Re: [semi OT] Virtual visits and LC

2015-01-14 Thread kee nethery
ponga.com On Jan 14, 2015, at 11:07 AM, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: Hi list A client of mine wants to add a few virtual visits of warehouses and appartments on his website. Those virtual visits will include various clickable hot spots, for instance to move from one room to another, or on

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

2015-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/14/2015 1:22 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Apparently on Windows the date command is used to SET the time. That's too bad. I briefly looked for an equivalent but couldn't find one. I did find this though, which applies to Linux-based systems: Valid locations for $TZ can be found here:

Re: [semi OT] Virtual visits and LC

2015-01-14 Thread Richmond
On 14/01/15 21:07, j...@souslelogo.com wrote: Hi list A client of mine wants to add a few virtual visits of warehouses and appartments on his website. Those virtual visits will include various clickable hot spots, for instance to move from one room to another, or on various objects and

Re: Livecode 7 - Unicode - items not the same as pre-7?

2015-01-14 Thread kee nethery
To quote Gilda Radner’s Saturday Night Live character “Oh, nevermind.” In my code I’m using the XML Xpath function to grab data out of a bunch of XML and insert it into items on a line. Problem is that the Xpath function either adds stuff to the end of the data it returns or that stuff is

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

2015-01-14 Thread Roger Eller
Apparently on Windows the date command is used to SET the time. The result is: The current date is: Wed 01/14/2015 Enter the new date: (mm-dd-yy) On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 12:27 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 1/14/2015 10:27 AM, Devin Asay wrote: In your .lc script

Re: [semi OT] Virtual visits and LC

2015-01-14 Thread jbv
Actually I forgot to mention that ideally the virtual visit should be similar to google street view : users should be able to move around the appartment in 360° (like on google street view), not just with a serie of static photos with clickable spots... Best jbv Hi list A client of mine wants

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

2015-01-14 Thread Peter Alcibiades
LC 7.0 on Debian, both give true. And the second one, if you change it to 'is not a number', gives false. Dunno! Peter -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Possible-insanity-or-is-it-LC-7-0-1-tp4687816p4687817.html Sent from the Revolution - User

[semi OT] Virtual visits and LC

2015-01-14 Thread jbv
Hi list A client of mine wants to add a few virtual visits of warehouses and appartments on his website. Those virtual visits will include various clickable hot spots, for instance to move from one room to another, or on various objects and furnitures in the room in order to display infos about

Re: Debugging plugins

2015-01-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 10:18:46 AM, you wrote: If I understand this correctly, if a stack name begins with rev and gRevDevelopment is false, any runtime errors in it are ignored? That's any stack, not just IDE stacks? That is correct. I don't suppose this would also enable some

Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

2015-01-14 Thread Graham Samuel
Using LC 7.0.1 on Yosemite 1010.1, when I type this into the message box put (1.884955 is a number) I get true, as expected, but if I put put (1.884956 is a number) I get Script compile error: Error description: Expression: unquoted literal This result was derived from some complex code

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

2015-01-14 Thread Eric Corbett
Try on the multi-line option in the message box: put (1.884956 is a number) into tIsNum put tIsNum On Jan 14, 2015, at 12:03 PM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote: Using LC 7.0.1 on Yosemite 1010.1, when I type this into the message box put (1.884955 is a number) I get true, as

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

2015-01-14 Thread Kay C Lan
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 8:29 AM, Roger Guay i...@mac.com wrote: I get Paul's results when I do it Paul’s way, but I don’t get Graham’s results when I do it his way via the message box!! Same here and I'm on Mavericks. And just to confuse the matter even further: put 1.884956 into tVar put

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

2015-01-14 Thread Roger Guay
Graham, I get true in both cases, same setup. Roger On Jan 14, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote: Using LC 7.0.1 on Yosemite 1010.1, when I type this into the message box put (1.884955 is a number) I get true, as expected, but if I put put (1.884956 is a

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

2015-01-14 Thread Roger Guay
Such strange goings-on! I get Paul's results when I do it Paul’s way, but I don’t get Graham’s results when I do it his way via the message box!! Does that make me half crazy? On Jan 14, 2015, at 5:07 PM, Paul Hibbert p...@livecode.org wrote: You're not going totally crazy, unless I am

Re: How to solve can't find stack error

2015-01-14 Thread Kay C Lan
Would seem easy enough to test your theory. Insert the second line of code, the one that reads the cprop, in a try statement. If it catches an error wait 5 seconds (just to really test your theory) and issue the command again. For those not having the problem they are not burdened with a wait,

Re: [OT] I'm going to go live in a cave

2015-01-14 Thread Kay C Lan
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 7:24 PM, FlexibleLearning.com admin@ flexiblelearning.com wrote: where did I put those cotton swabs? Cotton swabs? I've tried micro nozzle attachments that connect to your vacuum cleaner but by far the most effective way of cleaning all the nooks and crannies of

Re: Debugging plugins

2015-01-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Mark. What I mean is, if errors in the revxxx stack are ignored (I assume that means runtime errors?), is there some other way that the stack can determine that they happened so they can be handled more gracefully? Kinda like an error in a try/catch loop. Pete lcSQL Software

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

2015-01-14 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks to those who replied. So, I am going crazy! I suppose it is something very particular about my setup. I did find one other way to show the anomaly, which was to put put 1.884956 into it; put value(it+0) this gives me the error Message execution error: Error description: value: error

Re: [semi OT] Virtual visits and LC

2015-01-14 Thread Dan Soneson
Check out the krpano web solution at krpano.com It runs both as a Flash plugin and in HTML5. Embeds panoramas with programmable hotspots. Works only in a web browser, but also works within the revBrowser in LiveCode, which may be a way to incorporate the panoramas within a LiveCode app. Best, Dan

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

2015-01-14 Thread Paul Hibbert
You're not going totally crazy, unless I am too. This fails here in LC7.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.10.1… on mouseUp put 1.884956 into tVar put value(tVar + 0) end mouseUp …With the following error; button A: execution error at line 3 (value: error executing expression) near 1.884956, char 1 But

Re: [OT] Print to PDF

2015-01-14 Thread Kay C Lan
Thank you gentlemen. I had hoped that there would be a way with their set up as is, these folks are old and techno-shy, but the Chrome or CutePDF + ghostscript seems doable. I'll pass it on. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

How to solve can't find stack error

2015-01-14 Thread tbodine
Hi all. Looking for some insight here... I have a desktop program built in LC 6.5.1 that uses LC stacks as user files for storing user data in fields and cprops. Mostly this works well. However, I get occasional Error Reports when a few users have tried to reopen a file they created. Error type

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

2015-01-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Brahmanathaswami- Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 6:15:07 PM, you wrote: Tomorrow we will decorate and worship our lovely New Jersey cows. OK - I have to say that sequence of words totally blindsided me. Did not see that coming. -- -Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com This communication may be

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

2015-01-14 Thread Brahmanathaswami
ha! I meant new Jersey cows. We retired all our crazy Holsteins to our 200 acres of guinea grass across the river. I say crazy' because Deepti was indeed a little wild... quite ready to chase you in a little Ranger and 2,000 pounds of white bovine rushing at you because she thinks you

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

2015-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On January 14, 2015 8:56:27 PM CST, Brahmanathaswami bra...@hindu.org wrote: Years ago we had one Jersey that was so gentle that I could take a nap in the field with my head on her neck (she was also laying down) and when i would sing to her, her ears would perk up and tears would roll out of

Which version...

2015-01-14 Thread John Dixon
Why are there different versions of liveCode being updated.. LC 7.0- updated 23 October 2014 LC 7.0.1 - updated 18 December 2014 LC 6.7.0 - updated 18 December 2014 LC 6.7.1 - updated 9 January 2015 Which one is considered to be the 'one' to use ? Dixie

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

2015-01-14 Thread Brahmanathaswami
Devin: thanks! set the $TZ a perfect little gift on this Happy Makara Sankranti/Thai Pongal. Big feast day in India today, sun moved into Capricorn, celebrate the post monsoon harvest. Tomorrow we will decorate and worship our lovely New Jersey cows. see:

Re: How to solve can't find stack error

2015-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On January 14, 2015 7:01:20 PM CST, tbodine bod...@bodinetraininggames.com wrote: I have a desktop program built in LC 6.5.1 that uses LC stacks as user files for storing user data in fields and cprops. Mostly this works well. However, I get occasional Error Reports when a few users have tried

Re: Debugging plugins

2015-01-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Pete- Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 1:50:53 PM, you wrote: Thanks Mark. What I mean is, if errors in the revxxx stack are ignored (I assume that means runtime errors?), is there some other way that the stack can determine that they happened so they can be handled more gracefully? Kinda

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

2015-01-14 Thread Peter W A Wood
I experimented a little further and found that, on my set up, I got the same results as Roger. I ran this in the multi-line message box: put version: the version return into tReport put os: the platform the systemVersion return after tReport put isNumber(1.884956) return after tReport put

Re: Possible insanity, or is it LC 7.0.1?

2015-01-14 Thread Brahmanathaswami
You are not crazy and it's not just your machine confirmed here Yosemite 10.10 LC 7.0.1 on mouseUp put 1.884956 into tVar put value(tVar + 0) end mouseUp button Button: execution error at line 3 (value: error executing expression) near 1.884956, char 1 BR Graham Samuel wrote:

Re: Debugging plugins

2015-01-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 11:22 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: The simplest thing might be to temporarily rename your plugin without the rev prefix while you're working on it. This gives me the opportunity to use my favorite phrase from an Apple commercial: What, was I in

Re: 6.7.2 and Yosemite

2015-01-14 Thread Earthednet-wp
Must have been a mistake. I have run it on Yosemite. Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org On Jan 14, 2015, at 12:32 AM, René Micout rene.mic...@numericable.com wrote: Hello, I read in LiveCode 6.7.2-rc-1 Release Notes 1/8/15, page # 4 : The Mac engine supports: 10.6.x (Snow

Re: Which version...

2015-01-14 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi John I do know that on the 5th of January Frazer put out community 6.7.1 for Windows again because the installer wasn't working properly - and I could add LC 6.7.2 to your list which also is dated on the 9th... - Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust

RE: Which version...

2015-01-14 Thread John Dixon
Hi Dave, Yes, but my question really is.. 'What is the reason for having all theses different versions being updated more or less at the same time ?'... Life was much simpler when you knew the version with the largest number stuck on the end of it was the one to use and the rest, as they

Re: Debugging plugins

2015-01-14 Thread Geoff Canyon
Thanks to those who suggested Script Debug Mode and breakpoint. In plugins, neither of those allows setting a breakpoint that will work. global gRevDevelopment;put true into gRevDevelopment enables breakpoints in plugins, but in 6.7 at least seems to completely break the variable panel in the

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

2015-01-14 Thread Dave Kilroy
Dear Tristement de Paris What you are experiencing sounds similar to what led me to file this bug report: (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14295) - Some are born coders, some achieve coding, and some have coding thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare Hugh Senior -- View this

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

2015-01-14 Thread Devin Asay
On Jan 13, 2015, at 10:21 PM, Brahmanathaswami bra...@hindu.org wrote: We are planning to do some webinars. I am looking for a liveCode script that can read a time value on our web server and output a little array like: Honolulu: 1:30 PM Sunday Jan 16 San Franscisco 4:30 PM Sunday Jan 16

Livecode 7 - Unicode - items not the same as pre-7?

2015-01-14 Thread kee nethery
In the pre-Unicode days, this code: set the itemdelimiter to tab put empty into theData put “jumbo” into item 4 of theData would produce something that looked like this (in your mind replace “tab” with the blank spacing of a tab) tabtabtabjumbo In the Livecode 7 Unicode world, this is

Re: Player object

2015-01-14 Thread Peter Bogdanoff
Here it is: https://www.dropbox.com/s/61pwux0d51niarg/LibITS%20accessing%20iTunes%20in%20Livecode.zip?dl=0 Peter Bogdanoff UCLA On Jan 14, 2015, at 9:25 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Been searching for libITS without any luck. The URL in some older forum posts doesn't work any

Re: Debugging plugins

2015-01-14 Thread Mark Wieder
Geoff- Wednesday, January 14, 2015, 8:26:15 AM, you wrote: global gRevDevelopment;put true into gRevDevelopment enables breakpoints in plugins, but in 6.7 at least seems to completely break the variable panel in the debugger. Yeah. What Jacque said. The downside of setting gRevDevelopment to

How to show the Windows 8 on screen keyboard in LiveCode?

2015-01-14 Thread Ralf Bitter
Shouldn't the on screen keyboard of Windows 8 tablets pop up automatically on touching a text input control? A client who installed a standalone built with LiveCode 6.7.1 on a Toshiba tablet reports that the soft keyboard doesn't show up tapping a text input field. Thought that, as a

Re: Player object

2015-01-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Peter, I'll see if I can track it down. I also just remembered Bernd's very useful custom slider control that will definitely make my life easier. Pete lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com Home of lcStackBrowser http://www.lcsql.com/lcstackbrowser.html and SQLiteAdmin

Re: Player object

2015-01-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Been searching for libITS without any luck. The URL in some older forum posts doesn't work any longer. It's also on rev Online I believe however rev Online seems to be broken - when I open it, it hangs with a message retrieving stack data. Anyone have another location to find it? Pete lcSQL

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

2015-01-14 Thread Dave Kilroy
Jacque I filed this report http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14295 and another related one on Christmas eve J. Landman Gay wrote LC 6.7 changed where it stores files (as you know) because Apple has new rules about that. The release notes say that file paths in scripts should

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

2015-01-14 Thread René Micout
Le 14 janv. 2015 à 17:26, Dave Kilroy d...@applicationinsight.com a écrit : Dear Tristement de Paris What you are experiencing sounds similar to what led me to file this bug report: (http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14295) Thank you Dave… I put a commentary (14295) René

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

2015-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/14/2015 3:19 AM, René Micout wrote: Le 13 janv. 2015 à 18:07, René Micout rene.mic...@numericable.com a écrit : Hello everybody, Macintosh Yosemite. When I construct a standalone with LiveCode 6, I choose “Move substacks into individual stackfiles” (for saving data in substack) this

Re: Debugging plugins

2015-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/14/2015 10:26 AM, Geoff Canyon wrote: Thanks to those who suggested Script Debug Mode and breakpoint. In plugins, neither of those allows setting a breakpoint that will work. global gRevDevelopment;put true into gRevDevelopment enables breakpoints in plugins, but in 6.7 at least seems to

Re: Script to Generate Concurrent Times

2015-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/14/2015 10:27 AM, Devin Asay wrote: In your .lc script do this: put US/Mountain into $TZ # or whatever time zone you want to show put shell(date) into tDTstring Setting the $TZ variable right before called the date command returns the date/time the specified timezone. At

Re: OT: Tacoma

2015-01-14 Thread James Little
Mike, Email or call me if you will be in Seattle. Jim littlejamesw at mac dot com (206) 547-7061 On Jan 13, 2015, at 1:28 PM, Mike bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm flying in to Seattle tonight, but will be going straight to my hotel in Tacoma. Won't have my own car, but might be able to

Re: Player object

2015-01-14 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Peter, got it. 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 Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Peter Bogdanoff bogdan...@me.com wrote: Here it is:

Re: Debugging plugins

2015-01-14 Thread Peter Haworth
If I understand this correctly, if a stack name begins with rev and gRevDevelopment is false, any runtime errors in it are ignored? That's any stack, not just IDE stacks? I don't suppose this would also enable some way to trap runtime errors and report info about them, would it? Pete lcSQL

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

2015-01-14 Thread J. Landman Gay
Oh good, thanks for that. I just ran up against this problem yesterday for the first time. On 1/14/2015 11:24 AM, Dave Kilroy wrote: Jacque I filed this report http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=14295 and another related one on Christmas eve J. Landman Gay wrote LC 6.7 changed where

6.7.2 and Yosemite

2015-01-14 Thread René Micout
Hello, I read in LiveCode 6.7.2-rc-1 Release Notes 1/8/15, page # 4 : The Mac engine supports: 10.6.x (Snow Leopard) on Intel 10.7.x (Lion) on Intel 10.8.x (Mountain Lion) on Intel 10.9.x (Mavericks) on Intel What about Yosemite ? No compatible ? Tristement de Paris (sadly from Paris) René

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

2015-01-14 Thread René Micout
Le 13 janv. 2015 à 18:07, René Micout rene.mic...@numericable.com a écrit : Hello everybody, Macintosh Yosemite. When I construct a standalone with LiveCode 6, I choose “Move substacks into individual stackfiles” (for saving data in substack) this works with LC 6.6.3 In the

Re: [OT] I'm going to go live in a cave

2015-01-14 Thread FlexibleLearning.com
A good keyboard is like a good piano. I still use my original Gateway keyboard, c1995 vintage (remember them?). Never found a better one and still works as good as new. I did clean it once when I could no longer read some of the keys but it's back filthy again. Time for the next 10-year spring

Re: LiveCode 6 and making standalone

2015-01-14 Thread René Micout
Le 14 janv. 2015 à 10:19, René Micout rene.mic...@numericable.com a écrit : Le 13 janv. 2015 à 18:07, René Micout rene.mic...@numericable.com a écrit : Hello everybody, Macintosh Yosemite. When I construct a standalone with LiveCode 6, I choose “Move substacks into individual

Re: Player object

2015-01-14 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On Jan 13, 2015, at 9:27 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: I've got the track/playlist management stuff in place and I figured out a way round the original problem too that seems to work. The fast forward/reverse buttons do work (at least in 6.6.2/OSX 10.7) although they don't move things along very

Re: [OT] Print to PDF

2015-01-14 Thread Roger Eller
Install CutePDF Writer. (requires ghostscript) Both are free, and links are provided on this page: http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp Afterwards, it will appear as a Windows printer. I've used this for decades. Sent from my Android tablet On Jan 12, 2015 6:53 PM, Kay C Lan