AW: AW: how to resize icons when resizing objects?

2012-03-20 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thanks Jacqueline for your useful hints Tiemo -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com [mailto:use-livecode- boun...@lists.runrev.com] Im Auftrag von J. Landman Gay Gesendet: Montag, 19. März 2012 18:37 An: How to use LiveCode Betreff: Re: AW: how to

AW: how to resize icons when resizing objects?

2012-03-20 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Thanks Ken, you say, you usually don't resize buttons with the stack. (I haven't done it yet either) I thought it could perhaps be a nice feature for tablet PCs (Windows 8), that you have bigger button icons, when increasing the window size to fullscreen to be better accessible with finger

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-20 Thread Marek Reichenbach
Thanks for the replies. I've made it workin, but I wanna add something else: So the question in SQL is: Maybe there is a way to hide columns it the result, like: SELECT car_nr, model, travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE number 414 AND (car_nr truck_nr) from transport; and show only result of

Re: Serious Question about the list...

2012-03-20 Thread Bernard Devlin
The mailing lists predate the forum by many years. Some people who used the mailing list complained they preferred a forum, so RunRev obliged and provided the forum. It's not that one discussion mechanism is officially sanctioned by RunRev, although I suspect new users find the forum before the

[MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

2012-03-20 Thread Mike Kerner
I have one of several apps that I'm using MG to create the layouts for the other iOS geometries. Everything is going fine until I select iPad Landscape. Then all of a sudden font sizes shrink and objects get bigger - the navBar, buttons, etc. all grew, but the fonts in all of those objects

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk

2012-03-20 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:52 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: I think it should behave the same way character selections do. A negative range has been a valid construct since HyperCard and is, actually, the only way to set

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk

2012-03-20 Thread Geoff Canyon
I understand that this is what the engine returns when the selection is empty, and I'm prepared to accept it as a necessary method for the engine to describe an empty insertion point, but just because the engine reports char 13 to 12 doesn't mean the engine should accept setting the selection to

Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

2012-03-20 Thread Mike Kerner
Every one of the other layouts went smoothly - switch to the layout setting, move and resize everything, repeat. However when I went to iPad Landscape all of a sudden the objects crew substantially and the fonts shrunk substantially. It is really dramatic when comparing to iPad Portrait. In the

accessing colorized script

2012-03-20 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
Anyone know how I can get the colorized htmltext of a script from the script editor without opening the editor and copying the text? I have a handler that puts a section of a stack script into a field -- pretty straightforward to just extract the relevant plain text from the script. But it

Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

2012-03-20 Thread Mike Kerner
Ugh. Well I just (foolishly) tried this with another stack as well, and in this one it's iPad Portrait that seems to break. Hmm. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours,

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk

2012-03-20 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On Mar 20, 2012, at 10:00 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: Hi Peter, Am 20.03.2012 um 14:40 schrieb Peter M. Brigham, MD: On Mar 20, 2012, at 1:52 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:54 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: ... Jacque's point still holds, though

Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

2012-03-20 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi Mike, the data is stored in custom properties of the card. For each object there is one custom property and for each orientation/resolution there is a set e.g. uMobGUIGeometry-640x960. Try to delete the set uMobGUIGeometry-640x960. This deletes all settings for ipad landscape. But please

Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

2012-03-20 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi Mike, i made a mistake in my last post. Try to delete uMobGUIGeometry-960x640. That is the correct set. Am 20.03.2012 um 15:53 schrieb Matthias Rebbe: Hi Mike, the data is stored in custom properties of the card. For each object there is one custom property and for each

Re: [MobGUI]Geometry Reset?

2012-03-20 Thread Mike Kerner
Thanks, Matthias. I'll try that. John has been really busy, so I was hoping to get an answer from the masses first. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk

2012-03-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Folks- Maybe I've missed this, but has a bug been filed? I can't think of a use case where the current behavior is preferred, and I can't see how changing it to something more consistent and er... correct... would break any existing code. I think this is something the rev team should fix, or at

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
Any columns you define in the select statement will be in the returned data. You do not have to retrieve a column to use it in the select statement. This works: select zip from addresses where state = CA Besides that, I do not know what you mean by hide. Hide from what? Your user interface?

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-20 Thread Ken Ray
On Mar 20, 2012, at 4:20 AM, Marek Reichenbach wrote: Thanks for the replies. I've made it workin, but I wanna add something else: So the question in SQL is: Maybe there is a way to hide columns it the result, like: SELECT car_nr, model, travel_days FROM table1,table2 WHERE number 414

Re: accessing colorized script

2012-03-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/20/12 9:30 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: Anyone know how I can get the colorized htmltext of a script from the script editor without opening the editor and copying the text? I don't think you can any more, the colorization is done by the engine. There used to be a script for it in

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk

2012-03-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
If I may be so bold, remember the discussion about the filter command returning different results depending on whether or not the chunk ended in a CR or not? Some argued that that was how it ought to behave. Are we now saying that consistency is the order of the day? So let it be written! So

Re: accessing colorized script

2012-03-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
Confounded new fangled engines! You can't work on 'em these days! Bob On Mar 20, 2012, at 8:46 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/20/12 9:30 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: Anyone know how I can get the colorized htmltext of a script from the script editor without opening the editor and copying

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
Hi Marek, I think you're confusing what you get back from the SELECT statement with what you display to your users - they are two different things. I'm going to assume that you need all the columns you name in your SELECT statement for some processing reasons but that doesn't mean you have to

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
Hi Ken, Good catch on the multiple FROM clauses, not sure what that's all about. Probably just needs to qualify the columns in the condition with the table name. The SELECT statement has a lot of problems in general. There's no JOIN statement to link table1 and table2 together, for example.

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-20 Thread Marek Reichenbach
Thanks for the replie!!! :), I'll make some research. On 20 March 2012 18:38, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Hi Ken, Good catch on the multiple FROM clauses, not sure what that's all about. Probably just needs to qualify the columns in the condition with the table name. The SELECT

Error Codes

2012-03-20 Thread Ralph DiMola
OK, I give up. How do you translate error number into descriptive text? The only reference I can find is: put line errorcode of the cErrorsList of stack revErrorDisplay I tried for example put line 353 of the cErrorsList of stack revErrorDisplay and all I get is empty. Thanks Ralph DiMola

Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

2012-03-20 Thread Richmond
On 03/20/2012 12:08 AM, rand valentine wrote: Hi, guys. Here’s another Unicode-related question. How can I use a Unicode keyboard to type in a Livecode field? I’m working with an American Indian language (called Hocąk), and I need to be able to type characters such as š, ǧ and ąą. I can

AW: how to resize icons when resizing objects?

2012-03-20 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Yes so do I today too, but after I've seen first impressions of Win8, I'm thinking of where the journey goes to... Tiemo No, you're absolutely right - the main reason I haven't had to do this is that 99.5% of my development is on desktop apps, so I'm more used to resizing windows and

Re: accessing colorized script

2012-03-20 Thread Alex Tweedly
Could you use the one from GLX ? (I don't know how stand alone it is, or how hard it might be to extract from its context). -- Alex. On 20/03/2012 15:46, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/20/12 9:30 AM, Peter M. Brigham, MD wrote: Anyone know how I can get the colorized htmltext of a script

Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

2012-03-20 Thread Warren Samples
On 03/20/2012 12:37 PM, Richmond wrote: On a Mac, a Win or a Lin? Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? :D ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and

RE: Error Codes

2012-03-20 Thread Ralph DiMola
Mark, THANK YOU The of card 1 was what I was missing. Again I'm guilty of reading the dictionary too fast. Thanks for your time! Ralph DiMola IT Director Evergreen Information Services rdim...@evergreeninfo.net -Original Message- From: use-livecode-boun...@lists.runrev.com

Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

2012-03-20 Thread Richmond
On 03/20/2012 08:10 PM, Warren Samples wrote: On 03/20/2012 12:37 PM, Richmond wrote: On a Mac, a Win or a Lin? Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? :D Pretty well. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

2012-03-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
Me?? I never replied to this subject. On Mar 20, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Richmond wrote: Did you fall asleep before you reached the end of the subject? :/D You ought to think a wee bit before you decide to be rude. Thunderbird cut off the end of your subject line (I found out what it was

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
I think it's unlikely anything about this behavior will change no matter what bug report is filed. There's the backward compatibility issue you raised (although I personally think that is usually a cop out) but you could also argue that what happens is by design. I'm thinking your hope for a

Re: using a special keyboard in livecode fields (in Windows 7)

2012-03-20 Thread Richmond
On 03/20/2012 08:48 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Me?? I never replied to this subject. @Bob: you have never been rude to me; unless, of course, I am so goofy as to have misunderstood the subtleties of what you are saying . . . :) The person who wrote this Did you fall asleep before you reached the

MySQL standalone issues

2012-03-20 Thread Sieg Lindstrom
Can anyone point me to an article or tutorial that walks thru all the considerations for making MySQL database functionality work in a standalone? I have created several apps that query a MySQL database. They work fine in the IDE but I have never been able to get them to run as standalones,

Re: Text formatting for a slider

2012-03-20 Thread Richmond
I wonder what is wrong with this: put the propertyNames of scrollbar ZLIDE into fld PROPPS ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

answer dlog box changes Mac full screen mode

2012-03-20 Thread tbodine
Hi all. Found a quirk on MacOSX and wonder if you have a workaround. Scenario: Standalone (made with LC 4.6.4) and running on Mac Lion is set to full screen, so there is not titlebar when it opens. However, if app uses the answer command, after dismissing that dlog box the Mac puts a titlebar

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
I'm happy to see in the newsletter announcement of LC 5.5 I just received that it retains Save As as a file menu option. Maybe Apple will ban LC from use on desktops because of that, who knows. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Tim Jones tolis...@me.com wrote: On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:43 PM,

Re: accessing colorized script

2012-03-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/20/12 2:24 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Peter M. Brigham, MDpmbrig@... writes: I'm looking for something like a revColorizeScript handler _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of field 1 Ooooh! -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: accessing colorized script

2012-03-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:20:51 PM, you wrote: _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of field 1 Ooooh! You can also use chars instead of lines. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode

Re: Error Codes

2012-03-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/20/12 12:37 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: OK, I give up. How do you translate error number into descriptive text? There's a plugin that Richard Gaskin and I developed. I've been trying to upload it to RevOnline for some time but it won't let me. Until that gets fixed, anyone who wants it can

Re: MySQL standalone issues

2012-03-20 Thread Sieg Lindstrom
Thanks, Pete. That gives me a clue. The LC app of primary concern to me has such a long history it started out as a HyperCard stack (and formerly interfaced with a local database, not MySQL). There are instances in which it temporarily saves data to text files to get around HyperCard's

Re: accessing colorized script

2012-03-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/20/12 3:30 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:20:51 PM, you wrote: _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of field 1 Ooooh! You can also use chars instead of lines. You mean like, line 2 to -1 of ...oh never mind. --

Re: accessing colorized script

2012-03-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:44:08 PM, you wrote: On 3/20/12 3:30 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:20:51 PM, you wrote: _internal script colorize line 1 to (the number of lines of field 1) of field 1 Ooooh! You can also use chars instead of lines.

Re: accessing colorized script

2012-03-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
That will invert the colors of the previous lines to their polar opposites. But only if they have a trailing CR. ;-) Bob You mean like, line 2 to -1 of ...oh never mind. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: Text formatting for a slider

2012-03-20 Thread stephen barncard
I made an attempt at 'fixing' Smart properties a while back, but found it's not as simple as it might seem to be. Three objects created for each property in real time made to scroll together and some other trickery going on. It's a project I do want to tackle one of these days. On 19 March 2012

RE: answer dlog box changes Mac full screen mode

2012-03-20 Thread tbodine
Thanks. I'll give that a go! Tom -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/answer-dlog-box-changes-Mac-full-screen-mode-tp4490058p4490632.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the

2012-03-20 Thread Mark Wieder
I filed bug 10109 on this. It's open for comments and of course the rev team can act on it or punt as they see fit. But I think it does need fixing. I can't see any way now in which the current implementation makes sense, even as an accidental side-effect. It's rather something to have to be aware

LiveCode 5.5

2012-03-20 Thread TERRY HASS
Hello List, I read this list almost everyday, but this is only the second time I have posted here. I guess I feel like I am still a newbie compared to everybody else. After reading the LiveCode 5.5 iOS release notes, I think I am missing something very basic concerning the recent LiveCode

Re: MySQL standalone issues

2012-03-20 Thread Sieg Lindstrom
Pete, I investigated further. I found something strange. I copied the simple script below from lessons.runrev.com and put it in a button on a brand new stack. Saved as a standalone and it worked as designed. Next I copied the button containing the working script to my existing app and saved

Re: Error Codes

2012-03-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 1:40:26 PM, you wrote: On 3/20/12 12:37 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: OK, I give up. How do you translate error number into descriptive text? You could just let the engine do the heavy lifting: put line tErrorNumber of the scriptExecutionErrors -- -Mark Wieder

Audio from online server

2012-03-20 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Hi, I'm working on a music-related LC project that plays audio that is delivered from a server. Works great, especially with fast start checked on .movs. The project has moved on to the point that we are now in negotiations to license music from a major media corporation that will be served to