(Arbitrarily) Long-Division Script

2014-10-30 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hi all, I wanted to develop a library to allow me to perform basic maths (add, subtract, multiply, divide) with arbitrarily long numbers in LiveCode. My requirements are simple: - integers and floating-point numbers must be supported as all operands in all operations, to an arbitrarily large

Re: What is LiveCloud?

2014-08-15 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear Nick, Thank you for the links, and for the info. And congratulations on putting together what appears to be a very polished piece of software. From what I've read, it appears that *you* host the client's database - that is, the LiveCloud software is hosted in *your* servers, and the

What is LiveCloud?

2014-08-08 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear ListMembers, The last issue of RevUp has an article titled LiveCloud Part 2. I seem to have missed part 1 - could someone post me a link? And just what is LiveCloud? Is it related to this site?: http://livecloud.com -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia

Re: OT : Advice on SQL database design

2014-06-30 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
I'll try to provide some initial info: On 1 Jul 2014, at 10:23 am, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: I guess there's a meta-question about what's a good book/source on SQL database design ? I am trying to design a database. There is one table which contains, let's say, Armed Forces

Re: Learning about server

2014-06-11 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 12 Jun 2014, at 8:46 am, Mike Bonner bonnm...@gmail.com wrote: Just set up lc community server on mavericks server (fresh install since previous updates had completely horked things). […] For those interested, please see this: http://forums.livecode.com/viewtopic.php?f=15t=20465 I have 3

Livecode Server Sessions

2014-06-01 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear LC Server Gurus, Is there a tutorial anywhere that explains *exactly* how to use SESSIONS with LiveCode Server? I found a lesson on *cookies*, here: How do I use Cookies on LiveCode Server? | How To … This is good info, but only useful if I were going to implement my OWN session

Base64 Quoted-Printable Email Headers

2014-06-01 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear LC Gurus, I am working with LC 7.0-dp6, and need to parse some raw email messages, translating headers that were encoded using base64 or quoted-printable encoding back to ‘normal’ text. The email headers in these messages look like these samples: Subject:

Re: Livecode Server Sessions

2014-06-01 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 1 Jun 2014, at 8:08 pm, Dave Kilroy d...@applicationinsight.com wrote: Hi Igor I don't know of any LC session tutorials other than the one you mentioned - but I'm wondering if the user guide page on RevIgniter's Session Library might be of interest an may provide some pointers?

Quoted-Printable Base64 Unicode Text in LC7

2014-06-01 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear LC Gurus, Using LC7-dp6, I’m trying to parse some raw email messages that have headers with international characters. Headers containing non-ascii characters should always be encoded in either base64 or ‘quoted-printable’ format. The header format then becomes: *

Re: Livecode Server Sessions

2014-06-01 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 1 Jun 2014, at 10:37 pm, Simon Smith he...@simonsmith.co wrote: […] Hope this helps. Thank you, Simon - this helps a lot! I knew it *had* to be easy! :-) Do you know where/how sessions are stored? - i.e., is session data stored entirely in a cookie in the user’s browser, in a hidden file

Re: Quoted-Printable Base64 Unicode Text in LC7

2014-06-01 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 2 Jun 2014, at 12:05 am, Peter W A Wood peterwaw...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 Jun 2014, at 19:40, Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: 1) How to decode from “quoted-printable” to normal text? Is there a ready-made function somewhere? From the dictionary: textDecode(A,UTF8

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-29 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 29 May 2014, at 12:38 pm, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: I find Mavericks auto-save pretty useless actually. When you go back into their time machine interface you can only see the first page of the document (and nothing at all for many types of files.) […] If you do a

Re: Setting a behavior in the IDE

2014-05-29 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 30 May 2014, at 3:19 pm, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.com wrote: Hm...maybe there could be a contextual menu that copies the long ID reference. That would at least be a shortcut. Indeed, that would be a very usable solution. Another one would be to use a control/option/command+drag

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 28 May 2014, at 1:54 pm, Kay C Lan lan.kc.macm...@gmail.com wrote: On my 10.9.3 a slew of Apple and non-Apple apps all remain open after I've closed the last window. The one's that do auto-close seem to be sensible ones: System Preferences for many versions of OS X has auto-closed when the

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
I understand how you feel: On 28 May 2014, at 5:43 pm, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: Sorry, I don't buy that. The changes just require more stupid clicking than needed to do what was easy before. I can take care of my own file management, thank you, and I hate

Re: Quitting with the close box on Mac

2014-05-27 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 28 May 2014, at 12:39 pm, Peter M. Brigham pmb...@gmail.com wrote: Another reason for me to delay running Mavericks as long as I possibly can. Is this true for apps like Word and TextEdit, too??? I have been using Mavericks exclusively in all my Macs since it came out, and have now

Re: LiveCode vs Fermat

2014-05-18 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 19 May 2014, at 8:28 am, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: Dar Scott wrote put 781769^12 + 852723^12 = 874456^12 See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat's_Last_Theorem The result is TRUE... Could this be an error? :o Indeed, it is. You can check it here:

Re: Unicode Really Does Just Work in LiveCode

2014-05-15 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
This is exciting news: On 15 May 2014, at 7:25 pm, Fraser Gordon fraser.gor...@runrev.com wrote: The hint I wrote shows how to do proper case conversions (i.e don't use toupper and tolower - they don't take language-specific rules into account). We do expect to add these into the engine

Re: noob array question

2014-05-15 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 15 May 2014, at 8:47 pm, Pyyhtiä Christer chris...@mindcrea.com wrote: Just set itemDelimiter to }” to extract the JSON elements, strip { -characters from those, look what you need to use as the next itemDelimiter and do it again. Then move to array. It probably takes less that 10

Re: [TIC: Tongue in Cheek] IDE oddities (was Re: Error Messages Are Evil)

2014-05-15 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 16 May 2014, at 8:34 am, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: On another note, as I promised you last week I did ask Ben if RunRev planned on open-sourcing the On-Rev real-time debugger. He's not sure and will check with Kevin, but he did confirm my hunch that it requires

Saving Document 'Bundles' on Mac

2014-05-14 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hi all, Does anyone know how to create bundle-type documents on MacOS? I know that bundles are simply directories, but there must be something that needs to be done in order for the system to recognise the directory as a bundle file, rather than as a simple directory... Is this something that

[OT] Fossil SCM

2014-05-14 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear List Users, Does anyone have any experience with Fossil SCM? http://fossil-scm.org Like many, I find that git is often an overkill in terms of features and complexity, often making it very difficult to convince others in your team to adopt it... Fossil sounds like it could cover just

Re: Saving Document 'Bundles' on Mac

2014-05-14 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
I apologise for not explaining myself properly: When Livecode makes a Macintosh standalone it makes a bundle with all the necessary components inside it; so the whole thing appears as a MacOS app. I would like the *documents* saved by my app to be bundles - not just the app itself. Instead

Re: Saving Document 'Bundles' on Mac

2014-05-14 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 14 May 2014, at 8:50 pm, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: One way is to rename the folder with a .bundle suffix. Yes, but how can I have a bundle with my own document extension? - I don't want my documents to appear in the desktop with the extension '.bundle', and with a generic

Re: noob array question

2014-05-14 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 15 May 2014, at 7:32 am, Rodney Green green.rod...@gmail.com wrote: [...] In attempting to parse some json data I can't find what the final output should look like. [...] You can view the official JSON specs - very easy to understand - here: http://json.org As you probably already know,

Re: noob array question

2014-05-14 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 15 May 2014, at 10:32 am, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Igor de Oliveira Couto wrote: A while ago I wrote a JSON parser in LiveCode. The *very heavily commented* code can be found here: https://github.com/luxlogica/easyjson Thanks for that, Igor. I'd check

Re: noob array question

2014-05-14 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 15 May 2014, at 10:39 am, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: The License file of easyjson reads: License This is free and unencumbered software released into the public domain. Anyone is free to copy, modify, publish, use, compile, sell, or distribute this software, either in

Re: noob array question

2014-05-14 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 15 May 2014, at 12:53 pm, Rodney Green green.rod...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I can't figure out how to get this ready to be converted to an array. I have not yet installed any plugins or external files, so I was trying to do this on my own. In order to 'convert' your json data to a LiveCode

Server 6.6.1 and Multi-Line put

2014-04-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear LiveCode Gurus, Looking at the following blog post, it looks like LiveCode could be a great tool for producing more easily understandable and maintainable command-line tools: http://livecode.com/blog/2014/03/06/livecode-server/ Prompted by that, I am trying to create a LiveCode shell

Re: Server 6.6.1 and Multi-Line put

2014-04-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear Jerry Peter, Thank you for your very quick and very helpful responses. You were both right: setting the outputLineEndings to “lf” did the trick. Also, here on MacOS X, it seems that setting it to “crlf” also works. Would that be a better -i.e, more ‘cross-platform’ compatible - solution?

Re: Server 6.6.1 and Multi-Line put

2014-04-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Thank you for the tip, Peter: On 29 Apr 2014, at 2:42 pm, Peter W A Wood peterwaw...@gmail.com wrote: This might be a good way for cross-platform scripting: ?lc if the outputLineEndings = cr then set the outputLineEndings to lf end if put Hello World! the date the time return

Re: Server 6.6.1 and Multi-Line put

2014-04-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 29 Apr 2014, at 12:58 pm, Charles E Buchwald char...@buchwald.ca wrote: Igor... Sounds like a great idea. I would definitely use that on a daily basis. I bet it would be great fun with Alfred... http://www.alfredapp.com Yes, I’m trying to develop some scripts that will help me with remote

Re: Livecode Developer Certifications

2013-08-09 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 09/08/2013, at 5:19 AM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: Does exists plans to create LiveCode Certifications? It seems that RunRev is currently running a training camp, at the end of which attendees get a 'certificate'. I must admit, I did not pay too much attention to it as

Re: Getting Kanji from a .csv file

2013-06-07 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 06/06/2013, at 12:23 PM, Howard Bornstein bornst...@designeq.com wrote: [...] I'd appreciate any help but if it involves unicode, please assume you are talking to an imbecile. [...] Unicode in LiveCode is a work-in-progress, and I believe it will see some major overhauling in the coming

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-07 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 06/06/2013, at 12:40 PM, Devin Asay devin_a...@byu.edu wrote: For desktop applications, where can our applications legally write to for the three main OS's? I'm not talking about sandboxing for Mac App Store apps, just the normal place for writing application files. Hello, Devin, Not

Re: Where to write application data

2013-06-07 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hello, Peter, Sent from my iPad On 08/06/2013, at 2:31 AM, Peter Haworth p...@lcsql.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 7, 2013 at 2:17 AM, Igor de Oliveira Couto i...@semperuna.comwrote: 1) MacOS X Prefs Location: specialFolderPath(Home) /Library/Application Support/MyCompany/MyAppBundleID

Re: [OT] What's happening here in Turkey...

2013-06-07 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hello Richmond! Sent from my iPad On 08/06/2013, at 2:45 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: 4. In practise I am not an anarchist because my experience suggests that humans are not up to the standard of managing to function properly in a state of true anarchy, and I am worried

Re: I'm a Happy Kickstart Camper . . .

2013-06-07 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Sent from my iPad On 08/06/2013, at 2:56 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: I am planning to write up my classes and pop them somewhere convenient on the internet for anybody who wants to take a keek. That is mighty generous of you, and will certainly be useful to many! Thank

Re: JSON

2013-06-05 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Sorry to come so late to this thread. It's nice to see that my little JSON library is being used. I wanted to let everyone know, that Monte's library is much faster and more efficient than the LiveCode-native solutions, like mine. I wholeheartedly recommend it. There are occasions, however,

Re: Simple stuff, Message box on Laptop

2013-05-29 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 29/05/2013, at 6:29 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: crtl-return does work in the multiline msg box. Probably that would be command-return (i.e. the key with an apple on it) on a Macintosh. If the message box is set to multi-line mode, then pressing the return key simply

Re: Simple stuff, Message box on Laptop

2013-05-29 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 29/05/2013, at 7:36 PM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: As far as I can tell 'Fn' keys are only present on Mac laptops. Not quite true: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-use-the-fn-key-on-your-laptop.html -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia

Re: Resources Index to learn LiveCode

2013-05-20 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 20/05/2013, at 9:09 AM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2...@gmail.com wrote: Does exists a single page with an index of all resources (free or not) available to learn programming in this platform, that I could sent to anyone interested in learning to program using LiveCode? A good starting point

Re: Rethinking rsa encryption of license keys

2013-05-14 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dr. Hawkins, I apologise for coming in late to this discussion, but let me see if I can be of some assistance. SYMMETRICAL encryption has 1 main purpose, which is to 'hide' data in an encrypted format. ASYMMETRICAL encryption, on the other hand, has 2 purposes: hide data, and *sign* the data

Re: Generating RSA pairs

2013-05-02 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 03/05/2013, at 3:30 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: I need to generate RSA key pairs (one pair per client). I see the openssl key generation possibility, but that's still relying on my system for randomness. I'd *like* to pull random numbers (say, from random.org) and generate

Re: Generating RSA pairs

2013-05-02 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 03/05/2013, at 10:38 AM, Dr. Hawkins doch...@gmail.com wrote: That's a good point. However, I only need a random number once ever per customer; it's to encrypt their license keys privileges. In a licensing situation, usually the software developer will hold the private key, and will

Re: How is this in the app store

2013-05-01 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 02/05/2013, at 9:05 AM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: No code is a dealbreaker, obviously, but still, this is pretty magical tech. I haven't signed up or used the app, but from the intro video it looks like its building an html5-based app. It did not seem to be very innovative, as

Re: Comparing two databases

2013-04-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 29/04/2013, at 7:58 AM, Magicgate Software - Skip Kimpel s...@magicgate.com wrote: What would be the best approach for this in LC? One is a remote MySQL DB and the other is a local Access DB. I have not done any work with Access, so I don't know what its capabilities are. Nevertheless,

Re: How do you...

2013-04-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 29/04/2013, at 2:17 PM, Charles Szasz csz...@me.com wrote: How do you script for the cursor in an edit field (that has the focus) so that the cursor is at the end of text in the field when the user selects the field? In the field's script: on openField select after me end openField Is

Re: What am I doing wrong here?

2013-04-24 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Quick guess: On 24/04/2013, at 3:33 PM, Shawn Blc shawnlivec...@gmail.com wrote: *on* mouseUp *if* grpA1 = correctAnswer *then* *add* 5 to field fldCorrect *else* *add* 5 to field fldWrong *end* *if* *end* mouseUp It seems that grpA1 and correctAnswer are local

Re: Internet headers of LiveCode CGI

2013-04-22 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 22/04/2013, at 11:29 PM, paolo mazza mazzapaoloit...@gmail.com wrote: Am I supposed to modify some configurantion files of Apache or can I set the internet headers of the CGI using a LiveCode function? Try looking at the description of the httpHeaders property in the documentation, and let

Re: Non Standard Unicode Fonts and how they appear on screen

2013-04-22 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
I feel your pain...: On 23/04/2013, at 12:24 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.com wrote: One of my whipping boys; now complete with 'pretty' pictures I know that there are many of us waiting for an overhaul of the core handling of international text - which I hope will come now with the

Re: Missing icons (OT?)

2013-04-22 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
The following knowledge base article may be useful: - How do I Rebuild Corrupt Icons? - https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3243206 - Apparently, on

Re: Paste Code to Match Existing Formatting

2013-04-19 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 20/04/2013, at 11:04 AM, charles61 csz...@mac.com wrote: How do you script to allow the user to paste the selected text into a document so that it matches the type of font and size of font used in the word processing document? Whether the user can match the format of the text in the

Re: Paste Code to Match Existing Formatting

2013-04-19 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 20/04/2013, at 12:34 PM, charles61 csz...@mac.com wrote: Thanks. I am aware of but was wondering how to script this in LiveCode to do this automatically. In the past, I have an option menu where the use could select font and font size for pasting from an app to a word processing

Re: How to start a LiveCode stack without running scripts?

2013-03-13 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 13/03/2013, at 5:11 PM, Ueliweb ueli...@gmx.ch wrote: How to start a LiveCode stack without running scripts? That's one that should be put on StackOverflow, me thinks... Perhaps a title such as How to open a stack without triggering openStack/openCard scripts? -- Igor Couto Sydney,

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Sites like StackOverflow can be extremely useful in promoting LiveCode among developers: On 07/03/2013, at 3:15 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: I'd like to encourage people to ask and answer questions on StackOverflow. I would also suggest that people consider using

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 09/03/2013, at 1:12 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Sounds like a fun project. Many people on stackoverflow post to gist if a significant amount of code is required for the question or answer. Indeed, Gist would provide even more features than Snipplr - ie., forks and

Re: StackOverflow

2013-03-08 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
I know this is becoming a bit [OT], but another worthwhile project for a LiveCode guru: add LiveCode syntax to the ACE editor project: http://ace.ajax.org/ ACE is an in-browser text editor made for programming. It is widely used in many programming and coding sites, like GitHub, and supports

Re: What are the advantages of using on-rev over installing on say: hostgator?

2013-02-27 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 28/02/2013, at 12:21 PM, Shawn Blc shawnlivec...@gmail.com wrote: What are the advantages of using on-rev over installing on say: hostgator? I have used HostGator in the past, and it is a rather nice company - can't really say anything bad about it. They are responsive, always try to please

Re: 1001 things to do with LiveCode - only 400 page views per day

2013-02-23 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 22/02/2013, at 9:48 AM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: On 22/02/2013, at 9:24 AM, Thomas McGrath III wrote: I agree with that Monte, The map was a fun curiosity I was just there the other day but it is not very useful beyond that. It would be great if there where

Re: Set default keyboard layout (for other language) for a field

2013-02-18 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Saluton, Jonathan! On 19/02/2013, at 12:39 PM, Jonathan Cooper drd...@gmail.com wrote: I've just created a stack with fields that will contain text in Esperanto. I have a keyboard layout (Esperanto-sc) installed on my Mac that allows me to type special accented Esperanto characters (eg, ĉ,

Re: Set default keyboard layout (for other language) for a field

2013-02-18 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
An alternative: On 19/02/2013, at 12:39 PM, Jonathan Cooper drd...@gmail.com wrote: Or, failing that, to have Livecode automatically set the keyboard layout as soon as the field is opened? That may not be always reliable, as in some systems - like the Mac - the user has to explicitly

Re: Set default keyboard layout (for other language) for a field

2013-02-18 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Jonathan, I couldn't resist, and ended up trying this out myself: On 19/02/2013, at 3:42 PM, Igor de Oliveira Couto i...@semperuna.com wrote: For an more polished user experience, you can try developing a script that is more forgiving when the user mixes upper- and lower-case 'x's, like Cx

Re: Uniquly identifying a stack

2012-07-01 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hello, Peter, On 02/07/2012, at 11:02 AM, Peter Haworth wrote: Probelm is I need to maintain uniqueness acorss two versions of the same stack file. For example if both versions have a stack named myStack but then its name gets changed to YourStack in one of the versions, it's no longer

Re: Works sometimes -- but not other times

2012-06-22 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 22/06/2012, at 3:54 PM, Ken Corey wrote: But again, why can't this all be done in the keyDown handler? ...or, if you are using the current version of LiveCode, you can use a 'textChanged' handler on the FIND field, which may give you even less worries! :-) The algorithm, if I understood

Re: Rev Online

2012-06-20 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 20/06/2012, at 5:04 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: Hmmm. Well, my password has always worked fine. I have no trouble logging in to revOnline. I just can't upload anything. Glad it worked for you. Aaaah, 'must admit, haven't tried *that* yet... -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia

Re: Rev Online

2012-06-19 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Dear List Folks, On 20/06/2012, at 6:04 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: Mark Rauterkus mark.rauterkus@... writes: With Rev Online, can I delete some of my stacks already uploaded? I put some junk there in the past that should be deleted. RevOnline's functionality has been dead for over six months

Support for Git

2012-06-16 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hi all, As a newcomer to LiveCode, I have been a little frustrated by the lack of support for a version control system - like git, svn or the like. I have, therefore, added a feature request to the quality control system, here: http://quality.runrev.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10275 If this is of

Re: sqLite in Memory

2012-06-16 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Richard, I do understand and appreciate your points. However: On 16/06/2012, at 11:06 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: If nothing else, consider this democratically: Either multiple people must make a modest change, or one person must make a modest change. I am looking at this in the most

Re: Support for Git

2012-06-16 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Richard, thank you for the info: On 16/06/2012, at 11:27 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: RunRev took the first step toward satisfying this request some years ago, allowing us to set the ID of any object. While potentially dangerous and not recommended for normal use, this is necessary to

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-16 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hello, Bill, Not very long ago, I had the same question, and several users contributed their knowledge and experience in the different platforms, helping me compile an answer: On 17/06/2012, at 6:28 AM, Bill Vlahos wrote: Where do folks put application specific preferences on Windows and

Re: Where do you save preferences?

2012-06-16 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
contradict this, please do let us know! Many thanks in advance, -- Igor de Oliveira Couto Managing Director Superstudent Headquarters Suite 502, Level 5 491 Kent Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia +61 (2) 9264 2642 | 9264 2646 i...@superstudent.net http://www.superstudent.net

Re: Unable to install livecode on Linux, why?

2012-06-15 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Please note: On 15/06/2012, at 5:19 PM, Peter Alcibiades wrote: I am probably doing something silly, but can anyone help with why this should be happening? Messages that are sent to the OLD list address (use-revolution instead of use-livecode) are not recognised in my mail system as part of

Re: ANN: GLX2 3.05

2012-06-15 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 16/06/2012, at 12:52 AM, Richmond wrote: Unless anyone's password is 12345 Hey, that's the same password as my luggage! (sorry, Mel, I couldn't resist) Tim Personally I never use passwords that difficult for me to remember. Have a quick look at this:

Re: sqLite in Memory

2012-06-15 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Please note: On 16/06/2012, at 10:20 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: Interesting... coincidence. :-D http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ancient-aliens Messages that are sent to the OLD list address (use-revolution instead of use-livecode) are not recognised in my mail system as part of the same

Re: sqLite in Memory

2012-06-15 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Apologies to all - my intention was not to 'spam the listserver': On 16/06/2012, at 1:04 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: There's no reason to spam the listserv with an autoreply. That's a good way to get banned. Just fix your email filter. It's not rocket science. If you need help, Google it.

Re: sqLite in Memory

2012-06-15 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 16/06/2012, at 1:48 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: If the message got here, by definition it's not a wrong address. Apparently both addresses wind up here so both are correct. I believe the old address is kept because of users that have to /choose to continue to use it, as pointed out

Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

2012-06-14 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hi, Dave! On 14/06/2012, at 5:29 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: [...] My first thought was that applying MD5 twice or more times would perhaps increase its security, but nowhere do I see this suggested as a solution. If anyone can add any information or point out my probable misunderstanding, I'd

Use-Revolution vs. Use-LiveCode

2012-06-14 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Why do some people insist on using the address use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com instead of use-livecode@lists.runrev.com?: On 15/06/2012, at 8:07 AM, Andrew Kluthe wrote (via use-revolut...@lists.runrev.com): Reads more like Stirner to me. On 15/06/2012, at 8:08 AM, Alejandro Tejada wrote

Re: Password protecting a data file... how to cope with forgotten password?

2012-06-14 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hi, Dave, Hmmm, let me see if I can expand a little on my explanation: On 14/06/2012, at 7:32 PM, Dave Cragg wrote: [...] You can't go directly from a hash to the original text like you might with a cipher once you understand the key. Hashes are cracked (I think) by using precompiled

Re: replaceText

2012-06-13 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hmm, let me see if I understand you correctly: On 13/06/2012, at 7:19 PM, Richmond wrote: put fld TEXXT into TEXXT if TEXXT contains sugar then replaceText (sugar,sugar,sweetener) end if put TEXXT into fld TEXXT doesn't work. So, in this example, are you trying to replace the word

Re: Upgrade to Lion on 15 inch laptop pro forces resize of stacks

2012-06-13 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 14/06/2012, at 11:02 AM, Kay C Lan wrote: You are seeing a 70 pixel difference, and that is what is causing your problem. If other people here test it and they get a 70 pixel difference then the bug can be confirmed. I can confirm, that I do get quite a large difference - over 70. That,

Re: Better Wiki With LiveCode?

2012-06-08 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 08/06/2012, at 1:27 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: if you amend the behaviour to how you suggest, then wont you make it impossible to actually amend the text that represents the hyperlink? The proposed change would mean that the programmer would be able to correctly detect that the selection has

Better Wiki With LiveCode?

2012-06-05 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Hi all, I am playing with developing a personal wiki - a la 'VoodooPad' (http://flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/) - in LiveCode. One of the features I always disliked about most wikis is the fact that the user has to enter their content in an 'edit mode', usually using some sort of markup language,

Re: Better Wiki With LiveCode?

2012-06-05 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Thank you for the suggestion, Monte: On 06/06/2012, at 11:41 AM, Monte Goulding wrote: There's always a way: on selectionChanged put the linkText of the selectedChunk end selectionChanged That seems to work fine if I click on the link - ie., I can get the 'linktext' on mouse click -

Re: Better Wiki With LiveCode?

2012-06-05 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 06/06/2012, at 12:51 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: I think we found a bug. If you hold down shift and use the arrow keys the selectionChanged message is sent. If your just moving the cursor it isn't sent but it should be. Do you want to report it or me? I'm pretty new at this - I don't even

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

2012-06-02 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 03/06/2012, at 10:09 AM, Lynn Fredricks wrote: Consider also, if a competitor or a champion of another product buys yours in a public venue that works this way, such as the Mac App Store. They can heap abuse on your product pretty much freely and there is nothing you can do about it.

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

2012-06-01 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Congratulations, RunRev! On 02/06/2012, at 4:51 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Macworld UK gave LiveCode a 5-out-of-5-star review: http://www.macworld.co.uk/mac/reviews/?reviewid=3361007 Well deserved! And, talking about reviews, I came across a rather scathing write-up on LiveCode at the very

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Kay, thank you very much for the correction: On 29/05/2012, at 4:42 PM, Kay C Lan wrote: [...] I don't know where you got the information about Versions taking up a lot of storage space if you have a lot of backups, but my understanding its the complete opposite. Like TimeMachine, Version

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-29 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
I've noticed some people complaining about Time Machine in this thread. On 30/05/2012, at 6:01 AM, François Chaplais wrote: [...] about time machine: yes, it can be a plague. [...] I have to say, Time Machine has saved my skin twice already. First time, a visiting cousin accidentally

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
-- Understanding Old Save + Save As... x New Autosave Versions + Duplicate -- When I first upgraded to Lion, I, too, became irritated and grumpy

Re: is Loki down?

2012-05-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 29/05/2012, at 9:34 AM, stephen barncard wrote: It's Coda 2 now -- a lot of improvements! Could someone tell me if there is a syntax mode or theme for LiveCode for Coda somewhere? Many thanks in advance. -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia ___

Re: Upgrade to Lion

2012-05-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Stephen, my apologies to you and to anyone else I might have offended - it wasn't intentional: On 29/05/2012, at 11:35 AM, stephen barncard wrote: [...] Fossilized into our old working habits ? Excuse me, I take exception to that. I'm a 'fossil-luddite' because I argue that I'm suddenly

Re: Constant statement limitations.

2012-05-28 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Alex, I don't know if you and I are reading the dictionary in the same way: On 29/05/2012, at 9:00 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: [...] The dictionary entry for constant says: If you place the constant statement in a handler, you can use the constant anywhere in the handler. If you place the

Re: Where Do You Save User Prefs?

2012-05-27 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Pete Andrew, thank you both very much for the info: So, the information we have so far: 1) MacOS X Prefs Location: specialFolderPath(Home) /Application Support/MyApp/ Prefs Name: anything you wish 2) Windows Prefs Location: specialFolderPath(28) /MyApp/ Prefs Name: anything you wish 3)

Re: ANN: PowerDebug 1.1.7

2012-05-27 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 27/05/2012, at 3:28 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: We're a month away from the 2011 LiveCode Developer Conference [...] Your personal Groundhog Day?... ;-) -- Igor Couto Sydney, Australia ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Where Do You Save User Prefs?

2012-05-27 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Re-reading the answers here and the information in the dictionary for the 'specialFolderPath' - and after some more Googling - I have gathered the following info, which may or may not be correct: 1) MacOS X Prefs Location: specialFolderPath(Home) /Library/Application Support/MyApp/ Prefs

Re: Where Do You Save User Prefs?

2012-05-27 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Thank you for the info, Guglielmo!: On 27/05/2012, at 7:29 PM, Guglielmo Braguglia wrote: [...] See Table 1-3, paragraph The Library Directory Stores App-Specific Files, on

Re: Where Do You Save User Prefs?

2012-05-27 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
Thank you very much, Jacqueline: On 28/05/2012, at 4:01 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: SpecialFolderPath() on Android offers very few choices. You can't write to the engine folder and cache folder contents are temporary, so that leaves only specialFolderPath(documents). I've used the documents

Re: What is the way to replace frames on a website?

2012-05-27 Thread Igor de Oliveira Couto
On 28/05/2012, at 8:26 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote: is there a better alternative that you could recommend over jQuery ? JQuery is excellent, but it has limitations, and using JQuery exclusively to build a web app on the client side can make your code difficult to maintain, depending on the

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