Ideal Unicode'
Will never exist for a few simple reasons:
1. Unicode is a moving target (the Unicode commission keep producing
updated versions).
2. Computers and computer operating systems are moving targets.
If one is prepared to invest one hell of a lot of time (and I have)
poking
Judy,
I might be too late to the thread but I'll offer a slightly twisted
perspective of where to go with this. These are adults, right?
Don't ask them so much about what they like, instead figure out what ticks
them off the most, or wastes their time the most or elicits the response
'it's a
On 08/16/2011 10:24 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
Judy,
I might be too late to the thread but I'll offer a slightly twisted
perspective of where to go with this. These are adults, right?
Don't ask them so much about what they like, instead figure out what ticks
them off the most, or wastes their time
Ok, I made some more test and the problem doesn't seems to be related to
quicktime, but to the snapshop function on Lion.
I tested with LC 4.6.3 on Lion with the following code:
Put the rect of [image | player | button] foo into tRect
Export snapshot from rect tRect to file export.png as [PNG |
Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
Peter, take a look at SKIM !
I junked Adobe Reader and I now use SKIM
for all my pdf work. Great Open Source
program.
- Francis
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Hi Tiemo,
Am 16.08.2011 um 10:56 schrieb Tiemo Hollmann TB:
Ok, I made some more test and the problem doesn't seems to be related to
quicktime, but to the snapshop function on Lion.
I tested with LC 4.6.3 on Lion with the following code:
Put the rect of [image | player | button] foo into
Hi Klaus,
thanks for testing, that didn't do the trick for me, I get irregular
results, the more often I do testing.
I think I found the reason what has changed with Lion. It is related to the
alwaysbuffer property of the player. Setting it to true in my test app did
the trick, but doing the same
Hello everyone,
Another date and time retrieval question: How can I retrieve the date and time
from my remote Mac?
Regards,
Gregory
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On 08/16/2011 12:56 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
Peter, take a look at SKIM !
I junked Adobe Reader and I now use SKIM
for all my pdf work. Great Open Source
program.
Mac only!
try pdfedit for Linux and Windows
http://pdfedit.cz/en/index.html
- Francis
Hi Tiemo,
Am 16.08.2011 um 14:34 schrieb Tiemo Hollmann TB:
Hi Klaus,
thanks for testing, that didn't do the trick for me, I get irregular
results, the more often I do testing.
I think I found the reason what has changed with Lion. It is related to the
alwaysbuffer property of the player.
Hi all,
out of academic interest I would like to know if it is possible to set the
filename of an image to an image resource in the photo library? I guess due to
the sandboxed nature of iOS apps, the answer is no, but I'd better ask before
speculating... As far as I can see the only way is
Folks,
I am consistently facing a strange bug with the datagrid in 4.6.x in more
than one project. I don't have an exact recipe but I can explain how it
works. I have a datagrid that mimics a table. I am just placing text in
there. Some text columns will have content on just some fields and this
Hello everyone,
Can the Detailed Files function be used to get file information from a remote
Mac or am I limited to the listing provided by put url (“ftp://...”)?
Regards,
Gregory
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.comwrote:
This is happening here in three different projects all related to database
frontends. I have a card with a list of records. When for example I click
the header of column Title, it will fail and die. I don't know why.
Gregory,
You can't access remote machines unless they have an FTP server or something
similar or you can mount their volumes as a disk. If you mount the remote
machine volumes, then you can use the detailed files but I think that
appleshare file sharing only works on LAN.
You best option would
Trevor,
Thanks very much for the quick reply I will investigate this and will
post back to the list with my findings.
Thanks for the lesson link as well, I might create my own sorting for some
columns.
:-D
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Trevor DeVore
li...@mangomultimedia.comwrote:
On
Remote as in a different time zone?? If they are both set to query a time
server, then the remote mac will ALWAYS have the same time as the local one. If
it is always in the same time zone, calculate it.
Apart from that, I suppose you would have to ssh in which means setting up
firewalls
I have been updating a pdf manual for my LiveCode application which I created
with Screensteps Pro. It is such a great product. I had to redo many
screen shots since I had some UI changes. Piece of cake. I also decided
to rearrange the order of the sections in the manual and move sections
You can override everything about the datagrid. Copy the behavior script to a
button in your own stack:
set the behavior of button myBehaviorButton to the script of the behavior of
group dgMyDataGrid
Then set the behavior of your datagrid to the new button:
set the behavior of group
Thanks Bob and Trevor,
I am trying to pinpoint where the error happens... tried using a try/catch
block on the sort routine to no effect.
Here is a shot of the error when I try to order something:
http://andregarzia.com/shots/_datagridbug-20110816-124238.png
error in object expression, any
Martin,
I've built manuals for myself using Screensteps, it is a great product!
:-D
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Martin Koob mk...@rogers.com wrote:
I have been updating a pdf manual for my LiveCode application which I
created
with Screensteps Pro. It is such a great product. I had
the error is not on sorting, it is on:
_table.DrawColumns
some error in an object reference... odd... only when ascending, the
descending sort works.
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On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.comwrote:
the error is not on sorting, it is on:
_table.DrawColumns
some error in an object reference... odd... only when ascending, the
descending sort works.
I think I found it. When sorting ascending, the pIndexesToDraw
I am going to say that there are characters in the text that Livecode does not
expect. But I am guessing. You can try a divide and conquer approach to test
this. Start by creating two globals. Put half the data into one global and half
the data into the other. Populate the dataGrid with one
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.comwrote:
the error is not on sorting, it is on:
_table.DrawColumns
some error in an object reference... odd... only when ascending, the
descending
Thanks Andre,
Much obliged.
Gregory
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011, at 11:44 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote:
Message: 22
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:20:35 -0300
From: Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com
To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Subject: Re: Using the
Hi Bob,
Good summary, Bob. It summarizes nicely the issues that I’m dealing with in
creating a client-side student helper app. Your RealTime function works
nicely. The only thing missing is the year, which again, is something that a
user could set manually.
Regards,
Gregory
On Tue, Aug
Hi Bob,
No, just my office Mac a few kilometres away. I was thinking of other ways of
not relying on the date and time settings of users who would FTP data to me.
If my client app can grab the date and time from my office make, then I have a
consistent timestamp that I can rely on.
Gregory
Depending on your needs, another good one is Formulate Pro (Mac only, free).
You can place graphics, text, draw shapes.
Pete
Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.frwrote:
Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
Peter, take
Wouldn't it be better to get time data from a place that's mission-critical
consistent, like the NAVY and WWV? Then you wouldn't have to maintain it or
deal with outages.
On 16 August 2011 09:37, Gregory Lypny gregory.ly...@videotron.ca wrote:
Hi Bob,
No, just my office Mac a few kilometres
Brilliant Andre. I am betting though that the problem occurs in the code that
calls this function. I am going to wait until Trevor finds the source and
releases an update for the dataGrid.
Bob
On Aug 16, 2011, at 9:14 AM, Andre Garzia wrote:
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Andre Garzia
I see the problem here. The url I use does not return the year! And I cannot
just get the year from the system date, because that defeats the whole purpose
of a RealTime function. Going to have to do a bit more research.
Bob
On Aug 16, 2011, at 9:33 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
Hi Bob,
Good
Hi Stephen,
Yes, and Bob Sneidar has kindly provided us with a function that does that (see
Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the Internet”). The only
thing it lacks at the moment is the year. I asked about doing the same with a
remote computer only to explore an
On 8/16/11 12:31 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
Hi Stephen,
Yes, and Bob Sneidar has kindly provided us with a function that does
that (see Re: Grabbing the Date and Time From a Time Server on the
Internet”). The only thing it lacks at the moment is the year. I
asked about doing the same with a
So, there I am reading a BBC computer manual (as one does) where I am
informed that the ASCII set consists of 128 chars . . .
. . . that's funny, because I had 256 (i.e. 2 x 128) rumbling around in
my mind.
As I have to develop a script that determines whether a char is a
single-byte char or
On 08/15/2011 10:51 PM, Malte Brill wrote:
Hey Richmond,
maybe these might come in handy:
setprop cUTF8Text pUTF8String
if word 1 of the name of the targetfield and word 1 of the name of the
targetbutton then
if dev is in the environment then
throw cUTF8Text: Target
Thanks Andre,
The LIST option returns what url (“ftp://...”) does in the absence of
libURLSetFTPListCommand, so I guess the idea of the command is to toggle
between LIST and NLST. Unfortunately, neither returns the creation or
modification dates of the files.
Regards,
Gregory
On Tue, Aug
On 8/15/2011 3:51 PM, Malte Brill wrote:
I have taken these scripts from the unicode lib that I am still trying to set
up. If there is any interested, I'll upload it to revOnline and announce it on
the list.
Cheers,
Malte
Malte,
Thank you. I for one would love any Unicode library any one
Gregory,
Are you sure that they don't because they usually return the same output as
ls which contains such data strange...
andre
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Gregory Lypny
gregory.ly...@videotron.cawrote:
Thanks Andre,
The LIST option returns what url (“ftp://...”) does in the
Okay, I contacted the USNO site via email and requested that they include the
year in the returned date/time.
I have a modified script which includes the year, but I caution you that the
convert command is getting the current year from the system if it is not
supplied, which defeats the whole
Roadmaps shouldn't be discussed on the use-list... nda ...
On 16 August 2011 11:06, Paul Dupuis p...@researchware.com wrote:
On 8/15/2011 3:51 PM, Malte Brill wrote:
I have taken these scripts from the unicode lib that I am still trying to
set up. If there is any interested, I'll upload
Err - my bad. Posted to the wrong list! Arrgh!
On 8/16/2011 2:24 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
Roadmaps shouldn't be discussed on the use-list... nda ...
On 16 August 2011 11:06, Paul Dupuisp...@researchware.com wrote:
On 8/15/2011 3:51 PM, Malte Brill wrote:
I have taken these scripts
bob,
don't praise me, Trevors work is brilliant.
I think the bug goes deeper than that. While I solved the drawing problem, I
am facing a new problem now. When I click a line, it selects the line on top
of it. I guess the indexes are wrong because of what I did. I think that the
array
Update
the sortByKey function calculates a variable theData that is used to compute
the sorting. This variable had a leading CR here in some cases and thus
broke the functions after it. Deleting that line made things work.
Andre
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Andre Garzia
RRRGGHHH
It stopped working again... well, back to the debugging board.
folks, for anyone following this thread, to try to script the rev stacks,
you can break your IDE or introduce real problems. I am doing this because I
have a backup of Trevors original stack, so I can play and if I break
I did this:
set the useUnicode to true
set the unicodeText of fld INN to numToChar(69)
and, unsurprisingly, an 'E' appeared in fld INN
when I then did this:
delete char 1 of fld INN 'E' vanished; again, unsurprisingly
when I put a spot of unicodeText in my fld INN
the delete char 1 script
You must mean DON'T try to script the rev stacks. :-)
Bob
On Aug 16, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
RRRGGHHH
It stopped working again... well, back to the debugging board.
folks, for anyone following this thread, to try to script the rev stacks,
you can break your IDE or
I'm going to say that if you were to delete the first char of a 2 byte unicode
char and then put more unicode text after it, things would not go so well, but
I am just guessing.
Bob
On Aug 16, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
I did this:
set the useUnicode to true
set the
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote:
It stopped working again... well, back to the debugging board.
Andre,
Cant you send me a single stack with a single data grid in it that has the
data causing problems? I should be able to determine the problem based on
Yes what Bob said... you can see by my reactions that one should not try to
script rev stacks...
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote:
You must mean DON'T try to script the rev stacks. :-)
Bob
On Aug 16, 2011, at 12:04 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
RRRGGHHH
Hi Richmond,
I wrote this yesterday already. The availability of byte and char indicate that
RunRev is aware of this problem. Unfortunately, RunRev hasn't actually taken
action to solve it yet.
For now, it is just a fact that fields who have the unicodeText property set,
need two bytes for a
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.comwrote:
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com
wrote:
It stopped working again... well, back to the debugging board.
Andre,
Cant you send me a single stack with a single data grid in it
Dear LiveCode Users,
Due to an unfortunate misconfiguration of a spam filter in my domain email
delivery chain, a number of emails to 'quartam.com' were delayed, going back as
far as July 22nd, 2011.
Having just 'liberated' those emails, I am working my way through them now. If
you are still
Recently, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Until someone can come up with an HTTP link that returns the year with the
date and time, or else Livecode supports NTP queries, we are SOL. I have
searched high and low and cannot find one single web site besides
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/cgi-bin/timer.pl that
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:13:58 AM Bob Sneidar wrote:
Okay, I contacted the USNO site via email and requested that they include the
year in the returned date/time.
You could try this:
http://www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_CA-QC.aspx
Your time info is here in the html it
If you get the htmlText of a char in a unicode mixed field (i.e.
containing single double byte chars), there is an attribute of the
p/p tag that tells you the font. If you get char 1 of a double
byte char, that font attribute of the paragraph tag will (in my
experience) contain unicode as item 2
Thanks Waren and Scott. I will have a look at those. I can extrapolate UTX time
from those zones I suppose, and then do the math for the particular time zone
in the system settings.
Thanks.
Bob
On Aug 16, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Warren Samples wrote:
On Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:13:58 AM Bob
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Andre Garzia wrote:
Gregory,
Are you sure that they don't because they usually return the same output as
ls which contains such data strange...
andre
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Gregory Lypny
gregory.ly...@videotron.cawrote:
Thanks Andre,
sigh
On Aug 16, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
Mac only!
try pdfedit for Linux and Windows
You mean . you mean that there is another world,
out there . which is not .. aware
about
REAL COMPUTING
Hi Richmond,
Richmond Mathewson-2 wrote:
[snip]
HOWEVER; I am bu**ered if I am going to have an app with an accompanying
directory full of, say, 5,000 EPS files; that is real monkey business.
Actually, it's only 1522 letters that you could store
as compressed custom properties.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote:
Thanks, I will build the stack here. I isolated the problem to a carriage
return character in one of the records. The \n character mess up the
theData
variable in sortDataByKey and it all breaks down from that
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/16/science/16stanford.html?_r=1hpw
It would be interesting if someone did a Basic Programming course for
the whole planet, using LiveCode.
I think Devin Asay is well positioned this.
We have a new young recruit here at the monastery.
I sent him all the URLS
I am using Galleria on our web site.. (galleria aino.se)
I love it... so extensible, customizable, documentation is excellent
I've written some .irev libraries that only need a path to a folder with
images and adjacent matching text files for captions and then LiveCode
dynamically builds the
I thought it could be done directly with a time server, and one can!
I did some dicking around with sockets and made this up.
this uses the Daytime Protocol
(RFC-867)http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/its.cfm
function returnNISTime
-- returns UTC time in RFC-867 (Daytime) format
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