On 08/30/2012 07:15 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Peter Haworth wrote:
Thanks Alex and Richard.
This is now working just fine. I made so many changes, I really lost
track
of what I might have been doing wrong before.
It was the faeries. :)
How very 19th century. My computer, being 21st
On 08/30/2012 07:45 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
JUST DON'T FEED THEM AFTER DARK!
Or let them near water! Oh my Gosh; we share a common history in terms
of daft films we have watched.
On Aug 30, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
Thanks Alex and Richard.
This is now working just
On Thursday, August 30, 2012, Richmond wrote:
On 08/30/2012 07:15 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
It was the faeries. :)
How very 19th century. My computer, being 21st century, contains 'fairies'
. . . LOL.
They're two groups, very distantly related.
The seemingly cute and kind fairies killed
Brilliant Bruce! Good work!
Bob
On Aug 30, 2012, at 5:47 PM, Bruce Pokras wrote:
So in Livecode all you have to do is use:
put /usr/sbin/cupsfilter into tConvertApp
get shell(tConvertApp -i image/tiff quote tiffFile quote)
and it should contain the data from which you can excise
Hi Everyone,
If a standalone LiveCode app in Windows has only one window open and the user
clicks the close box in the window, does this quit the app or is there still an
app menu from which the user must shut down? I ask because I develop on Macs
and do not have easy access to a Windows
The app quits. This is typical Windows behavior, and confuses a lot of people
switching from Windows to Mac. I cannot speak for going the other direction
because I have never seen a case where that actually happened. jab! ;-)
Bob
On Aug 31, 2012, at 8:54 AM, Gregory Lypny wrote:
Hi
Is there a way in LC to catch the action of the close button and
display a are you sure you want to quit message?
SKIP
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote:
The app quits. This is typical Windows behavior, and confuses a lot of people
switching from Windows to
Thanks Bob,
Much appreciated. Since I want to have my students log their signing out when
quitting, I guess I should determine how many windows are open at the time a
close box is clicked, and then assume that the intention is to quit if there is
only one.
Gregory
The app quits. This is
On 08/31/2012 07:01 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
The app quits. This is typical Windows behavior, and confuses a lot of people
switching from Windows to Mac. I cannot speak for going the other direction because I
have never seen a case where that actually happened. jab! ;-)
And this is also what
Hi Skip,
Am 31.08.2012 um 18:06 schrieb Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
s...@magicgate.com:
Is there a way in LC to catch the action of the close button and
display a are you sure you want to quit message?
catch the closeStackRequest message :-)
SKIP
Best
Klaus
--
Klaus Major
To be fair, some Mac apps do too. For some apps, it just makes sense. For some
it does not. What always got me about the Windows way was the fact that many
apps open as a window within which other windows open. So if you want to close
the inner window when it is maximized, you have to be
Hello everyone,
I have a stack with
libURLSetLogField (field quote FTP Log quote)
followed by
libURLSetFTPListCommand NLST
in the openCard handler of a stack. When the stack is opened in the IDE, it
more often than not fails and gives the message
Handler: can't
Hi there,
I'm trying to put together a very simple table or datagrid
that has big text of a font size 24 or larger. My problem
is that I can't find a good way to set the textHeight for
the data grid to the large size.
I'd hate to have to resort to using individuals fields grouped
together to
I haven't tested this in 5.5.1 but it used to be that closing the last
window in an LC standalone app on a Mac quit the application. There are
Mac Apps, usually simple utilities that only have one window, that do that
but I've found that the more normal Mac behavior is for the app to stay
open
I chanced across this Chinese page:
http://www.doc88.com/p-249589799307.html
It has the entire PDF of my book. I'll report it to the publisher (though I
doubt they'll have the power to do much about it), but thought some of you
might be interested to look it over. You can decide for yourself
On 08/31/2012 08:26 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
I chanced across this Chinese page:
http://www.doc88.com/p-249589799307.html
It has the entire PDF of my book. I'll report it to the publisher (though I
doubt they'll have the power to do much about it), but thought some of you
might be interested
OK, I bow to the advice all over this list that it's not a good idea to use
the Geomerty Manager, should've listened in the first place. I'll write my
own resize stack handler to take care of it.
Any pointers as to good techniques to do this? I have 1 control that needs
to be scaled
On 8/31/12 12:26 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
I chanced across this Chinese page:
http://www.doc88.com/p-249589799307.html
It has the entire PDF of my book.
That didn't take long, did it.
Even though I know this happens routinely, it still pisses me off.
--
Jacqueline Landman Gay |
It doesn't bother me too much, I doubt that many of the potential users of the
book would find that page. I mean, if you discount the fact that I just emailed
the link to a lot of them! I did report it, and it seems the publisher does
have an anti-piracy department.
The 'right' or general way to do this (convert text from one character set to
another) is I think always to go through Unicode (back in HyperCard days I had
an external 'viaUnicode' which did exactly this) - this ensures correct
handling of characters with no mapping.
Since LiveCode has some
Hi again,
Nevermind, I finally found Row Height!
Thanks,
Rick
On Aug 31, 2012, at 1:05 PM, Rick Harrison wrote:
Hi there,
I'm trying to put together a very simple table or datagrid
that has big text of a font size 24 or larger. My problem
is that I can't find a good way to set the
You can set the text height in the Text Formatting tab of the datagrid
Inspector palette (separately for the body and the header). You'd also
have to change the row height in the Basi Properties of datagrid Inspector
Palette.
If you need to do it by script use the dgProps[text size] and
On 08/31/2012 08:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 8/31/12 12:26 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
I chanced across this Chinese page:
http://www.doc88.com/p-249589799307.html
It has the entire PDF of my book.
That didn't take long, did it.
Even though I know this happens routinely, it still pisses
On 08/31/2012 08:50 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
It doesn't bother me too much, I doubt that many of the potential users of the
book would find that page. I mean, if you discount the fact that I just emailed
the link to a lot of them! I did report it, and it seems the publisher does
have an
On 8/31/12 12:41 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
I'll write my
own resize stack handler to take care of it.
Any pointers as to good techniques to do this? I have 1 control that needs
to be scaled horizontally and vertically and a couple of others that need
to be re-positioned.
With only three
I know this has been done before but in previous cases discussion involved two
or more columns. My situation does not require multiple columns. Does anybody
have a good idea on how to implement checkboxes in a scrolling field? Thanks
for your time!
Charles Szasz
csz...@mac.com
On 8/31/12 1:49 PM, Richmond wrote:
On 08/31/2012 08:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 8/31/12 12:26 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
I chanced across this Chinese page:
http://www.doc88.com/p-249589799307.html
It has the entire PDF of my book.
That didn't take long, did it.
Even though I know this
The way I look at it, finding a pirated copy of your software out
there on the Internet is the ultimate compliment. :)
SKIP
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:56 PM, J. Landman Gay
jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote:
On 8/31/12 1:49 PM, Richmond wrote:
On 08/31/2012 08:37 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On
On 08/31/2012 10:03 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
The way I look at it, finding a pirated copy of your software out
there on the Internet is the ultimate compliment. :)
Yes, it can be seen as that; but when somebody else is actually making
money out of your work
that could be
I have had many commercial titles stolen over the years. In addition,
my wife is a well known graphics artist (www.CreativeDust.com) and is
ALWAYS getting her stuff stolen; appears in other people books, apps,
websites, etc. It is so hard to fight that we finally gave up. In
the end, there is
Thanks Jacque. I figure out most of it but hadn't thought about the ratio
idea.
I feel like I'm pretty much duplicating what the GM does except for the
ability to position controls relative to other controls.
Pete
lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:54 AM, J.
Is there lore about getting this working?
I have an app that runs on some custom hardware under Embedded Windows XP,
which use player objects to play audio stored in external MP3 files. This was
originally written some years ago.
Last year there were some changes to the hardware which
I've been thinking about doing this myself but haven't implemented it yet.
Here's what I had planned to do, there are probably better ways.
1) Get yourself two images, one of the unchecked check box, one of the
checked version, call 'em Unchecked and Checked.
2) When you're putting data into
The thieves are so bad in the Seattle-Tacoma area they took
years of software I developed and it was never even put on
the market or given to anyone for ant reason. It included my
business and personal records too.
If you are not rich the FBI do not care and neither does any
one else for that
Just came across a little problem with this. Assuming the dictionary is
correct, the resizeStach message is sent when a stack is resized via script
as well as when the user resizes it. I have a circumstance where I resoze
the stack by scriopt but do not want the control resizing to happen.
I have the real thing and am happy to have paid you for it. It clearly took a
lot of work to put this together. You deserve recompense.
On Aug 31, 2012, at 1:26 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote:
I chanced across this Chinese page:
http://www.doc88.com/p-249589799307.html
It has
On 08/31/2012 10:13 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
I have had many commercial titles stolen over the years. In addition,
my wife is a well known graphics artist (www.CreativeDust.com) and is
ALWAYS getting her stuff stolen; appears in other people books, apps,
websites, etc. It is
On Aug 31, 2012, at 1:43 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
I've been thinking about doing this myself but haven't implemented it yet.
Here's what I had planned to do, there are probably better ways.
1) Get yourself two images, one of the unchecked check box, one of the
checked version, call 'em
Hello everyone,
Would this do the trick in the preOpenStack handler?
if the platform is MacOS
then
set the decorations of this stack to empty
else
set the decorations of this stack to close
end if
Gregory
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On 8/31/12 2:13 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
I have had many commercial titles stolen over the years. In addition,
my wife is a well known graphics artist (www.CreativeDust.com) and is
ALWAYS getting her stuff stolen; appears in other people books, apps,
websites, etc. It is so
The way to mimic the normal behavior of a Mac application staying open when the
last window is closed, is to have you main stack be a splash stack that remains
hidden the entire time, and you true application stack be an included stack or
substack. Create a menu for the mainstack so you can
Good suggestion, Bob. Thank you.
Gregory
The way to mimic the normal behavior of a Mac application staying open when
the last window is closed, is to have you main stack be a splash stack that
remains hidden the entire time, and you true application stack be an included
stack or
On 8/31/12 2:52 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Just came across a little problem with this. Assuming the dictionary is
correct, the resizeStach message is sent when a stack is resized via script
as well as when the user resizes it. I have a circumstance where I resoze
the stack by scriopt but do not
Can you lock messages prior to resizing and unlock them afterwards?
Bob
On Aug 31, 2012, at 12:52 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Just came across a little problem with this. Assuming the dictionary is
correct, the resizeStach message is sent when a stack is resized via script
as well as when
This will probably not cheer you up; but I found
versions of the FREE version of my Devawriter available on torrent sites.
Oh man! I *hate* that.
According to RIAA accounting, you're out *millions*...maybe even billions.
-Ken
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Don't know if this would help, but in a Datagrid, any element of an array that
does not have an entry in the dgprop[columns] will be invisible. I use this
to hold a checkbox value, and then I have a group of checkboxes the height of
the datagrid with the spacing set to match the height of the
Was it the Chinese government that pirated the book?? Man, you sure get noticed
by the big dogs! ;-)
On Aug 31, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Richmond wrote:
On 08/31/2012 08:50 PM, Colin Holgate wrote:
It doesn't bother me too much, I doubt that many of the potential users of
the book would find that
A kind of complimentary gobsmack in the face eh?
On Aug 31, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Richmond wrote:
On 08/31/2012 10:03 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel wrote:
The way I look at it, finding a pirated copy of your software out
there on the Internet is the ultimate compliment. :)
Yes, it
The issue is worse than you can imagine. For one thing my
business records being tampered with or stolen is a federal
offense and so is stealing my software.
You say they were using it without paying me which is true
but they had all of my code and this was very sophisticated
software. That is
People get away with a lot of crimes these days because of the petty nature of
the crime. It goes to illustrate I think that old saying by one of the founding
fathers of America John Adams, Our Constitution was made only for a moral and
religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the
On 2012-08-31, at 10:26 AM, Colin Holgate wrote:
I chanced across this Chinese page:
Funny how the page has a © Copyright notice at the bottom. :-/ What they would
do if someone ripped off their stuff.
Please I paid for my copy.
Paul
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I wouldn't be too hard on the FBI. They only have so much resources, so
cyber-crimes causing less than a certain amount of damage to a company or
individual don't even show up on their radar until (used to be) $5000 or more,
and even then they can only investigate something like 5% of those!
On 8/31/12 3:44 PM, -=JB=- wrote:
You say you lost money because your app was released. I
lost my code and business records. The app to be stolen
after it is released is not as bad as stealing it and your code
when nobody had legal access to it such as buying it.
You're right. That's
The FBI are fact collectors and felt it was okay to release
private info about Steve Jobs they collected while at the
same time ignoring national security threats I told them
about.
http://www.generalcuestar.com/news/index/jobs_fbi_files.html
They have the facts because I made sure to file it in
Yes, a bit unusual. The situation is that I have a toolbar at the top of
my stack that doesn't resize in any way, then the rest of my controls below
it, most of which resize. There's a button in the toolbar that reuces the
stack to a height just enough to still show the toolbar but none of the
The problem is many are being held captive and are
forced to comply with their captors. It is seen in many
ways in society including forcing them to isolate select
people from society.
The good point is we have reached a breaking point
people who are involved are sickened by the crimes
they and
Hi!
In an iOS project I have a button on the screen that when you tilt the device,
it slides left or right. Using the accelerationChanged message, this is easy.
However, now that I am trying to replicate this on Android, it's not working.
The x value retuned by accelerationChanged is all
On 8/31/12 3:54 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
Yes, a bit unusual. The situation is that I have a toolbar at the top of
my stack that doesn't resize in any way, then the rest of my controls below
it, most of which resize. There's a button in the toolbar that reuces the
stack to a height just enough
To be honest, I hate the idea of splash stack/main stack unless there's a
valid user related reason for a splash stack. It just complicates the
application stack structure and, if I'm not mistaken, only the splash stack
is compiled when you create a standalone, the other stacks being right
there
You're right, that would work in this circumstance but I'm hoping I can do
this thing in a way that makes it reusable, no doubt like many others
before me!
Pete
lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:02 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote:
I'd just look at
Hi Colin,
I am very sorry to hear about this situation. And just to let you know, I
ordered a hardcopy of your book on 8/17/12 (and would have still done so
even if I had known about a pirated copy). Nice work on the book, and again,
I am very sorry to hear about the piracy issue. (Very, very
It's entirley possible I got the idea for a post by you Devin in which
case, in the light of the ongoing thread about pirating of works, I
apologize!
Pete
lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote:
I've done this before, and it
I didn't know about that text file, but I do know about the issue. Generally
speaking Android phones are in a default orientation when portrait, and
generally speaking Android tablets are in a default orientation when landscape.
So, for LiveCode to really let you know what's going on you have
True enough, but password protecting the other stacks encrypts the code in
them, so I am not sure what the risk is. I suppose to prevent the stacks from
being used by themselves, you can add some code in preOpenStack that checks
what the parent stack is.
Bob
On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:10 PM,
On Aug 31, 2012, at 3:17 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
It's entirley possible I got the idea for a post by you Devin in which
case, in the light of the ongoing thread about pirating of works, I
apologize!
Pete
If I post an idea here I have not expectation that people will not use it; just
the
Colin,
Yes. My app is portrait only. I selected Portrait as the Initial
Orientation in the Standalone App Settings and I don't alter the orientation
settings in code. If you (or anyone else) has some advice, I'm all ears!!
-Dan
I didn't know about that text file, but I do know about the
On 8/31/12 4:29 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
True enough, but password protecting the other stacks encrypts the
code in them, so I am not sure what the risk is. I suppose to prevent
the stacks from being used by themselves, you can add some code in
preOpenStack that checks what the parent stack is.
A few years ago, my band played a festival in Shanghai. You can't sell CDs
over there for more than $3-$4. I think the second night we were there, we
went to the huge market there that sells knockoffs of Rolex watches, Tommy
Bahamas shirts, etc, etc and found our CD on sale for $1. We were
On 8/31/12 4:00 PM, Dan Friedman wrote:
Hi!
In an iOS project I have a button on the screen that when you tilt
the device, it slides left or right. Using the accelerationChanged
message, this is easy. However, now that I am trying to replicate
this on Android, it's not working. The x value
Thanks for that! I actually don't mind about the pirate version, I didn't write
the book thinking I would make much money from doing that. It was more to help
me learn things for myself, and the experience of writing a book.
On Aug 31, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Jim Kanter j...@d-film.com wrote:
I
Yes, it's kinda the general untidiness of the splash stack approach that
gets to me. One compiled file is much better untless there's a really
compelling reason why you can't do that.
Pete
lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:54 PM, J. Landman Gay
I agree, but attribution is good too!
Pete
lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote:
If I post an idea here I have not expectation that people will not use it;
just the opposite! I've gotten so many great ideas from this list
On Aug 31, 2012, at 3:54 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 8/31/12 4:29 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote:
True enough, but password protecting the other stacks encrypts the
code in them, so I am not sure what the risk is. I suppose to prevent
the stacks from being used by themselves, you can add some code
Hi Pete,
Thank you for this information!
I haven't been able to much in
the dictionary about this stuff. It
seems to be scattered around in
bits, and pieces elsewhere.
Thanks again,
Rick
On Aug 31, 2012, at 2:38 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:
You can set the text height in the Text Formatting
The really compelling reasons for me is properties, and certain limits placed
on a compiled app. I got into the habit of using properties to store
information from session to session, and since a compiled app cannot be
modified, I cannot do that. At least that is my understanding.
Bob
On
Yes you will have to bookmark the Datagrid API and examples documentation on
the web. This is a good starting point: http://lessons.runrev.com/ for all
things Rev. Toward the bottom is a section on the Datagrid. Click the first
item and at the bottom of THAT page is a section on datagrid
But, aren't you reading the accelerometer in order to make something slide
around? If you're assuming that a Y rotation is what happens in the user turns
the left edge away from them, that will be right for phones but wrong for
tablets.
On Aug 31, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Dan Friedman
On 31/08/2012 23:03, Colin Holgate wrote:
Thanks for that! I actually don't mind about the pirate version, I didn't write
the book thinking I would make much money from doing that. It was more to help
me learn things for myself, and the experience of writing a book.
Talking about money
Hi Rick,
I've emailed you separately with a pdf of the Datagrid Manual, it's about
the only place to find all this info and it has lots of examples too.
Pete
lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Rick Harrison harri...@all-auctions.comwrote:
Hi Pete,
Thank you
Hi Rick,
Didn;t email it to you, too big.
Click here http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/datagrid/pdf to download
it.
Pete
lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Rick Harrison harri...@all-auctions.comwrote:
Hi Pete,
Thank you for this information!
I
Disclaimer: I'm totally new to LiveCode, bought Colin's PDF file, read the
scripting conference stack on controls, etc. As of yet, I haven't really
created anything of value to me or anyone else. I'm trying to change that.
I've had the Gold Bundle for over a month.
I'm trying to create a
This is actually turning out to be a lot simpler than I thought. I hadn't
realised the resizeStack message passed the old and new height and width of
the stack as parameters.
With that info, it's trivial to resize or reposition a control releative to
the stack coordinates by adding the
Hi Shawn,
Probably lots of ways to do this, here's one.
First thing to do is put the checkboxes for each question into a group -
that ensures that only one can be selected at a time. You might call the
groups Q1, Q2, Q3, etc
Then define a custom property of each group that specifies the correct
I bought a couple of variations, including the iBooks and Kindle ones, and I
think generally I like the iBooks one more.
On Aug 31, 2012, at 7:48 PM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote:
in the UK , the iBooks version (which I bought yesterday) costs £16.99
the Kindle version
I bought the PDF version, read it on my pc, uploaded it to my dropbox and
now have it on my Mac! I shot my pc with my .45. ;)
To bad the pirated copy doesn't have the license/copyright information,
buyer name, buyer address, and purchase date like my copy does. At least
then you'd have a place
Peter, thank you for the reply! It'll take me a few days to wrap my big
head around this. In the meantime I'll still be tinkering. I'm sure one
day all of this will click. Just like anything else.
Regards,
Shawn
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote:
Hi
Hi Colin,
Sorry to hear that. It's one of the big problems with printing in PDF.
Still, my guess is you lost only a few sales, as most who would pirate
wouldn't pay for it anyway. There are some PDF fullfillment which can print
a watermark on each page of the email address with which the PDF was
FWIW, the pirated version DID remind me to go to Packt Publishing and
purchase your book!
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Chipp Walters ch...@chipp.com wrote:
Hi Colin,
Sorry to hear that. It's one of the big problems with printing in PDF.
Still, my guess is you lost only a few sales, as
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 1:26 AM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote:
I'll report it to the publisher (though I doubt they'll have the power to
do much about it)
Unfortunately they are probably the cause.
My guess is the hard copies of the book were printed in China, in which
case the
Welcome to the LC community.
Peter's reply is exactly how you should attack this, and I hope not too fast
for you. Feel free to write back with any questions about any aspect of his, or
one day soon, your own efforts in building your gadget. You will receive nearly
instant advice. You can
Exactly! So, what do you do?
But, aren't you reading the accelerometer in order to make something slide
around? If you're assuming that a Y rotation is what happens in the user
turns the left edge away from them, that will be right for phones but wrong
for tablets.
Yes. My app is
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