Re: Special Paste

2015-11-16 Thread Geoff Canyon
I think this works: put clipboardData["text"] into the selectedchunk There may be failure modes I'm unaware of. On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 11:25 PM, Charles Szasz wrote: > I having been trying to implement Paste and Match Style found on Pages app > and also on Word, which is called Paste Speci

Special Paste

2015-11-16 Thread Charles Szasz
I having been trying to implement Paste and Match Style found on Pages app and also on Word, which is called Paste Special, where the text contents of the clipboard are pasted into a document that matches the existing font and font style in the document. I searched the Rev and LC archives and

Re: use-livecode Digest, Vol 146, Issue 26

2015-11-16 Thread Terry Vogelaar
Hi Stephen, That space needs to be a space; not a %20. But I found the solution. There was a helpful user contributed note in the documentation of the shell command: change the $PATH variable. I figured out what the $PATH was in the Terminal and I copied it. Then I changed the variable in Liv

Re: LiveCode with unusual input devices

2015-11-16 Thread dunbarx
The site is in English as well. Find a checkbox somewhere. The device communicates with the computer via USB. I am not sure how another USB device might coordinate. I will ask. Craig -Original Message- From: Vokey, John To: use-livecode Sent: Mon, Nov 16, 2015 9:15 pm Subject: Re:

Re: LiveCode with unusual input devices

2015-11-16 Thread Vokey, John
Craig. This looks to be quite useful, but as I don’t read German, it is hard to tell. I have some very unusual USB devices that I would love to use with LC on my mac. Currently, I am stuck with the manufacture’s proprietary software. How does Service USB Plus detect the usb devices? Does i

Re: LiveCode with unusual input devices

2015-11-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Some time ago, we had a LiveCode meeting about Arduino. LiveCode works very nicely with Arduino. Would that be interesting to you? One of the people who regularly attends the meetings has a very nice stack to control th Arduino. Kind regards, Mark Schonewille http://economy-x-talk.com https:/

RE: wtf diesel?

2015-11-16 Thread Ralph DiMola
Same here. I put in an emergency support request on Saturday because mail was not getting delivered. David replied in less than an hour and asked me what email address I was sending to. I answered and told him that it was this email address. Email was working on Sunday but a slew of the real and te

Re: LiveCode with unusual input devices

2015-11-16 Thread [-hh]
> Ben R. wrote: > Does anyone have (fairly recent) experience using LiveCode to with unusual > input devices - phidgets, PowerMate, MIDI keyboards or controllers, DMX, etc? > On either Mac OS X or iOS? What's easy? What works? Are there good > externals or libraries I should know about? I f

Re: LiveCode with unusual input devices

2015-11-16 Thread Scott Rossi
Ben, when you say "unusual input devices" you're speaking my language -- this is a passion of mine. While not current (I haven't set this up in years), at one time I had a Sega Activator ring talking to LiveCode -- it was either Revolution or MetaCard back then -- to play a virtual drum set, using

Re: LiveCode with unusual input devices

2015-11-16 Thread dunbarx
I have used the "Service USB Plus" from http://www.bkohg.com A pleasure to use. Comes with a framework for LC, as well as other platforms. Mainly good for I/O control with external gadgetry. If you wanted to automate an alarm system for your house, or create a disco controller, this is perfect

wtf diesel?

2015-11-16 Thread Mark Wieder
Emails have been arriving out of order and many hours late. I just received several that were sent on Saturday morning. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

LiveCode with unusual input devices

2015-11-16 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Does anyone have (fairly recent) experience using LiveCode to with unusual input devices - phidgets, PowerMate, MIDI keyboards or controllers, DMX, etc? On either Mac OS X or iOS? What's easy? What works? Are there good externals or libraries I should know about? TIA, Ben __

Re: XML-RPC

2015-11-16 Thread Peter Haworth
Thanks Jose. That's pretty much what I'm doing but I get an error 400 back from the server (I think the text is "unknown method" or something similar. I have moved on to using curl to get what I need. The third party had some docs on how to do that so I use shell() to issue the curl command with

Re: XML-RPC

2015-11-16 Thread José Antonio Rocha
2015-11-15 15:48 GMT-02:00 Peter Haworth : > This looks like the server side of things and I'm > looking for examples of using the revXMLRPC@ calls from a Livecode desktop > app. > ​Here is my getPost WordPress function: --- -- GET POST --- /* -- F

Re: Release 8.0 DP 9

2015-11-16 Thread Mike Kerner
Paul, Actually, you can undo the settings, by going back in to the object in question and selecting and then de-selecting. So, for example, pick re-size, then click three-times on the relationship to make it absolute, then relative, then nothing. On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 3:17 PM, Ali Lloyd wrote:

Re: Release 8.0 DP 9

2015-11-16 Thread Ali Lloyd
Unfortunately there was an issue with recursive array union that's preventing the GM working. If anyone would like to test the general functionality of the geometry manager in the meantime, you could apply the following workaround to the script of stack "revIDELibrary": https://github.com/livecode

Re: Release 8.0 DP 9

2015-11-16 Thread Paul Hibbert
Very true, thank you for confirming. It also appears impossible to remove GM settings once applied. I’ve just filed a bug so please feel free to add any comments or observation, it just helps to add weight to the bug reports when others are seeing the same issues. http://quality.livecode.com/sh

How to figure out what is causing a standalone to fail during compile

2015-11-16 Thread Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel
I have a Windows standalone that is failing to compile for some reason. The error message that LC gives me has quite a bit of info but none that seems useful. Is there any log file or anything more detailed I can examine to figure out why it is failing? If I can figure anything out from it, it a

Re: Release 8.0 DP 9

2015-11-16 Thread Mike Kerner
There are other problems with GM, not just not functioning properly. GM properties aren't showing in the palette after they are set (but they are still affecting behavior), etc., so I'm going to just leave it alone until the next DP On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Paul Hibbert wrote: > Try add

Re: Release 8.0 DP 9

2015-11-16 Thread Paul Hibbert
Try adding... on resizeStack revUpdateGeometry end resizeStack ...to your stack script, that seemed to get some things working for me, I’m just setting up a bug report for this. Paul > On Nov 16, 2015, at 11:16 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > GM doesn't work, yet, either, but I'm guessing that

Re: Release 8.0 DP 9

2015-11-16 Thread Mike Kerner
GM doesn't work, yet, either, but I'm guessing that it isn't supposed to work, yet. On Sat, Nov 14, 2015 at 6:08 AM, Richmond wrote: > On 14/11/15 00:58, Mark Wieder wrote: > >> On 11/13/2015 11:48 AM, Richmond wrote: >> >>> Considerably better than DP 8. >>> >>> Well Done! >>> >> >> Hmmm... wha

Re: Calculating the sum of a *lot* of primes

2015-11-16 Thread Geoff Canyon
Thanks for pointing out optimizations -- I was only interested in getting the answer so I wasn't even thinking about speed. This revision gets the correct result in just under three minutes, while the original took several hours so it's at least 60x faster. Your optimization is the largest, by far

Re: LC8 dp9 Difficulty

2015-11-16 Thread Dave Kilroy
Hi Bill - that bug number doesn't resolve - think you meant 16429? Wprothero wrote > Reported bug: 145269 - "The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/LC8-dp9-

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 9

2015-11-16 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi all, Read about new developments in LiveCode open source and the open source community in today's edition of the "This Week in LiveCode" newsletter! Read issue #9 here: https://goo.gl/Umg0tk This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and around t

[OT] Programming for the Real Beginner as a Christmas present?

2015-11-16 Thread Mark Schonewille
Do you want to give the book "Programming for the Real Beginner" as a Christmas present? To make sure that you receive the book in time before Christmas, you need to order it before 21st November. This will give us sufficient time to send you your copy of the book and, if need be, to print addi

Re: Mimic Chrome Browser Using CEF Browser?

2015-11-16 Thread David Bovill
Yes you want to set the user-agent in the http headers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent#Format_for_human-operated_web_browsers The new browser widget let's you do that manually as well. On Monday, 16 November 2015, Scott Rossi wrote: > I'm trying to run an HTML page locally within Li

Mimic Chrome Browser Using CEF Browser?

2015-11-16 Thread Scott Rossi
I'm trying to run an HTML page locally within LiveCode using the CEF browser, and the page needs to think it's being accessed by Chrome. Do I use libURLSetCustomHTTPHeaders to do this, or something else? Can anyone explain how? Thanks & Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX/U

Re: Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

2015-11-16 Thread sanke
Monte Goulding monte at appisle.net Sun Nov 15 21:05:46 CET 2015 wrote: > On 15 Nov 2015, at 11:12 pm, sanke at hrz.uni-kassel.de wrote: > The URL > led to the Cleverbridge website > where a