global if tResult is a number then put tResult into gConnectionID answer info Connected to the database. cr Connection ID = gConnectionID else put empty into gConnectionID answer error Unable to connect to the database: cr tResult end if end mouseUp Thanks, Sieg Lindstrom On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:20 PM, Pete wrote: Hi Sieg, I don't know of such an article but people on this list can probably help if you give use a bit more detail about what the queries are and what error messages you are getting. There shouldn't be any SQL reasons for things not working in a standalone if they worked in the IDE so I suspect it's some LC related issue. The favorite candidate for things like this is usually relying on data being saved somewhere in the standalone, which can't be done. Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Sieg Lindstrom s...@trackandfieldnews.comwrote: Can anyone point me to an article or tutorial that walks thru all the considerations for making MySQL database functionality work in a standalone? I have created several apps that query a MySQL database. They work fine in the IDE but I have never been able to get them to run as standalones, from which they return a variety of error messages depending on the specific query involved. Thanks in advance, Sieg Lindstrom ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: Error Codes
Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:40:26 PM, you wrote: On 3/20/12 12:37 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: OK, I give up. How do you translate error number into descriptive text? You could just let the engine do the heavy lifting: put line tErrorNumber of the scriptExecutionErrors -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Audio from online server
Hi, I'm working on a music-related LC project that plays audio that is delivered from a server. Works great, especially with fast start checked on .movs. The project has moved on to the point that we are now in negotiations to license music from a major media corporation that will be served to potentially many users--desktop and mobile. They are concerned about the security of their files. We are concerned about reliability. 1. Is a media file written temporarily to the hard drive or is it just in memory? Can we say that it is secure from copying (assuming we do things correctly)? Of course, I'm referring to standard Livecode. 2. Our audio library for the immediate future is fairly small, a couple of gigs of files. However, potentially there could be many simultaneous users--let's say a couple of thousand or more. We need someone to host the content. They want to know how secure their files will be. They mentioned Akamai but said that we have a microscopic amount of content for that company. What kind of company should we be looking for, and any suggestions? Hopefully, we'll be forced to scale up in the future if all goes well (and I can quit my day job). Peter Bogdanoff ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
