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On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@btinternet.com
wrote:
Thanks, this does work but I am confused why childControlNames only
returns POLYGON and not graphic id 1011 as graphic id 1011” is it’s
actual name as I have not renamed it.
No idea. It's not doing that for me.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com
wrote:
I would expect adding a property to all objects to still need do be done
in the engine.
Why? I know we don't have detailed documentation on the syntax morphing
functionality, but why would this be any different
I’m using a Mac with Yosemite 10.10.1
Are you Windows or Linux? That may explain it.
All the best
Terry
On 8 Dec 2014, at 14:46, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:33 AM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@btinternet.com
wrote:
Thanks, this does work but I am
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:01 AM, revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com
revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com wrote:
1994 for Windows 3.1 using ToolBook ... it has wandered through
Authorware, Director, Flash, mTropolis, Oracle Media Objects, et al to
finally and happily arrive at Livecode.
Mac with Yosemite 10,10,1 here. I've only checked in LC 7.0.0.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 9:51 AM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@btinternet.com
wrote:
I’m using a Mac with Yosemite 10.10.1
Are you Windows or Linux? That may explain it.
All the best
Terry
On 8 Dec 2014, at 14:46, Geoff Canyon
I created a group and set this as the script:
on drawLine x,y,x1,y1,tColor
lock screen
set the style of the templateGraphic to polygon
put x , y return x1 , y1 into tPoints
create grc in me
put the id of the last grc of me into tID
set the foregroundColor of of grc id tID
I think the order may not be right. mTropolis pre-dates Flash. So does Oracle
Media Objects.
On Dec 8, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 8:01 AM, revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com
revolut...@duncansoftware.on-rev.com wrote:
1994 for
Greetings List,
About a year ago I solicited suggestions for a command line tool, Mac
and Windows, I could license which would return the number of pages in a
PDF as well as convert it to images at various resolutions.
Unfortunately I still haven't found an ideal solution so I thought I'd
Congrats on 20 years with this product!
It would be very interesting to hear details of your authoring odyssey
through all those tools and years.
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Ray,
I talked to Mark about PDFs and LC @rr14. The Foxit PDF library has been
chosen by Google and is open source. RR plans to make the API available
cross-platform(including mobile). I don't know the implementation schedule.
From Foxit Web Page:
FoxitR Corporation, a leading provider of
If the template grc is being set to polygon prior to creation, it SHOULD be
named polygon. Polygons appear named as polygons. If you leave out the set
style line, then an unnamed polygon shows in which case the engine defers
it to graphic id whatever The first example you used, creates the grc,
Ralph,
This is very exciting news for me regarding this front. How can I learn
more and stay on top of this?
Thanks,
Ray
On 12/8/2014 1:06 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote:
Ray,
I talked to Mark about PDFs and LC @rr14. The Foxit PDF library has been
chosen by Google and is open source. RR plans
Prothero wrote:
why won?t the button work when the toolbar menu does. Obviously, there?s a
difference in the way each works.
What happens if you
doMenu “Quit” from menu [appName]
?
Jim Lambert
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Hi,
Can someone post a screenshot because I don't see a small dot on the
Yosemite color picker.
I am also stuck with one row of colors.
Greetings,
William
2014-12-08 8:17 GMT+01:00 Howard Bornstein bornst...@designeq.com:
I wouldn't have seen it myself if I hadn't used my large Holmesian
I just issue the command quit. You might consider saving first or, if
you don't want any interruptions, locking messages first.
On 12/8/2014 2:04 PM, Jim Lambert wrote:
Prothero wrote:
why won?t the button work when the toolbar menu does. Obviously, there?s a
difference in the way each
I think this was a v8 widget target. I don't remember if this is planned for
a v7 version. Richard, Do you have any insight?
Ralph DiMola
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Ralph DiMola wrote:
I think this was a v8 widget target. I don't remember if this is
planned
for a v7 version. Richard, Do you have any insight?
I don't. I know a PDF reader was one of the examples shown in Kevin's
video, but that's as much as I know about that specific widget.
Do you
Poke around just between and above the Cancel and OK btns and you’ll find the
sweet spot where the cursor turns to a hand.
Roger
On Dec 8, 2014, at 9:28 AM, William de Smet williamdes...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Can someone post a screenshot because I don't see a small dot on the
Yosemite
Thanks Bernd - very nice indeed :)
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On Sun, Dec 7, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote:
If the object in question is inside a group, you'd have to recurse your
way out, or you could use:
put word -5 to -1 of the long id of btn 1
or if you prefer:
put word -5 to -1 of the long name of btn 1
(the
William, I'm with you: no small dot, no resizing -- vertically, at least --
I can make the color picker wider up to a point. Here's a link to a screen
shot:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ahzx78f6kzudgcl/Screenshot%202014-12-08%2013.56.46.png?dl=0
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Roger Guay
Richard Gaskin wrote:
I don't. I know a PDF reader was one of the examples shown in Kevin's
video, but that's as much as I know about that specific widget.
Do you have a URL to the Foxit open source code base? For many years it
was not only proprietary but rather expensive to license. It'll be
Hi Geoff,
This is my ColorPicker. I only have one visible line.
I am on Yosemite 10.10.1 with LC 6.6.5 on a 21,5 inch iMac.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/pkqwsgvu6i5q7tz/ColorPickerYosemite.png?dl=0
greetings,
William
2014-12-08 19:57 GMT+01:00 Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com:
William, I'm
Tried this and as you suggested it worked on 7.0.1.
I had changed my stack to use the childControlIDs but with your experiment
below working changed it back to using childControlNames and it now works,
don’t know why but it does. The gremlins strike again.
I think using childControlIDs is the
Here’s my screen grab clearly showing the dot.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98788898/LiveCode/Screen%20Shot%202014-12-08%20at%2019.45.37.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/98788898/LiveCode/Screen%20Shot%202014-12-08%20at%2019.45.37.png
All the best
Terry
On 8 Dec 2014, at
Well, this is strange. I was checking out the color picker in Yosemite
using TextEdit, which incidentally, doesn't have those Cancel and OK
buttons, but has the dot to pull down the color dock. When I call up the
color picker in LC, I get the same view as Geoff, with two lines of palette
docks and
BTW, I'm on Yosemite 10.10 and LC 6.6.2. Maybe this is a function of
version idiosyncrasies.
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 11:49 AM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@btinternet.com
wrote:
Here’s my screen grab clearly showing the dot.
Should have said my screen shot showing the dot is LC community 6.7.1 (RC3)
running on iMac 21.5 Yosemite 10.10.1
The dot show on TextEdit, Numbers, Pages.
All the best
Terry
On 8 Dec 2014, at 19:49, Howard Bornstein bornst...@designeq.com wrote:
Well, this is strange. I was checking
In earlier versions of LiveCode on a Mac, you could just load a PDF into a
Player object.
Then just set the current time to page through the document and grab
screenshots to get images of the pages.
But this doesn’t work anymore.
JimL
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Ray and Jim:
Tnx for the suggestions. Tried both. I did lock messages prior to the quit
statement. I couldn’t get the toolbar menu to fire on quit. The menu is
“PT_Explorer” and the item I want is “Quit PT_Explorer”. So I did
domenu “Quit PT_Explorer” of menu “PT_Explorer”
I got no response
William Prothero wrote:
I got no response from the doMenu command, so perhaps I needed
to include the shortcut key in the name?
DoMenu is pretty limited in LiveCode. It was necessary in HyperCard
because that language wasn't rich enough to build an entire IDE in, so
the only way you could
Thanks a lot Bernd. Perfect!
Marek
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Richard:
Thanks for the input. I’ll stop messing with the doMenu approach. I’ve tried a
number of things to get my app to shut down without crashing the app. I know it
must be possible because the toolbar menu quits fine. I may just stop trying to
use a script to quit. It’s not essential since
Dave, Marek,
thank you.
The customSlider feature that Pete suggested is in the making. I think it is
a very useful feature to be able to tab/click in the slider and the thumb
moves to that position. Alternatively you can make the thumb move to the
right/left end position as in a switch.
Kind
Hello Richard,I disagree with your conclusion that DoMenu was necessary in
HyperCard because that language wasn't rich enough to build an entire IDE
in.DoMenu was an integral part of HyperCard's ease-of learning-to-program.One
command (doMenu) versus many commands to learn/use/remember.Part of
I suggested doMenu because Bill said selecting Quit from the menu worked while
a button with ‘quit’ didn’t.
But he reports that doesn’t work for him either, so perhaps doMenu doesn’t
really 'do menu' under the hood.
If the Quit accelerator key combination also works (command-Q on Mac) then I’d
Alain Farmer wrote:
Hello Richard,I disagree with your conclusion that DoMenu was
necessary in HyperCard because that language wasn't rich enough
to build an entire IDE in.
Did Apple ever release a version of HC with its IDE written in HyperTalk?
DoMenu was an integral part of HyperCard's
Thanks to the kind folks who responded to my announcement. I had to do some
debating with myself before responding to this off topic announcement with more
off topic verbal diarrhea but there may be something instructional for someone
here. I hope.
Colin - You are correct about the order. I
William Prothero wrote:
I’ve tried a number of things to get my app to shut down without
crashing the app. I know it must be possible because the toolbar
menu quits fine. I may just stop trying to use a script to quit.
It’s not essential since the toolbar menu quits fine. Anyway, I’ve
tried
Aha, the thought plickens! I’m running Yosemite 10.10.1 and find the dot
appearing in LC 6.7.1 (rc2) but NOT in LC 6.6.5 nor in 6.7.
On Dec 8, 2014, at 11:55 AM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@btinternet.com wrote:
Should have said my screen shot showing the dot is LC community 6.7.1 (RC3)
I haven’t been following this thread closely but the goal is to get the id
and/or name of the card on which a controls sits, yes?
If so, wouldn’t the following 2 functions work?
# pObj is a long id control reference
function cardOwnerID pObj
set the wholeMatches to true
return char
Here's mine in 6.6.2, which is the closest I have to 6.6.5. It has two
rows, no matter how I resize it. I wonder if the international aspect is a
factor here?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ahqcye1nmp3jn2r/Screenshot%202014-12-08%2017.32.53.png?dl=0
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Roger Guay
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote:
Admittedly, the cardOwnerID function could fail if a control was located
within a nested group that was explicitly named “card id” but. . .
Exactly why I did it the way I did. I do like the use of the id in
returning
Yup, it’s a Cocoa thing. Not there in 6.6.x on Yosemite. Magically appears when
you invoke the color picker in 6.7.x.
Devin
On Dec 8, 2014, at 3:34 PM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote:
Here's mine in 6.6.2, which is the closest I have to 6.6.5. It has two
rows, no matter how I resize
Richard.
...Reliance on doMenu as a language design element also introduces
inconsistencies: what happens when you make your own custom menus and still
need access to a command normally handled by doMenu?...
I understand the exigencies of cross platform support. That said, I miss most
of
Bummer! I find that versions 6.7.x are a problem for me, but I’ve also found
that you can use the dot to reveal more swatches of the Color Picker in LC
6.7.1 (rc2), and it will stay “open” for when I go back to my current LC
favorite, 6.6.5.
Roger
On Dec 8, 2014, at 3:20 PM, Devin Asay
I know:) I was using that method for a while but it was never really solid and
now it's kind of petered out...
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From: Jim Lambert j...@netrin.com
Date:12/08/2014 5:03 PM (GMT-04:00)
To: use-livecode@lists.runrev.com
Cc:
Subject: Re: Convert PDF's to
dunbarx wrote:
I understand the exigencies of cross platform support. That said,
I miss most of all the menu handling in HC, as opposed to the button
group in LC.
The creation of a custom menu with associated menuMessages was clean
and clear, and those menuMessages could be invoked via
Thierry Douez makes a LC product called sunnYpdf. It uses a 3rd party DLL
file and a LiveCode library of custom commands to the DLL. It converts PDF
to PNG (and other formats) beautifully. It's for Windows only though. If
interested, contact the author here cont...@sunny-tdz.com.
~Roger
On
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Ray r...@linkit.com wrote:
About a year ago I solicited suggestions for a command line tool, Mac and
Windows, I could license which would return the number of pages in a PDF as
well as convert it to images at various resolutions.
There are a few of these.
Richard:
I tried doing “Lock messages” before the quit, and closing unused stacks, but
it didn’t seem to make any difference. Apparently the toolbar menu quit command
does some kind of cleanup before it actually quits.
Re the system log, I don’t usually try to interpret that. There is a large
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