Re: multi-line text on iOS - how?

2012-11-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/4/12 11:10 AM, Christophe Leske wrote: When using the multiline text widget from mobGUI, i cannot edit the text of the field. Plus, the field is not being deleted when navigating between screens. I don't use MobGUI but if I remember right, the text is contained in a property. I believe

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/4/12 4:03 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: But, What is your personal conclusion about the methods proposed to protect stacks? Safe or Not? I think it depends on how paranoid you need to be. If we disregard determined hackers who have infinite amounts of time, then I think it is possible t

Re: htmlText oddity

2012-11-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/4/12 6:32 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: But why only ""? And further, if you substitute "" for ","", the answer command replies faithfully, in spite of the "contains p or a start/end tag pair" comment above, which it seems should include all such constructs, like "". Isn't that a "start/end t

Re: developing for mobile devices

2012-11-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/4/12 7:21 PM, Mark Smith wrote: This is part of the problem discussed by Chris... documentation is fragmented and all over the place. And in a rapidly changing environment, which LC is, it can be difficult to keep up with. Also, what documentation is provided in the release notes is pretty

Re: htmlText oddity

2012-11-04 Thread Phil Davis
Hi Craig, On 11/4/12 4:32 PM, dunb...@aol.com wrote: But why only ""? And further, if you substitute "" for ","", the answer command replies faithfully, in spite of the "contains p or a start/end tag pair" comment above, which it seems should include all such constructs, like "". Isn't that a

Re: [ANN] Game Center crowd funding opportunity

2012-11-04 Thread Monte Goulding
On 05/11/2012, at 1:16 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > No of course not. I wouldn't hear a word spoken against MergExt! No, it's you > that's disruptive and annoying... > > Just teasing! Ahaha... It's funny because it's true ;-) -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application

Re: developing for mobile devices

2012-11-04 Thread Colin Holgate
No, I'm just not that deep! I checked, I have 97 cases of "create", and 27 pages where "create" and "control" appear, but no "controlcreate" or "createcontrol" cases. Some of these things are quite new, and you would l want to be looking in the help and release notes for v5.5.3. On Nov 4, 201

Re: [ANN] Game Center crowd funding opportunity

2012-11-04 Thread Colin Holgate
No of course not. I wouldn't hear a word spoken against MergExt! No, it's you that's disruptive and annoying... Just teasing! On Nov 4, 2012, at 8:18 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > That describes what mergExt is about quite well... hopefully not the > disruptive and annoying part ;-) _

Re: [OT] Why you want to program at fifty... (or any other age)

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Smith
Alejandro Tejada wrote > Hi All, > > Read this, after it recover from the slashdot effect: > http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/34386970746/why-you-would-want-to-program-at-fifty-or-any-other > > Alejandro Nice, thanks for posting. -- M -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolut

Re: developing for mobile devices

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Smith
Colin Holgate-2 wrote > I seem to be syllable dyslexic. I meant mobileControlCreate. Thanks, no problem ("create control", as an example of "english like" makes more sense than "control create" anyway). Its interesting that the only reference to this that I could find was in the Android Release n

Re: [ANN] Game Center crowd funding opportunity

2012-11-04 Thread Monte Goulding
On 05/11/2012, at 12:00 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > Mostly I find Game Center to be disruptive and annoying. But that has nothing > to do with whether clients ask for the feature. We want as few reasons as > possible for saying why LiveCode should not be the tool to use. That describes what mer

Re: [ANN] Game Center crowd funding opportunity

2012-11-04 Thread Colin Holgate
Mostly I find Game Center to be disruptive and annoying. But that has nothing to do with whether clients ask for the feature. We want as few reasons as possible for saying why LiveCode should not be the tool to use. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-liv

Re: [ANN] Game Center crowd funding opportunity

2012-11-04 Thread Monte Goulding
On 05/11/2012, at 11:39 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: > The only problem I have with your implementation of it, and I may be > misunderstanding it, is that the funders still have to pay something for > what they are funding, over and above the crowd funding amount. > > Most of my experience with crow

Re: [UPDATE] Free 'Clearview' desktop clock v2.0 with Calendar

2012-11-04 Thread RevList
"FlexibleLearning.com" on 2 November, 2012 at 11:33 AM -0800 wrote: >Was your machine asleep at midnight Nov 1? If so, I suspect that it can only >do the check when in an 'active' state. The date below the clock is checked >every second whereas the calendar is only checked at midnight (assuming t

Re: htmlText oddity

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Craig, I can very well imagine that this, and quite a few other esoteric peculiarities, drive you and other people nuts. Not everything is intuitive in LiveCode. (Another example of this is that the behavior of a control can only be set to the long id of a button, not to any other valid refe

Re: [ANN] Game Center crowd funding opportunity

2012-11-04 Thread Monte Goulding
The market size is unknown but smallish based on my experience with mergExt over the past year. On 05/11/2012, at 11:26 AM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > market may not be large enough to make crowd funding successful. -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development

Re: [ANN] Game Center crowd funding opportunity

2012-11-04 Thread Peter Haworth
Hi Monte, I like the idea of crowd funding if it helps get a product out the door. The only problem I have with your implementation of it, and I may be misunderstanding it, is that the funders still have to pay something for what they are funding, over and above the crowd funding amount. Most of

Re: developing for mobile devices

2012-11-04 Thread Colin Holgate
I seem to be syllable dyslexic. I meant mobileControlCreate. On Nov 4, 2012, at 7:24 PM, Mark Smith wrote: > > Colin, where is that command? I searched the LC dictionary but did not fine > anything for mobileCreateControl ___ use-livecode mailing l

Re: htmlText oddity

2012-11-04 Thread dunbarx
Mark. I read about "answer" in the dictionary, and found: The prompt can be either formatted text (in the htmlText property's format) or plain text. If the prompt contains p or a start/end tag pair, the answer command text is in the same format as the htmlText Property Otherwise, the answe

Re: [ANN] Game Center crowd funding opportunity

2012-11-04 Thread Monte Goulding
On 05/11/2012, at 11:08 AM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > I like crowd funding. If I had any use for this one, current or projected, > I'd be in. Great, that's really important feedback. Basically mergExt is about developing extensions for LiveCode under conditions that make it possible to share them

Re: [ANN] Game Center crowd funding opportunity

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, Crowd funding can be a very effective way to achieve a goal. Remember iHUG/eHUG's attempts to save HyperCard? This was financed through crowd funding. Although HyperCard wasn't saved, we did get to talk to the general director of Apple Europe Cazeneuve (now working at Bouygues Telecom Entr

Re: developing for mobile devices

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Smith
Colin Holgate-2 wrote > You can then look in the Dictionary for entries such as > mobileCreateControl, where you see a list of the controls that can be > made:... Colin, where is that command? I searched the LC dictionary but did not fine anything for mobileCreateControl Thanks -- Mark -- Vi

Re: [ANN] Game Center crowd funding opportunity

2012-11-04 Thread Jerry Jensen
I like crowd funding. If I had any use for this one, current or projected, I'd be in. .Jerry Jensen On Nov 4, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > We are up to 4 funders now and about 1/5th of the way to what's required to > get the first version out. > > What do people think about crowd

Re: [ANN] Game Center crowd funding opportunity

2012-11-04 Thread Monte Goulding
We are up to 4 funders now and about 1/5th of the way to what's required to get the first version out. What do people think about crowd funding? I'm looking at this as a test case to see if it should be a regular part of the mergExt business. The concept seems to fit with what mergExt is about.

Re: htmlText oddity

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Craig, The answer dialog window checks if the text contains html tags (must start with and ) and if it does, it interprets it as htmlText, which makes the tags fo away :-) Try this: answer "This is bold and this is italics." -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and

htmlText oddity

2012-11-04 Thread dunbarx
Make one field and one button. In the field, type a few words, and set the textstyle to one of them to "bold". In the button: on mouseUp get the htmlText of fld 1 put it answer it end mouseUp Where did the tags go? They appear in msg, and if you step through, "it" seems fine. But wh

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-04 Thread stephen barncard
As safe as the encryption employed. We have several choices in Livecode. On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: > Hi Pierre, > > > Pierre Sahores-2 wrote > > ;D > > > > in response to J. Landman Gay who wrote: > > > >> Of course. That goes without saying. But given > > how long

Re: Protecting stacks

2012-11-04 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Pierre, Pierre Sahores-2 wrote > ;D > > in response to J. Landman Gay who wrote: > >> Of course. That goes without saying. But given > how long it took the guys who wrote it to reverse > their own files, I trust it. That is an interesting cliffhanger ending for this thread! But, What is yo

[OT] Why you want to program at fifty... (or any other age)

2012-11-04 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi All, Read this, after it recover from the slashdot effect: http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/34386970746/why-you-would-want-to-program-at-fifty-or-any-other Alejandro -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/OT-Why-you-want-to-program-at-fifty-or-any

Re: Psting images into LC

2012-11-04 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Christophe, Christophe Leske wrote > I got a quick question related to images... > I was under the impression that when you paste an image onto a card, LC > would make an entry for it in the image library... > Apparently this is not the case either? I can see my pasted image on my > card, bu

Re: LC Keyboard shortcuts

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Smith
Devin Asay wrote > A couple years ago I put one together from various sources. As far as I > know it's still current (corrections gratefully accepted): > > http://livecode.byu.edu/helps/shortcuts.php Thanks Devin. Very useful indeed. -- mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-re

Re: LC Keyboard shortcuts

2012-11-04 Thread Robert Sneidar
Duly bookmarked thanks Devin! Very useful. Bob On Oct 31, 2012, at 3:45 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > Pete, > > A couple years ago I put one together from various sources. As far as I know > it's still current (corrections gratefully accepted): > > http://livecode.byu.edu/helps/shortcuts.php > >

Re: copying files from the engine - Never mind

2012-11-04 Thread Mike Bonner
oops ignore my other answer :) On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:12 AM, Mark Smith wrote: > Never mind, I just found the problem... the filename is case sensitive. Ah, > the joys of syntax > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/copying-files-from-the-e

Re: copying files from the engine

2012-11-04 Thread Mike Bonner
Think i'd toss an answer "doing the copy" inside your if block, and/or "put the files" of the engine folder and make sure that the capitalization is what you expect it to be. I _think_ capitalization matters on ios, I know for sure it does on android. On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 11:06 AM, Mark Smith wr

Re: copying files from the engine - Never mind

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Smith
Never mind, I just found the problem... the filename is case sensitive. Ah, the joys of syntax -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/copying-files-from-the-engine-tp4656920p4656922.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: copying files from the engine

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Smith
sorry, that should have said "else clause" not "else close" -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/copying-files-from-the-engine-tp4656920p4656921.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

copying files from the engine

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Smith
Hi, I'm trying to copy a resource, in this case an sqlite file, from the engine into the documents directory. I have verified that fire2.sqlite is in the package contents for the compiled app. The following code is not working (nothing gets copied). Can anyone see the problem? put specialFolder

Re: multi-line text on iOS - how?

2012-11-04 Thread Christophe Leske
The provided mobGui Label just holds one lie, right? My spelling is defunct... When using the multiline text widget from mobGUI, i cannot edit the text of the field. Plus, the field is not being deleted when navigating between screens. I am sorry to bother this list with issues that norm

multi-line text on iOS - how?

2012-11-04 Thread Christophe Leske
Hi, so I am wondering, what is the best way to do a multi line explanatory text in iOS using MobGui? Should I do a webpage and embed a browser, or is there a better way? The provided mobGui Label just holds one lie, right? -- Christophe Leske multimedial.de --

Re: Financial formulae

2012-11-04 Thread Mike Bonner
Oops.. one more. Look at "annuity" in the dictionary, I didn't use it, but could be a time saver for some things. Also the compound function. On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Forgot to mention. The actual calculation is done in the behavior script > of the datagrid (form) on

Re: Financial formulae

2012-11-04 Thread Mike Bonner
Forgot to mention. The actual calculation is done in the behavior script of the datagrid (form) on the left. ffv for future value amortize for amortization of course and boatspeed is obvious too. If its easier, I can dig out the specific handlers for the 2 financial functions, clean them up (get

Re: Financial formulae

2012-11-04 Thread Mike Bonner
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/11957935/FMM.livecode Look through that. Haven't looked at it in a while, not sure if anything is broken but the calcs and such should be correct. Does amortization schedule, future values and estimates outboard boat speed based on prop pitch and gear ratio. On Sun, Nov

Re: Psting images into LC

2012-11-04 Thread Mark Wieder
Christophe- Sunday, November 4, 2012, 8:07:12 AM, you wrote: > Hi, > I got a quick question related to images... > I was under the impression that when you paste an image onto a card, LC > would make an entry for it in the image library... > Apparently this is not the case either? I can see my

Re: Psting images into LC

2012-11-04 Thread Christophe Leske
Oh great, screwed up the subject without noticing it... -- Christophe Leske multimedial.de www.multimedial.de - i...@multimedial.de Hohler Strasse 17 - 51645 Gummersbach +49(0)2261-99824540 // +49(0)177-2497031 __

Psting images into LC

2012-11-04 Thread Christophe Leske
Hi, I got a quick question related to images... I was under the impression that when you paste an image onto a card, LC would make an entry for it in the image library... Apparently this is not the case either? I can see my pasted image on my card, but where is it stored? Does it appear some

Re: Financial formulae

2012-11-04 Thread dunbarx
Hi. Just enter 42 in all required fields. Craig Newman -Original Message- From: Graham Samuel To: use-livecode Sent: Sun, Nov 4, 2012 10:44 am Subject: Financial formulae Here at the unfashionable end of the galaxy, I find I have to code some financial formulae, for example for

Financial formulae

2012-11-04 Thread Graham Samuel
Here at the unfashionable end of the galaxy, I find I have to code some financial formulae, for example for amortization (PMT and IPMT) and very probably other stuff of this kind - stuff which is available in Excel at the drop of a mouse but not AFAIK in any LC library. Of course it is just tedi