Re: UK Ordnance Maps and LiveCode

2013-07-24 Thread Kay C Lan
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote: The OS is interesting in that it seems to have conflicting statutory duties with regard to data - to enhance British life and businesses by giving it away, and at the same time to make money out of it. This has already

Re: Getting data out of Excel

2013-07-24 Thread Kay C Lan
If you are absolutely sure that the clipboardData[text] has return represented by six spaces, and tabs by 3 spaces, then: put clipboardData[text] into tData replacewith return in tData repace with tab in tData Will only take milliseconds to do what you need! How much quicker do you

Re: Getting data out of Excel

2013-07-24 Thread dunbarx
Kay. I think Michael mentioned that he could do the housekeeping. He was wondering why excel padded the data so oddly, So do I. I have seen excel do odd things now and then. But Michael, if you take an excel spreadsheet and copy a few lines of data that each have a few columns, and, say, in

Re: Reliable script to handle selection/drag-and-drop in a list field?

2013-07-24 Thread Geoff Canyon
Thanks for pointing out the new messages for behaviors. This versionhttps://docs.google.com/file/d/0By_mW8YYOZpAOTE2blU1Y2JhMnM/should address the following: -- All messages should be before or after so they won't interfere with your code. -- Clicking on the selection should not change the

Fwd: File uploading to on-rev.com account with revIgniter

2013-07-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hello all The problem uploading image files to on-rev (on pancake) using revIgniter and ImageMagick is now fixed. David Williams found that ImageMagick may have been missing a few dependencies and must have done a reinstall - anyway - it all works lovely now, thanks David! PS: for others

Re: [semi OT] setting a subdomain in cPanel / on-rev

2013-07-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi jbv You don't mention registering your add-on domain with someone like goDaddy and then changing its DNS settings to the on-rev servers (ns1.on-rev.com and ns2.on-rev.com) - just checking - you've already done this right? I've found that after changing the DNS settings it usually takes a few

Re: possible LiveCode users group for South West England

2013-07-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi all So far I have a total of 3 responses on Doodle http://doodle.com/s3inwq58bh8tq9k2 (thanks John Nishok) and unless we get some more - or emails making contact - it's looking like there will be not be a LiveCode group in South West England at this time. Dave -- View this message in

Re: Getting data out of Excel

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Michael Julian wrote: I used to be able to just paste, but nowadays (Excel 2011 Mac OSX 10.7.4) the data come in as a long string, with six spaces where a return should be and three where a tab should be. That seems a silly format, even by Microsoft standards (ever looked at the bizarre

Re: [semi OT] setting a subdomain in cPanel / on-rev

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Dave Kilroy wrote: I've found that after changing the DNS settings it usually takes a few hours for it to propogate through the Internet although it can take just a couple of minutes up to over a day. FWIW, when I was moving some domains between hosts a while back I stumbled across this handy

Re: [OT] Free Benchmarking Stuff

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter M. Brigham wrote: Richard Gaskin's old stack 4W_RevBench.rev is helpful here. Allows you to compare the speed of two different solutions to a problem. I use it periodically when efficiency questions come up. Thanks for the kind words, Peter. 4W RevBench is available in the Stacks

Re: How to manage file name containing a date with /

2013-07-24 Thread André Bisseret
Thanks you very much Mark and Thomas. I was set to finding what character was hidden under this bizarre dot! Thanks to you two I am changing my mind and I will rename the files. If the doctor was to be working still for years I would adopt the suggestion from Thomas: changing the names of all

Re: 5.5.5 linking problem

2013-07-24 Thread Mark Smith
Hi Scott, yes I am. I am using some of Monte's externals. Is that the problem? Thanks Mark -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/5-5-5-linking-problem-tp4667839p4667939.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.

Easier Dropbox Access

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Heya, A while back someone posted a library for interacting with dropbox. This required using revbrowser to authenticate to a dropbox account. Is there any way to use this or something like this to use the http interface for uploading files to dropbox using just an access token or a key without

Re: Easier Dropbox Access

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Kerner
Yep. Gugliermo's phx_dropboxLib works great on all platforms, using the REST API, and on mobile, Monte has an external that does not rely on REST. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: Heya, A while back someone posted a library for interacting with dropbox.

Re: Easier Dropbox Access

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Kerner
Which reminds me, I have another fix that I sent Gugliermo for the phx_dropboxLib over the weekend, so if you're using it, email me off-list and I'll send you the fixes. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote: Yep. Gugliermo's phx_dropboxLib works great

Re: Easier Dropbox Access

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Is there anyway to include a set of permanent access tokens in that library? When I played around with it a few weeks ago it seemed like it required using revBrowser to authenticate access. I am trying to avoid the need to do that. Regards, Andrew On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 11:02 AM, Mike Kerner

Re: Easier Dropbox Access

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Kerner
By IT, I mean the library. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote: I didn't write it, but you have to get the app authorized for the user. I thought there was a command for that. I've never used revBrowser, but I got it up and running for several apps

Re: Easier Dropbox Access

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Kerner
I didn't write it, but you have to get the app authorized for the user. I thought there was a command for that. I've never used revBrowser, but I got it up and running for several apps (though it has been a couple of months since I last authorized a new app, so I'd have to mess with it to figure

Another free HTML5 course

2013-07-24 Thread Mark Wieder
LinkedIn notified me of another free HTML5 course. There look to be a lot of annoying typos, but from the preview videos it seems to cover a lot of ground. http://eduonix.com/affiliates/aff-Offer-HTML5_free.html -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: Setting up LC Server on Dreamhost

2013-07-24 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Thanks, Stephen. Following your example, I changed the permissions and then moved the .htaccess file to the right directory. Now I see the HTML source displayed in the browser. Is the Dreamhost configuration set up by default to use .htaccess files? Or do I need to contact their tech support?

Re: Easier Dropbox Access

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Kluthe
Right, weird. I downloaded and the example stack loaded dropbox's page in a revBrowser to get the OAuth tokens. What I want is to authorize it once on my end and let some of my users use it without additional interaction. I suppose I'll try hacking at it and seeing what I can come up with. I just

Re: Easier Dropbox Access

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Kerner
As I read through the docs, I forgot that (unfortunately) you do need to have the user go to a browser somehow to authorize the app. You don't need to use revBrowser to do that, though. -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the

Re: Setting up LC Server on Dreamhost

2013-07-24 Thread stephen barncard
Andre and I have only been able to get LCS to work at each domain level, not the server level. There are TWO .htaccess files, btw. Email me directly for my successful versions. The location and installation of Apache is somewhat mysterious and appears to be virtualized or changed in some way by

Re: Setting up LC Server on Dreamhost

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Bogdanoff wrote: I see from the Apache website that .htaccess files are not ideal; better to change the server main configuration file. Do you recall what their complaints were? URL? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World LiveCode training and consulting: http://www.fourthworld.com

Re: Setting up LC Server on Dreamhost

2013-07-24 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
You should avoid using .htaccess files completely if you have access to httpd main server config file. Using .htaccess files slows down your Apache http server. Any directive that you can include in a .htaccess file is better set in a Directory block, as it will have the same effect with better

Re: Easier Dropbox Access

2013-07-24 Thread Dave Kilroy
I'm also using Guglielmo's library and save Dropbox token key and secret to a SQLite database and the app key and secret as a custom property of the stack. Reconnecting to Dropbox on subsequent openings of the app doesn't require a browser - and the tokens can be sent to another user of the app so

Colouring a circle and its segments

2013-07-24 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Strange, can't find these answers on the Internet, and I have tried all the colour instructions to no avail. 1 - How do you colour a circle (graphic) ? 2 - How do you colour a segment of this circle ? Answers welcome …… -Francis Nothing should ever be done for the

Re: Easier Dropbox Access

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Kerner
Dave, Yes, I found exactly the same problem you did for mobile, because of the way Gugliermo wrote the POST portion of the code, which is the method required for mobile. That is the fix I made over the weekend and sent to Gugliermo. I'll send it to you in a second. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:46

Re: Setting up LC Server on Dreamhost

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Bogdanoff wrote: You should avoid using .htaccess files completely if you have access to httpd main server config file. Using .htaccess files slows down your Apache http server. Any directive that you can include in a .htaccess file is better set in a Directory block, as it will have

Re: Easier Dropbox Access

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Kerner
I just heard from Gugliermo. He's out this week, but will be working on the new version next week. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.comwrote: Dave, Yes, I found exactly the same problem you did for mobile, because of the way Gugliermo wrote the POST portion

Re: Colouring a circle and its segments

2013-07-24 Thread Scott Rossi
You can also create the effect of colorizing a slice of an oval graphic -- like a pie chart -- by using a conical fillGradient. This allows you to display the complete circle in one color, and the slice in another color. Ex: http://tinyurl.com/l6gkyqm Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director

Re: Easier Dropbox Access

2013-07-24 Thread Andrew Kluthe
I'll probably wait till next week because that is when i planned to work on it anyhow. Dave cleared that up, all our applications using this will be used in house so the occasional re connection isn't a problem but I thought we had to do that each time the application was opened. Thanks for the

Problems with Padding and the Properties

2013-07-24 Thread Timothy Bleiler
I'm running into some problems with the padding property. I'm not familiar with it and haven't used it but it's being returned with the Properties of fields of all types and is causing me some trouble. Here are the problems: When I get the properties of a field, the padding is included but

Re: Problems with Padding and the Properties

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Timothy Bleiler wrote: When I get the properties of a field, the padding is included but appears to be the rect of the field. If I try to get the padding of the field directly i.e. get the padding of fld 1 - I get the message the object does not have this property It looks to me like

Re: Problems with Padding and the Properties

2013-07-24 Thread Monte Goulding
On 25/07/2013, at 8:24 AM, Timothy Bleiler wrote: I'm running into some problems with the padding property. I'm not familiar with it and haven't used it but it's being returned with the Properties of fields of all types and is causing me some trouble. Here are the problems: When I

Re: [OT] Free Benchmarking Stuff

2013-07-24 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Richard Gaskin wrote: 4W RevBench is available in the Stacks section of RevNet - in the IDE see Development-Plugins-GoRevNet I also added an article to LiveCode Journal that goes into benchmarking in a little more detail: Benchmarking Performance in LiveCode

Re: [OT] Free Benchmarking Stuff

2013-07-24 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alejandro Tejada wrote: Now... How could we collect a battery of benchmarks for stress testing the most commonly used functions, commands, properties and messages used in the LiveCode platform? I thought Mark Weider and Jacque were going to write a framework for that? ;) -- Richard Gaskin

Re: Another free HTML5 course

2013-07-24 Thread Mark Wieder
LinkedIn notified me of another free HTML5 course. Never mind. I took a look at this and it's pretty poorly done. If I didn't already know html and css I wouldn't have a clue as to what the teacher is trying to get across to me. Sorry for the post. -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: [OT] Free Benchmarking Stuff

2013-07-24 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 7/24/13 7:01 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Alejandro Tejada wrote: Now... How could we collect a battery of benchmarks for stress testing the most commonly used functions, commands, properties and messages used in the LiveCode platform? I thought Mark Weider and Jacque were going to write a

Re: [OT] Free Benchmarking Stuff

2013-07-24 Thread Peter W A Wood
I thought Mark Weider and Jacque were going to write a framework for that? ;) Wha...? I suppose I promised this by next week. No, yesterday. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,