Re: Rev Online

2012-06-21 Thread René Micout
Le 20 juin 2012 à 21:38, Mark Wieder a écrit : The issue isn't whether you or any other third party can come up with an alternative... it looks bad for the official company-sponsored way to share content and show off what can be done with their flagship product to be broken for over six

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-21 Thread Rolf Kocherhans
Hello Tim Yes ! We probably all have ! My last try was yesterday ! This is the response I got one months ago: Ticket#201205091326 Hello Rolf, Hopefully I will be tackling this issue with revOnline soon, but unfortunately I can't give you any estimate or assurances

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-21 Thread Richmond
On 21/06/12 10:20, Rolf Kocherhans wrote: Hello Tim Yes ! We probably all have ! My last try was yesterday ! This is the response I got one months ago: Ticket#201205091326 Hello Rolf, Hopefully I will be tackling this issue with revOnline soon, but unfortunately I

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

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Schonewille
Mark, I had a case where a limited user was using Windows 7 and was unable to start any executable from anywhere other than the C drive. The funny thing was that this user could copy the executable to the desktop and run it, but it was impossible to run it from the flash drive. -- Best

Setting the volume of a video in iOS

2012-06-21 Thread Sergio Schvarstein
Hi, I am developing an iPad app which includes several videos which are shown always and only in full screen mode. I used the usual iPhoneControl Player methods for displaying the videos, but as they are ONLY displayed in full screen mode, I had to create and program a custom set of buttons

Re: Setting the volume of a video in iOS

2012-06-21 Thread Pierre Sahores
It works fine in my iOS own apps as : set the playLoudness to [0-10] but in case of full screen video playback, only the harware sounds buttons may be available (untested) what seems a pretty good way to go in about general ergonomics of mobile apps/devices. HTH, Le 21 juin 2012 à 13:12,

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Andre Garzia wrote: I don't know who I like less: Balmer or Leo... You might want to add Larry Ellison to that list, a true contender for the Most FUBAR CEO award, with special achievements in the area of Annoying the Open Source Community with his Open Office shenanigans, and in the

Re: Archiving Eudora?

2012-06-21 Thread william humphrey
Who is supporting Frederic Rinaldi's stuff like FastMailBase? That is such an excellent program but it was made into an app that wasn't universal. I'd like to update my copy. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: I would characterise RunRev as a company that produces a super product, but is signally bad at follow-up with bug reports and maintenance of components (such as Rev-Online and RevNet)... To clarify, RevNet is not a product of RunRev Ltd., but was created and is maintained by

[OT]: Travelling to RunRev Live - advice re VPN services

2012-06-21 Thread Martin Koob
Hi I am going to to be travelling to RunRev Live and will be using wifi onsite and offsite to avoid roaming data charges (Canadian ISPs roaming charges are expensive! $10 for 1 day for 10 MB) I have been thinking of using a VPN service to secure my public wifi connections. I am looking at

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

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Rauterkus wrote: Does a Livecode standalone application run on a PC with WIN from a flash drive? Indeed it does. LiveCode apps are generally self-contained, with everything they need in a single folder, so they can be run from nearly anything. In fact, one of the products I manage

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-21 Thread Tim Jones
Not what I meant - it's easy to miss reports in a feedback system. I was asking if you've contacted one of the staff directly. Much harder to miss such a request. Tim On Jun 20, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Yes, but even if they had not, they posted to the quality center which is

Re: Rev Online

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Hibbert
I've never tried uploading to RevOnline before, mainly because I didn't have anything worthwhile to contribute. After reading so many reports that it was broken I decided to see if I could log on and see where the issues are, then at least I would know what people were talking about. I

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Tweedly wrote: 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

ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip (62%)

2012-06-21 Thread Curry Kenworthy
Wow! I woke up to find us 62% of the way toward our crucial funding. Thanks to one and all, and extra thanks to those who bought at the FieldTripper and BigFan levels. There's still a third to go, and this is all still in the crucial stage of funding, not just the nice to have but the gotta

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

2012-06-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/21/12 9:12 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: J. Landman Gay wrote: Actually, you can share groups from a mainstack to any of its substacks. How? I've been wanting to do that for years You've probably already seen my retraction. Last year I worked on a stack that shared a menu bar with

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Tweedly wrote: 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

What about image file names with a space -- will that be a problem later?

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi, Building the camp attendance application with LC Win and wonder about the use of a space in a file name of an image. Is that going to cause troubles later? I've got the record for each student as a two words with a space between. That then becomes the card name. (example, Roberto Clemente).

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
My niece got me a cover like that for my iPad. The inserts were made of cardboard however, and it fell to pieces in 6 to 8 months and I didn't use it all that hard. Bob On Jun 20, 2012, at 7:51 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I have an iPad cover, and it sort of can act like a stand, but it's not

Linux: answer file always shows hidden files?

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
It seems that LiveCode's answer file command on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) always shows hidden files, regardless of whether I have that setting turned on in the file manager. Is there some secret param I can use to turn that off? If not, I'll file a bug report. -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World

Re: Linux: answer file always shows hidden files?

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard Gaskin ambassador@... writes: It seems that LiveCode's answer file command on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) always shows hidden files, regardless of whether I have that setting turned on in the file manager. The file manager is an application. Changing its preferences shouldn't change the

Re: What about image file names with a space -- will that be a problem later?

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark Rauterkus mark.rauterkus@... writes: I've got the record for each student as a two words with a space between. That then becomes the card name. (example, Roberto Clemente). ...Should I do something else Yes. It's bad database design to have real data used as an index. What if you

Re: Linux: answer file always shows hidden files?

2012-06-21 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/21/2012 11:39 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: It seems that LiveCode's answer file command on Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) always shows hidden files, regardless of whether I have that setting turned on in the file manager. Is there some secret param I can use to turn that off? If not, I'll file a bug

Re: Archiving Eudora?

2012-06-21 Thread stephen barncard
nice to see a 4 year old thread pop up. This is OP when I was still using Eudora, before I discovered the spam filters in gMail. An app like this could be valuable in the future if people want to recover their old mail records from gMail (and of course old Eudora data ) and want to move somewhere

Re: Archiving Eudora?

2012-06-21 Thread Pierre Sahores
And Fred is a really a gentle and amazing person, even if he use, time ago, to work teen years for Apple France ;-))) Fred, if you are around on list ;D Pierre Le 21 juin 2012 à 19:11, stephen barncard a écrit : nice to see a 4 year old thread pop up. This is OP when I was still using

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-21 Thread Richmond
On 06/21/2012 05:55 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: I would characterise RunRev as a company that produces a super product, but is signally bad at follow-up with bug reports and maintenance of components (such as Rev-Online and RevNet)... To clarify, RevNet is not a product of

Re: LiveCodeOnline [Was: Re: Rev Online]

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: Nothing is intrinsically wrong with RevNet, it is just very out-of-date. Agreed. It could use some pruning of the stacks it has access to, and a freshened appearance. Those and more are on my to-do list, but client work pays for that so I must continue to give priority to

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-21 Thread Roger Guay
Thanks so much for you patience, Chris . . . I'm learning a lot from you, but unfortunately, I'm still not able to play sounds in iOS. In answer to your questions and points: I am not able to play sounds in either the simulator nor my iPad. The answer command you suggest (very clever!) returns

Re: Archiving Eudora?

2012-06-21 Thread william humphrey
Thanks. I was worried about him as his websites all stop at 2004 On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Pierre Sahores s...@sahores-conseil.comwrote: And Fred is a really a gentle and amazing person, even if he use, time ago, to work teen years for Apple France ;-))) Fred, if you are around on

Re: Linux: answer file always shows hidden files?

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: put the files into tFiles filter tFiles without .* then put tFiles into a custom Answer File dialog That allows me to alter the results of the dialog, but doesn't affect the non-standard appearance of the files within it. My goal is to have a UI consistent with others

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-21 Thread Devin Asay
Roger, Maybe you've done this, but keep in mind that the iOS file system is case sensitive, unlike the OS X file system. Could there be case mismatches in your file paths and/or names? Devin On Jun 21, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Roger Guay wrote: Thanks so much for you patience, Chris . . . I'm

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
I have said before, but it bears repeating, the thing that makes mobile devices appealing to use with a touch interface, is that the apps do not have nearly the functionality that a full blown laptop or workstation does, and therefore less things to touch. Using a touch interface in OS X or

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/21/12 12:43 PM, Roger Guay wrote: I am not able to play sounds in either the simulator nor my iPad. I looked back in the thread and saw you are using sound files of type .caf. Try a different format and see if it works. From the Apple developer notes: The audio technologies in iOS

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
That is not entirely accurate. The Mac file system can be formatted as case sensitive or not. The default is not, and there probably isn't a single person in the world who uses case sensitivity, but hey, I'm in developer mode. Bob On Jun 21, 2012, at 11:16 AM, Devin Asay wrote: Roger,

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-21 Thread Colin Holgate
He did say that he was trying WAV too, which ought to come under the Linear PCM ability. On Jun 21, 2012, at 2:46 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I looked back in the thread and saw you are using sound files of type .caf. Try a different format and see if it works.

Re: Linux: answer file always shows hidden files?

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Wieder
Richard Gaskin ambassador@... writes: If any of you are using Linux it would be helpful to know which distro and version, which desktop environment, and whether using the answer file command shows hidden files in its listing. After caffeine, I realize that the answer file dialog does indeed

Re: ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip (Features)

2012-06-21 Thread Curry Kenworthy
I am theoretically interested, but I feel underinformed to actually do a buy decision. Can you show some more screenshots, or maybe talk a bit more about features of the GUI, how they're done, and what that might be expected but probably missing in 1.0? Howdy Björnke, Thanks for the

Re: Archiving Eudora?

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Haworth
I hadn't come across this collection before and the names of the downloads are enticing! I downloaded CreateAlias and CopyFolder, expanded them with Stuffit Expander, and they came out as Unix executable files, even thought the RR column is checked which I thought meant they were

Table field

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Haworth
Bill Vlahos' lcTaskList and the Bernd's table stack have inspired me to play around with tables more than I have in the past. I've implemented coloring of alternate rows but I noticed that the highlighting of the alternate rows starts a few pixels in from the left side of the line and stops a few

Re: Archiving Eudora?

2012-06-21 Thread Klaus on-rev
Hi Pete, Am 21.06.2012 um 21:18 schrieb Peter Haworth: I hadn't come across this collection before and the names of the downloads are enticing! I downloaded CreateAlias and CopyFolder, expanded them with Stuffit Expander, and they came out as Unix executable files, even thought the RR

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Sheffield
Roger, Try this. Open the Standalone Application Settings dialog. Click on Copy Files. Look at your list of files and/or folders. Did you add files individually? Did you add an entire folder of files? Check the paths of these files/folders? Do these paths contain any subfolders relative to

Re: Archiving Eudora?

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Klaus. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.comwrote: Hi Pete, Am 21.06.2012 um 21:18 schrieb Peter Haworth: I hadn't come across this collection before and the names of the downloads are enticing! I

Re: ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip (Features)

2012-06-21 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I guess my questions where too general, so here some specifics. It's ok to say no idea about that, it's too early of course :) How much is the minimal amount of the buttons at the top for desktop, in pixels and in amount of buttons? Will there be buttons for usual file handling like open, save

Re: ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip (Features)

2012-06-21 Thread François Chaplais
Last but not the least, do you have a planned price for those who prefer to wait for this to get real? In other words, how much can one *expect* to gain by buying in advance? It can be a very good selling point. cheers, François Le 21 juin 2012 à 21:57, Björnke von Gierke a écrit : I

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-21 Thread Roger Guay
Heaps of praise be unto Devin! It was a case mismatch that caused my problem. Interesting though that the answer there is a tSoundFIle command is still returning false?? On Jun 21, 2012, at 12:57 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Message: 12 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 18:16:54

Re: Somewhat OT: Windows Phone 8

2012-06-21 Thread Richard Gaskin
Bob Sneidar wrote: I have said before, but it bears repeating, the thing that makes mobile devices appealing to use with a touch interface, is that the apps do not have nearly the functionality that a full blown laptop or workstation does, and therefore less things to touch. Using a touch

Re: Linux: answer file always shows hidden files?

2012-06-21 Thread Warren Samples
On 06/21/2012 02:01 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Richard Gaskin ambassador@... writes: If any of you are using Linux it would be helpful to know which distro and version, which desktop environment, and whether using the answer file command shows hidden files in its listing. After caffeine, I

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-21 Thread Roger Guay
Thanks, Chris. Au contraire, your posts are very clear and not the least confusing. Interesting though that the answer command that you suggested is still returning false. I'm finding that paying attention to the case sensitivity solved my and .wav files work in the IDE, the simulator and

Re: Table field

2012-06-21 Thread BNig
Hi Peter, here is my take on the alternating Lines. It uses a graphic with a fillgradient that is behind the non-opaque table field. I made a demo stack: berndniggemann.on-rev.com/alternatingLines/alternatingLines.livecode.zip Kind regards Bernd -- View this message in context:

Re: ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip (31%)

2012-06-21 Thread Thomas McGrath III
Done, can't wait to see it in action. -- Tom McGrath III http://lazyriver.on-rev.com 3mcgr...@comcast.net On Jun 20, 2012, at 10:21 PM, Curry Kenworthy wrote: We're now almost a third of the way on funding the most essential features for FieldTrip! My heartiest thanks to this wonderful

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-21 Thread Chris Sheffield
Glad it's working for you now. Chris On Jun 21, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Roger Guay i...@mac.com wrote: Thanks, Chris. Au contraire, your posts are very clear and not the least confusing. Interesting though that the answer command that you suggested is still returning false. I'm finding

Re: Playing Sounds in iOS

2012-06-21 Thread Peter M. Brigham
I think this ought to be answer there is a file tSoundFile -- does that work? May be moot now that you've solved your problem -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Jun 21, 2012, at 4:48 PM, Roger Guay wrote: Interesting though that the answer there

Re: Table field

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Bernd, that looks very nice. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 2:01 PM, BNig niggem...@uni-wh.de wrote: Hi Peter, here is my take on the alternating Lines. It uses a graphic with a fillgradient that is behind the non-opaque table field. I made a demo

Re: LiveCode 5.5.1 Released

2012-06-21 Thread Ken Corey
Here, here. I'd definitely vote for this. I mean, it's *so* bloody close: 1) Drop a label on your app that's inactive so you can see it, but it doesn't block events. 2) Define an error handler that prints the error message to the label (and truncates the label at xx lines). All of this

Re: ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip (Features)

2012-06-21 Thread Curry Kenworthy
Will you be at the conference next week? Maybe you can simple show your stuff to me there, and then I can decide :) do you have a planned price for those who prefer to wait for this to get real? Thanks Guys, O ye of little faith. :) Yes the price will be more later, and yes it just

Re: LiveCode 5.5.1 Released

2012-06-21 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 6/21/12 4:22 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: I find the put thing (writes to the Console) pretty much a blunt instrument - or have others evolved a more sophisticated debugging strategy? Keep an eye on the conference session on debugging for mobile. :) -- Jacqueline Landman Gay |

Re: LiveCode 5.5.1 Released

2012-06-21 Thread Bob Sneidar
We got a bug fix that caused a crash to desktop under certain circumstances. (See beta test of flcDatePicker). Hey here's an idea! How about RunRev offering qualified developers room and board to go to Scotland for 6 months and help in bug squashing development? Developer pays for travel and

Re: Linux: answer file always shows hidden files?

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Debian Testing, with thunar as the file manager, no gnome or kde desktop, only fluxbox, but gtk is installed. Though thunar is set not to display hidden files, using the answer file dialog it does. I seem to recall noticing this before in a different context but can't put my finger on where just

Installing linux difficulty - solved

2012-06-21 Thread Peter Alcibiades
It was indeed that ia32libs was not installed. On installing them, and gtk, everything went in without problems. Dunno whether gtk was needed, because I did it without thinking before trying just with ia32. Peter ___ use-livecode mailing list

Works sometimes -- but not other times

2012-06-21 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi Pros, I have a sub stack that has 1 card with a FIND field that user types in a name. As one types in the names of the students, the results shrink to the results of those in the class using a custom field property so that one person, (Firstname Lastname) appears. Then when the results are

Re: ANN: PreOrder FieldTrip (31%)

2012-06-21 Thread tbodine
I'm on board. Sounds like a great time-saver. -- Tom Bodine -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-PreOrder-FieldTrip-31-tp4651021p4651105.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Re: Works sometimes -- but not other times

2012-06-21 Thread Ken Corey
Uh...why are you using the on idle handler? Searching and showing a picture isn't something you're going to want to do a lot of times, it's something that is directly tied to keystrokes...and you're only going to want to do it once per keystroke. Also you feel it's causing a race