Re: using windows playback via livecode 8

Thanks very much for this, Jeff. The user said she fixed it but what she wrote was pretty much gibberish so we don't know what she did. Something about changing her browser to Chrome -- only this app doesn't use a browser at all. My guess is that, because some of the internet settings are

Re: using windows playback via livecode 8

Somehow i lost a week of emails there on the list replies! Jacque, I just got a pro 4 from the ms store here in bethesda on loan (if you go to a store they now have a loaner program for up to a month to try stuff out on a surface for free!). i downloaded LC8 and it is running fine, about to

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 7:40 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Monte Goulding wrote: > > >> On 26 Aug 2016, at 7:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > >> > >> You'll also want to use those properties for any getters as well, > >> given that they are global and perhaps settable by

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Monte Goulding wrote: >> On 26 Aug 2016, at 7:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> >> You'll also want to use those properties for any getters as well, >> given that they are global and perhaps settable by third-party >> plugins. > > Here’s where the problems settle in. By using revIDESetPreference >

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 7:03 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > You'll also want to use those properties for any getters as well, given that > they are global and perhaps settable by third-party plugins. Here’s where the problems settle in. By using revIDESetPreference

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Monte Goulding wrote: > Richard wrote: >> Any chance we can have the scriptTextFont and scriptTextSize global >> properties reinstated as the mechanism for that? >> >> http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11596 > > After reading the report I’m not really sure if they are deprecated > or

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 6:39 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > If they are deprecated they may be removed so it might be time to move any > code that depends on these to use revIDEGetPreference. After reading the report I’m not really sure if they are deprecated or not…

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 6:41 AM, panagiotis merakos wrote: > > Could we probably set them on startup? > > put revIDEGetPreference("cScriptEditor,editor,font") into scriptTextFont > put revIDEGetPreference("cScriptEditor,editor,fontSize") into scriptTextSize Something would

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Could we probably set them on startup? put revIDEGetPreference("cScriptEditor,editor,font") into scriptTextFont put revIDEGetPreference("cScriptEditor,editor,fontSize") into scriptTextSize On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:33 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Monte Goulding

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 6:33 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Any chance we can have the scriptTextFont and scriptTextSize global > properties reinstated as the mechanism for that? If they are deprecated they may be removed so it might be time to move any code that

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Monte Goulding wrote: >> On 26 Aug 2016, at 3:29 AM, Richmond wrote: >> >> Personally I find the teeny-weeny font size in the messageBox a >> bother: and I have had the font in the scriptEditor set to 18 >> for the last 10 years. > > I’ll add that too as they should use the same font + size.

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 6:23 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > All I know, right now, is that the app crashes on startup. I haven't > gotten much further than trying it in 8.0.2 and 8.1 rc1 In the simulator or on a device? ___

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Mike, you are probably affected by http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18261 On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 11:23 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > All I know, right now, is that the app crashes on startup. I haven't > gotten much further than trying it in 8.0.2 and 8.1 rc1

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 3:29 AM, Richmond wrote: > > Personally I find the teeny-weeny font size in the messageBox a bother: and I > have had the font in the > scriptEditor set to 18 for the last 10 years. I’ll add that too as they should use the same font + size.

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

All I know, right now, is that the app crashes on startup. I haven't gotten much further than trying it in 8.0.2 and 8.1 rc1 On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 4:18 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > > On 26 Aug 2016, at 6:15 AM, Mike Kerner > wrote: > > > >

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 3:18 AM, Richmond wrote: > > It might not be a bad idea to put that into the documentation. Why? I’m in the midst of fixing it ;-) ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please

Re: Performance issues LC8 versus earlier versions.

> On 25 Aug 2016, at 5:49 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote: > > That is wonderful - thanks Monte. > btw - I opened a bug report to keep track of it, and so you'd have somewhere > to hang the change on to - 18254 FYI I have also added the length check to non-binary strings to speed up

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 6:15 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > Rats. I found an ios crash that appears to be a regression from 8.0.2... Can you provide some more detail? We currently know about and will have a fix for a crash using 64 bit simulators + tsNet. Cheers Monte

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Rats. I found an ios crash that appears to be a regression from 8.0.2... On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 3:53 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: > > > On 26 Aug 2016, at 2:15 AM, Mike Kerner > wrote: > > > > Hopefully, soon, we'll get script color printing back,

Re: Missing a chance

Richmond wrote: > On 25.08.2016 22:21, Richard Gaskin wrote: >> Richmond wrote: >> >> > Livecode is so not here it makes me howl: >> > >> > https://elearningindustry.com/list-of-authoring-tools-part-1 >> > https://elearningindustry.com/list-of-authoring-tools-part-2 >> >

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On 26 Aug 2016, at 2:15 AM, Mike Kerner wrote: > > Hopefully, soon, we'll get script color printing back, too. Mike unfortunately the issue with script color printing on Mac is not just isolated to the IDE as it is color printing after setting the htmlText or

Re: Missing a chance

No my howl was because I shouldn't hgave to add LC: it should be one of the automatic authoring tools of choice. R. On 25.08.2016 22:21, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richmond wrote: > Livecode is so not here it makes me howl: > > https://elearningindustry.com/list-of-authoring-tools-part-1 >

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

This: set the textsize of field "auto complete" of card "single line" of stack "message box" to 18 On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:17 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Oh, theres 2 more fields you'd have to adjust too I guess. (the ones > displaying the "best guess.." as you type. > > On

Re: Missing a chance

Richmond wrote: > Livecode is so not here it makes me howl: > > https://elearningindustry.com/list-of-authoring-tools-part-1 > https://elearningindustry.com/list-of-authoring-tools-part-2 > https://elearningindustry.com/37-authoring-tools Yes, there are many thousands of tools lists across the

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Thank you very much. Richmond. On 25.08.2016 20:51, panagiotis merakos wrote: I am not sure if this is the expected behavior (i.e. to first open the Script Editor so as to get the msg box text colorized), so I filed a bug to investigate this further.

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Oh, theres 2 more fields you'd have to adjust too I guess. (the ones displaying the "best guess.." as you type. On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: > Richmond.. Short term you can do this.. > > set the textsize of field "message" of card "single line" of

Missing a chance

Livecode is so not here it makes me howl: https://elearningindustry.com/list-of-authoring-tools-part-1 https://elearningindustry.com/list-of-authoring-tools-part-2 https://elearningindustry.com/37-authoring-tools Richmond. ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Indeed On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:27 PM, Richmond wrote: > Thanks. > > I am aware of that: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6=27829 > > I am fairly handy at mucking around with (and mucking up) components of > the IDE. > > However there are lots of

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Thanks. I am aware of that: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=6=27829 I am fairly handy at mucking around with (and mucking up) components of the IDE. However there are lots of end-users, and lots more potential end-users (especially if I get my wicked way and get my book out to

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Richmond.. Short term you can do this.. set the textsize of field "message" of card "single line" of stack "message box" to 18 set the textsize of field "results" of card "single line" of stack "message box" to 18 set the textsize of field "message" of card "multiple lines" of stack "message box"

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

hmmm, a good idea, letting the user right-click in the message box to edit the font sizes, or having a settings card... On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 2:05 PM, Richmond wrote: > Thank you very much. > > Richmond. > > > On 25.08.2016 20:51, panagiotis merakos wrote: > >> I

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

I am not sure if this is the expected behavior (i.e. to first open the Script Editor so as to get the msg box text colorized), so I filed a bug to investigate this further. http://quality.livecode.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18265 Best, Panos -- On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:18 PM, Richmond

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Colourising the messageBox is marvellous . . . But it would be even more marvellous if one could set the font and the font size for the messageBox like one can the scriptEditor. Personally I find the teeny-weeny font size in the messageBox a bother: and I have had the font in the scriptEditor

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Yes; you are quite right. I opened the scriptEditor and then the messageBox. It might not be a bad idea to put that into the documentation. Thank you, Richmond. On 25.08.2016 20:14, panagiotis merakos wrote: I think you must have opened the script editor first On 25 Aug 2016 18:11,

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

I think you must have opened the script editor first On 25 Aug 2016 18:11, "Richmond" wrote: > At the risk of sounding very stupid indeed . . . > > I installed 8.1.0 rc 1 and typed this into the Message Box: > > put 5 into AA > add 1 to AA > put AA > > and saw no

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

At the risk of sounding very stupid indeed . . . I installed 8.1.0 rc 1 and typed this into the Message Box: put 5 into AA add 1 to AA put AA and saw no colourisation at all. What did I do wrong? Xubuntu 16.04 64-bit. Richmond. On 25.08.2016 17:01, panagiotis merakos wrote: Nice to hear

Re: Atom Issues

Hi Matt - I got rid of the ugh red error popups a while back by uninstalling and reinstalling Atom (I suspect the linter plugin was the culprit…) > Thanks, but that didn't change anything. > > On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Mike Kerner <[hidden email] >

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

@Peter: You are right, this should read: "On Windows, the default value of the global dontUseQt and dontUseQtEffects properties has changed **from false to true**. Regarding OSX: - If OS X version >= 10.8 then dontUseQT=true - If LC engine == 64 bit then dontUseQT=true On Thu, Aug 25, 2016

Re: Atom Issues

Thanks, but that didn't change anything. On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Mike Kerner wrote: > Here is a partial fix for the autocomplete issues. > Settings->Packages->Autocomplete-plus Then find "Keymap for confirming a > suggestion" and change it to tab, and

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

>From the release notes: "On Windows, the default value of the global dontUseQt and dontUseQtEffects properties has changed from true to false. This means that by default players created on Windows will use the DirectShow API for multimedia playback.” The second sentence seems to contradict

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Hopefully, soon, we'll get script color printing back, too. 8 is On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 10:01 AM, panagiotis merakos wrote: > Nice to hear that, Mike. The 8.1 RC1 release is great IMO, because apart > from 80+ bug fixes, it contains a lot of enhancement requests, including

Re: Very OT - Bad pun

I once knew a bloke whose family name was Cholmondley-Featherstonehaugh, which was pronounced: 'chumley - fanshawe'. Mind you with a name as posh as that one would have to be a bit careful if one described him as a 'bloke'. R. On 25.08.2016 18:33, Colin Holgate wrote: Not as bad as when I

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

> On Aug 25, 2016, at 5:58 AM, panagiotis merakos > wrote: > > Dear list members, > > We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1.0 RC-1. Thanks! This is wonderful. Best regards, Mark Talluto livecloud.io canelasoftware.com

Re: Atom Issues

Here is a partial fix for the autocomplete issues. Settings->Packages->Autocomplete-plus Then find "Keymap for confirming a suggestion" and change it to tab, and uncheck "Automatically Confirm Single Suggestion" On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:47 PM, Matt Maier wrote: > I keep

Re: Very OT - Bad pun

I guess Gloucestershire is only marginally better? Tore > 25. aug. 2016 kl. 17.28 skrev David V Glasgow : > > I use to live in Leicestershire … > > >> On 25 Aug 2016, at 4:25 pm, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> >> Not even the French could pronounce a

Re: Very OT - Bad pun

Not as bad as when I lived in Worcestershire. > On Aug 25, 2016, at 8:28 AM, David V Glasgow wrote: > > I use to live in Leicestershire … > > >> On 25 Aug 2016, at 4:25 pm, Bob Sneidar wrote: >> >> Not even the French could pronounce a word

Re: Very OT - Bad pun

I use to live in Leicestershire … > On 25 Aug 2016, at 4:25 pm, Bob Sneidar wrote: > > Not even the French could pronounce a word so different from how it is > spelled. (I'm half French so I can make fun of us). > > Bob S > > >> On Aug 23, 2016, at 14:29 ,

Re: Very OT - Bad pun

Not even the French could pronounce a word so different from how it is spelled. (I'm half French so I can make fun of us). Bob S > On Aug 23, 2016, at 14:29 , stephen barncard > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 12:51 PM, Richmond

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Nice to hear that, Mike. The 8.1 RC1 release is great IMO, because apart from 80+ bug fixes, it contains a lot of enhancement requests, including keyboard navigation in the Project Browser, script colorization in the msg box and some more:

Re: [ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

I am really excited about 8.1. I've been working with it for a while. There are several nifty things in here. On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 8:58 AM, panagiotis merakos < panos.mera...@livecode.com> wrote: > Dear list members, > > We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1.0 RC-1. > > >

[ ANN ] Release 8.1.0 RC-1

Dear list members, We are pleased to announce the release of LiveCode 8.1.0 RC-1. Getting the Release === You can get the release at https://downloads.livecode.com/livecode/ or via the automatic updater. Release Contents LiveCode 8.1.0 RC-1 contains 85 bug

Re: Performance issues LC8 versus earlier versions.

On 25/08/2016 04:23, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi Alex To avoid breaking the behavior of octal to decimal number comparison if they both happen to be in a binary string at the time of comparison I didn’t think it was a good plan to leave that binary comparison check above the number check…