Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/2/2016 11:29 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: >2) we cannot resize the content area for fields of custom props! ouch! Yes it would seem reasonable to allow us to resize the custom control pane down enlarging the value field and put scrollbars on it. Perhaps the option to turn on and off wrapping

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Erik Beugelaar
I totally agree with the comments from Jacqueline. Sent from Matwetwe < http://www.about.me/beugelaar > On 03:26, Mar 3, 2016, at 03:26, Roland Huettmann wrote: >I really like this comment from Jacqueline. > >Who does not eat with the eyes??? > >An ugly apple is not purchased even if much mo

Re: Edinburgh Aug 2-4, 2016

2016-03-02 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 3 Mar 2016, at 4:39 PM, [-hh] wrote: > > *** And your answer to the proposal of an actual *** > *** externals-SDK is really the empty set? :-( *** Well I'm not in a position to promise what I will be able to work on just yet which is why I didn't comment. When you have a

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/2/2016 10:27 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami wrote: 4) no tool tips for the icons at the top. Those who have poor visual memory (many coders do) will have this subtle "what does the icon do" reaction. Please add the tool tips. I need those too. The tooltips are actually there, they just don

Re: Edinburgh Aug 2-4, 2016

2016-03-02 Thread [-hh]
> > Hermann H. wrote > > I use to look at the top of the current bugs list when I > > report one. I have several more to report but stopped for > > a while: > > The list is simply too long. They will even have problems > > to solve the bugs for the current 8.0-dp and to solve the > > main prob

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 3 Mar 2016, at 3:27 PM, Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami > wrote: > > 0) Script editor needs its own top level icon in the Prop inspector! Already > requested, but in DP15 it did not happen. If you need space then move the > geometry manager icon off to the advanced pull down. Editing scripts

Re: Edinburgh Aug 2-4, 2016

2016-03-02 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 3 Mar 2016, at 3:22 PM, [-hh] wrote: > > I use to look at the top of the current bugs list when I > report one. I have several more to report but stopped for > a while: > The list is simply too long. They will even have problems > to solve the bugs for the current 8.0-dp and to solve the >

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
On March 2, 2016 at 4:29:17 PM, J. Landman Gay (jac...@hyperactivesw.com) wrote: > The idea was to be able to select things in the PB that may not be in > view, even on totally different cards or stacks, and be able to work > with them without going there. Hilite

Re: Edinburgh Aug 2-4, 2016

2016-03-02 Thread [-hh]
I use to look at the top of the current bugs list when I report one. I have several more to report but stopped for a while: The list is simply too long. They will even have problems to solve the bugs for the current 8.0-dp and to solve the main problems of LC 6/7 to get (essentially) rid of that ve

Re: Edinburgh Aug 2-4, 2016

2016-03-02 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 3 Mar 2016, at 1:38 PM, -hh wrote: > > What's going on here? > Don't waste valuable time of the dev team. > > Note > Edinburgh Aug 2-4, 2016. > 21 weeks and 5 days remaining just now. > * > > I'm waiting for 8.0.1. > I

Edinburgh Aug 2-4, 2016

2016-03-02 Thread -hh
What's going on here? Don't waste valuable time of the dev team. Note Edinburgh Aug 2-4, 2016. 21 weeks and 5 days remaining just now. * I'm waiting for 8.0.1. I see a very long list of not-so-simple bugs. I'm waiting for an ac

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/2/2016 7:11 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: On 03/02/2016 04:09 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I do favor functionality over appearance, but the sad fact is that new users will base their first impressions of the product on how it looks. These are some of the small details that matter for a professional

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Roland Huettmann
I really like this comment from Jacqueline. Who does not eat with the eyes??? An ugly apple is not purchased even if much more tasty. Roland On Thu, Mar 3, 2016, 01:11 J. Landman Gay wrote: > On March 2, 2016 4:43:21 PM Richard Gaskin > wrote: > > > > Given this, I wonder if it makes more c

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/02/2016 02:08 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: Thanks -- that's a much more complete / thorough explanation than I managed to give. The Project Browser tries to fit a lot of features into a small amount of space and I'm not convinced that we've found the most efficient way to pack them. In the

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 3 Mar 2016, at 11:55 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > > I'm curious, though, about the decision process that moved the cantSelect > property up the pantheon of properties out of the Property Inspector and into > the Project Browser. Is there something particular about cantSelect that > makes it

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Monte Goulding
> On 3 Mar 2016, at 11:09 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > > On March 2, 2016 4:43:21 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> Given this, I wonder if it makes more communicative sense to consider >> moving the basic controls above the Widgets, closer to the always-used >> Browse and Pointer icons. > > > T

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/02/2016 04:09 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I do favor functionality over appearance, but the sad fact is that new users will base their first impressions of the product on how it looks. These are some of the small details that matter for a professional presentation. Coming soon... http://f

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/02/2016 02:21 PM, panagiotis merakos wrote: The "mysterious lock icon with a 'Show' tootip" is setting the cantSelect property of the control. The tooltip should reflect that though, so we have to update it. Ah. Thanks. I'm curious, though, about the decision process that moved the cant

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On March 2, 2016 4:43:21 PM Richard Gaskin wrote: Given this, I wonder if it makes more communicative sense to consider moving the basic controls above the Widgets, closer to the always-used Browse and Pointer icons. That was one of the things on my imaginary list. I'd like to see widgets at

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:42 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > I haven't used the Tools palette in years, but this conversation prompted > me to take a gander. > > I wonder if having the Widgets above the basic controls is the best place > for them. > > Tools palette. Widgets palette. Separate and sim

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Peter Haworth
An lcstackbrowser user requested the "single tool with option to set the style "some time ago and I implemented it. It takes a lot less screen space and I think is useful for experienced users but might be a little daunting for new users. On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM Devin Asay wrote: > > > O

Re: Set the Opacity of a Button Background

2016-03-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
@ Scott Thank you. Actually all these other methods have their use cases. Yes, am familiar with using other controls as "buttons" anything with a mouseUp script will do the job in 80% of the cases. BR On March 1, 2016 at 11:26:57 AM, Scott Rossi (sc...@tactilemedia.com

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Devin Asay
> On Mar 2, 2016, at 3:42 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > I haven't used the Tools palette in years, but this conversation prompted me > to take a gander. > > I wonder if having the Widgets above the basic controls is the best place for > them. > > I tend to think of UIs as telling a story, an

Re: Set the Opacity of a Button Background

2016-03-02 Thread Sannyasin Brahmanathaswami
Aloha Paul: wow... awesome.. you did it! this works perfectly as needed. So I can just set up a template button and store this and create all new buttons according. Outstanding.. Big Mahalo from Hawaii BR On March 1, 2016 at 11:26:57 AM, Scott Rossi (sc...@tactilemedia.com

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
I haven't used the Tools palette in years, but this conversation prompted me to take a gander. I wonder if having the Widgets above the basic controls is the best place for them. I tend to think of UIs as telling a story, and sometimes that can include communicating the importance of things

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Terry Judd
On 3/03/2016 9:26 am, "use-livecode on behalf of Roger Eller" wrote: >Tools pallette (not menu). Yes, the widget icons are gray, but the new >flat icons across the top (Inspector, Code, Message Box, etc.) are pure >black. I would rather see a more consistent appearance for all icons in >the ID

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 02/03/2016 21:45, Roger Eller wrote: > >> >> I very much dislike those super dark icons in the new IDE. Especially >> when >> the icons in the Tools menu are a completely different shade of gray. >> They >> should be consistent across th

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread panagiotis merakos
The "mysterious lock icon with a 'Show' tootip" is setting the cantSelect property of the control. The tooltip should reflect that though, so we have to update it. Panos -- On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:08 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 02/03/2016 16:28, Mark Wieder wrote: > >> On 03/01/2016 11:39

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 02/03/2016 16:28, Mark Wieder wrote: On 03/01/2016 11:39 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: You can double click on an item in the Project Browser to select it on the card. Empirically... You can double click on an item's icon to do that. Double-clicking on the name allows you to edit the name. Sin

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 02/03/2016 21:45, Roger Eller wrote: I very much dislike those super dark icons in the new IDE. Especially when the icons in the Tools menu are a completely different shade of gray. They should be consistent across the IDE. I also dislike jerks. Thank you. Which specific "icons in the T

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Roger Eller
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: > On 02/03/2016 17:23, RM wrote: > >> +1 >> > > Please don't do this. If you don't have anything substantive to > contribute to the conversation, please don't waste the inbox space of > hundreds of mailing list users. > >

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 02/03/2016 17:23, RM wrote: +1 Please don't do this. If you don't have anything substantive to contribute to the conversation, please don't waste the inbox space of hundreds of mailing list users. Peter -- Dr Peter Brett LiveCode Open Source Team LiveCode 2016

Those Black and White icons in the revMenubar stack in LC 8

2016-03-02 Thread RM
Here's my hack to replace them with the previous multicoloured ones, at your own risk: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=26506&p=139069#p139069 Love, Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/02/2016 11:53 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: Oh yes, absolutely, and I've found the team to be remarkably responsive. I was very impressed with Ali, he really listened and was intent on making the IDE as perfect as possible. I wanted to hug him, I was that happy. And not just Ali, the whole t

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/02/2016 12:10 PM, RM wrote: I am actually quite curious as to why the Livecode team decided to change the Properties palette so radically. To be fair about that, the current/previous/whatever property inspector leaves a lot to be desired. There's been much complaining over the years,

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread RM
On 2.03.2016 21:53, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 3/2/2016 10:04 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: Just to clarify my comment, what I was trying to point out (in an attempt at a humourous way) is that invoking a 'interface designer' does not magically mean you end up with a user interface which any one pe

Re: Request: Markdown functions

2016-03-02 Thread Monte Goulding
mergMarkdown is my external that does Markdown to HTML. It is fully cross platform and MIT licensed. It is based on the sundown library which is also MIT licensed. I don’t have anything that can do the reverse sorry… > On 3 Mar 2016, at 5:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > I need two functions f

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 3/2/2016 10:04 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: Just to clarify my comment, what I was trying to point out (in an attempt at a humourous way) is that invoking a 'interface designer' does not magically mean you end up with a user interface which any one person agrees with, or actually works for all u

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread RM
On 2.03.2016 19:13, Mark Wieder wrote: On 03/02/2016 08:04 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: I do think this has been occurring quite healthily recently with regards LC8 and, indeed, some of the tweaks that have been made to the project browser (in particular its selection / highlighting logic) have

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: > The tiny gray-on-gray icons, though, are another matter. I shudder to > think of the universe in which someone thought that was a Good Idea. At the top of the window or somewhere else? At once point I'd submitted a request to use the large icon option for the top panel as

Request: Markdown functions

2016-03-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
I need two functions for a community project I'm working on: MarkdownToHtmltext -- converts Github Markdown the LC's htmlText HtmltextToMarkdown -- converts content and the subset of relevant text styling attributes LC fields offer into Github-flavored

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread RM
On 2.03.2016 19:13, Mark Wieder wrote: On 03/02/2016 08:04 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: I do think this has been occurring quite healthily recently with regards LC8 and, indeed, some of the tweaks that have been made to the project browser (in particular its selection / highlighting logic) have

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/02/2016 09:09 AM, Tore Nilsen wrote: Have you tried looking for it in LC 8, which seems to be the version discussed in this thread? Read the previous post. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/02/2016 09:05 AM, John Dixon wrote: Anyone in Edinburgh considered asking Scott Rossi how much time he has on his hands ? :-) LOL. +1 -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vi

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/02/2016 08:04 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: I do think this has been occurring quite healthily recently with regards LC8 and, indeed, some of the tweaks that have been made to the project browser (in particular its selection / highlighting logic) have been a direct result of discussion with i

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Tore Nilsen
Have you tried looking for it in LC 8, which seems to be the version discussed in this thread? Tore > 2. mar. 2016 kl. 18.02 skrev Mark Wieder : > > On 03/02/2016 08:23 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: >> On 02/03/2016 16:15, Mark Wieder wrote: >>> On 03/01/2016 11:39 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: >>> >

RE: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread John Dixon
> > Indeed - perfection is a journey, not a destination. > > Just to clarify my comment, what I was trying to point out (in an > attempt at a humourous way) is that invoking a 'interface designer' does > not magically mean you end up with a user interface which any one person > agrees with, o

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/02/2016 08:23 AM, Peter TB Brett wrote: On 02/03/2016 16:15, Mark Wieder wrote: On 03/01/2016 11:39 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: You can double click on an item in the Project Browser to select it on the card. OK - that's getting pinned on the wall as well. Is this stuff documented somewh

Re: Open source, closed source, and the value of code

2016-03-02 Thread Robert Mann
yap.. in that respect.. with all respect to live code and every team member.. I honestly earnastly was astonished by the virulence of the clause forbidding any tier to take a community work and turn it into a commercial application. I sort of "naively" believed that there was quite a good positive

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-02 16:44, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mark Waddingham wrote: On 2016-03-02 06:46, J. Landman Gay wrote: I confess my first reaction was that LC needs an interface designer. Ah - yes - those magical 'interface designers' who you just ask to give you the perfect UI that *everyone* immedia

Re: Open source, closed source, and the value of code

2016-03-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Wieder wrote: > Yesterday I was handed an nda to sign. There was a clause (yes, > I actually do read these things) that started "Neither party will > publicly disclose the existence of this document..." I recoiled, > this caused a huddle of half a dozen people for several minutes, > the comp

Re: Summary: Open source, closed source, and the value of code

2016-03-02 Thread Robert Mann
hi, thanks for confirming what I guess is motherships point of view. That was'n at all crystal clear, but you now made it clear : no split license what so ever for live code community. << Absolutely every piece of software is derived from a set of files which can be considered the 'source code'

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/01/2016 11:39 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: You can double click on an item in the Project Browser to select it on the card. Empirically... You can double click on an item's icon to do that. Double-clicking on the name allows you to edit the name. Single-clicking a line in the PB has no appr

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Peter TB Brett
On 02/03/2016 16:15, Mark Wieder wrote: On 03/01/2016 11:39 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: You can double click on an item in the Project Browser to select it on the card. OK - that's getting pinned on the wall as well. Is this stuff documented somewhere? See http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug

Re: Open source, closed source, and the value of code

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/01/2016 09:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: I have been trying to follow this thread, not always successfully, but common sense tells me: Heh. Common sense in a discussion of legal things. Yesterday I was handed an nda to sign. There was a clause (yes, I actually do read these things) that

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Wieder
On 03/01/2016 11:39 PM, Peter TB Brett wrote: You can double click on an item in the Project Browser to select it on the card. OK - that's getting pinned on the wall as well. Is this stuff documented somewhere? The User Guide is missing in action (bug 17054) and the "All User Guides" menu it

Re: OS X - how to write to a file associated as a Unix executable

2016-03-02 Thread Glen Bojsza
Thanks Mark That did it ... both methods of filetype allowed me to correctly get the chmod results I was looking for. On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > On 2016-03-01 02:06, Glen Bojsza wrote: > >> What I am trying to do is within a LC application >> >> 1. put field "myt

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mark Waddingham wrote: > On 2016-03-02 06:46, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> I confess my first reaction was that LC needs an interface designer. > > Ah - yes - those magical 'interface designers' who you just ask to > give you the perfect UI that *everyone* immediately understands and > knows how to u

Re: Hey-Ho and Off We Go with HTML5

2016-03-02 Thread Matt Maier
You could try out the free tier of services like http://www.formmail.com/ or HTTP://www.SE dgrid.com On Mar 2, 2016 00:30, "RM" wrote: > > > On 2.03.2016 10:18, Mark Waddingham wrote: > >> On 2016-03-02 09:01, RM wrote: >> >>> Preferably this would be WITHOUT the message having to go via the >>>

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 9:11 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > Take a look at the "do in widget" command in the dictionary. This just made my day. Here I was thinking there was no two-way communication. -- Trevor DeVore ScreenSteps www.screensteps.com-www.clarify-it.com

Re: Licensing questions again (was: Glen Bojsza "LC 8 hard question...")

2016-03-02 Thread Heather Laine
Dear Wilhelm, I have explained to you what you actually have and why. These are the facts, it is unfortunate that you do not agree with them but they remain the facts. This is not a topic for this list. If you continue to post about your personal license issues here I will have no choice but t

Summary: Open source, closed source, and the value of code

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
Hi all, There has been a long thread discussing a number of different aspects relating to licensing and pricing. Thank you all for your input! In the interests of clarity, here is a summary of our position on the matters discussed. PRICING ~~~ We are raising our prices - yes. We are not

Summary: Open source, closed source, and the value of code

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
Hi all, There has been a long thread discussing a number of different aspects relating to licensing and pricing. Thank you all for your input! In the interests of clarity, here is a summary of our position on the matters discussed. PRICING ~~~ We are raising our prices - yes. We are not

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-02 15:18, Terence Heaford wrote: Thanks, for some reason I thought it would be in the widget docs. Indeed that would be a logical place for it to be - the reason it isn't is because the browser widget syntax (such as 'do ...') is currently hard-coded in the engine's parser rather t

Re: Licensing questions again (was: Glen Bojsza "LC 8 hard question...")

2016-03-02 Thread sanke
While answering Matthias Rebbe Kevin Miller wrote on Tue, 01 Mar 2016 17:34:48: (snip) I?ve reviewed the thread between Heather and Wilhelm and I can see that no such withdrawal of rights after the fact has taken place. Wilhelm simply does not yet appear to fully understand the extensive expla

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Terence Heaford
Thanks, for some reason I thought it would be in the widget docs. All the best Terry > On 2 Mar 2016, at 14:11, Mark Waddingham wrote: > > Take a look at the "do in widget" command in the dictionary. > > Warmest Regards, > > Mark. ___ use-livec

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-02 15:09, Terence Heaford wrote: This seems to be the best way by calling from LiveCode into the Javascript of the Browser. I have found this which seems to allow for calling LiveCode from Javascript but not anything going in the other direction? -- Name: javascriptHandlers Type:

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Terence Heaford
> On 2 Mar 2016, at 13:53, Mark Waddingham wrote: > > If you are printing the browser content on its own, then you could try using > JavaScript - something along the lines of 'window.print()'. However, I'm not > sure how controllable that is - perhaps someone with more intimate knowledge > of

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-02 14:26, Terence Heaford wrote: Thanks for the comments. As I am using a Browser to display amCharts it would be good to be able to print the contents of the Browser. This workaround of snapshot gives a poor printout when it is copied to an image for printing. Would there be a bett

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Terence Heaford
Thanks for the comments. As I am using a Browser to display amCharts it would be good to be able to print the contents of the Browser. This workaround of snapshot gives a poor printout when it is copied to an image for printing. Would there be a better way to achieve this? I understand the ne

Re: Open source, closed source, and the value of code

2016-03-02 Thread Robert Mann
Spot on! Thanks Jacqueline, That is exactly the choice I have : 1. make a viewer of a special kind of media aggregate with the community version under GPL & deliver these media aggregate in a separate file under whatever license. (plus i'll document that format so that others can produce such cont

Re: Apple Automator

2016-03-02 Thread Kay C Lan
On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Glen Bojsza wrote: > Is it possible to launch Apple Automator shell scripts from LC app? If by shell script you mean Workflow, then the answer is yes. Try this: Open up Automator, create a new workflow, go to the iTunes actions and drag 'Start iTunes Playing' int

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Tore Nilsen
> 2. mar. 2016 kl. 09.39 skrev Mark Waddingham : > > On 2016-03-02 06:46, J. Landman Gay wrote: >> I confess my first reaction was that LC needs an interface designer. > > Ah - yes - those magical 'interface designers' who you just ask to give you > the perfect UI that *everyone* immediately un

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread RM
I designed an interface for my Devawriter Pro [ go and have a look at it: http://andregarzia.on-rev.com/richmond/dwriterpro.html ]. Frankly I am well aware it is horrible because it is cluttered to blazes with all sorts of fancy features I built into the thing along the way. It is meant to be

Re: LC8DP15 feedback-IDE Issues

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-02 06:46, J. Landman Gay wrote: I confess my first reaction was that LC needs an interface designer. Ah - yes - those magical 'interface designers' who you just ask to give you the perfect UI that *everyone* immediately understands and knows how to use and works exactly how each in

Re: Hey-Ho and Off We Go with HTML5

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-02 09:30, RM wrote: Am I right in understanding that, theoretically a least, the goal is to implement all the capabilities of Livecode into the HTML5 engine? The goal is to implement (over time) as many LiveCode capabilities which are possible to implement in HTML5 it definitely won

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-02 08:36, Terence Heaford wrote: This suggestion doesn’t work because the widget is a Browser widget and I believe the browser is not a true object but a window overlay. Not exactly - the browser widget is a true engine object, but it uses a 'native' layer to display itself. At pres

Re: Export & LC8 & Browser widget

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-01 22:57, Terence Heaford wrote: On 1 Mar 2016, at 21:32, J. Landman Gay wrote: "To export a snapshot for a portion of a stack you use the form: export snapshot from rect[angle] of window windowID to ... Where windowId is the windowId property of the required stack." This does not

Re: Hey-Ho and Off We Go with HTML5

2016-03-02 Thread RM
On 2.03.2016 10:18, Mark Waddingham wrote: On 2016-03-02 09:01, RM wrote: Preferably this would be WITHOUT the message having to go via the client's e-mail system as: 1. The message should be anonymous. 2. The end-user may have no e-mail client configured. Okay so there in terms of what

Re: Hey-Ho and Off We Go with HTML5

2016-03-02 Thread Mark Waddingham
On 2016-03-02 09:01, RM wrote: Preferably this would be WITHOUT the message having to go via the client's e-mail system as: 1. The message should be anonymous. 2. The end-user may have no e-mail client configured. Okay so there in terms of what you will be able to do in this regard with th

Re: Hey-Ho and Off We Go with HTML5

2016-03-02 Thread RM
On 29.02.2016 22:19, RM wrote: On 29.02.2016 22:13, RM wrote: On 29.02.2016 21:29, RM wrote: So: I made a stack with a button and 2 fields in LiveCode 8.0 DP 15 and a spot of scripting in the button, and exported the thing as an HTML5 standalone, then opened the generated page in Firef