Re: text field in modal allows no input

2011-04-18 Thread Maarten Koopmans
I added this to openCard, but alas, still didn't work :-( --Maarten On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Maarten Koopmans maarten.koopm...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I will test. The advantage of livecode being that you can redesign your UI flow so fast, i came up witha flow without modals tha

Re: Check for first run

2011-04-18 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Yes, I was thinking along those lines but... Iw ant the user to point to a root folder, where (among others) the db file will be stored :-) But I should be able to take it from here. --Maarten On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Even if the db does exist, just

Re: Android Phone

2011-04-18 Thread Kevin Miller
On 17/04/2011 18:11, Dan Friedman d...@clearvisiontech.com wrote: I know nothing about the Android. I am a iPhone user. As I am about to embark on writing for the Android, I thought I should have one to test on. A friend of a friend got a new phone and has offered me his old Android phone

Re: Resizing a datagrid form

2011-04-18 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.comwrote: is it possible to resize the content of a datagrid form when the stack resizes? I mean the CONTENTS of the datagrid form, not only the groups rect! Know what I mean? Any hint very welcome :-) set the rect of group

Re: text field in modal allows no input

2011-04-18 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Maarten Koopmans maarten.koopm...@gmail.com wrote: I have a main stack that accepts a drag-drop for files like this on a hidden field the size of the card: *on* dragDrop *if* the dragData[files] is not empty *then* *modal* stack AddMetaData

Re: Check for first run

2011-04-18 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Maarten Koopmans maarten.koopm...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a best practice for checking if the application is on a first run for a standalone(especially one that will go to an App store eventually)? I simply need to ask the user a few questions on first

Source code for QT external

2011-04-18 Thread Glen Bojsza
Hello, I am looking to see if the source code that was used for the QT external is available and if so, where can it be downloaded. This is for the actual source code not the external itself. regards, Glen ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Resizing a datagrid form

2011-04-18 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Trevor, On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:38 AM, Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.comwrote: is it possible to resize the content of a datagrid form when the stack resizes? I mean the CONTENTS of the datagrid form, not only the groups rect! Know what I mean? Any hint very welcome :-) set the

Export snapshot to an image?

2011-04-18 Thread Graham Samuel
I've been extracting bits of images using 'export snapshot', and this goes fine if the export is to a file. However, I have now tried to do an export to an image and nothing seems to happen. The command has the form export snapshot from rect a,b,c,d of img LargeBitmap of cd BitMapStore of

Re: Export snapshot to an image?

2011-04-18 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Graham, I've been extracting bits of images using 'export snapshot', and this goes fine if the export is to a file. However, I have now tried to do an export to an image and nothing seems to happen. The command has the form export snapshot from rect a,b,c,d of img LargeBitmap of cd

Re: Export snapshot to an image?

2011-04-18 Thread Keith Clarke
Hi Graham, You might want to try something along the lines of import snapshot from rectangle 0,0,1024,768 of card target set the name of the last image to The image name I want ...which worked for me - and I think it bypasses the clipboard. Best, Keith.. On 18 Apr 2011, at 14:46, Klaus on-rev

Re: text field in modal allows no input

2011-04-18 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Thanks Trevor, that does the trick, also with a sheet, which gave the same problem! Sadly, I don't have acess to the QCC anymore sine the new paid supoort list thing. Thanks a lot for your help though! --Maarten On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 1:22 PM, Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.comwrote: On

Re: Export snapshot to an image?

2011-04-18 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Gentlemen, both ideas are a lot better than mine. FWIW, while I was waiting for a reply (I didn't expect it to be so quick!) I thought of another method, which is to clone the image I want to take my extract from and crop the clone - then I can simply put the cropped image into the image

menu icon in OS X

2011-04-18 Thread Maarten Koopmans
Hi, I Googled a lot, but I haven't found it... I'd like to have a little menu icon to the right on closing my app in the Mac menu bar, is that possible at all. And when a user clicks the icon a menu appears. If you've ever seen the dropbox menu icon, you know what I mean. Any small snippet (as

Re: Palette question

2011-04-18 Thread Pete
Thanks. Like I said, I knew I was missing something obvious! As a side note, I also found that setting the stack window decorations to None gets rid of the resize icon. Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:18 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: iOS reliability of reachability on WIFI networks

2011-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Maybe retry 3 times? A weak connection may not be there one minute and then be there the next. If any of the 3 times fails, report to the user that the connection is weak. But if you are getting this with strong signals then it's obviously something else. Bob On Apr 15, 2011, at 4:51 PM,

Re: take by a LiveCode developer I suspect...

2011-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Actually, here is the error message: This XML file does not appear to have any style information associated with it. The document tree is shown below. Bob On Apr 16, 2011, at 9:20 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: I was looking over some of the tutorials online, and saw this picture:

Re: Palette question

2011-04-18 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Pete wrote: As a side note, I also found that setting the stack window decorations to None gets rid of the resize icon. If you're just trying to enable or disable resizing, you can set the resizable property of your stack to true or false. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director

Re: weekdaynames

2011-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
I vote no, since anybody can code this with a little imagination. Instead, I vote for a way to query the system for date/time data that is meaningful. Bob On Apr 17, 2011, at 9:17 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Klaus, This won't help you at all, but it

Re: take by a LiveCode developer I suspect...

2011-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
I get: ErrorCodeAccessDenied/CodeMessageRequest has expired/MessageRequestId5E9FF482889D839C/RequestIdExpires2011-04-17T12:19:44Z/ExpiresHostIdxs9mYQn8na1fWfuxF2TmS+g6VD3xdj/Fz4TZfhfs+ESpo+7ZEtJrXXKRLeLoIFD4/HostIdServerTime2011-04-18T16:28:07Z/ServerTime/Error with Firefox 4. Bob On Apr

Re: revWeb revlets broken in Firefox 4.0?

2011-04-18 Thread Olivier Dussutour
Hello, there has exactly the same problem on IE9!?! Does anyone know if it is provided a new version of the plugin? Cordialement, Olivier Dussutour olivierdussut...@gmail.com - Original Message - From: Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net To: How to use LiveCode

Re: Data-Entry in a LiveCode form using the tab key

2011-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Or you can get a list of fields whose focusable is true and locktext is false (because you don't want to tab to labels now do you) and then present the developer with an interface where they can click sequentially on the fields in the order that they want to tab through, then save that list in

Re: Check for first run

2011-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Trouble with the prefs approach is that sometimes prefs will get corrupted whatever that means, and a user will delete it expecting that the app will create another one with the default settings. Making them go through the setup procedure can actually cause more problems, if the setup has

Re: Palette question

2011-04-18 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Scott, Recently, Pete wrote: As a side note, I also found that setting the stack window decorations to None gets rid of the resize icon. If you're just trying to enable or disable resizing, you can set the resizable property of your stack to true or false. yes, but THAT does not

Re: Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Apr 17, 2011, at 7:15 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter Brigham wrote: On Apr 15, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Scott McDonald wrote: Where I was getting it mixed up, was that I was equating selling commercially with not making the source code available. But of course,

Re: Palette question

2011-04-18 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, Klaus on-rev wrote: If you're just trying to enable or disable resizing, you can set the resizable property of your stack to true or false. yes, but THAT does not hinder the system to resize your stack when you click the green button in the title bar (OS X), just tested! Big fun

Re: Source code for QT external

2011-04-18 Thread stephen barncard
you should contact Trevor Devore at Blue Mango. It's his code. He's also on one of these lists. On 18 April 2011 04:25, Glen Bojsza gboj...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am looking to see if the source code that was used for the QT external is available and if so, where can it be downloaded.

Re: take by a LiveCode developer I suspect...

2011-04-18 Thread Colin Holgate
Not sure how session stuff got into there. Here's the non-tinyurl version: http://s3.amazonaws.com/screensteps_live/step_images/runrev/29252/media_1300882578420_display.png ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Palette question

2011-04-18 Thread Pete
Good point. I'm opening my stack as a palette so I don't have that problem, but I agree resizable should mean just that. Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.comwrote: Hi Scott, Recently, Pete wrote: As a

Re: Palette question

2011-04-18 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Scott, Recently, Klaus on-rev wrote: If you're just trying to enable or disable resizing, you can set the resizable property of your stack to true or false. yes, but THAT does not hinder the system to resize your stack when you click the green button in the title bar (OS X), just

Re: Palette question

2011-04-18 Thread Pete
That would also fix all those pesky bugs that keep coming up! Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: Recently, Klaus on-rev wrote: If you're just trying to enable or disable resizing, you can set the

Re: take by a LiveCode developer I suspect...

2011-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Fascinating! How did you get the iMac to produce real food and drink? This is a monumental breakthrough in quantum physics!! Bob On Apr 18, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Colin Holgate wrote: Not sure how session stuff got into there. Here's the non-tinyurl version:

Omegabundle 2011 for LiveCode - Very Limited Time Bundle of LiveCode and Extensions

2011-04-18 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hello all, Runtime Revolution has thrown in their support to the Omegabundle 2011 for LiveCode offers! check it out: http://www.omegabundle.com/ Omegabundle 2011 for LiveCode (new user) includes LiveCode Pro/Commercial (your choice of desktop + one mobile platform) plus the following: *A $500

Re: Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, The trick is to provide a quality of services that's worth paying for, including compiled binaries, while at the same time keeping the open-source community at a big distance away from your commercial product. You could also try to focus your open-source project on Unix flavours while

Re: Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: The trick is to provide a quality of services that's worth paying for, including compiled binaries, while at the same time keeping the open-source community at a big distance away from your commercial product. You could also try to focus your open-source project on

Re: iOS reliability of reachability on WIFI networks

2011-04-18 Thread Jim Lambert
BobS wrote: Maybe retry 3 times? A weak connection may not be there one minute and then be there the next. If any of the 3 times fails, report to the user that the connection is weak. But if you are getting this with strong signals then it's obviously something else. Thanks, Bob. In all

How to copy a card you can't open

2011-04-18 Thread william humphrey
I have a stack with three cards. I pulled this stack out of many that was in my application. If I go to the last card in this stack LiveCode crashes every time. How can I figure out what is in this card which is causing LiveCode to crash and delete whatever it is?

Re: How to copy a card you can't open

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
william humphrey wrote: I have a stack with three cards. I pulled this stack out of many that was in my application. If I go to the last card in this stack LiveCode crashes every time. How can I figure out what is in this card which is causing LiveCode to crash and delete whatever it is? Are

Re: Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

2011-04-18 Thread Mark Schonewille
Richard: quoteOpenVZ is free open source software, available under GNU GPL. OpenVZ is the basis of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, a commercial virtualization solution offered by Parallels. OpenVZ project is supported by Parallels./quote http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page I'm not sure that this

Re: How to copy a card you can't open

2011-04-18 Thread william humphrey
Thanks. In the application browser I made everything on that card invisible and it still couldn't be opened without crashing. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: william humphrey wrote: I have a stack with three cards. I pulled this stack out of

Re: How to copy a card you can't open

2011-04-18 Thread william humphrey
But I found out that deleted the main fld which contained, I thought, only text has made it possible to open the card. So this means that there was text in that field which LiveCode couldn't deal with. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: How to copy a card you can't open

2011-04-18 Thread william humphrey
Thanks for your help. It wasn't the text in the field. It was the field itself. A basic table field with some tab stops set. Interesting flaw in LiveCode. If I knew where to send the stack to for a bug report I would. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 3:59 PM, Richard Gaskin

Re: Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Schonewille wrote: quoteOpenVZ is free open source software, available under GNU GPL. OpenVZ is the basis of Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, a commercial virtualization solution offered by Parallels. OpenVZ project is supported by Parallels./quote http://wiki.openvz.org/Main_Page I'm

Re: How to copy a card you can't open

2011-04-18 Thread Richard Gaskin
william humphrey wrote: Thanks for your help. It wasn't the text in the field. It was the field itself. A basic table field with some tab stops set. Interesting flaw in LiveCode. If I knew where to send the stack to for a bug report I would. Glad you got that sorted out. Interesting problem,

Re: Data-Entry in a LiveCode form using the tab key

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Or you can get a list of fields whose focusable is true and locktext is false (because you don't want to tab to labels now do you) and then present the developer with an interface where they can click sequentially on the fields in the order

Re: Palette question

2011-04-18 Thread Peter Brigham MD
On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Even better: quit LiveCode and your stack will be COMPLETELY not resizable Quit LiveCode??? You can do that -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig ___

Re: How to copy a card you can't open

2011-04-18 Thread william humphrey
No. The table field had nine stops. Set like 45,150,300,345,390,595,646,705 and text Helvetica 9 point. I just re-built it. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: william humphrey wrote: Thanks for your help. It wasn't the text in the field. It was

Re: Palette question

2011-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Not really. It's like Hotel California. You can check out anytime you like... Bob On Apr 18, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:58 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: Even better: quit LiveCode and your stack will be COMPLETELY not resizable Quit LiveCode??? You can

Re: How to copy a card you can't open

2011-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
I was going to say, Suppress Messages and Suppress Errors before opening the stack/card, but it looks like you have things figured out. Jacque has said in the past that a corrupted stack is virtually unheard of in Livecode, so if you have a copy of the old one that was crashing, I would sure

Re: menu icon in OS X

2011-04-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/18/11 10:49 AM, Maarten Koopmans wrote: Hi, I Googled a lot, but I haven't found it... I'd like to have a little menu icon to the right on closing my app in the Mac menu bar, is that possible at all. And when a user clicks the icon a menu appears. If you've ever seen the dropbox menu

Re: How to copy a card you can't open

2011-04-18 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 4/18/11 4:48 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I was going to say, Suppress Messages and Suppress Errors before opening the stack/card, but it looks like you have things figured out. Jacque has said in the past that a corrupted stack is virtually unheard of in Livecode, so if you have a copy of the old

Re: Data-Entry in a LiveCode form using the tab key

2011-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
That may work too, only a couple things might happen. The user may start clicking on the fields without dismissing the Answer Dialog, which of course won't work. The user might also get distracted and forget he was in the Set Field Order mode unless you supplied some distinct visual feedback.

Re: Data-Entry in a LiveCode form using the tab key

2011-04-18 Thread Bob Sneidar
Also to test this I made a simple stack with this in the card script and a button that calls it: on doFieldOrder put empty into theFieldList repeat if the commandkey is down then exit doFieldOrder wait until the mouseclick put the clickfield cr after

Apps stop launching

2011-04-18 Thread Paul Foraker
Over the past several days, I've noticed that my standalone apps will no longer launch. They try to launch and then quit before getting to the first card. These are simple apps that aren't doing anything interesting on launch. I have to go back to the original stack and build a new standalone.

Re: Apps stop launching

2011-04-18 Thread Terry Judd
Paul - you're not trying to launch these apps out of a Dropbox folder by any chance are you? Terry... On 19/04/2011 08:39 AM, Paul Foraker paul.fora...@gmail.com wrote: Over the past several days, I've noticed that my standalone apps will no longer launch. They try to launch and then quit

Re: How to copy a card you can't open

2011-04-18 Thread william humphrey
I tried deleting the text in the field and that didn't stop the crashes. I had to delete the whole field. Even weirder, I went to a back-up that was nearly a year old and found the same problem. Deleting the field and then re-creating it fixed the error I have no back-up to look at to check but I

Re: How to copy a card you can't open

2011-04-18 Thread stephen barncard
we'd all like to know how you did it. The engine can't do that yet. On 18 April 2011 18:25, william humphrey b...@bluewatermaritime.com wrote: I tried deleting the text in the field and that didn't stop the crashes. I had to delete the whole field. Even weirder, I went to a back-up that was

controller bar not responding

2011-04-18 Thread Nicolas Cueto
A player object's controller bar works on a standalone but not on a revlet. The video can play, but nothing happens when clicking the controller bar and any of its functions. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Nicolas Cueto ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Yay! Victory RevServer runs on FreeBSD with Linux Compat installed.

2011-04-18 Thread Andre Garzia
Folks, For anyone following this, I was unable to connect with MySQL or SQLite database using linux compatibility in FreeBSD. I believe that RevDB External and the Database Drivers need some uninstalled shared libraries but since they are no in ELF Format, I can't use ldd to find out whos