Quicktime on PC stuttering during Video displays

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Running LiveCode 5.5 on my Macs for many years with several very successful conversions to a PC platform (Windows 7) Apart from some field parameters and choice of "more PC" oriented character sets, I could convert in no time. Happy Bunny ! However, some of my Apple

Multiple Quicktime driven MP3/MP4 Track Player

Klaus, "PlayStopped" - Ich kannte diesen Befehl nicht ! Es sollte den Trick machen. Vielen Dank, Klaus. -Francis -- *** And for those who don't grab .. "PlayStopped" - I did not know this command ! It should do the trick. Thank you, Klaus.

Multiple Quicktime driven MP3/MP4 Track Player

Hi from Beautifull Brittany, I built an app which plays indivdual MP3 and MP4 tracks from a list (one line per filename). Simple play sequence (1 - show player - start player. 2 - hide player - stop player). I can stop the play function anywhere during the play sequence, but must eventually

The case for not trying to be so English-like

Hi, Mark, Very interesting was your post. And to reciprocate, will I add a few ideas ! I don't sleep - I listen to "BBC World Service" during many long nights. Fascinating! It covers a multitude of affairs (World-Wide). I listen to it on WiFi Channels. A recent post led me to the following,

Video files not showing on my PC (LiveCode 5.5)

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks for the input Tiemo. I think that I will convert those files that do not show, into other formats, and see how they react. This could solve the problem ... :>)) Best Regards -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list

Video files not showing on my PC (LiveCode 5.5)

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, LiveCode 5.5 (I know, I can't afford the updates - Am I the only one ?) Sierra 10.12.3 On my Mac, I have successfully run Audio and Video functions (Quicktime) MP3 for Audio, MP4/Mov for Video, for some years. Recently moving the app to PC (Windows 7, with Quicktime

Completely OT - flat earth

11 August 1999 - We went out on our (Honda) bikes to find THE SPOT. It was somewhere North-East of Paris. The birds were so petrified, they stopped singing - A once in a lifetime experience (next one here is far enough away from today to not interest me, as I most definitely WILL NOT be there !!!)

Re Quick Test for Tiemo

Sorry Tiemo, Got a message that "MyMACs.livecode" is not a stack - can't open it with LiveCode I wonder why ? Using - 10.12 Sierra with LiveCode 5.5. Best Regards Francis > Message: 2 > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 10:28:59 +0200 > From: "Tiemo Hollmann TB" > To: "LiveCode

Printing a formatted file from a LiveCode stack

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have often printed out data from liveCode stacks - in simple form, write to file …. etc, and got a file that I could print using Textedit, or Word. However, It was straight text - no tabs, no formatting, nothing. Now I want to build a file to print out with the the

Re : write to file at end

Hi Bob, I think that you are forgetting at least two parameters in the open file command : open flle ABC for update (existing file you want to READ and then WRITE to) (I never used this form ...) open file ABC for append (existing fille you want to "ADD" to) ("just the job !") I hope that this

Subject - LiveCode - I'm not a very happy Bunny

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I am obviously in a physical and technological backwater. With my 4 Macs, I spend happy 8 hours a day - every day of the week. I run Mac OS 10.9 (can’t see why I should keep updating to later versions) With LiveCode, ’tis the same - I’m on 5.5.4, happy as a pig in

OT: Switch it off and back on

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I've always been in favour of this practice, without questioning why ! I run an old version lof LiveCode (5.5). Quite often, I save a modified version of my stack, and then try to Quit LiveCode. I get the same message asking me to Save or Cancel, and LiveCode is now

Re: Backspace unrecoverably deletes an object ....

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, to Bob Sneidar "Like it" - Will Use ! Thanks -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences:

Backspace unrecoverably deletes an object ....

Mac OS X 10.9.5 - LiveCode 5.5 Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I’ve just done it again !!! I created a button, loaded it up with thoughtful script, and, instead of hitting return to continue writing the script, , I wanderered around the stack, checking names, etc,, and later, without thinking, I

RE: LiveCode throwing compile errors for a stack which previously worked

Hi from Beautiful Brittany (when it rains, I just LiveCode !) Malte - Thanks a million - problem solved ! I wonder who set that flag - must have been me after a few whiskeys (progress is a series of monumental F**k-Ups) Brilliant 10 second solution to a pain in the butt ! Best Regards

LiveCode throwing compile errors for a stack which previously worked

All Computers Mac OS-X 10.9.5 - LiveCode 5.5 (I know, I'm obsolete, but I'm a poor, retired Computer Engineer who "liveCodes" for FUN !) Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I develop my Livecode stacks on several computers, and copy all my stacks to my laptop. Sometimes I “clean up” a stack which works

Beeing a developer after 40

Hi from Beautiful Brittnay, Richard, > nor to the 60-85 year old crowd > (I'll become a slobbering old, senile whatsit in > my own good time anyway). I think I should take umbrage on the insinuation that the 60-85 "crowd" are just "slobbering old, senile whatsits" ! Whenever it is your time,

Beeing a developer after 40

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, It all depends on what you mean by "developer" : 1 - You write apps for your own use ? 2 - You sell your apps for money, or give them away to anyone who wants them ? 3 - You spent several years with a software house developing for them ? 4 - You create apps because

Re: LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks to Mark and Jacqueline, and especially Panos for adding AVI clarification, and again to Stephen for completing the PC issue. I now know how to solve all elements of this problem ! If QT (V7) works on XP PC versions, that solves my immediate problem, but the

LiveCode Video Display with QuickTime on a PC ?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I’m confused - I want to create a PC version of a stack which plays videos (external) on demand. The files are either .mov or .mp4. The stack works perfectly on my Mac, but when I run it on a PC the video display will not work (no QT). So I have questions : If I

Activating tabs in a liveCode field

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have a Word file containing tab characters. I want to drop it into a liveCode field, and have the tabs respected (all texts lined up) Can I do this ? Thanks for any ideas. -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Modifying Drop-Down Menus on the fly

Hi from sunny Brittany, Thanks to Eric, Phil, Beda and especially Tore. I was so used to using keywords in button definitions to modify button parameters, that I didn't even look up "Menu" in the dictionary (Can't see the wood for the trees ?) Tore gave me little script routines which I can

Modifying Drop-Down Menus on the fly

Hi from Sunny Brittany (at least it was this morning !), After many years of using buttons in my stacks, I am discovering the joys of using “Pull Down” menus (and about time too !). I can change the script “cases” with the “set script” command, but I also want to know how to change the value of

Re: Getting Finder results into LiveCode

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks to all for your responses, especially to Martin Koob and Klaus Major. I have all I need. I had tinkered with the idea of using AppleScript, but apart from simple scripts, I find AppleScript excessively impenetrable, even after 50 years of programming in many

Getting Finder results into LiveCode

Hi from Beautiful (but wet) Brittany, A tiny problem. I use “cmd F” to find documents on my computer (never got round to using Spotlight). Is there a way to get the results of such a “Find” inside a Rev stack ? Anybody done this ??? I am a buggar for backups, and for one original, I have copies

Re: Script Indenting

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Some time ago, Mark Schonewille kindly showed me his HTML colorizer, which I use regularly (Thanks Mark !). I would not be against having a Script Colorizer (with indents, of course), as I find it difficult to review even my own coding when I return to it some time

Livecode Licence Rules for dummies ....

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have a « Terms of Use » problem with LiveCode. I bought into Livecode several years ago, using it every day for my private use. I have stopped buying the new versions of LiveCode as they become available, because I am happy with 5.5, I can’t afford to upgrade, and

Re: From any button script, how can I reset the scrollbar of a field to the "top" ?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, > The scrolled amount of a field is defined by the vscroll (vertical) and > hscroll (horizontal) properties, so to set the scrollbar back to the top, > do this: > > set the vscroll of field "myField" to 0 Thanks David ! I tried everything I knew, but have never

From any button script, how can I reset the scrollbar of a field to the "top" ?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, This is a beginners question (except that I am not a beginner) I've tried everything I know to do this, but all the commands I tried came up with an error. Sounds stupid, don't it ? Is there a soul to help me out ? -Francis

Two great tips, one fantastic source

Hi from beautifu lBrittany (where the holiday crowds are leaving in droves) To Bob Earp, Thanks for the info about the “Digital Colo(u)r Meter, Didn’t know that it existed ! Must take a trot around “Utilities” to see if there are any more gems. Automator has also helped me a lot ! I could have

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

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Colin Holgate wrote : In the Unix world you would be talking about renice. It works for Mac OS too: Thanks Colin Thought for the day : “Windows is a pane ! ……. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

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

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I was brought up in the era of IBM 360/370 main-Frame computers, where the Operating Systems used a dynamic CPU allocation, based upon the the CPU requirements. For the novice, in this era, it seemed strange to allocate CPU time in an “apparent” reverse order of

[OT] Leaving Bulgaria?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond, After 10 years, you either return home, or you never return home. After 45 years, I must admit that I am solidly entrenched in France - children and grandchildren make it hard to go back - and why indeed would you go back, ……. unless ..., I remember what it

Re: how to check for unnecessary local declarations?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany (where it is raining, and there is a cool breeze, while the rest of France is in the high 30’s :)) In the same vein, I declare all my variables “global in two ways ; the first which will remain when testing is finished (i.e.. passing info outside the script); the

Displaying a jpg photo larger than my liveCode window ?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, To Mike Bonner and Brahmanathaswami, Many thanks to you both - two radically different approaches !! I will try them both and let you know which one I use. -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list

Displaying a jpg photo larger than my liveCode window ?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have a tiny problem (otherwise I wouldn’t ask for help) ! I have a stack window of a reasonable size, but I want to display a jpg (or other) file in this window, but it is much larger. I want to be able to “click and slide” on my displayed photo, in much the same way

Re: [Rant] Really annoying posts

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I’ve been programming for more than 40 years, and I will certainly not give you a list of the programming languages that I have used. I have used all sorts of mechanisms to help me program quickly and efficiently. My latest system is to write my scripts using comments

I love my Colour Picker

Hi from Beautiful (but cold) Brittany, I wrote my own Colour Picker many years ago I didn’t tell anybody about it ……… -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

(OT) Yosemite and the immediate future ....

Hi from Beautiful (but wet) Brittany, I know where Apple is trying to lead us, AND I DON’T WANNA GO ! I have 4 Macs, with 3 versions of OSX. 10.7, 10.8 and 10.9 I like my Macs as they are, although 10.9 seems to be squeezing me, just a tad. Now, on all my OS-X versions, I get encouragements to

LiveCode - Where, How, and with Who ?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, As a fervent user of LiveCode for some years now, I keep on asking myself the question “Who uses LiveCode, and why ?” I don’t know whether Company Policy would prohibit divulging such delicate information, but I would love to know the impact of LiveCode on the computer

Where, How, and with Who ?

Hi, from Beautiful Brittany, I don’t believe it - I must be Psychic !. Today, at 12:00 I sent my mail, “Where, How, and with Who ?” and at 16:04, I got an officicial LiveCode mail, saying “Who Are You” ?, obviously under preparation for some time. Well, Heather, I am gabberflasted ……… ….. and

Card ID not valid

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, After more than 15 years with Hypercard and more than 10 with LiveCode, I have NEVER used the reference Card ID. If I want to sort my cards (in dozens and dozens) of my data stacks, I have a field in each card which is an ID which I use to control card positioning my

How to I flatten a Hypercard stack (now Livecode) from cards and backgrounds to just cards?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I’m confused ! Kee Nethery says that he wants to remove backgrounds in a stack “to bring it into the modern era” Can anybody explain this statement ? What does this mean ? Is the background mechanism dying, or even being dropped ? I understand that many stacks (an

Re: Mavericks

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond, LiveCode 5.5.4 - Build 1502 Mac OS Intel only - Windows (not tested - Haven’t got a PC !) On Mavericks 10.9.5 No problem for building standalones ! Strange - Seems to loop forever in : “Removing development properties and setting profile options” but

Re: Sorting lines on colour (color for some)

Hi from beautiful Brittany, Jacqueline, I was already in a repeat loop to colour lines which contained certain field names, so I just tacked in the addition of the RGB, and then sorted the field. Then I added a three line repeat loop to remove the RGB data, and got what I wanted. So I found,

Re: Sorting lines on colour (color for some)

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks to all you guys (and Jacqueline) for the wealth of suggestions to solve my little problem. That’s a lot of brain power out there. I had thought of tacking the colour code onto each line, sorting by the normal way, and then stripping off the code. But I knew

Sorting lines on colour (color for some)

Hi from Beautiful Brittany (where, finally, it is raining), I have a list in a field, with backgroundcolor of some lines red, some yellow. Does anybody know how to sort the lines to separate out the two colours ? I can do it using a shuffle mechanism, but it’s not elegant enough (:) !! The sort

Loading clips into a player

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Beat, Although it is your choice to include the videos in the stack, it all depends on how many, and their sizes. Your stack could get “rather” large, and you have to recompile and save for each addition. I put my video clips in an external sub-folder that my stack

Using an internal file for PDF for manual

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, FAO Charles Szasz, I hate Adobe Reader, and don’t really go for Preview (except for its useful options). I use SKIM (unfortunately this app is Mac Only), great appleScript interface, and as user friendly as you get. I open files from a LiveCode script like this :

Looking further than the end of your nose - Was “Toolin’ Around”

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond, That’s one hell of a rant against ToolBook. I think it fair to add a few comments. Making choices about the software that you find, like and use is based upon …… those three words ! Find : Sometimes you use the wrong software for solving your problems,

Sending mail (invisibly) from inside a Mac LC app

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I don’t want to quibble, but the request in this e-mail would seem to me to be highly dangerous, totally subversive, and irrevocably suspicious. Maybe somebody would like to graft into a developing LiveCode program, an automatic spy mechanism. I suggest that nobody

Inserting Text, photo or video into a circle ?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I recently asked for help on displaying video clips in a circle. Scott Rossi put me on the right track, and I managed to get a stack up and running. Thanks Scott ! If anybody is interested, you can find the stack at : http://www.nugent.fr/Round1.htm I hope you

Re: Inserting Text, photo or video into a circle ?

Hi (from you know where) …... (and we have sun for at least a week - Yippee !!) Thanks to Scott for his input - I can work with that ! Richmond must be feverish : 1. Why don't you just do this sort of thing in GIMP, Photoshop or some other graphic program? 2. Why do you want to do this

Inserting Text, photo or video into a circle ?

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I would like to know if it is possible to insert text, a photo or a video clip into a circle. Somebody out there must have wanted to do this …. Thanks for pointers. -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Be This Guy - or Publicity - Business and Turnover

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Pete Wrote : The tag could be something like Practice makes perfect, but LC makes it easier to get there. I like that. Kevin should pick up such sayings and quote them in LiveCode publicity mails. -Francis Nothing should ever be done for the first time !

Re: Be This Guy - or Publicity - Business and Turnover

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, where the boats are bobbing uselessly in the swell. Hi Richmond, and anybody interested in the recent Livecode publicity. I know somebody who sends and receives a handful of mails in a good week (THAT is expensive !) I know somebody who has a golf bag full of

Re: Master Class Question

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, When you are unsure about the future, when all before you is bleak, when all questions loom ahead and no answers are forthcoming, when you do not know which way to turn, then Google it !! I remember zapping the IDE (some years ago) to accept .rev AND

Re: Replicant

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond, …. if you did not exist ….. …… we would have to invent you ! Best Regards - Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Colouring a circle and its segments

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Paul, Thanks for the information. I searched hi and lo for this info, but could't find it. The guys (and girls) on the LiveCode forum know all the answers ….. :) As for Vancouver, I agree, Vancouver Island is one of the most beautiful places I have ever seen. As

Re: Colouring a circle and its segments

Hi from Beautiful Brittany,.. Thanks Scott, So many possibilites with graphics, that I am only just beginning to discover. -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Colouring a circle and its segments

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Strange, can't find these answers on the Internet, and I have tried all the colour instructions to no avail. 1 - How do you colour a circle (graphic) ? 2 - How do you colour a segment of this circle ? Answers welcome …… -Francis Nothing should ever be done for the

Ready for Lift Off - With LiveCode Commercial

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Just for fun, I clicked on the button Upgrade Now in your LiveCode Ready for LiftOff - With LiveCode Commercial, although I am a fervent and everyday user of LiveCode for FUN, and I wouldn't dare to enter the commercial field against some of the brilliant forum

Strange script apearing in the message box

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, LiveCode Build 1502, Version 5.5.4, Personal Version While developing a stack : I show the Message Box (cmd-M), I click on Dictionary in the LiveCode menu, 'cos I've forgotten how to code a command. Immediately, the message box is filled up with hundreds of lines of

Re: Strange script apearing in the message box

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, … where I have my head buried in the sand …. Thanks Mark ! Sorry guys, hadn't looked at the forum mail for a few days. Too busy LiveCoding :) Mea maxima culpa ….. -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list

[OT - I remembered this time]

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Timothy Miller wrote : Jerry Garcia dies, wakes up in a vast featureless space. Strange that he should touch upon a subject like that ! We recently finished writing a Musical Comedy called Seven Stars in Paradise, where 7 famous, but dead musicians meet in

OT: Kepler's Tally of Planets

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Thanks for the link Mark - Fascinating !! As someone once said : If our planet contains the only life forms in the universe, this seems like a hell of a waste of space …. -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list

V6 against V5

Hi from very rainy (but Beautiful) Brittany, I'm a tad confused. I bought into Revolution some years ago (version 2), after many years of programming in Hypercard. I love LiveCode and can't do without it ! I have my Internet sites housed in the on-rev service and back up my data into my server.

Replacing an audio file Imported as Control

Hi from the same place as last time, Mark Schonewille wrote : delete audioClip 1 in the message box or use the application browser to select and delete by right-clicking on the audio clip and choosing Delete from the popup menu. Thanks Mark. Rather than make a list of all you know in

Replacing an audio file Imported as Control

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Mac OS 10.7.5, LiveCode 5.5.4 I built a stack to speak words and short phrases. I used Import a Control to load the small audio files, and used play audioclip to speak the sound files No problem ! All works perfectly well. But when I wanted to corect a file (Using

Re: Learning by... Avoiding mistakes

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Cal Horner wrote : How many of you use programming flowcharts to prove your answer before you actually begin to code ? I gave up writing flowcharts 40 years ago (it was mandatory when I was a programmer), and I admit that a flowchart is 90 % of program development.

Apple (et alia) !!

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Phase 1 - Your data isn't in your computer. It's somewhere ! And to get to it, you need to pay, on a rental basis ! Phase 2 - The application necessary to access your data isn't yours any more - It isn't in your computer. You have to pay to use it, to get to your

LiveCode Kickstart widget is in place

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, LiveCode Kickstart widget incorporated in the index page of my genealogy site : http://www.nugent.fr as requested ! …… and on my Facebook page. Best Regards -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: opening txt files

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Hi Nishok, If you are a nit-picker, and REALLY want to know why you have this problem, then my response is simple - I don't know ! If you want a work-around, it's simple - select your text when you are in Word, and paste it into a new text file (TextEdit), and save

Re: Running Livecode apps on Microsoft Surface

Hi from somewhere in Brittany, Roger wrote : But the Surface Pro (i5 platform) ….. and therefore should be capable of running standard desktop applications made with LiveCode. Thanks Roger. Whaddya know. After 25 years of Macs, I may be buying me a Microsoft Surface Pro …….. (I don't like

Running Livecode apps on Microsoft Surface

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I may have gone for an iPad, except that there was never any way of running native LiveCode on it (I mean under OS X). IOS and Android are certainly not my cup of tea ! It seems that Surface can run Vista apps. Does this mean that I can run Livecode apps (suitably

RE: Protecting stacks

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Mark wrote : and even if it is part of a standalone it isn't too difficult to detach the stack and save it as a stackfile again. Mark, That intrigued me ! Could you clarify that statement a little, or point me to a link which will explain how to do this. Best

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

Hi from You Know Where, Bob Sneidar wrote : I've wanted to visit Scotland all my life, but I fear I might starve to death for apprehension about what I might be eating. ;-) Bob, Take a shot glass full of whisky, drop it gently into a pint of beer (Robert the Bruce Scottish Ale will do the

Re: [OT] Pray for Andre

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Andre wrote : I think this was one of the reasons I was so amazed when I went to Edinburgh and saw people late at night with cameras and laptops walking on the meadows. In Rio you would not dare to do that. …… and Scotland may even be going for independance soon !

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

Hi from you-know-where, Bob Sneidar wrote : I believe LC has a command called launch ….. Bob, I have just fallen foul of the old saying : Can't see the wood for the trees, or even : Why use a simple solution when a complicated one will also do the job !. I got so used to building

Re: Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

Hi from you know where, Thanks to all for the input. Unfortunately, I still don't have a solution. My PDF is a Family Tree exported from EazyDraw, but I can also export to jpg, png, etc. Maybe I will have to solve the problem this way. -Francis ___

Calling a pdf display through LiveCode, on a PC.

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I have a stack which displays a pdf file, by calling Skim through AppleScript. Skim has all the required AppleScript interfaces - a really great app. !! Unfortunately, it is limited to Mac OS X. I am looking for a PC app. which I can call with LiveCode. Adobe Reader

Re : Suggestion for improved LiveCode scripting notation

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I think we have been round this subject several times. 1 - As anybody going to look at your scripts ? (chances are already vastly reduced !) 2 - Are you going to come back to your scripts next year, and mutter Who wrote this shit ?) 3 - As a principle, do you

Tied up in Layers …..

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, I'v written a stack with many phases of execution, and have literally dozens of fields and buttons on layers assigned by LiveCode when created. Some of these objects are shown when they should be invisible behind objects on a higher layer. Others are hidden when they

Re: Tied up in Layers ?..

Hi ….. from you know where …. Klaus, This is a damned good start - at least I know where I am. Where I'm going is the next step !! Thanks a million ! -Francis ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Problem resizing a stack

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Peter, I have a simple mechanism in all of my stacks which allows me to show or hide a bottom line of debugging buttons. I have a tiny hidden button set in the same place in my stacks (usually at the top/left junction of a rectangle defining the work area of the

Strange LiveCode reaction - Could be a (not very important) bug ?

Hi from Rainy (but Beautiful) Brittany Strange LiveCode reaction - Could be a bug ? LiveCode 5.5 Build 1479 on Mac OS X Lion. Launch LiveCode Create a New Mainstack Select Rulers from the View menu Horizontal and vertical rulers appear. You can close the window with the tiny red icon at the top

Apply command at the head of a displayed Script in the IDE

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Recently during a endless loop in one of my scripts, I used my traditional Panic Management response, hitting all the keys on my keyboard with both hands (recently likened to a Booker T Hammond play sequence). I must have hit a combination, beacause the apply command

Re: Apply command at the head of a displayed Script in the IDE

Hi from B B (you know where it is !) Mark Schonewille wrote : There is a little triangle in a circle in the rop-right of the script editor. This shows and hides the Apply button and a few other controls. Mark, I knew you would know, simply because you have NEVER been unable to answer my

Re : Stars

Hi from B - B, Jim Hurley wrote (amongst other things) : A star may be viewed in two ways: My math (or rather the non-understanding of it) was the main reason for me dropping out of physics and becoming a telecommunications engineer. The road to atomic physics was for ever barred to me, but I

An iMac Screen Problem ?..

Hi from B - B Keith wrote : Thanks for sharing the IDE recovery 'keyboard glissando' technique. Until now I had always reserved those for those Booker T Hammond organ licks! Booker T and the MG's - Behave Yourself (1962) - from the Green Onions album. A work of art …….

An iMac Screen Problem ?..

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Oufff ! (Sigh of relief !!) Thanks to Bjornke, Mike and Keith for pointers. Keith won the jackpot - the ZOOM was my problem. I realized that i had a software problem and not a hardware problem immediately. When I booted the computer, the password request display was

An iMac Screen Problem …..

Hi from Here, This is ever-so-slightly a non LiveCode problem, but I know that a lot of you guys have Macs, so here we go : I have a two year old iMac 20 inch, flawless since I bought it. Today, my screen suddenly went haywire, as if I had changed screen resolution (which I didn't). 1 - I can

RE: Another 5-out-5 review for LC!

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Kay C. Lan wrote : I haven't written a Stack with multiple Cards in quite a while. Stacks and SubStacks, yes. When was the last time anyone here created a Stack full of Cards? I came from Hypercard, and have been creating data bases for multiple reasons for 20

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, After spending half a day on reading all the Upgrade to Lion posts (Oufff !), I have a few comments : 1 - I bought a Macbook Pro portable with Lion, and was driven mad by the problem of scrolling, and the strange trackpad. It took me about a week to solve the problem.

Re: Upgrade to Lion

Hi from you know where, Jacqueline wrote : I really like Time Machine too -- for backups. It's always running, and it's saved me repeatedly. Same with me, but NEVER, NEVER rename any of your files. If you do, you will never find ye olde file versions. -Francis Nothing should ever be done

Re: can someone please try this test...

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, and I got the same as everybody else….. , Screen name,URL Home Screen 01,http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3788438/AgilixPublic/SesameLearning/UI%20screens/Page1.jpg; Home Screen 01a,http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3788438/AgilixPublic/SesameLearning/UI%20screens/Page1a.jpg; Home

Re: LiveCode-HyperCard XCMD's

Hi fro, Bequtiful Brittqny; (whoops, sorry, that was with the French keyboard) Interesting to see that 20 of the 26 latest messages on the forum were about Hypercard. It just shows how many of us came from the old era ! I copiously used the XFCN's and XCMD's, because of the fact that Hypercard,

Auto-opening folders

Hi from you know where Jacqueline, (answer to the poll) If I want to see whats in the folder after an app create, I will have the strength to open it myself (if this is an answer to your question !) Best Regards -Francis Nothing should ever be done for the first time !

Re : Auto-opening folders

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Richmond wrote : Yes, I agree. A program that wrests control from the end-user can get a bit annoying. Richmond, the bog mindles. Just imagine that ! Perhaps electrocuting the user through the keyboard ? Switching to a porn movie when your wife comes through

Set the locloc of image x to true

Hi from Beautiful Brittany, LiveCode : Mac installed - Build : 1479 - Version : 5.5.0 I have resized and repositioned an image in a script and don't want it to revert to its original values, when I come back to the card where the image was pasted. I tried set the locLoc .., assuming that :

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