Re: Visual effect problems in iOS

2012-02-22 Thread Mark Wieder
Ken- Tuesday, February 21, 2012, 9:12:32 AM, you wrote: Thank you for listening to this rantÂ… ...you left out think diff... oh... never mind... -- -Mark Wieder mwie...@ahsoftware.net ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com

Re: Visual effect problems in iOS

2012-02-21 Thread Chris Sheffield
Graham, Not sure if you've ever found a solution for this problem, but I've got a couple other suggestions that may help. First, if you're simply issuing a command like: visual effect whatever go cd someCard then this should work just fine. I've found that if something like

Re: Visual effect problems in iOS

2012-02-21 Thread Ken Ray
On Feb 20, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: Having finally reviewed that page (12) I notice that the description doesn't apply to my case. I have not locked the screen, and am just doing a card-to-card transition. As I said, my very simple example works (set up a flip left visual

Re: Visual effect problems in iOS

2012-02-21 Thread Michael Doub
Let me join you on the soapbox. I agree with you that support for all platforms should be the same. I am less of an language purest, but I am happy to support you. -= Mike On 02/21/2012, at 12:12 PM, Ken Ray wrote: On Feb 20, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Graham Samuel wrote: Having finally

Re: Visual effect problems in iOS

2012-02-21 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Chris I am embarrassed to say that my card-to-card effects are now working! I had a completely repeatable recipe to show they won't working yesterday, but a restart of my machine and a test immediately afterwards (both on the simulator and the iPad itself) showed the effects working

Re: Visual effect problems in iOS

2012-02-21 Thread Pete
Interesting. There's an example in the dictionary that specifically uses slowly but sounds like you can't use that any longer. At the risk of giving Ken apoplexy, you could argue that slow is being used as an adjective to describe the speed property of the visual effect command, not as an adverb

RE: Visual effect problems in iOS

2012-02-20 Thread Graham Samuel
Graham On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:34:59 +, John Dixon dixo...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Hi... have a look at p.12 in the LC 5.0.2 release notes about the changes to using visual effects... From: livf...@mac.com Subject: Visual effect problems in iOS Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2012 18:15:50 +0100 To: use

Re: Visual effect problems in iOS

2012-02-20 Thread Paul Hibbert
Hi Graham, Thanks - I had not read these notes in detail and indeed it took some time to find anything like them on the RunRev web site - they don't seem to have stuck around on my Mac after installation. The only notes I could find are called LiveCodeNotes-5_0_0.pdf, revision 7, and

Re: Visual effect problems in iOS

2012-02-20 Thread Graham Samuel
Thanks Paul, stupid of me. I seem always to be looking in the wrong place for information. Having finally reviewed that page (12) I notice that the description doesn't apply to my case. I have not locked the screen, and am just doing a card-to-card transition. As I said, my very simple example

Visual effect problems in iOS

2012-02-19 Thread Graham Samuel
Folks, I have been trying to use 'visual effect' to make transitions between cards and between stacks on an iPad app and I am not getting anywhere. Firstly I can't get the transition between stacks to do anything. The syntax shown in the dictionary seems a bit ambiguous (I just want to move to