Re: you know, that text that pops up when the pointer is over an object

2012-04-12 Thread Pete
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Re: Can I put advisory text in an 'ask' dialog?

2012-04-12 Thread Pete
I use a similar technique for option menus. Set the text property to the initial advisory (suitably colored). On mouseDown' set the text to the real options. On Apr 12, 2012 1:48 PM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote: Thanks very much Hugh Senior, Ken Ray and Mark Smith for their solutions,

Re: Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-10 Thread Pete
Thanks Mark, I'll take a look. Pete On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 8:39 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Pete, This is a line from my Compression Tool software. It zips without the .DS_Store files. Item -1 of fld File is the name of a file or folder in the current

[ANN] SQLiteAdmin

2012-04-10 Thread Pete
version of SQLiteAdmin is available at http://www.lcsql.com/products.html. Some functionality is disabled in the demo version. -- Peter Haworth lcSQL Software http://www.lcsql.com -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode

Re: Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-10 Thread Pete
not be that straightforward with tar? Pete On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:24 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi Tim, Yes, you're right, tar is older. Nonetheless, can you think of any other reason why one would want to use tar, except for glueing files together in preparation

Zipping Up an LC standalone program

2012-04-09 Thread Pete
compress function works fine and so does the CleanARchiver utitlity. ANy ideas? -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage

Re: Disabling a tab

2012-04-05 Thread Pete
Phil and Marty, Wanted to pass on to you that, while the enable/disable solution, it changes the selectedtext property of the tab control. Didn;t get a chance to see if using the ( prefix did the same thing or not. Pete On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: Hi

Re: OT: mails bouncing back?

2012-04-03 Thread Pete
the problem, I noticed the product and bought it. So sometimes, there really are silver linings! Pete On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Tim Jones wrote: On Apr 3, 2012, at 7:19 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: I've had domains caught up with sloppy

Re: [on-rev]Line endings for a db query

2012-04-02 Thread Pete
Try if tvar is empty then put stuff into tvar else put return stuff after tvar end ig On Apr 2, 2012 8:13 AM, Pete Haworth p...@haworths.org wrote: Line delimiters are squirly! Try this pseudo code: if tvar is empty then Put stuff into tvar else put return stuff after tvar end

Re: getProp syntax query

2012-04-02 Thread Pete
to get to grips with them! Pete On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 3:13 AM, Graham Samuel livf...@mac.com wrote: For the very first time in a pretty long career as a LiveCode coder, I'm trying to make sense of DataGrids, which I see were a heroic effort to extend LiveCode - with a very sophisticated

Re: OT: mails bouncing back?

2012-04-02 Thread Pete
sgtrongly object to having my genuine emails blocked in this fashion. It's illegal to tamper with the US Mail and it should be illegal to block the delivery of genuine email as well. End of rant! Pete On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:29 AM, Tim Jones tolis...@me.com wrote: It appears that OnRev uses

Re: [on-rev]Line endings for a db query

2012-04-02 Thread Pete
for revDataFromQuery? What platform are you on? My test was done on a Mac. Pete On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Martin Koob mk...@rogers.com wrote: Hi Peter Thanks, I just tried your suggestion. That still inserts blank lines into the variable that I have to filter out later. It seems

Re: [on-rev]Line endings for a db query

2012-04-02 Thread Pete
Do you mean decimal 10 or octal 10? Decimal 10 is newline (which is what I'd expect), octal 10 is backspace. Pete On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 12:05 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: I just checked to see what revDataFromQuery uses for a row delimiter by default, if you do not provide one

Disabling a tab

2012-04-01 Thread Pete
out, kinda like a disabled menu item. Any ideas how to do that? -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Disabling a tab

2012-04-01 Thread Pete
Thanks Marty. Sometimes the obvious just slips by me! Pete On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Marty Knapp martykn...@comcast.net wrote: Hey Pete, Using disable menuItem 2 of btn Tab Menu seems to work. Marty Knapp I have a tab control and I'm using the method of revealing data on each tab

Re: Disabling a tab

2012-04-01 Thread Pete
Thanks Phil. I think the ( is the standard char to disable menu items, so that makes sense. I did notice the ( character in front of the lines that I disabled. Pete On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: Hi Pete, As usual in Livecode, there are multiple ways

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-31 Thread Pete
Thanks Geoff, I like the concept of time based updated rather than based on number of records processed. Pete On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 11:43 PM, Geoff Canyon gcan...@gmail.com wrote: I'll throw my 2 cents in here as well -- I've found that it doesn't impact performance significantly to check

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-30 Thread Pete
Those quantum guys are such pranksters! Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 7:18 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD pmb...@gmail.comwrote: On Mar 29, 2012, at 6:56 PM, Mike Bonner wrote: Its a particle.. Its a wave! its a particle. Its a wave! Its a cat in a box! Coincidence -- someone just sent me

Preferences

2012-03-30 Thread Pete
Somehow or other, LC has lost my preference settings. Where is the Preferences file kept on OS X? I can restore from Time Machine backup. -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Preferences

2012-03-30 Thread Pete
Actually, yes, I think that is what happened. I'm still using 5.0 on a daily basis but I ran 5.5 yesterday to try a couple of things. I'll get ther latest 5.5. Pete On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 3:07 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 3/30/12 1:55 PM, Pete wrote: Somehow or other

Re: ANN: ScaleMatic

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
I think many of us have reported this to support, but to no avail. Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:27 AM, Tim Jones tolis...@me.com wrote: Have you reported this to the RunRev support team? We can all commiserate with you here on the list, but only they can fix something's that's wrong… Tim

Re: ANN: ScaleMatic

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
I see they confirmed it as a bug in January. Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:35 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 3/29/12 12:27 PM, Tim Jones wrote: Have you reported this to the RunRev support team? We can all commiserate with you here on the list, but only they can fix

Re: [OT] ACer A100 Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
Thanks Mark. Yes, the A100 is the 7 version, not sure if there other differences. Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:30 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.netwrote: Pete- Wednesday, March 28, 2012, 10:40:47 PM, you wrote: Anyone got one of the above and willing to share thoughts

Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
and LC doesn't get a chance to update the screen but I'm uncertain how to solve that without adding to the overall execution time of the loop. Enlightenment much appreciated. -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Progress Bar

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
cursor to see how it compares performance wise. Isn't there some rule of quantum physics about changing the outocme of an experiment by observing it? Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:03 PM, Pete wrote: I'm using

Re: [OT] ACer A100 Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
Thanks Mark. You justy answered another question I had. I was under the impression that you were stuck with whatever version of Android was on a device when you purchased it but sounds like you can updaste it? Maybe it's just phones that can't be updated? Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 3:19 PM

Re: [OT] ACer A100 Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
Thanks Roger and Tim, I'm not sure where I got that idea from. Maybe the cell phone providers don;t want you to upgarde so you're mor elikley to buy another phone? Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Roger Eller roger.e.el...@sealedair.comwrote: Just about all Android phones, and tablets can

Re: [OT] ACer A100 Tablet

2012-03-29 Thread Pete
but I don't want to end up with a dead phone! I also tried the OTA Update on my phone (HTC Incredible from Verizon) but seem to always get a service not available message. Pete On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 4:51 PM, Tim Jones tolis...@me.com wrote: That's a good guess. If I waited for Verizon, I'd

CSV Files

2012-03-28 Thread Pete
at every character in the csv file. It seems to work just fine but I'm wondering if the collective knowledge of this list gas already come up with a more efficient solution. Thanks, -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode

Re: CSV Files

2012-03-28 Thread Pete
ASCII character in fact. Pete On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Keith Clarke keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk wrote: ...that seems to be the same for Google sheets, too - though I've not dug into whether there is an obvious end-of-line character. Best, Keith.. On 28 Mar 2012, at 18:03

Re: CSV Files

2012-03-28 Thread Pete
createw an array at one point so there may well be some benfits to switching over to his routine. Pete On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Pete wrote: OK, so I know CSV files are not everyone's favorite subject but sometimes you have no control over

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

2012-03-28 Thread Pete
it to judge whether the problem is hardware, software, good vs bad teachers, lack of teacher training , or any other cause. But I'm not a teacher and I tend to view these things more simplistically than perhaps I should. Pete On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 1:55 PM, Alejandro Tejada capellan2

[OT] ACer A100 Tablet

2012-03-28 Thread Pete
Anyone got one of the above and willing to share thoughts on it? -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: LiveCode Player for 5.5

2012-03-27 Thread Pete
want these days. For those interested, you might want to read the book Wrong by David H. Freedman. A fascinating account of why an alarmingly high number of studies carried out by experts come to completely wrong conclusions. Pete On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Bob Earp rje...@hotmail.com

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-26 Thread Pete
time writing Livecode scripts. Maybe someone will write an LC plugin to deal with pdf files one day. Judging by the response to my initilial question, seems like there would be enough interest to make it worthwhile. Pete PS I'm still looking at ScreenSteps. They confirm that bookmarks

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

2012-03-26 Thread Pete
Roger, I'd love to take a look at your stack but when I download it and open it in Livecode, I get an error that it is not a stack. This is with Livecode 5.0.2. Pete On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Roger Guay i...@mac.com wrote: Tom, Please forgive me (especially Tim) for apparently

Re: About item in Application Menu

2012-03-26 Thread Pete
menu for OS X systems. Pete On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:42 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins pepe...@cox.net wrote: On my current application I'm building custom menus that appear on the cards so that I can make them larger and they'll appear the same on both the Mac and Windows versions; however, I haven't

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

2012-03-26 Thread Pete
Roger On Mar 26, 2012, at 2:03 PM, use-livecode-requ...@lists.runrev.com wrote: Message: 7 Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:01:28 -0700 From: Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com To: How to use LiveCode use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Subject: Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts Message-ID

Re: ANN and OT: Calling All SETI Enthusiasts

2012-03-26 Thread Pete
All I can say, Bob, is if the great thinkers, scientists, and philospohers of the years had that attitude, we'd still be living in caves. Pete On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: This discussion can happen at all because of the human mind's inability to focus

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-25 Thread Pete
Thanks Richmond and Warren for the info. I like the idea of using a Linux distro that is somewhat like an OS X interface. Pete On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 8:04 AM, Warren Samples war...@warrensweb.uswrote: On 03/24/2012 06:53 PM, Pete wrote: So now I'm left with the question of which Linux

Re: Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
www.google.com in the URL box. The status message at the bottom says accessing http://www.google.com;, the lights at the top right flash away and it just stays like that, no web site displayed. My internet connection is working fine and I can access web site just fine with my Chrome browser. Pete On Sat

Re: Text formatting for a slider

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Hi Bjornke, Does the below mean your Docu plugin won't work with 5.5? I'd be sorry if that was the case - it's sooo much better than the built in dictionary interface! Pete 2012/3/24 Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com Furthermore, there's no way to find out the possible settings out that way

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
is not more widespread, no matter what advantages it has over other OS's. Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 3:13 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: People buy whole-product solutions. -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Thanks for the reminder Jacque. I had some not-so-grat experiences a few years back running emulators on a Mac so that's coloring my opinion, but they've probably improved a lot since then. Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:21 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 3/24/12 5:48 PM

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Thanks Warren. As you and Jacque both pointed out the VM approach solves the hardware problem. So now I'm left with the question of which Linux distro to go for Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Warren Samples war...@warrensweb.uswrote: On 03/24/2012 05:48 PM, Pete wrote: I already

Re: [OT] A couple of links about Gnome and usability

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
, although it is a pretty new computer so I may run into the driver issues you mentioned. Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 4:39 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.comwrote: Pete wrote: Hi Richard, This thread has been very interesting to me as I'm considering getting a computer to run Linux

Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
. Are there any other ways of displaying a pdf file within LC other than using revBrowser? I though I remembered seeing some sort of plugin but a quick search didn't come up with anything. I am still looking into ScreenSteps and WordLib. -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com

Re: Displaying PDF files in an LC stack

2012-03-24 Thread Pete
Thanks for the reminder Colin, forgot about that. I'll give that a try. Pete On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: I don't remember that part. My suggestion was to read the PDF in a player object, by setting its filename property. On Mar 24, 2012, at 8:11

Re: Translation s'il vous plait/por favor :-)

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
Looking back at the original request, it was to translate the phrase Copy file XXX to your Applications folder, no mention of into. Pete On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 6:24 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon effe...@wanadoo.frwrote: Hi from Beautiful Brittany, Klaus, I would hate to be pedantic, but I can't

Re: Need an example of how to use try and catch

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
other SQL variants is where try/catch is needed or perhaps it's due to your use of SQLYoga. Pete On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: When you are in a standalone, a runtime error that would halt execution might be fatal. Try/Catch allows you to handle the error

Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
. Is it possible to open a pdf file and display within an LC application without starting a separate pdf viewer program? Thanks for any guidance, -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
not against typing into LC fields, just finding that there's less work involved in using a word processor that is built to deal with formatting, spell checking and inserting graphics that doing all that in native LC. Pete On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com

Re: Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
Thanks Colin and Phil for the ScreenSteps recommendation. I'll definitely take a look. Pete On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: You should look at ScreenSteps: http://www.bluemangolearning.com/screensteps/ In addition to being a very good way to prepare

Re: Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
this is a built in feature of pdf files, but wondering if there is a way to create that type of format from a standard word processing program as opposed to purchasing Acrobat. Thanks, Pete On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Thanks Colin and Phil

Re: Tools for creating a help file

2012-03-23 Thread Pete
:// url and nothing displayed. Any tips on how to get this to work? Pete On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:24 AM, Klaus on-rev kl...@major.on-rev.comwrote: Hi Pete, Am 23.03.2012 um 19:17 schrieb Pete: I'm trying to decide how to supply the help text for an application and wondering what tools

Re: revCopyFile

2012-03-22 Thread Pete
are as much as you found, there may not be a need for a progress bar at all. Also, I assume the shell commands would be different on Windows and Mac. That's an inconvenience because it means extra coding, but not a show stopper. Thanks, Pete On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Geoff Canyon gcan

Re: Need an example of how to use try and catch

2012-03-22 Thread Pete
an error. I've sometimes wished there was a preference similar to the Strict Compilation Mode to deal with that. Pete On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Jim Hurley jhurley0...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Bob, Yes that would be fine, except that I get a compilation error at the line: catch theError

Re: Need an example of how to use try and catch

2012-03-22 Thread Pete
the command with a do statement. Pete On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: I use it to determine if there has been an error executing a sequel query for example. All my database calls go inside a try catch statement. If you put it into a repeat loop, you can test to see

Re: revCopyFile

2012-03-22 Thread Pete
Hi Maarten, That's a nice solution. Fast and doing it in chunks allows me to show a progress bar. I think I'll settle on that method. Is there a way to get the size of a file in LC? With that, I could decide if it's even worth displaying a progress bar. Pete On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 4:11 PM

Re: revCopyFile

2012-03-22 Thread Pete
but it lists all the files in the default folder, not an individual file. I guess it won;t take too long to get that and use filter to narrow it down to the source file for the copy. Pete On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:55 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 3/22/12 7:25 PM, Pete wrote

Re: accessing colorized script

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
The new 5.5 release has lots of stuff related to field formatting. Maybe some of that might help, especially if RunRev used the new features to colorise scripts. Pete On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:22 AM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Hi Peter, Perhaps you could use

Re: MySQL standalone issues

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
I think I vaguely remember running into that once, worth a try. Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Ken Ray k...@sonsothunder.com wrote: On Mar 20, 2012, at 6:32 PM, Sieg Lindstrom wrote: Next I copied the button containing the working script to my existing app and saved

Re: Highest Image File ID

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
Maybe get the ID of the last image of stack xyz? Not sure if that would work or not, I seem to remember having problems with using the last keyword in the past but I think that was specifically to do with groups. Pete On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:49 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote

revCopyFile

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
Anyone know of a way to get rid of that annoying sound when revCopyFile has finished copying a file? This is on a Mac, don't know if it happens in Windows. -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Speaking of SmartAss..

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
-- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode

Re: Setting script in object not working...

2012-03-21 Thread Pete
Is this another manifestation of not being able to save anything in a stack in a standalone program? Pete On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 3:01 PM, Glen Bojsza gboj...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I have a stack where I generate a series of images. I then set the script of each image to a script

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
not the case. You can refer to any columns form the selected tables anywhere in your SELECT even if they are not explicitly selected. Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 2:20 AM, Marek Reichenbach reichenbach.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the replies. I've made it workin, but I wanna add something else

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
. I definitely agree it's good practice to do that for clarity but as long as a column name is unique among all tables, SQL will figure out which table an unqualified column name belongs to. Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Ken Ray k...@sonsothunder.com wrote: On Mar 20, 2012, at 4:20 AM

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
for a more right answer is probably in vain at this point! Pete On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Alex Tweedly a...@tweedly.net wrote: On 20/03/2012 17:17, Pete wrote: So I wouldn't vote for a bug report that asked for lines to behave like characters in this respect. I would vote for a bug report

Re: New Xcode 4.3.1

2012-03-20 Thread Pete
I'm happy to see in the newsletter announcement of LC 5.5 I just received that it retains Save As as a file menu option. Maybe Apple will ban LC from use on desktops because of that, who knows. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Tim Jones tolis...@me.com wrote: On Mar 19, 2012, at 3:43 PM

Re: Failing to understand the oddities of the line chunk

2012-03-19 Thread Pete
different things. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:29 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 3/19/12 11:47 AM, Bob Sneidar wrote: If it resolves to an insertion point, then it's doing exactly what you would expect. It's putting something into that insertion point. That was my first

Re: OS X application ID

2012-03-19 Thread Pete
But be careful - those properties aren't carried over to the standalone so if you need access to them in the standalone as well as the IDE, you'll need to grab them and put them into your own custom properties, possibly in the savingStandalone handler. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 10:39 AM, J

Re: Text formatting for a slider

2012-03-19 Thread Pete
writing my own plugin to show all the properties of a selected object and allow me to change any of them. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: On 03/19/2012 06:05 PM, Jim Hurley wrote: I have a slider in which the showValue is set to true

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-19 Thread Pete
I wonder if there might be a less ugly way to do this in LC instead of SQL... Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Marek reichenbach.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks a lot! That helped me a lot man. Marek Reichenbach On 2012 Kov. 19, at 19:29, Ken Ray k...@sonsothunder.com wrote: On Mar

Re: MySQL joined select

2012-03-19 Thread Pete
, dunno. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Peter M. Brigham, MD pmb...@gmail.comwrote: repeat with n = 1 to length(tInput) if char n of tInput is a number then put + into char n of tInput else put - into char n of tInput end repeat Or am I missing something? -- Peter Peter M

Re: Text formatting for a slider

2012-03-19 Thread Pete
Thanks, 4wProps no installed. Pete On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Jim Hurley jhurley0...@sbcglobal.netwrote: You might want to check out Richard's 4wProps (under the Development/Plugins menu). Easy access to all the properties. -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com

Re:

2012-03-17 Thread Pete
SELECT A,B,C,TABLE2.D FROM TABLE1 LEFT JOIN TABLE2 ON TABLE2.C TABLE1.B On Mar 17, 2012 3:44 AM, Marek Reichenbach reichenbach.ma...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to do in LiveCode with MySQL: how to use data from other table in the same query for filtering: SELECT A, B ,C, (SELECT D FROM

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-15 Thread Pete
Thanks Trevor, I found the problem. I had a set dgText to empty in there, forgetting that dgText doesn't exist in these circumstances. Changed that to se the dgNumberOfRecords to zero and all works fine now. Pete On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:55 AM, Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.comwrote

Re: Detection of Keyboard Closing

2012-03-15 Thread Pete
As an Android user not developer, maybe this explains a somewhat annoying aspect of some Andorid apps which, when you open them, position the cursor in a field which requires input before you can continue but does not bring up the keyboard until you tap on the field. Pete On Thu, Mar 15, 2012

Re: help pls

2012-03-14 Thread Pete
INSERT ON thetable FOR EACH ROW UPDATE thetable SET PRICE to (NEW.Col1 * New.Col2) WHERE id=NEW.id You would also have a second trigger defined as AFTER UPDATE. With those triggers in place, just SELECT PRICE FROM theTable. Hope that helps. Pete On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Marek Reichenbach

Re: Filter probelm

2012-03-14 Thread Pete
Duh!! Thank you Terry. Pete On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Terry Judd terry.j...@unimelb.edu.auwrote: On 14/03/2012, at 02:52 PM, Pete wrote: Unless I'm doing something wrong, filter tvar without tab doesn't work, that is the lines with a tab remain in tvar after the filter command

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-14 Thread Pete
of anything that might cause this behavior? Thanks, Pete On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 7:05 AM, Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.comwrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: OK, found the problem. I had a set dgProps[sort by column] statement after setting

Re: Externals

2012-03-13 Thread Pete
Thank you Francois. Pete 2012/3/12 François Chaplais francois.chapl...@mines-paristech.fr try http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/november/issue13/newsletter5.php and http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/november/issue14/newsletter3.php Best regards, François Le 12 mars 2012 à 22:53, Pete

Re: Cyberduck versus Flow

2012-03-13 Thread Pete
I use Cyberduck and Taco HTML Edit together to get the benefits of the combined editor/ftp. Cyberduck detetcs the presence of Taco on your computer and includes a contextual menu item to download a file into Taco, then when you save it in Taco it automatically upload to the server again. Pete

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-13 Thread Pete
to using dgNumberOfRecords! Pete On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.comwrote: If you have the dgNumberOfRecords set to a positive number then that makes sense as the data grid has to redraw. If the dgNumberOfRecords is set to 0 (and messages aren't locked when

Filter probelm

2012-03-13 Thread Pete
Unless I'm doing something wrong, filter tvar without tab doesn't work, that is the lines with a tab remain in tvar after the filter command. Suer would be nice to have that work when dynamically building the contents of a popup menu with indented lines in it... -- Pete Molly's Revenge http

Re: Passing parameters by reference

2012-03-12 Thread Pete
something that should be known! Thanks, Pete On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 12:06 AM, Dick Kriesel dick.krie...@mail.comwrote: LC has a way to get and set a node at any level of an array, without code that concatenates [ ] to specify the node. In an array reference a single [ ] can enclose an array of keys

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-12 Thread Pete
these multiple cycles! Thanks, Pete On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Jérôme Rosat jro...@mac.com wrote: Trevor, yes I'm going to try. But I think it would be a good idea if you could change your stack in the lesson

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-12 Thread Pete
Correction of type! Both instances of 1-2 should read 1-12, sorry. Pete On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: GetDataForLine gets called once for lines 1-12, then a second time for lines 1-2 again, and occasionally a third time for lines 1-2. -- Pete Molly's

Re: Passing parameters by reference

2012-03-12 Thread Pete
I'm not sure whose post you're responding to Bob. Where do you see something that amounts to a statement being passed as a referenced parameter? Pete On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Just weighing in here, that would be a bit confusing. Passing by reference

Re: Passing parameters by reference

2012-03-10 Thread Pete
. But it defeats the whole purpose of passing the parameter by reference since now I have to put the temporary array back into the real array after the call. I may as well just change the function to return the result of its code and pass the parameter by value instead of reference. Pete On Sat

Passing parameters by reference

2012-03-09 Thread Pete
the whole array, eg xyz theArray, all seems to work fine. That seems somewhat strange to me but apparently that's the way it is? -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: Editing very wide and tall stacks.

2012-03-09 Thread Pete
Wouldn't it be great if LC provided scrollbars at the card level... Pete On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:22 PM, Mark Schonewille m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com wrote: Dar, Group everything, set the rect of the group to the card rect. Disable the scroll bars in full-screen mode. The only problem

Re: Passing parameters by reference

2012-03-09 Thread Pete
I have an update on this. If the parameter passed is simply the name of the array with no key qualifications, all is fine. LC only kicks up a fuss when you pass a qualified array like myArray[myKey]. Weird. Pete On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Dar Scott d...@swcp.com wrote: Oh, that would

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-08 Thread Pete
are eleven lines in mine and it is being called 12 times. Pete On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 6:43 AM, Trevor DeVore li...@mangomultimedia.comwrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:16 AM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Hi Trevor, I tried this approach in Livecode an it works great. I do have one

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Pete
finish by saying that most of the stuff I'm writing is in the nature of general purpose tools for SQLite db administrators and developers so I'm probably using LC calls that wouldn;t be used by the majority of people who develop a standard app using a database with a known structure. Pete On Wed, Mar

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Pete
or if there will have to be some intermediate external glue that sits between LC and the SQLite C API. Pete On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Paul D. DeRocco pdero...@ix.netcom.comwrote: From: Pete I'm seriously considering trying to use the C API for sqlite databases instead of the rev db functions

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Pete
Brenard, Havn't looked in detail but this sounds like it might help with developing some sort of wrapper for the C externals. Plus I always a good SWIG makes my code so much nicer! Pete On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Bernard Devlin bdrun...@gmail.com wrote: Probably helps if I provide a link

Re: Help with C externals

2012-03-08 Thread Pete
Done. Although it looks like this goes back to 2005 so doesn't seem like it's likley to get fixed after all this time. Pete 2012/3/8 François Chaplais francois.chapl...@mines-paristech.fr please consider voting for report #2783 in quality center which calls for typed variables (an example

Re: Sqlite and performances in LiveCode

2012-03-07 Thread Pete
of the listbox. In the SQL panel query executed is just what you type On Mar 6, 2012 5:47 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: I just noticed that the same vendor that makes SQLiteManager also makes an SQLite server package (cubeSQL) that does implement MVCC. But you're right, it's definitely

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