Software Freedom Day

[Mark Wieder]

No matter what you think of the Free Software Foundation, happy Software 
Freedom Day.


http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/

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Re: tracking change dates for substack

[Dr. Hawkins]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Brahmanathaswami  wrote:

>  splashScreenEngine --> Mainstack
>
> model, so that your substacks can all save data...what about  setting a
> customProp with a time stamp in the stack when data changes?
>

My mainstack stays hidden, and launches another stack from time to time as
the splash screen.

However, what I'm trying to track is not data changes, but changes I make
to the cards in the development process.  If I make a change, I want the
new fields/variables I may have introduced to automatically be compiled
when the vision bumps, without sifting through the hundreds of other
stacks.  As it is, it already takes a couple of minutes on a fast machine
to check the existing cards.


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LiveCode 8 Global Jam

[Peter W A Wood]

After reading the announcements, I am looking forward to the LiveCode 8 Global 
Jam and helping to prepare LiveCode 8 for release through reporting bugs.

As I’ve already reported a handful of bugs relating to LiveCode 8, I thought 
I’d take a look and see how many LiveCode 8 bugs there are in total. As I 
understand, LiveCode 8.0 is based on LiveCode 7 so I performed a search of the 
LiveCode Quality Centre for all bug reports against version 7.0.0 DP 1 and 
above which are not yet resolved.

I was surprised when the search returned 674 bug reports that met the criteria. 
Perhaps the search criteria I used could be improved. I can see that some of 
the 674 are enhancement requests but I can’t work out how to exclude them from 
the search. From a quick glance, I don’t think that there can be much more than 
50 enhancement requests so there still seems to be at least over 500 unresolved 
bugs.

Hopefully, many will get fixed during the Global Jam (and shortly afterwards) 
as the engineering team focusses on bug fixing rather than adding new 
functionality.

I’m still looking forward to the Global Jam but I’m a little worried that the 
LiveCode 8 release isn’t as close as the Global Jam announcements suggested.

Peter



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Re: LiveCode for the rest of us

[FlexibleLearning.com]

 > On 9/19/15, 1:59, R.H. wrote:

> > Why not there is a field that can easily be set to display
> > international date and time formats and automatically would default to
> > local standards without having to script a lot and redoing the same
> > work over and over again? Why not a field can be defined to represent
> > whatever data it should provide and automatically check user input?

FieldFormatter does this and is available from
www.flexiblelearning.com/fieldformatter

Hugh Senior
FLCo


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Re: ANN MasterLibrary Version 45 now available.

[Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel]

As always, thank you Michael!

SKIP KIMPEL

On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 10:49 AM, Michael Doub  wrote:

> I made some adjustments to take into account the new reserved words of 7.1
> and 8.0.   You can find the current version here:
>
> https://www.dropbox.com/s/3wpwn3hfbmpl7sk/MasterLibrary.livecode?dl=0
>
>-= Mike
>
>
> Release 45
> *  Added ArrayEncodeVersion - This function will return the livecode
> version that created the array encoded
> string.
> *  Added text_is_Caps - This function returns true if the input is all CAPS
> *  Floor and Ceiling are now built in function of LiveCode 7.1 and above.
>  Changed the names to _Floor
> and _Ceiling.
>
> Release 44
> *  Added numToAccounting, accountingToNum  - format and un-format numbers
> *  Added PointWithinGrc - test for xyPoint within a grachic
>
> Release 43
> *  Added getColumns
>
> Release 42
> *  Added WordBounds - given line and word offsets it will return the
> starting and ending character of the
> specified word.
>
> Release 41
> *  Added ability to create script only stacks, insert scripts. (see bottum
> on help text)  Script only stacks
> will be automaticly be saved after any script insertions.
> *  added the ScriptOnly function.  This function checks the disc image of
> a stack to see if it is a Script Only
> Stack.   It returns true if the first line of the stack script on disc
> is "script".
>
> Release 40
> *  Totally fixed the FindinStyledText function.  Sorry, folks somehow a
> very early version found its way into
> the Library and was not even close.  This version has been manually
> tested against the data generated
> by DummyTextData.
>
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Re: LiveCode for the rest of us

[tfabacher]

Thanks Roland for the email.  What you have described was exactly what Visual 
Basic programmers were saying in the early 90s. The solution to the VB problem 
was the ability to create COM objects. 

What you described as your primary frustrations will evaporate with LC8. You 
will be able to enjoy the simplicity of the language and the ease of use of 
complex objects. A complex object would be say a calendar or scheduler. If you 
need to create this in LC today, it can take you many frustrating days [trust 
me I have had them]. But once there is an available widget as open source or 
for sales, your frustrations will go way down and your productive will go way 
up. 

LiveCode development is about to enter a new renaissance. But on your seat 
belts. You will look back in a year and be amazed with the changes that will be 
coming. 

--Todd

Sent from my iPad

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Re: names of other machines on local netwrok.

[william humphrey]

No one answered your question.  I have noticed there are differences in the
way you ping an address when on windows or when on mac or unix. Livencode
has a nice hostAddressToName("127.0.0.1") and

hostNameToAddress(*domainName, [callback]*)

Write something to ping it first before connecting too.

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Dr. Hawkins  wrote:

> I've been using this from two different macs on the same network, but now
> that I've built for  windows, I get the message "unable to to open
> servername.local  Cannot translate address."  I had to use the ip address.
>
>
> A machine named "fred" can be accessed as "fred.local" on unix, including
> mac.  This isn't working under windows.  Is it just "fred", or somehting
> else?
>
>
>
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Re: tracking change dates for substack

[Brahmanathaswami]

Assuming you follow the

 splashScreenEngine --> Mainstack

model, so that your substacks can all save data...what about  setting a 
customProp with a time stamp in the stack when data changes?


Then you just track

repeat for with z = 1 ot the number of substacks
 # do stuff here with the
# the uModifiedDate of this stack
end repeat



Dr. Hawkins wrote:

Is there a practical way to automatically track the change dates for
substacks?



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tracking change dates for substack

[Dr. Hawkins]

Is there a practical way to automatically track the change dates for
substacks?

I'm about to end up with something like 100 of them (one for each judicial
district)

At the moment, I have routines that step through all of my cards every time
I bump the revision, but it would be nice to be able to skip stacks.

I guess I'm looking for something like a last changed date on a directory,
but for substacks instead.

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