Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On December 15, 2015 11:33:31 AM CST, Peter Haworth wrote: > >Going back to the search issue, I'd be willing to spend some time >creating >a database and an LC app to query, sort and extract. Creating the DB >and >the app won't be difficult, populating the db will be the hard

Re: Animations on iOS

Anything wrong with putting each animated object's image states in a group and showing/hiding each figure in some kind of sequence? Then move the group to move the character. Obviously I'm thinking of character animation. Seems this would be pretty easy. Haven't tried it. Bill William

Re: Script Indenting?

She's bck.. Cool. :-) On December 15, 2015 11:10:19 AM CST, Mark Wieder wrote: >Jeanne! Haven't heard from you in ages! -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On December 15, 2015 11:16:31 AM CST, Mark Wieder wrote: >On 12/15/2015 01:00 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > >>> How about alphabetizing the Dictionary Additions and Dictionary >Changes >>> lists? >> >> Good plan. >> >> How useful are those sections? Does anyone actually

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

The current release notes are already available in the IDE (at least through v7,) but I think what's being asked for is the ability to search all previous notes. I've had the same problem, where I remember a new feature or syntax has been introduced but I can't recall the name to look up in the

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On 12/15/2015 01:28 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Embarrassingly, I spoke to some of the core dev team this morning, and it turns out that I am (very) incorrect about how difficult it will be to start releasing rPi builds again. Peter :-( Bummer. I saw

Re: Animations on iOS

Wow, what a cool idea! It boggles the mind!! Thanks, Scott. Roger > On Dec 15, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > > I don't know if OP wanted to move animation around the screen, but if you > use a multi-image display technique for animation, it's more efficient

Re: SQLite conundrum

Hi James, Very strange. I seriously doubt sqlite is manipulating the data in any way. Are you displaying the data using lc calls? Don't recall if you are an SQLiteAdmin customer but if so, I suggest you go to the SQL tab, execute an insert with sample data, then execute a select statement to

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

I guess this next thought would be dealt with if we had the search capability that's been mentioned but I'd prefer the release notes to be ordered primarily by the release (DP!, DP2, etc) and within that the various sections for that release (Engine Changes, IDE Changes, Bug Fixes, etc). I agree

Re: tracking down freeze based on timing, maybe?

I tried the sBusy idea. The log showed that it's blocking a few mouse messages, but the vast majority seem to have happened when sBusy was false anyway. Something else at least changed the behavior. I switched a handler call to "send [handler] to me in 50 milliseconds" and that allowed me to

Re: Animations on iOS

I've built a mobile stack with a player that plays a remote video from a web site. This would solve your card opening delay issue, and would keep the file size of your stack down. I might be wrong, but I also seem to recall the entire video doesn't need to be loaded to be playable. Just display

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On 2015-12-15 18:22, J. Landman Gay wrote: On December 15, 2015 11:33:31 AM CST, Peter Haworth wrote: Going back to the search issue, I'd be willing to spend some time creating a database and an LC app to query, sort and extract. Creating the DB and the app won't be

Re: Animations on iOS

Thanks Scott et al, I should have been more detailed in my original post; my animation is more like a simple video (rendered out from a 3d model) so not susceptible to these techniques. Ben On 15/12/2015 17:15, Scott Rossi wrote: I don't know if OP wanted to move animation around the screen,

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On 12/15/2015 01:00 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: How about alphabetizing the Dictionary Additions and Dictionary Changes lists? Good plan. How useful are those sections? Does anyone actually rely on them for anything? Well, *I* do, but maybe it's just me. When we do weekly releases at work

Re: Animations on iOS

Excellent! Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Dec 15, 2015, at 9:15 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > > I don't know if OP wanted to move animation around the screen, but if you > use a multi-image display technique for animation, it's more efficient to > use a

Re: Script Indenting?

Jeanne! Haven't heard from you in ages! -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Re: Animations on iOS

On 14/12/2015 20:58, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 12/14/2015 1:23 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: 2) making it into a GIF on the card, which works quite nicely except that there's an enormous delay going to the card, presumably as the animation is buffered. Pros: can be exactly the size I want; plays

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On December 15, 2015 12:48:20 PM CST, Peter TB Brett wrote: > >All of the inputs for the release notes are in the git repositories. >There's also a LiveCode Script stack that does all the processing, >starting from Markdown snippets, and ending up with the final

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

Thanks, good to know. Pete lcSQL Software Home of lcStackBrowser and SQLiteAdmin On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 2015-12-15 17:33,

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On 12/15/2015 11:09 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Most of the entries do show the initial release date in the dictionary but the problem is that we often can't recall what term to look up. Also, bug fixes don't necessarily fall into that category and probably won't show up in the dictionary.

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On 2015-12-15 17:33, Peter Haworth wrote: The LC8 Release notes also include several pages of information about widgets which I think should be in a separate document, referred to by the release notes where necessary. But then that gets into the whole issue of getting the User Guide updated

quiet compile fails in behavior button

I am seeing this fairly regularly now, but can't reproduce it on command. After changing code in a button for a behavior (it never happens in a stack's own script, as far as I can tell), a save to compile will sometimes simply turn the button green--even though it failed on an error, whether

Re: Script Indenting?

Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: > This was changed because for very long scripts, indenting the entire script > (instead of just one handler) could cause a considerable pause when > indenting. (HyperCard did the whole script, but HyperCard also had a 32K > limit on a single script.) > > This was

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On 14/12/2015 18:31, David Bovill wrote: For me Release notes should be available in a searchable format in the IDE. I get pretty tired of digging through pdf's to find core information? We can definitely put them in the IDE somehow. The changes I'm working on also make it easier to do that!

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On 15/12/2015 09:06, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 14/12/2015 18:13, Mark Wieder wrote: On 12/14/2015 09:46 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Hi all, I'm currently working on the LiveCode 8 release notes (in preparation for RC 1!) I'd really appreciate some feedback to help me understand how we can make

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On 14/12/2015 18:00, Mark Wieder wrote: On 12/14/2015 09:46 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: I'd really appreciate some feedback to help me understand how we can make the LiveCode release notes more informative and helpful. How about alphabetizing the Dictionary Additions and Dictionary Changes

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On 14/12/2015 18:13, Mark Wieder wrote: On 12/14/2015 09:46 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Hi all, I'm currently working on the LiveCode 8 release notes (in preparation for RC 1!) I'd really appreciate some feedback to help me understand how we can make the LiveCode release notes more informative

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

Peter, the extra info and up to date info on Xcode and Android in the DP11 release notes are great :) In general, the DP11 release notes are already a big improvement on earlier versions Dave Peter TB Brett wrote > On 15/12/2015 00:28, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Peter TB Brett wrote: >>> I'm

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

Yes, my code generates the full markdown release notes using added change notes files between release tags in the repo which is what I presume you are doing. Definitely don't want to use the commit messages. Particularly the bulk of mine ;-) Sent from my iPhone > On 15 Dec 2015, at 7:58 pm,

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On 15/12/2015 00:28, Richard Gaskin wrote: Peter TB Brett wrote: I'm currently working on the LiveCode 8 release notes (in preparation for RC 1!) I'd really appreciate some feedback to help me understand how we can make the LiveCode release notes more informative and helpful. A

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On 15/12/2015 01:00, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi Peter I’m not sure if you’ve seen this report of mine or if your review of the release notes includes a review of server notes or is desktop only. http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=16350

Re: Animations on iOS

Probably won’t solve Ben’s issue, but here’s an ancient stack I did that shows how to animate using a single image in a group and simply adjusting its position via scroll. go stack URL "http://netrin.on-rev.com/animateimage/animata.rev” Jim Lambert

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

Peter M. Brigham wrote: > I'm hardly a database expert, but it sounds as if a database of > release notes with a flexible front end is the way to go. It's not like there are that many of them - why not roll them into a simple stack? -- Richard Gaskin Fourth World Systems Software Design

Re: Animations on iOS

go stack URL "http://netrin.on-rev.com/animateimage/animata.rev” Had a smart quote in the previous post. :( JimL ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On Dec 15, 2015, at 12:33 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > Going back to the search issue, I'd be willing to spend some time creating > a database and an LC app to query, sort and extract. Creating the DB and > the app won't be difficult, populating the db will be the hard part since I > think

Re: Script Indenting?

On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto < revolut...@jaedworks.com> wrote: > This was changed because for very long scripts, indenting the entire > script (instead of just one handler) could cause a considerable pause when > indenting. (HyperCard did the whole script, but HyperCard

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

On Dec 15, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Peter M. Brigham wrote: > > I'm hardly a database expert, but it sounds as if a database of > > release notes with a flexible front end is the way to go. > > It's not like there are that many of them - why not roll them into a simple > stack?

Re: Animations on iOS

On 12/15/2015 12:54 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: Loading the GIF from an external file might be better but I couldn't make this work on mobile - should it be possible? Do I want a relative path or an absolute one? I've never had to do it with a gif, but I'd think the process would be the same as

RE: Animations on iOS

I just put gif into a mobile today. I imported it as control. I wanted the user to see some motion while the app initializes. It is just a spinning ball(7kb). I loads quick and resizes nicely but motion is jerky. Is there any way to yield more time to the engine so it spins smoothly? I do local

Re: Script Indenting?

On 15.12.2015 at 12:46 Uhr -0800 Dr. Hawkins apparently wrote: It's still an issue . . . it takes a few seconds on my very long scripts. Maybe tab should indent only a single handler and option-tab indent the entire script. RObert ___

Re: Animations on iOS

On 12/15/2015 6:25 PM, Ralph DiMola wrote: I also have to set it's visible to false on Android when leaving the spin ball card because the gif appears on the next card spinning quite nicely. You also see the background of the previous card thru the transparency of the objects bounding box (ball

Re: Midnite-Rises - Images with transparent "see through" areas

Here’s my scrolling example from quite a while ago. This is an HTML5 version, which when I did it had the wrong colors: http://colin.scienceninja.com/html5/scrolling/scrolling.html Unfortunately, although the colors are now fixed, there are lots of Javascript errors in a DP11 test:

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

The simplest way in my mind would be one User / Reference Manual, which includes any change from previous version (release note) with for example XML markup, e.g.: This is V8.1.1 stuff... Further, any examples for any function should include a hyperlink to a web page explaining the use.

Re: Animations on iOS

+1. I forgot this one, haven't played it in a while, and it's beautiful and challenging. So my list of total games played in my lifetime is: JQBoggle, Monument Valley, The Room. (Oh, I tried Angry Birds a few times.) -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig

Re: Improving the LiveCode release notes

> Peter wrote: > I need to set up a build worker for rPi on our CI > system... maybe after I deal with the release notes. This forces me to add also an egoist wish: The release notes could be shortened to 6-7 short lines. [1] LC version ... released on [2] Link to GitHub

Re: Script Indenting?

OMG, Jeanne DeVoto! I had no idea you were following this list. -- Peter Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig On Dec 15, 2015, at 2:09 AM, Jeanne A. E. DeVoto wrote: > At 1:29 PM +0100 12/12/2015, Lyn Teyla wrote: >> Some years back, pressing the key to trigger

Re: Animations on iOS

Hi Ben, If you are trying to do a background animation with a looped movie, I found the smoothest way was to put one image on each card and then loop through the cards. This eliminates the load time problem. Good Luck, Rick > On Dec 14, 2015, at 2:23 PM, Ben Rubinstein

Midnite-Rises - Images with transparent "see through" areas

I've been studying that graphic novel that is touted as a testimony for LiveCode's platform: Midnite Rises, teaser/trailer for the game by the same name. The underlying principles for delivery seem simple enough. It looks like two or three 2D images are on layers and as you swipe slowly, the

Re: Midnite-Rises - Images with transparent "see through" areas

Like Colin mentioned in another thread: parallax. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax If transparency is part of an image, it's likely just a PNG. Otherwise, you might have multiple images in a group. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media UX/UI Design > On Dec 15, 2015,

Re: Script Indenting?

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 10:18 PM, Peter M. Brigham wrote: > OMG, Jeanne DeVoto! It really is Christmas! Now all we need is a post from Dan Shafer and it will prove there really is a Santa Claus :-) ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Midnite-Rises - Images with transparent "see through" areas

On 16/12/15 04:23, Brahmanathaswami wrote: I've been studying that graphic novel that is touted as a testimony for LiveCode's platform: Midnite Rises, teaser/trailer for the game by the same name. The underlying principles for delivery seem simple enough. It looks like two or three 2D images

SQLite conundrum

I have an array of text values (actually book chapters) that I am adding to a database. The text is a mixture of alphabetic and numerals. For some of it I have line numbers at the beginning of each paragraph. E.g blah blah1. Blah blah more blah.2. Some more blah After I insert this text