Re: Simulating touch messages on desktop - what do the smart kids do?

2012-02-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 13/02/2012 23:58, Scott Rossi wrote: Did you catch my recent post on using DropBox? Maybe this approach can help: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Using-DropBox-for-Faster-Mob ile-Development-td4380386.html Hi Scott, Caught it, flagged it, and next time I'm doing this stuff

Re: iOS Grab Image from Library and Email as Attachment?

2012-02-14 Thread Thomas McGrath III
John, Have you used the templateImage? Also, I use type image/png and not image/jpg. This code works for me on iPad1 and iPhone: ... doStartActivityIndicator set the width of the templateImage to 200 set the height of the templateImage to 200 set the lockLoc of the templateImage

Re: iOS Grab Image from Library and Email as Attachment?

2012-02-14 Thread Thomas McGrath III
OH, skip the doStartActivityIndicator and doStopActivityIndicator parts. set the width of the templateImage to 200 set the height of the templateImage to 200 set the lockLoc of the templateImage to true set the name of the templateImage to test mobilePickPhoto Library put the text

Re; The struggle to become competent in iOS development

2012-02-14 Thread Graham Samuel
Well, I have answered my own question to a great extent, since I've discovered the iOS Release Notes PDF. Apparently it was in the Help menu all the time! Stupid of me - but maybe a few references sprinkled over the other documentation and the 'Resources Centre' section might have been helpful,

Unicode on Android

2012-02-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, I'm trying to use Unicode on Android devices. I tried to type Arabic text in a RunRev field on an Android device running Android 4.0.3. In the desktop version of LiveCode, I can enter Arabic text and with a few tricks I can make a well-working Arabic text field. On Android, the Arabic text

RE: Unicode on Android

2012-02-14 Thread Ralph DiMola
I have a ' that does not render on Android. It displays as a small box. Character code 146. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com] On

Re: Unicode on Android

2012-02-14 Thread Mark Schonewille
Thanks, Ralph. Are you telling me that you can render all non-roman unicode text except a particular type of apostrophe? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK:

RE: Unicode on Android

2012-02-14 Thread Ralph DiMola
This is one the I just happened to notice yesterday. I don't know if this is 128-255 issue or a font issue. I will do some testing. Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com

RevOnline upload (bis)

2012-02-14 Thread René Micout
Richmond, RevOnline upload don't works for me on Macintosh ? And for you ? René ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Another naive iOS question - filling the iPad screen

2012-02-14 Thread Graham Samuel
I read that the size of the screen available to a LC stack on the iPad is 1024 x 768, so I made a stack that big. I then placed a graphic on the screen which was intended to provide a black background: I made this 1024 x 768 as well, and I set its top corners to 0,0. Oddly a chunk of white

Re: Message path and GET the value of

2012-02-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/14/12 11:47 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: If however, I reference a function that is in the script of the current card, then it fails with a cannot find handler error. You need to use this syntax: get value(myFunction(),card 1) See value in the dictionary. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay

Re: Another naive iOS question - filling the iPad screen

2012-02-14 Thread Colin Holgate
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Re: Unicode on Android

2012-02-14 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Could this be the issue that Android uses ISO-8859-1 as native encoding, which doesn't support smart apostrophe, and has no characters defined at 146? See also http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=9969 in which I was gently guided by Michael McCreary. But I remain personally somewhat

Re: Message path and GET the value of

2012-02-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Oic. That is awesome thanks! I just tried it and it works a peach! I had the mindset that the function form of a command is identical to the command form, and so never looked any further into the documentation. Bob On Feb 14, 2012, at 10:27 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/14/12 11:47 AM, Bob

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-14 Thread Richmond
On 02/14/2012 07:06 AM, Judy Perry wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Richmond wrote: And how many people realise that Ada Lovelace was the Mother of them all. And the daughter of Lord Byron... Certainly no flies on you! Far more important, to my mind, is the fact that kids nowadays keep

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-14 Thread stephen barncard
will MS-Dos still run? On 14 February 2012 11:41, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/14/2012 07:06 AM, Judy Perry wrote: On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, Richmond wrote: And how many people realise that Ada Lovelace was the Mother of them all. And the daughter of Lord Byron...

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-14 Thread Richmond
On 02/14/2012 09:50 PM, stephen barncard wrote: will MS-Dos still run? I have a Pentium 2 with 32 MB RAM that I recently reinstalled FreeDOS with the GEM GUI on. Runs really very nicely indeed, if DOS is your Bag. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Message path and GET the value of

2012-02-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/14/12 1:16 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I just tried it and it works a peach! I always wondered how peaches work. Fuzzy logic probably. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: Message path and GET the value of

2012-02-14 Thread Marty Knapp
And when they don't work, it's the pits . . . Marty K On 2/14/12 1:16 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I just tried it and it works a peach! I always wondered how peaches work. Fuzzy logic probably. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Fun with nummberFormat

2012-02-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Try this: set the numberFormat to blah; put 1 + 1 You get 0002. It appears it doesn't matter WHAT you put there, it will pad the result with zeros. :-) Bob ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
It is frightening to think that so many kids grow up to be adults and NEVER form the thought, Maybe I don't know all about What positions do they eventually come to hold where doing the wrong thing means damage, pain and suffering and even death to themselves or others? Maybe what we

Re: Message path and GET the value of

2012-02-14 Thread Keith Clarke
...but that would might be a kernel problem... Best, Keith.. On 14 Feb 2012, at 20:35, Marty Knapp wrote: And when they don't work, it's the pits . . . Marty K On 2/14/12 1:16 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: I just tried it and it works a peach! I always wondered how peaches work. Fuzzy logic

Re: supporting multiple mobile device resolutions

2012-02-14 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 14/02/2012 17:57, Ralph DiMola wrote: Bob, I agree. I use single card solution for my apps because the same controls appear regardless of the size/aspect ratio or orientation. Hmmm . I wonder if that's always the right decision :-) Would there be cases where some parts of the UI change

Re: Fun with nummberFormat

2012-02-14 Thread stephen barncard
try set the numberFormat to # On 14 February 2012 12:39, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: set the numberFormat to blah; put 1 + 1 -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb http://www.google.com/profiles/sbarncar ___

Re: Fun with nummberFormat

2012-02-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes I know. I was remarking that you can put virtually anything in the numberFormat and it will pad with zero's. It was an issue with me because I have a validation called formatNumber, where when setting it up the user can enter a format string. I then wanted to test if it was a valid one. I

Pending Messages

2012-02-14 Thread Michael Doub
I am looking for some advise before start trying to figure out how throw away messages . I am currently catching touch movement events and rendering a graph within a slider. Clearly the rendering is slowing things a bit and I am experiencing some sluggishness. I am thinking about trying to

'go stack URL' - quick question

2012-02-14 Thread Terry Judd
Before I go too far with this... If I 'preload' a stack on a server using the load URL command will opening it with the go stack URL stackurl open it from the cached file or just reload it from the server? Terry... Dr Terry Judd Senior Lecturer in Medical Education Medical Eduction Unit

Re: 'go stack URL' - quick question

2012-02-14 Thread Mike Bonner
It'll open from the cached file. Drops my go stack speed from around a second (for a small stack in a dropbox) to around 97 milliseconds to open. On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Terry Judd t...@unimelb.edu.au wrote: Before I go too far with this... If I 'preload' a stack on a server using the

[OT] How Peach Works

2012-02-14 Thread Bob Sneidar
Jacgue wanted to know how peach works: http://www.peachhomeloans.com.au/how-peach-works.htm I am not advocating them, it was just curious that I found it on the internet! I guess I should be using the phrase, worked a treat! or peachy. I am always getting my phrases mixed up. Bob

Re: 'go stack URL' - quick question

2012-02-14 Thread Terry Judd
On 15/02/2012, at 10:10 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: It'll open from the cached file. Drops my go stack speed from around a second (for a small stack in a dropbox) to around 97 milliseconds to open. Thanks Mike - that's just what I wanted to hear. Terry... On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 3:56 PM, Terry

Re: Fun with nummberFormat

2012-02-14 Thread Terry Judd
On 15/02/2012, at 09:07 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Yes I know. I was remarking that you can put virtually anything in the numberFormat and it will pad with zero's. And all that time I've been 'manually' padding my values. No more! Terry... Dr Terry Judd Senior Lecturer in Medical Education

Re: [OT] How Peach Works

2012-02-14 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Why is this here? I get enough spam in my inbox as it is. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-How-Peach-Works-tp4388914p4388987.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___

Re: iOS Grab Image from Library and Email as Attachment?

2012-02-14 Thread John Patten
Thanks Tom! I hadn't realized the significance of templateImage in iOS. Cheers! John Patten SUSD On Feb 14, 2012, at 5:57 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: OH, skip the doStartActivityIndicator and doStopActivityIndicator parts. set the width of the templateImage to 200 set the height of

Lion

2012-02-14 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Anyone using Lion: Are your stand-alones created with LC using Snow Leopard or earlier running OK on Lion? I have yet to move up to Lion. Also, is LC 4.5.2 running OK on Lion? What about other apps such as AppleWorks? And is Lion much different than Snow Leopard? I'm sure that must be

Re: Lion

2012-02-14 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Everyone, Just got through checking out Lion on the Apple Website. Appears there may be some problems and I'll not be upgrading any time real soon. I'd still like to know about the LC questions I posed, but I suspect I'll wait until I can get a new Mac before I abandon Snow Leopard. I may

Re: Lion

2012-02-14 Thread Bill Vlahos
Joe, On Feb 14, 2012, at 8:15 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: Anyone using Lion: Yes Are your stand-alones created with LC using Snow Leopard or earlier running OK on Lion? Yes they run fine. They are not Lion native so you don't get things like resize from any side or corner and other Lion

Re: Lion

2012-02-14 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Hi Bill, Thanks for the info. Interestingly enough my AppleWorks 6.2.9 runs fine under Snow Leopard on my Mac Pro, which is Intel. But I'll be careful based on your comment. Thanks again, Joe Wilkins On Feb 14, 2012, at 9:13 PM, Bill Vlahos wrote: Joe, On Feb 14, 2012, at 8:15 PM, Joe

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-14 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
When I started working at UCLA in 1996 very few students had used computers before entering, or at least had used their own computers rather than a lab one in grade school. Now 15 years later all have a laptop in class. However, about 3/4 of the Mac-using students in a music history class use

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-14 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Peter, Great observations; so we have even more than just generation gaps with which to deal. I'm sure Richmond will have a lot more to add to this from his experiences with children in his part of the world. Personally, I'm getting way behind these days by not using anything but desktop Macs.

AW: Lion

2012-02-14 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Hi Joe, it depends on... in general the standalones are running without any problem. In my case, one of my programs didn't run anymore under Lion, because Apple has changed directory permissions and I had stored options and some other in a subdirectory of \preferences\, where Lion doesn't let me

Re: [OT] HyperCard and the Interactive Web

2012-02-14 Thread stephen barncard
I still want my Save As.. menu item back. There seems to be some aspects of Lion that assume I'm an idiot and might do something wrong. On 14 February 2012 22:52, Joe Lewis Wilkins pepe...@cox.net wrote: Peter, Great observations; so we have even more than just generation gaps with which to