Y coordinate for a line of text

2019-11-11 Thread scott--- via use-livecode
I’m needing to know the coordinate (Y is the tricky one) for a line of text. I’m not do a very good job at calculating it. I think I remember a newish LC command or function that achieved this but I can’t locate it in the dictionary. Am I imagining? -- Scott Morrow Elementary Software (Now

Re: Managing maximized windows on MacOS

2019-11-11 Thread Paul McClernan via use-livecode
I ran into this myself recently. LiveCode sends a resizeStack message when you click the maximize "zoom box" button which you can intercept, but there's no way to verify that it was the fullscreen zoom button that generated the message. It would be nice if LC had the opposite of it's iconifyStack

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 201

2019-11-11 Thread panagiotis merakos via use-livecode
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 #201 here: http://bit.ly/2CzA0oR This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and around

Re: Atom Linting

2019-11-11 Thread Brian Milby via use-livecode
I have it working on Mac and Linux.  I’m not seeing it work properly on Win10 though.  I did ensure all plugins were updated and Atom was at the latest version. Thanks, Brian On Nov 11, 2019, 1:53 PM -0500, Ralf Bitter via use-livecode , wrote: > > > On 10. Nov 2019, at 03:12, Brian Milby via

Re: Amazing how forgiving the older LC engines are...

2019-11-11 Thread Tom Glod via use-livecode
Yup.While upgrading from 7 to 8 and from 8 to 9 I had several "I can't believe this code worked" moments. I prefer an unforgiving interpreter. thats why I fell in love with Rust and its ridiculously unforgiving compiler. Haven't had to use it yet, but look forward to it. On Mon, Nov 11,

Re: Atom Linting

2019-11-11 Thread Ralf Bitter via use-livecode
> On 10. Nov 2019, at 03:12, Brian Milby via use-livecode > wrote: > > When I tried, I had to make an additional change > to get things to work. Brian, does linting LC code work for you an Mac OS too? On Ubuntu it works here as expected but since recently on Mac OS I get: [Linter]

Amazing how forgiving the older LC engines are...

2019-11-11 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
I just got bit by how forgiving older LC engines version are. Migrating a stack from LC6.7.11 to LC9.5.1. There is a handle to perform a "select all" on a particular list field where "select all" means select all lines but the first. The code was essentially:   put empty into tLineList