[ANN] ChartMaker update

2011-01-14 Thread FlexibleLearning
An update to ChartMaker is available, including a new playground stack demonstrating on-screen data input. Click the 'Check for updates...' link in the program, or read about this library and download a free trial copy here: http://www.runrev.com/store/product/chartmaker About... ChartMaker -

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-14 Thread Mike Bonner
Nvm, its early and I just re-iterated what you aleady know you need to do. *goes back to bed* On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: From the command line if you do yourApp http://www.google.com $1 will contain the url. Works the same from a bash script.

Re: Global in debugger redux

2011-01-14 Thread DunbarX
Mark. Good point. Is there a document somewhere that, like the dictionary, explains these UI variables? Craig In a message dated 1/13/11 9:46:03 PM, mwie...@ahsoftware.net writes: gREVDevelopment ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-14 Thread Andre Garzia
David, I don't understand. Do you want to launch livecode or a web browser? Andre On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:54 AM, David Bovill da...@vaudevillecourt.tv wrote: Actually maybe it is not so hard :) I want to  create a way to launch LiveCode using shell, but also to pass to it a url in the

Re: Newbie Q: LiveCode Forum

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Calvin Waterbury wrote: I was wondering who here frequents the LC forum? I'm curious because I have tried to keep up with this list. It reminds me of 1982 when I tried to read every article in the Wall Street Journal! Whoosh! I never made through one issue and once, I started stacking up

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-14 Thread Mike Bonner
Since i've realized I'm not sure what you mean, i'll cover more bases. In windows a batch file like the following: start /DC:\Program Files (x86)\RunRev\LiveCode 4.5.3 livecode.exe %1 start %1 Will on the first line, launch livecode (first define the directory, then the executable itself, then

Re: Newbie Q: LiveCode Forum

2011-01-14 Thread David C.
Since you're learning LC as a second language, I hope the readers here will indulge another copy of what I've found, after teaching this tool and related dialects for so long, to be the progression through the learning curve for getting started with this weird beast:   Day one:     What the

Re: Newbie Q: LiveCode Forum

2011-01-14 Thread Andre Garzia
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:37 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Calvin Waterbury wrote: I was wondering who here frequents the LC forum? I'm curious because I have tried to keep up with this list.  It reminds me of 1982 when I tried to read every article in the Wall Street

Re: Dictionary Random Picks - now on RevOnline

2011-01-14 Thread Medard
Bob Cole bobc...@earthlink.net wrote: I may use this myself in my copious free time. :) Funny -- and informative :-) in the field script, add: on mouseup revDocumentationGo (the selectedtext of me) end mouseup and add a vertical scrollbar to that field

Re: Newbie Q: LiveCode Forum

2011-01-14 Thread Jim Sims
On Jan 14, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Andre Garzia wrote: Six years: I want a message path for my LIFE! N Surprises can be a fun. A scripted life might be boring. Life is Good, sims ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

LiveCode Player news?

2011-01-14 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, Is there any news on the new LiveCode Player? Development or possible release date? Or is that not to be discussed on this list? I really want it :-) Greetings, William ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
This is one of the reasons we did not switch to Vista or Windows 7. In XP signing was optional. In Vista and 7 it is mandatory. This is akin to malware infecting your computer and then charging you for a utility to fix it. It's only slightly better in that it will run without continually

Re: Rev Icons

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Have you looked at the Image Library under the development menu? I imported a set of icons that I use across several applications. From the library, you can place either an image or a button with it's icon set to an image on any card in your app. I don;t think you can edit the image from

a help ..

2011-01-14 Thread bacches...@tin.it
i am at the beginning... p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial;

Getprop/Setprop question

2011-01-14 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm probably missing something obvious here but in a setprop or getprop handler, how can I find out the object whose property is being set/get, assuming the getprop/setprop is not in property owner's script? For example, if I have the following line of code in a script: put the xyz of field

Re: Dictionary Random Picks - now on RevOnline

2011-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/12/11 11:01 PM, Bob Cole wrote: Thanks to Jacque's suggestions, I was able to construct a stack that lets you display a random page from the Dictionary. I just uploaded it to RevOnline as Dictionary Random Picks. I finally got around to taking a look. Nice job. In fact, I accidentally

Re: Rev Icons

2011-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
I think he is after a kind of Adobe approach where you edit a linked file and every document that uses that file updates itself. The only thing I can think of is to name the icon image, and in a preOpencard handler (maybe in the stack script) set the icon of the buttons to the image name. If

Re: Getprop/Setprop question

2011-01-14 Thread DunbarX
Ask for the target in your handler. on mouseUp set the superDuper of this card to end mouseUp on setProp superDuper put the target end setProp ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: This is one of the reasons we did not switch to Vista or Windows 7. In XP signing was optional. In Vista and 7 it is mandatory. This is akin to malware infecting your computer and then charging you for a utility to fix it. It's only slightly better in that it will run

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Security is a real issue on all OSes, and this provide one way to certify that an app is what it says it is for just a one-time fee, without having to give up 30% of your annual income to the OS vendor in

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Whoa a one time fee? I thought the certificate was a one year certificate? Bob On Jan 14, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Bob Sneidar wrote: This is one of the reasons we did not switch to Vista or Windows 7. In XP signing was optional. In Vista and 7 it is mandatory. This is

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread David C.
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: If you want to compensate for what Apple charges to retail your products, simply charge 30% more for it. Bob ...or tell Apple and/or the visionary Mr. Jobs to mind his/their own business, continuing to do what developers have

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/14/11 1:14 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Whoa a one time fee? I thought the certificate was a one year certificate? According to what I've read, you do need to renew the certificate after it expires. You can purchase certificates for 1,2, or 3 year periods. But if you date your app (there's

Re: LiveCode Newbie questions

2011-01-14 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Calvin, Congratulations for this first version of your application! :-D I noticed that you wrote in this page: http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=23881.0 Attention: If anyone who is fluent in foreign language would be interested in making a non-English version, I would be

Re: Windows code signing and *Sales*

2011-01-14 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Hello Product Developers, I think I'll jump in here... Why not just open your own store? Yes, it is slow starting out, but word-of-mouth is the best advertising around. Do a spread sheet and see if the lack of income in the beginning would be made up for once you start getting some sales

Re: a help ..

2011-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/14/11 11:38 AM, bacches...@tin.it wrote: i am at the beginning... p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Arial} p.p4 {margin:

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Bill Vlahos
The renewal is for the ability to sign apps. Once an executable is signed it is signed forever. If you make a new standalone that will need to be signed. Bill Sent from my iPhone On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:14 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Whoa a one time fee? I thought the certificate

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Bill Vlahos bvla...@mac.com wrote: The renewal is for the ability to sign apps. Once an executable is signed it is signed forever. One caveat - It is signed forever as long as you use the timestamp server. If you forget to do that during the code signing

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Trevor DeVore wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.comwrote: Security is a real issue on all OSes, and this provide one way to certify that an app is what it says it is for just a one-time fee, without having to give up 30% of your annual income to

Re: LiveCode Newbie questions

2011-01-14 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Hi Alejandro, Thank you for trying it out and I am glad you liked it. Yes, I would be very happy to collaborate on this, but let's hold off until I get VeggieSquares to v.1.00. When the time comes, I can send you all the related text{?} files for you to translate. Be advised the existing

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
David C. wrote: On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Bob Sneidar bobs at twft.com wrote: If you want to compensate for what Apple charges to retail your products, simply charge 30% more for it. Bob More than a few are considering it, or dropping features in the App Store version and offering

Re: Dictionary Random Picks - now on RevOnline

2011-01-14 Thread Keith Clarke
...you already have it installed, Neo. ...the Matrix has you. On 14 Jan 2011, at 19:31, Bob Sneidar wrote: I wonder if we could make this work for some kind of mind control stack... Bob On Jan 14, 2011, at 11:23 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/14/11 12:40 PM, Scott Rossi wrote:

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-14 Thread David Bovill
Hmmm... I wander if simply polling for an environmental variable change will work. In the current case I know that LiveCode is open - I just want the external command line program to redirect the browser call back to Livecode and not open up another browser. On 14 January 2011 16:11, Mike Bonner

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:08 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Yes, it's once per year/two years/three years, whichever you choose. Rather like Apple's annual developer program fee. But it's not 30% each time you make a sale. ;) True, but Commodo isn't helping me sell my

Printing and RevBrowser

2011-01-14 Thread Ray Horsley
Greetings, Anybody know how to work this with 'open printing' or even better, with with 'open printing to PDF'? My main goal is to suppress the print dialog window for each call in a repeat loop to revBrowserPrint. Thanks, Ra Horsley LinkIt! Software

Re: Windows code signing

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Trevor DeVore wrote: Will the App Store be worth it for developers in the end? We will see. I want to be in there to find out though. Me too. Your question answers itself in the long view: As the months become years, there will be no viable alternative for those who wish to include the Mac

Re: Codesign Error (Mac)

2011-01-14 Thread Marty Knapp
Well I've finally worked some things out, so thought I'd share them here to possibly spare someone else a trip to the Hair Loss Clinic. My code signing issue had to do with my certificates. I went into Keychain and on my certificates from Apple I changed the Trust setting to Use System

Incrementing indexes or putting empty into an array

2011-01-14 Thread David Bovill
For a long time I've incremente indexes with a line_Add or line_Insert function - now that I'm optimising things for release I've started doing the following: repeat for each line someLine in someText process someLine put empty into lineArray [someLine] end repeat put keys (lineArray) into

Is this doable at a newbie level?

2011-01-14 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Hi, The below features list is for a small utility I *need* right now, but I can wait long enough to code it. ;) Please, resist the urge to whip out the code and post it. I want to try something myself. I *know* this can be done in LC. What I am asking is if you think the following can

Re: Is this doable at a newbie level?

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: Your stack should have it's systemWindow property set to true, but this will only float it above other LiveCode stacks. I don't think there is a way to make it float above every application in the OS, but I might be wrong there. Floats above all windows, even those from

Re: Is this doable at a newbie level?

2011-01-14 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Hi Bob - See below... Bob Sneidar mailto:b...@twft.com Friday, January 14, 2011 6:51 PM If you look in the Dictionary, under date you will find several items, the date function, the dateFormat function, the

Re: Is this doable at a newbie level?

2011-01-14 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Great! Another item off my todo list! Thanks, Richard! Calvin Richard Gaskin mailto:ambassa...@fourthworld.com Friday, January 14, 2011 7:01 PM Bob Sneidar wrote: Your stack should have it's systemWindow

Any Convention on Naming Conventions?

2011-01-14 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Hello, I have spent some time perusing the articles on Naming Conventions, but I did not discover anything about mutual agreement on the subject (maybe I missed it?). Is there any universally accepted and agreed on Naming Convention I should adopt? Thank you, Calvin

Re: Dictionary Random Picks - now on RevOnline

2011-01-14 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Really nice! :-) I downloaded it from this page: http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/537/Dictionary-Random-Picks Alejandro -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Dictionary-Random-Picks-now-on-RevOnline-tp3215244p3218624.html Sent from the Revolution -

Re: Any Convention on Naming Conventions?

2011-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Everyone has their own. I name variables beginning with the, as in theSQL, but others will tell you this is bad practice because if I put a space between the and everything else, LiveCode will think I am talking about a property! DOH! I'm a bad, bad programmer. SBT Accounting used to have all

Re: Dictionary Random Picks - now on RevOnline

2011-01-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Wow! I just discovered the if command! What a powerful thing this is! Why this opens up a whole new world of possibil... ok none of you are buying this are you? Bob On Jan 14, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Really nice! :-) I downloaded it from this page:

No Check Box in the Dictionary??

2011-01-14 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Hi, I don't mean to be picky, but neither checkbox nor check box is in the dictionary. If I missed something, please tell me? FYI - I only have access to the trial version. Fair winds, Calvin ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Dictionary Random Picks - now on RevOnline

2011-01-14 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Bob, many programs shows, at start up a Window with Tips and Tricks. A window that shows a random page of the dictionary is fine too, at least from my point of view. :-) Al -- View this message in context:

Re: Any Convention on Naming Conventions?

2011-01-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Calvin- Friday, January 14, 2011, 5:14:40 PM, you wrote: Hello, I have spent some time perusing the articles on Naming Conventions, but I did not discover anything about mutual agreement on the subject (maybe I missed it?). Is there any universally accepted and agreed on Naming Convention

Re: Dictionary Random Picks - now on RevOnline

2011-01-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Scott- Friday, January 14, 2011, 10:40:33 AM, you wrote: Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote: I finally got around to taking a look. Nice job. In fact, I accidentally discovered synchrate** which I never knew existed. :) And blinkRate! My blinkRate increased after reading about the

Re: Any Convention on Naming Conventions?

2011-01-14 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Hey Mark, Thanks! I had already read the first one, courtesy of David C., but the second link is fresh territory! @Richard - Nice! Fair winds, Calvin Mark Wieder mailto:mwie...@ahsoftware.net Friday, January

Re: No Check Box in the Dictionary??

2011-01-14 Thread Phil Davis
Look at style - it's a button style. Phil On 1/14/11 5:49 PM, Calvin Waterbury wrote: Hi, I don't mean to be picky, but neither checkbox nor check box is in the dictionary. If I missed something, please tell me? FYI - I only have access to the trial version. Fair winds, Calvin

Re: Dictionary Random Picks - now on RevOnline

2011-01-14 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Mark Wieder wrote: Friday, January 14, 2011, 10:40:33 AM, you wrote: Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote: I finally got around to taking a look. Nice job. In fact, I accidentally discovered synchrate** which I never knew existed. :) And blinkRate! My blinkRate increased after

Re: Is this doable at a newbie level?

2011-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/14/11 7:06 PM, Calvin Waterbury wrote: Hmmm... it needs to have the Always On Top option available, or I could try to program it into the Windows 7 Right-Click context menu, but that sounds advanced, I think? I think you already have a lead on the always on top part, but I just wanted

Re: No Check Box in the Dictionary??

2011-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/14/11 7:49 PM, Calvin Waterbury wrote: Hi, I don't mean to be picky, but neither checkbox nor check box is in the dictionary. If I missed something, please tell me? It isn't obvious. Those are button styles, so search for style, though that won't tell you too much. Anything in

Re: Dictionary Random Picks - now on RevOnline

2011-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/14/11 8:37 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Recently, Mark Wieder wrote: Friday, January 14, 2011, 10:40:33 AM, you wrote: Recently, Jacque Landman Gay wrote: I finally got around to taking a look. Nice job. In fact, I accidentally discovered synchrate** which I never knew existed. :) And

Re: Global in debugger redux

2011-01-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Craig- Friday, January 14, 2011, 6:37:14 AM, you wrote: Is there a document somewhere that, like the dictionary, explains these UI variables? Ho - then they wouldn't be undocumented, would they? Gotta have *some* secrets. g -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net