Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Richmond
On 05/01/16 03:43, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: Richmond: Yes of course that would work, but moving the animated GIF around on top of a video? Player I don't see why that shouldn't be possible: after all, if I've actually got one thing right it is that a layer is a layer and they don't

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Alex Shaw
Mac-only but Hype3 is pretty good too.. http://tumult.com/hype/ regards alex On 5/01/2016 4:14 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/4/2016 2:20 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: You should certainly get Flash Pro on your list of tools to use. It can export perfect frame rate H.264, and also image sequences

Re: [On-Rev Tio] could someone test the index.html files in her/his account on Tio?

2016-01-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/4/2016 6:01 PM, Robert Mann wrote: Details :: all my index files on my on-rev account on too were changed on TUESDAY 29th December at 09:02 I'm on Tio and my files are okay. But I heard other people have had the same problem as you did. I don't use any php at all, I wonder if the affecte

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/4/2016 2:20 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: You should certainly get Flash Pro on your list of tools to use. It can export perfect frame rate H.264, and also image sequences or animated GIFs. Another option is Graphic Converter, which will also export an image sequence to gif. You can set the ti

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

2016-01-04 Thread EED-wp Email
I wonder if a set of screen templates for a range of ui configurations might not be a product folks would be willing to pay for. It sounds like it might save some folks a lot of time. Bill William Prothero http://ed.earthednet.org > On Jan 4, 2016, at 6:33 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: > > Don’t

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

2016-01-04 Thread Colin Holgate
Don’t know, you should test it. According to the help it returns the screenrect after removing things like the keyboard overlay. But that may still be in virtual pixels, based on the card rect. > On Jan 4, 2016, at 8:55 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > Seems better to let Livecode

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

2016-01-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Seems better to let Livecode do the job… which means working in iPad size even though your main target is phones. Odd, but that would work for controls that are meant to stay top and bottom. OTHO I don’t understand how it is that “tricky”… doesn’t the screen rect solve this for any device? on

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Richmond: Yes of course that would work, but moving the animated GIF around on top of a video? Player FYI: your tiger has this white rectangular border that flashes on each cycle through the frames. I turned off the border width and the 3D etc in the inspector, but it did not go away. Perhaps

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

2016-01-04 Thread Colin Holgate
Which you choose is often dependent on whether you have tools that stick to the top and bottom, or the sides. If you do use code to make them snap into place, it can be tricky. You need to find the real width and height of the device itself, divide one into the other, and use that as a multiplie

Re: [On-Rev Tio] could someone test the index.html files in her/his account on Tio?

2016-01-04 Thread Robert Mann
..and all files named index have been changed everywhere at all folder levels, independently of the postfix (.html, .lc, .rev) So I asked the team to replace all content of my account with a backup anytime in december priori to 29th since i did not do any change to it in december. -- View this m

Re: [On-Rev Tio] could someone test the index.html files in her/his account on Tio?

2016-01-04 Thread Robert Mann
Details :: all my index files on my on-rev account on too were changed on TUESDAY 29th December at 09:02 -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/On-Rev-Tio-could-someone-test-the-index-html-files-in-her-his-account-on-Tio-tp4699843p4699919.html Sent fro

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

2016-01-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Bill: Yes. I plan to draft something put it on Google Docs an invite a few others.. it’s pretty mission critical, especially if you are about to hire ($) animators. I worked late last night using “showAll” and I think in the end this is the simplest way to go. Landscape, showAll — 16 X 9 c

Re: [On-Rev Tio] could someone test the index.html files in her/his account on Tio?

2016-01-04 Thread Robert Mann
ooops!! all my test sites are down with this re-written index file!!! COuld anybody expand on how is that possible? is that an error from the maintenance team or an outsider attack? -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/On-Rev-Tio-could-someone-test-

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread [-hh]
Classical tools are, for all main platforms available, imagemagick or, faster, graphicsmagick. Both are callable via shell from LC on all desktop platforms. They easily convert frames from a lot of different image formats to gif (also, for example, multi-page PDFs!). Transparency is one of a bun

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Richmond
You could have an animated GIF that moved around in top of a background . . . Richmond. Here's a proof-of-concept stack: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=26110&p=136301#p136301 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.run

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Colin Holgate
I tested that too. When exporting from Flash Pro you can set the animation to be transparent. In LiveCode it kept up the 60 fps rate even when animating on top of a text field. > On Jan 4, 2016, at 3:18 PM, Richmond wrote: > >> [Is it possible to have transparency in a play object? I doubt i

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Colin Holgate
You should certainly get Flash Pro on your list of tools to use. It can export perfect frame rate H.264, and also image sequences or animated GIFs. I just did a test export, and the animation played back well in LiveCode, even at 60 fps. ___ use-live

Re: Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Richmond
On 04/01/16 22:09, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: I’m “back at it” trying to discover all possible means for animation in Livecode. All the high end tools seem to export to video: create your frame based “thing” whatever it is.. then you save as h.264. I don’t find much that will export to

Animation in LiveCode

2016-01-04 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
I’m “back at it” trying to discover all possible means for animation in Livecode. All the high end tools seem to export to video: create your frame based “thing” whatever it is.. then you save as h.264. I don’t find much that will export to animated GIF — which seems to be the only “native” way

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

2016-01-04 Thread William Prothero
Colin and Brahmanathaswami: When this discussion topic is finally resolved, it would be wonderful and extremely useful if a summaryof the best practice, with comments on implementation consequences, was posted somewhere. This is an important issue and will save the rest of us who haven’t faced

Re: One Rect For All specificaiton

2016-01-04 Thread Colin Holgate
With showAll you are guaranteed to see all of the original card contents. On a wider screen the height of the card is still fitted into the height of the device, and the extra width is filled in with the content that was off the edges of the card. I’ve used showAll for books, where I wanted to

Re: Charset problems with .lc web page

2016-01-04 Thread Kenji Kojima
Tim, > > The .irev file correctly shows Japanese UTF8, the .lc file does not. I wrote about it in Japanese. http://kenjikojima.com/basic_iRev/main/rev11.html http://kenjikojima.com/basic_iRev/ -- Kenji Kojima / 小島健治 http://www.kenjikojima.com/ ___

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 14

2016-01-04 Thread Peter TB Brett
Hi all, Happy New Year! 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 #14 here: https://goo.gl/S5Gn7r This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going

Re: Charset problems with .lc web page

2016-01-04 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 24/12/2015 07:55, Tim Selander wrote: > Dear list, > > I'm having trouble making a .lc web pages correctly show the charset. > > I have two test files: > http://www.pba.on-rev.com/5_today.lc > http://www.pba.on-rev.com/5_today.irev > > They are identical except for the .lc/.irev file extensions