Re: [OT] Poll: What does it mean for 1 rect to be 'within' a certain distance of another rect?

2021-02-15 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
Sorry: I have moved over here: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=7=35407 as I believe a picture is worth a thousand words: Richmond. On 16.02.21 1:13, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: I think the natural definition would be distance between the respective boundaries; i.e.,

Re: [OT] Poll: What does it mean for 1 rect to be 'within' a certain distance of another rect?

2021-02-15 Thread Richmond via use-livecode
I would go for the distance between edges, although I can see the Mathematical wobbly bits you are going to have to jump through. Richmond. On 16.02.21 0:53, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: This is an Off Topic informal poll of sorts, but related to LiveCode as I am writing a LiveCode

Re: [OT] Poll: What does it mean for 1 rect to be 'within' a certain distance of another rect?

2021-02-15 Thread Henk van der Velden via use-livecode
Alex, No one would challenge your definition I think, but your solution only takes the corner points into account, right? So this wouldn’t give correct results in case the rectangles have different sizes or are positioned obliquely. Henk > On 16 Feb 2021, at 03:12,

Re: Polygon fill algo?

2021-02-15 Thread Mark Waddingham via use-livecode
On 2021-02-16 05:55, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote: My expectation was almost beyond anything reasonable, but it would seem useful if there was some way to make it happen: imagine if each segment within a list of discontiguous points was rendered as though it's a separate object, back

Re: How do I interpret this Build Error dialog?

2021-02-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I should have said "the first line with an error code." I also should have looked at the images before I answered... -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com On February 15, 2021 7:56:47 PM Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:

Re: How do I interpret this Build Error dialog?

2021-02-15 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
William Prothero wrote: ... > https://www.dropbox.com/s/brlvvtrbb8xeh6j/buildFail-1.png?dl=0 What we see there is two bugs: the error being reported, and the dumping of raw error data in that IDE dialog with no effort made to turn a format designed for machine parsing into anything useful for

Re: Polygon fill algo?

2021-02-15 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Bernd Niggemann wrote: > > Richard wrote > > a way to coerce discontiguous polygon regions to always be filled? > > I assume you have set the opaque of the polygon graphic to true? Yep. My expectation was almost beyond anything reasonable, but it would seem useful if there was some way to

Another question about multiple stack projects

2021-02-15 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Folks: I have a question about multiple stack projects. My project starts with a splash stack. In the standalone preferences of this stack, I list all stacks the project uses, including script only stacks I use as libraries. Should I do a “Start using” on all of these stacks at this point? But

Re: How do I interpret this Build Error dialog?

2021-02-15 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Mark and Jacqueline: Thanks. That’s very helpful! Bill > On Feb 15, 2021, at 5:54 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 2/15/21 5:29 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: >> In Sample Stacks, search for LiveCode Error Lookup. I keep it my Plugins >> folder. You can paste the

Re: How do I interpret this Build Error dialog?

2021-02-15 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Sean: Thank you, thank you!. Bill > On Feb 15, 2021, at 4:14 PM, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode > wrote: > > Hi, > The error panels show the events in reverse order, so last occurrence first. > > The first number in each line is the error code and the second is the line > number in the

Re: LC Roadmap

2021-02-15 Thread scott--- via use-livecode
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Re: How do I interpret this Build Error dialog?

2021-02-15 Thread Mark Wieder via use-livecode
On 2/15/21 5:29 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: In Sample Stacks, search for LiveCode Error Lookup. I keep it my Plugins folder. You can paste the whole list of errors into it and it will tell you what they mean. However, usually you only need the first line which is where a break

Re: How do I interpret this Build Error dialog?

2021-02-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
In Sample Stacks, search for LiveCode Error Lookup. I keep it my Plugins folder. You can paste the whole list of errors into it and it will tell you what they mean. However, usually you only need the first line which is where a break would happen in the IDE. The other lines are, in reverse

Re: [OT] Poll: What does it mean for 1 rect to be 'within' a certain distance of another rect?

2021-02-15 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
On 15/02/2021 23:21, Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode wrote: Hi, No point reinventing the wheel.. But most of those links actually did not have this particular wheel, or anything like it. The exception was the last one (programmerssought.com) which had an ugly, inefficient and lengthy (45

Re: How do I interpret this Build Error dialog?

2021-02-15 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
Hi, The error panels show the events in reverse order, so last occurrence first. The first number in each line is the error code and the second is the line number in the script that failed. Here's a list of the error codes: https://livecode.fandom.com/wiki/Error_codes Going back from line 5 of

How do I interpret this Build Error dialog?

2021-02-15 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Folks: I have a pretty complex app that I’ve been adding onto for awhile and now I’m getting a seemingly informative error dialog when I try to build it. It works fine in the IDE. The app consists of numerous stacks and libraries launched with a splash stack. I get an error dialog but have no

Re: [OT] Poll: What does it mean for 1 rect to be 'within' a certain distance of another rect?

2021-02-15 Thread Sean Cole (Pi) via use-livecode
Hi, No point reinventing the wheel.. Lots of other way. Distance between two near or far edges. distance between corners, distance to centers, or area median, area of space between, overal usage area minus the area used by the two rectangles. Math is fun. Keeps us in business. Google (distance

Re: [OT] Poll: What does it mean for 1 rect to be 'within' a certain distance of another rect?

2021-02-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I think the natural definition would be distance between the respective boundaries; i.e., edge to edge distance, but also the distance between corners. That is, if any of r1's corners is d distance from any one of r2's closest corners. On 2/15/21 4:53 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote:

Re: LC Roadmap

2021-02-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Initial setup is a bit of a journey because Apple likes to make developers jump through hoops to prove they're worthy. But every subsequent notarization is a one-click wonder. On 2/15/21 4:25 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: Jacqueline: Thanks. Yes, I have it. Haven’t tried it yet.

[OT] Poll: What does it mean for 1 rect to be 'within' a certain distance of another rect?

2021-02-15 Thread Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
This is an Off Topic informal poll of sorts, but related to LiveCode as I am writing a LiveCode expression to determine if 2 arbitrary rectangles (r1,r2) are with some distance d (in px) of one another. In considering this problem, the questions comes up: What is meant by rectangles being

Re: LC Roadmap

2021-02-15 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Jacqueline: Thanks. Yes, I have it. Haven’t tried it yet. But I’ve downloaded it. Best, Bill > On Feb 15, 2021, at 1:35 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > wrote: > > Do you use his notarization stack? Once you get it set up it's a huge > time-saver. No more Terminal commands. > > On

Re: LC Roadmap

2021-02-15 Thread Jim Lambert via use-livecode
> Andre wrote: > > LC is a small company regardless of how much we love them. They can't provide > solution to all our needs. It is not because they don't want to, they have > limited resources. We can't treat LC as we treat Apple or Microsoft. So true. I absolutely marvel at how much the

Re: LC Roadmap

2021-02-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
Do you use his notarization stack? Once you get it set up it's a huge time-saver. No more Terminal commands. On 2/15/21 2:21 PM, William Prothero via use-livecode wrote: Codesigning is always a trudge for me because I don’t do it very often and Apple is regularly changing the parameters. So I

Re: LC Roadmap

2021-02-15 Thread J. Landman Gay via use-livecode
I agree, the lesson is fantastic. I was just there minutes ago helping a client set up his stack. And now we have entitlements added; that's new and much appreciated. Matthias put a lot of work into that lesson. We use it for every new Mac release. On 2/15/21 1:32 PM, Roger Guay via

Re: Polygon fill algo?

2021-02-15 Thread Niggemann, Bernd via use-livecode
>Richard wrote >a way to coerce discontiguous polygon regions to always be filled? I assume you have set the opaque of the polygon graphic to true? Without "opaque" I do not get any filling, with "opaque" true it always fills Kind regards Bernd ___

Re: LC Roadmap

2021-02-15 Thread William Prothero via use-livecode
Codesigning is always a trudge for me because I don’t do it very often and Apple is regularly changing the parameters. So I also very much appreciate Matthias’ lesson. Thanks from me too! Bill > On Feb 15, 2021, at 11:32 AM, Roger Guay via use-livecode > wrote: > > I definitely owe an

Re: LC Roadmap

2021-02-15 Thread Roger Guay via use-livecode
I definitely owe an apology to Matthias Rebbe for not recognizing his outstanding lesson “Codesigning and notarizing your LC standalone for distribution outside the Mac Appstore- “, including the fact of the recent update of Feb 9th. The amount of work involved in creating this lesson is

xAPI in LiveCode for the xAPI Cohort

2021-02-15 Thread Brian K. Duck via use-livecode
Here is an updated calendar for When2Meet: https://www.when2meet.com/?11053266-TIpH2 Please fill in your availability for this week, we will schedule a meeting or two based on responses as early as tomorrow. Sent from my iPad, Brian Duck ___

[ANN] This Week in LiveCode 255

2021-02-15 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 #255 here: https://bit.ly/3rW4JnU This is a weekly newsletter about LiveCode, focussing on what's been going on in and

Re: LC Roadmap

2021-02-15 Thread ELS Prothero via use-livecode
Great to hear Andre’s input! One point I hoped to make is that there is also a possibility of monetizing a help site that is created outside the mothership but coordinates and supports it. I think this kind of resource would be a significant investment and it is unrealistic to expect that the

Re: LC Roadmap

2021-02-15 Thread Andre Garzia via use-livecode
Hi Folks, > On 15 Feb 2021, at 01:46, William Prothero via use-livecode > wrote: > > Andre Garza’s post about his planning to write a book on some aspect of > Livecode programming got me thinking about this. First, I think writing books > is useful, but the way many busy folks access