Is there a way to make a new dir via FTP on iOS?

2012-05-05 Thread William de Smet
Hi there, Is there anyone who knows a way to FTP a new dir on iOS? On my desktop app I use: libURLftpCommand(MKD tPath / tName,server,user,password) but the libURLftpCommand is not supported on iOS. I use LC 5.5 on OSX 10.7.3 greetings, William

Re: Named Parameters

2012-05-05 Thread FlexibleLearning
ChartMaker uses the 'keyValue pairs' syntax (in the form Key=Value), of which any, some or all can be passed as parameters like this... get CMBarChart(ChartSize=500,300,Values=[list of values],Categories=[list of categories]) The app first applies all the defaults in an internal array. It then

Fwd: paying for bug fixes (was Re: [ANN] Installer Maker Plugin 1.7.8)

2012-05-05 Thread Pierre Sahores
Début du message réexpédié : De : Dar Scott d...@swcp.com Date : 4 mai 2012 21:13:58 HAEC À : How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Objet : Rép : paying for bug fixes (was Re: [ANN] Installer Maker Plugin 1.7.8) Répondre à : How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: paying for bug fixes (was Re: [ANN] Installer Maker Plugin 1.7.8)

2012-05-05 Thread Pierre Sahores
Clearly the way to make customers as confident as possible in how they can trust in their ISV ! Le 4 mai 2012 à 21:38, Tim Jones a écrit : On May 4, 2012, at 12:13 PM, Dar Scott wrote: What would you hope for, look for, in bug fixes when you buy a product? In particular, if I put

Re: Casey' Solitaire

2012-05-05 Thread Pierre Sahores
Does the score scale goes over 208 ? ;) Début du message réexpédié : De : Bob Cole bobc...@earthlink.net Date : 5 mai 2012 05:34:02 HAEC À : use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com Objet : Casey' Solitaire Répondre à : How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Jacque: I downloaded your

Re: PayPal IPN LC - Scripts are posted

2012-05-05 Thread Pierre Sahores
How to thank you for this inestimable contribution without considering the human generosity behind your gesture which goes far beyond the workplace. I'm glad LiveCode is the incredible community that we know because all those human being shared values ​​that civilized creation software and

Re: Mobile Apps: Battery Life Native vs LiveCode

2012-05-05 Thread Ken Corey
On 30/04/2012 09:34, Roderick McCALL wrote: We are currently looking into using LiveCode for a variety of location-aware programs that we want to test on Android and IOS. One key issue is battery life with many viewing any cross-platform tools as having a negative impact. Therefore does anyone

PayPal IPN LC - and Beef Stew

2012-05-05 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Jacqueline wrote : 2. At least two people prefer that their stew contain beer. Not beer, Jacqueline, Guinness (or at least stout) In the true spirit of sharing on this forum, although it may be considered not very LiveCode, I pass on a recipe for Stew made with

Human Factors Meeting

2012-05-05 Thread Michael Kann
http://chi2012.acm.org/CHIcompleteLR.pdf -- Notice this is a pdf file so it might take a while to load, or not load at all. Some of you might be interested in browsing through the presentations for this meeting. The schedule of speakers starts around page 45. Mike

Re: Human Factors Meeting

2012-05-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Michael Kann wrote: http://chi2012.acm.org/CHIcompleteLR.pdf -- Notice this is a pdf file so it might take a while to load, or not load at all. Some of you might be interested in browsing through the presentations for this meeting. The schedule of speakers starts around page 45. Thanks

engine's limit on total parameter string length (was Re: Named Parameters)

2012-05-05 Thread Dar Scott
On May 5, 2012, at 2:11 AM, FlexibleLearning wrote: The main downside of passing parameters is the engine's limits on total parameter string length. If too much data is passed, the engine simply truncates the data to the maximum length it can handle. If the amount of data does exceed the

Re: Named Parameters

2012-05-05 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Hugh, that's the idea I had in mind. However, I'm beginning to see the limitations of this approach. Unless I'm missing something, it can only work if the right operand of the pair is a literal value. In other words, I could do something like ChartSize=tVar, where tVar is a variable in

Re: Named Parameters

2012-05-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: I also learned something new - that there's a limit to the amount of data you can pass in to handlers in parameters. As far as I know I haven't run into that but sounds like it's something that should be checked if there's any danger that it could happen in any specific

Re: Named Parameters

2012-05-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: Thanks Richard, sounds like somewhat of a false alarm, unless you think a variable content may exceed 4gigs. ...which would be a problem for anything in LiveCode since the engine uses 32-bit addressing, so 4GBs is the largest of anything it can know about. -- Richard

Re: Named Parameters

2012-05-05 Thread Dar Scott
On May 5, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: It may be that the general limit on single-line handling applies to script lines, which would be uint2. But that would be a lot of typing for a single line anyway, and likely so unreadable that it would explain why no one's ever reported

Re: Named Parameters

2012-05-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dar Scott wrote: On May 5, 2012, at 11:02 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: It may be that the general limit on single-line handling applies to script lines, which would be uint2. But that would be a lot of typing for a single line anyway, and likely so unreadable that it would explain why no one's

Re: Casey' Solitaire

2012-05-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/5/12 4:40 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Does the score scale goes over 208 ? ;) No, that's the highest possible score you can get with all cheats turned off and no problems with Casey. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: PayPal IPN LC - and Beef Stew

2012-05-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/5/12 6:39 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Jacqueline wrote : 2. At least two people prefer that their stew contain beer. Not beer, Jacqueline, Guinness (or at least stout) I don't drink beer, and I guess it shows. To me, stout and beer and ale are all

Re: Named Parameters

2012-05-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/5/12 12:55 PM, Dar Scott wrote: However, in the editor one is limited by the field limits--64K characters and 32K pixels per line, I believe. The latter might make a practical limit of (just guessing) 5,000 characters per line. I didn't think there were any limits to the amount of text

RE: paying for bug fixes (was Re: [ANN] Installer Maker Plugin 1.7.8)

2012-05-05 Thread Lynn Fredricks
3b - Alter your cost structure to cover the updating of old versions. Everyone pays more. That's a good point. No matter which way you look at it the user must pay for the maintenance and support of the software for the developer to stay in buisiness. By limiting the free update

Re: Parameter string length (was Named Parameters)

2012-05-05 Thread Richard Gaskin
Hugh Senior wrote: For most practical purposes LiveCode handles what is required. I suspect that any limits may depend on and be subject to the amount of on-board RAM as ChartMaker here easily handles uint2 (64Kb) but not uint4 (4Gb). In short, we need clarification from Edinburgh. I believe

Omegabundle for LiveCode 2012 Ending Monday; Survey Bags You Additonal DB Icon Set

2012-05-05 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Hi all, Omegabundle for LiveCode 2012 ends on Monday, end of day. There is a single sku this year at $399, which is pretty nice for a product set worth 3699. We have an end of offer survey too for buyers - which bags a db focused icon set worth $99 for free, which extends the Turner Icon set with

Re: Named Parameters

2012-05-05 Thread Dar Scott
Hi, Jacque! I apologize for the ambiguous statement. I meant 64K characters per line and 32K pixels per line. And Richard suggested that the 32K pixel limit is OS X only. In some of my test stacks I type in some test data into a field or click a button that fills it with some number of

Re: Named Parameters

2012-05-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/5/12 2:02 PM, Dar Scott wrote: Hi, Jacque! I apologize for the ambiguous statement. I meant 64K characters per line and 32K pixels per line. And Richard suggested that the 32K pixel limit is OS X only. In some of my test stacks I type in some test data into a field or click a button

Re: Parameter string length (was Named Parameters)

2012-05-05 Thread Dar Scott
If Hugh is correct in his observation that there is some kind of limit in parameters, that might be a consequence of section 2.2.9 limits, or it might be something not listed there. It also might be a limit that existed long ago. At this point I'm willing to leave the question open. Dar On

Re: PayPal IPN LC - Scripts are posted

2012-05-05 Thread dirk cleenwerck
I don't get to answer very often on this list, so I'm glad my contribution provided the last puzzle piece. Thanks for the write up. I bookmarked it in case I ever need it. Greetz from Belgium Dirk Cleenwerck On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 4:58 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: I've

Disabling a menu item

2012-05-05 Thread Dar Scott
My website has not gotten attention for an embarrassingly long time and even a few stacks have been sitting there for download for almost ten years. A quick checked showed that people are still downloading them. I thought I'd look at them with a more recent LiveCode. In Primer Primer, menu

Re: Disabling a menu item

2012-05-05 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Dar, FYI, I'm only using 4.5.2, but ( works OK for me. Joe Wilkins On May 5, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Dar Scott wrote: My website has not gotten attention for an embarrassingly long time and even a few stacks have been sitting there for download for almost ten years. A quick checked showed

Re: Disabling a menu item

2012-05-05 Thread Peter M. Brigham, MD
On May 5, 2012, at 5:50 PM, Dar Scott wrote: In Primer Primer, menu item disabling no longer works. The ( at the end of the menu items line shows up and the item is not disabled. Doesn't the ( have to come at the start of the line? -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com

Re: Disabling a menu item

2012-05-05 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Dar, The ( should be at the start of the line not the end. You can also use disable menuitem itemnumber of menu xyz (and enable), rather than search for the ( character. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Sat, May 5, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote: The ( at the

Re: Problem with pasting from a Rev App to Pages..

2012-05-05 Thread stephen barncard
1. Continuing the discussion about the clipboard, I am offering to this thread a test stack I created to satisfy my curiosity about the clipboard contents array. This stack can be used to examine the copied data from any application. It can examine without pasting if one uses the 'show keys'

Re: Problem with pasting from a Rev App to Pages..

2012-05-05 Thread Charles Szasz
Bob, Thanks for your help! I did get it working using your suggestions below: set the textFont of character 1 to -1 of field statement to Times New Roman set the clipboardData[rtf] to the rtfText of field statement I also tried the following to get the font size but it did not worked. Any

Re: Problem with pasting from a Rev App to Pages..

2012-05-05 Thread Charles Szasz
Stephen, Thanks for this stack! I will look at it tomorrow. It may be helpful with trying to set the size of the font. I also tried the following to get the font size but it did not worked. set the textFont of character 1 to -1 of field statement to Times New Roman,12 set the

Re: Casey' Solitaire

2012-05-05 Thread Peter W A Wood
Jacque Does the score scale goes over 208 ? ;) No, that's the highest possible score you can get with all cheats turned off and no problems with Casey. Providing there is space, you may want to think about having a highest score of 208 trillion by padding the real score with a random

Re: Casey' Solitaire

2012-05-05 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/5/12 10:15 PM, Peter W A Wood wrote: Jacque Does the score scale goes over 208 ? ;) No, that's the highest possible score you can get with all cheats turned off and no problems with Casey. Providing there is space, you may want to think about having a highest score of 208 trillion by

RE: Casey' Solitaire

2012-05-05 Thread John Dixon
Date: Sat, 5 May 2012 22:54:38 -0500 From: jac...@hyperactivesw.com :) Maybe I should add points depending on how fast you grab a tissue from the box. And maybe the box should run out randomly. Hmm...and then I could add in-app purchasing so you could buy more tissues. And...and then

Re: Casey' Solitaire

2012-05-05 Thread Mark Wieder
Jacque- Saturday, May 5, 2012, 8:54:38 PM, you wrote: I could add in-app purchasing so you could buy more tissues. Brilliant. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: Disabling a menu item

2012-05-05 Thread Dar Scott
Thanks, Peter and Peter! I guess at one time it could be anywhere. I'll put it at the front. Dar ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: