Re: mouseButtonNumber

2010-12-23 Thread David Bovill
Thanks Ken! On 22 December 2010 20:14, Ken Ray k...@sonsothunder.com wrote: You can use the mouse() function, looking for a down result: if mouse(1) is down if mouse(2) is down if mouse(3) is down ___ use-livecode mailing list

Recursion warning: what's the owner of a background?

2010-12-23 Thread David Bovill
This one just caught me out. I have a script that checks a property of it's owner and returns the value. Specifically it checks the owner for a property of the same name to see when the local value is empty to see if it is defined higher up in the object hierarchy. I thought this would be a safe

Re: Recursion warning: what's the owner of a background?

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Dec 23, 2010, at 6:34 AM, David Bovill wrote: This one just caught me out. I have a script that checks a property of it's owner and returns the value. Specifically it checks the owner for a property of the same name to see when the local value is empty to see if it is defined higher up

Re: Path Animation And Collision Detection?

2010-12-23 Thread Malte Brill
Hi John, AE works pretty well on iOS devices. As it stands now the only thing not working with the current version is the constraining functions, as those are coded to listen to mouseMove (which given there is no mouse on iP* devices will not work) these will be working in the next iteration

Re: Path Animation And Collision Detection?

2010-12-23 Thread JosepM
Hi Malte, This is a good new for iOS dev :) And about the initial question, one aproach could be send messages checking the collision? But, when to send it? After init the movement? If I want to repeat several times de same movement and other actions, like the user press the keys, the movement

Re: Msg box outta here

2010-12-23 Thread DunbarX
Jacques. C'mon, Jackie. Yes it is. And thanks for the curiosity. In a message dated 12/22/10 9:48:05 PM, jac...@hyperactivesw.com writes: Is Script Debug Mode checked in the Development menu? I wonder if that's what's wrong. Breakpoints won't break if that isn't checked.

Re: AW: any known LC bugs with handwriting pen input?

2010-12-23 Thread viktoras didziulis
I just bought new Dell Inspiron Duo netbook-tablet. Looks like iPad killer - runs normal operating systems (I installed both Windows 7 and Ubuntu), has a dual-core Intel Atom 1.5 GHz CPU, capacitative touchscreen (iPad stylus should work too). The 3 main drawbacks - there is no output for a

An iPhone and iPad Christmas Concert Extravaganza!

2010-12-23 Thread William Roger Moseid
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Re: Datagrid Error in Standalone

2010-12-23 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 9:23 PM, Peter Haworth p...@mollysrevenge.comwrote: Getting this error in a standalone, doesn't happen in the IDE: Type: Handler: error in statement Object: group 'TaskList' of group 'DB_Activities' of card 'DB_Activities' of stack 'Tasks' of stack

Re: An iPhone and iPad Christmas Concert Extravaganza!

2010-12-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
from North Point -- Here Spread the Christmas cheer - share this with your team today! Enjoy, William modelmaste...@cox.net __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5727 (20101223) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart

Re: Livecode iOS app live in the app store

2010-12-23 Thread Nicolas Cueto
John, Installed your splash21, aka Doomsday. -- snowballer wasn't listed. Unfortunately, the app opened to a black screen with status bar, stayed that way for half a minute or so, and then closed itself. My iPhone is 3GS, running version 4.2.1, here in Japan. -- Nicolas Cueto

Re: An iPhone and iPad Christmas Concert Extravaganza!

2010-12-23 Thread Colin Holgate
On Dec 23, 2010, at 9:15 AM, William Roger Moseid wrote: Mr. Jobs, The link below, graphically and audibly illustrates the extreme impact that your Apple products are beginning to exert, in this case the Music Wor I don't know if the message we saw was the same as other recipients would

Re: An iPhone and iPad Christmas Concert Extravaganza!

2010-12-23 Thread Colin Holgate
This page also lists the apps that were used: http://gizmodo.com/5709283/rockin-around-the-christmas-tree-with-ipads ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Recursion warning: what's the owner of a background?

2010-12-23 Thread David Bovill
Peter, not shure if I got you right? Why not take: word 1 to 3 of the long id of theObjectRef In my case I need to check each level of the inheritance... if forgot that using pass would get the same result in some cases (in mine I want to be able to define getprop handlers anywhere in the

Hypercard flash solution

2010-12-23 Thread Shari
For those of you who remember the Hypercard flash command, I've come up with this solution. This works great on OSX and does not rely on creating a special graphic. I haven't tried it on the winMachine yet (and probably won't until the project is done and ready for testing over there). If

Re: Livecode iOS app live in the app store

2010-12-23 Thread Colin Holgate
On Dec 23, 2010, at 9:42 AM, John Craig wrote: Hi, Nicolas. That was my first test app (written in Xcode). The new LC app doesn't seem to show up yet for some people - apparently it can take up to 24 hours to appear :( Doing a Search didn't show the app in the live updated list of

Re: Recursion warning: what's the owner of a background?

2010-12-23 Thread Jonathan Lynch
This might or might not relate - but, in case it helps... You can get the long name of an object... Then replace of with | or any other character you want to use as an item delimiter Then you can count the number of items, or use the first word of each item to determine the type of object

Re: Hypercard flash solution

2010-12-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Shari, Run this in the AppleScript editor. tell application System Events tell application processes repeat 2 times key code 28 using {command down, option down, control down} end repeat end tell end tell You could also

Re: AW: any known LC bugs with handwriting pen input?

2010-12-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
viktoras wrote: I just bought new Dell Inspiron Duo netbook-tablet. Looks like iPad killer - runs normal operating systems (I installed both Windows 7 and Ubuntu), has a dual-core Intel Atom 1.5 GHz CPU, capacitative touchscreen (iPad stylus should work too). The 3 main drawbacks - there is

how many computers can I work on?

2010-12-23 Thread william humphrey
This is why I love Apple software. I have a laptop and a desk machine and I can copy my Apple software between them and not worry about licensing. I just tried to install a copy of LiveCode on my laptop and it is asking for my email and passphrase. My question is how many computers does the

Re: AW: any known LC bugs with handwriting pen input?

2010-12-23 Thread stephen barncard
It's not an iPad killer with battery specs like that. Intel better get cooking. On 23 December 2010 08:07, viktoras didziulis vikto...@ekoinf.net wrote: I just bought new Dell Inspiron Duo netbook-tablet. Looks like iPad killer - runs normal operating systems (I installed both Windows 7 and

Re: how many computers can I work on?

2010-12-23 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi William, I might be mistaken, but I believe you can install it on as many computers as you like, as long as you are the only person using it. At least, this was the case with the Enterprise license (which makes sense, because cross-platform implies multiple computers). -- Best regards,

Re: Livecode iOS app live in the app store

2010-12-23 Thread Ludovic Thébault
Le 23 déc. 2010 à 15:42, John Craig a écrit : Hi, Nicolas. That was my first test app (written in Xcode). The new LC app doesn't seem to show up yet for some people - apparently it can take up to 24 hours to appear :( Hello, i've found it (french store). My score was 2050 !

Moving a Hypercard project forward

2010-12-23 Thread Shari
This hasn't been the easiest task but here's a few tricks I've learned: For some reason the original Hypercard stack would not open with the current Revolution nor most of the previous versions. I was able to open it using Metacard 2.4.3 and then resave it, whereas Revolution would then open

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: Thanks Jacquie. Is it so unreasonable to expect that a scrollbar on a group should just work? I don't have the time or the inclination to write volumes of code to implement what should be a standard feature. At least document what is required to make a scrollbar work.

AW: AW: any known LC bugs with handwriting pen input?

2010-12-23 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Labas Viktoras, perhaps you can test some day a LC program and see, if you can reproduce this behavior with pen handwriting. Merry Christmas Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Haworth
Thank you Richard and Jacquie. Yes my frustrations are making a little too judgemental, good job this list is providing an outlet for that! Just to be clear, I'm not trying to resize a group. I don;t even really want to use a group. This all started when I discovered that my stack

Datagrid tables: which column is a clicked cell belong to?

2010-12-23 Thread David Bovill
I can do this with a table header, but there seems to be no easy way to find out the number of the column - I can do it by defining the behavior of a column template - then work things out using the templates name or a property I manually define - but am wandering if there is a built in way to do

Re: Datagrid Error in Standalone

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Haworth
I'll try. A little difficult since the error doesn't occur in the IDE although the datagrid corruption does. I have the following code in the script for the datagrid. on selectionChanged put menuPick the label of button DB_ContactInfoType into myMessage send myMessage to button

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/23/10 11:27 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Thank you Richard and Jacquie. Yes my frustrations are making a little too judgemental, good job this list is providing an outlet for that! Hey, that's why we're here. And there are lots of other people out there who will read these responses and

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-23 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Pete, I'd seriously consider reconsidering your design concept. The speed with which LC goes to new cards makes the use of scrolling anything other than a text field not a very plausible solution. A really good navigation concept that judiciously provides connections between associated and

Re: Datagrid tables: which column is a clicked cell belong to?

2010-12-23 Thread zryip theSlug
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 6:59 PM, David Bovill da...@vaudevillecourt.tv wrote: I can do this with a table header, but there seems to be no easy way to find out the number of the column - I can do it by defining the behavior of a column template - then work things out using the templates name or

Re: One More Datagrid Problem

2010-12-23 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Peter Haworth p...@mollysrevenge.comwrote: Ever wished you just hadn't switched on the computer today! One of my datagrids is displaying data in a way which looks like it's trying to display two sets of data on top of each other, kinda hard to describe. As

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Frankly, I'm also against the entire concept of allowing the resizing of windows. When we were dealing with 9 and 12 screens, that was obligatory. Not so now. Obviously, IMHO! The problem with absolutes is that they inevitably run into exceptions. :) Can you imagine

Re: Livecode iOS app live in the app store

2010-12-23 Thread Thomas McGrath III
John, Downloaded the snowball app on my iPad and iPhone and it works great. Nice holiday idea. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Dec 23, 2010, at 9:42 AM, John Craig wrote: Hi, Nicolas. That was my first test app (written in Xcode). The new LC app

Re: Datagrid Error in Standalone

2010-12-23 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Peter Haworth p...@mollysrevenge.comwrote: Hi Trevor, The try/catch did come up with the same error that I see in the standalone. Here's what was displayed: It looks like you are doing more than just resizing the window. This error report was caused by

pListed-off

2010-12-23 Thread Richmond
Most of you probably know this already; but goofy Richmond didn't until just now, and he feels it is worth repeating: Submitted the latest version of my Devawriter Pro to MacUpdate: http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/34195/devawriter-pro and got this back from the macUpdate people: I noticed

Re: What with all it's features and platforms I sometimes forget

2010-12-23 Thread DunbarX
Tony. This is both wonderful and disturbing news. What would it take for the rest of the world to give LC a fair look? Shackles? Those eye-popping gadgets that were placed on Malcom McDowell in A Clockwork Orange? Both? Craig ___ use-livecode

[OT] Another Microsoft Achievement

2010-12-23 Thread Richmond
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12067295 Wow! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Livecode iOS app live in the app store

2010-12-23 Thread David C.
John, I'm not much of a gamer and in fact, that's the first and only game I've ever installed on my original iPhone... Kudos to ya... that's just fun stuff. :) Best regards, David C. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Livecode iOS app live in the app store

2010-12-23 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, John Craig wrote: I created a small LC game for iPhone and it's now in the app store. If you search for 'splash21' or 'snowballer' you should be able to download. Great John. It runs OK here on a gen 3 iPod Touch. I especially like the targeting mechanism, but I can't tell if the

Re: Datagrid Error in Standalone

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Haworth
Actually I was sending in time at one point (with the same problem) but removed it to see if it made any difference. Now that I know it's something to do with setting dgData, I'll check through the code more carefully and see what I can find. Pete Haworth On Dec 23, 2010, at 12:36 PM,

Re: Datagrid Error in Standalone

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Haworth
OK, figured this out Trevor. I forgot that I have a frontScript menuPick handler that does some stuff which could result in the datagrid being updated. I have a global that controls some of that stuff and once I set it appropriately, all works perfectly. Thanks for putting me on the

LiveCode iOS app Just the Facts

2010-12-23 Thread Randy Hengst
Hi All, I just had my first iOS iPod/iPhone app accepted today... Just the Facts... practice for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts to 10. I set it for 99 cents, but have about a dozen promo codes left to give away if anyone has a youngster practicing the basic facts.

How to make a stack transparent but the fields and images on it a different blend level

2010-12-23 Thread william humphrey
* We can do something like the following to get around the limitation of making an entire stack transparent (in order to have the fields and images on the stack be darker than the transparent stack image behind).* * * ** * on doRectCapture * *get* the rect of this stack *hide* this stack

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Haworth
OK, nearly there. All works as you said. The only problem I have is that when the scrollbar becomes active, I see an arrow at the top of it to scroll up but there is no arrow at the bottom of it to scroll down. I have my Mac system preferences set to have the arrows at the top and

Re: How to make a stack transparent but the fields and images on it a different blend level

2010-12-23 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, william humphrey wrote: But the problem with this is that you can't move this stack around without immediately revealing that the transparent rect image is static. Is there some way (without keep getting a new rect to put in the background as that is too jerky) to make a stack and

Problem with launch on OSX 10.5

2010-12-23 Thread Terry Judd
I have a big problem with the launch command on OSX 10.5. I have a bunch of old Director executables that I¹m trying to launch from LiveCode that refuse to launch using the launch command while I¹m running 10.5 but work fine under 10.6. Interestingly I can¹t get them to Œactivate¹ via applescript

Re: Problem with launch on OSX 10.5

2010-12-23 Thread Warren Samples
On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 14:40 +1100, Terry Judd wrote: I have a big problem with the launch command on OSX 10.5. I have a bunch of old Director executables that I¹m trying to launch from LiveCode that refuse to launch using the launch command while I¹m running 10.5 but work fine under 10.6.

Re: Problem with launch on OSX 10.5

2010-12-23 Thread Terry Judd
Thanks Warren - I'll give the shell command a try. Terry... On 24/12/10 2:59 PM, Warren Samples war...@warrensweb.us wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-24 at 14:40 +1100, Terry Judd wrote: I have a big problem with the launch command on OSX 10.5. I have a bunch of old Director executables that I¹m

Re: Problem with launch on OSX 10.5

2010-12-23 Thread Terry Judd
Hmm - same result - works on 10.6 but not 10.5. Looks like it's something to do with the Director builds (I have some Director apps that work and some that don't - built with the same version of Director but at different times and on different Macs). Looks like I'm not going to solve this today -

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-23 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: OK, nearly there. All works as you said. The only problem I have is that when the scrollbar becomes active, I see an arrow at the top of it to scroll up but there is no arrow at the bottom of it to scroll down. I have my Mac system preferences set to have the arrows at

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-23 Thread Peter Haworth
LC 4.5.1. Another twist on this. If I request a horizontal scrollbar as well as a vertical one, the vertical scrollbar arrows both show up fine (as do the horizontal scrollbar arrows. It's only when there is a vertical scrollbar and no horizontal one that I see this issue. I'd like to

Re: How to make a stack transparent but the fields and images on it a different blend level

2010-12-23 Thread Shao Sean
In theory this should be doable as the system allows for it (I have an external for Windows that does it) but cannot get it to work correctly on Mac OS X ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Card Vertical Scrollbars

2010-12-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/23/10 11:50 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: LC 4.5.1. Another twist on this. If I request a horizontal scrollbar as well as a vertical one, the vertical scrollbar arrows both show up fine (as do the horizontal scrollbar arrows. It's only when there is a vertical scrollbar and no horizontal one

RE: What with all it's features and platforms I sometimes forget

2010-12-23 Thread Walt Brown
I would love to see a list of published apps created with LC beyond the 2-3 poster children. Walt -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On Behalf Of Richmond Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 4:22 PM To: How to use