Re: Shell question

2012-01-08 Thread Pete
. If I put that into the stdin file, what gets displayed is portions of each command with no line breaks between them. It sure feels like some sort of carriage return problem! Pete On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Pete- Sunday, January 8, 2012, 6:54:44

Tabbed Button Question

2012-01-06 Thread Pete
I had expected the label property of a tabbed button to be set to the the name of the currently selected tab but apparently it's not. Is there another property of a tabbed control that contains this information or do I have to get it by using the menuHistory and text properties? -- Pete

Re: Tabbed Button Question

2012-01-06 Thread Pete
Thanks Phil. I'd never have guessed that - it's not even listed as a property of a button in the dictionary! On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: get the selectedText of btn 1 get the selection of btn 1 Phil On 1/6/12 3:33 PM, Pete wrote: I had expected

Fwd: [Bug 9604] Various issues regarding compatibility between LC system date formats and OS X date preferences

2012-01-05 Thread Pete
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Fwd: [Bug 9932] expose mysql_real_escape_string() function

2012-01-05 Thread Pete
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Re: Carriage Return in datagrid data

2012-01-05 Thread Pete
Thanks Mike, will do. On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 5:08 PM, m...@doub.com wrote: Pete, take a look at the datagrid tutorials. If I recall correctly there are explanations and examples for how to manage non-fixed height rows of a datagrid. Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless

Re: Carriage Return in datagrid data

2012-01-04 Thread Pete
In my haste to implement this, I realised I do not know how to define ascii characters to LC! Is there a function or a numeric notation to do that? Thanks Pete On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 5:28 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: replace return with VT (vertical tab) ascii

Re: Carriage Return in datagrid data

2012-01-04 Thread Pete
Hi Mike, I am using dgText but will try using dgData. Have you tried this? I'm curious as to how the data looks in the datagrid column. I'm using a dg table with a fixed line height so I'm guessing everything after the first return won't be visible? Pete On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Mike

Re: Carriage Return in datagrid data

2012-01-04 Thread Pete
carriage returns in them so would be wasting some datagrid space. Either way, I probably will convert to using dgData instead of dgText. I kinda prefer using dgData but it's just an extra step to convert what comes back from the database into an array when it's already in dgText format. Pete On Wed

Re: Another Gotcha

2012-01-03 Thread Pete
want this to be visible when using the pointer tool. Bob On Jan 2, 2012, at 7:22 PM, Pete wrote: Why not do this in a mouseDown handler for the menu? On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:18 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: S'not. ;-) It's the handler that builds contextual menus. By trapping

Re: Listen for messages in FrontScripts

2012-01-03 Thread Pete
I think it's time to refer to the message path bible - Richard Gaskin's great article at http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/revolution_message_path.html Pete On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Todd Geist t...@geistinteractive.comwrote: On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Bob Sneidar b

Re: Listen for messages in FrontScripts

2012-01-03 Thread Pete
OK, sorry didn't realise you'd already read it. You're turning up some interesting stuff. I guess my only comment is that I prefer to always specify a target for dispatch, etc. Defaults are great but being specific relieves my already overloaded brain of having to remember what they are!. Pete

Re: Simplest method for determining changes made on a form/card

2012-01-03 Thread Pete
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Re: Simplest method for determining changes made on a form/card

2012-01-03 Thread Pete
What was that again? On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:14 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Pete- Tuesday, January 3, 2012, 4:56:17 PM, you wrote: focus on nothing Yeah- that's what I've been doing all day... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net

Re: Another Gotcha

2012-01-02 Thread Pete
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Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Pete
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Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Pete
I swear I will never do it again! On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.netwrote: Jacque- Friday, December 30, 2011, 11:26:48 AM, you wrote: On 12/30/11 1:00 PM, Pete wrote: For a top level group, it's simple. Just select the group, ungroup, shift-click

Re: dead handler detector?

2011-12-30 Thread Pete
for it because I kinda left it alone in favor of doing other things but let me know if this is what you're looking for and I'll see if I can find it and see what state it's in. Pete On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: Hi folks - Does anyone have a dead handler

Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Pete
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Re: Nested Group Frustrations

2011-12-30 Thread Pete
Thanks Scott and Mark. So may ways to do things in LC, it takes a while to find them all. Pete On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Pete- Friday, December 30, 2011, 5:24:46 PM, you wrote: I'm feeling a lot better about editing groups now

Re: Combo-box text arrows

2011-12-29 Thread Pete
had problems figuring out just how to type a new value into a combobox. Is there supposed to be a field at the top of all the options by default, do I have to leave an empty line in the choices, or what? Pete On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 8:34 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: In OS X

Re: Combo-box text arrows

2011-12-29 Thread Pete
I guess I'm not clear on just where the user types in a new value - over the top of an existing choice that's loaded into the menu? Pete On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 9:53 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: The entry doesn't usually go into the menu at all. The field is like an other

[OT] LIve Video Streaming

2011-12-28 Thread Pete
recommendations, but they are all miniDV cameras and, as far as I can tell, that technology is old enough that nobody makes cameras that use it any longer. I know it's a long shot but does anyone have any knowledge in this area? Thanks, -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com

Datagrid Column Format

2011-12-28 Thread Pete
Is that any way to use a different format for a column in different rows in a datagrid. For example, sometimes I want plain text in the column, other times an option menu, etc depending the value of another column in the row. -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com

Re: [OT] LIve Video Streaming

2011-12-28 Thread Pete
Well, I haven't actually tried them yet! On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Pete- Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 11:54:01 AM, you wrote: **not the least** livecode tv with ustream ...what - you've found something worse than ustream? That's scary

Re: [OT] LIve Video Streaming

2011-12-28 Thread Pete
probably not much movement available. But at least, he will be able to do some zooming in/out and left/right panning to make things a little less boring. Pete On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 1:34 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: Logitech has a great new webcam for about 100

Re: [OT] LIve Video Streaming

2011-12-28 Thread Pete
mix. On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Pete- Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 1:34:49 PM, Stephen wrote: Get the audio off of the PA separately, however. Distant mics always suck for music, no matter the quality. I'll defer to Stephen's comments here

Re: revOpenDatabase Problem

2011-12-27 Thread Pete
On Dec 26, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Pete wrote: Using revOpenDatabase to open an sqlite database using a file that is not an sqlite database return an integer as if the database was successfully opened. Any subsequent db accesses fail of course but I wonder why revOpenDatabase doesn't return an error

Re: Case Study: Behaviors Failing - Can't set break points

2011-12-27 Thread Pete
Are the behavior buttons in the actual library stack or in a substack of the library stack? I've run into a similar problem before and ending setting thew stackFiles property of the app's main stack to name the behavior stack. Pete On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Todd Geist t

Re: Case Study: Behaviors Failing - Can't set break points

2011-12-27 Thread Pete
. Not sure if that's your situation but maybe that will help. Pete On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Todd Geist t...@geistinteractive.comwrote: They are in the Library Stack itself not a substack. So you essentially injected the Library stack into the Main stack? On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:39 AM

Re: Case Study: Behaviors Failing - Can't set break points

2011-12-27 Thread Pete
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Re: Case Study: Behaviors Failing - Can't set break points

2011-12-27 Thread Pete
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Re: Trouble with button icon images

2011-12-27 Thread Pete
the standalone builder is smart enough to include only the referenced icons. Pete On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:00 PM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 12/26/11 11:35 AM, Pete wrote: HI Jacque, Just one more follow up to this. When the standalone is built, does it include all

Re: Strange Datagrid Behavior

2011-12-27 Thread Pete
of reserved word in the datagrid world, not too surprising I suppose. Pete On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:46 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Delete the first datagrid and when it throws an error that is where whatever code is referencing the first datagrid literally. It sounds at first blush like you

Re: Strange Datagrid Behavior

2011-12-27 Thread Pete
Just don;t call them dgColumn! On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Yet another great argument for naming conventions! All my datagrids start with dg. Bob On Dec 27, 2011, at 4:06 PM, Pete wrote: I found the reason for this strange problem. The second

Re: Strange Datagrid Behavior

2011-12-27 Thread Pete
Actually, now I see that there are around a dozen or so groups within the datagrid structure whose name starts with dg. Definitely a good idea to have naming conventions but dg might not be the best choice for datagrids, although it is the obvious one. On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Pete p

Smooth change in size of a stack

2011-12-26 Thread Pete
What is the technique for making a change in stack height a smooth transition? Not a very good descriptions I guess but as an example, I'm looking at what happens in the Tools palette when you go back and forth between the various tabs. Thanks, -- Pete Molly's Revenge http

Re: Trouble with button icon images

2011-12-26 Thread Pete
, On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:02 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 12/24/11 11:56 AM, Pete wrote: Thanks Jacque. When I use the library, I use the Place Reference button to put a button on whatever card I'm working on, preconfigured to refer to the image as its icon. Are you

Re: Smooth change in size of a stack

2011-12-26 Thread Pete
Thanks Marty. I haven't moved to 5.0 yet (seems like too many niggling problems) so I'd love to get the stack. Could you send it to my email? Pete On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Marty Knapp martykn...@comcast.netwrote: Hey Pete, Eric Chatonet had a stack named Modifying Card Dimensions

revOpenDatabase Problem

2011-12-26 Thread Pete
Using revOpenDatabase to open an sqlite database using a file that is not an sqlite database return an integer as if the database was successfully opened. Any subsequent db accesses fail of course but I wonder why revOpenDatabase doesn't return an error? -- Pete Molly's Revenge http

Re: revOpenDatabase Problem

2011-12-26 Thread Pete
they choose. I did think about filtering the valid extensions for the ask file dialog but it's my understanding that an sqlite db can have any extension. I also tried calling revDatabaseType but that returns SQLITE even if it's not an sqlite database. Pete On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Mike

Re: Smooth change in size of a stack

2011-12-26 Thread Pete
Got it Marty, thanks. I'll check it out in the next couple of hours. Pete On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Marty Knapp martykn...@comcast.net wrote: OK - sent a bit ago as an email attachment. Let me know if you didn't get it, I'll post it somewhere that you can download it. Marty Thanks

Re: Smooth change in size of a stack

2011-12-26 Thread Pete
think this does exactly what I want to do, at least in 4.6.4 so thanks for the help. Pete On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Marty Knapp martykn...@comcast.net wrote: OK - sent a bit ago as an email attachment. Let me know if you didn't get it, I'll post it somewhere that you can download

Re: revOpenDatabase Problem

2011-12-26 Thread Pete
for validity. (even if its binary, surely there is a way to determine if its really an sqlite file) Would have to look up the sqlite file format but it seems like it should be possible. On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: I think that's probably true. I'm

Strange Datagrid Behavior

2011-12-26 Thread Pete
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Re: Trouble with button icon images

2011-12-24 Thread Pete
Thanks Jacque. When I use the library, I use the Place Reference button to put a button on whatever card I'm working on, preconfigured to refer to the image as its icon. Are you saying that those images won't show up when I build a standalone? Thanks, Pete On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 9:22 AM, J

Re: Trouble with button icon images

2011-12-24 Thread Pete
Great, thanks. On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:02 AM, J. Landman Gay jac...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: On 12/24/11 11:56 AM, Pete wrote: Thanks Jacque. When I use the library, I use the Place Reference button to put a button on whatever card I'm working on, preconfigured to refer to the image

Trouble with button icon images

2011-12-23 Thread Pete
copy a button that uses the image from another card to this card, the image disappears from the button. Other buttons on the same card that refer to different images work just fine. Any ideas? -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use

Re: Is Control a DataGrid

2011-12-22 Thread Pete
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Re: is among the words AND find words

2011-12-22 Thread Pete
, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Open the sqLite_master table. In it you will find a column called SQL with entries for how to create each table. Bob On Dec 21, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Pete wrote: I think I tried that but the arguments aren't always comma delimited

Re: Is Control a DataGrid

2011-12-22 Thread Pete
that might have dgcontrol property in the default custom keys property set. Pete On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:44 AM, Todd Geist t...@geistinteractive.comwrote: In this case I am making a Palette that pops up when groups are selected. I need to rule out groups that are inappropriate

Option Menu Question

2011-12-22 Thread Pete
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Re: Option Menu Question

2011-12-22 Thread Pete
text in an opaque field overlying the combo? Pete wanted the rest state of menuItem 1 to be greyed. The options themselves can be managed directly once pulled. Craig ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit

Re: How to tell when a datagrid column has been resized

2011-12-22 Thread Pete
that. For example , set the default header behavior script to your own copy of it and then if the dgHeaderColumnIsBeingResized property is true, do whatever it is you need to do. Pete On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Hi all. I have read up on all the lessons that might

Re: is among the words AND find words

2011-12-21 Thread Pete
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Re: is among the words AND find words

2011-12-21 Thread Pete
, quotes, single quotes, and periods. Many punctuation marks are treated as separate tokens as well as anything delimited by a space, return, tab, or semicolon. Only drawback is that there is no tokenOffset function so you have to write your own using a repeat loop to go through the string. Pete

Re: DataGrid Problem

2011-12-21 Thread Pete
csz...@mac.com wrote: Hi Pete! I am using the Form version of DataGrid and not a table. The form is a scrolling field. I have one field strategy that displays statements from an array. This works fine. But as I stated before I have not been able to add an Edit Field (field freq). When I

Re: Database syntax

2011-12-21 Thread Pete
, Postgresql, Openbase, HSQL, Valentina and Sqlite, and I still use some of those if the situation needs it. Bernard On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: But as soon as you get into multiple datasets with links between them or multiple ways to access one dataset

Re: is among the words AND find words

2011-12-21 Thread Pete
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Re: Function to Upper and Lower Case sentences

2011-12-21 Thread Pete
I think he's looking for something to capitalize the first char of each sentence, not of each word. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: end repeat -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use

Re: is among the words AND find words

2011-12-21 Thread Pete
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Re: Database syntax

2011-12-21 Thread Pete
column would do fine. Bob On Dec 21, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Pete wrote: One thing I mentioned earlier that might be relevant to him is that there's no need to use blobs when storing LC arrays. Just use base64 encoding and store it in a text field, works fine. Some folks on this list pointed

Re: Function to Upper and Lower Case sentences

2011-12-21 Thread Pete
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Re: is among the words AND find words

2011-12-21 Thread Pete
delimited arguments (usually in parens) in an SQL statement and then deal with them as items? But I suppose there are all kinds of special circumstances that would make a general purpose word function very unwieldy. Bob On Dec 21, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Pete wrote: Not really - try parsing out an SQL

Re: Database syntax -- array to BLOB

2011-12-21 Thread Pete
. On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Ruslan Zasukhin ruslan_zasuk...@valentina-db.com wrote: On 12/21/11 11:22 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: The problem I had was that it just didn't work using a blob. The encoded array got stored OK but LC didn't recognise what came back as an array

Re: Function to Upper and Lower Case sentences

2011-12-21 Thread Pete
Came across another corner case - a quotation at the end of a sentence, eg: Mark said, You don't know what you're talking about! This could be a real nightmare! On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Pete- Wednesday, December 21, 2011, 2:00:57 PM, you

Re: Database syntax

2011-12-20 Thread Pete
need to do. There are LC products pout there that will make some of this easier, SQLYoga for one, and I will be releasing my SQL plugin helper for LC in January which elminate the need for you to write any SQL or LC code to do what you want to do :-) Hope that helps, Pete On Tue, Dec 20, 2011

Re: Database syntax

2011-12-20 Thread Pete
that it would be better to set all your column values in the insert statement. Otherwise you will have to query for the last inserted primary key and use that in your next UPDATE statement's WHERE clause. -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com

Re: Database syntax

2011-12-20 Thread Pete
, if you are concerned about efficiency, although the statements themselves use very little bandwidth. What will use bandwidth is select statements that return large data sets, but I don't think that will be an issue for you. -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com

Re: Database syntax

2011-12-20 Thread Pete
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Re: Database syntax

2011-12-20 Thread Pete
... and that's a bad thing? On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Bernard Devlin bdrun...@gmail.com wrote: b) arrays have no machinery (null checking, referential integrity, etc.) that would slow them down. -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com

Re: Cannot focus on a datagrid??

2011-12-20 Thread Pete
Hi Charles, Take a look at the lessons starting at http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/datagrid/l/7335-How-Do-I-Open-a-Table-Cell-For-Editinghttp://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/datagrid/l/7335-How-Do-I-Open-a-Table-Cell-For-Editing- They should get you going. Pete On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:54

Re: Cannot focus on a datagrid??

2011-12-20 Thread Pete
Sorry, I think I missed a character of the end of the URL, here it is again (note the final -) http://lessons.runrev.com/s/lessons/m/datagrid/l/7335-How-Do-I-Open-a-Table-Cell-For-Editing- On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com wrote: Pete, I clicked on the link

Re: Cannot focus on a datagrid??

2011-12-20 Thread Pete
click the cell, it should open up for editing and when you leave the cell, the new value is updated into the datagrid's internal storage. What happens when you try to edit? Pete On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:27 PM, Charles Szasz csz...@mac.com wrote: Pete, I clicked on the link and got the message

Re: Database syntax

2011-12-20 Thread Pete
, there's a strong justification to use a database unless the performance/memory issues are so bad that you can't deal with them (which I find difficult to believe). On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Pete- Tuesday, December 20, 2011, 4:10:22 PM, you

Re: is among the words AND find words

2011-12-20 Thread Pete
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Re: Setting the value of a button hilite in script

2011-12-14 Thread Pete
Never mind folks, found the problem - a missing break in a switch statement (how many times has that bitten me!). Sorry for the trouble. Pete On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Pete- Tuesday, December 13, 2011, 5:23:11 PM, you wrote: Hi Mark

Re: Checkbox in datagrid column

2011-12-14 Thread Pete
' FROM theTable Or maybe you need a CASE statement in the SELECT to figure out if there are any links between the primary entry and the altData entry. But if the external checkboxes look OK, that's all moot. Pete On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:45 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: Hi

Preventing edits in a datagrid

2011-12-14 Thread Pete
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Re: sort by length of line (Weird)

2011-12-13 Thread Pete
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Re: sort by length of line (Weird)

2011-12-13 Thread Pete
assume the enhancement request applies to any function that is only capable of returning a numeric value used in a sort statement, kinda like your ADD example. Pete On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Bob Sneidar b...@twft.com wrote: I went to bed thinking about this. Think about what would have

Re: sort by length of line (Weird)

2011-12-13 Thread Pete
Nice! I wish that had been a conscious play on words. On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 10:04 AM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: How did you sort those lines, before reading between them? On Dec 13, 2011, at 12:29 PM, Pete wrote: Looks like your bug report got changed to an enhancement

Setting the value of a button hilite in script

2011-12-13 Thread Pete
. I'm reduced to what looks like a nonsenical if statement that checks the cprop for true or false and sets the hilite of the button to true or false. Looks really weird! -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing

Re: Setting the value of a button hilite in script

2011-12-13 Thread Pete
...@hyperactivesw.comwrote: It should work unless the value is empty or the control doesn't support the hilite property. Does your loop check for empty? Does it always try to hilite only buttons? -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com

Re: Setting the value of a button hilite in script

2011-12-13 Thread Pete
Hi Mark, That's where I started - I added the parens to see if it made any difference. I just tried it again without the parens and still get the same error. Wonder if it's a version thing - I'm on 4.6.4 On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:01 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Pete- Try

Re: [OT] Ghostery

2011-12-13 Thread Pete
Thanks for introducing me to Ghostery - it's opened up a whole new world of tracking that I had no idea was going on. A lot of sites use Google Analytics of course and I'm not inclined to block that since I've used it myself and found it very useful. I don;t believe it keeps anything more

Re: Checkbox in datagrid column

2011-12-13 Thread Pete
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Re: Setting the value of a button hilite in script

2011-12-13 Thread Pete
process. For no particular reason other than I'm an Englishman living in California and completely off topic, I'm really missing the British pantomime tradition at this time of the year. OH YES I AM!!! Pete On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote: Hi Pete, I'm

Re: Supported versions of OS X

2011-12-13 Thread Pete
Thanks Marty, I was pretty sure that was the case. Pete On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 7:35 PM, Marty Knapp martykn...@comcast.net wrote: Hey Pete, The last few versions of LC require 10.4 or newer if I remember correctly. I see from the release notes that the current version 5.0.2 does. Marty

Re: Setting the value of a button hilite in script

2011-12-13 Thread Pete
Very strange. As mentioned, I got round the problem by using a do command: do set the hilite of control x of this card to the cInitialValue of control x of this card That worked with no other changes to the overall logic of the handler in detecting what type of control I'm dealing with. Pete

Re: Datagrid tooltips

2011-12-09 Thread Pete
Thanks Mark. What you're doing seems a little different than what I need but you reminded me I could use FillInData to set the tooltip and that should take care of it I think. On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 7:37 PM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Pete- Thursday, December 8, 2011, 11:43:37

Re: Filter

2011-12-09 Thread Pete
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Re: When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

2011-12-09 Thread Pete
Hi Ben, Sounds like you're pretty familiar with the Kindle Fire. I'm thinking of getting one primarily for web access to my Google mail, docs, calendar, contacts, etc. How's the web browser on it? Do you find the lack of access to the Android Market a problem? Pete On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:04

Re: Datagrid tooltips

2011-12-09 Thread Pete
theSlug zryip.thes...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: I know the datagrid has a dgTooltip property that displays when the user hovers over a column header but has anyone come up with a way to have a tooltip unique to each row? For example

Re: When to release a free Android app? (development cycle)

2011-12-09 Thread Pete
. But, it was $199 instead of $600. For watching movies on, it's probably fine. And if I could only download Angry Birds, my guess is that would play fine too. -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: RevOnline

2011-12-08 Thread Pete
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Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

2011-12-08 Thread Pete
Hmmm, is that really true? There's a free puzzle builder at http://www.eclipsecrossword.com/tour.html On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net wrote: Keep in mind that crossword puzzles are symmetrical diagonally -- Pete Molly's Revenge http

Re: RevOnline

2011-12-08 Thread Pete
Yes, that too! On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 10:56 AM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: Not to mention that finding stuff there is problematic. On 8 December 2011 10:52, Pete p...@mollysrevenge.com wrote: Yes, been trying for weeks to upload a stack with no success

Re: crossword puzzle in LiveCode

2011-12-08 Thread Pete
That would be a great anagram clue! On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Richmond richmondmathew...@gmail.comwrote: Quod erat demonstrandum -- Pete Molly's Revenge http://www.mollysrevenge.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode

Re: Datagrid - GetDataForLine

2011-12-08 Thread Pete
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