Re: Why "Objects are only deleted on idle"?

On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 9:58 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > > Ah - thanks. > > Print spooling in the OS is often so slow, does this really make an > appreciable difference? > > Heavens, yes. A typical bankruptcy petition can be 60-90 pages. Each has to be rendered. Or

Re: tracking change dates for substack

On Sat, Sep 19, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Brahmanathaswami wrote: > splashScreenEngine --> Mainstack > > model, so that your substacks can all save data...what about setting a > customProp with a time stamp in the stack when data changes? > My mainstack stays hidden, and launches

tracking change dates for substack

Is there a practical way to automatically track the change dates for substacks? I'm about to end up with something like 100 of them (one for each judicial district) At the moment, I have routines that step through all of my cards every time I bump the revision, but it would be nice to be able to

Re: Thoughts about Functions, Pseudocode & Natural Language

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Jerry Jensen wrote: > And then there’s the well-known Forth construct: ComeFrom . . . > That's Cobol, not Forth. Forth's own stack behavior can be psychotic, too. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: Thoughts about Functions, Pseudocode & Natural Language

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > InterCal, I believe, from the April Fools 1984 issue of the CACM. > http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ComeFrom > Yes, but it was really there, and really used, in Cobol -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: Release 6.7.7 RC 4 / 7.1.0 RC 3

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 7:55 PM, James Hale wrote: > Er, 10.10 gold master was released to developers earlier this week. > I see that I can download the "GM Seed"--which then warns the 10.11 is already installed (I'm at Developer Beta 8), and should update instead. But

Re: Thoughts about Functions, Pseudocode & Natural Language

On Sat, Sep 12, 2015 at 2:07 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > The classic exposition of the ‘go to’ problem AFAICR is Edgar Dijkstra’s > 1968 paper "Go To Statement Considered Harmful”. Google will take you there > if you’re interested. Not everyone agreed with Dijkstra even at the

Re: Silly conference survey

On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 11:53 AM, Richmond wrote: [access to Las Vegas] > "from all parts of North America" . . . I wonder about all the users in > China, South and Central America, Europe and Africa > Oh, yes. Except maybe Africa. Nonstop to most of asia, Europe.

Re: Release 6.7.7 RC 3 / 7.1.0 RC 2

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 7:32 PM, Brahmanathaswami <bra...@hindu.org> wrote: > Dr. Hawkins wrote: > >> Focus is*STILL* broken when a window opens on the second screen . . . >> really??? >> > Oh... I was wondering about what was going on. move a stack to seco

Re: Release 6.7.7 RC 3 / 7.1.0 RC 2

On Sun, Sep 6, 2015 at 8:40 PM, Dr. Hawkins <doch...@gmail.com> wrote: > I dunno; I believe that it was already confirmed before I reported it.' > I take that back; it seems to be bug 15431 <http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15431> reported b y me, but they found t

Re: Release 6.7.7 RC 3 / 7.1.0 RC 2

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Sebastien Nouat < sebastien.no...@livecode.com> wrote: > > *6.7.7 Stable / 7.1.0 Stable * > The release of the next builds is planned to be done in the middle of next > week. > After having let more time to catch the bugs introduced by our change in > the build

Re: functions may be called as commands in IDE, but not in standalone

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 11:19 AM, Mark Wieder <mwie...@ahsoftware.net> wrote: > Dr. Hawkins <dochawk@...> writes: > > > Having solved it for my own, I'm not going to worry about this any > further > > if it can't bite people now . . . > > My gue

Re: functions may be called as commands in IDE, but not in standalone

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 8:01 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > I suspect this is a lingering definition which was somewhere in the > message path in the IDE. > > When the engine looks for what handler to call it checks each stage in the > message path in order for the pair (handler

Re: [Bug] Red Dot Breakpoints Ignored - Recipe

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > > Yes, that's exactly what I've come to do, but as per other posts, the > overall impression newcomers to LC will get with such idosyncracies of the > Script Editor/Debugger is not a good one. > I stand by my

Re: functions may be called as commands in IDE, but not in standalone

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 7:29 AM, Mark Waddingham wrote: > When you say 'when executed in the IDE' in what context do you mean? A > script? The message box? > I mean that when my stack and library stack run in the IDE, it doesn't choke on that line, but calls the function from

functions may be called as commands in IDE, but not in standalone

After a couple of days of frustration, compiling standalone to get test messages, I discovered: function someFunct a, b then a script that has someFunct cat, dog will execute someFunct in the IDE. In a standalone, it fails to find the handler. In my case, someFunct was originally a

cut doesn't throw error when failing in standalone

While I"m at my oddball reporting: When attempting to cut in a standalone within a password protected stack, it fails without throwing an error. I finally found the issue by looking at "the result". Is this already reported? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: [Bug] Red Dot Breakpoints Ignored - Recipe

On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 4:57 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: > Yes, that's exactly what I've come to do, but as per other posts, the > overall impression newcomers to LC will get with such idosyncracies of the > Script Editor/Debugger is not a good one. > Very much so. I would

"it" refers to button after copy in IDE, but to group of button in standalone

This took a while to track down, partially due to the long compile times. the code: *copy* btn "ch" to *group* "btnGrp" *answer* "theLin: " & cr & "1: " & item 1 of theLin & cr & "2: " & item 2 of theLin & cr & "3: " & item 3 of theLin \ & cr & cr & it & cr & the long

more cute IDE/standalone discrepancies

I'm hitting lots of these today, I suppose. A declaration beginning with on setPref pref theVal the IDE works just fine. It also compiles without error. On execution in the standalone, however, the handler is not found. I get errors 573 (handler not found) 587 (error in statement), 490

Re: [Bug] Red Dot Breakpoints Ignored - Recipe

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: > The fact that valid = conditions are also ignored is clearly a bug. > > I tend to find that unconditional breakpoints are ignored more often than the conditionals. Then again, I tend to try once then put in an IF with

Re: Goodbye stsMLXEditor

On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 3:31 PM, Peter Haworth wrote: > However it seems that not all errors are detected. So far the missing > errors are those associated with Strict Compile mode, e.g. missing local > variable definitions, missing quotes around certain language elements. >

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 2:51 AM, Ali Lloyd ali.ll...@livecode.com wrote: It's not possible for it to have gotten worse in LC 7, as the 7 IDE is identical to the 6 IDE except for branding It does, however, seem to be a huge leap back from 5. The delays in 5 were merely sluggish enough to be

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

On Sun, Aug 23, 2015 at 8:44 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Just out of curiosity, does it get better if you turn off script colonizing? As others have already made the cheap (and funny) one, I'll pass. But I didn't know that this could be done. I'll try. Hilting a

Re: Script Editor future (was Open Source Kickstarter Report Card)

On Saturday, August 22, 2015, RunRevPlanet f...@smpcsupport.com wrote: the problem with this approach is that you need to find a single editor that runs on Linux, OS X Windows. vi, of course . . . If you want to use that heretical emacs contraption, you'll get performance almost as bad as

UTF8 encoding error in moving data from SQLite to Postgres?

I am getting the error revdberr,ERROR: invalid byte sequence for encoding UTF8: 0xca 0x27 I think this is coming because I pasted data from a web browser into live code, which in turn put it into the memory SQLite db, and then choked with another command copying that data to Postgres. I'm not

Re: [OT] Copyrighting games?

On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 8:30 AM, Lynn Fredricks lfredri...@proactive-intl.com wrote: Copyright registration is not required to be afforded some protections under copyright law, but it affords _additional_ protection under US law that makes your rights easier to enforce. Most notably, the

Re: mouse pointer hot spot is way off

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: There's pretty persuasive evidence now that the shadowed variable bug is caused by stopping a debug run early. I'll watch

Re: mouse pointer hot spot is way off

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 2:53 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: There's pretty persuasive evidence now that the shadowed variable bug is caused by stopping a debug run early. I'll watch for that, then. But it absolutely has to go; it costs me at least several minutes, and sometimes a

Re: mouse pointer hot spot is way off

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote: I have seen this and can reproduce it reliably. On a Mac, if you have two monitors (or more I suppose), and you open a script editor window, it initially opens on the same screen as your LiveCode IDE; on the main screen” as

Re: Archaeology

On Sunday, August 16, 2015, Mark Waddingham m...@livecode.com wrote: 2. 12 classes of objects . . . well EPS seems to have gone the way of all flesh . . EPS always relied on a display postscript system which was only ever available on some higher end Unix systems way back. But it sure

Re: Business Application Framework

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 3:51 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't include the vcIgnoreProperites , either. Nor explain it, it seems:-) This would cause all of the common suspects to not be included in a revision -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: Business Application Framework

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: You give them a script. Yes, but the script still needs a way to distinguish which changes happen from normal use, and which from redesign, doesn't it? Clicking a property seems to be at least as easy as

Re: Business Application Framework

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: This is one of the curly issues. I personally can’t imagine the tedium of having to set a default property for half the properties of every object. It becomes routine; I'm building forms. I have several

Re: mouse pointer hot spot is way off

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 1:04 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: That might be a clue. Retina screens have a different resolution. Maybe the engine's calcs are off. When this bites, the error is a fixed amount. Move the mouse three dots down, and the point it clicks seems to

Re: mouse pointer hot spot is way off

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 7:37 AM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote: Very often the hot spot is off, usually about 50-100 pixels high, for one or more windows in the IDE. I usually notice it in the editor where it is off by 3 lines. Almost always it is just vertical. I see this on a regular

Re: Business Application Framework

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 1:46 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: As far as lcVCS goes I actually think it would be good better if we could work with Mark and Peter to get the file format into the engine. It really is insane that it isn't built in Along with their

Re: mySQL: PHP or direct access?

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: I believe Mark Wieder had a good look at revDB and decided to stop looking ;-) Was it Mark that warned me off a few weeks ago when I wanted to add a couple of lines to enable ssl for postgres? -- Dr.

Re: mouse pointer hot spot is way off

On Sat, Aug 15, 2015 at 8:58 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I haven't seen it yet. Are those who have seen it using a third-party mouse? I usually see it on the internal trackpad of a macbook retina -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: mySQL: PHP or direct access?

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: What are the pluses and minuses you get from using php as a middleman to access a mySQL database on a server versus accessing the mySQL database directly from LC? Also note that LiveCode can't handle compound commands with

Re: mySQL: PHP or direct access?

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:56 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I do like the idea of only a single connection to the db from the server side script. But don't you then start getting into multiple thread issues for performance reasons? I will be needing a persistent server for my

Re: lcVCS in the LC Forums

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:20 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I would also like to say how much I feel for you over your bereavement. I do, as well. We've been there, and the loss just can't be described. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: [YO EDINBURGH!] Microsoft Open-Sources It's Toolkit For Making iOS Apps Run On Win 10

On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: I think the majority of you have iOS devices because it is what you LIKE, not because it represents what the majority or even half of the population HAVE. Inexpensive Android devices are getting better and better

Re: [YO EDINBURGH!] Microsoft Open-Sources It's Toolkit For Making iOS Apps Run On Win 10

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 7:58 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: If your sources are from a newsfeed on an apple device, I am not surprised at what thoughts you are allowed to have. Huh??? I can't eve being to figure out where the is coming from. Does apple even have a

Re: [YO EDINBURGH!] Microsoft Open-Sources It's Toolkit For Making iOS Apps Run On Win 10

On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:17 AM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.com wrote: Read this; it didn't come from Apple though. $22B iOS -vs- $19B Android. http://readwrite.com/2014/07/03/ios-developer-android-developer-earnings-gap Yeah, articles like that. The initial caption about how

Lock messages, and I mean it, damnit!

Is there a way to lock messages and make it stick? In my quit routine so shut down, I handle some matters and then lock messages quit The error aren't visible in the standalone, but in the IDE, the open stacks still get closeCard sent to them, causing error (because I've already shut down the

Re: Lock messages, and I mean it, damnit!

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: Perhaps you're getting a script error somewhere other than your closeCard handlers. A simple test here of closing a substack that executes a basic event during closeCard works as expected. Those were the absolutely

Making icons

Quite some time ago, I converted a png to a .icons file on OS X. And I have absolutely no memory of what I did to use it. I've edited the icons, and need to do it again. Could anyone spare a hint? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___

Re: Making icons

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: I'm sure there are other places but there's a free online convertor at https://iconverticons.com/online/ This was perfect! My application no longer has a square icon. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: Multiple Stacks on Mobile

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 7:51 AM, Ray r...@linkit.com wrote: As far as I know, it's not possible to display two stacks simultaneously on either Android or iOS. Does anybody have any suggestions for a work around to this? My thinking at the moment as I ponder a tablet version is to use

Re: Multiple Stacks on Mobile

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:01 AM, Ray r...@linkit.com wrote: Dr. Hawkins also suggested the groups idea which I can try, although now that I think about it that might be a little complicated since it's my users, not me, who populate each card with objects. That should not be a problem--you

Re: list field not getting arrowkey msg

Foolish question, but have you tried creating a new field from scratch, pasting the script, and seeing if that works? I've had to do that a couple for times when some exotic and non-displayed property or another got set. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: Before and after Livecode

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Robert Brenstein r...@robelko.com wrote: Indeed. I wonder whether before/after could be used to populate popup/pulldown lists in buttons dynamically (upon mouse click) or store field selection before it looses focus. For saving valuesNot following the

Re: Totally Loopy

On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: wait 4 ticks animaSHun end animaSHun This part is going to cause a nesting problem . . . the first invocation of animaSHun never completes, then the second, and eventually you hit the limits. Try send

Re: Oh ! So completely OT ......( All about CPU allocation !)

On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 10:55 AM, Colin Holgate colinholg...@gmail.com wrote: In the Unix world you would be talking about renice. It works for Mac OS too: renice is wonderful; I used to use it all the time. Today however I don't have anything that spikes the CPU other than building livecode

Thoughts on designing for postgres server performance

My application runs on the loss computer (and eventually tablet) and uses multiple :memory: SQLite tables for data. Periodically (every few seconds) a synchronization to postgres server occurs. Each of my customer's clients/debtors ends up in a single file on the server. Currently, the

Re: Unusual list spam - caution

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 12:17 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Mine were from Jim McConnell too. I wonder if he (or someone) has got some kind of malware that's doing this. his server farm. Yes, Jim McDonnell has a farm. And on that farm there is s spam. EI-EI-O :) --

can't select text of field with traversalOn and lockText set to true

According to the dictionary, If a field's traversalOn and lockText properties are both set to true, the user can select text, but not change it, and can scroll within the field using the keyboard. However, I have a pair of fields with these set to true where I can't select the text . Could this

Re: Best way to check if a Field is a label?

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 3:27 AM, Peter W A Wood peterwaw...@gmail.com wrote: I’m trying to find the best way to clear all the fields in which data can be entered on a card. At the moment I use this code: Situation dependent, of course, but I have sections with things like switch case

Re: Using Shell

On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 3:39 AM, David Bovill david@viral.academy wrote: Any ideas what to do? could it be finding a different program with the same name? try which ipfs from the shell and live code. Also, what happens if you shell the command it suggests? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.

including a library in a standalone

I happily managed to get the library stack working for shared routines in pretty much a matter of minutes. I've got my routine to prepare for compile copying the library stack to the project stack. However, I assumed library stack libStackName would work in a standalone, but it creates errors

Re: save as of stack file from a script

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: *dispatch* revSaveAsStandalone to stack revSaveAsStandalone with yourstackname This worked wonderfully. At least after I fixed the way the save folder gets automatically set to match my new changes. -- Dr. Richard E.

Re: including a library in a standalone

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 4:41 PM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: The library stack is a substack of the mainstack I assume? If so, make sure you haven''t set things so that it breaks out substacks into separate stackfiles. (at which point its no longer monolithic) If the library stack

Re: Open Socket With Messages

On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Bob Sneidar bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com wrote: I went back to the dictionary and read more thoroughly what wait for messages does, and while it is working as advertised, it is fairly worthless in it’s present form unless you find a way to trap for *ALL*

where does startup message go when in IDE

I've found the startup message, to be sent to the first stack opened. It seems useful, but I haven't been able to trap it in the IDE. In particular, I found an incantation to hide the stack or some such for use at the command line. Is it going to an IDE card? Could I simulate it with a if the

Re: save as of stack file from a script

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 5:56 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: A mainstack has a filename property, which can be set from the value returned from ask file. Follow that with a save command and you're done. Wow. That easy. And it turns out that save can even take a filename

save as of stack file from a script

Odd as it sounds, I want to do a save as of my stack from code, rather than hitting a dialog box. I have a prepCmpl routine to get the stack ready for building a standalone. I've previously set things up so that the various standalone options are set to what I want based on the file name

Re: detecting cell movement in a table

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:49 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: That's what I would do. I turned on the messageMessages to see what messages are fired when using a table object. I Wow. 1) How do I do that? 2) How did you even *think* to do that? The dictionary, user guide, web are

Re: detecting cell movement in a table

On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: I'm managing to catch this one, and do some updating. Now I have to intercept tab, etc. to do sane navigations . . . a simple regal was able to change each of these into a handler with 4 variables, a breakpoint

Re: Reordering cards?

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: Wow! I knew LiveCode was incredibly versatile: but skinning cats - really: bet that's a new one on most LiveCode programmers. What most people forget is that while there are many ways to skin a cat, the cat hates

Re: detecting cell movement in a table

On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: Do you mean a change to the data in a given cell, or a change of cursor location within the table? Either would work for me. The table is a two-column free-form list of values to be summed such as dog 5 cat 7 12 So

detecting cell movement in a table

is there a way to detect cell changes in a table? I've tried giving it a script for tabKey, returnInField, arrowKey, and enterInField, and it doesn't get called; it appears that not even keyUp gets called. Or is this how a regular table is supposed to work? -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.

Re: iOS not liking specialFolderPath(Preferences)

On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 7:53 PM, John Dixon dixo...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: In general you should only create files within the documents, cache, and temporary folders. Indeed, be careful not to change or add any files within the application bundle. The application bundle is digitally signed

Re: local variable being reset from outside of script

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Could also be launching a palette stack from a behavior object. It's possible that on return it launches a new behavior instance. Dunno. It's a bug if so. I seem to have found it--it's one of the same-old IDE bugs

iOS not liking specialFolderPath(Preferences)

In the code sequence (in preOpenStack) *answer* ck 28 *answer* specialFolderPath(Preferences) errorDialog produces Execution error 21,39,1 241, 39, 1 preOpenStack 353,0,0 stack /var/moble/Containers/Bundle/Spplication/hex codeVampHeart.app/VampHeart This is on an actual 6+;

advertising on mobile

Is anyone here doing an advertising-based mobile app with the livened partner? Does it work? Are there other/better options/ -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this

Re: local variable being reset from outside of script

On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 9:02 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: Somehow, between the two checks, pChFld changes from holding an id to empty. I managed a partial workaround, but there are more disappearing local variables. The partial workaround is to But now it's getting worse: ck

local variable being reset from outside of script

In the script of a behavior button for a field, I have a block of *if* pChFld is empty *then* *breakpoint* *end* *if* *palette* chStk *if* pChFld is empty *then* *breakpoint* *end* *if* where pChFld is declared local outside of and before any

wait until or repeat until (with a wait) for modal dialog wait?

I am writing my own modal replacement for answer for a variety of reasons Once I have a modal stack/card set up, there isn't anything to do but wait for it. I could use either repeat until the retVal of me is not empty wait 10 milliseconds with messages next repeat or I could use wait

Re: wait until or repeat until (with a wait) for modal dialog wait?

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: You're right, the debugger doesn't like modal windows. It looks like you actually don't have a problem :-) My favorite kind of problem :) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462

Re: wait until or repeat until (with a wait) for modal dialog wait?

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: You don't want to use the wait command here. You want to use a callback message. If your stacks are real modal windows, you don't even need that. Once debugged, they're real modal windows. Hmm, that

Re: wait until or repeat until (with a wait) for modal dialog wait?

On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: You're right, the debugger doesn't like modal windows. It looks like you actually don't have a problem :-) My favorite kind

cant't find the textFont of formatted text?

inside of a loop through the fields, I have put thFld cr the formattedText of thFld \ cr exists(the textFont of word 1 to -1 of the formattedText of thFld) put the textFont of word 1 to -1 of the formattedText of thFld On a particular field, I get field id 3132 of stack rawForms

Re: arrays with merge

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: Well I missed the countdown so I'll +1your post. and I'll +2. The things that I would most like to add to livecode would be strict compilation being the default, absolute case sensitivity (unless turned off for comparisons),

Re: cant't find the textFont of formatted text?

On Fri, Jun 5, 2015 at 11:20 AM, Mark Waddingham m...@livecode.com wrote: The 'formattedText' property of a field is a string so the expression: the textFont of word 1 to -1 of the formattedText of thFld Does this: T1 = evaluate the formattedText of thFld T2 = word 1 to -1 of T1

sorting SQLite keys where no leading zeros at end of name

I have keys that get generated such as someKey_1 someKey_2 I just hit the snag that someKey_10 comes between the two of these. Is there a clean way to get SQLite (in memory) to ORDER these numerically without having to recode to force leading zeros? *yuk* -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins,

breakpoint gets edited out of cut/paste in IDE?

has anyone else seen this? If I copy a block of if sGrp=p13_6.0.1 then breakpoint end if in the IDE, and then paste it elsewhere in the IDE, the middle line with breakpoint is consistently not appearing, with instead a blank line. Has anyone else seen something like this?

Re: sorting SQLite keys where no leading zeros at end of name

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: ORDER BY substr(TheKeyColumn,1,instr(TheKeyColumn,'_')-1) ASC,CAST(substr(TheKeyColumn,instr(theKeyColumn,'_')+1) AS INTEGER) ASC If there are a fixed number of chars before the numeric part of the key, then you can replace

Commercial license renewal

After the renewals from the kickstarter, I'm coming up for renewal again. I had thought that the annual rate was changing to $300 or $500, but it indicates that it is still $750. Would this still be the license I used to have, in which my Livecode applications during that year don't expire, or

Re: Commercial license renewal

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:13 AM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: This is not the support site but his question is extremely useful for many others and I am interested in seeing what answer he gets. That is why I posted it here--I'm looking for other commercial customers' experiences. While

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:02 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Script length may have something to do with the editor delays. It takes more time to process text in v7. I'm currently converting a stack where no scripts are longer than a few hundred lines (most are under 500)

Re: need help with filter and regex

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 11:22 PM, Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de wrote: You are right, that it would be a typical db task and actually I was using valentina for this (could also be done with sqlite). in-memory sqlite is blindingly fast; typically sub-millisecond response for me. I

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:02 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Script length may have something to do with the editor delays. It takes more time to process text in v7. I'm currently converting a stack where no scripts are longer than a few hundred lines (most are under 500)

Re: AW: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 2:06 AM, Dave Kilroy d...@applicationinsight.com wrote: I say 'in general' because v7 seems to be more fragile than earlier versions because sometimes when I hit an error in my code the IDE becomes sluggish afterwards becomes sluggish Mine *starts* with a 2s or

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 8:07 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: It turned out that the acquiring company is very generous with their developers, outfitting them with the very latest and fastest Macs loaded with maximum RAM and the fastest HDDs on the market. I hit the

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 10:33 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB toolb...@kestner.de wrote: I made some more performance benchmarks with my real life data I deactivated my special sort xSortListe handler and replaced it just by: 1. sort lines of tListe numeric 2. sort lines of tListe international

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 2:05 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: On 05/30/2015 12:40 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: along the way or are new converts to LiceCode. And add to those Oops. Obviously I meant LiveCode. LiceCode: the hairiest programming experience you will ever have. The

Re: AW: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 7:16 AM, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: Malte, it might help if you don't sort the keys on each keystroke, instead put the keys into a list and sort them once, then keep referring to that same list as you do your filtering. Its faster to pop the full sorted list

Re: Button icons

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 6:13 AM, Martin Koob mk...@rogers.com wrote: And none of his buttons had icons which didn't help. :-) Not needed; he's an iconic figure in his own right. :) -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 ___ use-livecode

Re: How do you handle the poor performance of LC 7?

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 8:27 AM, Andrew Kluthe and...@ctech.me wrote: As a personal rule of thumb, I don't use anything post-6.x.x for anything but trying out the bleeding edge features. I have no choice; I absolutely need the adjustable scaling on the desktop. So I deal with performance by

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