Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-20 Thread Richmond
On 06/20/2012 04:02 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Alex, Richard- Yes, but... three things: it wouldn't have the authority of the company behind it, in the way that the Apple store, etc does I don't recall a link from the runrev site to LiveCode Journal, or it's somewhere out of the way. it would

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-20 Thread Richmond
On 06/20/2012 09:01 AM, Andre Garzia wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:16 AM, Peter Haworthp...@lcsql.com wrote: I have several QCC reports that have been sitting in silence for several weeks Weeks??? I have pet bugs that have been sitting there for YEARS For example: * Can't take

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Richmond- Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 11:17:43 PM, you wrote: One of my least favourite words on this user-list is Work-around, and Well, that point I may take issue with. If there's a problem with the engine or IDE or somesuch and there does exist a workaround, then I'm less frantic about the bug

Re: Rev Online

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Igor- Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 10:33:51 PM, you wrote: I can report, that I got RevOnline to work. I clicked on the 'forgot password?' link, and tried getting through to the next step. Usually, it tries contacting the Rev server, and nothing happens, so I just force-quit it. This time,

Re: Rev Online

2012-06-20 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 20/06/2012, at 5:04 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Hmmm. Well, my password has always worked fine. I have no trouble logging in to revOnline. I just can't upload anything. Glad it worked for you. Aaaah, 'must admit, haven't tried *that* yet... -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia

Re: problems building standalone

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richard, According to your screenshots, there actually are two stacks answer dialog and ask dialog, which are part of your mainstack. Usually, the error is just a bogus error, but apparently this time the error is real. Try this in the message box: delete stack answer dialog of stack

Re: Android motion events... a good shake!

2012-06-20 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Sorry to post again so soon. But just had another idea. Which seems to work. But maybe there's a problem I'm overlooking? Here it is: / local tShakes_Tally, tShakes_Time on motionStart if tShakes_Time is not

My Application Browser is showing too many stacks

2012-06-20 Thread stgoldb...@aol.com
My Application Browser has suddenly started showing dozens of stacks and substacks other than the few that belong to my program. These extras stacks (RevFileAssociations, revAnimation,revDebugger, and many others) apparently belong to the system. Why have these suddenly appeared i the

RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi friends, anyone also see this? The RunRev form is LAME, LAME, LAME! http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/index.php I have a fast DSL connection but most of the time it takes up to 10 seconds before I get connected to the forum. Navigating from posting to posting sometimes even takes longer :-/

Re: My Application Browser is showing too many stacks

2012-06-20 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Stephen, Am 20.06.2012 um 13:23 schrieb stgoldb...@aol.com: My Application Browser has suddenly started showing dozens of stacks and substacks other than the few that belong to my program. These extras stacks (RevFileAssociations, revAnimation,revDebugger, and many others) apparently

Re: How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-20 Thread Keith Clarke
...thanks Colin. I don't know if I'm getting anywhere with this yet. This is my script... on mouseUp put empty into tFile put empty into field Source File put empty into field Extract answer file Select File as sheet put it into tFile put tFile into field Source File put

Re: RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hi Klaus, Out of curiosity, visited the forum and spent a minute clicking around here and there. No stopwatch or anything but seems the longest delay was maybe four seconds. Most clicks resolved in a sec or so, though. For what it's worth. Cheers. -- Nicolas Cueto

Android motion events... a good shake!

2012-06-20 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Hello All, Want a change to happen only if the Android device has been given a lng shake. Here was my first thought on how to do this: / local tMotionStartMillisecs on motionStart put the milliseconds into tMotionStartMillisecs end

Re: RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Nicolas, Am 20.06.2012 um 13:47 schrieb Nicolas Cueto: Hi Klaus, Out of curiosity, visited the forum and spent a minute clicking around here and there. No stopwatch or anything but seems the longest delay was maybe four seconds. Most clicks resolved in a sec or so, though. For what

Re: RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread Ken Corey
I don't generally go on the forums regularly, per se, but I've been there and gotten help there before. Just checked, and my experience is similar to Nicolas: all pages I tried came back within 4 seconds or so. I'm on 8MB ADSL in the south of the UK, so it should be pretty fast. Could there

Re: My Application Browser is showing too many stacks

2012-06-20 Thread Ken Corey
Oh I *hate* that man. He sneaks in and hides one of each pair of socks, and puts bugs in my code. Someone should *get* him. -Ken On 20/06/2012 12:35, Klaus on-rev wrote: there was a man in your house a couple of nights ago who switched you computer on, launched LiveCode and selected: Menu:

Re: RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Schonewille
Messages in bottles are generally slow ;-) -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB, RAL, XYZ, H.Lab and other

Re: RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Ken, Am 20.06.2012 um 13:57 schrieb Ken Corey: I don't generally go on the forums regularly, per se, but I've been there and gotten help there before. Just checked, and my experience is similar to Nicolas: all pages I tried came back within 4 seconds or so. I'm on 8MB ADSL in the south

Re: RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread Mike Bonner
Next time its acting up you might do a traceroute and see if theres a horked gateway between you and them as well as a ping to see if packets are getting dropped somewhere. If there is a time of day component to it also it might be an overloaded gate rather than one that is about to stick its feet

Re: How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
This fails for me: on mouseUp put binfile:iPhoto.app/Contents/info.plist into t put URL t into field 1 end mouseUp which suggests you have to use put URL bin file:… and can't get away with binfile: being in the string variable. Perhaps use Do? on mouseUp put URL

Re: How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-20 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Colin, Am 20.06.2012 um 14:51 schrieb Colin Holgate: This fails for me: on mouseUp put binfile:iPhoto.app/Contents/info.plist into t put URL t into field 1 end mouseUp which suggests you have to use put URL bin file:… and can't get away with binfile: being in the string

Re: How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
My example stack was saved in Applications, and the relative path did previously work. But, it isn't working now! So, this works: on mouseUp answer file put URL (binfile:it/Contents/info.plist) into field 1 end mouseUp So does this: on mouseUp answer file put

Re: How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-20 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Colin, Am 20.06.2012 um 15:12 schrieb Colin Holgate: My example stack was saved in Applications, and the relative path did previously work. I NEVER rely on relative pathnames (or even set the DEFAULTFOLDER!) if I can construct an ABSOLUTE pathname! :-) But, it isn't working now! So,

Re: RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread René Micout
Le 20 juin 2012 à 12:55, Klaus on-rev a écrit : Hi friends, anyone also see this? The RunRev form is LAME, LAME, LAME! http://forums.runrev.com/phpBB2/index.php I have a fast DSL connection but most of the time it takes up to 10 seconds before I get connected to the forum. For

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-20 Thread Roger Guay
Hi all, I'm trying to play a sound in iOS. My code:if the environment is mobile then mobilePlaySoundOnChannel mySnd.wav, current, now else play mySnd.wav I've imported mySnd.wav to the stack and I've copied it to the Non-stack files in

LiveCode 5.5.1 Released

2012-06-20 Thread Heather Nagey
Dear List Folks, I'm delighted to announce that 5.5.1 has been released today. This release marks the start of our partnership with inneractive: http://inner-active.com/ bringing you in-app advertising for iOS and Android. Now you can easily embed advertising in your mobile apps, and earn

Re: Rev Online

2012-06-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: I've uploaded a stack this month... it worked as expected. RevOnline protocol is pretty simple, they just send a base64 encoded compressed arrayencoded array back and forth. GMTA :) That's become my favorite packaging method for moving stuff between standalones and

Re: How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
I believe we were talking just about on Mac, and it's uncommon, isn't it, for people to be on Mac and not have admin rights? I am able to read the plus file as a standalone app, but I haven't gone to the trouble of setting up a non-admin user to test what happens then. On Jun 20, 2012, at

Re: How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-20 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Colin, Am 20.06.2012 um 16:28 schrieb Colin Holgate: I believe we were talking just about on Mac, and it's uncommon, isn't it, for people to be on Mac and not have admin rights? I am able to read the plus file as a standalone app, but I haven't gone to the trouble of setting up a

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Sheffield
Roger, When using mobilePlaySoundOnChannel, I've always had to build the full path to the file for it to work correctly. So if you've verified that it's copying correctly into the app bundle and, assuming it's not in a sub folder of the bundle, try something like this: if the environment is

Re: problems building standalone

2012-06-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:43 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Btw, with destroyStack property, I mean the checkbox in the properties inspector of each (sub)stack; not the checkbox in the standalone settings. I don't see that choice, but checking from the

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: ... it would look really bad for the company to have this added as Yet Another Failed Runrev Initiative. I'm not clear what you mean, Mark: would it look bad to provide a community-based solution for sharing stack files? I like to imagine a future in which RunRev

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-20 Thread René Micout
Le 20 juin 2012 à 17:07, Richard Gaskin a écrit : Similarly, community-oriented tools like RevOnline could conceivably become community-driven. Portions of the IDE as well. YES ! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- Well, I'm not disagreeing with anything you said there. I just don't see any third-party options having the traction needed to make this work. Look at the usage differences between the runrev web forum and the LiveJournal web forum, for instance. It's not a matter of what content is

Re: How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-20 Thread Keith Clarke
Thanks Colin Klaus for your responses. This revised script works in the IDE to open the iPhoto plist XML file in LiveCode. on mouseUp put empty into tFile put empty into field Source File put empty into field Extract answer file Select File as sheet put it into tFile put

Re: My Application Browser is showing too many stacks

2012-06-20 Thread Jerry Jensen
And he breaks into my car every night and turns up the radio! On Jun 20, 2012, at 4:58 AM, Ken Corey wrote: Oh I *hate* that man. He sneaks in and hides one of each pair of socks, and puts bugs in my code. Someone should *get* him. -Ken On 20/06/2012 12:35, Klaus on-rev wrote: there

Re: How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
One thing you could try is to open Terminal and drag the xml file into the window. It will then show you the path to that file. Might give some clues to what is going on. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 105, Issue 41

2012-06-20 Thread Roger Guay
Thanks, Chris. I tried a number of variations of your suggestion to no avail! I tried these code snippets: put the engine folder /assets/mySnd.caf into tSoundFile or put specialFolderPath(engine) /mySnd.caf into tSoundFile mobilePlaySoundOnChannel

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-20 Thread Roger Guay
I'm sorry, I forgot to include the Subject Thanks, Chris. I tried a number of variations of your suggestion to no avail! I tried these code snippets: put the engine folder /assets/mySnd.caf into tSoundFile or put specialFolderPath(engine) /mySnd.caf into tSoundFile

simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
I've found the Menu Builder tool, and set up a menu. I can even preview it from within the tool. Is there any way to test it (Mac) short of building a standalone? I would think this would have been in the recent academy videos, or something easily googled, but I can't find it! -- The Hawkins

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Paul Hibbert
Your menus should work in Run mode, i.e. When you choose the Browse tool (you may need to click on the title bar of your app window first). But another way to test your menus is to use the Suspend Development Tools under the Development menu. The Application Menu may look a little different

Re: How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-20 Thread Keith Clarke
Nice idea but the xml file itself isn't accessible within the Finder and dragging the file into Terminal from within the Text Wrangler Disk Browser returns only the enclosing file's path. I've also tried changing the file extension to .app to see if OSX would then allow 'Show Package

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-20 Thread Chris Sheffield
Your code seems okay as far as I can tell. I'm guessing the path is not getting set correctly. Are you running this in the simulator or on a device? One really quick way to verify the path of a file, especially if you're running in the simulator, is to simply place an answer command right

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:06 PM, Paul Hibbert l...@pbh.on-rev.com wrote: Your menus should work in Run mode, i.e. When you choose the Browse tool (you may need to click on the title bar of your app window first). But another way to test your menus is to use the Suspend Development Tools

Re: RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Hi Klaus, i think you were right about that experience. The server on which Runrev.com is hosted had some problems today at about that time. Regards, Matthias Am 20.06.2012 um 12:55 schrieb Klaus on-rev: Hi friends, anyone also see this? The RunRev form is LAME, LAME, LAME!

Re: Rev Online

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 5:57:26 AM, you wrote: calls and one for calls that send password. Given time, I think I may be able to build a alternative uploader. The issue isn't whether you or any other third party can come up with an alternative... it looks bad for the official

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard- You are, I think, missing the point. The issue is more about announcing a new initiative, getting users started down that path, and then abandoning things. When was the last time the broken on-rev client got updated? I can't imagine anyone on the team taking the time to revisit this.

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-20 Thread Tim Jones
I don't mean to play Obvious Man here, but has anyone actually contacted Heather, et al and asked for it to be fixed? Tim On Jun 20, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richard- You are, I think, missing the point. The issue is more about announcing a new initiative, getting users

Re: How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-20 Thread Keith Clarke
Further digging reveals that the OSX feature 'Show Package Contents' is available for all packages - not just applications. Visibility seems to be controlled by bundle flags set on the file extension in the Launch.Services database, such as this entry for a coda plugin uti:

Re: Rev Online

2012-06-20 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Andre- Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 5:57:26 AM, you wrote: calls and one for calls that send password. Given time, I think I may be able to build a alternative uploader. The issue isn't whether you or any other

Re: How to open an XML file within an OSX bundle?

2012-06-20 Thread Keith Clarke
Sorry, poor proof-reading. Penultimate sentence should have read... Unfortunately, whilst a 'Bundle bit' can be set in the file's properties, it doesn't seem to override these application-level bundle/package flags to unlock a single file and I wouldn't trust my Terminal skills to even attempt

Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Wieder
As announced this morning in San Francisco: Windows phone 8 (due out later this year) won't run on Windows 7 phones. If you're thinking of buying the hardware now, it's a dead end. Has a Siri-like feature that, during the demo, thought Play Game of Thrones meant St. Louis Missouri. ...ah...

Re: RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Matthias, Am 20.06.2012 um 21:31 schrieb Matthias Rebbe: Hi Klaus, i think you were right about that experience. The server on which Runrev.com is hosted had some problems today at about that time. aha! Thank you very much for this info! Some folks here on the list already started to

Re: RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread Mike Bonner
Not mistrustful. :) Just a guy who lives in BFE where routes between me and thee that go flaky lots. (not isp, not end point, usually something crashing and burning in the middle) On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.comwrote: Hi Matthias, Am 20.06.2012 um 21:31

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/20/12 2:14 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: hmm, can I re-use this same menubar from the substacks, or do I have to duplicated it for each one? (the latter would seem to be asking for maintenance problems!) Yes, just use the Object menu to place the menu group on the cards in the substack. --

Re: RunRev forum LAME par excellence!

2012-06-20 Thread Klaus on-rev
Am 20.06.2012 um 22:58 schrieb Mike Bonner: Not mistrustful. :) Just a guy who lives in BFE where routes between me and thee that go flaky lots. (not isp, not end point, usually something crashing and burning in the middle) Sure, Mike! :-) On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Klaus on-rev

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
Yes, but even if they had not, they posted to the quality center which is actually where they are supposed to. They are saying that no response has come to those posts. It would be better if someone came back and said, We really do not have time at present to address this issue. or else, We

Re: Rev Online

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre Garzia andre@... writes: I completely agree with you and I too have my own bag of corporate insane bugs here. I know we should have them working on it but if I could provide an alternative uploader for the interval between today and they fixing things, I think it would be good. g I

ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip, the Rich Text Editor

2012-06-20 Thread Curry Kenworthy
LiveCode 5.5 offers incredible new text styling features...if only you had a convenient rich text editor field to drop into your stacks for desktop and mobile apps and make all those features instantly available, right? Help is here! FieldTrip will let your end users easily edit and style

Thanks for all your help so far. Global recap / thinking it through.

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi Pros, Zooming ahead here now that I can build a script without quotes around the cardname of another stack. Golly. Navigation is working -- check, I'm setting custom props in fields and stacks -- check. Plugging along with 3 weeks until camp begins. Next I'm going to figure out links to

Re: ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip, the Rich Text Editor

2012-06-20 Thread Bob Sneidar
Done, but I think you need to put something on the web page to define what the different levels actually get you. I almost went with FieldTripper, but I didn't see anyplace where I could quantify the advantage over just pre-purchasing. Bob ___

Re: ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip, the Rich Text Editor

2012-06-20 Thread Curry Kenworthy
Thanks Robert! The higher levels give us extra support, and in return give you more influence in product features. Kind of like hiring me to work on the product, so that you can give some input about where to focus. - Thanks again to those of you who have already registered - awesome!! :-)

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-20 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 20/06/2012 01:23, Richard Gaskin wrote: In LiveCode, see Development-Plugins-GoRevNet, and once there see the Stacks section. RevNet was the first community-based stack sharing service, later somewhat displaced by the advent of RevOnline two years later. It all still works, and I would

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-20 Thread Alex Tweedly
On 20/06/2012 15:49, Richard Gaskin wrote: On-Rev is still in business as a shared hosting alternative with RevServer preinstalled, and RevServer itself is kinda nifty and also remains available, currently at v5.0.1 (understandable that it's not using 5.5 since most of the additions are for

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:00 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Yes, just use the Object menu to place the menu group on the cards in the substack. Thanks But isn't this going to give me a copy of the menu in every substack, so that I have to change all of them? -- The

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Paul Hibbert
On 2012-06-20, at 5:11 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:00 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Yes, just use the Object menu to place the menu group on the cards in the substack. Thanks But isn't this going to give me a copy of the menu in every substack,

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Ugh. Here we go again. First MS declares 'there is no market for tablets' and disbands the development team, then kills the skunkworks Courier tablet saying tablets will never survive. Of course Steve Jobs convinces the world we all NEED tablets, and in typical Microsoft copy copy copy mode they

ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip (16%)

2012-06-20 Thread Curry Kenworthy
We're now at 16% of the funding we need for the first release. Thank you very much to those who ordered! We'll be keeping you posted on progress over the next several weeks. If you ordered a higher level above the base price, be sure to let us know what features are most important to you,

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
All of your points aside, there are a couple of neat things about the Microsoft tablet. Also, if they said to RunRev here's a billion dollars, can you publish for Windows 8?, we would all benefit. ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 20.06.2012 at 17:28 Uhr -0700 Paul Hibbert apparently wrote: But isn't this going to give me a copy of the menu in every substack, so that I have to change all of them? No, if you use 'Place Group' it will put a 'referenced copy' of the menu group on the card, so any edits to the

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Andre- Tuesday, June 19, 2012, 11:01:09 PM, you wrote: Weeks??? I have pet bugs that have been sitting there for YEARS I just looked, and my earliest still-waiting-to-be-confirmed bug report is from early 2004. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Curious, what are the neat points? And certainly even if Palm gave RR a billion dollars (or a bit less), we would all benefit! On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Colin Holgate wrote: All of your points aside, there are a couple of neat things about the Microsoft tablet. Also, if they said to RunRev

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Roger Eller
It has an intel Ivy Bridge processor, and runs Windows 8. Doesn't that mean that LiveCode will just work on this thing? ~Roger On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:54 PM, Chipp Walters ch...@chipp.com wrote: Curious, what are the neat points? And certainly even if Palm gave RR a billion dollars (or a

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Wieder
Roger- Wednesday, June 20, 2012, 7:01:28 PM, you wrote: It has an intel Ivy Bridge processor, and runs Windows 8. Doesn't that mean that LiveCode will just work on this thing? No, it runs Windows Phone 8, which shares a core with Windows 8. In theory you can write code once for W8 and WP8,

ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip (31%)

2012-06-20 Thread Curry Kenworthy
We're now almost a third of the way on funding the most essential features for FieldTrip! My heartiest thanks to this wonderful community. That's extremely encouraging. We still have the larger portion yet to be raised. This will be a powerful text editing solution to bring out the best in

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/20/12 7:48 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: On 20.06.2012 at 17:28 Uhr -0700 Paul Hibbert apparently wrote: But isn't this going to give me a copy of the menu in every substack, so that I have to change all of them? No, if you use 'Place Group' it will put a 'referenced copy' of the menu

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Chipp Walters ch...@chipp.com wrote: Oh yeah, Balmer. MS is dead until they get rid of that guy. Please RR, don't spend any time trying to compile for that thing! I don't know who I like less: Balmer or Leo... -- http://www.andregarzia.com -- All We Do Is

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Colin Holgate
I have an iPad cover, and it sort of can act like a stand, but it's not so strong, especially after a few months. The Microsoft tablet has a cover that doubles as a keyboard, and it has a separate flat to prop up the screen. ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Andre Garzia
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.netwrote: No, it runs Windows Phone 8, which shares a core with Windows 8. In theory you can write code once for W8 and WP8, but I've heard that story somewhere before... Actually there are two versions of the Surface tablet.

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Chipp Walters wrote: Shades of when MS bought Danger for $500 million only to take years and reportedly over a billion dollars to redesign the two facebook friendly phones they called Kin. The sales after the first weekend launch was in the low hundreds. They

Does a LC standalone run from a flash drive on a WIN PC

2012-06-20 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi, Does a Livecode standalone application run on a PC with WIN from a flash drive? Wondering. In the past, it did, I think. But that was a while ago. -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus       mark.rauter...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Chipp Walters
Still, I doubt it runs LC out of the box. Remember, LC never did work properly on Win Tablet that I'm aware. Just too many different types of controls. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote: Windows RT which looks like Windows Phone 8 and runs the same apps

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

2012-06-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/20/12 9:54 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Wednesday, June 20, 2012, J. Landman Gay wrote: Actually, you can share groups from a mainstack to any of its substacks. Which is exactly what I want to do--but how? I created in the main sack, but it doesn't paper when try to use the menu

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Chipp Walters
I never was too crazy on those new magnetic iPad covers. I like mine more: http://www.speckproducts.com/tablet-ipad-cases/magfolio-for-ipad2.html And, I don't know if a flex keyboard will work, but this one seems to, so perhaps MS's will:

Re: Does a LC standalone run from a flash drive on a WIN PC

2012-06-20 Thread Curry Kenworthy
It still works for me! Best wishes, Curry K. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Does a LC standalone run from a flash drive on a WIN PC

2012-06-20 Thread Charles E Buchwald
Hi Mark, I've been testing this way for the last several weeks, so... yes. - Charles On 2012-06-20, at 10:11 PM, Mark Rauterkus wrote: Hi, Does a Livecode standalone application run on a PC with WIN from a flash drive? Wondering. In the past, it did, I think. But that was a while

Corrupt and stubborn Datagrids

2012-06-20 Thread dunbarx
I have a data grid that once held eight columns, all named. I deleted one of the columns in the inspector, and now only seven show there, as well, of course, in the DG itself. My problem is that if I ask for the dgData of that DG, I see that old eigth named column still in the array .

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-20 Thread Terry Judd
On 21/06/2012, at 01:18 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: I never was too crazy on those new magnetic iPad covers. I like mine more: http://www.speckproducts.com/tablet-ipad-cases/magfolio-for-ipad2.html STM Skinny. And, I don't know if a flex keyboard will work, but this one seems to, so perhaps MS's