Sqlite connection problem

2011-01-15 Thread Alessandro Pisoni
I have serius connection problem with my database sqlite. my code is this: on mouseUp put tAppPath() GestPres.db into tDB put revOpenDatabase(sqlite,tDB,) into mydb revCloseDatabase mydb end mouseUp function tAppPath put effective filename of this stack into tFilename set

[OT] HIG Free books.

2011-01-15 Thread Richmond
After 12 hours straight sleep I feel human again; the compounded effects of wrestling with bucketloads of Beta-tester feedback on my Devawriter Pro and teaching from 8 am to 6.30 pm were getting a bit much. However, as I, phoenix-like, arise from the ashes; I am inevitably spitting my usual

Re: Sqlite connection problem

2011-01-15 Thread Klaus on-rev
Buongiorno Alessandro, I have serius connection problem with my database sqlite. my code is this: on mouseUp put tAppPath() GestPres.db into tDB put revOpenDatabase(sqlite,tDB,) into mydb revCloseDatabase mydb end mouseUp function tAppPath put effective filename of this

different screen resolutions (iOS)

2011-01-15 Thread Harald Müller
With the upcoming iPad 2 and its once again new screen resolution it will be more difficult to support all devices. As it looks there will be two logical resolutions each with two physical resolutions on the iOS, perhaps more to come. As far as I know it is much easier to support those

Re: Dictionary Random Picks - now on RevOnline

2011-01-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Jacque wrote: HyperCard had an error message that said, Script too silly to execute. No, really. It did. What would trigger that? I want to submit a feature request to add that. :) -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com Webzine for

Re: different screen resolutions (iOS)

2011-01-15 Thread Colin Holgate
On Jan 15, 2011, at 6:13 AM, Harald Müller wrote: With the upcoming iPad 2 and its once again new screen resolution it will be more difficult to support all devices. As it looks there will be two logical resolutions each with two physical resolutions on the iOS, perhaps more to come. Can

R: Re: a help ..

2011-01-15 Thread bacches...@tin.it
Messaggio originale Da: jac...@hyperactivesw.com Data: 14-gen-2011 21.00 A: How to use LiveCodeuse-livecode@lists.runrev.com Ogg: Re: a help .. 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}

Re: LiveCode Newbie questions

2011-01-15 Thread william humphrey
I just tried to make an application from my program that I've been working on and using for the last seven or eight years. I'm on Mac OS. I was surprised to find out that the application it created with the defaults in place was a windows exe program.

Re: No Check Box in the Dictionary??

2011-01-15 Thread Richard Gaskin
Calvin Waterbury wrote: I don't mean to be picky, but neither checkbox nor check box is in the dictionary. If I missed something, please tell me? By default the IDE is set to what an occasionally-rude person like myself might call Lie Mode, in which the names it displays in the Property

Re: No Check Box in the Dictionary??

2011-01-15 Thread william humphrey
Richard Thanks for these tips! On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Calvin Waterbury wrote: I don't mean to be picky, but neither checkbox nor check box is in the dictionary. If I missed something, please tell me? By default the IDE is set

Re: Required: shell scripting wizard!

2011-01-15 Thread Björnke von Gierke
does the relaunch message not work on command line apps in windows? On 14 Jan 2011, at 21:31, David Bovill wrote: 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

Re: Re: a help ..

2011-01-15 Thread David C.
Hello, I have uploaded a *very plain* sample stack that has little more than a menu and About box pointing to a substack, that you should be able to use as a rough guide: http://www.docstoolchest.com/catch_all/TestMenu.rev Hope that is what you are looking for, David C. On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at

Re: usb driver problem

2011-01-15 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I now keep getting file is not open for read on the cu.usbmodem1a21 and eof on the tty.usbmodem1a21 What am I missing here? -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jan 15, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I am having trouble accessing an Arduino

Re: No Check Box in the Dictionary??

2011-01-15 Thread Peter Haworth
This thread reminds me so much of going through all the same questions when I first started using LC. Seems like a document that listed all these little idiosyncracies of LC, specifically targeted at newbies, would be extremely useful. Maybe one already exists somewhere? One thing I'd add

problem importing tab delimited text files

2011-01-15 Thread Ian McKnight
Hi all I have a table of data in an excel spreadsheet.40 rows x 30 columns approx. I save the file as a tab delimited text file for import into LC. I import the file and its empty - nothing there in LC. I open the text file in Notepad and save it again, making no changes. I import the same file

Re: How to uninstall Livecode from a Linux system

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Wieder
Glen- Saturday, January 15, 2011, 2:07:45 PM, you wrote: Hello everyone, Are there standard steps in properly uninstalling Livecode for a Linux system (I'm using Fedora 13). I know I can delete files but I would like the menu to not show Livecode if it is not installed. I'm not in front

Re: How to uninstall Livecode from a Linux system

2011-01-15 Thread Glen Bojsza
Great... thanks. On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Glen- Saturday, January 15, 2011, 2:07:45 PM, you wrote: Hello everyone, Are there standard steps in properly uninstalling Livecode for a Linux system (I'm using Fedora 13). I know I can

Re: problem importing tab delimited text files

2011-01-15 Thread Ian McKnight
Thanks for the advice David. I went back and checked. As I still had the text file open in Excel when I was trying to import it into LC the file must have been locked in some way by Excel - as soon as I closed the file in XL it worked perfectly. Makes perfect sense really. I think I'll start

Setting visibility on start up

2011-01-15 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Hi, I need some guidance of the LC parlance when making objects visible/invisible on start up. I've tried some experiments, but nothing works. FYI - for anyone that is interested, I *really* learned a lot from Mark's presentation/chat (I couldn't get good video consistently on David's). A

Re: Setting visibility on start up

2011-01-15 Thread David C.
Hi, I need some guidance of the LC parlance when making objects visible/invisible on start up.  I've tried some experiments, but nothing works. FYI - for anyone that is interested, I *really* learned a lot from Mark's presentation/chat (I couldn't get good video consistently on David's).  

Re: Setting visibility on start up

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Wieder
Calvin- Saturday, January 15, 2011, 4:13:48 PM, you wrote: Hi Mark, I was referring to standalone, but I got a bonus on this one! ;) g part of the bonus is that the startup and preopenstack are both sent before the stack is visible, so you don't have to worry about any flashing on the screen

Line Hint

2011-01-15 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Hi, I can find nothing in the dictionary nor the user guide... what exactly is a line hint? Thanks, Calvin ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: usb driver problem

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Wieder
Tom- Saturday, January 15, 2011, 8:18:26 AM, you wrote: I am having trouble accessing an Arduino Uno attached to my computer via USB. I haven't looked at the Arduino since they changed the chipset, but it *should* be straightforward. I realize that's no help, and crashing LC is something that

Re: Line Hint

2011-01-15 Thread David C.
Hi, I can find nothing in the dictionary nor the user guide... what exactly is a line hint? Thanks, Calvin Calvin, Not sure that I understand. are you asking about toolTips that are display when you hover over an object of some type? Best regards, David C.

Re: Line Hint

2011-01-15 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Hi David C., Nope. I'm referring to the Errors window when something flubs. It says on the left side of that dialog... Type Object Line Hint I know this is an error message, but does line hint mean anything else? Thanks, Calvin

Re: Line Hint

2011-01-15 Thread David C.
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Calvin Waterbury c...@eml.cc wrote: Hi David C., Nope.  I'm referring to the Errors window when something flubs.  It says on the left side of that dialog... Type Object Line Hint I know this is an error message, but does line hint mean anything else?

Re: Line Hint

2011-01-15 Thread Jeffrey Massung
On Jan 15, 2011, at 5:41 PM, Calvin Waterbury wrote: Hi David C., Nope. I'm referring to the Errors window when something flubs. It says on the left side of that dialog... Type Object Line Hint I know this is an error message, but does line hint mean anything else? Well, line

Re: Line Hint

2011-01-15 Thread Calvin Waterbury
We have a winner! Boy! do I feel like a schmolez! Thanks for the clarification, Jeff. Calvin Jeffrey Massung mailto:mass...@gmail.com Saturday, January 15, 2011 7:12 PM Well, line hint isn't really

Open Source Licenses (yet again)

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Wieder
All- I notice that Adobe/O'Reilly posts Actionscript snippets using the Creative Commons 3.0 license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ example (which btw is an easy example showing how to use OAuth to access foursquare.com data):

Re: Layers, revNavigator, DataGrids

2011-01-15 Thread Geoff Canyon Rev
I'm looking at it now... On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Peter Brigham MD pmb...@gmail.com wrote: On Jan 13, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: AltLayerTools http://www.gadgetplugins.com/altplugins/altLayerTools.rev It keeps you from moving objects in and out of groups. It only move

Re: Setting visibility on start up

2011-01-15 Thread william humphrey
preOpenStack works in both the IDE and in a standalone while on startup only works when compiled to a standalone? That's good to know. I wonder why any one would use startup? On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: on startup -- the startup message is only

Re: Line Hint

2011-01-15 Thread Jim Ault
Try creating know errors, then observe the error reporting. Start with small scripts, misspell, mis-reference, etc to get a feel for this. On Jan 15, 2011, at 5:17 PM, Calvin Waterbury wrote: We have a winner! Boy! do I feel like a schmolez! Thanks for the clarification, Jeff. Calvin

Re: Line Hint

2011-01-15 Thread Calvin Waterbury
Hi Jim, I did this somewhat, but the idea of matching errors with error messages is certainly wise. Thank you, Calvin Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Jim Ault jimaultw...@yahoo.com Sender: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2011

Re: Setting visibility on start up

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Wieder
william- Saturday, January 15, 2011, 6:33:19 PM, you wrote: preOpenStack works in both the IDE and in a standalone while on startup only works when compiled to a standalone? That's good to know. I wonder why any one would use startup? I parse commandline arguments there for a standalone.

Re: different screen resolutions (iOS)

2011-01-15 Thread Harald Müller
There were many articles and speculations. The last one: http://www.macrumors.com/2011/01/15/ipad-2-screen-likely-to-have-2048x1536-resolution/ (As the dreamer that I am I would love it when the engine could blow up a normal card to the double size and would search for corresponding @2x graphics

Re: usb driver problem

2011-01-15 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/15/11 10:54 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I now keep getting file is not open for read on the cu.usbmodem1a21 and eof on the tty.usbmodem1a21 What am I missing here? -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jan 15, 2011, at 11:18 AM, Thomas McGrath III

Re: usb driver problem

2011-01-15 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Saturday, January 15, 2011, 7:31:30 PM, you wrote: There's no USB support per se, so if the device doesn't present itself as a serial port device it won't work. The path you use when you open a serial port as a file is the same one you'd use in shell -- use the /dev/tty.usbmodem1a21

Re: Live LiveCode Code Event #6

2011-01-15 Thread tbodine
For those of us who missed it, is there an archive of past presentations? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Live-LiveCode-Code-Event-6-tp3215816p3219718.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Groups - Lock Size and Position

2011-01-15 Thread Warren Kuhl
I have some groups within a Tab Menu. I am trying to make the tab menu and groups scalable based on the size of the stack. When I test this, it keeps setting on the lock size and position on for the groups. What would cause this when I keep unhiliting the lock size and position of the groups?