Re: Highlight list line on hover?

2011-05-13 Thread Keith Clarke
...a thinko - nice! Given the use and definition of mouseover in other environments, perhaps it was more a repressed pseudonym feature request? Best, Keith.. On 12 May 2011, at 23:35, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/12/11 11:16 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: ...hmm, is mouseOver an undocumented

Re: What does Windows 'shell' expect?

2011-05-13 Thread Graham Samuel
Phil, thanks. I did not guess that your plugin existed. It is hard to look at all the possible places where one might get help with LC. Nowadays not being able to afford the old 'Improve' list, I rely on the Use list, the LC Dictionary and the User's Guide. I started to use the forum a long

Obscuring password data in a data grid

2011-05-13 Thread Keith Clarke
Hi folks, Any ideas on how one goes about obfuscating data in a 'Password' column of a data grid? I don't seen an option to set a column-specific password entry font, so could I perhaps use some clever property or behaviour trick on its containing cell? Best, Keith..

Re: What does Windows 'shell' expect?

2011-05-13 Thread Phil Davis
Graham - I'm not a forumite either. I find this list and the livecode-dev list to be the richest sources of high-intensity help around, regarding LC or anything even peripherally related. I imagine there must be lots of value in the forum material as well, but like you I lost interest in

Re: Highlight list line on hover?

2011-05-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
He probably meant mouseWithin? On 13 May 2011, at 09:23, Keith Clarke wrote: ...a thinko - nice! Given the use and definition of mouseover in other environments, perhaps it was more a repressed pseudonym feature request? Best, Keith.. On 12 May 2011, at 23:35, J. Landman Gay wrote:

Re: Incredibly slow revlet in Win 7

2011-05-13 Thread Paul Foraker
All my domains hosted at RunRev return the same IP address: 74.54.153.71, which makes it impossible to enter the IP address instead of, say, beta.4spires.com On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 1:23 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: There are several web resources, here's one I just found:

Re: Obscuring password data in a data grid

2011-05-13 Thread Mike Bonner
Not sure if this is what you want, but theres some cool stuff offered by Mark S here. http://www3.economy-x-talk.com/file.php?node=libraries http://www3.economy-x-talk.com/file.php?node=librariesOne of the things at that location is a password field that you could probably use. If nothing else,

Re: Obscuring password data in a data grid

2011-05-13 Thread Keith Clarke
Thanks Mike, some useful grist to the mill there. FYI I already have the problem solved for a single password field - by using a PasswordEntry font (that has bullets set for all its glyph images). I seem to recall Trevor DeVore sharing this for maybe a Live 09 session (apologies to those

Re: Viewing mobile version of website in LiveCode Mac/Windows?

2011-05-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Hey Paul - good to see you here. You wrote: I am interested in displaying the mobile version of a website in LiveCode, and when a mobile-specific URL is not available I am wondering if there is a way to still force the mobile version to display in LiveCode on Mac/Windows. Most web sites

Re: Simple way to read the livecode list

2011-05-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Stephen Goldberg wrote: I've been following this great livecode (runrev) comments list for years and could kick myself for not using this simple way of scanning it without a lot of scrolling. It occurred to me just now as I woke up at 6AM: Simple type message: into the find field and

Re: Highlight list line on hover?

2011-05-13 Thread Thomas McGrath III
This works here: on mouseOver answer Cool end mouseOver Oh yeah only if you have this as well on mouseWithin mouseOver end mouseWithin -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On May 13, 2011, at 6:58 AM, Björnke von Gierke wrote: He probably meant

CouchDB

2011-05-13 Thread Todd Geist
Hello, I am curious if anyone has worked with CouchDB and live code? It has REST api so I know you can connect to it over the web. But I am curios about using it embedding it in a Live Code app. It has built in peer to peer replication, and it runs on many Desktop and Mobile OSs, incuding

Re: Obscuring password data in a data grid

2011-05-13 Thread Nonsanity
Careful with a password protect font. It may not be readable, but someone can select, copy, and paste somewhere else to read it. I'd only do this if it were a list of my passwords that I didn't want people to read over my shoulder, but then in that form, I can't read them either so what's the

Re: Simple way to read the livecode list

2011-05-13 Thread Nonsanity
I use Gmail to read the list (so show details might be a better search term for that effect), which collects the threads together. Unless I go away for a week, all the topics usually fit on one screen. Inside each thread, I use a mouse's scrollwheel. Scrollwheels rock. Multitouch trackpads rock

Re: Obscuring password data in a data grid

2011-05-13 Thread Keith Clarke
...ah, good tip - thanks Mike. On 13 May 2011, at 14:44, Mike Bonner wrote: Ah k, think you need to set up a custom template for the column you want to be your password field at which point you should be able to do what you want with its specific field. Look here

Re: Obscuring password data in a data grid

2011-05-13 Thread Keith Clarke
...good points well made, Chris. The password protect font was intended to a) show the user that they'd actually entered something and b) provide 'over the shoulder' protection. My intention is to have the data grid read-only but with rows selectable. Row data entry/editing would be in a

Classic CGI questions

2011-05-13 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, as I did not do too many CGIs in the past, I´d like to reassure myself to find reliable methods of reading in post data. Why CGI and not revServer? - Need to deploy on a windows server (server 2003 running Apache) I am posting data from a LiveCode Client to a Rev 3.5 CGI Questions:

Re: Classic CGI questions

2011-05-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Malte, Can I on the CGI side see the HTTP Headers I have set in the LC Client? Yes, somehow. Try the environment variables perhaps? Check the globalnames. The CGI system I use keeps the most important headers in separate environment variables. I'm unable to get the complete headers at

Re: CouchDB

2011-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
I don't think you can, directly. But if it has a way to access it via a shell, or if it is supported by ODBC then you can do it that way. Bob On May 13, 2011, at 6:53 AM, Todd Geist wrote: Hello, I am curious if anyone has worked with CouchDB and live code? It has REST api so I know

Re: IDE 'Reset'

2011-05-13 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark- Thursday, May 12, 2011, 3:45:51 PM, you wrote: Non members are supposed to write a bug report to support directly. RunRev will file the report in bugzilla for you. That is my memory on the change. from Kevin 19 Nov 2010: - New customers will be presented with information telling

Re: CouchDB

2011-05-13 Thread Jeff Massung
Todd, CouchDB (or Mongo, Riak, and other NoSQL alternatives) are excellent databases in the right situation. I haven't used on with LC, but have used CouchDB plenty. Their main benefits lie in A) no schema and B) replication. If you have no need of either, then it might be more work to get

Re: Obscuring password data in a data grid

2011-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
Agreed. It works for password entry into a temporary dialog box, but not good for storage (if you care anything about real security). You can actually copy the default datagrid parent script to another button and then set the parent script of the datagrid to the new button. At that point you

Re: Obscuring password data in a data grid

2011-05-13 Thread Bob Sneidar
If it's anything like important to protect these passwords, show 8 bullets for everything. For one, you don't have to worry about column width for really long passwords, and secondly, knowing how long a password is goes a long way towards brute forcing it. Bob On May 13, 2011, at 7:13 AM,

Re: Obscuring password data in a data grid

2011-05-13 Thread Keith Clarke
...indeed - plus, there's the added bonus of less scripting required to count the characters! :-) On 13 May 2011, at 16:53, Bob Sneidar wrote: If it's anything like important to protect these passwords, show 8 bullets for everything. For one, you don't have to worry about column width for

Re: Simple way to read the livecode list

2011-05-13 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi all, Back in 2006, I posted this stack: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/Mailbox_browser.zip To use this stack, you have to download the mailbox from this page: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/ and drag and drop it to a field inside the stack. Notice that is easy

Re: Highlight list line on hover?

2011-05-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/13/11 2:23 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: ...a thinko - nice! Given the use and definition of mouseover in other environments, perhaps it was more a repressed pseudonym feature request? There is already a property for mouseover, which I forgot about till now. If you set the hoverIcon on the

Re: What does Windows 'shell' expect?

2011-05-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/13/11 3:27 AM, Phil Davis wrote: Graham - I'm not a forumite either. I find this list and the livecode-dev list to be the richest sources of high-intensity help around, regarding LC or anything even peripherally related. I imagine there must be lots of value in the forum material as well,

Re: Viewing mobile version of website in LiveCode Mac/Windows?

2011-05-13 Thread Paul Hibbitts
Thanks for the welcome Richard! I've added my vote to the request you linked to - I'd love to see this feature added to revBrowser! Cheers, Paul -- Hey Paul - good to see you here. You wrote: I am interested in displaying the mobile version of a website in LiveCode, and when a

Re: Incredibly slow revlet in Win 7

2011-05-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/13/11 7:06 AM, Paul Foraker wrote: All my domains hosted at RunRev return the same IP address: 74.54.153.71, which makes it impossible to enter the IP address instead of, say, beta.4spires.com I think it will be something like: http://74.54.153.71/beta/default.html Put in the actual

Re: Dictionary usage and IDE hang

2011-05-13 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/12/11 11:53 PM, David Glass wrote: Yes, definitely something off about how/when stacks receive the focus. Most don't always receive focus when clicking in their content area, although sometimes they do. Sometimes, clicking the Title bar will give the focus to the window, and it is

Re: Highlight list line on hover?

2011-05-13 Thread Keith Clarke
Thanks Jaque, I was aware of that button property but it wouldn't help to get a list field's row hilite to change with mouseover. But don't worry - whilst my learning continues, my problem has been solved! ;-) On 13 May 2011, at 17:56, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 5/13/11 2:23 AM, Keith Clarke

Re: CouchDB

2011-05-13 Thread Todd Geist
Thanks for the responses. I believe there already is a JSON library in Live Code. So that isn't the main issue to me. The main issue is how to get CouchDB bundled into a standalone that runs on Desktops and Mobile devices. That is the part that I have no idea how to do. I am not even sure if

Live LiveCode code event #23

2011-05-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Next event is tomorrow. Due to horrible Jet Lag problems for me, and Marks ability to only do the work of 2 people at once (but not 3), we still desperately need other people ready to do organisation of these events. On a related note, we also need presenters, for all future weekends (not

Re: link to my #22 event presentation

2011-05-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Right, I don't know how Mark could miss that, but it seems he's simply too busy working, so I added this to the relevant places for him now. On 13 May 2011, at 06:57, Colin Holgate wrote: There still isn't a link on livecode.tv to the recording of my presentation last Saturday, and I haven't

Re: CouchDB

2011-05-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Todd, You should not try to bundle CouchDB. CouchDB relies on Erlang OTB and friends, it is not something like SQLite that you can embed. If you want some embedable solution look at Googles LiveTable thing or some other key/value store but even so, those embedable solutions will not present you

Re: Classic CGI questions

2011-05-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Malte and Mark, There is a great chance that there won't be a $CONTENT_LENGHT variable, the variables I've seen are usually: DOCUMENT_ROOT The root directory of your server HTTP_COOKIE The visitor's cookie, if one is set HTTP_HOST The hostname of the page being attempted HTTP_REFERER The URL of

Image fileName problem

2011-05-13 Thread Thomas McGrath III
I am trying to upload an image to on-rev and am running into a problem. I wonder if anyone can help? I have an image object named TestImage that I set the file name to an image on disk using the inspector icon (Folder). (This is the important part) The inspector puts ./../../LRS.png into the

Re: CouchDB

2011-05-13 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 5/13/11 11:08 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: If you want embedable you'd better go with SQLite, BDB or Valentina and then build a schemaless stuff on top of it. Note, that Valentina DB from yet 1998 year offers Very reach NON-SQL API. And V4REV - Valentina for

Re: CouchDB

2011-05-13 Thread Todd Geist
Thanks again for more responses But my interest in couchDB is about getting a database with built in world class synchronization. If it can be embedded in iOS apps and Android apps why can't it be embedded in LiveCode apps. Thanks Todd On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin

Re: CouchDB

2011-05-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Todd, You are mixing CouchDB Server with Mobile Couchbase. Mobile Couchbase ( http://www.couchbase.com/products-and-services/mobile-couchbase ) is a product that will basically synchronizes your data on your device, it is not a full featured CouchDB server but hey, mobile couchbase is a wonderful

Re: Incredibly slow revlet in Win 7

2011-05-13 Thread paul foraker
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 10:14 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: I think it will be something like: http://74.54.153.71/beta/default.html Put in the actual landing page html or php or whatever for the last item. Nope... Apache doesn't find the page, even with the full path

Re: Image fileName problem

2011-05-13 Thread Mike Bonner
Don't know the specific answer to the problem, but I think if you go into preferences, files memory and check the always use absolute file paths for images it will stop the relative referencing. On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Thomas McGrath III mcgra...@mac.comwrote: I am trying to upload an

Re: CouchDB

2011-05-13 Thread Todd Geist
Hello Andre, Mobile Couchbase is a slimmed down small as possible version of CouchBase. It is still written in Erlang. And it still based on Apache CouchDB. I think they are much more like different distros of the same application, then they are different applications. Again, I don't really

Re: CouchDB

2011-05-13 Thread Andre Garzia
Todd, when the new external sdk is release, I am sure someone will be able to wrap it. :-D cheers andre On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Todd Geist t...@geistinteractive.comwrote: Hello Andre, Mobile Couchbase is a slimmed down small as possible version of CouchBase. It is still written

Animation Via Repeated Loop calls?

2011-05-13 Thread John Patten
Hi All... I'm trying to get my head around the idea of using repeated loop to animate objects. These are probably pretty basic concepts, but I feel I need to get some basic understanding on things such as interrupting a loop, etc. For example, On a card there's a graphic object, a field

Re: link to my #22 event presentation

2011-05-13 Thread Mark Schonewille
Sorry, Colin, When I organise the event, I always ask people for any materials and links the monday after their presentation. Your brief answer led me to think that there was no recording. It seems it got fixed already, thanks to Björnke. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk

Re: Animation Via Repeated Loop calls?

2011-05-13 Thread Scott Rossi
Hi John: You really should use send in... to allow for interruptions of a loop. Without knowing exactly what kind of motion you are trying to achieve, here's how I would do it: -- SINCE YOU ARE USING FIELD 1 AS A SWITCH, -- YOU CAN TREAT IT AS SUCH, BEING EITHER ON (TRUE) OR OFF (FALSE) -- IN

Re: Animation Via Repeated Loop calls?

2011-05-13 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi John, John Patten wrote: I'm trying to get my head around the idea of using repeated loop to animate objects. These are probably pretty basic concepts, but I feel I need to get some basic understanding on things such as interrupting a loop, etc. [snip] What would be the proper

Re: link to my #22 event presentation

2011-05-13 Thread Colin Holgate
I see your point. I'm a brief kinda guy! In this particular instance I was quite happy to tell everything about my stack, but couldn't really give it away, if I hope to complete it as a mobile app. On May 13, 2011, at 7:45 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: When I organise the event, I always ask