Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Trevor DeVore wrote: If the externals property is pointing to the property external file on disk, you can make sure the destroyWindow property of the stack is set to true, close the stack, and then open it again. This will attempt to reload the external. That's a helpful tip and I appreciate

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread JB
Hi Richard, Since you come from a SuperCard background could you answer a question for me? I am a registered owner of SuperCard 4.6 and SuperEdit 4.6. The Xtend section allows you to export externals. I contacted SuperCard Support and they said I could use the SuperCard externals in other

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
JB wrote: Since you come from a SuperCard background could you answer a question for me? I am a registered owner of SuperCard 4.6 and SuperEdit 4.6. The Xtend section allows you to export externals. I contacted SuperCard Support and they said I could use the SuperCard externals in other

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread JB
Thanks for the info. I don’t really need any of them I was just trying to use them if it was possible. Your information shows it is not possible and therefore I won’t waste my time on it. I am surprised that as long as LiveCode has been around there are not more externals available. If you

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
JB wrote: I am surprised that as long as LiveCode has been around there are not more externals available. If you have developed externals for LiveCode why not sell them like was done for HyperCard? I don't need 'em. As I wrote earlier: ...aside from the database externals included with

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread JB
I see your point. Changing the subject a little bit you mentioned LiveCode is going to improve things so you can actually do more external type code from within LiveCode. Are they going to be using Apples new programming language Swift at all? John Balgenorth On Aug 13, 2014, at 2:10 PM,

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
JB wrote: Changing the subject a little bit you mentioned LiveCode is going to improve things so you can actually do more external type code from within LiveCode. Are they going to be using Apples new programming language Swift at all? I don't think so. Swift is a very interesting

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
Richard is wrong. The goal is to be able to use any language, including anything that is available for the separate OS-es. However, there'll be a meta-LC like language, that is not quite LC, but similar-ish, which will allow to write externals too. The Idea is that it's similar enough for more

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Björnke von Gierke wrote: Richard is wrong. The goal is to be able to use any language, including anything that is available for the separate OS-es. Well, it certainly wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. But given that the engine is currently written in C++ and much of the code is

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Björnke von Gierke
On 14 Aug 2014, at 01:12, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: Richard is wrong. The goal is to be able to use any language, including anything that is available for the separate OS-es. Well, it certainly wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. But given that the engine is

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread Richard Gaskin
Björnke von Gierke wrote: On 14 Aug 2014, at 01:12, Richard Gaskin wrote: Richard is wrong. The goal is to be able to use any language, including anything that is available for the separate OS-es. Well, it certainly wouldn't be the first time I was wrong. But given that the engine is

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread JB
I just watched the widget video and it sounds really great. The video like all of their videos was well done too. It sounds like Kevin wants more people developing externals and that is good. Balgenorth On Aug 13, 2014, at 3:25 PM, Richard Gaskin ambassa...@fourthworld.com wrote: JB wrote:

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-13 Thread JB
This will be a fantastic improvement. John Balgenorth On Aug 13, 2014, at 3:46 PM, Björnke von Gierke b...@mac.com wrote: Richard is wrong. The goal is to be able to use any language, including anything that is available for the separate OS-es. However, there'll be a meta-LC like

Re: externalPackages

2014-08-12 Thread Trevor DeVore
On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 11:06 PM, JB sund...@pacifier.com wrote: I created a button and put the following script into it. on mouseUp put the externalPackages of stack rnahelloTest into fld id 1004 end mouseUp What happens is it sets my field to empty. I was thinking that since I have