Re: Mobile devices and barcodes

2011-12-06 Thread paolomazza
Hi Malte, I wonder if you have found a way to read a barcode with a mobile device. Any news about that? All the best Paolo Mazza -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Mobile-devices-and-barcodes-tp3780353p4163941.html Sent from the Revolution - User

Are iOS push notifications needed for this use case?

2011-12-06 Thread Keith Clarke
Hi folks, I'm considering LiveCode for an iOS app but I think I need push notification support. The use case is to alert users of app-specific messages waiting (even when the application is not active) and set the little 'messages waiting' counter on the app's icon. I'm looking for on-device

Re: Image Cropping Tool for Livecode

2011-12-06 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Alejandro wrote Some years ago, I created this stack: Mask bitmap 02 http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/alejandro/stacks/mask_bitmap02.zip Great Stuff ! Thanks a million ! -Francis Nothing should ever be done for the first time !

Confirming an FTP Upload

2011-12-06 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi everyone, I was wondering whether anyone would be willing to share scripting tips on how to monitor and confirm the uploading of files via FTP. I’m using the simple PUT URL form rather than the revFTP library stuff because the latter’s examples are not particularly well documented in the

Re: Are iOS push notifications needed for this use case?

2011-12-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Keith, As of this moment RunRev has not implemented the push notification APIs for iOS into LiveCode. There are third party solutions outside of LC. I also have a vital need for Push Notification. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Dec 6, 2011, at 5:36 AM,

Re: Mobile devices and barcodes

2011-12-06 Thread paolomazza
Hi Nicolas, I went through the Sara's Stacks: BarcodeTester A very simple stack that reads data from a keyboard wedge barcode scanner. It allows you to check the raw data transmitted by the scanner as well as the ASCII data. Category: UtilityLast Updated: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 Barcodes A utility

Last chance to tell (a small part of) the world about your Android and iOS apps

2011-12-06 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Thanks to all the people who've already added details of their apps to this survey (37 apps so far - but only one Android one!). As a reminder, this is explicitly about apps that have gone on public 'sale' (including for free) in an app store. If you've produced such an app using LiveCode,

Re: Last chance to tell (a small part of) the world about your Android and iOS apps

2011-12-06 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Ben, What exactly will you do with the data, besides publishing the results on this list? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Become our partner

Re: Confirming an FTP Upload

2011-12-06 Thread AcidJazz
Greg, Here's how I submit data using the Put URL approach... *put *DataToBeSaved into URL (ftp://username:passw...@ftp.sitename.com/filename.txt;) *If* the result is not empty *then* hide field wait answer the result CR Oops! There was a problem saving your response. Please

Re: Are iOS push notifications needed for this use case?

2011-12-06 Thread Keith Clarke
Thanks for the confirmation that it's push notifications I need, Tom. Before I put LiveCode on ice as a platform for iOS apps (as I've already had to for web apps), are there any examples of these third-party solutions that play nicely with LC? Best, Keith.. On 6 Dec 2011, at 14:40, Thomas

Re: Confirming an FTP Upload

2011-12-06 Thread stephen barncard
You should know that the password and username are sent as plain text and can be easily sniffed. This is NOT secure FTP and can expose an entire account. Create a special FTP space for this purpose, not your website. Secure FTP is a long-awaited feature that is still not available in livecode

Re: Confirming an FTP Upload

2011-12-06 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hi Mark, Much appreciated! Just the kind of thing I was looking for. Regards, Gregory On Tue, Dec 6, 2011, at 1:00 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Greg, Here's how I submit data using the Put URL approach... ___ use-livecode

Re: Confirming an FTP Upload

2011-12-06 Thread AcidJazz
Stephen, That's true, and I probably should have mentioned that. For my purposes, it's irrelevant, because my research data (indeed the entire site) is all just a bunch of meaningless numbers that nobody would have any interest in. But for the rest of you out in the real world, caveat emptor.

Tab Order Property?

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. Is there some kind of hidden property pertaining to the tab order of objects on a card? I know about the layer property, but I was hoping there was some kind of list, so I could set the tab order of fields by entering a repeat loop and clicking on objects, building a list of them,

Re: Confirming an FTP Upload

2011-12-06 Thread AcidJazz
Actually, Stephen, could you elaborate on the special ftp space that is not the website. I'm a little unclear on the distinction. Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Confirming-an-FTP-Upload-tp4164699p4165858.html Sent from the Revolution -

Re: Last chance to tell (a small part of) the world about your Android and iOS apps

2011-12-06 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 06/12/2011 15:26, Mark Schonewille wrote: What exactly will you do with the data, besides publishing the results on this list? *Short answer* That's exactly it - publish it. *Longer answer* And I guess ponder it a bit. And look at some of the apps. But I hope other people will do those

Re: Tab Order Property?

2011-12-06 Thread Pete
The text property holds the tab names, one per line, in left to right order. One thing I've found useful when chasing down property names is to set the Preferences option to display property names instead of labels in the Inspector dialogs. On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Bob Sneidar

Tab Order Property?

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Belay my last. Pretty simple: on clickOrder put the selectedobjects into theObjectList repeat for each line theObject in theObjectList set the layer of theObject to top end repeat end clickOrder Hi all. Is there some kind of hidden property pertaining to the tab order

Re: Tab Order Property?

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Sorry Pete I should have explained myself a bit better. I don't meat a tab panel. I mean the order in which fields get the focus when a user is tabbing through them. I found a really simple solution. See my prior post. Bob On Dec 6, 2011, at 10:45 AM, Pete wrote: The text property holds the

autoTab affects automatic text selection?

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. I've discovered a useful, if odd anomaly. If I have a field with autoTab set to true, tabbing to it will auto select the text it contains (the desired behavior). But if autoTab is set to false, the text will NOT be auto selected, although I CAN select it manually. Is this the

Re: Confirming an FTP Upload

2011-12-06 Thread stephen barncard
Just a method to get the uploads (and exposed password/user) to a place that isn't your public website. Most web providers will allow unlimited or many FTP accounts, and you can use completely different user/passwords. Some providers (not On-Rev) will allow an account to have multiple users that

Put into url Not working on Android

2011-12-06 Thread Timothy Bleiler
Hi, I'm trying to do some work on Android. Does anyone know why the following command would work fine from the desktop but not work in Android? . FYI, in this example it is a fake address. put Test content goes here into url “ftp://123.456.78.901/ftptest.txt” Specifically has anyone had

Re: Image Cropping Tool for Livecode

2011-12-06 Thread Web Admin Himalayan Academy
On 12/4/11 8:09 PM, Sivakatirswami wrote: As anyone created a image cropping tool for LiveCode? On 12/4/11 5:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: If you hold down the command key while resizing an image, it gets cropped to the new size. There's no warning, it just happens. Yes, I am familiar with

Re: Tab Order Property?

2011-12-06 Thread Mark Wieder
Bob Sneidar bobs@... writes: Belay my last. Pretty simple: on clickOrder put the selectedobjects into theObjectList repeat for each line theObject in theObjectList set the layer of theObject to top end repeat end clickOrder Depending on the number of theObjects you

Set the color of text for a disabled field

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. Any way to set the color of the text in a disabled field? It's gray by default, but I cannot find anything in the help about how to set the disabled color. It would be nice to set it to blue or some darker shade of gray, as it is hard on the eyes the way it is. Bob

Re: Tab Order Property?

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Good points. But the selectedObjects will contain a list of objects in the order they were selected (very dammed handy), not in the order they appear on the screen, nor the order they were in before calling the command. So by selecting objects in the order you want them to be, calling this

Re: Set the color of text for a disabled field

2011-12-06 Thread stephen barncard
I am guessing that one can't - that it's determined by the host machines' os. However, why not turn the problem around - prevent text entry, then change the bg color of the field. make a handler (setprop, getprop) in the field to handle the fake states. set the defaultState of fld x to true

Re: autoTab affects automatic text selection?

2011-12-06 Thread Pete
Yes, there's no clue in the docs about using autoTab for this purpose. I guess the question then becomes - is this the way it is supposed to work or is it a bug that will be fixed at some point? I would like to use this feature/bug but not if I have to go back and change a bunch of fields at

Re: Set the color of text for a disabled field

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Thanks Stephen. I was hoping for something simple that I overlooked. If anyone complains I will address it then. Too much work for too little gain. Bob On Dec 6, 2011, at 12:30 PM, stephen barncard wrote: I am guessing that one can't - that it's determined by the host machines' os.

Re: Set the color of text for a disabled field

2011-12-06 Thread dunbarx
If you set the foregroundColor of text, that color persists after disabling. Is this what you meant? Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Tue, Dec 6, 2011 10:13 am Subject: Set the color of text

clone problem

2011-12-06 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hell All, I have a script that does not always work as expected. From the student's point of the view, the script allows them to click and drag an alphabet letter for release onto a writing area. That way, there's two images visible : the image they clicked on originally apparently at its

Re: autoTab affects automatic text selection?

2011-12-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/6/11 4:02 PM, Pete wrote: Yes, there's no clue in the docs about using autoTab for this purpose. I guess the question then becomes - is this the way it is supposed to work or is it a bug that will be fixed at some point? I would like to use this feature/bug but not if I have to go back

Re: Set the color of text for a disabled field

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
ohhh yes! Bob On Dec 6, 2011, at 2:09 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: If you set the foregroundColor of text, that color persists after disabling. Is this what you meant? Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com To: How to use LiveCode

Re: autoTab affects automatic text selection?

2011-12-06 Thread Bob Sneidar
Aye but we were talking about the fact that text will either be entirely selected or else the cursor will be placed at the beginning of the text, depending on the setting of autoTab. Apparently it controls more than just tabbing to the next field if a user hits return. It's actually way cooler

Re: autoTab affects automatic text selection?

2011-12-06 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/6/11 5:08 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Aye but we were talking about the fact that text will either be entirely selected or else the cursor will be placed at the beginning of the text, depending on the setting of autoTab. Apparently it controls more than just tabbing to the next field if a user

Re: Are iOS push notifications needed for this use case?

2011-12-06 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Keith, The one that I am looking into is Urban Airship http://urbanairship.com/pricing/ but it is not free but does cover iOS Android and Blackberry… Basic Free is a pay per message version that I am looking into. THe API looks straight forward and might work with LC. HTHs -- Tom McGrath III

Re: Mobile devices and barcodes

2011-12-06 Thread paolo mazza
Hi Nicolas, I went through the Sara's Stacks: BarcodeTester A very simple stack that reads data from a keyboard wedge barcode scanner. It allows you to check the raw data transmitted by the scanner as well as the ASCII data. Category: UtilityLast Updated: Wed, Apr 29, 2009 Barcodes A utility