Re: Approved!

2011-07-02 Thread Andy Henshaw
Well done, your app looks very slick! Andy On 1 Jul 2011, at 20:01, Dan Friedman wrote: Hey all... Apple just approved my second app, Custom Blind Timer. It's a timer to run your poker tournament. Like the last app, this one was also created 100% in LiveCode.

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-02 Thread Peter Brigham MD
There may be a better way, but you might have to use a shell call. Execute the following in the message box: put shell(man date | col -b) and look at the options. You can get any format you want, and this way you would have full control over date display format in LC. -- Peter Peter M.

Re: PNGs and screenGamma

2011-07-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Interestingly enough . . . my Pentium 4 running Ubuntu 11.04 has a screen gamma of 2.2 . . . So, I can only conclude, that while Apple's bye-line may be Think Different, as Lion begins to look like something halfway between GNOME 3 and UNITY, and Snow Leopard sets a screen gamma to 2.2, the

Re: [OT] Text analysis and author, anyone done it?

2011-07-02 Thread David C.
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Since the subject was broached using textual analysis of Biblical passages as an example, I will respond in like kind. If anyone will be offended at this, please, stop reading, close the email, and ignore any future posts to

Why does lockScreen not work here?

2011-07-02 Thread bar...@libero.it
This is a similar question to that of Tiemo (why does lock screen doesn't locks the screen? (Tiemo Hollmann TB)) about finding colours under other objects (controls) but that thread evolved so fast in a single Digest I may appear a bit late. Thus the hijacked thread title. The following

Re: Why does lockScreen not work here?

2011-07-02 Thread Mark Schonewille
Barry, You made a mistake. The correct syntax is: lock screen or set the lockScreen to true and unlock screen or set the lockScreen to false -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: [OT] Text analysis and author, anyone done it?

2011-07-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 07/02/2011 04:17 PM, David C. wrote: On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Bob Sneidarb...@twft.com wrote: Since the subject was broached using textual analysis of Biblical passages as an example, I will respond in like kind. If anyone will be offended at this, please, stop reading, close the

Re: [OT] what RGB is blue?

2011-07-02 Thread Peter Brigham MD
I posted a stack to RevOnline demonstrating one of the illusions from the boingboing page. See optical illusion -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jul 1, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Well that is the point I was making, but when I see how

re:Why does lockScreen not work here?

2011-07-02 Thread bar...@libero.it
Thank you Mark!Now you all know why I don't ask questions very often.But I do enjoy reading all my Digests every evening (can't understand how you people keep it up in real time) and that takes so long I never get around to working on my stacks (or reading the fm)! Barry

Re: [OT] Text analysis and author, anyone done it?

2011-07-02 Thread Richmond Mathewson
Analysis of texts by machines is fairly suspect because it rests on a bogus premise: Humans are like machines. They are not, and machines will never be like humans. The mechanistic view of the human brain that has developed over the last 100 or so years has served to block our understanding of

FlushEvents on iOS?

2011-07-02 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, I am 'converting' one of my apps to iOS (iPad) and I am looking for an alternative for: put flushEvents(all) into temp. Is there something like this on iOS? And another strange thing is that I don't have sound on the iPad simulator 4.3 It does work fine when I use the iPhone simulator

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-02 Thread Pete
Thanks Peter. This and the strftime shell command will save me a lot of time in formatting dates in LC! But Im still faced with the problem of figuring out what the user's System Preference settings are for the short, medium, long, and full date and time formats. I want to give them a

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/2/11 11:16 AM, Pete wrote: But Im still faced with the problem of figuring out what the user's System Preference settings are for the short, medium, long, and full date and time formats. You can get their preferred format by either setting the usesystemdate to true and then getting a

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/2/11 12:27 AM, Pete wrote: But they're not the same name - one is upper case and one is lower case. LC made a decision to treat them the same since casesensitive doesn't apply to object names, but they are different by any other definition. The entire engine is case insensitive, not just

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-02 Thread Pete
Hi Craig, Just to be clear, the button names are not identical - one is upper case and one is lower case. In its wisdom, LC treats them as identical because they are object names but if those string were not object names, they would not be treated as identical if casesensitive was true. Here's

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-02 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Instead of storing the button name in the preferences file, why not just save the button number? private command setButtonHilite pgroup, pbuttonNumber set the hilitedButton of group pgroup to pbuttonNumber end setButtonHilite -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/2/11 11:43 AM, Pete wrote: Here's the code I used to get round the problem. You're doing way too much work. Name your buttons: %M 1 %m 2 %d 1 %D 2 Store the full button name in your prefs so that you'll have the correct name of the button to hilite when you need to set them. You won't

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-02 Thread Dick Kriesel
On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:42 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: The entire engine is case insensitive, not just object names. Hi, Jacque. I guess that's why union and intersect can produce wrong results for mixed-case strings. Is that right? -- Dick ___

command group fails when objectList is a string

2011-07-02 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hi. Here's an example of what does work: group group id 342201 and group id 342165 and group id 342129 And what doesn't: put group id 342201 and group id 342165 and group id 342129 into tString group tString But shouldn't it work? Which leads me to a second question. My

Re: Combobox

2011-07-02 Thread David Glass
I don't suppose this will make its appearance as a DropTool? On 06/30/2011 7:30 PM, Ken Ray wrote: I don't usually use LC's combo boxes - I made a custom version of my own with a field and a truncated option button and I've used that in a handful of projects. -- David Glass - Gray Matter

Re: command group fails when objectList is a string

2011-07-02 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Nicolas, Am 03.07.2011 um 00:57 schrieb Nicolas Cueto: Hi. Here's an example of what does work: group group id 342201 and group id 342165 and group id 342129 And what doesn't: put group id 342201 and group id 342165 and group id 342129 into tString group tString But

Re: Combobox

2011-07-02 Thread Pete
I hope so! Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 4:52 PM, David Glass dgl...@graymattercomputing.comwrote: I don't suppose this will make its appearance as a DropTool? On 06/30/2011 7:30 PM, Ken Ray wrote: I don't usually use LC's combo boxes - I made

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-02 Thread Chipp Walters
Pete, I'm coming a bit late to this but... You do understand that a button's name is different from it's label. You can have a button named fred1 with it's label set to: fred And another buttoned named fred2 with it's label set to: FRED So the end user sees the difference as only upper and

Re: Combobox

2011-07-02 Thread Pete
Is it possible to attach filesto messages to this list? I have a combobox I'd like to share... Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 4:52 PM, David Glass dgl...@graymattercomputing.comwrote: I don't suppose this will make its appearance as a DropTool? On

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-02 Thread Pete
Hi Chip, Thanks for chiming in and yes I know there is a label as well as a name. Further back in the thread, there's a explanation of what I'm trying to do. The whole problem arises because the casesensitive setting doesn't apply to object names so LC can't distinguish between two objects with

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/2/11 2:46 PM, Pete wrote: For dates: LC Short = OSX Short LC Long = OSX Full LC Abbrev = returns a date that is not in any of the OS X formats no LC format for OSX medium or long For times: LC Short = OSX Short LC Abbrev = OSX Short LC Long = OSX Medium no LC format for OSX Long or full

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/2/11 5:51 PM, Dick Kriesel wrote: On Jul 2, 2011, at 9:42 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: The entire engine is case insensitive, not just object names. Hi, Jacque. I guess that's why union and intersect can produce wrong results for mixed-case strings. Is that right? I haven't tried it,

Re: Anyone using MobGUI?

2011-07-02 Thread Roger Eller
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: If you are, do you mind a few questions? 1. Does the exact same MobGUI plugin work on both Mac and PC? IOW, if you have your plugins synchronized in Dropbox, will you be able to use it? 2. Are the scripts protected? Can you dive in

Re: Anyone using MobGUI?

2011-07-02 Thread Chipp Walters
I believe this is called a tab bar in iOS: http://www.glyfx.com/grfx/products/previews/iphone_common_preview.png On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:31 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 10:15 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: If you are, do you mind a few questions?

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/2/11 2:46 PM, Pete wrote: So if a user tells me he wants his dates in OS X medium or long format, I can't find out what that is with LC code, same for an OS X long time. Start with these. The functions below will only work on US systems, or in countries that use US date/time formats. If

Re: Combobox -- attachments not allowed, but...

2011-07-02 Thread Jim Ault
On Jul 2, 2011, at 5:38 PM, Pete wrote: Is it possible to attach filesto messages to this list? I have a combobox I'd like to share... Pete Haworth You can post to the forum with attachments, and put a link to that post here. http://forums.runrev.com/ Jim Ault

Re: Combobox

2011-07-02 Thread Ken Ray
I don't suppose this will make its appearance as a DropTool? Yup! But it may take a bit as I have a couple of other DropTools in the works right now... :-) Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software, Inc. Email: k...@sonsothunder.com Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/