Re: smooth scrolling

2014-01-12 Thread stephen barncard
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 7:16 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: So that's the reason. It makes me crazy and it happens all the time. The script goes zooming off somewhere and it happens so fast I'm not even sure whether to scroll up or down to get back where I was. Exactly my

Re: [ANN] lcStackbrowser V2 Released

2014-01-12 Thread Peter Alcibiades
Thanks for replying. Not quite sure what the issue is with the open source version. Is it not OK to have closed source add-ons to an open source package? For instance, for firefox or open office? I can see that if it was an add-on which was packaged into a compiled software package, this would

Re: [ANN] lcStackbrowser V2 Released

2014-01-12 Thread Peter Haworth
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:24 AM, Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Not quite sure what the issue is with the open source version. Is it not OK to have closed source add-ons to an open source package? For instance, for firefox or open office? Hi Peter, The problem is

Re: mcEncrypt

2014-01-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Thanks Jacque. Now the question remains, was this documented somewhere? -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Use Color Converter to convert CMYK, RGB,

Re: mcEncrypt

2014-01-12 Thread Richmond
I just had a look at the docmentation in 6.5.1 Community and it says this of mcEncrypt: Reserved for internal use. AND it says much the same thing in LC 3.5 and 4.5 (i.e. commercial versions). If it is 'reserved' I don't quite understand how it can be leveraged by us peons, externally.

Re: mcEncrypt

2014-01-12 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Richmond, In the dictionary of LC 6.5, mcEncrypt is still mentioned as a good way to check whether a password, obtained with the ask password command, is correct. This is stated in the entry for ask password. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software

Re: mcEncrypt

2014-01-12 Thread Richmond
On 12/01/14 20:57, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi Richmond, In the dictionary of LC 6.5, mcEncrypt is still mentioned as a good way to check whether a password, obtained with the ask password command, is correct. This is stated in the entry for ask password. Yes, I saw that; but it isn't really

Playing Embedded iOS Sounds?

2014-01-12 Thread Rick Harrison
Hi there, I know I can play sound files on mobile devices like the iPhone by using: mobilePlaySoundOnChannel theSound, theChannel, theType However I would like to be able to play embedded sounds in the Stack, to decrease the load time. Can this be done under iOS 7? It makes more sense if I can

Re: [ANN] lcStackbrowser V2 Released

2014-01-12 Thread stephen barncard
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 9:23 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Not sure how the other closed source add-ons to open source apps handle it. I have played around with the idea of providing lcStackBrowser as a standalone program that would communicate with the IDE via a socket and a front

Re: mcEncrypt

2014-01-12 Thread stephen barncard
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, I saw that; but it isn't really much good if you don't know how to use it to encrypt something in the first place. I assume you are attempting to create secured apps using the OSS version. ?? Simple encryption

Re: mcEncrypt

2014-01-12 Thread Richmond
On 12/01/14 22:08, stephen barncard wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: Yes, I saw that; but it isn't really much good if you don't know how to use it to encrypt something in the first place. I assume you are attempting to create secured apps

Re: mcEncrypt

2014-01-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/12/14, 12:23 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: Thanks Jacque. Now the question remains, was this documented somewhere? It was documented in the 5.5 release notes, I believe, but at the time it pertained only to iOS and Android. I entered a bug report that this required scripts to branch when

numToChar with socking great numbers

2014-01-12 Thread Richmond
So, I found that the Unicode Consortium puts a smiley face at address 1F600 (hex) = 128512(decimal), but when I go set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld feeld to numToChar(128512) I get a nifty Bengali char that returns 62976, which is, rather predictably, 128512 - 65536 (or

Re: numToChar with socking great numbers

2014-01-12 Thread Richmond
On 12/01/14 23:31, Richmond wrote: So, I found that the Unicode Consortium puts a smiley face at address 1F600 (hex) = 128512(decimal), but when I go set the useUnicode to true set the unicodeText of fld feeld to numToChar(128512) I get a nifty Bengali char that returns 62976, which is,

Re: [ANN] lcStackbrowser V2 Released

2014-01-12 Thread Peter Alcibiades
I think that is how the closed source Python editors work - don't any longer recall the one I had, but it was totally standalone, and then the code it generated was independent of it, so the editor was not bound by any open source requirements on the package itself. Peter, are you saying that

LiveCode Community on Ohloh

2014-01-12 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Folks I've added LiveCode Community on Ohloh. For people that don't know Ohloh is a site about using and/or contributing to open source projects. You can create an account and say you use LiveCode and give it a rating which obviously helps LiveCode get some attention. I've also added lcVCS

Counting Lines

2014-01-12 Thread Paul Foraker
I have a WordPress form on my website that sends me an email when someone fills it out. I've written a stack that parses that email into tab-delimited lines for pasting into a spreadsheet. On the Mac (iMac, 10.7.5), but not on the PC (Vista), LiveCode is discarding a blank line in the data. Here

Re: [ANN] lcStackbrowser V2 Released

2014-01-12 Thread Peter Haworth
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Peter Alcibiades palcibiades-fi...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Peter, are you saying that yours simply will not work in the community edition? It requires a password to be used, and that is not possible because the CI doesn't support that function? Unfortunately

Re: mcEncrypt

2014-01-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/12/14, 2:13 PM, Richmond wrote: All I was doing was wondering, in a Sunday-afternoon-sort-of-way as to how one might use mcEncrypt to, well, encrypt a stack. It's not really intended for that, it's used for short text strings in ask password. I don't know how it would deal with binary.

Re: Counting Lines

2014-01-12 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/12/14, 4:35 PM, Paul Foraker wrote: Here is the raw Data as copied from Firefox in Gmail and pasted into BBEdit (which, curiously, discards the bullets in the list): == Wait List On: Jan 9, 2014 @ 12:28 PM IP: 98.207.89.163 First Name: That Last Name: Guy Address 1:

Re: [ANN] lcStackbrowser V2 Released

2014-01-12 Thread Peter Haworth
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 11:54 AM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: Jerry Daniels http://danielsmara.com/about-jerry/ did that a few years ago with a couple of editors he invented, like the concept editor and T-Rev/Remo. It worked brilliantly and was much simpler and

Re: numToChar with socking great numbers

2014-01-12 Thread Fraser Gordon
You need two numToChar calls: numToChar(55357)+ numToChar(56832) The Unicode engine will fix this with a new call that handles surrogate pairs automatically and invisibly but numToChar will probably have to retain the mod-65536 behaviour for compatibility. Regards, Fraser On 12/01/2014 21:31,

Re: [ANN] lcStackbrowser V2 Released

2014-01-12 Thread stephen barncard
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: However, I notice that both the server and the IDE use a very high percentage of CPU time when they are running, even when there are no messages going back and forth. Both of them use read from socket with a callback

moving files

2014-01-12 Thread stephen barncard
Hi gang I thought there was a command for moving files on desktop (Mac), but I can't seem to find it. Must I use the Shell or Applescript? sqb *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: moving files

2014-01-12 Thread Monte Goulding
On 13/01/2014, at 11:14 AM, stephen barncard wrote: I thought there was a command for moving files on desktop (Mac), but I can't seem to find it. Must I use the Shell or Applescript? rename? -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical markets

Re: moving files

2014-01-12 Thread stephen barncard
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: rename? that might be it. Feature added in 1.1.1 One of the more non-intuitive commands like destroystack. sqb *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words*

Re: moving files

2014-01-12 Thread Björnke von Gierke
there's also revcopyfile On 13.01.2014, at 01:22, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 4:18 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: rename? that might be it. Feature added in 1.1.1 One of the more non-intuitive commands like

Re: moving files

2014-01-12 Thread Roger Eller
With revCopyFile, you have to verify the copy worked with your script, then delete the original if your goal is to MOVE the file. Whereas rename will MOVE the file if the output dir is not the same as the source. ~Roger On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote:

Re: moving files

2014-01-12 Thread stephen barncard
On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:38 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: With revCopyFile, you have to verify the copy worked with your script, then delete the original if your goal is to MOVE the file. Whereas rename will MOVE the file if the output dir is not the same as the source.

Re: moving files

2014-01-12 Thread Roger Eller
My experience with rename has only been on Windows. I have never seen a file lost during a move. I assume that it is just doing an OS level command, so if permissions allow it, the command is successful. ~Roger On Jan 12, 2014 10:51 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote:

Re: numToChar with socking great numbers

2014-01-12 Thread Richmond
On 13/01/14 01:43, Fraser Gordon wrote: You need two numToChar calls: numToChar(55357)+ numToChar(56832) The Unicode engine will fix this with a new call that handles surrogate pairs automatically and invisibly but numToChar will probably have to retain the mod-65536 behaviour for