Re: age calculation on Windows vs Mac

2011-07-19 Thread Pete
that would certainly cause a problem for dates prior to 1970. I don't know why that would be different in Windows than OS X. Hope that might help track down the problem. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 9:23 AM, André Bisseret wrote:

Re: AW: security code number generation

2011-07-18 Thread Pete
've broken it. On the other hand, they could improve it :-) Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 8:40 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/18/11 2:43 AM, Tiemo Hollmann TB wrote: > > As I understand Zygodact, or Peters or Shaos appro

Re: security code number generation

2011-07-18 Thread Pete
Thanks Ken, that looks good. I guess the other missing piece is how to control "demo" versions. Expiration dates seem to be the most common, or maybe some limited function set. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 10:48 PM, Ken

Re: security code number generation

2011-07-17 Thread Pete
Peter, I'm looking for something to generate license codes for some software I'm planning to sell. Do you think this would work for that purpose? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: > For anyone

Re: revMail to Gmail when it's not the default client

2011-07-17 Thread Pete
Sorry Roger, should have included a link - here it is: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=10966 It's actually part of the Gmail Notifier plugin which works on Windows and Mac. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 11:29

Re: revMail to Gmail when it's not the default client

2011-07-17 Thread Pete
There's a Gmail plugin available from Google that makes Gmail come up when you click a mail link instead of the default for the computer, but I don't know how that would interact with revMail Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at

Re: spam

2011-07-16 Thread Pete
I just started getting emails asking if I want an invitation join Google+ - pretty sure they're spam. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Joe Lewis Wilkins wrote: > Have you people noticed an excessive number of spa

Re: How/When are behavior references resolved?

2011-07-16 Thread Pete
honestly don;t know why it stopped working in the first place and what I did to make it start working again. I hate that because if it happesn again, I will have no idea how to fix it but for now, all is well! Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at

Re: How/When are behavior references resolved?

2011-07-16 Thread Pete
lopment environment but need to find a better solution somehow. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2011, at 3:29 PM, Pete wrote: > > > I'm having a problem with behaviors not bein

Re: How/When are behavior references resolved?

2011-07-16 Thread Pete
Thanks Sean. I tried trapping the ResolutionError message but never got triggered so I guess they didn't put it in there. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:42 AM, Shao Sean wrote: > This was the information given when behaviors

Re: How/When are behavior references resolved?

2011-07-16 Thread Pete
Great idea, I just added my 5 votes for it. This thing is driving me crazy and will affect the livecode tv presentation I'm doing later this morning. Not insurmountable, just means restarting LC when I shouldn't need to. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com&g

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-15 Thread Pete
Sounds like the best solution. Thanks for posting the question - I learend about "delete", "any", and more about "sort"! Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:40 PM, Timothy Miller < gand...@doctortim

How/When are behavior references resolved?

2011-07-15 Thread Pete
#x27;m wondering if this is the appropriate way to deal with this situation or if there's a cleaner way to do it. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please vis

Nested behaviors

2011-07-15 Thread Pete
havior for a different object. Am I expecting too much of LC's behavior concept? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Pete
No problem. I'd definitely try it though - I've been bitten before by the docs saying things that weren't quite true! Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Jerry J wrote: > Aha! The docs say so! Learned somethi

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-14 Thread Pete
Doesn't setting the wholematches to true deal with this? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Jerry J wrote: > On Jul 14, 2011, at 2:12 AM, Keith Clarke wrote: > > > ...ah yes, of course, thanks Jim - I forgot that

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-13 Thread Pete
Great, learned two things form this - delete and any! Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:58 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/13/11 11:33 PM, Pete wrote: > >> You're right, should probably be something like "rep

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-13 Thread Pete
You're right, should probably be something like "replace y & comma with empty in x". Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Nonsanity wrote: > I like Pete's best - closest to what I was thinking - but I'

Re: repeat with i=

2011-07-13 Thread Pete
Maybe (untested): put "1,2,3,4,5,6" into x repeat with i=1 to 6 put item random(the number of items in x) into y put empty into item y of x end repeat Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Timothy Miller < gand...

Re: Resizing the objects in a group

2011-07-12 Thread Pete
so it's on record. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 9:35 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/12/11 11:11 PM, Pete wrote: > >> It seems that this problem is not restricted to when there is just one >> control in a gr

Re: Resizing the objects in a group

2011-07-12 Thread Pete
does not. If I change the size of a control in the group by script, the group does expand accordingly. The lockLocation property of the group is false. Is there some other property of the group I need to set/unset to allow resizing of a control? I fnot, I plan to report this as a bug. Pete

Re: global variable change in substack not available to main stack

2011-07-12 Thread Pete
Yes it is - which makes available until you log out. Still have to be careful what you use it for between stacks of course but at least you don't have to declare it everywhere it's referenced. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at

Re: bugs in union and intersect?

2011-07-12 Thread Pete
o true repeat for each line myKey in myKeys if myKey is not among the lines of the keys of parray then put ptestarray[myKey] into parray[myKey] end if end repeat end myUnion I tried that on Dick's test case and it produced the right results. Pete Molly's Revenge <

Re: global variable change in substack not available to main stack

2011-07-10 Thread Pete
Thanks for the info. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:25 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/10/11 3:34 PM, Pete wrote: > > If you want a variable that is truly global without having to declare it >> everywhere, this

Resizing the objects in a group

2011-07-10 Thread Pete
ve a group with just one object in it but any ideas why this might be happening? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe an

Re: global variable change in substack not available to main stack

2011-07-10 Thread Pete
les by script rather than through the message box though - maybe they are created as OS environment variables with a shell command, like the other $ variables? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Slava- > >

Re: Missing Menu Items

2011-07-10 Thread Pete
There was a change in the way Mac menus are handled in 4.6 - see page 25 of the release notes at http://www.runrev.com/downloads/livecode/4_6_0/LiveCodeNotes-4_6_0.pdf. I don;t think these changes made it to the User Manaul yet. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>

Re: Free App for Mac: discoapp

2011-07-09 Thread Pete
;t contact them either. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 7:09 AM, Roger Eller wrote: > On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Josep M Yepes wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > For Mac users, the burn app Disco it's free now. > &g

Question for Trevor DeVore

2011-07-08 Thread Pete
n the same way? For example - set the mydgColumnProperty["Col1"] of to "xyz" Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: answer file filter

2011-07-08 Thread Pete
Thanks Pierre, I will get that. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 1:01 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote: > Hi Pete, > > Get the "FileType" free soft from http://www.frederikseiffert.de/filetype/to > the needed info ;-) >

Re: answer file filter

2011-07-08 Thread Pete
Thanks Klaus, didn't know about "the long files". Actually, I think the code I'm looking for is RSTK - I think "Revo" is the creator code. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Klaus on-rev wrote: >

answer file filter

2011-07-08 Thread Pete
What is the 4-character OS X file type of LC stack files (for use in the answer file dialog)? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,

Re: Finding the main stack

2011-07-08 Thread Pete
I see what you mean about the target, confusion on my part. And thanks for the main(), definitely saves on typing. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:02 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/7/11 10:44 PM, Pete wrote: > >> I&#

Re: Using linkText

2011-07-08 Thread Pete
Thanks Peter, that will be useful. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> > > Here's what I have in one of my fields, where I am creating links from time > to time: > > on mouseup > -- select the text you want to turn into a link > -

Re: Finding the main stack

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
their stacks but I guess one extra line of code is no big deal. The custom property holds a list of databases to be opened by the library. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:48 PM, Mark Wieder wrote: > Pete- > > Thursday, July 7,

Finding the main stack

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
g out the rev stacks and my library stack and hope that the result leaves one stack - the calling stack. However, if there happens to be more than one application's stack in memory in the IDE, I end up with two or more stack names. Is there some way to discover the correct main st

Re: Using linkText

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
asily. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > > On Jul 7, 2011, at 4:14 PM, Pete wrote: > > > Thanks, hadn't noticed that. But it just seems to make the text a link > or > > not, no way to speci

Re: Using linkText

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
Thanks Jim, I'll give that whirl. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Jim Ault wrote: > On Jul 7, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Pete wrote: > > Is there an easy way to set/get the linkText of a chunk of text in a field >>

Re: Using linkText

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
Thanks, hadn't noticed that. But it just seems to make the text a link or not, no way to specify what the link should be. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the purpose of linkText. What I want to do is have each link go to a specific card in the stack Pete Molly'

Re: Hide A Stack, But Not Hide A Stack?

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
Never mind - I got bitten by the problems of the Application Browser not always refreshing. After I hot the refresh button, the library stack turned up. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > > > If you

Re: Hide A Stack, But Not Hide A Stack?

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
because my app wouldn't work without it, plus I see it listed in the mainstacks and the stacksinuse. What am I doing differently? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > > > If you issue a "start using&quo

Re: Hide A Stack, But Not Hide A Stack?

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
Interesting indeed. I don't see my library stack in the Application browser, just in the stacksinuse and mainstacks, but sounds like you see it in your Application Browser? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:46 PM, Scott Rossi wrote

Using linkText

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
xt of whatever text is selected at the time. 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 p

Re: Hide A Stack, But Not Hide A Stack?

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
If you issue a "start using" command, the named stack doesn't show up in the IDE, but that would mean moving the support stacks out of the current main stack Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Kennan Ray wrote:

Re: Hide A Stack, But Not Hide A Stack?

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
Just tried that - it still turns up in the Application Browser (and all its substacks). Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Kennan Ray wrote: > You could load the stack into memory nut not open it by using the trick: > > g

Re: Tabs in custom property

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
Thanks Keith. I was on 4.6.0 when I got the problem - I upgraded to 4.6.2 and now it works as you described. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Keith Clarke < keith.cla...@clarkeandclarke.co.uk> wrote: > Pete, > Try

Tabs in custom property

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
into the custom property value field in the Property Inspector? 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 s

Re: how to ungroup a group of one

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
I gotta take a look at that - I find groups, particularly nested groups, particularly frustrating to to maintain using the IDE. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 12:52 AM, Chipp Walters wrote: > Slava, > > Chances are it is ung

Re: defining and using globals in an application

2011-07-07 Thread Pete
a case of which feels more comfortable and fits your programming style. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Mark Stuart wrote: > >> You HAVE to declare the global again, and again where needed. >>

Re: default textsize and textfont?

2011-07-05 Thread Pete
g the system font). They have some other interesting sounding tools... Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 5:32 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > On 06/07/2011 10:04 AM, "Richard Gaskin" > wrote: > > > Terry Judd wrote: > >

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-05 Thread Pete
Thanks Ken, I figured that's what it was. I can send you the changed handler if you're interested n the ordinal day and timezone (timezone will only work on a Mac). Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Ken Ray wrote: >

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-05 Thread Pete
re formats (ordinal day number and 3-char time zone) and want to make sure I understand the relationship between those two variables before changing anything. Thanks, Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 6:24 AM, Ken Ray wrote: > I have a han

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-04 Thread Pete
Thanks a lot Ken, this looks great and I'll be trying it out very soon. I might add the ability to return the 3-char timezone since I just found out how to get hold of that from OS X (it's in word -2 of the shell date command) Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com&

Re: record sound problem on windows

2011-07-03 Thread Pete
> > Using the standard "record sound file "test.wav", works fine on OSX but the > resulting file when recorded on XP is high pitched & out of tempo. > > Are you sure you weren't recording a bagpipe band?!?! ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lis

Re: Anyone using MobGUI?

2011-07-03 Thread Pete
y give the password to my stacks to another developer, but would definitely hesitate to give it to an end user. To me, it's not an issue of piracy, more of someone who doesn't know what they're doing changing my code and then expecting support for it when it crashes. P

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-03 Thread Pete
hey see fit and take the appropriate action. Since they seem to be 99% focused on mobile platforms right now (probably correctly), I'm not holding my breath for any of them to be fixed any time soon. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 a

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-03 Thread Pete
to allow the user to tell me that dates are to be displayed in any one of the System Preference settings (or set a custom one of their own). I've figured out how to get the user's System Preference settings from a combination of the shell locale command and an Applescript and am busy wr

Re: Combobox

2011-07-03 Thread Pete
them yourself :-). Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > > > > I don't suppose this will make its appearance as a DropTool? > > Yup! But it may take a bit as I have a couple of other DropTools in the &g

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-03 Thread Pete
Thanks Jacque, that's a great start. I also found the dateFormat function which I think may assist in all this. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 8:15 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/2/11 2:46 PM, Pete wrote: > > So if a u

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-02 Thread Pete
een two objects with the same name but in different cases. But I'm sure you already know that. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: > Pete, > > I'm coming a bit late to this but... > > You d

Re: Combobox

2011-07-02 Thread Pete
Is it possible to attach filesto messages to this list? I have a combobox I'd like to share... Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 4:52 PM, David Glass wrote: > I don't suppose this will make its appearance as a DropTool? > &

Re: Combobox

2011-07-02 Thread Pete
I hope so! Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 4:52 PM, David Glass wrote: > I don't suppose this will make its appearance as a DropTool? > > On 06/30/2011 7:30 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > >> I don't usually use LC's

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-02 Thread Pete
a shell command or with Applescript but no luck yet. I may have to ask the user to define the formats again with my ap ( that goes back to the other thread about duplicate object names!) Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:37 AM, J. Landma

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-02 Thread Pete
nse of the word no matter what LC thinks of them - their case makes them unique - so I don't feel like I'm breaking any golden programming rules. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 9:42 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 7/2/11 12:27 AM

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-02 Thread Pete
n name before I discovered the casesensitive issue so opted to stick with that approach. Plus I would have needed a similar command to locate the button with the correct custom property. Hope that explains the situation * Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Jul 1, 20

Re: System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-02 Thread Pete
h the various forms of the LC system date compared with the OS X system date formats. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 5:43 AM, Peter Brigham MD wrote: > There may be a better way, but you might have to use a shell call. Execute >

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-01 Thread Pete
opriate buttons. I'm sure there are other ways to do this - with custom properties for example. But I can't think of any practical downside to using the button names, although I'm ready to hear any. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, J

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-01 Thread Pete
That's OK Mark, I agree with what you said 99.9% of the time, it's just that there is a valid reason for what I'm doing in this particular instance. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Mark Schonewille < m.s

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-01 Thread Pete
I'm looking for and sets the hilitedButton of the group if the names match. Thanks for the idea! Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Devin Asay wrote: > Pete, > > Does it work to set the hilitedButton instead of t

Re: Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-01 Thread Pete
Sorry Mark, I don't agree with you. Too complicated to explain by email but I can assure there is a good reason. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Mark Schonewille < m.schonewi...@economy-x-talk.com> wrote: > Pete, &g

Upper/Lower case issue

2011-07-01 Thread Pete
t;xyz" to tVar I tried setting the casesensitive property but the dictionary clearly states that it doesn't affect object names. There's a valid reason for the buttons being named that way and I'd rather not change them unless I have to - any ideas on how to avoid this problem? P

System Date/Time Format Problems

2011-07-01 Thread Pete
times: LC Short = OSX Short LC Abbrev = OSX Short LC Long = OSX Medium no LC format = OSX Long or full Any thoughts? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please v

Re: Inserting text into a field

2011-06-30 Thread Pete
Thanks. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 6/30/11 11:05 PM, Pete wrote: > >> - combobox with text choices >> - field with text in it and the cursor somewhere in the middle of the text

Re: Combobox

2011-06-30 Thread Pete
Got it, thanks. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > > > Just to clarify, are you saying that option menus on Macs are different > than > > on Windows in general, or just LC option menus? > >

Inserting text into a field

2011-06-30 Thread Pete
- combobox with text choices - field with text in it and the cursor somewhere in the middle of the text - select an entry from the combobox - how do I insert the combobox entry into the text field, starting where the cursor is positioned? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrev

Re: Combobox

2011-06-30 Thread Pete
, maybe it will become a Drop Tools candidate when it grows up! Just to clarify, are you saying that option menus on Macs are different than on Windows in general, or just LC option menus? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Ken Ray

Re: Combobox

2011-06-30 Thread Pete
Nice, I'm thinking of doing that myself, except I will probably use an option menu rather than a list field - much more familiar user interface using that way (or yours) than the combobox. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:04 PM, Sla

Re: Combobox

2011-06-30 Thread Pete
does not claim it will do that for comboboxes but it seems a little strange that it doesn't. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 2:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 6/30/11 3:24 PM, Pete wrote: > >> How do I get hold of the text

Re: Combobox

2011-06-30 Thread Pete
and the text property contains the value typed in. I still don't know what the dictionary means by "the text box at the top of the combobox". I just type over any value displayed in the combobox and it gets changed. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>

Combobox

2011-06-30 Thread Pete
ing - I would expect to get the text the user just typed into the field. How do I get hold of the text the user just typed in, for example to set the menuhistory using a lineOffset function? Thanks, Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> __

Re: Visual Effect command

2011-06-27 Thread Pete
r the modal window to act like a Mac sheet but descend down from a control on the card rather than the window title bar. It would be nice to find a way to make this work but it's definitely window-dressing (pun entirely intended) Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com&g

Re: Visual Effect command

2011-06-27 Thread Pete
the go command so the show would never happen until after I return from the modal stack. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 1:00 PM, Scott Rossi wrote: > One way to restrict a visual effect to a portion of the screen is to use > the &g

Visual Effect command

2011-06-27 Thread Pete
r types of visual effect. Any ideas on how to make that work? I'd also like to make the modal window slide back up behind the control when I close it, but one step at a time! Thanks, Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> __

Re: formattedheight and formattedwidth

2011-06-27 Thread Pete
that clears up the confusion. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote: > Pete wrote: > > OK I see what you mean about the formatted versions of height/width. The >> straight height and width properties do

Re: formattedheight and formattedwidth

2011-06-26 Thread Pete
formatted height and formatted width during preOpenCard. That seems to work just fine. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Robert Brenstein wrote: > On 26.06.2011 at 17:42 Uhr -0700 Pete apparently wrote: > >> >> I

Re: formattedheight and formattedwidth

2011-06-26 Thread Pete
ut how much room is around the borders of the controls on each card. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 3:55 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 6/26/11 2:52 PM, Pete wrote: > >> Thanks. I guess the dictionary is misleading (yet agai

Re: formattedheight and formattedwidth

2011-06-26 Thread Pete
the height of this card set the width of this stack to the width of this card Is that what you meant? That sometimes works and sometimes isn't close. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 7:04 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 6/25/11

Re: the object Type of me?

2011-06-26 Thread Pete
checking word 1 of the abbrev name, you have to check the style and menumode properties to figure all that out. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 7:59 AM, Slava Paperno wrote: > Right! Thanks, man, > > S. > > >getProp con

formattedheight and formattedwidth

2011-06-25 Thread Pete
end up several pixels short of what they need to be. Adding 10 to the fomattedheight and 20 to the formattedwidth makes things about right, but Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists

Re: dgColumnSortType

2011-06-24 Thread Pete
Got it, thanks. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Trevor DeVore wrote: > On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 8:06 PM, Pete wrote: > > > What is the difference between "datetime" and "system datetime" in the

dgColumnSortType

2011-06-24 Thread Pete
What is the difference between "datetime" and "system datetime" in the dgColumnSortType property of a datagrid column? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.r

Re: The Wait command

2011-06-24 Thread Pete
Hi Bob, This is definitely new territory for me but I think perhaps the "with messages" option of the wait command does what you want. The dictionary indicates that "with messages" allows the user to carry on doing other things in LC while it is waiting for suspended handle

Re: The Wait command

2011-06-24 Thread Pete
I didn't get that from the dictionary entry for wait, although I guess everything after "until" is just a compound condition. Never thought of that, thanks for the idea. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:53 PM, J. Landman

Re: The Wait command

2011-06-24 Thread Pete
Thanks - sounds like this is trivial. Wouldn't it be nice though if the wait command could do "wait until or " Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 1:26 PM, John Craig wrote: > Try something like; > > Put the millise

The Wait command

2011-06-24 Thread Pete
Trying to figure out how to suspend processing until either a condition is true OR a specific amount of time has elapsed. Looks like the wait command allows one or the other but not both. Any ideas how to do this? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrev

Re: Checkbox label

2011-06-23 Thread Pete
Thanks Ken, I'll take a look. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 8:16 PM, Ken Ray wrote: > > Unfortunately, I pretty much finished doing all the tools palette work > > months ago before Ken came out with his palette to

Re: Checkbox label

2011-06-23 Thread Pete
able to do is hand control back to me once the control is dropped on it's destination card. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:36 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: > On 6/23/11 4:27 PM, Pete wrote: > > In case you're wondering, I

Re: Checkbox label

2011-06-23 Thread Pete
Interesting. I must admit, I've not delved into using my own icons. Would this involve having two icons, one for the unchecked state and one for the checked state? Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Randy Hengst wrote: &

Re: Checkbox label

2011-06-23 Thread Pete
oups, hence the question. I'm probably breaking some Human Interface Guidelines by doing this since checkbox and radio button labels are just about always on the right but sometimes window layout constraints dictate otherwise. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com>

Checkbox label

2011-06-23 Thread Pete
Is it possible to have the label of a checkbox appear to the left of the checkbox instead of the right? I guess same question for radio buttons as well. Pete Molly's Revenge <http://www.mollysrevenge.com> ___ use-livecode mailing list u

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