Time for another LiveCode Global Jam?

2014-12-20 Thread Peter W A Wood
This message is really for Richard Gaskin in his role as LiveCode Community Manager but I thought it would be useful (especially for Richard) to get other people’s feedback. It may be just me but I have noticed two themes growing on the mailing lists. The first is the expression of

Where are the tests hidden?

2014-12-20 Thread Peter W A Wood
If my memory serves me correctly, at some stage during the open sourcing of LiveCode it was stated that RunRev have some type of automated test suite. Earlier this year, I asked this question on the engine contributors forum: “It will probably be a long time before I have the necessary

RE: Vertically aligning text in a field

2014-12-20 Thread BNig
Hi Jaque, I needed to know where the hGrid line of line 1 shows. I did not get there by adding: top of field, topMargin, borderSize and effective textHeight. So I don't know what I missed but that calculation gives me a 7 pixel offset i.e. the position is 7 pixel below the hGrid of line 1. I

Re: Where are the tests hidden?

2014-12-20 Thread Richmond
On 20/12/14 11:14, Peter W A Wood wrote: If my memory serves me correctly, at some stage during the open sourcing of LiveCode it was stated that RunRev have some type of automated test suite. Earlier this year, I asked this question on the engine contributors forum: “It will probably be a

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 7.0.1

2014-12-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Benjamin Beaumont b...@livecode.com wrote: We're pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 7.0.1. This is a stable release focusing on product robustness and quality The constant crashing didn't change from RC3 or RC4. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 7.0.1

2014-12-20 Thread Richmond
On 20/12/14 16:30, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:13 PM, Benjamin Beaumont b...@livecode.com wrote: We're pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 7.0.1. This is a stable release focusing on product robustness and quality The constant crashing didn't change from RC3 or RC4.

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 7.0.1

2014-12-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I would hold your fire until you've played around with the Stable version. This *is* the stable version! (or it's supposd to be). It wouldn't stay up long enough to play around with it--apparently from the same bug

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 7.0.1

2014-12-20 Thread Dave Kilroy
The main thing that put me off LC 7 was a discernible pause when opening an iOS app built with LC 7 or 6.7 which was not there with apps built with 6.6.5 - but as I am not at the moment really close to publishing an app I feel that it is worth the gamble that LC 7 will have this sorted out by the

Re: Time for another LiveCode Global Jam?

2014-12-20 Thread Dave Kilroy
Well done for posting this Peter On 1st February Apple stops accepting new submissions for 32-bit apps. RunRev is developing LiveCode 6.7.2 and 7.0.2 to build 64-bit apps. That means if you want to continue deploying to iOS you MUST move over to using LC 6.7 or 7 (except for updates for apps,

Re: Vertically aligning text in a field

2014-12-20 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 2:32 PM, BNig bernd.niggem...@uni-wh.de wrote: Hi Geoff, I think I found a solution for variable textHeight and different fonts in a field. If the formattedRect breaks on mobile, then that's a bug for the LC team, but other than that, doesn't my two-line solution

Re: RELEASE: LiveCode 7.0.1

2014-12-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 9:46 AM, Dave Kilroy d...@applicationinsight.com wrote: What I've also found is saving a stack in 'legacy' format in LC 7 (up to rc3, haven't tried with later versions) is that on more complex stacks the conversion didn't produce 100% stable versions and that (for me at

Re: Scaling images and printing...

2014-12-20 Thread Geoff Canyon
Don't you have to set the lockLoc of the image to true to make the resizing stick reliably? On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Paul Dupuis p...@researchware.com wrote: I have a problem with scaling images and printing. I have the following portion of code where tObj is an image and tPrecent is

Re: Vertically aligning text in a field

2014-12-20 Thread Terence Heaford
Hi Geoff, When I plug this into my tester the text ends up at the top of the field. iMac, Yosemite, LC6.7.1 on centreTextVertically tID --THIS WORKS -- put the effective textSize of fld id tID into tTextSize -- put round (((tTextSize - 24) * 1/3)) into tOffset -- put the

Re: Vertically aligning text in a field

2014-12-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/20/2014, 12:41 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: If the formattedRect breaks on mobile, then that's a bug for the LC team, but other than that, doesn't my two-line solution work? I'm not seeing a way to break my two-line solution? What is the need for a more complex solution? It doesn't quite

Re: Vertically aligning text in a field

2014-12-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/20/2014, 1:18 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I found that by adding a small number of pixels to the top margin I could get it close, which is what Bernd was doing too. I've been trying to figure out where the problem is, but like him, I don't see anything offhand. I'm pretty sure the engine

imagesource referencing remote URLs in LC 7

2014-12-20 Thread Jim Lambert
Can anyone confirm that referencing remote URLs with imagesource does NOT work in LC 7.01 GM? set the imagesource of char 1 of fld 1 to http://lh5.ggpht.com/anBfhTrAAFthIKI28szbxCEGqNc5-WLTSeHmT0OH-_iwpAwyaJfzzZJW7aTcCYTKP2_zaZ7P” I’ve filed a bug

Re: BBEdit Language Module for LiveCode

2014-12-20 Thread Brahmanathaswami
re: if and switch folding... I tried. in the plist I had added this: under the language features section/dict keyOpen Statement Blocks/key stringcommand/string keyClose Statement Blocks/key stringend/string keyOpen Statement Blocks/key stringfunction/string keyClose Statement Blocks/key

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 7:57 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I've been doing all client work in 6.6.5 which I've found to be very stable. My client is running what I write in 6.7 without issues. Both of these are stable releases and have the feature you need. You might try

Forum spam

2014-12-20 Thread Alex Shaw
Hi Just received forum spam! You have received a new private message from Michaelrork to your account on LiveCode Forums with the following subject: I looking for XRumer 12.0.9 with discount ! Based on what I read on the wikipedia entry on 'XRumer' the moderators may want to get onto this.

Re: Forum spam

2014-12-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Alex Shaw wrote: Just received forum spam! You have received a new private message from Michaelrork to your account on LiveCode Forums with the following subject: I looking for XRumer 12.0.9 with discount ! Based on what I read on the wikipedia entry on 'XRumer' the moderators may want to

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-20 Thread Dave Kilroy
Richard - obviously it's a matter of YMMV as each of us are developing our own different stacks but/and/therefore can you make some bug reports? Kind regards Dave - Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior --

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-20 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 12/20/2014, 3:13 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: 6.6.5 won't start the mouseEnter handler in the behavior of a stack, and I can't get*anywhere* without the palette that that launches and moves . . . I have a commercial app that uses behaviors extensively which often rely on a mouseEnter. It was

Re: Time for another LiveCode Global Jam?

2014-12-20 Thread Richard Gaskin
Peter W A Wood wrote: It may be just me but I have noticed two themes growing on the mailing lists. The first is the expression of dissatisfaction with the quality of LiveCode 7 mainly from people who have a commercial licence (or subscription). The second is the number of people who are

AW: Re: Scaling images and printing...

2014-12-20 Thread Paul Dupuis
Thank you all for the tips. Setting the lockLoc to true for each image before printing (and back to false after so the user may move the objects as they need to) solved my issue. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Android and iOS

2014-12-20 Thread JB
What is the earliest version of Revolution and LiveCode that provided the ability to build a standalone for the iOS and Android? What is the earliest version that works on todays Android and iOS? Are there known compatibility issues that I should try to avoid while programming the desktop

Re: Android and iOS

2014-12-20 Thread Paul Dupuis
On 12/20/2014 6:11 PM, JB wrote: What is the earliest version of Revolution and LiveCode that provided the ability to build a standalone for the iOS and Android? What is the earliest version that works on todays Android and iOS? LiveCode 4.6.x (4.6.4 was the last version in the 4.6 series)

LiveCode 7.0.1

2014-12-20 Thread Muaadh Salih
The downloaded stable LiveCode 7.0.1 installer seems to be corrupt as it gives : not a windows 32 application error even after three attempts to download . This did not happen in any previous releases. Hopefully it will be fixed before the release of 7.02 !

Re: Android and iOS

2014-12-20 Thread JB
Thanks for the reply and info! I suspected the earlier versions would not work with the latest mobile devices but wash”t sure. That will certainly save me some time knowing where to start. John Balgenorth On Dec 20, 2014, at 3:42 PM, Paul Dupuis p...@researchware.com wrote: On 12/20/2014

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 1:41 PM, Dave Kilroy d...@applicationinsight.com wrote: can you make some bug reports? I'm making them as I figure out enough to be coherent :) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: 7.0.1-RC4 crashing regularly

2014-12-20 Thread Dr. Hawkins
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 1:53 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I have a commercial app that uses behaviors extensively which often rely on a mouseEnter. It was developed and built with 6.6.5 and I didn't have any issues with it. It's working fine for the customers too.

Re: Vertically aligning text in a field

2014-12-20 Thread Geoff Canyon
Not sure what's up with the offset that seems constant and inherent, but this corrects for it. It does nothing about the apparent offset caused by the difference between the textheight and and textsize of the first line, because if the size varies, the textsize returns mixed. In any case, this

Re: BBEdit Language Module for LiveCode

2014-12-20 Thread Brahmanathaswami
re: if and switch folding... I tried. in the plist I had added this: under the language features section/dict keyOpen Statement Blocks/key stringcommand/string keyClose Statement Blocks/key stringend/string keyOpen Statement Blocks/key stringfunction/string keyClose Statement Blocks/key