Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 01:46, Dr. Hawkins wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 10:11 AM, Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: I think this one may have been a good thing. MS is retooling their OS strategy and it looks like there will be better integration and compatibility between various

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:27 AM, Peter W A Wood peterwaw...@gmail.com wrote: Any app using emoticons or emoji or whatever they are called will be using Unicode. emoji, yes, but that seems like a razor-thin use case. I wonder how many apps implement their own image-based solution rather than

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Terence Heaford
On 10 May 2015, at 20:39, Mark Waddingham m...@livecode.com wrote: will have much better performance than equivalent code written in LCS Will the rendering performance of a Widget (as opposed to the running of a script) be faster than a control currently rendered by the LC engine? So as

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Software should be unicode-compatible nowadays. This is what users and developers expect. So, I would say 100%. I think of myself as a developer. Everything I do these days is in-house, and has

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 09:20, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 4:09 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Software should be unicode-compatible nowadays. This is what users and developers expect. So, I would say 100%. I think of myself as a developer. Everything I do

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:30 AM, Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: iOS is the odd ball in that it represents not only the platform itself, but also the means of delivery (with the exception of the weirdness Apple has implemented for iOS corporate applications). With the

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Monte Goulding
On 11 May 2015, at 4:24 pm, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: This is why I asked, hoping for a response from someone who shops the Greek app store, or the Japanese app store. Those are the ones who would know the percentage. What percentage are you looking for? All native apps would

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Mark Waddingham
I think of myself as a developer. Everything I do these days is in-house, and has absolutely no need of unicode. The most recent thing I worked on for others is Navigator, and no one has ever asked me for a unicode version of that. The last app I worked on before that has been selling for the

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
I'm not entirely sure what seamless means . . . but if I open a stack authored in LC 4.5 where I have script lines like this: set the unicodeText of fld TEKST to numToChar(12345) things don't work. Were I convinced of the necessity of converting my source stack of my Devawriter Pro (and my

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-11 Thread Monte Goulding
Hi Skip Could you send me the code you are running to cause the crash off list and I'll see if I can resolve the cause. In regards to adding the functionality to mergAV on Android that's not possible because there's no barcode reader built into the camera api on Android. So on Android we will

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
There has got to be something serious awry when Bjoernke agrees with Richmond. Richmond. On 05/11/2015 03:05 AM, Bjoernke von Gierke wrote: There is no communication about any aspect other then widgets, which frankly, still look like an easier way to make externals to me, nothing more. How

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-05-11 02:05, Bjoernke von Gierke wrote: Adding unicode is nice, but making all text handling slower by half (sometimes even 30 times slower) is not going to convince me to start using 7 (ignoring the added stability hit compared even to current 6 versions). Especially as the only actual

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2015-05-11 10:34, Richmond wrote: I'm not entirely sure what seamless means . . . but if I open a stack authored in LC 4.5 where I have script lines like this: set the unicodeText of fld TEKST to numToChar(12345) things don't work. Which was why I qualified what I said with the term

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 12:50, Mark Waddingham wrote: On 2015-05-11 10:34, Richmond wrote: I'm not entirely sure what seamless means . . . but if I open a stack authored in LC 4.5 where I have script lines like this: set the unicodeText of fld TEKST to numToChar(12345) things don't work. Which was

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-11 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
I am running Yosemite 10.10.3 SKIP On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 7:46 AM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Hmm... what OS are you running on? On 11 May 2015, at 9:43 pm, Skip Kimpel skiplon...@gmail.com wrote: Monte, When my app failed I tried the demo app supplied with

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-11 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
iOS v 7.1.2 on a 4s On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:28 AM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: On 11 May 2015, at 10:27 pm, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com wrote: I am running Yosemite 10.10.3 Sorry I meant on iOS -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-11 Thread Monte Goulding
Hmm... what OS are you running on? On 11 May 2015, at 9:43 pm, Skip Kimpel skiplon...@gmail.com wrote: Monte, When my app failed I tried the demo app supplied with this external with the same result. Let me know if you are successful with that and then if so, I will send you my code.

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Bjoernke von Gierke
I’m kind of surprised that the seller of a charting package can’t see the potential for implementing them as widgets. Much faster to render and able to do things like rotated text easily. Cheers Monte Sure, Widgets do things that LC can't do. I do however want LC to be able to do

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
I suppose so, yes. For example, Fruit Ninja: the version I have installed may use unicode, as you say, but all its characters are plain english/ascii characters. But maybe there's a Lithuanian Fruit Ninja where unicode is needed? I don't know. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:29 AM, Monte Goulding

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Mark Waddingham m...@livecode.com wrote: As a case in point, I just opened up revNavigator from the plugins menu - and it works in 7. Indeed, if I have objects with Unicode names, revNavigator still works perfectly, displaying precisely what you would expect.

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-11 Thread Skip Kimpel
Monte, When my app failed I tried the demo app supplied with this external with the same result. Let me know if you are successful with that and then if so, I will send you my code. However, it is the same exact issue / crash with both. SKIP On May 11, ash 2015, at 6:08 AM, Monte Goulding

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-11 Thread Monte Goulding
On 11 May 2015, at 10:27 pm, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com wrote: I am running Yosemite 10.10.3 Sorry I meant on iOS -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding http://goulding.ws/ - software development services mergExt http://mergext.com/ - There's an external for that!

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
Again, maybe I'm unusual, but none of these apply to any of the apps I've ever written. I've done consulting work (oh so long ago) on apps that stored people's names, and likely unicode comes in handy for those, but I haven't asked the authors whether they take advantage of it. I'm not arguing

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 05/11/2015 03:40 PM, Geoff Canyon wrote: On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 3:29 AM, Mark Waddingham m...@livecode.com wrote: As a case in point, I just opened up revNavigator from the plugins menu - and it works in 7. Indeed, if I have objects with Unicode names, revNavigator still works perfectly,

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
I wasn't trying to imply that everyone should work in english. For starters, there are many languages besides english that use few or no non-ascii characters. But also, I was just saying that since the language *itself* is in english, how much of a difference does it make to work entirely within

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: Again, maybe I'm unusual, but none of these apply to any of the apps I've ever written. I've done consulting work (oh so long ago) on apps that stored people's names, and likely unicode comes in handy for those, but I

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On May 11, 2015 9:06:07 AM CDT, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: But also, I was just saying that since the language *itself* is in english, how much of a difference does it make to work entirely within the ascii character set? Flipping things around a bit, how much of a difference would

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread PystCat
I have a friend who gets very annoyed that the Americans always control things. When I ask for clarification of this I get, Well... For instance, why does the States have to be 001 in the international dialing? Answer me THAT..! The answer... We invented the telephone. If you want to

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, A quick look-up on Wikipedia: Innocenzo Manzetti considered the idea of a telephone as early as 1844, and may have made one in 1864, as an enhancement to an automaton built by him in 1849. Why doesn't Italy have 001? Don't answer that the US invented electricity: it is said that the

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Mike Kerner
Reminding everyone that Bell was a Scott is like reminding everyone that Einstein was German. It's a lesson that should remind everyone, especially colonists, that you gotta have a big tent, be accepting of big, novel, disruptive ideas, and gladly and joyfully welcome everyone, with open arms, no

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Terence Heaford
Just for fun. Can someone tell me who invented the Computer? All the best Terry ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
*thumbs up* But I'll leave this sub-thread now, because it seems quite OT. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode:

RE: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Lynn Fredricks
I wasn't trying to imply that everyone should work in english. For starters, there are many languages besides english that use few or no non-ascii characters. But also, I was just saying that since the language *itself* is in english, how much of a difference does it make to work

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Terence Heaford
And…. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell Alexander Graham Bell is a Scottish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_people scientist All the best Terry On 11 May 2015, at 15:27, Mark Schonewille

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Mike Kerner
It doesn't matter if the colonists invented the telephone. They invented the international telephone network. Thus, they got to decide how it operates. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi, A quick look-up on Wikipedia: Innocenzo

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Terence Heaford
Tivadar Puskás de Ditró (English: Theodore Puskás [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivadar_Pusk%C3%A1s#cite_note-1 b. 17 September 1844, Pest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pest_(city) - d. 16 March 1893, Budapest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest) was a Hungarian

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Terence Heaford
On 11 May 2015, at 15:36, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: Reminding everyone that Bell was a Scott is like reminding everyone that Einstein was German. It's a lesson that should remind everyone, especially colonists, that you gotta have a big tent, be accepting of big, novel,

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
Apart from the basics like ñ and é, how do you enter non-ascii characters on iOS? Do iPhones in Russia display a different keyboard by default? How about asian countries where the character set is hundreds or thousands of images? On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Trevor DeVore

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
Certainly true. I could see myself writing: повторение для каждый слово aWord в myString On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:22 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On May 11, 2015 9:06:07 AM CDT, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: But also, I was just saying that since the

RE: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Lynn Fredricks
This is why I asked, hoping for a response from someone who shops the Greek app store, or the Japanese app store. Those are the ones who would know the percentage. We sell Valentina Studio Pro worldwide in all the Mac App Stores, and of course, the free Valentina Studio, everywhere. It is a

RE: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Odd as it sounds, they figured out that there's a huge demand for a microsoft product, any microsoft product, that doesn't suck . . . It does sound odd; especially as it has taken them about 20 years to work it out. I actually like a lot of specific versions of MS products. I hope

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 20:54, Klaus major-k wrote: Watch this and cry :-D https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGcspfreload=10 I didn't cry because the man should obviously either be locked away in a funny farm or get a job as some sort of performance street artist. Certainly quite frightening;

Re: Posted here: HTML5 deployment is still in the far future.

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 22:15, Mark Rauterkus wrote: Hi, Okay, ... If HTML5 deployment is still in the far future. Then, What LC tools are people using NOW to help with their most simple web pages? I have never found an easy HTML editor that was written on LiveCode. I wouldn't hold your breath to be

Re: Posted here: HTML5 deployment is still in the far future.

2015-05-11 Thread Pierre Sahores
My own habit : LC-Server+RevIgniter+native JS/JQuery Le 11 mai 2015 à 21:15, Mark Rauterkus mark.rauter...@gmail.com a écrit : Hi, Okay, ... If HTML5 deployment is still in the far future. Then, What LC tools are people using NOW to help with their most simple web pages? I have

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread PystCat
Yes...sure. It looks like they did a lot with it, too. Oh wait... No... They didn't. H On May 11, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi, A quick look-up on Wikipedia: Innocenzo Manzetti considered the idea of a telephone as early as

Re: ios beep

2015-05-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/11/2015 12:22 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: In 8.3, beep on an iphone gives me a vibration, but no beep. On an ipad and ipod, I get nothing for sound. Suggestions? See beep in the dictionary. iOS has no default beep sound. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread PystCat
It is supposed to be blowing a kiss... Now... WHY on earth would anyone willingly spend time in Carbondale Illinois...? I've never known those examples to be an American invention but... FTW... Marshmallow creme or as it is known in the states... Fluff

RE: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Ralph DiMola
I was really proud of the US inventions until I saw this. - 1964 8-track cartridge Stereo 8, commonly known as the eight-track cartridge or eight-track, is a magnetic tape sound recording technology. In 1964, William Lear invented the eight-track, which went on to become the

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Richmond wrote: Gottit at last; the new GUI mockup: http://web.archive.org/web/20130203003005/http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1755283828/open-source-edition-of-livecode? The biggest difference there is that the stack you're working on is displayed as a pane within a larger IDE window

Posted here: HTML5 deployment is still in the far future.

2015-05-11 Thread Mark Rauterkus
Hi, Okay, ... If HTML5 deployment is still in the far future. Then, What LC tools are people using NOW to help with their most simple web pages? I have never found an easy HTML editor that was written on LiveCode. Thanks. Mark Rauterkus m...@rauterkus.com -- -- Ta. Mark Rauterkus

Re: ios beep

2015-05-11 Thread Mike Kerner
OK, but beepSound says that System is the default. So even though it's the default, I have to set it to System, anyway? On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:27 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 5/11/2015 12:22 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: In 8.3, beep on an iphone gives me a vibration,

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Peter Haworth
The patent for his telephone was granted in 1876. He became an American citizen 6 years later in 1882. He spent a lot of his life in Canada, ending up in Baddeck, Cape Breton, where there is a fascinating museum devoted to his work which included many inventions other than the telephone. Pete

Re: ios beep

2015-05-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/11/2015 1:00 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: OK, but beepSound says that System is the default. So even though it's the default, I have to set it to System, anyway? I don't know, I never use the beep command. It's too annoying and users hate you for it. I guess the only thing you can do is try

Re: memory munching group

2015-05-11 Thread David V Glasgow
On 9 May 2015, at 4:18 pm, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: How about the layermode of the field? If it's not static it will be cached. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com I

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Geoff Canyon wrote: ...I was just saying that since the language *itself* is in english, how much of a difference does it make to work entirely within the ascii character set? Obviously some (a lot?) but if that were the only use-case for unicode it would be thin indeed. Unicode is the

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
Gottit at last; the new GUI mockup: http://web.archive.org/web/20130203003005/http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1755283828/open-source-edition-of-livecode? Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url

Re: memory munching group

2015-05-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 5/11/2015 2:11 PM, David V Glasgow wrote: I got the field to report its layermode at various points, and it seems to be static. I was really optimistic that that might be the issue, but it seems not. Are we at the bottom of the barrel yet? The only other thing I can think of is that you

Re: Posted here: HTML5 deployment is still in the far future.

2015-05-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Mark Rauterkus mark.rauterkus@... writes: What LC tools are people using NOW to help with their most simple web pages? Again not LC, but I use Sublime Text. I believe other text editors also exist. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___

Re: Posted here: HTML5 deployment is still in the far future.

2015-05-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
Hi, HyperStudio used to be quite similar to HyperCard. Nowadays it doesn't have a scripting language anymore, but it does allow you to do HyperCard-like things and export it to HTML5. It has some limitations, but the interface is great and the HTML5 export mostly works.

Re: Posted here: HTML5 deployment is still in the far future.

2015-05-11 Thread Colin Holgate
It exports to HTML5 WebGL 3D. So, good for running Unity 3D like apps without needing the plugin (though you do need a WebGL capable browser). I think that Hype is good for CSS based HTML5 pages, and Edge Animate would also be good for that. If you’re comfortable writing in Javascript you could

Re: ios beep

2015-05-11 Thread Skip Kimpel
To get it to vibrate, what are you using for the beepsound setting? On May 11, 2015, at 5:26 PM, Mike Kerner mikeker...@roadrunner.com wrote: on mine, the execution doesn't stop, but no sound. phones vibrate but pads and pods don't do anything. I've also tried using the various system

Re: [ANN] mergAV 4, mergBanner 2 iOS 8.3 builds

2015-05-11 Thread Monte Goulding
On 11 May 2015, at 11:08 pm, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com wrote: iOS v 7.1.2 on a 4s OK, I’ll look for code that was introduced for iOS 8 and isn’t being skipped based on the OS version it’s being run on. Cheers -- Monte Goulding M E R Goulding

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Terence Heaford
On 11 May 2015, at 18:58, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: If he self-identified as a Canadian I wonder why he is described as a Scottish-American around and about? Perhaps, here is your answer ;) On 11 May 2015, at 18:29, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: The

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Peter Haworth
On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: We know it impacted the development very significantly, but beyond the other two areas of concern are the size of standalones and their performance, and in these the impact of Unicode has not been clear.

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 21:29, PystCat wrote: It is supposed to be blowing a kiss... Now... WHY on earth would anyone willingly spend time in Carbondale Illinois...? I had a really super 3 years there doing my first Master's degree there in 1993-96. Richmond. I've never known those examples to be an

Re: Posted here: HTML5 deployment is still in the far future.

2015-05-11 Thread Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D
No LC tools and not just simple html editors, but Rapidweaver on Mac OS X form http://www.realmacsoftware.com or Responsive Layout Maker Pro for Windows or Mac OS X from http://www.coffeecup.com are easy tools for such tasks. Regards, Matthias Am 11.05.2015 um 21:15 schrieb Mark

Re: Posted here: HTML5 deployment is still in the far future.

2015-05-11 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 11/05/2015 20:15, Mark Rauterkus wrote: Okay, ... If HTML5 deployment is still in the far future. Then, What LC tools are people using NOW to help with their most simple web pages? I wouldn't think LC would be the tool to use for simple web pages even if HTML5 deployment arrived tomorrow.

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
Wow, I added several Chinese keyboards (including one based on handwriting recognition). I'd love to see someone who is skilled at that in action. I opened the most recent app I installed (Momentum) and I now have a defined habit that I surely can't read. :-) On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:03 AM, J.

Re: ios beep

2015-05-11 Thread PystCat
What about embedding your own beep and playing that...? Would that work for you...? On May 11, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com wrote: Yes, beep seems to have stopped working. I have tried all options with beepsound and it is not working. SKIP

Re: ios beep

2015-05-11 Thread panagiotis merakos
Hi all, I think that on iOS there is no default beep sound, and you have to set one using: set the beepSound to path_to_sound_file Best regards. Panos -- On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 11:33 PM, PystCat pyst...@gmail.com wrote: What about embedding your own beep and playing that...? Would that

Re: ios beep

2015-05-11 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
Yes, beep seems to have stopped working. I have tried all options with beepsound and it is not working. SKIP On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 2:19 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 5/11/2015 1:00 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: OK, but beepSound says that System is the default. So even

Re: ios beep

2015-05-11 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
I actually had a running app that used a path but it stopped working. Went in and tried changing the beepsound to a variety of things, including vibrate. When Beep is called, all execution stops. SKIP On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:43 PM, panagiotis merakos merak...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Geoff Canyon
Not in english? repeat, while, with, if, filter, replace, line, word, etc., etc. I'm not saying the syntax is english, but the words clearly are. With the language extension capability that is coming Some Day Now, yes, I would expect that everyone could program in their own language. I wonder how

Re: Posted here: HTML5 deployment is still in the far future.

2015-05-11 Thread Mark Schonewille
I think that Unity has an HTML5 export feature too, now. -- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 Installer Maker for LiveCode: http://qery.us/468 Buy my

Re: ios beep

2015-05-11 Thread Mike Kerner
on mine, the execution doesn't stop, but no sound. phones vibrate but pads and pods don't do anything. I've also tried using the various system sounds (the ones you can pick for various options in Settings), without luck. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel

Re: Posted here: HTML5 deployment is still in the far future.

2015-05-11 Thread Alex Shaw
Tumult Hype +1 regards alex On 12/05/2015 7:27 am, Colin Holgate wrote: It exports to HTML5 WebGL 3D. So, good for running Unity 3D like apps without needing the plugin (though you do need a WebGL capable browser). I think that Hype is good for CSS based HTML5 pages, and Edge Animate would

RE: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Lynn Fredricks
Not in english? repeat, while, with, if, filter, replace, line, word, etc., etc. I'm not saying the syntax is english, but the words clearly are. It is English like. Uses English words, and sensical English-like grammatical structures. However you do not have to know English well to be able

Re: about Mark...

2015-05-11 Thread Peter M. Brigham
On May 10, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: As in all things, there is a balance to be struck between doing and talking - I must confess I tend towards the doing rather than the talking and it is a constant contention even for me in any resource-constrained environment (which is,

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richard Gaskin
Can we please call Cheese! on this inventor sub-thread and move it to the Off-Topic forum?: http://forums.livecode.com/viewforum.php?f=5 -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Monte Goulding
On 11 May 2015, at 9:52 pm, Bjoernke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: Sure, Widgets do things that LC can't do. I do however want LC to be able to do stuff. In a similar vein, I'd want to use LC to access sql and xml. Instead, I'm using C-style functions. It's not xTalk, just like widgets

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 11 May 2015, at 9:52 pm, Bjoernke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: It's not xTalk, just like widgets (at least right now) are not LC. But once written they are. The developer uses LCB but after you install a widget it acts just like a built-in control. For Trevor's slider, for example, you

Re: memory munching group

2015-05-11 Thread Mike Bonner
I was thinking the same thing. Maybe theres a put after somewhere.. On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:14 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: On 5/11/2015 2:11 PM, David V Glasgow wrote: I got the field to report its layermode at various points, and it seems to be static. I was

RE: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Lynn Fredricks
While HyperCard WAS (and I am capitalising that deliberately) written in pseudo-English that was for the simple reason that at that point the ONLY people who were buying Apple's computers were North Americans and Richmond, who happened to be in North America at the time (thanks to his

Re: about Mark...

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
+1 Very well said, that man! On 05/12/2015 06:49 AM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: On May 10, 2015, at 12:42 PM, Mark Waddingham wrote: As in all things, there is a balance to be struck between doing and talking - I must confess I tend towards the doing rather than the talking and it is a

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread J. Landman Gay
On May 11, 2015 10:30:21 AM CDT, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: Apart from the basics like ñ and é, how do you enter non-ascii characters on iOS? Do iPhones in Russia display a different keyboard by default? How about asian countries where the character set is hundreds or thousands of

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 17:06, Geoff Canyon wrote: the language *itself* is in english Well, apart from the oversight of not capitalising the name of the language, I don't think the language (i.e. the scripting language inwith LiveCode) is in English, nor is it English, it is, at best, something

ios beep

2015-05-11 Thread Mike Kerner
In 8.3, beep on an iphone gives me a vibration, but no beep. On an ipad and ipod, I get nothing for sound. Suggestions? -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 17:27, Mark Schonewille wrote: Hi, A quick look-up on Wikipedia: Innocenzo Manzetti considered the idea of a telephone as early as 1844, and may have made one in 1864, as an enhancement to an automaton built by him in 1849. Why doesn't Italy have 001? Don't answer that the US

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 18:49, Lynn Fredricks wrote: Odd as it sounds, they figured out that there's a huge demand for a microsoft product, any microsoft product, that doesn't suck . . . It does sound odd; especially as it has taken them about 20 years to work it out. I actually like a lot of specific

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 20:56, Terence Heaford wrote: I think he self identified as a Canadian. Where he eventually died. Most people do eventually die. If he self-identified as a Canadian I wonder why he is described as a Scottish-American around and about? Richmond. All the best Terry On 11

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Monday, May 11, 2015, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: Apart from the basics like ñ and é, how do you enter non-ascii characters on iOS? Do iPhones in Russia display a different keyboard by default? How about asian countries where the character set is hundreds or thousands of images?

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 17:31, Terence Heaford wrote: And…. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell Alexander Graham Bell is a Scottish http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_people scientist Not really: as far as I know, his father was

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Terence Heaford
Alexander Graham Bell was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. All the best Terry On 11 May 2015, at 18:31, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Not really: as far as I know, his father was Scots, while he, himself was born in the USA. ___

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread PystCat
But he was an American in the states when he did it... On May 11, 2015, at 10:31 AM, Terence Heaford t.heaf...@icloud.com wrote: And…. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell Alexander Graham Bell is a Scottish

Re: Creating dynamic WEB pages with LC V8 HTML5

2015-05-11 Thread Mark Wieder
Pyyhtiä Christer christer@... writes: So what can LC V8 with it's HTML5 capability give here? You're confusing two different things here. LC8 is now in beta and offers the extended language features. HTML5 deployment is still in the far future. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com

Re: problems with revdb_connect

2015-05-11 Thread Devin Asay
On May 9, 2015, at 3:50 PM, Inselfan balearenin...@gmx.net wrote: Good evening, after a long long time, I'm back here :) I'm still using LC 4.3.5, which is, like me a bit older but it works (like me) and I learned to handle the bugs there. Since years I use put revdb_connect

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 17:46, Terence Heaford wrote: Just for fun. Can someone tell me who invented the Computer? All the best Terry Well it was either Charles Babbage in England - who invented a mechanical computer, The inventor of the strange navigational computer fished out of the

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread PystCat
The Americans have invented very little indeed. What the Americans have done is pinched other people's inventions and improved them immensely, to the extent that they can fool people they invented the things in the first place. Examples and/or citations, please.  Some Americans even

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Terence Heaford
I think he self identified as a Canadian. Where he eventually died. All the best Terry On 11 May 2015, at 18:52, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: BUT . . . did he self-identify as a Scot at the time he invented the telephone? ___

Re: Kickstarter 2013 Revisited

2015-05-11 Thread Richmond
On 11/05/15 17:09, PystCat wrote: I have a friend who gets very annoyed that the Americans always control things. When I ask for clarification of this I get, Well... For instance, why does the States have to be 001 in the international dialing? Answer me THAT..! The answer... We invented

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