Re: altkey() down, up halfway down

2012-11-30 Thread Richmond
On 11/30/2012 09:04 AM, Richmond wrote: On 30/11/12 08:56, Richmond wrote: On 30/11/12 08:33, Richmond wrote: Has anybody any bright ideas why this doesn't work: on mouseUp if altkey() is down then put ALT key is down into fld fOUTPUT end if end mouseUp or this: on mouseUp if

Re: altkey() down, up halfway down

2012-11-30 Thread Richmond
Is it just me, or . . . ? So, here I am, during my luch break, at home, AND . . . having had No joy with this on my G3 iMac running Mac OS 10.4 at the school: on mouseUp if the altKey is down then put down into fld fOUTPUT end if end mouseUp it works on MacINTEL 10.6.7 ! but

keyedUp cross-platform woes

2012-11-30 Thread Richmond
Now the ALT-KEY yields a magic number (keyDown) number on Windows and Linux, and that's fine and dandy, but, as has been pointed out several times, both by myself and others, that doesn't happen on a Mac and Livecode seems unable to work out when the ALT-KEY is down . . . . . . just wondering

AW: display and print different image quality - solved

2012-11-30 Thread Tiemo Hollmann TB
Add FYI: Thanks to William, I found another more straight forward approach. I still have two logo images, a small dimensioned one for display on my card and a larger (hidden) one for containing a better resolution for printing in a larger scale. Now I export a snapshot of the larger img to a local

Re: {ANN} SoCal LUG Meeting - Insights DBs

2012-11-30 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul Looney wrote: The December meeting of the Southern California LiveCode Users' Group will be held on Thursday, Dec 6th, at 7:00 PM, at the Burger Continental in Pasadena. All LiveCode Programmers are welcomed. As discussed last month, the theme of this meeting is Tips, Tricks, and

Re: Date Calculation

2012-11-30 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Thanks everyone for the lovely solutions. It illustrates just how many ways there are to do things in livecode. Peter, No SQLLite here. Just need to set Flexible Learning Company's date picker with dates active for the dates I was trying to calculate. Working great now, thanks. I didn't realize

Re: GLX2 Coloriztion

2012-11-30 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Sure thing. On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 7:34 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Andrew- Thursday, November 29, 2012, 11:54:29 AM, you wrote: Hey GLX2 users, Is there any way to customize colorization of glx2's script? I like in the default editor how strings are marked as blue when

Re: keyedUp cross-platform woes

2012-11-30 Thread Richmond
On 30/11/12 15:18, Richmond wrote: Now the ALT-KEY yields a magic number (keyDown) number on Windows and Linux, and that's fine and dandy, but, as has been pointed out several times, both by myself and others, that doesn't happen on a Mac and Livecode seems unable to work out when the ALT-KEY

Re: altkey() down, up halfway down

2012-11-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/30/12 5:20 AM, Richmond wrote: Is it just me, or . . . ? So, here I am, during my luch break, at home, AND . . . having had No joy with this on my G3 iMac running Mac OS 10.4 at the school: on mouseUp if the altKey is down then put down into fld fOUTPUT end if end mouseUp

Re: altkey() down, up halfway down

2012-11-30 Thread Richmond
On 30/11/12 19:47, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/30/12 5:20 AM, Richmond wrote: Is it just me, or . . . ? So, here I am, during my luch break, at home, AND . . . having had No joy with this on my G3 iMac running Mac OS 10.4 at the school: on mouseUp if the altKey is down then put

Re: Date Calculation

2012-11-30 Thread Mike Kerner
ha On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: Thanks everyone for the lovely solutions. It illustrates just how many ways there are to do things in livecode. Peter, No SQLLite here. Just need to set Flexible Learning Company's date picker with dates active for

Re: Date Calculation

2012-11-30 Thread Mike Kerner
sorry, the ha was supposed to be in response to JLG lost at c. funny. You know that C is a write-only language, right? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: display and print different image quality - solved

2012-11-30 Thread stephen barncard
This bugs me. I thought the printer routines USED to take care of this automatically; create an image object with data bigger than what one wants to display, then resize the image to fit the layout. The increase in resolution in the printed, reduced image should be obvious. But multiple files

Re: display and print different image quality - solved

2012-11-30 Thread Phil Jimmieson
The technique I use is I have an image dump card and put all my large images on there. I then scale them smaller (with resizequality set to best) and lock them to prevent them resizing back to full size. If you now use imagesource items in a field to refer to those images, the field version

Re: keyedUp cross-platform woes

2012-11-30 Thread Robert Brenstein
On 30.11.2012 at 15:18 Uhr +0200 Richmond apparently wrote: Now the ALT-KEY yields a magic number (keyDown) number on Windows and Linux, and that's fine and dandy, but, as has been pointed out several times, both by myself and others, that doesn't happen on a Mac and Livecode seems unable to

Re: altkey() down, up halfway down

2012-11-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/30/12 11:52 AM, Richmond wrote: Nothwithstanding the above, I do wonder why Livecode-on-Mac cannot grab onto rawKeyDownsfor modifier keys. As I understand it, the OS doesn't send any key messages until the combo is typed. I believe it's always been that way on Macs; at least, I recall

Re: altkey() down, up halfway down

2012-11-30 Thread Richmond
On 11/30/2012 10:38 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 11/30/12 11:52 AM, Richmond wrote: Nothwithstanding the above, I do wonder why Livecode-on-Mac cannot grab onto rawKeyDownsfor modifier keys. As I understand it, the OS doesn't send any key messages until the combo is typed. I believe it's

how my book is doing...

2012-11-30 Thread Colin Holgate
I received my first royalty statement. It just covers July, August, and September, and as the book came out at the end of July it really means that it's two months worth of sales. The numbers were higher than I was expecting! In that amount of time there were 160 ebook purchases, 87 paper

Re: how my book is doing...

2012-11-30 Thread dunbarx
Colin. Good for you! Really, really. Craig -Original Message- From: Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent: Fri, Nov 30, 2012 4:06 pm Subject: how my book is doing... I received my first royalty statement. It just covers July,

Re: how my book is doing...

2012-11-30 Thread Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab)
Hi Colin, Great to hear! For future works, you might want to consider self-publishing (perhaps print-on-demand) and make even more from your hard work... (And sorry if this topic has already been discussed on here before.) FYI: I bought the paper version of your wonderful book... Cheers!

Re: how my book is doing...

2012-11-30 Thread Terence Blyth
Its great to see that people are getting results from livecode. Apple just approved my first app first time. Yah. Cheers Terence On 1/12/2012, at 12:15 PM, Keith (Gulf Breeze Ortho Lab) ke...@gulfbreezeortholab.com wrote: Hi Colin, Great to hear! For future works, you might

Re: how my book is doing...

2012-11-30 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hi Colin, Good to know... and the same tough as Keith. I don't like the idea that because PackIt (witch spams my mailbox since i purchased your useful reference book), you gives the most of your work to this officine in the mean time their did so sadly their publisher's work in making nothing

Re: how my book is doing...

2012-11-30 Thread Pierre Sahores
Colin, Why would you not publish it again as a credential peer user protected web application with dedicated css to target desktops, tablets and mobiles ? Best, Pierre Le 1 déc. 2012 à 03:42, Pierre Sahores a écrit : Hi Colin, Good to know... and the same tough as Keith. I don't like

Re: how my book is doing...

2012-11-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/30/12 3:05 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: I received my first royalty statement. Good on you! You deserve it. Seems like the ratios are off though, you should have got more. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software |

Re: how my book is doing...

2012-11-30 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11/30/12 5:41 PM, Terence Blyth wrote: Its great to see that people are getting results from livecode. Apple just approved my first app first time. Yah. Congrats! It's so satisfying when that happens. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive