Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Heather Laine
I think that's a great idea! cheers Heather On 31 Jan 2013, at 23:38, Monte Goulding wrote: Send it through. Folks... I'm wondering if this thing could be (quickly) turned into a free generic kickstarter project tracker that advertised the LC project in some way (defaulted to it?) and

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Phil Davis
Would it be possible to mention such a free app on the KS page? Free Sample! Phil Davis On 2/1/13 12:30 AM, Heather Laine wrote: I think that's a great idea! cheers Heather On 31 Jan 2013, at 23:38, Monte Goulding wrote: Send it through. Folks... I'm wondering if this thing could be

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Graham Samuel
I agree this is a great idea. To be most attractive for KS users it would be best if were available on all five platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS, Android) with some variations for things like screen size. I have to say I don't understand the copyright issues. Monte, you're so quick off the

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Monte Goulding
I don't mind but we're already at a point where the copyright is very messy. I'm not sure what to do about that a this stage??? What about the audio file is that copyright? Then there's the data... Are we allowed to use it? -- M E R Goulding Software development services mergExt - There's an

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I think everyone would agree to you taking the app and doing with it what you want. However, the sound I supplied is probably not free to use, so I suggest to get a free soundbit instead, from one of the many sound repositories. I suggest to add a comparision between the current amount and the

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Graham Samuel
Well, let's hope we can ago a little further. I just made an audio file by putting coins into a tin! You can have it in mp3 or aiff (much bigger!). I could work on the 'decile triumph' sound suggested by Heather. The two sounds are at https://dl.dropbox.com/u/30091487/coins.aiff

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Monte Goulding
I think everyone would agree to you taking the app and doing with it what you want. However, the sound I supplied is probably not free to use, so I suggest to get a free soundbit instead, from one of the many sound repositories. I'll see what I can find. I suggest to add a comparision

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Can't really do graphs unless your pinging kickstarter constantly like kicktraq does. Would need to do that on a server. But the last increase feature is nice. Wut? you can do daily stats of both amount of people and amount of money, by comparing what came in during the day, Also, it's

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Monte Goulding
Hmm... not going to happen: from Kickstarter terms of service: Additionally, you shall not: (i) take any action that imposes or may impose (as determined by the Company in its sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Company’s or its third-party providers’

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Graham Samuel
Good catch Monte. I guess Kevin/Heather could try to proposition KS directly (on the grounds that it's a general service component open to all users, providing a stimulus etc), but we clearly can't just fling the app at them. So let's call the thing stalled. Graham [I should have made it clear

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Björnke von Gierke
I think you're wrong. They have that JSON link there so it can be used. Using a JSON link provided for usage is not the same as crawling a site, and even if the app gets super incredibly successful, and thus starts millions of queries per second, they could just ask to remove the app and/or

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Monte Goulding
OK, made some tweaks: http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/689/kickstarter 3 new sounds for pledges 250, 500, and 1000 GBP A new currency converter api and lots more currencies you can quickly switch currencies. Shows last pledge amount and time Cheers Monte On 01/02/2013, at 10:35 PM,

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Oh i didn't realise that, I thought it's a public api! I agree with you then :) On 01.02.2013, at 12:35, Monte Goulding wrote: Well... given I found the url only by looking at the source of the page and not from a public api I suspect we could upset people. The last thing we want is for KS

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Graham Samuel
I downloaded it and overwrote the first one but I don't see the new features - and there's only one audioclip in the stack. What did I do wrong? TIA Graham On 1 Feb 2013, at 13:23, Monte Goulding wrote: OK, made some tweaks: http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/689/kickstarter 3 new

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Scott Rossi
In case you missed it, Thierry Douez made a nice little stack with graphs here: http://sunny-tdz.com/dwn You could combine the stacks into a full screen presentation with mind numbing, eye glazing statistics. Regards, Scott Rossi Creative Director Tactile Media, UX Design On 2/1/13 2:20

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-02-01 Thread Thierry Douez
2013/2/1 Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com In case you missed it, Thierry Douez made a nice little stack with graphs here: http://sunny-tdz.com/dwn Thanks Scott. You could combine the stacks into a full screen presentation with mind numbing, eye glazing statistics. If you download the

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-31 Thread David C.
Presuming that these stacks don't require any of the latest and greatest features, it might be nice to have access to a version in a legacy format, so to allow everyone to play. :) Regards, David C ___ use-livecode mailing list

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-31 Thread Bert Shuler
Updated the horrid currency formatting. Who needs thousandths of their currency? https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22617779/kickstarter-aps2.livecode I really like the 4 second pulse. That is nice. Also, is there any way to use the system local for formatting numbers? Different languages and local

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-31 Thread Heather Laine
Hey guys, loving this meter! I have it running on my desktop. To keep the pennies clinking, if you haven't already embedded the Kickstarter Campaign widget on your website, would you consider doing so? Just need to copy this and embed it: iframe frameborder=0 height=380

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-31 Thread Björnke von Gierke
The sound is from Railroad Tycoon, it's the loudest/longest, and there's two others, they're all in ascending order. If monte want's them i could send em to him? On 31.01.2013, at 17:34, Heather Laine wrote: I've a feature request for the meter… could it make a louder or more exciting ding

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-31 Thread Monte Goulding
Send it through. Folks... I'm wondering if this thing could be (quickly) turned into a free generic kickstarter project tracker that advertised the LC project in some way (defaulted to it?) and put up on the app store. We now have a number of contributors and there's obviously copyright issues

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Monte Goulding
Björnke added a nice coins falling sound instead of a beep and I added a couple of launch urls to the stack. Clicking the stats at the bottom takes you to kicktraq and the bottom of the thermometer takes you to kickstarter. http://revonline2.runrev.com/stack/689/kickstarter Cheers -- Monte

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Bert Shuler
Being from the US, I added currency conversion: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22617779/kickstarter.livecode Isn't open source fun? On Jan 30, 2013, at 6:15 AM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Björnke added a nice coins falling sound instead of a beep and I added a couple of

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Monte Goulding
On 31/01/2013, at 8:17 AM, Bert Shuler bertshu...@yahoo.com wrote: Being from the US, I added currency conversion: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22617779/kickstarter.livecode Isn't open source fun? Ahahah... how we have two forks. Gee it would be good if someone were working on a three way

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Bert Shuler
ok, added the coins: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22617779/kickstarter-aps.livecode Is there an easy way to use a version management tool with livecode? On Jan 30, 2013, at 3:26 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: On 31/01/2013, at 8:17 AM, Bert Shuler bertshu...@yahoo.com

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Monte Goulding
Bert Shuller added currency conversion. Interestingly his version was branched from the original so I tried the three way merge driver I'm working on. After a couple of tweaks it worked. It doesn't seem to support non-ascii chars in scripts though so I'll need to look at that. The goal of the

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Monte Goulding
I hope to keep plugging away at this merge driver in my spare time and get a reasonable demo up for the conference. On 31/01/2013, at 8:47 AM, Bert Shuler bertshu...@yahoo.com wrote: ok, added the coins: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22617779/kickstarter-aps.livecode Is there an easy way to

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread stephen barncard
This one is incorrectly reporting 46.8 euros instead of 40,193 On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Bert Shuler bertshu...@yahoo.com wrote: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/22617779/kickstarter-aps.livecode -- Stephen Barncard San Francisco Ca. USA more about sqb

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Monte Goulding
One is Euro and one is pounds On 31/01/2013, at 10:00 AM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: This one is incorrectly reporting 46.8 euros instead of 40,193 On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Bert Shuler bertshu...@yahoo.com wrote:

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread stephen barncard
oops sorry. dumb amerikan On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: One is Euro and one is pounds On 31/01/2013, at 10:00 AM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: This one is incorrectly reporting 46.8 euros instead of

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread stephen barncard
I haven't been back to Europe since before the Euro was established. On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:04 PM, stephen barncard stephenrevoluti...@barncard.com wrote: oops sorry. dumb amerikan On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: One is Euro

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Monte Goulding
Coming to the conference? Looking forward to meeting people. I haven't been over for 18 years. I was 17 and had 4 weeks of training and racing and 1 week of drunkenness On 31/01/2013, at 10:05 AM, stephen barncard wrote: I haven't been back to Europe since before the Euro was established.

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Matthias Rebbe
Am 31.01.2013 um 00:16 schrieb Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com: 1 week of drunkenness Oh you were at the Oktoberfest in Munich? ;) Matthias ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Monte Goulding
1 week of drunkenness Oh you were at the Oktoberfest in Munich? ;) We were everywhere man ;-) -- M E R Goulding Software development services Bespoke application development for vertical markets mergExt - There's an external for that! ___

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Scott Rossi
OK, maybe this could be a bit more engaging and really look like it's doing something. I added a bit of infographic appearance and created a visual ping that radiates every 4 seconds so you can tell it's operating (even if it's not). go url

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Shawn Blc
Cool Scott! One day I sure hope I'm as proficient with LC as some of you veterans are. ;) On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: OK, maybe this could be a bit more engaging and really look like it's doing something. I added a bit of infographic

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Monte Goulding
Cool, Scott, just uploaded to revOnline... On 31/01/2013, at 11:22 AM, Scott Rossi sc...@tactilemedia.com wrote: OK, maybe this could be a bit more engaging and really look like it's doing something. I added a bit of infographic appearance and created a visual ping that radiates every 4

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-30 Thread Nicolas Cueto
Looking at Scott's script, replaceText doesn't replace the nonbreaking-space with a comma. Still seeing a space. Tried a solution using charToNum(255), but no go. Having said that, much thanks to M.G. and the others for this stack. And if someone would care to explain in a simple way how a group

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-29 Thread Colin Holgate
If RunRev are doing one of those LiveCode code is so easy to read demos, make sure they don't use that stack as an example! On Jan 29, 2013, at 11:09 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: Minor update now shows required/day and projection

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-29 Thread Colin Holgate
By the way, your stack shows £31854.75 at the moment, instead of £31,854. Not sure why it added the .75. ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-29 Thread Monte Goulding
On 30/01/2013, at 3:30 PM, Colin Holgate wrote: By the way, your stack shows £31854.75 at the moment, instead of £31,854. Not sure why it added the .75. Not sure either. Perhaps the kickstarter page is truncating rather than rounding? -- M E R Goulding Software development services

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/29/13 9:15 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi Folks Copying Colin a quite a bit here.. anyway, just added a kickstarter progress meter stack to revOnline. I just put an Android apk in my public dropbox if anyone wants to carry it around with them on their device. Mine doesn't update

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-29 Thread Monte Goulding
On 30/01/2013, at 3:41 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/29/13 9:15 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi Folks Copying Colin a quite a bit here.. anyway, just added a kickstarter progress meter stack to revOnline. I just put an Android apk in my public dropbox if anyone wants to carry it around

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-29 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 1/29/13 10:51 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: On 30/01/2013, at 3:41 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 1/29/13 9:15 PM, Monte Goulding wrote: Hi Folks Copying Colin a quite a bit here.. anyway, just added a kickstarter progress meter stack to revOnline. I just put an Android apk in my public

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-29 Thread Monte Goulding
It's why I went with the json url that kickstarter uses and the 60 second refresh rate they use too. ;-) On 30/01/2013, at 4:03 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: That was in the back of my mind when I added the Refresh button. :) I added the number of backers and the percentage toward the goal

Re: Kickstarter progress meter stack on revOnline

2013-01-29 Thread stephen barncard
The site does a forced browser refresh every 2 minutes to update the value. So it's getting pinged a lot anyway, what's the difference, it just looks like another browser. On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Monte Goulding mo...@sweattechnologies.com wrote: It's why I went with the json url that