Figuring out the correct height / width of scrollbars under Linux

2014-01-09 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, is there a way to figure out how wide / heigh a scrollbar needs to be under Linux to draw all of the scrollbar, but not leaving you with empty space around it? Can this be figured out by script? It appears that under UBUNTU this would be 14 Pixels. Is there a difference between

Re: Figuring out the correct height / width of scrollbars under Linux

2014-01-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
Hi Malte, I have no idea where you could get this data, so here's what I could find in LiveCode itself: - the Dictionary entry for property 'scrollbarWidth' claims to have default values of 16 pixels for MacOS and 20 pixels on Linux/Windows - the Data Grid applies 15 pixels on MacOS, 16 pixels

Re: Figuring out the correct height / width of scrollbars under Linux

2014-01-09 Thread Thierry Douez
Hi Jan, Have you ever tried gsettings ? (I'm not a gnome user) Regards, Thierry If you ever find a way to extract gnome-control-center information on Linux via shell calls, make sure to let me know as I'd love to find the theme colors data :-) Jan Schenkel.

Re: Figuring out the correct height / width of scrollbars under Linux

2014-01-09 Thread Warren Samples
On 01/09/2014 03:03 AM, Malte Brill wrote: Hi all, is there a way to figure out how wide / heigh a scrollbar needs to be under Linux to draw all of the scrollbar, but not leaving you with empty space around it? Can this be figured out by script? It appears that under UBUNTU this would be 14

Re: Visual Effect Zoom Open and Zoom Close

2014-01-09 Thread Randy Hengst
Seems to work fine here Mac 10.8.4 LC 6.5.1… but where in your scripts is Zoom Open or closed? I couldn't find it. Sounds worked. be well, randy --- On Jan 8, 2014, at 9:22 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Could please verify if the visual effects Zoom Open and

Pancake in trouble?

2014-01-09 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi all and Happy New Year to all of you I've been getting some emails bounced back and according to on-rev's status page (http://on-rev.com/support/server-status/) the load on Pancake is High I haven't yet checked whether pancake.on-rev.com is blacklisted but it could well be Anyway, for those

Re: Pancake in trouble?

2014-01-09 Thread Pierre Sahores
Pancake works fine for me. Best, Pierre Le 9 janv. 2014 à 16:32, Dave Kilroy a écrit : Hi all and Happy New Year to all of you I've been getting some emails bounced back and according to on-rev's status page (http://on-rev.com/support/server-status/) the load on Pancake is High I

Re: Visual Effect Zoom Open and Zoom Close

2014-01-09 Thread Klaus major-k
Hi Randy, Am 09.01.2014 um 15:22 schrieb Randy Hengst iowahen...@mac.com: ...but where in your scripts is Zoom Open or closed? I couldn't find it. Sounds worked. ... put visual effect the selectedText of field Effect Name the label of button Speed into cmd ## more strings added to CMD

Re: Pancake in trouble?

2014-01-09 Thread Dave Kilroy
I've just checked http://on-rev.com/support/server-status/ again and see that load is now OK so I guess David managed to fight off whatever the problem was. Regards email bounce backs, yesterday I had 1 returned email and today (so far) have had 3 - but l hope it's all back to normal now...

Re: There should be a unique option on sort . . .

2014-01-09 Thread Peter Haworth
OK, that makes sense and would be useful. Pete lcSQL Software On Jan 8, 2014 10:11 PM, Jan Schenkel janschen...@yahoo.com wrote: Addiing only an 'into' clauset would indeed be a bit silly - my plan was to transplant another 'filter' feature: the ability to sort an expression. This would

Re: First MetaCard Demo running in Android

2014-01-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Alejandro Tejada capellan2000@... writes: Some time ago, I made this APK for Android and I want to ask you to install and run on your Android tablet and share your results: The good: It loads and runs (Android 4.2 on Nexus 5). The bad: It puts a tiny box in the upper left corner of my phone.

uuid types 3 and 5

2014-01-09 Thread Martin Baxter
Was looking at the uuid command. Type 4 is straightforward enough. Types 3 and 5 have me baffled though. Does anyone know what those types are used for? I can't even guess, nor have my web searches led me to any information about their usage. I suppose if it isn't obvious to me then I probably

Re: uuid types 3 and 5

2014-01-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Martin Baxter mblivecode@... writes: Was looking at the uuid command. Type 4 is straightforward enough. Types 3 and 5 have me baffled though. Does anyone know what those types are used for? I can't even guess, nor have my web searches led me to any information about their usage.

Re: Figuring out the correct height / width of scrollbars under Linux

2014-01-09 Thread Jan Schenkel
Thank you for pointing me in that direction, Thierry. I probably used the wrong search term last time I went looking, but I was afraid I'd have to dip down into C/C++ land and write an external. Cheers, Jan Schenkel. = Quartam Reports PDF Library for LiveCode www.quartam.com = As we

Re: Figuring out the correct height / width of scrollbars under Linux

2014-01-09 Thread Thierry Douez
2014/1/9 Jan Schenkel janschen...@yahoo.com: Thank you for pointing me in that direction, Thierry. You're welcome :) I probably used the wrong search term last time I went looking, but I was afraid I'd have to dip down into C/C++ land and write an external. Yep, certainly less work. I've

Re: uuid types 3 and 5

2014-01-09 Thread Martin Baxter
On 09/01/14 19:05, Mark Wieder wrote: Martin Baxter mblivecode@... writes: Was looking at the uuid command. Type 4 is straightforward enough. Types 3 and 5 have me baffled though. Does anyone know what those types are used for? I can't even guess, nor have my web searches led me to any

Re: First MetaCard Demo running in Android

2014-01-09 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Mark, The Stack is only 600px by 450px. Your Screen (Nexus 5) is 1920px by 1080px so it should take a bit more of a quarter of your screen. When I restore my Android setup, I will test the new scale property for stacks. Many Thanks for testing this APK! :D Al -- View this message in

Re: uuid types 3 and 5

2014-01-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Martin Baxter wrote: I have read that type 3 is deprecated, on the basis that md5 is not considered secure these days, although I think that was one thing that confused me because uuid is nothing to do with encryption or obfuscation as far as I was aware. The difference is reliability. The

Re: uuid types 3 and 5

2014-01-09 Thread Fraser Gordon
On 09/01/2014 20:20, Martin Baxter wrote: I have read that type 3 is deprecated, on the basis that md5 is not considered secure these days, although I think that was one thing that confused me because uuid is nothing to do with encryption or obfuscation as far as I was aware. I believe the

Re: Visual Effect Zoom Open and Zoom Close

2014-01-09 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Many Thanks Klaus for answering! :D Klaus major-k wrote ...but where in your scripts is Zoom Open or closed? I couldn't find it. Sounds worked. put visual effect the selectedText of field Effect Name the label of button Speed into cmd ## more strings added to CMD ## ... ## CMD will

Re: [OT] Intel debuts SD card-sized computer

2014-01-09 Thread Richard Gaskin
Paul Looney wrote: On Jan 8, 2014, at 12:46 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Move over, Raspberry Pi: Intel debuts SD card-sized computer http://bgr.com/2014/01/07/intel-edison-sd-card-computer/ Looks like Intel really is getting serious about power consumption! They predicted a couple years ago

Re: [OT] Intel debuts SD card-sized computer

2014-01-09 Thread Roger Eller
This could be the enabler for the true smart-watch (not just a phone accessory). ~Roger On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: And then the cool gadgets arrive, with development accelerated by an ecosystem based around a single instruction set. --

Re: Visual Effect Zoom Open and Zoom Close

2014-01-09 Thread Klaus major-k
Hola Al, Am 09.01.2014 um 21:59 schrieb Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com: Many Thanks Klaus for answering! :D My pleasure :-) But when started this visual effect (zoom in/out) to REALLY zoom in/out (an image)??? Last time I used this effect, must be several year ago, maybe even at my

Re: Figuring out the correct height / width of scrollbars under Linux

2014-01-09 Thread Malte Brill
First of all… Thanks to all who replied. @Warren: I need this for a custom control that has seperate scrollbars that are not tied to the group. I need to adjust those scrollbars to fit to the right /v bottom of that group. Dragging out a standard scrollbar was far too wide and left about 5

Re: Figuring out the correct height / width of scrollbars under Linux

2014-01-09 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Jan Schenkel wrote [snip] If you ever find a way to extract gnome-control-center information on Linux via shell calls, make sure to let me know as I'd love to find the theme colors data :-) Could this help? http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/hardy/man1/gnome-control-center.1.html Al --

Re: uuid types 3 and 5

2014-01-09 Thread Martin Baxter
On 09/01/14 20:58, Fraser Gordon wrote: On 09/01/2014 20:20, Martin Baxter wrote: I have read that type 3 is deprecated, on the basis that md5 is not considered secure these days, although I think that was one thing that confused me because uuid is nothing to do with encryption or

Image question

2014-01-09 Thread Peter Haworth
I'm probably missing something really obvious here because I'm not a graphics person but why can't an image have any of the pattern properties associated with it? Colors seem to be allowed but not patterns, at least in the IDE Property Inspector. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com

Re: Image question

2014-01-09 Thread Scott Rossi
I believe you can paint an image using a brushpattern. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/UI Design On 1/9/14 2:32 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I'm probably missing something really obvious here because I'm not a graphics person but why can't an image have

Re: uuid types 3 and 5

2014-01-09 Thread Monte Goulding
On 10/01/2014, at 9:22 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: So I take it that the situations where you would use this type of uuid are really similar to those situations where you might use a hash, but where a simple hash wouldn't povide a high enough probability of uniqueness for the context. Actually

Re: uuid types 3 and 5

2014-01-09 Thread Martin Baxter
On 09/01/14 22:53, Monte Goulding wrote: On 10/01/2014, at 9:22 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: So I take it that the situations where you would use this type of uuid are really similar to those situations where you might use a hash, but where a simple hash wouldn't povide a high enough

Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Ender Nafi Elekcioglu
Hi, Is there any way to deal with files whose filenames contain non-ascii chars? Assume that *tFilename* is *specialFolderPath(“desktop”) “/ağaç.png”* _set the filename of image 1 to tFilename results with an empty image. _set the filename of image 1 to URLEncode(tFilename) same, an

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Phil Davis
Thanks for asking this question Ender. I don't have an answer but will benefit from it as well. Phil Davis On 1/9/14, 3:43 PM, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu wrote: Hi, Is there any way to deal with files whose filenames contain non-ascii chars? Assume that *tFilename* is

Re: First MetaCard Demo running in Android

2014-01-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Alejandro Tejada capellan2000@... writes: The Stack is only 600px by 450px. Your Screen (Nexus 5) is 1920px by 1080px so it should take a bit more of a quarter of your screen. It's more like one-sixth of the screen. I think it's getting scaled down. At any rate, it's pretty small. -- Mark

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Martin Baxter
On 09/01/14 23:43, Ender Nafi Elekcioglu wrote: Hi, Is there any way to deal with files whose filenames contain non-ascii chars? Assume that *tFilename* is *specialFolderPath(“desktop”) “/ağaç.png”* _set the filename of image 1 to tFilename results with an empty image. _set the

RE: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread John Dixon
Hi Ender... Just did the same as Martin, but with an image file named : épøtç†.png on mouseUp answer file if it is not empty then set the filename of image 1 to it put the filename of image 1 into fld 1 end if end mouseUp filepath returned in fld 1 :

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Ender Nafi Elekcioglu
The situation starts to be clarified a little bit. First, if *ağaç.txt* opens in Linux as Martin stated but not in OS X and iOS, then the underlying OS has a big role. It seems that in OS X and iOS, Livecode accepts only those chars with a unicode hex point up to U+00FF; That’s why

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Mark Wieder
Ender- Thursday, January 9, 2014, 6:28:06 PM, you wrote: First, if *agaç.txt* opens in Linux as Martin stated but not in OS X and iOS, then the underlying OS has a big role. I once managed on a Windows system to create a file whose name had a trailing space, and nothing I could do would

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Jerry Jensen
On Jan 9, 2014, at 6:38 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: I once managed on a Windows system to create a file whose name had a trailing space, and nothing I could do would delete the entry. I tried all the low-level hacks I could find. When Windows finally died I didn't bother to

Re: Non-Ascii Chars in Filenames

2014-01-09 Thread Ender Nafi Elekcioglu
Read as: “resistance is futile, give up!” :) ~ Ender On Jan 10, 2014, 4:38:44, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: I once managed on a Windows system to create a file whose name had a trailing space, and nothing I could do would delete the entry. I tried all the low-level hacks I

Re: [ANN] lcStackbrowser V2 Released

2014-01-09 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Peter, could you post which of your packages work (i) with the community version (ii) with linux? Thanks Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/ANN-lcStackbrowser-V2-Released-tp4674585p4674593.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list

Re: [ANN] lcStackbrowser V2 Released

2014-01-09 Thread Thierry Douez
2014/1/10 Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com: I'm pleased to welcome in the new year by announcing the release of version 2 of lcStackBrowser, a plugin replacement for the Livecode Hi Peter, Great plugin! Thanks for the 2014-Update :) Regards, Thierry