IOS scroller bounce unhides another control

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Doub
I have see a behaviour on some IOS apps that I am trying to figure out if it can be done in livecode. It looks like there is a control attached to the top of a scrolling list field and it is exposed when the scrolling list field is bounced. You can watch the bounce and see the other

Re: IOS scroller bounce unhides another control

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Doub
Sorry folks my typing is terrible... I have seen a behaviour on some IOS apps that I am trying to figure out if it can be done in livecode. It looks like there is a control attached to the top of a scrolling list field and it is exposed when the scrolling list field is bounced. You

Ways to get the IDs of two already scripted buttons?

2012-01-04 Thread Kresten Bjerg
Thanks to all of you for questions and suggestions. Bob : unfortunately no, user shall not have to specify names of buttons Craig: no, button scripts shall not have to be pre-modified, they are of several kinds, scripted by stack handlers Mike: I have been experimenting a lot with your script, it

Re: IOS scroller bounce unhides another control

2012-01-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mike, Just put the control at the top of the group and set the scroll of the group to the the height of the control. When the user pulls down the group, the scroll value will be 0 and that's when you know an action needs to be performed. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk

Re: Take a picture iPhone camera

2012-01-04 Thread paolo mazza
Hi all, still I do not know hot to click the button of the camera in order to take the picture automatically. Then, using this script in a button of a iOS App ... on mouseUp iPhonePickPhoto camera put the long ID of the last image of this card into NUMEROIMMLONG

OT: Starting IOS development, can't upgrade Xcode/IOS

2012-01-04 Thread Graham Samuel
Sorry for the interruption, but many months after signing up for IOS development I have time to start building my first IOS app with LiveCode. I have the necessary licences from Apple and RunRev, and I already have a version of XCode and all developer tools on my Mac, which is running the

Re: OT: Starting IOS development, can't upgrade Xcode/IOS

2012-01-04 Thread Colin Holgate
Try duplicating your Developer folder, rename the duplicate to something like Developer 4.1, delete the original Developer folder, and the try the App Store install of 4.3. At the end of that you can hopefully point LiveCode to the 4.1 folder for the older SDKs, and the new Developer folder for

Re: Error in mail list MBOX file format

2012-01-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: The software that is storing the mail from this list, made two parsing errors in the mbox file. Download the file from: http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2011-December.txt.gz The software failed to mark two instances where the word From appears at the

Re: Simplest method for determining changes made on a form/card

2012-01-04 Thread Tereza Snyder
Here’s what I would try: Assuming you have a handler that takes the data from your database and distributes it to the controls on the card, and another that gathers the data from the card to stow it in the database, I’d compute an MD5digest of the data in the first handler, and create another

Re: Carriage Return in datagrid data

2012-01-04 Thread Pete
In my haste to implement this, I realised I do not know how to define ascii characters to LC! Is there a function or a numeric notation to do that? Thanks Pete On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:28 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: replace return with VT (vertical tab) ascii

Re: Carriage Return in datagrid data

2012-01-04 Thread Mike Bonner
Are you setting your data using dgtext? If so you might change your method so that you can set the dgdata instead. Put your data into an array with the first key designating the row. So simplest form, if you have say.. a few paragraphs of txt you want to put into your datagrid put mydata into

Re: IOS scroller bounce unhides another control

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Doub
So lets stay that I have a control called Foo and I am using a datagrid named PeopleList I normally would do the following to set up the scroller: iphoneControlCreate scroller put the result into sScrollerId iphoneControlSet sScrollerId, rect, the rect of group PeopleList

Re: Carriage Return in datagrid data

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Doub
I agree with Mike that arrays are easier to work with but to answer your question put numtochar(11) into VT replace return with VT in whatever On 2012-01-04, at 2:28 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: Are you setting your data using dgtext? If so you might change your method so that you can set the

Re: Carriage Return in datagrid data

2012-01-04 Thread Pete
Hi Mike, I am using dgText but will try using dgData. Have you tried this? I'm curious as to how the data looks in the datagrid column. I'm using a dg table with a fixed line height so I'm guessing everything after the first return won't be visible? Pete On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Mike

Re: Windows Standalone Does Not Have an App Menu

2012-01-04 Thread Gregory Lypny
Hello Roger and Mark, Thanks for responding and clarifying the Windows app question for me. Mark, I have no problem including decorations. If this is a convention on Windows, that is, that an app menu does not appear when a modal window is frontmost, so that the user cannot quit or cannot

Re: IOS scroller bounce unhides another control

2012-01-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Mike, If you set the height of the field to it's formattedHeight then you only need to scroll the group. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553

Re: IOS scroller bounce unhides another control

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Doub
Sorry Mark I am confused. Which group? We have 3 groups in play. PeopleList(datagrid), Foo(the hidden control) and Boo the group that includes both Foo and PeopleList. If we are setting the HScroll of Boo, how does the datagrid scroll? Are you saying that Foo is somehow added to the

Re: Windows Standalone Does Not Have an App Menu

2012-01-04 Thread Richard Gaskin
Gregory Lypny wrote: If this is a convention on Windows, that is, that an app menu does not appear when a modal window is frontmost, so that the user cannot quit or cannot know that the app is running if they have switched workspaces, then I don’t see how it promotes or meets expectations.

Re: Carriage Return in datagrid data

2012-01-04 Thread Michael Doub
Let say we have a variable Contacts where each line has 4 tab delimited fields: RecID, Name, Age, BirthDay The following builds the dgData array. The first index controls the order of what is displayed in the datagrid. If you look closely you will see that it[Counter] = pDataArray that you

Re: Windows Standalone Does Not Have an App Menu

2012-01-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/4/12 2:26 PM, Gregory Lypny wrote: Hello Roger and Mark, Thanks for responding and clarifying the Windows app question for me. Mark, I have no problem including decorations. If this is a convention on Windows, that is, that an app menu does not appear when a modal window is frontmost, so

Re: Carriage Return in datagrid data

2012-01-04 Thread Pete
Hi Mike, Thanks, yes I'm familiar with using dgData - it was how the data looks in the datagrid that I wasn't sure of. I did an experiment with a single column datagrid, loading some text plus a carriage return, plus more text into via dgData. What happens is that all of the text after the

Re: Carriage Return in datagrid data

2012-01-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Pete. I know I have mentioned it before, but sqlYoga can return query data in the array format that datagrids use. Bob On Jan 4, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Pete wrote: Either way, I probably will convert to using dgData instead of dgText. I kinda prefer using dgData but it's just an extra step

Graphical Calendar Object Revisited

2012-01-04 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi all. I know I have mentioned it before, but does anyone know of a graphical calendar object BESIDES CalendarPane that I could use with Livecode? Calendarpane has proven to be almost impossible for me to customize, as it was really written to do one thing and that is show a single date on

Re: Carriage Return in datagrid data

2012-01-04 Thread mike
Pete, take a look at the datagrid tutorials. If I recall correctly there are explanations and examples for how to manage non-fixed height rows of a datagrid. Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Network -Original Message- From: Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com Sender:

Re: Graphical Calendar Object Revisited

2012-01-04 Thread Scott Rossi
Sarah Reichelt created a great one that's available as a DropTool: http://droptools.sonsothunder.com/products/sr/sr-cal.irev Or from Sarah's site: http://troz.net/rev/stacks/Calendar.rev Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Recently, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hi all.

Re: Graphical Calendar Object Revisited

2012-01-04 Thread Marty Knapp
Hey Bob, I'm not familiar with CalendarPane so maybe missing what you're looking for. I'll send you a date range stack that I have if it's of any use. Marty Knapp Hi all. I know I have mentioned it before, but does anyone know of a graphical calendar object BESIDES CalendarPane that I could

Re: Windows Standalone Does Not Have an App Menu

2012-01-04 Thread Mark Wieder
Gregory- Wednesday, January 4, 2012, 12:26:51 PM, you wrote: If this is a convention on Windows This is a convention on any OS I'm aware of. then I don’t see how it promotes or meets expectations. The expectation is your following sentence: If I can start something up, I expect that I

[BUG] 5.0.2 start-up anomaly - Btn Icons not displayed

2012-01-04 Thread Kay C Lan
Folks, I'm experiencing a glitch with an old Rev stack since upgrading to 5.0.2. I've not seen anyone else report this so I assumed that it was just my set-up but I've since been able to reproduce the bug and it appears to be associated with Icons in buttons. With 5.0.1 and prior when starting

[OT:] Discount Ooma VoiP

2012-01-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
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Re: [BUG] 5.0.2 start-up anomaly - Btn Icons not displayed

2012-01-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/4/12 10:52 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: With 5.0.1 and prior when starting my stack the LC splash screen comes up, then the IDE Tool Palette, then after the LC splash screen disappears my stack appears. Under 5.0.2 my stack appears before the Tool Palette and on top of the LC splash screen, which

Re: [BUG] 5.0.2 start-up anomaly - Btn Icons not displayed

2012-01-04 Thread Kay C Lan
Thanks Jacque, I guess 5.0.3 will be out soon, till then it's easy to work around. On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 1:01 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 1/4/12 10:52 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: With 5.0.1 and prior when starting my stack the LC splash screen comes up, then the IDE Tool

Re: [BUG] 5.0.2 start-up anomaly - Btn Icons not displayed

2012-01-04 Thread Scott Rossi
You might want to try checking the ink effects you used on the buttons.  The docs say all the old ink effects have been  deprecated in v5.  Perhaps referencing an old ink causes objects to display incorrectly. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design Original