On 07/30/2012 05:28 AM, webmas...@curiositi.com wrote:
Are file attachments allowed on this mailing list? I'm attempting to
upload example stack as ZIPed file this time.
No, they are not. You must provide a url to where your attachments are
stored.
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On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 21:22:10
Hi Colin,
Colin Holgate-2 wrote
Thanks for the extra details.
I've done a lot of importing of AI files today. I find that fresh AI files
that
have new curves are producing stacks that are zero width and height,
but copying the curves into an existing AI that has something in it will
give
on preOpenCard
set the backgroundpattern of this card to image id 1003
end preOpenCard
does NOT seem to work
I wonder why?
Richmond.
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My very first attempt was to include scalable images in my own custom groups
and show the appropriate image on the right devices. But I experienced
sluggishness in going from card to card and rotating interfaces. I did not
delete the unused images once the device was know and that might have
Is the image being used for the pattern a referenced image? If so it
probably isn't there yet in preopencard.
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 7:21 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote:
on preOpenCard
set the backgroundpattern of this card to image id 1003
end preOpenCard
does NOT seem
Hi Richmond,
Am 30.07.2012 um 15:21 schrieb Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com:
on preOpenCard
set the backgroundpattern of this card to image id 1003
end preOpenCard
does NOT seem to work
I wonder why?
maybe the official syntax will do:
on preOpenCard
set the backgroundpattern of
Howard,
I am running out right now so I won't be able to look deeper into this just
yet. But remember that with that code there are two scrolls going on. One for
use in the IDE and the other for use on the device. The IDE code is:set the
vScroll of group InputScrollerGroup to pOffsetY and
On 07/30/2012 04:25 PM, Mike Bonner wrote:
Is the image being used for the pattern a referenced image? If so it
probably isn't there yet in preopencard.
Funnily enough, I thought I'd crack open that stack and change from
preOpenCard to openCard,
when, blow-me-down, the thing worked
Hi all,
If I understand correctly this thread, the goal and purpose is to
create a library that recreate the correct interface in every
device where the application runs.
Ideally, every developer should have every device to test that
their application runs correctly. Obviously, that it's not
Hi.
You have replies, and can see that the task is one of parsing characters into a
useful form.
This is a function I wrote in HC a long time ago to relieve the tedious task of
writing out the text of a number when issuing checks. It should be instructive,
as it sort of acts in the same
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Sent: Mon, Jul 30, 2012 11:23 am
Subject: Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?
Hi.
Typo in the last line
function digitToWord theDigits
put
Everytime I run off a mac standalone I have to edit the Info.plist inside
the application bundle so that the folk at MacUpdate don't send me
'abusive' messages.
I wonder why the standalone builder doesn't cope with this automatically?
Richmond.
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Nope. There were rumors that someone got it working in Lion, but it was some
kind of spoof as I recall.
Bob
On Jul 28, 2012, at 2:19 AM, Bernard Devlin wrote:
I seem to remember that Rosetta is still available. It is just not
installed by default. I think the installation medium should
Microsoft takes a cut, up to 30%, of every sale made through this store.
Whoa!! How much does Apple get?
Bob
On Jul 28, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Richmond wrote:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18996377
well worth a read, and makes one think whether Apple's and Microsoft's
protectionism
In addition to the recent discussion, the hope would be to create a
responsive interface layout: one that adapts to different screen
dimensions/proportions. A good analogy is responsive web design
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsive_design), where the layout changes
based on size thresholds.
I have been knocking my head against this problem for a while (and just solved
it) and thought that others might be interested...
In a little desktop standalone I made use of a tweaked version of Obello's
excellent custom slider - which worked great. I was then asked to try doing a
mobile
I'm going to guess that it puts the external into the same folder as the
mainStack. And I do not know what you mean by one object per external or one
for all. I imagine each external is it's own file.
One way to tell would be to add a couple of externals, compile a standalone,
then look to
EEEK!!!
On Jul 29, 2012, at 11:09 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
rotfl. I would never ever launch an unknown file that came in an email
that said launch me an see what happens...
er... 5.5.5? Is 6.6.6 next?
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I think your question is just extremely specific. It's quite possible that
you're the only one actually trying this out...
On 23.07.2012, at 22:56, Dan Friedman wrote:
I posted this question about a week ago and got no answers. So, I thought I
would try asking one more time before sending
Okay, THAT is Richmond for sure!
On Jul 29, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Richmond wrote:
Richmond FYI
launching your stack made the tool palette disappear forever until
Livecode (5.5.5) is restarted.
Encouraging . . . NOT
authored in 4.5 with nary a problem.
This may say something about
I'm not using Mobile, but judging from the android pdf, it kinda looks as if
it's not possible: You can't actually put something into a ftp url, you can
only _get_ ftp urls.
Also see the Android Release Note, page 16 (accessible from the help menu in
the IDE)
On 25.07.2012, at 23:18, Dan
Mark, you fricking rock!
Bob
On Jul 29, 2012, at 9:29 PM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Hi-
It appears that some of my new version emails have been ending up in
spam folders, so I'll make this a more general announcement.
Following up on a thread on the use-list this last week about trace
mode
Crazy huh? I think there should be a function that extracts the numerical value
of a string. Even better, the engine should simply assume a properly formatted
currency is a number and deal with it.
My 2¢
Bob
On Jul 29, 2012, at 9:05 AM, Dr. Hawkins wrote:
As I sat down to finally encode
Huh. I did the exact same thing in an old Hypercard stack that is now long gone
so I cannot back that up!
Bob
On Jul 29, 2012, at 9:27 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
Hi.
I wrote a checkWriting stack in HC about 25 years ago. No modulo, just text
parsing. It is compact and utterly basic.
I think if you have any menubar, wether there is a menu edit or not, you will
not be able to use copy/paste at all, unless you have code added to your stack
that the field can use. If you have a menubar, there are some situations where
the IDE's menubar will be used, and some where yours will
Hah! Spiceworks, a free asset management solution, put out an email that when
viewed on an iPhone read, How to barcode your ass...
:-)
Bob
On Jul 29, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
Richmond-
Sunday, July 29, 2012, 10:43:49 AM, you wrote:
Something a bit wrong with column
I'll bite. What is the issue with the default Info.plist format and how do you
have to edit it? Do you mean it is non existent?
Bob
On Jul 30, 2012, at 8:59 AM, Richmond wrote:
Everytime I run off a mac standalone I have to edit the Info.plist inside
the application bundle so that the folk
Final report from Twitland:
Usually, the first thing I do whenever I have computer problems is to restart
my Mac. Apparently, I failed to do that since I started this thread days ago.
Last evening I tried to empty my thrash and, lo and behold, I found stuff still
running which I could not
Seems like the whole pixel coordinate system achilles heel is showing. Better
would be a percentage system, so that theoretically I can set the topleft of a
control to a percentage of the hv of the card.
This really should be an engine change, but I suppose a library could be
developed for
Roger,
Just to confirm, I've upgraded to Mountain Lion on a lat 2008 15 MBP, have
LiveCode 5.5.1 running, and Xcode 4.4 (4F250) and my iOS simulator is running
OK. As your iOS simulator hangs by itself, it doesn't seem that the problem is
Live Code related. If you have a spare USB drive, you
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote:
Hah! Spiceworks, a free asset management solution, put out an email that
when viewed on an iPhone read, How to barcode your ass...
When one of my undergraduate professors was promoted tenured, he
noted that this would change his
On 7/29/12 1:25 PM, Dar Scott wrote:
How does the standalone builder integrate externals into a standalone?
It creates a folder named Externals in the same folder as the
engine/mainstack. On Mac, that's inside the bundle. On Windows it's next
to the standalone.
However, there is (was?) a
I have to admit that my brain gets very dizzy when thinking about
resolutions/pixels/etc so please excuse if this question doesn't make sense
I believe we are now looking at resolutions and screen sizes much larger
that has been discussed so far. LG have just come out with 47 and 55
full 1080p
Har! I had a saying once, Every organization agrees that we must adopt
standards... their own!
Bob
On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Mark Wieder wrote:
We can't continue like this. We're running out of short acronyms for
standards
organizations...
http://humorix.org/10920
I have a scrolling list field which I'm populating with lines of text and
also setting the imagesource of up 5 chars. It turns out that it takes an
average of about one tenth of a second per line to set the imagesources, so
to populate the field with 100 lines takes 10 seconds.
These images
Hmmm... locking screen and locking messages?
Bob
On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
I have a scrolling list field which I'm populating with lines of text and
also setting the imagesource of up 5 chars. It turns out that it takes an
average of about one tenth of a second
Hey folks,
I have some code to intercept the openfield message and prevent the mobile
keyboard from launching. It is not working. Anyone had similar experience?
Cheers
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:22 PM, Andre Garzia an...@andregarzia.com wrote:
Hey folks,
I have some code to intercept the openfield message and prevent the mobile
keyboard from launching. It is not working. Anyone had similar experience?
Not sure if this will apply to what you're doing, but when doing painting with
image data things are a lot faster with this line:
set the paintCompression to RLE
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Hi Pete,
Are you using a repeat loop? Don't do that. Instead, take the htmlText, replace
a character with the appropriate html (have a look at the htmlText after
setting an imageSource to find out the correct HTML code) and set the htmlText
of the field to the modified data.
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On 07/30/2012 08:08 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
Microsoft takes a cut, up to 30%, of every sale made through this store.
Whoa!! How much does Apple get?
Probably much the same.
Bob
On Jul 28, 2012, at 12:43 PM, Richmond wrote:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18996377
well worth a read,
Thanks Colin. I don't think this applies to my situation since I'm setting
the image source to existing images, not creating them on the fly. But
it's yet another property I didn't know about so thanks for that.
Pete
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Colin
Dear Bob and Mark, et al,
RR/LC does supply Info.plist files in its Mac standalone app packages.
As I work with LC 4.5 here is an extract from the Info.plist from
version 1.0.2.4 of my Devawriter Pro build for Mac PPC:
stringDevawriter Pro/string
keyCFBundleIdentifier/key
Apple gets 30%, too. They invented that model with the iOS AppStore.
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Hi Mark,
I use a repeat loop to put the text of each line into the field. Once it's
there, I set the image source of of the appropiate chars of the line.
I have to have a repeat loop but if I'm understanding you correctly, you're
recommending:
- put the text of each line into a variable within
I think I'm locking screen but will check.
Pete
lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com
On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote:
Hmmm... locking screen and locking messages?
Bob
On Jul 30, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Peter Haworth wrote:
I have a scrolling list field
Aha! I see. I wonder how many people would support a post processor section of
the standalone builder, where we could run a script or something. Then you
could write a simple script to replace it automagically with the
CFBundleLongString key. At any rate, you could easily write such a thing.
No I mean with their regular app store, for desktops.
Bob
On Jul 30, 2012, at 12:58 PM, Mike Kerner wrote:
Apple gets 30%, too. They invented that model with the iOS AppStore.
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Alejandro and Phil,
This is very curious. I'm not sure why it works for you but fails
every time for me. Could you let me know if you are running LiveCode
5.0.2 or something different for an IDE version?
Thank you so much for testing. The support of the LC community is
great!
Richmond,
Did you enter a version number in the OSX panel of the standalone settings?
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There's a standaloneSaved message that you can use for that purpose.
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote:
Aha! I see. I wonder how many people would support a post processor
section of the standalone builder, where we
LG 55'' 1080p HD TV with Google TV resolution: 1920 x 1080p
LG 47'' 1080p HD TV with Google TV resolution: 1920 x 1080p
http://www.lg.com/us/tvs/lg-55G2-led-tv
http://www.lg.com/us/tvs/lg-47G2-led-tv
Then, adding this resolution to Scott Rossi's list,
there are 6 (or more) different resolution
I've been toying with the concept of loading the mainstack of a stackFile
depending on if it's in the mobile or tablet category. The concept could be
expanded to have as many size ranges and you want. If these ranges were able to
be set by the dev then it would be quite flexible and allow
Does anyone know why a player object won't load an aiff file in a
standalone? It works fine in the IDE. The sound file does exist and the
filename for the player is correct.
Windows XP
LiveCode 5.5.1
Did the default setting for dontUseQT change?
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One of the problems with this approach is that virtual machines typically have
adjustable resolutions that can be anything. If you were running an LC app
within one of these, there would be no way to determine the actual monitor
resolution.
Bob
On Jul 30, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Alejandro Tejada
Thanks, Alex.
A question...
and write a simple LC script to check for ID / PWD -
I understand how to write the script, but not how to phrase the
results of the if conditional. What commands would the LC script
execute if the pwd/id are correct, so as to let the jpg file on the
server be
Hei
thanks for your tipp.
In my case it looks not working.
All certificates are valid checked it in the keycain, in xCode and
Apples Dev Website.
A view days before I built the same app with the same settings in both
of the same version of LC 5.5.1 and xCode 4.3.3
gives me a Code Signature -
Hi Jacque:
Is QuickTime is installed or not?
You say the system is XP -- way, way back, issues sometimes cropped up with
players and filepaths. I would imagine these were probably fixed by now,
but FWIW, here are two notes I had saved as possible workarounds:
-- use an absolute file reference
Thanks Scott. I just this second figured it out. I didn't give enough
info for you to know what was wrong.
QT is installed and I'm using long file paths, and it all works in the
IDE. But -- here's what I left out -- I was running the standalone in
Parallels from the network drive (i.e., the
The VM should use a drive letter to map it. Were you using the mapped drive to
access it?
Bob
On Jul 30, 2012, at 4:10 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
Thanks Scott. I just this second figured it out. I didn't give enough info
for you to know what was wrong.
QT is installed and I'm using long
On 7/30/12 6:20 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
The VM should use a drive letter to map it. Were you using the mapped
drive to access it?
I was creating a relative file path based on the file path of the main
stack. In Parallels the shared drive is mapped to Z but the filename
of the stack comes in
Hi ForrestD,
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Alejandro and Phil,
This is very curious. I'm not sure why it works for you but fails
every time for me. Could you let me know if you are running LiveCode
5.0.2 or something different for an IDE version?
Thank you so much for testing. The support of the
I believe it's psd for Parallels Shared Drive. If it's important to you, you
might try using the mapped drive path. The IDE probably knows how to translate
while a standalone might not. Just guessing there though.
Bob
On Jul 30, 2012, at 4:34 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 7/30/12 6:20 PM,
Hello Ueliweb,
The only time that has happened to me is when I've forgotten to select a
Profile in the Standalone Settings or made the wrong selection.
be well,
randy
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On Jul 30, 2012, at 5:43 PM, Ueliweb wrote:
Hei
thanks for your tipp.
In my case it looks not working.
All
On 7/30/12 6:51 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
I believe it's psd for Parallels Shared Drive. If it's important to
you, you might try using the mapped drive path. The IDE probably
knows how to translate while a standalone might not. Just guessing
there though.
Yeah, psd sounds right. I think your
I'm using 5.0.1 on a Mac (Lion 10.7.4). I also made your stack into a
standalone using 5.0.1 and it still worked as expected.
The LC community is amazing - I completely agree.
OK, I opened it in LC 5.0.2 by dragging the stack onto the unopened
app's icon. Startup never quite completed - the
Hello World!
I'm not certain earlier my postings made the list.
I was able to join the RunRev Live conference via the virtual conference option.
By way of background, I'd developed in HyperCard to develop an Interactive
Video-Disc application controlled via the Mac, way back in 1990's while
On Monday, July 30, 2012, Mike Kerner wrote:
Apple gets 30%, too. They invented that model with the iOS AppStore.
hitch is why I'm not even considering selling my program through them.
a dollar to sell a three dollar program hurts, but when you sell lots of
them . . .
A third of a thousand
You make more sets of $700 than you would make through other distributors.
On Jul 31, 2012, at 12:06 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote:
A third of a thousand dollar program, which costs the same buck or tho to
distribute . . . .
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Jacqueline,
I've been bit by this in the distant past and got in the habit of having the
app determine the desired path so that it does not matter if running in the IDE
or a standalone. I cant remember what the difference I ran into that made me
start this.
Cheers,
Jeff
Sent from my iPad
Thanks Randy
I doesen't change any setting.
But I make a check anyway its the same.
And when I try with other profils/ certificates it does not change.
Its at the moment every LC Project that I built again has the same Problem.
It looks that the Problem is not in the .livecode Project itself.
I got LC 1 year ago for no other use than mobile. Very quickly I saw the LC
light and am using it as a replacement for VB6, but I digress.
When the multiple resolutions and rotation reality hit me.
I first tried just to resize and re-position controls by a factor calculated
from resizestack
On 07/30/2012 11:47 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote:
Richmond,
Did you enter a version number in the OSX panel of the standalone settings?
Yes: 1.0.2.4
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