Re: Add a control to a group

2014-08-01 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > Thanks, Paul and Mark. As usual, there are many ways to skin that cat. > Bu very few cats that like getting skinned . . . -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing lis

[ANN] libDate update and help request

2014-08-01 Thread Malte Brill
Hi all, some of you know that I have been working hard(ly) on a date handling library. I have put some more work into it, in order to get rid of the need to use convert. The library can now parse different date formats without the need to use convert and thus the limitations of the convert comm

Re: Add a control to a group

2014-08-01 Thread Devin Asay
Thanks, Paul and Mark. As usual, there are many ways to skin that cat. Devin On Aug 1, 2014, at 4:41 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > Hi Devin, > > Yet another approach… > > create invisible image "snapShot" in group "myGroup" > export snapshot from group "or_Whatever" to image "snapShot" > s

Re: Add a control to a group

2014-08-01 Thread Paul Hibbert
Hi Devin, Yet another approach… create invisible image "snapShot" in group "myGroup" export snapshot from group "or_Whatever" to image "snapShot" set the visible of img "snapShot" to true Paul On 2014-08-01, at 3:36 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Devin, > > You could export a sna

Re: Add a control to a group

2014-08-01 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Devin, You could export a snapshot to a variable, create an image object in the group and set the text of the image. export snapshot from rect myRect to myPicture as PNG create image "New Image" in grp "Your Group" set the text of it to myPicture -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy

Re: Add a control to a group

2014-08-01 Thread Devin Asay
On Aug 1, 2014, at 4:02 PM, Mark Schonewille wrote: > Hi Devin, > > Usually I copy them and then I delete the original: > > copy btn id x to grp y > delete btn id x > > Probably you could also write a script to cut the control, edit the group and > paste the control in the group. This would

Re: Add a control to a group

2014-08-01 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi Devin, Usually I copy them and then I delete the original: copy btn id x to grp y delete btn id x Probably you could also write a script to cut the control, edit the group and paste the control in the group. This wouldn't require creating a copy and deleting the original, but it might look

Add a control to a group

2014-08-01 Thread Devin Asay
I know I've seen this before, but I can't find it now. You can group objects with the group command: group obj a and obj b But how do you add an object to an existing group (through scripting not in the IDE)? Devin Asay Learn to code with LiveCode University http://university.livecode.com _

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 7.0 DP8

2014-08-01 Thread Richmond
Crashes on "You Only" install attempt on Ubuntu Studio 14.04.1 Other install methods work. Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Calculating the left of a column in a DataGrid

2014-08-01 Thread Terence Heaford
Is there a short method to obtain the left of a column in a DataGrid. I have set the width of a bar grc as below. set the width of grc "barGraphic" of me to (the dgColumnWidth["Progress"] of group "budgetTable" - 8) * pData but have the left of the grc hardwired. I would like to calculate this

RELEASE: LiveCode 6.7 DP7

2014-08-01 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Dear List Members. We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 6.7 DP7. *Release Focus* 1. 50+ bug fixes 2. Multicore Rendering Architecture *Known issues* 1. The multicore rending architecture is causing some subtle rendering glitches on retina Macs 2. Multicore renderi

Re: Livecode Server and Repeat Scripts on Server

2014-08-01 Thread Jim Lambert
John, > put url("file:users.txt") into tUserFile Since you have read the entire file into memory you might also try filter filter tUserFile with “tUsername,*” if it’s empty then the name is unique. You may be able to speed up subsequent searches by sorting the contents of the file befo

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 7.0 DP8

2014-08-01 Thread Richmond
On 01/08/14 19:08, Benjamin Beaumont wrote: Dear List Members. We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 7.0 DP8. That 64-bit version for Linux is Well Posh! Bravo! Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Pl

Re: Back to the Future.

2014-08-01 Thread Richmond
On 01/08/14 05:53, Kay C Lan wrote: On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 11:04 PM, Richmond wrote: However, has anybody any idea about 6.6.2 on Mac OS 10.3 I thought Ben put out something a while back asking for community reaction to LC 6.6 being the last version of LC to support 10.5. The community basic

RELEASE: LiveCode 7.0 DP8

2014-08-01 Thread Benjamin Beaumont
Dear List Members. We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 7.0 DP8. * Warning, this is a pre-release with new features which have the potential to cause issues. Please ensure you backup your stacks before testing this release.* *Release Focus* 1. Bug fixes 1. 50+ in 7.0 rela