Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-29 Thread stephen barncard
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Richard Miller w...@together.net wrote: secret collection is the devil. then I apologize if I misjudged the intentions of your app. *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not Words* ___ use-livecode

Kill a handler

2014-03-29 Thread Nakia Brewer
Hi, Is there a way u can kill a handler that is currently running (has long loops on it so runs a while). I am building a desktop version of the mobileActivity indicator and want to add a cancel button so it can cancel any current operation within the program... Sent from my iPhone

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-29 Thread Richard Miller
Thanks, Mark. Will give it a try. Looks like it could be a simple solution. Richard On 3/28/14 11:15 PM, Mark Talluto wrote: On Mar 28, 2014, at 6:25 PM, Richard Miller w...@together.net wrote: If I understand what you are saying, you are suggesting that my LC app send out the results of

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-29 Thread Richard Miller
No worries, Stephen. On 3/29/14 4:48 AM, stephen barncard wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:41 PM, Richard Miller w...@together.net wrote: secret collection is the devil. then I apologize if I misjudged the intentions of your app. *--* *Stephen Barncard - San Francisco Ca. USA - Deeds Not

Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-29 Thread Francis Nugent Dixon
Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I don’t want to quibble, but the request in this e-mail would seem to me to be highly dangerous, totally subversive, and irrevocably suspicious. Maybe somebody would like to graft into a developing LiveCode program, an automatic spy mechanism. I suggest that nobody

Re: 7.0 Issues

2014-03-29 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Mar 28, 2014, at 7:51 PM, Bob Sneidar wrote: Not sure about the inserting of pages, but you can store and “reassemble” a pdf by opening it as read binary, reading it into a variable, then saving the variable either as a property or stored in a database, or even encrypted in a file on

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-29 Thread Earthednet-wp
Folks, Unfortunately, invisibly sending information about your online activities is a common situation. We don't expect it in standalone apps, but who deals only with standalone these days? I know of no other environment where I am presented with at least several attempts, per day, to do

Re: Kill a handler

2014-03-29 Thread dunbarx
To break into your loop so that an external control can, er, take control, add this line as appropriate inside your loop(s): wait 0 with messages This will let the handler look outside itself for a brief instant, so that a mouseUp message can be generated by that cancel button. You do

Re: Kill a handler

2014-03-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, Really, I don't remember when I used control-period successfully for the last time. Whenever I need to to stop an indefinitely running loop, I have to kill the entire IDE. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage:

Re: Kill a handler

2014-03-29 Thread dunbarx
Mark. I do this all the time. Somehow I never seem to get my gadgets running perfectly the first time. Not sure why this is. But I never have a problem with cmd-period. What happens to you? Craig -Original Message- From: Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com To: How

Re: Kill a handler

2014-03-29 Thread Scott Rossi
One way to do this if you can is to move the looping portion/s of your current handler to a separate handler that loops using send in, along with a variable check. Something like local allowMonitor command monitorProcess if allowMonitor is false then exit monitorProcess do monitor stuff

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-29 Thread Mark Talluto
On Mar 29, 2014, at 6:04 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.fr wrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I don’t want to quibble, but the request in this e-mail would seem to me to be highly dangerous, totally subversive, and irrevocably suspicious. Maybe somebody would like to graft into

Re: Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

2014-03-29 Thread Richard Miller
In this case, Richard Miller has been a member of this community for as long as I can remember. Thanks for mentioning this, Mark. Perhaps some were not aware of this. I would NEVER create software that was not of high ethical standards. In this case, my app can help save all the data on the

Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-29 Thread Peter Haworth
I've been looking into my stacks to see how they will be affected by the change to the way the label property of an option menu works in 6.7. As long as it will still be possible to set the label of an option menu to a value that is not in its text, all should be well. Unfortunately, I can't

Re: Kill a handler

2014-03-29 Thread Nakia Brewer
Thanks all, Scott, this is how I have done it in the past. Was just wondering if there was a super kill command that could achieve the same thing... Would this CMD period trick work in a windows standalone? How do i send something like that ? Is it considered a keyboard shortcut ? Sent from

Re: Kill a handler

2014-03-29 Thread Mark Schonewille
Craig, When I do a simple test, like repeat forever put the seconds end repeat it works, but when I am in the middle of a project, testing a handler that gets caught up in an endless loop and forgot to save for a few hours, it never works. I have no idea why it doesn't. There must be

Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-29 Thread Nakia Brewer
Hi, I want to learn how to use LC server scripts (try and improve my knowledge and progress my learning) but currently don't have access to a web-server. Can some offer some advice for cheap (best free) web server space that I could use to do some testing.. Needs to be able to run LC scripts

Re: Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-29 Thread Paul Hibbert
Pete, It looks like this is OK as far as I can see. I just ran a quick test: 1 x Option Menu (Default settings) Script: on menuPick put the menuHistory of me into fld 3 end menuPick 1 x Button Test Script: on mouseDown put the menuHistory of

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Nakia Brewer wrote: I want to learn how to use LC server scripts (try and improve my knowledge and progress my learning) but currently don't have access to a web-server. Can some offer some advice for cheap (best free) web server space that I could use to do some testing.. The best server

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-29 Thread Rodney Green
Have you looked at the back-end as a service offerings such as parse.com? They have a free level. On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Nakia Brewer wrote: I want to learn how to use LC server scripts (try and improve my knowledge and progress my

Re: Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Paul. I'm a little concerned about what happens in your mouseUp handler if I'm understanding it correctly. If Test doesn't exist in the button, I would have expected the menuHistory to be zero or empty or something to indicate that the label doesn't exist in the text of the button. Also

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-29 Thread Peter Haworth
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 8:37 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: I don't have Windows 8 here to try it on but if anyone else wants to test, I'd love to hear what happens. Just type ask password hello in the message box and walk away until the computer sleeps. Then see what

Re: Dialog freezes app on Windows after sleep

2014-03-29 Thread larry
I'm using 6.1.1 Community on XP Service Pack 3. I routinely have the IDE freeze up and I cannot do anything - including not being able to save. Any ideas on that? - Original Message - From: Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Sent:

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-29 Thread Earthednet-wp
Google WAMP. On the Mac, it's MAMP. Easy to install, contains Apache, MySQL, and php. You can run it on your desktop computer. Also, free. Install is trivial. You can install the LC server on it and do your testing. It's so easy I don't know why more folks don't suggest it. Bill William

Re: Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-29 Thread Earthednet-wp
Didn't the release notes say it wouldn't run on lion anymore? Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Mar 29, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I've been looking into my stacks to see how they will be affected by the change to the way the label property of an

Re: Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-29 Thread Peter Haworth
Just ran some tests on this on Windows 8. It seems to work as advertised. However I think what happens to the menuHistroy when you set the label to a non existent value is incorrect. In that circumstance, the menuHistory is unchanged which is inconsistant with what happens if you set the

Re: Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-29 Thread Peter Haworth
They dropped support for OSX versions earlier than 10.5.8 but I'm on 10.7.4. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin http://www.lcsql.com/sqliteadmin.html On Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Earthednet-wp

Re: Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-29 Thread Jerry Jensen
Nope. Support for 10.5 Leopard is dropped. 10.7 Lion is still good. On Mar 29, 2014, at 4:33 PM, Earthednet-wp proth...@earthednet.org wrote: Didn't the release notes say it wouldn't run on lion anymore? Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Mar 29, 2014, at 12:36 PM, Peter

Re: Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-29 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter Haworth wrote: I have to admit that I'm really concerned with the increasing frequency of changes that are being made to the behavior of various entities without regard to backwards compatibility. I don;t disagree that the new way that the label property woks makes more sense, but I

Re: Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-29 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Saturday, March 29, 2014, 4:37:49 PM, you wrote: I have to admit that I'm really concerned with the increasing frequency of changes that are being made to the behavior of various entities without regard to backwards compatibility. Do you really need to be reminded that dp builds are

Re: Change to the label property in 6.7

2014-03-29 Thread Peter Haworth
No reminder necessary and one of the reasons I look at dp releases is exactly what you said, to find things that aren't compatible with my code and probably other peoples' code too. And yes, it bothers me but that's not a reason to not test things. I'm simply stating my opinion about a change

Re: Advice of cheap/free online server

2014-03-29 Thread Nakia Brewer
Thanks everyone for these suggestions. Guess what I am doing this afternoon! Dumb question (please don't laugh) if I get this working the way I want and all the stuff I need is small (small database, minimal traffic) can I just keep it on this dedicated PC of mine ? Guess I just need to buy a