Re: launch & quit

I’d guess that quit command triggers some closeXxxx handlers to run and one causes the delay. The duration of delay sounds a bit like network timeout. Have you tried to switch off messages before quit? On Oct 12, 2019, at 13:28, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: I have a stand alone with

Re: ANN: Script Editor Refactoring Support

Wow! Which versions of LiveCode is this baby compatible with? On 20 Mar 2019, at 18:45, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: Announcing (60 days until the San Jose conference): Script Editor Refactor Plugin Brings refactoring support to the LiveCode Script Editor. Place the plugin into

Re: Anyone have an open source or else a gratis stop watch app

You probably can just modify the analog clock project that was produced/discussed on this list a while ago… On 14 Apr 2018, at 4:37, Mark Rauterkus via use-livecode wrote: Hi, A swim coach friend was talking about a stopwatch app. Anyone have one in LIVECODE already done? Wondering. Mark

Re: Livecode Content Management System

I have been using LC to generate complete websites but I use LC only as a generator of HTML pages from data files and database content, using CSS for theming and HTML hierarchical template files that call LC functions through merge. I believe that Richard Gaskin is still selling a commercial

Re: Autocomplete toggle?

On 27 Sep 2017, at 7:16, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode wrote: What this sounds like (at least I think it sounds like) is an autocomplete placeholder got messed up somehow causing typing in one place to also add the text elsewhere. If that’s the case then turning autocomplete off once it’s

Re: livecode changes image colors without being asked to do it

to look outside of, but it is yourself!' eMail Ts & Cs <http://pidigital.co.uk/emailTCs.rtf> Pi Digital Productions Ltd is a UK registered limited company, no. 5255609 On 1 September 2017 at 00:11, Robert Brenstein via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: I just t

Re: livecode changes image colors without being asked to do it

I just tested this in LC 8.1.6 and it shows the same problem as 7.1.3. I filed a bug report for the team to check into this, including the files. Bug 20316. Robert On 31 Aug 2017, at 18:25, Mark Waddingham via use-livecode wrote: On 2017-08-31 18:22, Robert Brenstein via use-livecode wrote

Re: livecode changes image colors without being asked to do it

As Panos wrote: CMYK images should display correctly if you are using LC >=8.1.3: I am using 7.1.3. This is what I meant that this was a known problem. I just fetched 8.1.6 to check but I won’t habe time to do it until next week. Robert On 31 Aug 2017, at 17:55, Mark Waddingham via

Re: livecode changes image colors without being asked to do it

with that kind of profile (if the image has one). Of course, if the image does not have a profile then it might the engine isn't using an appropriate default. Warmest Regards, Mark. Sent from my iPhone On 30 Aug 2017, at 13:54, Robert Brenstein via use-livecode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.

Re: livecode changes image colors without being asked to do it

14:03, Mike Bonner via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: Not sure if it will make a difference, but you might want to-- set the resizequality of the img "imagename" to "best" On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Robert Brenstein via use-livecode &l

Re: livecode changes image colors without being asked to do it

e img "imagename" to "best" On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Robert Brenstein via use-livecode < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: I have a stack that dynamically sets the image that is displayed on a card using set the filename of img vImageName of stack vSt

Re: livecode changes image colors without being asked to do it

resizequality is set to best… On 30 Aug 2017, at 15:03, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote: Not sure if it will make a difference, but you might want to-- set the resizequality of the img "imagename" to "best" On Wed, Aug 30, 2017 at 6:54 AM, Robert Brenstein via use-liv

livecode changes image colors without being asked to do it

I have a stack that dynamically sets the image that is displayed on a card using set the filename of img vImageName of stack vStackName to vFilePath I just encountered a problem with a new batch of jpeg files. Their colors change when they are displayed in the stack. I mean that when

Re: ListMagic still available?

I managed to get in touch with Eric’s son at the time and offered to support and develop it further, but nothing came out of it, so consider ListMagic a history. On 24 Jun 2017, at 1:50, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: Thanks Matthias. I was hoping someone picked it up. It really is a

Re: Regex help...

If the number of comma-delimited and tab-delimited elements is always the same, I would replace all commas with tabs and then filter to have item x having value of y. Robert On 5 Jun 2017, at 15:23, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode wrote: Thank you Thierry and everyone else. I should have

Re: any secrets printing only a section from a card?

This might be an older issue. I have been struggling with that myself, in context of producing PDFs, in version 7. Only printing the full card works reliably. Any other option produces a different output but not the desired one, at least not reliably. On 10 Apr 2017, at 12:06, Tiemo Hollmann

Re: Serving Videos with LC/iRev

On 27.11.2016 at 10:37 Uhr -0500 Rick Harrison apparently wrote: So the next good place to publish the eBook would be to Amazon.com . Unfortunately, they want their books to use the .mobi format. That format does not allow embedded content such as videos etc. You have only

Re: System date

The problem might be that changing the language does not always change the date formats. These are separate settings under OSX. On 7.09.2016 08:20, Terry Judd wrote: Hi Antti - I just tried changing my Mac's default language to Finnish (Suomi) then restarted it, opened Livecode (several

Re: [OT] Want to help build a new HyperCard

There was actually a Hypercard-like front-end being built in Metacard at some point and was actually quite advanced as I recall. If I am not mistaken it was made open-source. RObert On 19.05.2016 at 16:07 Uhr +0300 Richmond apparently wrote: That has already been discussed over in the

Re: Script Only Stack Architecture

Thanks, Richard, that is a very, very nice intro to behaviors! On 31.03.2016 at 9:52 Uhr -0700 Richard Gaskin apparently wrote: Behaviors are very powerful for all sorts of things, whether you work alone or in a team of twenty. The biggest benefit for teamwork comes from the very separate

7.1.3 installer failure

When using 7.1.2, I am getting a prompt to upgrade to 7.1.3. Fine, do it, I say. The download completes, then I get error that the image failed to mount (this is OSX). When I click retry, apparently wrong image is mounted since I get an offer to install 7.1.2 not 7.1.3. If I say to proceed,

B2 Cloud Storage

Has anyone already looked into using BackBlaze's cloud storage from LiveCode? https://www.backblaze.com/b2/docs/ RObert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Script Indenting?

On 15.12.2015 at 12:46 Uhr -0800 Dr. Hawkins apparently wrote: It's still an issue . . . it takes a few seconds on my very long scripts. Maybe tab should indent only a single handler and option-tab indent the entire script. RObert ___

Re: [ANN] Text-file DBs

I wish I could come. I am tasked to build exactly such a thing for the department. Do you have any files that you can share? RObert On 02.11.2015 at 21:02 Uhr -0800 Paul Looney apparently wrote: This coming Thursday evening, Nov. 5th, I will doing a presentation on Text-file Databases at the

Re: Char Set on Custom Properties

Not an ellegant approach but have you considered having a custom property in your stacks that identify them for you. It sounds like you are in control when those stacks are created and updated, so it might work. RObert On 04.09.2015 at 13:38 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: Barring

Re: LiveCode and SQLite performace

A rule of thumb for Mac is 10% of drive being free... I find iStat Menus a useful tool for continuous monitoring of vital parameters (just a happy user). RObert On 23.07.2015 at 15:37 Uhr -0700 JB apparently wrote: If I remember correctly Bob Sneidar said that a you need at least 1/2 of

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

On 22.07.2015 at 17:55 Uhr -0700 Jerry Jensen apparently wrote: Thanks for the suggestion, Robert. Yep - two different wired Apple keyboards (with and without numeric keypad) plugged directly into the MacBookPro or into a Thunderblt monitor. Also checked the System Preferences Keyboard pane -

Re: Underscore uncomment bug in OSX

On 22.07.2015 at 16:56 Uhr -0700 Jerry Jensen apparently wrote: Thanks Mark, Peter, Colin and Bernd. Very mysterious! I'll try it on a few other computers at work when I get back there tomorrow. .Jerry Have you checked whether the behavior is keyboard related by chance? RObert

Re: Before and after Livecode

On 18.07.2015 at 20:28 Uhr +0100 David Bovill apparently wrote: Now with before / after handlers - no logging code in the server - it's so clean and simple it is gorgeous. When I want logging I add the behavior which includes all the efore / after handlers that havve acess to all the data and

Re: Livecode = SQL?

On 18.05.2015 at 21:11 Uhr -0600 Mike Bonner apparently wrote: With lc server, to do the resident thing, session control should work, storing current data to the session variables which can then be used in further calls (server side) This way you don't have to send the same repeating data to

Re: Livecode = SQL?

On 18.05.2015 at 0:57 Uhr +0200 Pierre Sahores apparently wrote: Why don't you access it in localhost mode only (via lc server + script/stack lib). I do this all the time to store incoming HTTPS POST data. It's, as long as i know, the most reliable way to go in about server's security task.

Re: Livecode = SQL?

On 18.05.2015 at 16:03 Uhr +0200 Pierre Sahores apparently wrote: Hi Robert, Still works but purely outdated. It was before LC-Server came out and i warmly recommend to use it instead of my old fashion « PHP listener + Metacard/Rev stacks » way to go. Best, Pierre I haven't got into the

Re: Need Help With FTP

On 24.04.2015 at 8:43 Uhr -0400 Gregory Lypny apparently wrote: Hi Phil, Thanks for the detailed handler! I'll give it a whirl. Blocking is not really the problem for me; it's the session timeouts or dropped connection when downloading many files in a loop. I think the public server does not

Re: MasterLibrary Naming

1) IMHO underscores are good for internal functions but not good for public functions of a library. A common prefix for public function is good since it is clear which library is called. 2) I actually like get in function names and see no issue when combining these with put. Put handles the

Re: Fwd: Quantum tunneling in LiveCode

On 03.03.2015 at 7:31 Uhr -0500 stgoldb...@aol.com apparently wrote: The issue of a background group being in two places at once is not quite clarified. Getting back to the script sequence below, when there is a mouseUp handler in a background group, the message, on clicking on the grouped

Re: [OT] Wireless internet in my flat.

On 25.02.2015 at 18:25 Uhr +0200 Richmond apparently wrote: I have a wired+wireless router connected to my cable modem in my flat. Would be glad for any pointers as to why. Richmond. Presumably you checked that there are enough wireless addresses active to support all your devices. RObert

Re: 7.0 Issues

On 20.02.2015 at 0:09 Uhr + Peter Haworth apparently wrote: Done have any more time to waste on this so back to good old reliable 6.6. Wouldn't it be simpler to just create a separate preferences file for the LC7-based version of the program? It seems that each version works with its

Re: Livecode server + NGINX ?

On 21.01.2015 at 8:37 Uhr -0800 Richard Gaskin apparently wrote: A few months ago I was experimenting with multi-processing in LiveCode as an alternative to multi-threading. The literature on each notes the higher overhead of the former compared to the latter, but also that the overhead is

Re: How to solve can't find stack error

On 14.01.2015 at 17:01 Uhr -0800 tbodine apparently wrote: Hi all. Looking for some insight here... I have a desktop program built in LC 6.5.1 that uses LC stacks as user files for storing user data in fields and cprops. Mostly this works well. However, I get occasional Error Reports when a few

Re: Installer advice needed

On 18.12.2014 at 13:09 Uhr +0100 Matthias Rebbe | M-R-D apparently wrote: Is there really a need for an installer on Mac? Most of the mac software is delivered as dmg. The user just has to drag the app bundle or app folder to the Application folder. If you want to graphically pimp your dmg

Re: TopStack focus issue

I have seen such issues having invisible stacks, that is when I was hiding some stacks not closing them during the open sequence. Somehow they got focus at the end and did not release it happily. This was in earlier versions, though. RObert On 06.12.2014 at 23:00 Uhr + Graham Samuel

Failing to produce multiple-page PDF

I am trying to print cards from different stacks using open printing to pdf file to produce a PDF file programmatically. When I use the print card of stack format, I get a PDF file with one page for each card as expected. However, when I use the printing into a rectangle format, I get a PDF

Re: Failing to produce multiple-page PDF

On 09.11.2014 at 8:24 Uhr -0800 Dr. Hawkins apparently wrote: On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Robert Brenstein r...@robelko.com wrote: However, when I use the printing into a rectangle format, I get a PDF file with only a single page. It seems that all cards are printed onto the same page

RE: problem with counting words

Not particularly challenging but a cool name: Maximilian Maria Thurn and Taxis On 13.10.2014 at 18:54 Uhr -0400 Ralph DiMola apparently wrote: This is something I know about. Between a pretty decent VB com .dll and additional in house rules I get about 95.98% accuracy splitting up

Re: problem with counting words

Larry, Change the first line of your function to function commaInsert thisFigure Better yet: function commaInsert pFigure put pFigure into thisFigure Then add before the last end the following line return thisFigure If you have your function anywhere in the path (like in the stack script

Re: problem with counting words

On 12.10.2014 at 19:58 Uhr -0600 la...@significantplanet.org apparently wrote: Hi Robert, I understand what you wrote. That is not a problem for me. What I want is to be able to put my function into the LC IDE so that I can use it in other stacks. You mention a library stack. I do not know

Re: preOpenStack

On 07.09.2014 at 17:18 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: It seemed non-intuitive to me too that you could put a preOpenStack handler in a card, because the card wasn't open yet. That was wrong-thinking. I asked Mark Waddingham about it some years ago and he said that the entire

Re: ._!

On 26.08.2014 at 23:01 Uhr + Mark Wieder apparently wrote: I used to write scripts to remove them after the fact, but it would be much simpler/saner to just turn that off altogether. Removing them by script afterwards is the way to go. There is a way to tell Finder not to copy them

Re: From my Spam box: A Newer, Thicker, Stronger . . .

On 08.07.2014 at 20:36 Uhr +0300 Richmond apparently wrote: Frankly if all I need is a title: I'll make it in a textField in the IDE, tweak it around and do an import snapshot so I end up with an image - then no Unicode needed at all. You'd have to be daft to include 'a bloater' of a library

Re: Adjusting the size of cards in a stack

On 08.07.2014 at 9:44 Uhr -0700 Peter Haworth apparently wrote: I tried that, using the formattedwidth and formattedHeight of the card as theCardWIdth and theCardHeight (plus a few extra pixels for aesthetics). Strangely, that works for one card but the height is incorrect ( less than it should

Re: OT : Advice on SQL database design

On 01.07.2014 at 1:23 Uhr +0100 Alex Tweedly apparently wrote: I guess there's a meta-question about what's a good book/source on SQL database design ? I am trying to design a database. There is one table which contains, let's say, Armed Forces Personnel - each row is a different person -

Re: Need to filter out items of list

On 03.06.2014 at 9:35 Uhr -0500 Charles E Buchwald apparently wrote: Good Morning Skip, How about: put fld super large blob of text into tFieldText repeat for each line n in tFieldText if item 9 of n is empty OR item 15 of n 0 then delete n end repeat ... not tested. But it seems like

Re: UPDATE: Make stack close itself

On 21.05.2014 at 18:31 Uhr + Bob Sneidar apparently wrote: Okay well that is making a little more sense. So if I put an on idle handler in all my stacks and then pass the message, it should filter down to my mainstack. I suppose I could insert the stack-closing-code in all my substacks,

Re: Nice news for builders of financial apps

Richard Gaskin wrote Check this out - looks like independent column alignment via a tabAlign property is coming in v7: ... Wow! I have been waiting long, long time for this!!! RObert ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Variable Named Variable Values?

On 16.05.2014 at 14:32 Uhr -0400 Rick Harrison apparently wrote: How do I now assign the values to the original Variable Name by referring to the correct variable name read in? This is some kind of a double reference possibly referring to contents or the value of a variable, it may involve

Re: functionNames, commandNames, etc. not returning complete list

On 11.05.2014 at 14:17 Uhr -0800 Mark apparently wrote: That produced a rather short list of 290 functions (the dictionary lists close to 500). A quick check showed that there are no entries in the output that contain rev anything, among others. I'm assuming, probably incorrectly, that the

Re: [OT] free personality portraits

On 04.05.2014 at 10:48 Uhr +0300 Richmond apparently wrote: I would just like to say how extremely impressed I was by my personality portrait. Thank you, Robert Brenstein. It blew me away. Richmond Have you thought to have your wife and kids get their own portraits, so you can compare

Re: [OT] free personality portraits

On 29.04.2014 at 22:10 Uhr -0700 Alejandro Tejada apparently wrote: Robert Brenstein wrote [snip] Anybody that completes the first questionnaire can get a short personality portrait emailed to them. [snip] When? I completed the first questionnaire weeks ago. Do not have received

Re: is there a way...

On 24.04.2014 at 8:46 Uhr -0600 la...@significantplanet.org apparently wrote: I am putting up an overlay (image) over a field that I display for 1 second and then, using a repeat statement and blendlevel, fade the image until it becomes invisible again. The problem is that I'm using the wait

[OT] free personality portraits

This has nothing to do with LC but as varied as this group is in their tempers and attitudes, as we know well from lively discussions, I thought that some of you may find it interesting to get free personality portraits. If you are not interested, just press the delete key now. I work with

Re: 6.6.1GM Corrupted License

On 12.04.2014 at 12:17 Uhr +0800 Kay C Lan apparently wrote: Just wondering if anyone else is seeing this. This is repeatable about 90% of the time. If I Quit 6.6.1 and restart it I've never got the corruption message. If on the other hand I start an earlier version of LC and then start 6.6.1

Re: Announcement: New Community Manager

Congrats, Richard! I believe you are the right man for the job. Good luck! RObert On Apr 4, 2014, at 8:28 AM, Kevin Miller ke...@runrev.com wrote: Hi folks, I am delighted to announce the appointment of our new Community Manager, Richard Gaskin.

Re: Amazing new feature in LiveCode 6.7DP-1.4.14

On 01.04.2014 at 12:49 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: On 4/1/14, 11:09 AM, Fraser Gordon wrote: Quite understandably, this has made adding new features to the engine trivial as all we need to do is imagine it sufficiently well. Damn you, now I have a pink elephant in my office.

Re: set stack rect in startup handler

On 24.03.2014 at 18:13 Uhr + Martin Baxter apparently wrote: Turns out that, when startup is run in the IDE, setting the stack rect works as I would expect, the size and position are modified correctly. But in a standalone, the stack size is set but not its position. So the startup handler

Re: Problem with setting htmlText of field to empty in LiveCode 6.6 RC2

On 19.03.2014 at 10:29 Uhr -0400 Tim Bleiler apparently wrote: Being a contrarian again, Jacqueline? I was all set to forget about this. I really hate posting bug reports that aren't bugs but I agree with you on this from my Livecode centric world view. Anyone else have any insights into

Re: LC Commercial Update

On 18.03.2014 at 17:28 Uhr -0600 la...@significantplanet.org apparently wrote: Thank you Richard, That is a very good point. And thanks to Mark Schonewille for explaining how to turn off the update message. Larry Am I imagining this or was there an option (button to click) on the update

Re: LC Commercial Update

On 19.03.2014 at 20:07 Uhr +0200 Richmond apparently wrote: You are imagining things. If you open the Preferences stack; /Edit/Preferences you can stop update notices; select Updates (second from the bottom). You will then be given a fantastic range of choices: Notify me of stable releases

Re: v7 testing and word

On 13.03.2014 at 8:39 Uhr -0700 Richard Gaskin apparently wrote: My only caution would be in cases where an existing token were changed in ways that break code, with my recommendation being not to do that for now. I wonder whether we really need a new keyword for old style word. I mean

Re: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

On 25.02.2014 at 16:18 Uhr + Benjamin Beaumont apparently wrote: Dear List Members, Thanks for reading up to this point. We appreciate your feedback as it will help us in our decision making process. Warm regards, Ben My vote: Drop support for 10.5 for LC 6.7 and newer. RObert

Re: AW: Support for Mac OSX 10.5

On 25.02.2014 at 17:53 Uhr +0100 Tiemo Hollmann TB apparently wrote: Though I can follow the arguments for concentrating the efforts on new and faster platforms, I actually can't believe that only 3,8% of Mac users would be affected (if you count notebooks to desktops). I myself have beside my

Re: Change in behavior of minHeight property

On 03.01.2014 at 19:08 Uhr -0500 dunb...@aol.com apparently wrote: I would say it is not a bug, but rather a feature. For example, if you lock the position and size of an object in the inspector, the resize handles gray out, and to all intents, the thing seems set in stone. But the arrowKeys

Re: LiveCode Server and Getting a List of Files in a Folder

On 13.01.2014 at 14:49 Uhr -0500 Gregory Lypny apparently wrote: Hi everyone, everything gets messed up even if the handler is not called. LiveCode server stops looking for HTML pages in the Documents folder. I have to comment-out the handler to get things working right again. Gregory I

Re: babel help, please ?

A few clarifications are needed: On 16.09.2013 at 6:38 Uhr +0100 John Dixon apparently wrote: could some kind 'livecoders' help me out with some translations please... I need the following translated into these languages... French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, German Polish and Portuguese ...

Re: new password on-rev

On 26.06.2013 at 5:23 Uhr -0700 Dave Kilroy2 apparently wrote: I haven't been able to login via on-rev.com http://on-rev.com since they moved me to pancake and have been using https://pancake.on-rev.com:2083 for several months - anyone know why we have to log in this way? Your problem is

Re: Best screencast demo ever!

On 29.05.2013 at 11:36 Uhr +0300 Richmond apparently wrote: 2. I wonder about the legality of the company vis-a-vis Hey Jude. Apropos legality, I can't see this video because Unfortunately, this EMI-music-content is not available in Germany because GEMA has not granted the respective music

Re: Dynamically Creating Buttons

On 28.05.2013 at 13:35 Uhr -0400 Graham Pearson apparently wrote: Without having any objects on a card, does anyone have notes on how to create a button and position it to the coordinates of 5,5 In my application, I am to the point now to taking each record from a database and creating a button

Re: curlyquotes, character sets, livecode, and english

On 27.05.2013 at 14:45 Uhr -0700 Dr. Hawkins apparently wrote: The error was that on a curly-quote that originated at http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-021.html#NRS021Sec090 (in miner's) threw the error. I also got it from double-curly quotes that came from somewhere. If I can limit livecode

Re: Random sort demonstration

On 23.05.2013 at 9:51 Uhr -0500 Geoff Canyon apparently wrote: To Dar's point, here the stable sort means that you should never use this to get a random sort: sort lines of someContainer by random(the number of lines of someContainer) You are almost guaranteed to get less than random results.

Re: Field changes prompting save

On 14.05.2013 at 7:14 Uhr -0700 Bert Shuler apparently wrote: I created a sub-stack with my fields, and I am using a sqlite db to populate them. It has the standard next record and CRUD type buttons. When I close the substack via the X (windows form close), it prompts me to save. I want to

Re: link to 6.0.1 build 1513

On 10.05.2013 at 0:49 Uhr +0200 Mark Schonewille apparently wrote: Hi, It is not that much easier than I thought. The point is: there is no big red Download button on the main page. There is only a green Learn More button. Apparently, this is sufficient for people to lose interest. I told

Re: Beginners questions subject headers

On 07.05.2013 at 13:13 Uhr -0700 Dr. Hawkins apparently wrote: And now, folks, a moment of silence for Jacque, as we cherish his last pre-obliteration message. You mean her. Or was she he in the future? robert ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Strange compile error

On 25.04.2013 at 16:46 Uhr -0700 Peter Haworth apparently wrote: Don't think it needs anyone to spend any more time on it now that I've got it working. I'll just accept it as a compiler weirdness, although the error message didn;t give any clue as to what the the real problem might have been.

Re: On-Rev: Odin emails rejected due to poor reputation

On 20.04.2013 at 9:08 Uhr -0700 RevList apparently wrote: Please report this to shaw and ask why it is being blacklisted and ask to get it removed. Stewart Lynch CreaTECH Solutions Blacklisting works on IP addresses, actually most commonly on ranges, so if there are spam or spam-like or

Re: Autosave from field?

On 30.03.2013 at 16:46 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: I just use their and ignore the plurality. It isn't grammatically correct, but it's pretty common and includes everybody. When the user presses a key on their keyboard... Or don't use a pronoun at all: When the user presses

Re: Update process in the Apple App Store

On 07.03.2013 at 14:27 Uhr +0100 Graham Samuel apparently wrote: I can of course ask the user to go through some process (like clicking a button) to complete the update, but it would be far preferable for the app to do this aspect of the update automatically without user intervention. This

Re: Keys of a custom property array

On 04.03.2013 at 14:21 Uhr + Dave Cragg apparently wrote: But does that make sense for the following: delete url whatever put x into url whatever post x to url whatever It's hard to think of it as a function in these cases. Dave Unless you think of it as a pointer to a container.

Re: Speech and commas

On 04.03.2013 at 17:55 Uhr -0500 Thomas McGrath III apparently wrote: on mouseUp put THE TOP ROW. ESCAPE and Function keys F1, F2, F3, F4, F5. into tTTS put 6 into tNum send TASpeak Expanding quote tTTS quote tNum Tasks! to me in 1 millisecond end mouseUp on TASpeak

Re: Build-time v Run-time

On 15.02.2013 at 17:56 Uhr +0100 Graham Samuel apparently wrote: Another naive questions, but this hasn't happened to me before, or at least I haven't recognised it properly. I'm looking at some code written by an associate. As normal (to me) it's a mainstack and a lot of substacks. I want to

Re: LiveCode has a new eye on the earth

On 13.02.2013 at 10:24 Uhr + Bernard Devlin apparently wrote: Critcising the aesthetics of programmes produced by RAD tools has often been a way in which professional programmers have rubbished the useful (yet unpolished) tools that literally ran many businesses. The same thing happened

Re: What is wrong with this Script logic?

On 11.01.2013 at 17:03 Uhr +0800 Kay C Lan apparently wrote: Actually I just went with the simple example from the dictionary: on closeField if (the text of me is not an integer) then answer Please enter only whole numbers! titled Enter A Number select the text of me end if

Re: What is wrong with this Script logic?

On 11.01.2013 at 11:04 Uhr +0800 Kay C Lan apparently wrote: If I turn Debug Mode OFF, and repeat the above, after I enter B in my ask Dialog I get the IDE Errors widow come up with: Type: Handler: can't find handler Object: fldTest Line: hCheckEntry tAnswer Hint: hCheckEntry My Ask Dialog Box

Re: What's On The Menu - Round 2

On 01.01.2013 at 9:56 Uhr -0800 Peter Haworth apparently wrote: First problem. The parameter to menuPick does not include any indication of whether the selected item has a checkmark or diamond before it. The indication is in the text of the selected menuitem itself, so you need to inspect

Re: keyedUp cross-platform woes

On 30.11.2012 at 15:18 Uhr +0200 Richmond apparently wrote: Now the ALT-KEY yields a magic number (keyDown) number on Windows and Linux, and that's fine and dandy, but, as has been pointed out several times, both by myself and others, that doesn't happen on a Mac and Livecode seems unable to

Re: More preOpenCard Problems

On 20.09.2012 at 18:02 Uhr -0700 Peter Haworth apparently wrote: I also notice that things work differently, but still incorrectly, when the stack is run as a plugin than when it is run toplevel. This could indicate that your object references are failing when your stack is not the frontmost

Re: Send to program

On 10.09.2012 at 12:31 Uhr -0400 dunb...@aol.com apparently wrote: Am I to understand that LiveCode, the great and powerful, cannot do this at all? Am I the first one that ever wanted to send a message to another machine? A new project I am working on therefore must be authored in

Re: Server doesn't send response code

On 28.04.2012 at 22:34 Uhr -0500 J. Landman Gay apparently wrote: But PayPal's sandbox test tool consistently shows an error and replies IPN delivery failed. Unable to connect to the specified URL. Please verify the URL and try again. Obviously it did find my server and URL, because my script

Re: Is it really this hard to print currency values?

On 29.07.2012 at 9:05 Uhr -0700 Dr. Hawkins apparently wrote: As I sat down to finally encode currency into my output, I pulled old answers from older questions and did more searches. Is it *really* this hard to output currency? If you deal only with dollars, the issue is trivial. Things

Re: Standalones not opening in Mountain Lion

On 28.07.2012 at 10:19 Uhr +0100 Bernard Devlin apparently wrote: I seem to remember that Rosetta is still available. It is just not installed by default. I think the installation medium should have a way of installing Rosetta. Bernard that is true for snow leopard. robert

Re: can't find out this char

On 19.07.2012 at 12:50 Uhr +0200 Björnke von Gierke apparently wrote: Well I found ascii 13 mentioned in the dictionary, so I used _replace numtochar(13) with _ which did remove my mystery character. See also this reply by me from yesterday: I wonder whether those files are created

Re: simple (?): how to test menus after building them

On 20.06.2012 at 17:28 Uhr -0700 Paul Hibbert apparently wrote: But isn't this going to give me a copy of the menu in every substack, so that I have to change all of them? No, if you use 'Place Group' it will put a 'referenced copy' of the menu group on the card, so any edits to the

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