Le 31 mai 2012 à 21:46, John Dixon a écrit :
Did you check to see if the location sensor is available ?
mobileSensorAvailable(sensor)
Now, yes, it return True when i use my external GPS. But the
mobileCurrentLocation return empty
If i take a picture with the apple application, the
You're not taking account of the Open Source movement. Were I starting again
at this point, the choice would be Python. Genuinely free in every way, and
not just as in beer. There is actually an impulse in many of us, which
neither Friedman, Thatcher nor Marx were able to admit, to contribute
Peter,
I like your prior comments but I have to disagree with this:
The problem with Hypercard, and what led to its demise, was fundamentally
that it was not free.
I also don't understand this:
The thing that killed it was a dog in the manger approach to things.
Unless you are talking
On 06/01/2012 12:12 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 5/31/12 1:45 PM, Bernard Devlin wrote:
I'm not sure they would use Livecode anyway.
I'm not so sure. A large number of the old HC mailing list are here
now. :)
I started with Hypercard in 1993 when it came bundled on a Mac LC475:
the
:) I know they (and you) are here! I even remember the days when Ms.
De Voto used to also grace this list. And, of course, the late, great
Eric Chatonet.
It is all those coulda-woulda-shouldas over at Ars Technica I was
referring to. After all, I was able to discover Runrev by accident 10
On 06/01/2012 01:18 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
If you don't mind me asking, what was your old password. I don't need the
exact, I'm just wondering if was 'my birthday' or like '12345' or
something that would be considered weak.
I'm just interested in how sophisticated the attack was.
My passwords
On 06/01/2012 02:17 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.frwrote:
And they all
Start Up and Shut Down in record time (now that IS a big advantage !)
Are there any other advantages ?
I misread this the first time, I thought you were
On 06/01/2012 02:31 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
After reading that article, it reenforces this growing concern that I have that more and more
people at Apple are not competent. It feels like after Steve passed that a lot of people who were
not getting their way earlier are getting their way now,
Back in the early 2000 pythonware was formed by several prominent leaders in
the python community.
It was delivering an IDE for python...I actually was one of the first and few
who bought a license.
They eventually shut down. From a conversation with one of the founders I
learnt that people
It wasn't free as in open source free. It was proprietary and restricted and
there was no way to jail break it.
The dog in the manger approach was, we don't want it, we cannot use it (eat
it) and so we will not let anyone else who could use it and make good things
out of it have it either.
They
Hi All,
http://www.valentina-db.com/download/beta/5.0b32
Here you can download WIN and MAC versions of Valentina Studio 5.0
* Now it has mySQL plugin also.
* This is about10 days before final release build.
so this should be quite stable build ...
well, may be mySQL
Apple may have done the best thing by both letting hyperCard die and
not allowing it to be open source. What if they have a program that was
written in hyperCard but they totally rewrote for OS X that is revolutionary
and holding the rights to the pattens and source helped secure pattens
for
Well, things could be hotting up in the dynamic IDE world.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ibdknox/light-table?ref=history
Light Table looks like it is a modern take on the old Smalltalk IDE
(Visualage, Squeak). It's going back to the idea of having code in an
image (stacks in our case),
Even if Apple gave away Hypercard to people who bought a mac
without it, Apple would still be paying for it. In the case
of all those other things, the taxpayer is paying for it, or
else the company that hired him is paying for it, and
actually he is likely himself paying for it because
On Jun 1, 2012, at 1:47 AM, stephen barncard wrote:
yeah, like me, I was devoted to read the Evangelist and Hypercard forums
every day. I piped the forums into the studio First Class systems.
First Class! Now that brings back memories! Is there a museum somewhere for
dead software?
-- Peter
On May 31, 2012, at 4:17 PM, Kay C Lan wrote:
...
By the end the day my wife will have 10-15 apps running, so when I go to
start her computer in the morning to have another play with Lion it takes
forever to get all those apps back up and running and all those windows in
place. My old IIci
On 06/01/2012 10:15 AM, Paul Looney wrote:
Obviously Apple is thinking ahead to the day when all of the Macs will have
SSDs.
This is a coin whose flip side is that they would obviously not be
thinking about their current users whose computers do not. That makes
this coin worth zero cents.
Nicolas Cueto wrote:
I have an Android app that uses a small amount of data (under
10Kb). The data gets updated regularly. Haven't decided when.
Perhaps every half-second, or perhaps when the user hits the
hardware home-button.
Right now, the data is stored both as a custom prop of the card
OIC I have had this problem too! When I am in the debugger, if code execution
ends in any way by stepping, my IDE will lock. This is on Mac OS X, and I'm not
sure that it happens every time, but it has happened enough in the past that I
am very careful to either cancel code execution or else
I'm trying to use revcopyfile to copy an application from a folder on my
disk drive to a mounted disk image (OS X). Keep getting Execution error
from revCopyFile which really isn't very helpful.
When copying an application file, should the file name be myApp or
myApp.app? Or should I be using
Exactly my point. Maybe it's a matter of semantics, or perhaps I imagine things
work a certain way inside a corporation, but I always envision a bunch of suits
sitting around a conference table, deciding how to price a product, and taking
into consideration all the free stuff they are putting
You could just offer the dog a steak, but then the analogy seems to be breaking
down. ;-)
Bob
On Jun 1, 2012, at 8:22 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Peter-
Friday, June 1, 2012, 4:11:18 AM, you wrote:
The dog in the manger approach was, we don't want it, we cannot use it (eat
it) and so we
I have been forced to install Lion on a number of management office computers,
not because it is better or people like it, but because the department head
insists on using iCloud for shared calendaring, and will not consider any other
alternative, and Apple will not consider making iCloud
On Android the stack is in the engine folder that is read-only. It resides
in the apk(a zip formatted file). The engine folder is virtual and read
only. If you want to modify a stack it needs to be a separate stack that you
move to the documents folder. Any file that you want read/write must be
Ralph DiMola wrote:
-Original Message-
Issuing a save command to the stack with the props should take
slightly longer than writing the data to a file, but with only
10k the difference will be negligible.
If you don't need to save often then using custom props will
provide good
On 6/1/12 11:30 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
I'm trying to use revcopyfile to copy an application from a folder on my
disk drive to a mounted disk image (OS X). Keep getting Execution error
from revCopyFile which really isn't very helpful.
When copying an application file, should the file name be
On 6/1/12 12:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
My tip on the value of using stack files for data storage assumes that
the stack file has had its filename property set to an appropriate
location for writes.
I just thought of an interesting possibility: if the stack is included
in the engine folder
If Apple had no included anything for free, (not sure how to
measure that) would they have charged less? Hmmm... no way to
test it, so it must remain a mystery.
The point of a bundle is to justify the price you want your target customer
to pay - in Apple's case, they wanted you to pay
J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 6/1/12 12:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
My tip on the value of using stack files for data storage assumes that
the stack file has had its filename property set to an appropriate
location for writes.
I just thought of an interesting possibility: if the stack is
Macworld UK gave LiveCode a 5-out-of-5-star review:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/reviews/?reviewid=3361007
That's a nice follow-up to LiveCode being voted Best Developer Tool at
the MacTech conference in November:
http://runrev.com/newsletter/november/issue122/newsletter1.php
Rackin' up the
The performa series was an attempt at making Apple systems to compete with the
PC's of the time. A few were pretty good, but there were some pigs too. In the
final analysis what Apple produced in an attempt to market cheap computers,
was... well... cheap computers! Good riddance I say! I'll pay
Interestingly enough, as a Window and Linux user, I had never even
heard of Hyper-Card when I found MetaCard, then Rev and finally
LiveCode... I was just looking for a decent development tool for those
two platforms only. Mac's or anything to do with Apple never even
crossed my mind. (Seldom does
On 6/1/12 1:46 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 6/1/12 12:30 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
My tip on the value of using stack files for data storage assumes that
the stack file has had its filename property set to an appropriate
location for writes.
I just thought of an
I guess a workaround might be to use a label over the button.
Thanks for the ideas. I went with the label workaround.
Thanks,
Tom Bodine
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Thanks Jacque. I treid the formats you recommended and I'm still getting
execution error back from revCopyFile with nothing else in the result.
The disk image is mounted.
I checked for the presence of the disk image using the message box as you
suggested using the message box and got true..
I
On Jun 1, 2012, at 1:51 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Macworld UK gave LiveCode a 5-out-of-5-star review:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/reviews/?reviewid=3361007
That's a nice follow-up to LiveCode being voted Best Developer Tool at the
MacTech conference in November:
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:11 PM, Peter Alcibiades
palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
The dog in the manger approach was, we don't want it, we cannot use it (eat
it) and so we will not let anyone else who could use it and make good
things
out of it have it either.
You are certainly right
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD pmb...@gmail.comwrote:
First Class! Now that brings back memories! Is there a museum somewhere
for dead software?
What?? I still access the local Mac User Group via FirstClass 9.1 - not
that I would recommend it to anyone, there is
Congratulations, RunRev!
On 02/06/2012, at 4:51 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Macworld UK gave LiveCode a 5-out-of-5-star review:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/reviews/?reviewid=3361007
Well deserved!
And, talking about reviews, I came across a rather scathing write-up on
LiveCode at the very
On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 2:45 AM, Lynn Fredricks
lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote:
Within each product line (Macs, iPod, iPhone, iPad) you have very clear and
very simple differentiated levels - the low end is cheapest and sports
fewer
features,
Very interesting you should write that,
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 4:48 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote:
My younger son, who is at a private school in Germany informs me that all
the kids there are buying
new MacBooks with Lion installed; and, the first thing they do is blank
the hard-drive and install Snow Leopard!
What a great write up, congrats Runrev Team.
In light of the other thread about HyperCard, the only thing that makes me
wince in the write-up is the multiple references to the stack/card metaphor.
Whilst a knowledge of the past is all well and good, for the rising
generation of potential
On 6/1/12 8:22 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richard-
Friday, June 1, 2012, 11:51:17 AM, you wrote:
Macworld UK gave LiveCode a 5-out-of-5-star review:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/reviews/?reviewid=3361007
Interesting tidbit here: one of my coworkers spotted the article this
afternoon. Never
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