> On 23 Sep 2023, at 15:32, William Prothero via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Discord looks really interesting.
To me, Discord looks like a refugee from a moderately poorly designed BBS from
30 years ago. I use it (it's the student comms platform of choice for a course
I teach on) and it does
Hi Matthias,
> The question is:
> Please select the option that best defines your user persona of FastSpring's
> services.
This isn’t a very well constructed English sentence, so the meaning is a little
up to interpretation. In this kind of apparent context a user persona could
refer to
If only it was easier to do.
I've actually stopped using LC much because the process of making apps that
people can run without fuss has become ridiculous. I'm still hoping for a
solution that isn't so aggressively hostile! The current situation feels like a
direct threat to LiveCode the
> On Sep 7, 2021, at 11:04 PM, Martin Koob via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> My wife and I have an ongoing disagreement about the term 'couple of’ in
> terms of counting. I say it means around 2 or 3ish. She says it means 2.
> Further she says if you wanted to say 3 or 4 you would say ‘a few’.
> On Sep 6, 2021, at 12:22 PM, Andre Garzia via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> I’m happy paying for my license because I can see the value LC provides me,
> and how my money directly affects their ability to output quality stuff. I
> love FOSS, but I’d rather have a healthy LC Ltd around with the
I think this is (potentially) an excellent idea. Running stacks is more
important in education use than building standalones, and the knowledge that a
standalone CAN be made by simply ’trading up’ to a paid-for version of LC might
be an interesting sell. But I would be surprised if this sort of
Unless someone’s hoarding gold that’s an interesting but not all that useful
pricing comparison. I prefer the Big Mac Index
(https://www.statista.com/statistics/274326/big-mac-index-global-prices-for-a-big-mac/
Only one thought: the protocols that do work on iOS are general declarations
that are routed to an app/service as the host OS thinks is appropriate. Less
common ones and app-specific ones do have to be registered... in the app that
wants to be able RECEIVE them. So if the FB app doesn’t have
> On 1 Sep 2021, at 10:02, matthias rebbe via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Whenever I suggested to people, who used the software for creating internally
> for their company, to support LC at least with a Community Plus subscription,
> I always got the same answer: Why should I buy a license when
I just hope that my Price Lock Indy subscription will continue as promised.
Kevin did say yesterday that "if we promised something in the past we do honour
it” and back when I started my Indy sub I was told that my subscription will
'remain at the same cost for as long as I keep it active' –
> On 1 Aug 2021, at 21:28, Curry Kenworthy via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> M1 Chip with LC: Snappy but not amazing.
> In fact, my i5 budget Windows laptop
> was faster on the only task I've timed.
Very good to see this thoughtful list of your reactions and feelings. It will
be fascinating to
OT: Fortunately (in a sense) when I got a frozen shoulder four years ago I had
surgery to release it. Because I'd also dislocated and fractured it. Longboard
injury. Anyway, it worked well. But I hope the solution for this problem is
faster and less painful!
Keith
Keith Martin
360 media
> On 15 Jun 2021, at 09:58, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> Has the Forum gone bottom up?
It’s a little quieter than normal I think, but there are posts there from as
recent as 20 minutes ago.
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> On 13 Apr 2021, at 11:28, Andre Garzia via use-livecode
> wrote:
>
> On the other hand, I think that the SB should create standalones that can
> actually be deployed, this means that it should be able to handle
> notarisation on the mac out-of-the-box.
Oh boy, THIS! And everything
Mailing lists such as this aren’t perfect oracles and they’re not pure
technical reference sources either. Most importantly, they are not one-to-one
conversations; MANY more people will be reading a thread than may be actively
posting to it.
When a question is asked, people will respond with
I ran the original code on my MacBook Pro (16in 2019, 2.3GHx 8 core i9). Three
quarters of the results were over 4000, almost 150 of those were 4400 or above.
The highest value was 4493.
Average: 3873 (rounded)
Median: 4081
Standard Deviation: 611 (rounded)
k
I've been *really* enjoying this, and I've just asked my university
library to get multiple copies for my students.
Creative Selection
Subtitle: Inside Apple's design process during the golden age of Steve
Jobs
Ken Kocienda
I was reading the print book but I left it behind in my office at
On 5 Feb 2020, at 3:19, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
On 2/4/20 6:19 PM, Colin Holgate via use-livecode wrote:
In 1993 Mac User magazine
...them was the days, eh?
[Deep sigh] I spent *many* years in MacUser magazine – the original
and best UK one of course, not the Ziff-Davis copy.
Personally, I’ve used it to make a font management tool for dealing with large
font libraries. It’s not something ‘fit for prime time’ as it looks abysmal at
the moment but it works. :)
Keith
Keith Martin
Senior Lecturer, LCC (University of the Arts London)
360 media specialist
On 22 Oct 2019, at 4:02, kee nethery via use-livecode wrote:
it would look for Hypercard itself on their disk and start erasing
stuff in it
I applaud the ingenuity and totally understand the reasons for her doing
that, but it should be said that damaging *other* software – beyond
the stack
On 22 Oct 2019, at 20:47, Tom Glod via use-livecode wrote:
i am counting on
his limited willingness to put hours into it.
Either way, it will be absolutely fascinating to read about the outcome.
Good luck!
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I'm less than convinced by the crowdfunding ideas that have been
mentioned so far. But there is something that is important to
understand:
1. All Kickstarter campaigns are 'all-or-nothing.' From the Kickstarter
FAQ: "No one will be charged for a pledge towards a project unless it
reaches its
On 11 Sep 2019, at 16:21, Dar Scott Consulting via use-livecode wrote:
At one time one could get past OSs, but I don't think it is the case
now
If a past OS has been downloaded through one's standard Mac/me/iCloud
account in the past it can be downloaded and installed again. It can
also be
Hi Stephen,
I made a little tool (in LiveCode, natch) for doing this using touch.
It's here:
http://panoramaphotographer.com/software/likeaversion/index.html and
there's a link near the bottom of the page to download the LiveCode
stack.
k
On 14 Apr 2019, at 22:52, Stephen Barncard via
Hi Andre,
I'm based in London – I live in Mitcham/Tooting and I work in Elephant
& Castle. I'm game!
k
On 9 Nov 2018, at 17:04, Andre Alves Garzia via use-livecode wrote:
Hey Friends,
Who here is from London or nearby and would be interested in regular
meetups? We could meet once a
For me...
> CHAR
Rhymes with “car”
and
> LOC
Rhymes with “mock”
I know they’re abbreviations but I mentally elevated them to regular word-hood
many years ago. :)
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On 29 May 2018, at 17:57, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
Ever since Hypercard I have loved the "do something to something else
with some other things" approach, and also that I don't have to worry
about variable typing, declaration and scope.
Amen brother! This is an important part of
On 30 Apr 2018, at 4:07, Mark Smith via use-livecode wrote:
Hi Bill, reading your message I thought for a second it was something
I had
written myself. You stole the words out of my mouth. Always
challenging,
never seems repeatable the same way twice.
May I second this? Getting things set
On 26 Apr 2018, at 19:16, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
> The forums are inaccessible here in Bulgaria at the moment.
They were for me too (in London, UK), for a bit.
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On 19 Apr 2018, at 17:00, Douglas Ruisaard via use-livecode wrote:
Next is the significant decrease in the "Ink" choices... I've found
(by process of elimination) the "notSrcOrReverse" ink works for me in
several situations there ain't no such thing in v9.0.0.
Yep, I found that strange
On 27 Mar 2018, at 14:28, Rick Harrison via use-livecode wrote:
Tell us about it again once it is full color and not just B
When he has the Colorizing HC XCMD simulated? ;)
But seriously, while I don't see a hard-nosed practical use for this it
is an astounding feat!
k
On 5 Mar 2018, at 18:34, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
I set the angle on PNG images and they deteriorate.
For clarity, are you setting the angle to something other than
90/180/270 degrees?
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On 20 Feb 2018, at 16:34, Ralph DiMola wrote:
We
had many font issues over the years and I figured that the industry
would
get it together.
Given that the font world calls eighteenth century font designs 'Modern'
and early/mid 19th century sans-serifs 'Grotesque', I wouldn't hold my
On 17 Feb 2018, at 16:51, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
LC no longer manipulates text directly to produce styles, it now uses
the equivalent font.
And as a typographer, let me say YAY!
Distorted type hurts my soul. :(
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On 11 Jan 2018, at 17:00, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote:
I'm using Thunderbird.
Email comes in, I click Reply, email goes out.
I use MailMate on my laptop, Mail on my iPhone. Same behaviour for me:
click reply, type stuff, send.
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On 12 Dec 2017, at 11:05, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
One of the reasons why videoClip and AudioClip are useful
is to do with portativity.
This is a VERY good reason to support this properly. I still find it
frankly weird that LC isn't able to handle MP3 media more flexibly
On 8 Nov 2017, at 10:25, prothero--- via use-livecode wrote:
Admittedly, I was laying sick in bed at the time
I suspect that may be the reason. I've heard (well, misheard) pretty
weird stuff when I've been unwell enough to be bed-ridden. :)
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On 30 Aug 2017, at 15:31, Robert Brenstein via use-livecode wrote:
The stack is used to produce a PDF file and the printing shop
requested CMYK
A slight aside – please forgive me.
I teach publishing and have worked in the print industry (among others)
since the 1980s. It's now the norm for
On 21 Aug 2017, at 18:53, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote:
If you want native appearance they are inappropriate.
Ah, a slightly different thing to what I first assumed. Answer dialogs
as a concept have an important place, of course. But yes, non-standard
UI/appearance for stuff that
On 1 Aug 2017, at 7:53, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
I salute Kevin and Mark for their adoption of kilts.
It's certainly not new! I remember when Runtime Revolution got its first
MacUser award nomination (MANY years ago!), Kevin and a couple of others
came to the ceremony in
On 6 Jul 2017, at 15:45, Matt Maier via use-livecode wrote:
Why is this stuff not in the dictionary?
Also, given the massive prevalence of MP3, it would be great if the
(apparent) limitation of the 'play' command was addressed. :/
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On 16 Jun 2017, at 5:15, hh via use-livecode wrote:
if the webpage starts with "hyperhh.de" then the images have to be
called explicitly from hyperhh.de while download from "hyperhh.org"
(which is simply another name for the same domain) fails.
Thanks for the example! Re the domain thing, I'd
On 25 May 2017, at 20:10, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote:
I almost ace'd grammar in grade school, but I kept complaining that
the English language had more exceptions than it had actual rules.
Sounds like you *should* have aced it. :D
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On 24 May 2017, at 16:19, prothero--- via use-livecode wrote:
Or conversely, would people new to coding find htalk easy and
intuitive? These are two different questions and a rigorous answer
will most likely not come from knowledgeable livecode programmers.
Speaking as a university lecturer
On 25 Apr 2017, at 15:36, Andrew Bell via use-livecode wrote:
Digging around through my stack I found some old commented out code
for "start using font file tFont" but that seems to be Mac/PC
standalone code not needed for mobile.
Not actual insight, at least in the sense of answers, but I
On 23 Apr 2017, at 15:14, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
Until about 1600 is was a "well-known fact" that the world was flat
Heh. Nice analogy.
Except that even this fact itself isn't true! Most educated people much
further back than that believed that the Earth was round.
On 23 Apr 2017, at 8:55, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
I'm not sure why smaller should necessarily be better.
Surely a better equation might be how much one gets out for what one
puts in.
Well, that would be *another* measurement – related but not the same.
Even harder to
On 14 Apr 2017, at 13:49, Lagi Pittas via use-livecode wrote:
The $500,000 limit on INDY is on an
honour system anyway - LC can't tell whether I made a million last
week or
not.
An interesting point.
Personally, I prefer positive incentives for upgrading. Making someome
think even for a
On 5 Apr 2017, at 7:48, Richmond Mathewson via use-livecode wrote:
https://github.com/jedahan/hypermac
I couldn't get that version of Mini vMac to run; it couldn't find the
vMac.ROM file. But there's a slightly newer version of the app () that
works well if you put it in there instead. It's
An aside response...
> Read between the lines Google doesn't use it so obviously people will start
> using Google's which will with 100% certainty will have a backdoor in it
> looking as to how they removed 140,000 indexed pages of www.naturalnews.com
> after the owner didn't give in to
On 23 Jan 2017, at 12:16, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote:
in short, its not a question of changing a button in the Standalone
Builder. If you want to build open source licensed, free, Community
edition standalones, then you need to use Community.
Thanks Heather, getting this additional
On 22 Jan 2017, at 23:36, hh via use-livecode wrote:
Keith writes about the ability to make standalones, not about the
license.
I thought *every* edition of LiveCode can create HTML5 standalones?
The Standalone Application Settings window in the standard Indy LiveCode
does show an HTML5
HTML5 production is part of the LiveCode Community edition, which is
fantastic. It's in the Business edition too, of course. The Indy
edition, however, doesn't allow HTML5 production at all.
Would it make sense to add the Community edition's capability to Indy,
maybe with a nudge to encourage
On 9 Jan 2017, at 18:32, Mark Schonewille via use-livecode wrote:
Probably not. It is just too much work to organise.
I concur. I help run the IVRPA conferences, and I know capturing and
producing event video that's of usable quality is a serious task. It's a
shame, but that's reality.
On 7 Jan 2017, at 21:00, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode wrote:
The team makes _using_ LC so easy that we often forget that the
behind-the-scenes work is so complex almost no other company even
attempts to support as many platforms with this level of integrated
GUI support.
THIS is worth
On 6 Jan 2017, at 12:49, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote:
"A bit like devs are being milked" seems a somewhat extraordinary
statement. LiveCode is a business, with expenses and a stable of
highly skilled and valuable developers.
I meant this in the traditional 'online pushy chatty'
On 6 Jan 2017, at 12:55, Heather Laine via use-livecode wrote:
Well. That's the problem you see. DMARC rejects mail on the basis that
it does not come from the same address as the sender ie the posting
person's email is not the list address.
Actually, what *I* now see is emails being marked
On 6 Jan 2017, at 12:29, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode wrote:
> I please plead with Heather to reverse that particular change.
Seconded, with bells on! :(
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Technical Editor, MacUser magazine (1997-2015)
On 30 Dec 2016, at 12:41, Skip Kimpel wrote:
+1
LC needs to reconsider breaking up functionality based upon licensing.
Indeed! I haven't looked in depth at the differences, but I thought it
was more (or even entirely) about support, which makes sense for
high-level business requirements,
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