Re: Windows 8

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Kluthe
I assumed that there would be some hiccups here and there seeing as how they removed win32 api for winRT api, Mark. -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Windows-8-tp4449030p4452576.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at

Pasting into a group

2012-03-07 Thread Graham Samuel
When I'm editing a group in the IDE (LC 5.0.2), if I copy an object before the edit starts, I can't seem to paste it into the group I'm editing. It seems there's nothing to paste. Why not, and what's the workaround? I don't know why I've never done this before, but it seems obvious that one

Re: Pasting into a group

2012-03-07 Thread Randy Hengst
Hi Graham, I do this regularly LC 5.0.2 OSX10.6.8. Here are my steps. Copy or cut the object to move. Select the group Edit the group Paste. be well, randy - On Mar 7, 2012, at 2:35 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: When I'm editing a group in the IDE (LC 5.0.2), if I copy an object before the

Re: Pasting into a group

2012-03-07 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi all, Am 07.03.2012 um 13:46 schrieb Randy Hengst: Hi Graham, I do this regularly LC 5.0.2 OSX10.6.8. Here are my steps. Copy or cut the object to move. Select the group Edit the group Paste. I do something similar: 1. Create new object(s) to be pasted into a group on the card

Re: Become a man with staying power

2012-03-07 Thread David Glasgow
On 3 Mar 2012, at 6:00 pm, Richmond wrote: the ultimate Sanskrit input system; and working hard towards the finishing line. Colonel Pickering would be proud of you! ;-) Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton Glasgow Partnership i-psych.co.uk LinkedIn

Re: Become a man with staying power

2012-03-07 Thread Richmond
On 03/07/2012 03:31 PM, David Glasgow wrote: On 3 Mar 2012, at 6:00 pm, Richmond wrote: the ultimate Sanskrit input system; and working hard towards the finishing line. Colonel Pickering would be proud of you! The rain falls mainly on the plain. ;-) Best Wishes, David Glasgow Carlton

Re: [ANN] Data Grid Helper 1.6

2012-03-07 Thread Ken Ray
Hey Zyrip, there's some version confusion going on… If you have not tried DGH yet, a trial version free for 30 days can be downloaded here: http://www.aslugontheroad.com/index.php?option=com_phocadownloadview=categoryid=12:trialItemid=63 You can also reach the Data Grid Helper plugin on the

Re: Pasting into a group

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, With Livecode, you never know whether your control will still be in memory. I copy and paste first and then delete the original control. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter:

Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread Glen Bojsza
Hello, I would like to allow a user to be able to change the size and location of a text field in an application. The following allows the user to select the field via right-shift click and then with the pointer tool move the field to where they want and resize the field. With the next

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-07 Thread Pete
I emailed sqlitemanager support re the manage/sql tab performance difference. Mystery solved by the reply: In the Manage panel when you see SELECT * FROM table the real query executed is SELECT rowid FROM table and then a SELECT * FROM table WHERE rowid=N is execute for each visible row of the

[OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Richmond
WINE 1.4 http://www.winehq.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Glen, Your script works for me, but not in the IDE. I have created a front script. I do also see the behaviour you describe. You can solve this by adding another field. The field can be off-window but should not be invisible. Use the following as a front script: on mouseDown theButton

Re: AW: How to close a modal stack by keyboard?

2012-03-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes it's in the plugins folder. If 5.5 does not alter what that is then GLX2 will load if it's there. Bob On Mar 6, 2012, at 9:00 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/6/12 1:32 PM, Ken Corey wrote: Could the things I've played with in the past (glx2, mobgui, etc) be leaving a plug-in somewhere

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Bob Sneidar
Hi Richmond. What are the ups and downs to using Wine as opposed to a VM like Parallels? Bob On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:31 AM, Richmond wrote: WINE 1.4 http://www.winehq.org/ ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Tim Jones
Simply put - no Windows license required; your app runs natively on the hosting platform (Linux, OS X, FreeBSD, etc.). On the other hand, there are a number of apps that don't run quite right. Tim On Mar 7, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hi Richmond. What are the ups and downs to

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Richmond
On 03/07/2012 08:18 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Hi Richmond. What are the ups and downs to using Wine as opposed to a VM like Parallels? Pretty hopeless for Livecode as WINE does not render PNG images. Personally I check Windows builds in XP in VirtualBox. Bob On Mar 7, 2012, at 9:31 AM,

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread Glen Bojsza
Thanks Mark. Good point about making certain no other objects can be selected (also that the second field shouldn't be invisible). Glen On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 10:58 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi Glen, Your script works for me, but not in the IDE. I have

Re: [OT] New Wine in old skins.

2012-03-07 Thread Richmond
On 03/07/2012 08:21 PM, Tim Jones wrote: Simply put - It's NOT Windows, and it's free, so don't expect everything to work as well as it does with real Windows. Not any good really with the Livecode IDE as doesn't work at all well with PNG images. If, however, you are developing Livecode

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-07 Thread Jérôme Rosat
Thank you Pete for that clarification. Jérôme Le 7 mars 2012 à 17:37, Pete a écrit : I emailed sqlitemanager support re the manage/sql tab performance difference. Mystery solved by the reply: In the Manage panel when you see SELECT * FROM table the real query executed is SELECT rowid

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread dunbarx
Your second one is a poser. The formatted widths and heights do not help, I think, if you do not already have the field populated with text. You are asking for the potentialFormattedWidth, essentially. Without using a monospaced font like courier, I would not know how to begin. If you did

Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Tim Jones
So, it's not the iPad 3, it's the New iPad. Seems to me that the only thing that has happened is that we (developers) now need to worry about 3 display sizes for our iOS apps. Does this mean that iPod / iPhone apps now get a 2x and a 3x button when running on the new iPad? I'm digging

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread François Chaplais
Much of my work consists in reading PDF research articles. The retina display is a killer feature for that. And, mind you, PDF is resolution independent. Le 7 mars 2012 à 22:43, Tim Jones a écrit : So, it's not the iPad 3, it's the New iPad. Seems to me that the only thing that has happened

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
Glen Bojszagboj...@gmail.com wrote: Another question which may not be able to be answered is... can you limit the number of characters in the field based on the new size the user has made? What I usually do is trap keydown and check the formattedheight while the user is typing. If the text

RE: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread Ralph DiMola
I was generating a file of InDesign Tags for a publishing project. The request was for me to break lines and pages manually because of some crazy header and footer requirements not handled by the $2,000 InDesign SW. I used the formattedwidth on a dummy fields to determine where the line breaks

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Tim Jones
I was viewing the announcement more from a developer's point of view rather than a user's. I agree that the higher pixel density will provide for more comfortable reading, but it also means that we'll now need to add still another screen size to the three that we already must check for

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread dunbarx
What Jacque is saying is to load the formatted height, maybe into a custom property, right after you resize. Then, as the user types, check the current formattedheight, at each keystroke, and if it exceeds the initial value, disallow that text entry. I played around with this too, etting a

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Colin Holgate
It was already three sizes, now it's four. If you read some of the iPad 3 topic you'll see we've been theorizing about what LiveCode will do in handling the new iPad Retina display. If you yourself did nothing to try and support Retina, then your iPad sized app should scale up seamlessly to the

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread Glen Bojsza
For now I can check the height with the formattedHeight after the user has resized the field and take action appropriately. thanks, Glen On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:39 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: What Jacque is saying is to load the formatted height, maybe into a custom property, right after

Re: iOS: text field is coverd by the keyboard

2012-03-07 Thread Monte Goulding
See the keyboardActivated message. I had thought folks might be interested in a modal text editor for iOS (combines keyboard+field) but it didn't get any votes on the last mergExt poll. Cheers Monte On 08/03/2012, at 9:59 AM, Matthias Rebbe wrote: Hi, maybe a dumb question, but how do

Re: Allowing user to change size and location of a field

2012-03-07 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/7/12 4:58 PM, Glen Bojsza wrote: For now I can check the height with the formattedHeight after the user has resized the field and take action appropriately. That's pretty much what I meant. I don't think you'd need to store any previous values, just see what it is at this moment. --

Re: iOS: text field is coverd by the keyboard

2012-03-07 Thread Terry Judd
On 08/03/2012, at 10:07 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: See the keyboardActivated message. I had thought folks might be interested in a modal text editor for iOS (combines keyboard+field) but it didn't get any votes on the last mergExt poll. That does sound quite useful. Terry... Cheers Monte

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Gerry Orkin
Tim Jones wrote: I agree that the higher pixel density will provide for more comfortable reading, but it also means that we'll now need to add still another screen size to the three that we already must check for (iPhone, iPhone Retina, and iPad). I know! Horrendous! Android would never

Re: Apple iPad announcement evokes yawn

2012-03-07 Thread Andre Garzia
On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 12:35 AM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: Android resolutions are more consistent than iOS. By which I mean that consistently every new Android device is a resolution that you haven't heard of before! I've heard that Google is dealing with that by shipping a new

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-07 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: I emailed sqlitemanager support re the manage/sql tab performance difference. Mystery solved by the reply: In the Manage panel when you see SELECT * FROM table the real query executed is SELECT rowid FROM table and then a

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-07 Thread Pete
Hi Trevor, I tried this approach in Livecode an it works great. I do have one strange thing going on which I hope you can help with. There are 12 lines in my datagird. I put a breakpoint in GetDataForLine and I see it being called 12 times followed by a slight pause, then it's called another 12

Help with C externals

2012-03-07 Thread Pete
I'm seriously considering trying to use the C API for sqlite databases instead of the rev db functions. I'm finding too many little inconsistencies and inefficiencies in the rev routines. The problem is I know nothing about using external libraries with LC or the sqlite C API. I'm hoping

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-07 Thread Monte Goulding
Hmm... what are the issues you are finding? Cheers Monte ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

RE: Help with C externals

2012-03-07 Thread Paul D. DeRocco
From: Pete I'm seriously considering trying to use the C API for sqlite databases instead of the rev db functions. I'm finding too many little inconsistencies and inefficiencies in the rev routines. The problem is I know nothing about using external libraries with LC or the sqlite C

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-07 Thread Ruslan Zasukhin
On 3/8/12 8:23 AM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Hi Pete, 1) I believe in the past there was at least 1-2-3 externals from third party developers around SQLite. They was even sold at price 150$ So you going invent a bike ... 2) why tease self with SQLite if exists Valentina DB and now