google translator access via livecode

2023-06-04 Thread Andrew Meit via use-livecode
I am seeking a widget or live script code to translate a single word or at most 256 chrs text from within a stack. I think there is or was Google api livecode could use to talk with the Google translator server via scripting. My ideal use: while moving the cursor over and clicking text the

Google Translator within a stack

2023-06-01 Thread Andrew Meit via use-livecode
I am seeking a widget or live script code to translate a single word or at most 256 chrs text from within a stack. I think there is or was Google api livecode could use to talk with the Google translator server via scripting. My ideal use: while moving the cursor over and clicking text the

[ANN] Release 8.0.0 , project browser

2016-05-04 Thread Andrew Meit
Please, please anyone know how to hack the colors used in the project browser tree? 1. I can barely read the white on blue, needs to be dark grey/black bkgnd 2. all the light grey text needs to be darker or black 3. the eye is hideous, dark grey/black please 4. I can barely see the lock when

IDE: Accessibility

2016-05-04 Thread Andrew Meit
Nice touch for header/footer allowing size options for readability, thank you! open letter to Kevin, I am prepared to write up a list of Accessibility improvements; but to be honest, I need to know if they will get address within 2 months not 2 or more years later. This is not about just me,

Re: [ANN] Release 8.0.0

2016-05-04 Thread Andrew Meit
I see now that the lc user guide was shoehorned into the dictionary without considering if the screenshots should be updated…and yes the formal LC user guide has a toc. > On May 4, 2016, at 11:27 AM, Andrew Meit <meit...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > Really, wow….the guide….r

[ANN] Release 8.0.0

2016-05-04 Thread Andrew Meit
Really, wow….the guide….r Using many screenshots of the old dictionary within the new dictionary/guide! Using a screenshot of an ancient marketing model: Revolution 3.0 for the forums! There is no toc to navigate the guide, sometime pretty basic for a guide. Is the screenshots current for the

Re: wolfram lang….

2014-02-26 Thread Andrew Meit
Will play with this soon...really, having a way to interact with MMa would open some new doors and users too! thank you for a tease ;-) btw, some history, Wolfram came close to crafting MMA around HyperTalk..well, rest is history as it goes.. :-( shalom, Andrew Meit Please visit my gallery

Animation Engine gift

2013-07-30 Thread Andrew Meit
I really would like a commercial version of Animation Engine. If anyone has a second copy to give away please contact me. Thanks ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

mobile iOS with community version

2013-04-19 Thread Andrew Meit
Colin, thank you. I was under the impression I would be able to build personal apps. I see so many messages here how tricky it is to make a iOS app; hence your book will be very helpful. I am looking for is a check list of whats needed to be in place before I start using LC for iOS. Is there a

dictionary lc 6, missing stuff

2013-04-19 Thread Andrew Meit
I am just confirming missing dictionary info by reading the release notes. I paste in the keywords and nothing comes up. I can't find any entry/examples for: listIndex metadata Is this true for others searching? It would be good to have Paragraph, line, and character as dictionary tokens

Re: dictionary lc 6, missing stuff

2013-04-19 Thread Andrew Meit
found metadata...wow, finally hypertexting from char to paragraph without the weird 30 yr. old hacks...nice! thanks andrew On Apr 19, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Andrew Meit wrote: I am just confirming missing dictionary info by reading the release notes. I paste in the keywords and nothing comes up

Re: dictionary lc 6, missing stuff

2013-04-19 Thread Andrew Meit
I suggest group obj get all the tokens related to layer/layering in dict, so far Relayer cmd is not found in dict. andrew ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

mobile iOS with community version

2013-04-18 Thread Andrew Meit
Hello all What is required from Apple, and its cost, to make an iOS app for my own personal use using the community version; how stable is the community version to make an iOS app? Oh, is mobile app book updated for the community version? Also, Its not clear how one adds an iOS commercial to

Things that make you go Hmmmmm

2013-03-23 Thread Andrew Meit
I rather deal with a software company who is open and direct about their bugs and bug database. For me, feature set is just one reason to get the software, the other is timeliness and thoroughness on handling reported bugs stated publicly and certainly privately too! The classic 'trade secret'

Things that make you go Hmmmmm

2013-03-23 Thread Andrew Meit
Cool, thanks for letting me know. :-) On Mar 23, 2013, at 5:41 PM, Goulding wrote: Andrew have you been to RunRev QA lately. It's VERY responsive. RunRev have really turned this area around in the last year. Sure there's issues that need to be touched from when this wasn't so good but I

LiveCode and Mathematica

2013-03-07 Thread Andrew Meit
I would help test it. I have been wanting Mathematica support inside an x-talk for decades. Go for it. Please. andrew ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Bezier curves and open source

2013-03-07 Thread Andrew Meit
Kevin, Will Bezier curves finally get full support in open source LC?? I assume the svg support from the stretch goals handle Bezier curves?? Thanks andrew ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Just checking on a few bugs of mine...

2012-05-21 Thread Andrew Meit
Anyone else ran into these older bugs of mine: 1. create a huge 3 dim array via a script with lots of data to show, like in the thousands click variable tab --watch how IDE struggles to show the hierarchy via the arrows..eventually, IDE will hang 2. have a folder of 260,000 files set

Re: iOS Control Instantiation problem

2012-04-10 Thread Andrew Meit
I agree fully with you Graham. Its what has been holding me back for doing work with ios. I admire and thank those who can wrestle with the docs and ins/outs of Apple stuff dealing with ios. Here is an idea, provide free (many year agreement) copies of LC mobile to a school/classroom that

Why him does not use a natural language for programming?

2012-02-23 Thread Andrew Meit
In late 70s, Alan Kay, the spiritual father of the Mac os, Smalltalk, was wrestling with a very powerful and important and yet simple question, How to make a programming language simple enough a child could use but grow in power as the child's intellectual powers grew too? Simula, Smalltalk and

Re: 295 png import images

2011-10-12 Thread Andrew Meit
On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:55 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Could you perhaps use thumbnails for initial button presentation and then pull in the detailed layers as needed? -- Thats what am trying to avoid having to do. If you're layering the images, could you use a snapshot

Re: 295 png import images

2011-10-12 Thread Andrew Meit
Jan, cool, but I still need 295 large images and buttons on a card for each unique layer btn, right? if so, hits the ram wall again... andrew On Oct 12, 2011, at 9:55 AM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: The trick is to use an image, set the icon of the button to the id of said

Importing 295 png images...help

2011-10-11 Thread Andrew Meit
Greetings... I have 295 24 bit rgb color png 72 dpi at 1900 x 2200 pixels...It seems LC dies after the 115th image is imported. I have tried both 4.6.4/5.0, both die. I can import roughly 100 images per card, but when I reference as icons for transparent btns all the images, LC still dies. I

Re: Importing 295 png images...help

2011-10-11 Thread Andrew Meit
I just hit a wall on 4 gb. Layering is the key to the presentation of a 1 to 1 size page. Trying to avoid a split view management of the page (smaller to navg, larger off the side). Off to bed and try again weds On Oct 11, 2011, at 9:22 PM, Andrew Meit wrote: Greetings... I have 295